Category: Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure

Neo4j's Context Gap
April 14, 2026

Does Neo4j’s Context Gap Thesis Expose Enterprise AI’s Biggest Blind Spot?

Neo4j's latest analysis exposes a critical flaw in enterprise AI: the neglect of structural, relational context. Discover why graph databases are positioned as the missing memory layer for agentic AI...
Wasabi Acquires Lyve Cloud. Does This Strengthen Its Storage Position?
April 14, 2026

Wasabi Acquires Lyve Cloud. Does This Strengthen Its Storage Position?

Alex Smith and Brad Shimmin from Futurum examine the Wasabi Lyve Cloud acquisition and whether the deal meaningfully shifts cloud storage dynamics or primarily consolidates customers, capacity, and ecosystem integrations....
Oracle Redefines Mission-Critical Tiers as AI Workloads Demand Always-On Data
April 14, 2026

Oracle Redefines Mission-Critical Tiers as AI Workloads Demand Always-On Data

Brad Shimmin, Research Director at Futurum, explores Oracle's new Diamond-Grade resilience and how sub-millisecond latency and post-quantum security are redefining mission-critical data for the age of agentic AI....
Can AI Save the Mainframe BMC Bets on Governance and Agentic AI
April 10, 2026

Can AI Save the Mainframe? BMC Bets on Governance and Agentic AI

Brad Shimmin and Mitch Ashley, Analysts at Futurum, examine BMC Software’s April 2026 AI expansion. The report details how uniting AMI with Control-M's new Agent Gateway addresses the mainframe demographic...
Slack Expands Slackbot for Enterprise Work; Can It Simplify Execution?
April 9, 2026

Slack Expands Slackbot for Enterprise Work; Can It Simplify Execution?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, examines Salesforce’s Slackbot enterprise update, expanding Slack into a unified work interface with AI skills, CRM, and orchestration capabilities....
Does Honoring Matei Zaharia Signal a New Era for Open-Source Data and AI Systems?
April 9, 2026

Does Honoring Matei Zaharia Signal a New Era for Open-Source Data and AI Systems?

Matei Zaharia's ACM Prize for Apache Spark reflects enterprise AI's shift toward open-source platforms, showing how democratized data infrastructure is transforming competitive dynamics across the industry....
Glean Doubles ARR to $200M. Can Its Knowledge Graph Beat Copilot
April 3, 2026

Glean Doubles ARR to $200M. Can Its Knowledge Graph Beat Copilot?

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, examines Glean's platform evolution from enterprise search to agentic AI, as it doubles ARR to $200M and battles Microsoft 365 Copilot for...
LevelBlue–SentinelOne Partnership: Does Unified Security Improve Outcomes?
April 1, 2026

LevelBlue–SentinelOne Partnership: Does Unified Security Improve Outcomes?

Fernando Montenegro, VP & Practice Lead for Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, analyzes the LevelBlue SentinelOne partnership and its focus on integrating threat intelligence, AI detection, and response to improve...
The Foundation for Innovation Why Architectural Integrity and Distributed Databases are Crucial for Scaling Mission-Critical, AI-Ready Applications
March 29, 2026

The Foundation for Innovation: Why Architectural Integrity and Distributed Databases are Crucial for Scaling Mission-Critical, AI-Ready Applications

In our latest report, The Foundation for Innovation: Why Architectural Integrity and Distributed Databases are Crucial for Scaling Mission-Critical, AI-Ready Applications, commissioned by Oracle, Futurum Research examines two contrasting approaches...
Snowflake's SnowWork Targets the Gap Between Data Insight and Business Action
March 25, 2026

Snowflake’s SnowWork Targets the Gap Between Data Insight and Business Action

Brad Shimmin and Nick Patience explore Snowflake’s Project SnowWork and how the Agentic Enterprise Control Plane turns the AI Data Cloud into a "system of action" for autonomous workflows across...
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...
Oracle Positions AI Database 26ai to Lead $1.2 Trillion Market by Bridging the Agentic Reasoning Gap
March 25, 2026

Oracle Positions AI Database 26ai to Lead $1.2 Trillion Market by Bridging the Agentic Reasoning Gap

Brad Shimmin and Keith Kirkpatrick of Futurum explore Oracle's pivot to agentic plumbing. Oracle is embedding autonomous reasoning directly into Oracle AI Database 26ai to solve the enterprise data latency...

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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