Author: Mitch Ashley

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, DevOps and Application Development at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on a new wave of agentic AI development tools, representing a shift from AI-augmented development to agentic AI agent coding and AI-first development paradigms.
Tomer Zelberzvig and Mikhael Liberman from BMC Software join Mitch Ashley to share insights on the shift from tape to hybrid cloud storage in mainframe environments, ensuring compliance and immutable data protection.
Anthony Anter and Mark Schettenhelm from BMC Software join Mitchell Ashley to share insights on optimizing mainframe application development for enhanced efficiency.
Mitch Ashley, VP of DevOps and Application Development Practice Lead at Futurum Group, reveals key market trends as DevOps and Application Development Market (DOADM) is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.76% to approximately US$268.73 billion by 2028.
The Latest Earnings by Elastic Show Strong Growth and Innovations While GAAP Losses Remain
Mitch Ashley, Vice President and Practice Lead of DevOps and Application Development at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Elastic’s Q3 2025 earnings performance, fiscal year-end guidance, Elastic Cloud Search, and moving into generative AI retrieval augmented generation.
Anthony DiStauro and Liat Sokolov from BMC Software join Mitchell Ashley to discuss Hybrid AI-Guided Remediation's revolutionary role in modernizing mainframe operations, highlighting practical examples and the technology's impact.
Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, DevOps and Application Development at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the pace of AI in software development innovations and how software organizations are balancing multiple technology priorities.
AI Investors, Tech Leaders, and Customers Sort Through Short-Term Fallout and Longer-Term Claims By China’s DeepSeek
The Futurum Group analysts share their insights on DeepSeek R1 claims of model training and cost efficiency, questions about the potential use of competitors' models, and security and privacy concerns. Analysts discuss the near and long-term implications of faster and lower-cost LLM development.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Predicts Business Applications Will Be Created With AI Agents
Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, DevOps and AppDev at The Futurum Group, explores how AI agents are set to redefine SaaS by automating workflows, enhancing efficiency, and reshaping enterprise software architecture.
Johnny Halife, CTO at SOUTHWORKS, joins Mitch Ashley to share his insights on employing DevOps strategies for smarter, faster business outcomes.
Bruce Kornfeld, CMO at StorMagic, joins Mitch Ashley to share his insights on the evolving alternatives to VMware for virtualization and HCI, discussing the challenges, benefits, and future directions.
Can GitHub Copilot Free Fend Off Competition from Amazon Q Developer, Google Gemini Code Assist, and Microsoft’s Own Copilot Studio in the Hot AI Development Tool Market?
Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice lead, DevOps and AppDev at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on GitHub reaching 150 million developers and introducing a free tier of its popular GitHub Copilot AI development tool, aiming to expand its user base and move developers toward its paid Copilot Pro and other offerings. Mitch addresses the future commoditization of today’s AI offerings in the highly competitive software development market between titans GitHub, Google, AWS, and Atlassian.

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