Brad Shimmin is Vice President Practice Lead Data and Analytics at Futurum, where he provides strategic direction and market analysis to help organizations maximize their investments in data and analytics. Currently, Brad is focused on helping companies establish an AI-first data strategy.
With over 30 years of experience in enterprise IT and emerging technologies, Brad is a distinguished thought leader specializing in data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software development. Consulting with Fortune 100 vendors, Brad specializes in industry thought leadership, worldwide market analysis, client development, and strategic advisory services.
Brad earned his Bachelor of Arts from Utah State University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. Currently, Brad lives in Longmeadow, MA, with his beautiful wife and far too many LEGO sets.
Oracle, at Its Annual Oracle Database Analyst Summit, Showed Why It Is the Powerhouse for Optimizing Data Workloads in the AI Era
Futurum’s Brad Shimmin and Ron Westfall examine why Oracle is well-positioned to leverage its unique architectural approach to data management and cloud services to tackle evolving enterprise demand for more efficient data use and new ways of building enterprise software.
New User Agents and Deeper GenAI Tool Integration With AlloyDB, BigQuery, et al. Promise To Streamline Data-Driven Agentic Workflows
Brad Shimmin, Principal Analyst at The Futurum Group, shares insights on how Google Cloud integrates databases like AlloyDB & BigQuery with GenAI tools to empower data-driven agentic AI workflows unveiled at Google Cloud Next.
Brad Shimmin, VP Data & Analytics at The Futurum Group shares insights on NVIDIA GTC 2025, focusing on the new AI Data Platform and partner efforts to accelerate agentic AI through optimized data infrastructure for complex workloads.
Will a New Unified User Experience for Data, Analytics, and AI Professionals, Along With Updated Lakehouse Capabilities, Help Simplify Aws’ Wide-Ranging Data and Analytics Portfolio?
The Futurum Group's analyst unpacks AWS's SageMaker Unified Studio launch and S3 Tables updates. Learn how this simplifies data and AI workflows for enterprises and strengthens their data lakehouse strategy.
Blurring the Traditional Boundaries Between Storage and Compute, VAST Data Hopes to Further Disrupt the Vector Database Market Through Its Unique Approach to Linear Scalability
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.
