Category: Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure

Snowflake Q2 FY 2027 CoCo and CoWork Expand AI Consumption
September 8, 2026

Snowflake Q2 FY 2027: CoCo and CoWork Expand AI Consumption

Futurum Research analyzes Snowflake’s Q2 FY 2027 earnings, focusing on AI-led consumption, CoCo adoption, CoWork growth, and raised FY 2027 guidance....
NetApp Q1 FY 2027 AI-Ready Storage Drives Enterprise Momentum
September 4, 2026

NetApp Q1 FY 2027: AI-Ready Storage Drives Enterprise Momentum

Futurum Research analyzes NetApp’s Q1 FY 2027 earnings, focusing on AI data infrastructure, hybrid cloud demand, and migration momentum....
Hitachi Bets on Grid-to-AI Stack as Physical Infrastructure Play
September 4, 2026

Hitachi Bets on Grid-to-AI Stack as Physical Infrastructure Play

Hitachi pairs sustainable insulating gas production in Germany with HMAX Physical AI expansion, positioning itself to capitalize on enterprise AI investment tied to reliable power infrastructure....
Broadcom Builds Sovereign Agentic AI Foundations Around VMware Tanzu
September 3, 2026

Broadcom Builds Sovereign Agentic AI Foundations Around VMware Tanzu

Brad Shimmin, Vice President and Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, analyzes Broadcom's VMware Tanzu Platform updates at VMware Explore 2026, covering deny-by-default agent runtimes, AI-ready data foundations, and TrueSource...
Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt Why the AI Era Demands an Agentic Data Cloud
September 2, 2026

Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt: Why the AI Era Demands an Agentic Data Cloud

In its latest report, Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt, completed in partnership with Google Cloud, Futurum Research examines how decoupled data architectures are driving up costs and operational overhead...
Autonomy Over Analytics The Read-Write Decree Rewiring Enterprise Data Platforms
August 28, 2026

Autonomy Over Analytics: The Read-Write Decree Rewiring Enterprise Data Platforms

Brad Shimmin, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, reveals findings from the new Data Intelligence Platforms Signal report, highlighting how read-write AI agents and transactional execution realigned competitive market standings....
Nasuni Acquires DryvIQ to Bring AI-Ready Data Governance
August 28, 2026

Nasuni Acquires DryvIQ to Bring AI-Ready Data Governance

Alastair Cooke, analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on why Nasuni acquires DryvIQ and what the deal means for AI data governance and file platform consolidation....
In-Process Analytics Goes Hyperscale Inside the AWS DuckLabs Acqui-Hire
August 28, 2026

In-Process Analytics Goes Hyperscale: Inside the AWS DuckLabs Acqui-Hire

AWS acquires DuckLabs to embed DuckDB’s in-process OLAP engine natively into Amazon S3 storage, challenging data warehouse economics while keeping open-source governance independent....
ScyllaDB's Rust Driver Delivers 58% Throughput Gain for DynamoDB Users
August 28, 2026

ScyllaDB’s Rust Driver Delivers 58% Throughput Gain for DynamoDB Users

ScyllaDB released an open-source Rust driver for its DynamoDB-compatible Alternator API, achieving 58% higher throughput than AWS SDK on 3-node clusters. The driver maintains full API compatibility while enabling cluster-aware...
Salesforce Q2 FY 2027 Can Agentforce Drive Revenue Reacceleration
August 27, 2026

Salesforce Q2 FY 2027: Can Agentforce Drive Revenue Reacceleration?

Futurum Research analyzes Salesforce’s Q2 FY 2027 earnings, focusing on AI and data momentum, Agentforce adoption, Anthropic partnership expansion, and FY 2027 guidance....
Operationalizing Autonomous AI Architecting the Agentic Enterprise on a Converged Data Foundation
August 27, 2026

Operationalizing Autonomous AI: Architecting the Agentic Enterprise on a Converged Data Foundation

In its latest report, Operationalizing Autonomous AI: Architecting the Agentic Enterprise on a Converged Data Foundation, completed in partnership with Snowflake, Futurum Research examines why enterprises must move beyond bolted-on...
AI Maps Cancer's Hidden States to Predict Winning Drug Combos
August 26, 2026

AI Maps Cancer’s Hidden States to Predict Winning Drug Combos

AI algorithms identified ultraconserved cancer cell states across patients and predicted synergistic drug combinations with ~90% accuracy, challenging assumptions about tumor heterogeneity....

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