Category: Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure

OCP Global Summit Unveiled Time to Online as a Newly Critical Measure
November 4, 2026

OCP Global Summit Unveiled Time to Online as a Newly Critical Measure

Futurum’s Guy Currier finds OCP Global Summit 2026 put three trends on stage: the overlooked time-to-online bottleneck, grid-to-chip convergence moving into standards, and heterogeneity deep enough to make compliance the...
Microsoft Q1 FY 2027: Copilot Consumption Expands the AI Business
November 2, 2026

Microsoft Q1 FY 2027: Copilot Consumption Expands the AI Business

Futurum Research analyzes Microsoft’s Q1 FY 2027 results, examining Copilot consumption, Foundry adoption, infrastructure efficiency, and enterprise agent governance....
Specialized AI Clouds Belong on the Shortlist for Multi-Year AI Commitments
November 2, 2026

Specialized AI Clouds Belong on the Shortlist for Multi-Year AI Commitments

In our latest thought leadership brief, Specialized AI Clouds Belong on the Shortlist for Multi-Year AI Commitments, completed in partnership with CoreWeave, Futurum Research examines why enterprises signing multi-year AI...
Ingram Micro Q3 FY 2026 AI Infrastructure and Cloud Drive Growth
November 2, 2026

Ingram Micro Q3 FY 2026: AI Infrastructure and Cloud Drive Growth

Futurum Research analyzes Ingram Micro’s Q3 FY 2026 earnings, examining Xvantage adoption, agentic procurement, AI infrastructure economics, and cloud services opportunities....
BT's SWAN Completion Reframes Carriers as National Infrastructure Partners
November 2, 2026

BT's SWAN Completion Reframes Carriers as National Infrastructure Partners

BT Group completed Scotland's Wide Area Network programme early, upgrading connectivity at over 5,000 public sector sites and positioning itself as a key infrastructure partner for government digital transformation....
Alphabet Q3 FY 2026 Cloud AI Growth Contrasts With Search Challenges
October 30, 2026

Alphabet Q3 FY 2026: Cloud AI Growth Contrasts With Search Challenges

Futurum Research analyzes Alphabet’s Q3 FY 2026 results, examining Gemini enterprise adoption, TPU distribution, and the gap between AI Search usage and monetization....
Equinix Q3 FY 2026 Pricing and Interconnection Support Growth
October 30, 2026

Equinix Q3 FY 2026: Pricing and Interconnection Support Growth

Futurum Research analyzes Equinix’s Q3 FY 2026 earnings, examining renewal pricing, AI connectivity, higher-density deployments, and capacity execution....
Commvault Q2 FY 2027 Recovery Breadth Carries the Quarter
October 29, 2026

Commvault Q2 FY 2027: Recovery Breadth Carries the Quarter

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, analyzes Commvault's Q2 FY 2027 results, highlighting how recovery breadth across subscription revenue, SaaS growth, and identity resilience...
Upwind's $400M Series C Is a Bet on Independent Cloud Security
October 29, 2026

Upwind's $400M Series C Is a Bet on Independent Cloud Security

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, Upwind's $400M Series C signals strong enterprise demand for independent cloud security platforms over consolidated vendor solutions....
Mirantis Bundles Free Migration With Managed OpenStack to Lure VMware Defectors
October 29, 2026

Mirantis Bundles Free Migration With Managed OpenStack to Lure VMware Defectors

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, Mirantis offers strategic VMware migration with free implementation, full workload migration, and managed operations to eliminate switching costs for organizations....
PyTorch 2.15: Open-Source AI's Production Inflection Point
October 29, 2026

PyTorch 2.15: Open-Source AI's Production Inflection Point

PyTorch 2.15 enhances production-ready AI with improved NCCL backend, advanced diagnostics for hang detection, and broader hardware support, directly addressing enterprise reliability as cloud concentration grows....
HPE Brings SASE Into Its Network Consoles
October 28, 2026

HPE Brings SASE Into Its Network Consoles

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, examines how HPE's integration of EdgeConnect SASE into HPE Mist and Aruba Central unifies network and security operations,...

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