Category: AI Platforms

SolarWinds Avior: Goal-Driven Agentic AI for Hybrid IT Ops
October 16, 2026

SolarWinds Avior: Goal-Driven Agentic AI for Hybrid IT Ops

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, examines SolarWinds' launch of Avior, a goal-driven agentic platform that enables IT teams to define objectives, coordinate specialized agents, and...
IFS Ties Its Industrial AI Platform to a Governance Layer Built to Contain It
October 16, 2026

IFS Ties Its Industrial AI Platform to a Governance Layer Built to Contain It

IFS paired a new conversational AI platform with a governance layer at Unleashed 2026 — and admitted, in the same breath, where its differentiation claims still fall short....
ServiceNow's AI Passport Closes the Agentic Governance Gap
October 15, 2026

ServiceNow's AI Passport Closes the Agentic Governance Gap

ServiceNow's AI Passport uses cryptographic credentials to verify AI agents' authorized scope, addressing a critical governance gap: 100% of banks use AI, but only 24% have governance frameworks....
LocalStack for Azure: A Sandbox for Coding Agents Without Cloud Credentials
October 15, 2026

LocalStack for Azure: A Sandbox for Coding Agents Without Cloud Credentials

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, LocalStack's Azure emulation public beta lets developers and AI agents test code in isolated containers without exposing credentials or incurring...
Delegating Outcomes: How a Universal Agent Changes the Way Enterprises Work
October 15, 2026

Delegating Outcomes: How a Universal Agent Changes the Way Enterprises Work

In our latest thought leadership brief, Delegating Outcomes: How a Universal Agent Changes the Way Enterprises Work, completed in partnership with Google Cloud, Futurum Research examines why first-generation agent programs...
Modal Hits $1B Run Rate: AI-Native Infrastructure's Breakout Moment
October 15, 2026

Modal Hits $1B Run Rate: AI-Native Infrastructure's Breakout Moment

Modal has crossed $1B in annualized run rate and raised $750M Series D at $15.75B valuation, with usage tripling in five months and 15x year-over-year growth, positioning the AI infrastructure...
LogicMonitor Makes Agent Governance a First-Class ITOps Discipline
October 15, 2026

LogicMonitor Makes Agent Governance a First-Class ITOps Discipline

LogicMonitor launched Agent Studio for Edwin AI, addressing enterprise governance gaps in AI agent deployment. The platform gives IT administrators centralized inventory, access control, and reliability management for production AI...
AI-defined fabs
October 14, 2026

NVIDIA's cuPotential Takes the CUDA Moat Down to the Atom in the AI-Defined Fab

Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines NVIDIA's SEMICON West 2026 launch of cuPotential and the AI-defined fab, weighing 30x vendor speedups against the absence of fab output data....
Meta Muse Wonder Reaches the Frontier. Can Meta Sell It
October 14, 2026

Meta Muse Wonder Reaches the Frontier. Can Meta Sell It?

Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on Meta Muse Wonder, how it compares with Google’s Gemini 4 Argon, and what Meta must...
Astera Labs Orion Reimagines the XPU Rack as a Compute-Agnostic Platform
October 14, 2026

Astera Labs Orion Reimagines the XPU Rack as a Compute-Agnostic Platform

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines Astera Labs Orion, a compute-agnostic rack-scale reference design pooling up to 160 accelerators on PCIe Gen 6, and whether open racks can win...
Wiz Brings AI Agents to FedRAMP High: CNAPP Becomes AI-APP
October 14, 2026

Wiz Brings AI Agents to FedRAMP High: CNAPP Becomes AI-APP

Wiz launched three AI agents in its FedRAMP High environment, evolving from CNAPP to AI-APP and delivering machine-speed security operations for federal agencies facing cyber threats....
SCSK Bets on Agentic AI to Digitize Japan's Excel-Dependent Enterprises
October 14, 2026

SCSK Bets on Agentic AI to Digitize Japan's Excel-Dependent Enterprises

SCSK's CELF AI Development Agent, powered by Claude via Amazon Bedrock, launches October 23, 2026, with alpha testing showing 300–800% productivity gains to capture Japan's enterprise market....

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

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VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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