Salesforce Agent API Signals the Next Control Plane Battleground for AI Agents
Salesforce introduces the Agent API to enable headless AI agent execution, directly challenging cloud and workflow vendors for control of the emerging agent control plane—a critical battleground as 72% of enterprises pilot agentic AI.
Data Fitness for AI-Driven Operations
In our latest market brief, Data Fitness for AI-Driven Operations, completed in partnership with NETSCOUT, Futurum Research explores why observability alone is insufficient as AI moves toward autonomous execution, and why fit-for-purpose telemetry is becoming a strategic prerequisite for responsible AI-driven operations.
Salesforce Stakes Out Multi-Vendor Agent Control Plane—Determinism, Governance, Enforcement Remains the Test
Mitch Ashley at Futurum shares his insights on how Salesforce’s Agent Fabric aims to control multi-vendor agents through guided determinism, but its success depends on enforcing consistent governance across third-party platforms.
GitHub Copilot’s Compliance Breakthrough: Enterprise Procurement Barriers Fall, Not Just Features Added
GitHub Copilot’s US/EU data residency and FedRAMP Moderate compliance remove enterprise barriers, enabling adoption across government agencies and regulated industries while shifting focus to compliance infrastructure.
Cisco To Acquire Galileo: AI Agent Observability Can’t Run at Human Speed
Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead for Observability at Futurum, examines Cisco’s Galileo acquisition and what real-time AI agent observability means for enterprises governing agents in production.
Can AI Save the Mainframe? BMC Bets on Governance and Agentic AI
Brad Shimmin and Mitch Ashley, Analysts at Futurum, examine BMC Software’s April 2026 AI expansion. The report details how uniting AMI with Control-M’s new Agent Gateway addresses the mainframe demographic cliff through governed, autonomous execution.
Anthropic Glasswing: AI Vulnerability Detection Has Crossed a Threshold
Analysts Mitch Ashley and Fernando Montenegro explore Anthropic’s Project Glasswing. As AI vulnerability detection crosses a new threshold, the economics and speed of offensive and defensive cybersecurity are forever changed.
MCP Dev Summit 2026: AAIF Sets A Clear Direction With Disciplined Guardrails
Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights from the inaugural MCP Dev Summit North America on MCP’s institutional momentum, scope, and discipline, and the open standards stack forming around agentic AI.
Futurum Agent Control Plane Framework: A Reference Model for Production AI Agents
Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines the Agent Control Plane Framework, defining the five-layer governance architecture enterprises need to deploy AI agents safely at production scale.
RSAC 2026: The AI ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ and the Future of Agentic Security
Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley, VPs and Practice Leads at Futurum, convey their observations from the RSAC 2026 Conference, with a focus on AI and agentic security.
Futurum Research Finds Enterprise Observability Spend Surging in $1M-Plus
Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, shares new survey data showing that enterprise observability budgets of $1M-plus have doubled year over year, signaling the observability-native shift is moving from principle to procurement reality.
OpenShell Redraws the Agent Control Plane — Open Standard or Product Launch?
Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, examines NVIDIA OpenShell’s out-of-process enforcement model — and why it sets a standard every enterprise agent runtime must now meet.
