Category: Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure

Lumen's Nasdaq Debut Puts Alkira at the Center of Its AI Networking Pitch
October 7, 2026

Lumen’s Nasdaq Debut Puts Alkira at the Center of Its AI Networking Pitch

Futurum Research at The Futurum Group examines how Lumen's move to Nasdaq places its Alkira acquisition at the center of its effort to be valued as an enterprise networking company...
AWS Embeds DuckDB in Aurora to Collapse Operational and Lakehouse Silos
October 7, 2026

AWS Embeds DuckDB in Aurora to Collapse Operational and Lakehouse Silos

Brad Shimmin analyzes AWS embedding DuckDB into Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL to query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data lakes directly, eliminating reverse-ETL pipelines for transactional applications and AI agents....
Solving the Agentic Context Dilemma Inside Neo4j’s Strategy to Build an Operational World Model
October 6, 2026

Solving the Agentic Context Dilemma: Inside Neo4j’s Strategy to Build an Operational World Model

Brad Shimmin, Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on how Neo4j is repositioning graph architecture into an enterprise context engine to resolve data bottlenecks and govern autonomous AI agents....
Moving Flash Into the Runtime Everpure Repositions FlashBlade for Agentic Workloads
October 6, 2026

Moving Flash Into the Runtime: Everpure Repositions FlashBlade for Agentic Workloads

Brad Shimmin examines how Everpure's FlashBlade updates turn enterprise flash into an active inference tier with PureKVA and native Model Context Protocol support....
Beyond Retrieval CData Connect AI Gateway Tackles Transactional Agents
October 6, 2026

Beyond Retrieval: CData Connect AI Gateway Tackles Transactional Agents

Brad Shimmin, Practice Lead at Futurum, assesses the launch of CData Connect AI Gateway and how its managed MCP architecture overcomes the enterprise agentic read-write divide....
SAP Bets Tabular AI Is the Core of the Autonomous Enterprise
October 5, 2026

SAP Bets Tabular AI Is the Core of the Autonomous Enterprise

SAP makes TabPFN-3.5 Plus generally available in SAP AI Core, leveraging Tabular AI to deliver instant, training-free predictions on structured business data for cash flow forecasting, payment delays, and supplier...
Cyber Resilience Is Now the Mandate: A CXO Checklist
October 2, 2026

Cyber Resilience Is Now the Mandate: A CXO Checklist

In its latest thought leadership brief, Cyber Resilience Is Now the Mandate: A CXO Checklist, completed in partnership with Everpure, Futurum Research lays out ten questions every leadership team should...
NetApp Novus, PEAK:AIO and NetApp's Two-Market AI Strategy
September 30, 2026

NetApp Novus, PEAK:AIO and NetApp’s Two-Market AI Strategy

Nick Patience and Mitch Ashley, VPs and Practice Leads at Futurum, share their insights on NetApp Novus, the planned PEAK:AIO acquisition, and how NetApp is targeting AI factories and the...
When AI Is Everywhere, Data Becomes the Differentiator
September 30, 2026

When AI Is Everywhere, Data Becomes the Differentiator

In our latest Thought Leadership Brief, When AI Is Everywhere, Data Becomes the Differentiator, completed in partnership with Oracle, Futurum Research examines why industry-specific AI requires industry-specific data and how...
eClerx Bets on Agentic AI to Capture a $392B Market
September 28, 2026

eClerx Bets on Agentic AI to Capture a $392B Market

eClerx Services formalized an AI-first growth strategy at its September 2026 Investor Day, targeting a $392B data intelligence market through proprietary agentic platforms and four-pillar AI capability framework....
Teradata Bridges the Enterprise AI Agent Execution Gap
September 23, 2026

Teradata Bridges the Enterprise AI Agent Execution Gap

Brad Shimmin examines Teradata's launch of Tera, an agentic coworker architecture leveraging the Tera Context Engine and Tera Harness to ground autonomous execution in enterprise semantics....
VAST DataEnclave Unifies Proprietary Models and Sensitive Enterprise Data
September 23, 2026

VAST DataEnclave Unifies Proprietary Models and Sensitive Enterprise Data

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes how VAST DataEnclave leverages NVIDIA Confidential Computing to manage proprietary AI models and sensitive data as unified operating system resources....

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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