Category: Data Center

Cerebras S-1 Teardown: Is the $23B Wafer-Scale IPO the End of GPU Homogeneity?
April 22, 2026

Cerebras S-1 Teardown: Is the $23B Wafer-Scale IPO the End of GPU Homogeneity?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines Cerebras Systems' S-1 filing and $23B valuation, dissecting the $20B OpenAI deal, 86% UAE revenue concentration, and whether wafer-scale silicon can survive the...
Mirantis and NVIDIA
April 21, 2026

Can Mirantis and NVIDIA Run:ai Automation Break the AI Factory Bottleneck?

Mirantis and NVIDIA's k0rdent AI and Run:ai integration solves GPU infrastructure deployment by delivering fully orchestrated, multi-tenant AI environments in minutes instead of weeks....
Unlock Faster AI
April 20, 2026

Can Eridu’s AI Networking Break the Data Center Bottleneck—or Just Move It?

With 78% of organizations boosting AI budgets, Eridu emerges from stealth with $200M+ in funding, claiming to break the data center bottleneck—but whether new architectures solve the problem or just...
Meta’s MTIA Partnership With Broadcom Solidifies the Future of XPUs in Inference Optimization
April 20, 2026

Meta’s MTIA Partnership With Broadcom Solidifies the Future of XPUs in Inference Optimization

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how the Meta Broadcom MTIA partnership expands custom AI silicon and tests whether multi-gigawatt infrastructure can scale efficiently....
Hammerspace's NVIDIA-Powered AI Data Platform Simplifies AI Infrastructure
April 14, 2026

Hammerspace’s NVIDIA-Powered AI Data Platform Simplifies AI Infrastructure

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Cloud and Data Center at Futurum, shares his insights on Hammerspace's announcement of an AI data platform based on NVIDIA’s reference architecture and Hammerspace’s universal namespace....
CoreWeave's Anthropic and Meta Partnerships
April 13, 2026

CoreWeave’s Anthropic and Meta Wins Validate Benchmark Outperformance

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how CoreWeave's $21B Meta deal and Anthropic partnership validate the neocloud model for frontier AI infrastructure built on MLPerf-leading performance....
compute partnership
April 13, 2026

Anthropic’s Google-Broadcom Deal: Model Company or Infrastructure Play?

Anthropic's Google and Broadcom partnership signals a strategic pivot toward supply chain control, raising questions about whether vertical integration will strengthen or dilute its model-first identity....
Can Nasuni’s File Data Activation Drive Real AI ROI, or Is It More AI Hype?
April 8, 2026

Can Nasuni’s File Data Activation Drive Real AI ROI, or Is It More AI Hype?

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Cloud and Data Center at Futurum, shares his insights on Nasuni’s announcement of the Resilio Active Everywhere V6 and AI Active products, which enable file data...
Will Starcloud’s Orbital Data Centers Solve NVIDIA’s Terrestrial Energy Crisis?
April 2, 2026

Will Starcloud’s Orbital Data Centers Solve NVIDIA’s Terrestrial Energy Crisis?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on how Starcloud's $170M Series A funding validates the shift toward orbital data centers. As terrestrial power grids strain, space-based AI inference...
Will Ecolab's $4.75B CoolIT Systems Bet Define the Future of GPU Liquid Cooling?
April 1, 2026

Will Ecolab’s $4.75B CoolIT Systems Bet Define the Future of GPU Liquid Cooling?

Alex Smith and Brendan Burke share their insights on how Ecolab's $4.75 billion acquisition of CoolIT is a cross-industry move that reshapes the competitive landscape for data center liquid cooling....
Lattice’s InfoSec Wins and AI Server Surge: Can a Specialist Outrun the Giants?
March 25, 2026

Lattice’s InfoSec Wins and AI Server Surge: Can a Specialist Outrun the Giants?

Mistral Forge Takes Aim at RAG. But Who Actually Needs Custom Models
March 25, 2026

Mistral Forge Takes Aim at RAG. But Who Actually Needs Custom Models?

Nick Patience, AI Platforms Practice Lead at Futurum, examines Mistral Forge, a custom enterprise AI model training platform, and argues that while its approach is sound, the addressable market may...

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