Category: Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure

Can Databricks Maintain Its Data + AI Summit Lead as Agentic AI Raises the Stakes?
June 8, 2026

Can Databricks Maintain Its Data + AI Summit Lead as Agentic AI Raises the Stakes?

With 51% of enterprises prioritizing agentic AI tools, Databricks' 2026 Data + AI Summit showcases how the company plans to lead the next era of intelligent data platforms while facing...
Can Parallel Retrieval Redefine Enterprise AI Search Speed and Quality?
June 6, 2026

Can Parallel Retrieval Redefine Enterprise AI Search Speed and Quality?

Databricks' upgraded Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant achieves 2x faster answer generation and 3x faster search latency through parallel test-time scaling, redefining enterprise AI search performance....
Workday and Google Cloud Bet on Embedded AI Agents to Redefine Enterprise HR and Finance Workflows
June 5, 2026

Workday and Google Cloud Bet on Embedded AI Agents to Redefine Enterprise HR and Finance Workflows

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, analyzes how Workday Data Cloud's zero-copy integration with Google Cloud Lakehouse enables real-time analytics without data duplication,...
Databricks Genie and Partners Target Enterprise AI's Real Bottleneck: Cross-Functional Intelligence
June 4, 2026

Databricks Genie and Partners Target Enterprise AI’s Real Bottleneck: Cross-Functional Intelligence

Databricks Genie launches production-grade conversational AI to address enterprises' top challenge: AI reliability. Governed, context-aware insights help overcome critical adoption barriers across business functions....
Microsoft Build 2026 - The Platform, Integration Plane, and Developer Surface
June 4, 2026

Microsoft Build 2026 – The Platform, Integration Plane, and Developer Surface

Futurum Analysts Ashley, Kirkpatrick, Patience, and Shimmin analyze Microsoft Build 2026 across models, agents, data intelligence, governance, and silicon as Microsoft positions itself as the platform, the integration plane, and...
Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers
June 3, 2026

Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on Snowflake's four infrastructure bets—Cortex Sense, Iceberg v3, Datastream, and Adaptive Compute—that will determine the success of the agentic enterprise....
Is Liquid Clustering the End of Partitioning for Data Lakehouses?
June 3, 2026

Is Liquid Clustering the End of Partitioning for Data Lakehouses?

Databricks' Liquid Clustering challenges traditional data partitioning, promising superior speed, scalability, and efficiency—potentially reshaping how enterprises manage petabyte-scale analytics and AI workloads....
Anthropic Files For IPO, Looking to Beat OpenAI to the Punch
June 2, 2026

Anthropic Files For IPO, Looking to Beat OpenAI to the Punch

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, examines Anthropic’s confidential IPO filing — what the financial data available so far tells us, and what public investors will need to...
Curing Agentic Hallucinations: DataHub’s Answer to the AI Context Gap
June 2, 2026

Curing Agentic Hallucinations: DataHub’s Answer to the AI Context Gap

Brad Shimmin breaks down the release of DataHub Cloud v1 and explores how its automated context platform cures AI analytics hallucinations by feeding agents pre-validated, expert-approved business logic....
Starburst’s Intelligence Platform Sets Out to Tame the Multi-Cloud AI Wilderness
June 2, 2026

Starburst’s Intelligence Platform Sets Out to Tame the Multi-Cloud AI Wilderness

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on Starburst's new Enterprise Intelligence Platform, exploring how federated data access and Managed Icehouse are solving the unpredictable cloud...
Workday and Google Integrate HR and Finance AI Agents into Gemini Enterprise
June 2, 2026

Workday and Google Integrate HR and Finance AI Agents into Gemini Enterprise

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at Futurum, examines how the Workday Google Cloud partnership brings governed AI agents, enterprise data, and HR and finance workflow execution into Gemini Enterprise....
Can LinkedIn's PyTorch-Powered DuaLip Redefine Web-Scale Optimization?
June 2, 2026

Can LinkedIn’s PyTorch-Powered DuaLip Redefine Web-Scale Optimization?

LinkedIn re-architected its DuaLip distributed linear programming solver using PyTorch and GPU acceleration, enabling order-of-magnitude performance gains to solve optimization problems across hundreds of millions of users....

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