Author: Mitch Ashley

Google Agent Compute Engine
October 30, 2026

Google Agent Compute Engine Puts Cross-Cloud Governance to a Parity Test

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of Futurum share insights on Google Agent Compute Engine, its sandbox that keeps backend credentials out of reach, and the parity test that Google's cross-cloud...
Planisware Q3 FY 2026 Recurring Revenue Speeds Up as Prisma AI Enters Beta
October 30, 2026

Planisware Q3 FY 2026 Recurring Revenue Speeds Up as Prisma AI Enters Beta

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers and Software Lifecycle Engineering at The Futurum Group, reviews Planisware's Q3 FY 2026 earnings, recurring revenue acceleration, the Prisma AI...
Salesforce Agent Fabric Expands to AI Control
October 30, 2026

Salesforce Agent Fabric Expands to AI Control

Futurum analyzes Salesforce's Agent Fabric expansion, the MuleSoft AI control plane now adding production evals, an agent kill switch, and hard AI cost controls, and what it means for CIOs...
Observability: AI Is Eating the Budget That Keeps AI Safe
October 28, 2026

Observability: AI Is Eating the Budget That Keeps AI Safe

AI overruns are drawing money from monitoring budgets. Futurum explains why buyers should judge AI observability by whether it shows the full cost of work that passes review, not by...
Claude Agent Observability Can't Be the Audit Record on Its Own
October 26, 2026

Claude Agent Observability Can't Be the Audit Record on Its Own

Vikram Rathnam, Research Director, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, examines how Anthropic's new OpenTelemetry trace export for Claude Managed Agents...
OpenShell agent security
October 23, 2026

SUSE OpenShell Agent Security: Enforcement Is Table Stakes, Proof Is Not

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of The Futurum Group share insights on SUSE's OpenShell agent security news and why proof of what an agent did, not enforcement, will separate the...
TSMC Q3 FY 2026 Earnings Beat and Raise on AI and HPC Demand
October 20, 2026

TSMC Q3 FY 2026 Earnings Beat and Raise on AI and HPC Demand

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers and Software Lifecycle Engineering at The Futurum Group, reviews TSMC's latest earnings, where AI and HPC demand drove a beat...
Harness Shows Why LLM Security Scanning Needs a Repeatable Verdict
October 14, 2026

Harness Shows Why LLM Security Scanning Needs a Repeatable Verdict

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of The Futurum Research share insights on Harness's LLM security scanning research and why any AI scan should show verdict stability before it can block...
The AI Last Mile Problem
October 14, 2026

The AI Last Mile Problem

In our latest thought leadership brief, The AI Last Mile Problem, completed in partnership with Snowflake, Futurum Research examines why enterprise AI stalls between pilot and production and lays out...
With Kong Volcano, Kong Hosts the Agents It Governs
October 9, 2026

With Kong Volcano, Kong Hosts the Agents It Governs

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of The Futurum Group share their analyst insights on Kong Volcano: what it gives developers building AI agents and whether Kong can host agents and...
env zero EZ Control Telling a Fix From a Mistake
October 6, 2026

env zero EZ Control: Telling a Fix From a Mistake

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO and Tech Buyers, and Vikram Rathnam, Research Director, Software Lifecycle Engineering at The Futurum Group, share insights on env zero EZ Control and...
Does a 17-Year-Old Movement Need a DevOps Standard
October 6, 2026

Does a 17-Year-Old Movement Need a DevOps Standard?

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of Futurum Research share insights on The DevOps Standard, why its AI agent governance is a well-built retrofit, and what enterprise leaders and platform vendors...

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