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Enterprises Prioritize Agent Observability Before They've Deployed Agents
February 26, 2026

Enterprises Prioritize Agent Observability Before They’ve Deployed Agents

Mitch Ashley, VP & Software Lifecycle Engineering practice lead at Futurum, shares new research showing enterprises are prioritizing AI agent observability before agents are deployed at scale, outranking distributed tracing...
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IBM vs. Anthropic A Tale of the COBOL Modernization Tape
February 26, 2026
 

IBM vs. Anthropic: A Tale of the COBOL Modernization Tape

Mitch Ashley, VP & Software Lifecycle Engineering Practice Lead at Futurum, examines the IBM vs. Anthropic COBOL modernization debate and explains why choosing the right AI tool is the wrong...
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The Seven Principles of Observability-Native
February 25, 2026

The Seven Principles of Observability-Native

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on why observability-native architecture is the prerequisite for enterprise AI agent deployment at scale and what the seven principles mean...
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Claude Found 500 Zero-Days. Who Patches Them Before Attackers Arrive
February 24, 2026
 

Claude Found 500 Zero-Days. Who Patches Them Before Attackers Arrive?

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on AI-driven zero-day discovery and why Anthropic’s Claude Code Security exposes a race condition between vulnerability discovery and patch...
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AWS's Deploy-to-AWS Plugin Frictionless Deployment or Developer Honeypot
February 24, 2026
 

AWS’s Deploy-to-AWS Plugin: Frictionless Deployment or Developer Honeypot?

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines AWS Agent Plugins for AWS and why the deploy-to-AWS plugin is less a developer productivity tool and more a strategic move to...
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Rovo MCP Server Formalizes AI Access to Enterprise Work Data
February 12, 2026
 

Rovo MCP Server Formalizes AI Access to Enterprise Work Data

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Atlassian’s Rovo MCP Server GA and how it formalizes AI agent access to enterprise work data across Jira...
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Is Entire's Agent-Native Platform the Blueprint for Software Development
February 12, 2026
 

Is Entire’s Agent-Native Platform the Blueprint for Software Development?

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes Entire's $60M launch, rethinking software development for AI agents. Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's platform captures agent context in Git, signaling that...
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Truth or Dare What Can Claude Agent Teams And Developers Create Today
February 10, 2026
 

Truth or Dare: What Can Claude Agent Teams And Developers Create Today?

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, examines what Anthropic’s Claude agent teams reveal about AI-driven software development today, separating experience reports from externally credible capability...
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Google Adds Deeper Context and Control for Agentic Developer Workflows
February 10, 2026
 

Google Adds Deeper Context and Control for Agentic Developer Workflows

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, examines how Google’s Developer Knowledge API and Gemini CLI hooks externalize agent context and governance, shaping production-ready AI development...
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OpenAI Frontier Close the Enterprise AI Opportunity Gap—or Widen It
February 9, 2026
 

OpenAI Frontier: Close the Enterprise AI Opportunity Gap—or Widen It?

Futurum Research Analysts Mitch Ashley, Keith Kirkpatrick, Fernando Montenegro, Nick Patience, and Brad Shimmin examine OpenAI Frontier and whether enterprise AI agents can finally move from pilots to production. The...
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Agent-Driven Development - Two Paths, One Future
February 5, 2026
 

Agent-Driven Development – Two Paths, One Future

Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines how multi-agent execution and intent-first structuring form parallel paths toward agent-driven development, with OpenAI Codex establishing a baseline for multi-agent work....
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Running Virtualization, Kubernetes, and AI at Scale
February 3, 2026

Running Virtualization, Kubernetes, and AI at Scale

In this Market Report, Running Virtualization, Kubernetes, and AI at Scale, completed in partnership with Dell Technologies, Intel, and Red Hat, Futurum Research examines how enterprises can operate diverse platforms...
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