Author: Stephen Foskett

VAST Data Takes on Agentic AI with a Major Platform Update
March 18, 2025

VAST Data Takes on Agentic AI with a Major Platform Update

Brad Shimmin and Stephen Foskett at The Futurum Group examine VAST Data's platform update, evaluating its AI-ready data capabilities and how those will disrupt the broader agentic AI marketplace....
Starburst Launches Managed Icehouse Implementation
April 11, 2024

Starburst Launches Managed Icehouse Implementation

Stephen Foskett, President of Tech Field Day, and Sam Holschuh, Analyst at The Futurum Group, offer expert insights into Starburst's Managed Icehouse Implementation and its impact on the data analytics...
Infrastructure Matters on the road at Cloud Field Day - Infrastructure Matters, Episode 29
February 12, 2024

Infrastructure Matters on the road at Cloud Field Day – Infrastructure Matters, Episode 29

In this episode of Infrastructure Matters, hosts Steven Dickens and Camberley Bates are joined by Stephen Foskett and Keith Townsend, to discuss the evolving landscape of IT infrastructure, focusing on...

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The vision behind everything in Futurum’s Custom Research practice is this: research should show you what is happening, what comes next, and what to do about it. It should be personal to each audience, easy for people to grasp, and structured so LLMs can reason over it accurately. And it should be fast and turnkey; you want answers now, not another project to carry for quarters.

Whether you are defining business, channel, or go-to-market strategy; evaluating vendors or justifying ROI; or commissioning research to fill an emerging market need, we have your back, with a program that answers your questions with the objectivity and credibility to drive real decisions.

To do it, we bring unmatched data to bear: Futurum research, surveys, and market projections; validated market feeds; ETR’s 15 years of insight from 10,000 technology decision-makers; G2’s buyer and user data; and what our analysts hear every day. Add leading primary collection, from AI-moderated voice interviews to surveys and analyst-led interviews, all turnkey, and every project comes out credible, nuanced, and actionable.

And we don’t just drop the results in your lap. For internal work, we provide analyst-led sessions, interactive dashboards, and a range of formats. For market-facing work, Futurum delivers turnkey activation and amplification that actually gets seen, by people and by LLMs, through our media and share of voice. This is research that moves decisions and markets.

We will meet you wherever you are, from a fast-turn brief to a multi-year program, and shape the work to your goals, timeline, and budget. The right program for your moment.

If any of this is useful, I would love to talk.

Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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