Category: AI Platforms

AgentOps: AI Agents Take Command of Workflow Automation
October 20, 2025

AgentOps: AI Agents Take Command of Workflow Automation

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead of Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on how AI agents are overtaking rule-based workflow tools. AgentOps emerges as the discipline for...
The Six Five Pod EP 281 Inside the Week in Tech - Oracle, Salesforce, TSMC & the AI Cloud Race
October 20, 2025

The Six Five Pod | EP 281: Inside the Week in Tech – Oracle, Salesforce, TSMC & the AI Cloud Race

On this episode of The Six Five Pod, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss recent developments in the tech industry. They cover Oracle's financial analyst day, highlighting the company's...
Leveraging Small Language Models for Enterprise AI: Benefits, Use Cases, and IBM’s Approach
October 17, 2025

Leveraging Small Language Models for Enterprise AI: Benefits, Use Cases, and IBM’s Approach

In Leveraging Small Language Models for Enterprise AI: Benefits, Use Cases, and IBM’s Approach, Futurum outlines why SLMs are becoming the pragmatic choice for enterprise AI—pairing targeted accuracy and faster...
NetApp Insight 2025 Will AI Unlock New Growth for the Storage Market
October 17, 2025

NetApp Insight 2025: Will AI Unlock New Growth for the Storage Market?

Alex Smith, Vice President at The Futurum Group, shares highlights from NetApp Insight 2025: The debut of AFX and AI Data Engine signals NetApp’s evolution into a software-driven leader for...
Is Teradata About to Leapfrog Agentic AI for Regulated Enterprises
October 16, 2025

Is Teradata About to Leapfrog Agentic AI for Regulated Enterprises?

Dion Hinchcliffe, Vice President and Practice Lead, Digital Leadership and CIO at Futurum, analyzes Teradata agentic AI—AgentBuilder, MCP Server, and AI Factory—and explains why a deterministic, governed approach could put...
Amazon’s Alexa Plus Takes A Voice-First Design With AI
October 15, 2025

Amazon’s Alexa+ Challenges GPT and Gemini with Voice-First Design

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on how Amazon’s Alexa+ redefines the AI assistant market by prioritizing voice-first, home-centered intelligence over productivity and search-driven models....
Amazon’s AZ3 Chips Help Advance Voice-First AI Agentic UX
October 14, 2025

Amazon’s AZ3 Chips Help Advance Voice-First AI Agentic UX

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on how Amazon AZ3 chips and AZ3 Pro enable on-device AI acceleration, sensor fusion, and advanced language model execution for Alexa+....
The Six Five Pod | EP 280: Qualcomm, AMD, & Intel: Navigating the AI Revolution's Key Players
October 13, 2025

The Six Five Pod | EP 280: Qualcomm, AMD, & Intel: Navigating the AI Revolution’s Key Players

On this episode of The Six Five Pod, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss AMD's groundbreaking deal with OpenAI, Cisco's advancements in AI networking, Intel's foundry progress, and Qualcomm's...
Can Google Gemini Enterprise Unlock the Front Door for Business AI?
October 10, 2025

Can Google Gemini Enterprise Unlock the Front Door for Business AI?

Nick Patience, AI Platforms Practice Lead at Futurum shares his insights on the launch of Google Gemini Enterprise, an all-in-one AI platform aimed at democratizing workflow automation and providing a...
The Autonomous Enterprise: The Essential Foundations for Agentic Platforms
October 10, 2025

The Autonomous Enterprise: The Essential Foundations for Agentic Platforms

In our latest Research Brief, The Autonomous Enterprise: The Essential Foundations for Agentic Platforms, developed in collaboration with Google Cloud, The Futurum Group outlines the shift from command-based AI to...
IBM TechXchange 2025: The Real Headliner is Data, Not AI
October 10, 2025

IBM TechXchange 2025: The Real Headliner is Data, Not AI

Brad at Futurum looks at IBM TechXchange 2025 and uncovers a strategic pivot from AI hype to the foundational challenge of enterprise data. IBM's latest announcements for watsonx, AgentOps, and...
QumulusAI USD.AI Financing Model for AI Infrastructure Capital
October 9, 2025

Could QumulusAI–USD.AI Financing Model Be a New Model for AI Infrastructure Capital

Ray Wang and Daniel Newman at Futurum share their insights on how QumulusAI USD.AI financing uses tokenized GPU collateral and stablecoin liquidity to fund up to 70% of deployments, enabling...

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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