Category: Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure

LocalStack for Azure: A Sandbox for Coding Agents Without Cloud Credentials
October 15, 2026

LocalStack for Azure: A Sandbox for Coding Agents Without Cloud Credentials

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, LocalStack's Azure emulation public beta lets developers and AI agents test code in isolated containers without exposing credentials or incurring...
HPE ProLiant Gen13: Security Features Matter More Than the Silicon
October 14, 2026

HPE ProLiant Gen13: Security Features Matter More Than the Silicon

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, HPE's ProLiant Gen13 servers prioritize advanced security—automatic drive encryption and post-quantum cryptography—over traditional processor specifications....
Broadcom's HyperArmor Brings Virtual Patching to the Hypervisor
October 14, 2026

Broadcom's HyperArmor Brings Virtual Patching to the Hypervisor

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, examines how Broadcom's HyperArmor brings virtual patching, execution allowlisting, and SSH MFA to ESX hypervisors, marking a strategic...
Astera Labs Orion Reimagines the XPU Rack as a Compute-Agnostic Platform
October 14, 2026

Astera Labs Orion Reimagines the XPU Rack as a Compute-Agnostic Platform

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines Astera Labs Orion, a compute-agnostic rack-scale reference design pooling up to 160 accelerators on PCIe Gen 6, and whether open racks can win...
Sovereign AI Goes Agentic: DataRobot Deepens Etisalat UAE Bet
October 14, 2026

Sovereign AI Goes Agentic: DataRobot Deepens Etisalat UAE Bet

DataRobot and Etisalat UAE deepen their strategic partnership with a new multi-year agreement deploying the Agent Workforce Platform on-premises, addressing critical enterprise demands for data sovereignty and governance in regulated...
Arm AGI CPU Posts 2x the Agentic Work Per Rack of AMD's EPYC 9755 at OCP 2026
October 13, 2026

Arm AGI CPU Posts 2x the Agentic Work Per Rack of AMD's EPYC 9755 at OCP 2026

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines Arm's agentic CPU benchmarks at OCP Global 2026, where a Signal65 study credits AGI CPU with 1.99x the modeled work per rack of...
Microsoft Maia 300 Bets Gigawatts on Dataflow Inference Silicon
October 13, 2026

Microsoft Maia 300 Bets Gigawatts on Dataflow Inference Silicon

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines Microsoft Maia 300, a decode-first inference accelerator with 18 TB/s of HBM4, and what multi-gigawatt Maia deployments mean for GPUs, TPU, and Trainium....
AMD Helion Makes the CPU Rack a First-Class Citizen of the AI Data Center
October 13, 2026

AMD Helion Makes the CPU Rack a First-Class Citizen of the AI Data Center

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on AMD Helion, the OCP-based agentic AI rack that makes the CPU rack a first-class citizen of the AI data center...
SpaceX Closes the Final Gap to Become America's First Satellite-Terrestrial Carrier
October 9, 2026

SpaceX Closes the Final Gap to Become America's First Satellite-Terrestrial Carrier

SpaceX achieved two major Starlink Mobile milestones: acquiring 14 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum and gaining FCC approval for its Gen2 constellation of 15,000 satellites, making it America's first integrated...
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...
Arctiq Joins Wiz MSP Program to Scale Multi-Tenant Cloud Security
October 7, 2026

Arctiq Joins Wiz MSP Program to Scale Multi-Tenant Cloud Security

Arctiq joined Wiz's MSP Program, gaining centralized multi-tenant management through Wiz Tenant Manager to deliver cloud and AI security at scale, strengthening its Google SecOps-powered security operations....
BT Absorbs TalkTalk and PlatformX: UK Fixed-Line's Defining Consolidation
October 5, 2026

BT Absorbs TalkTalk and PlatformX: UK Fixed-Line's Defining Consolidation

BT Group's acquisition of TalkTalk and PlatformX protects 2.5 million customers while cementing dominance in UK fixed-line infrastructure. The £400m deal marks a defining consolidation moment for enterprise networking reliability....

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