Category: Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure

Jacobs Takes a Strategic Step in Germany's Energy Transition
July 17, 2026

Jacobs Takes a Strategic Step in Germany’s Energy Transition

Jacobs Solutions wins seven-year Germany grid expansion contract, positioning itself as a leader in governance integration and AI-assisted observability for critical infrastructure as the SLE market reaches $344B by 2028....
Nokia's AI-RAN Platform Puts a Number on the Software-Defined RAN Bet
July 15, 2026

Nokia’s AI-RAN Platform Puts a Number on the Software-Defined RAN Bet

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, unpacks Nokia's new AI-RAN platform launch with NVIDIA and asks whether its 2x spectral efficiency target by 2028 holds...
The Active Storage Revolution: VAST and Cloudera Team Up to Cure Enterprise GPU Starvation
July 15, 2026

The Active Storage Revolution: VAST and Cloudera Team Up to Cure Enterprise GPU Starvation

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, explores the new strategic partnership between VAST Data and Cloudera. By integrating the VAST AI OS with Cloudera data services, the vendors...
NetApp StorageGRID 12.1 Scales Object Storage for AI Factories
July 10, 2026

NetApp StorageGRID 12.1 Scales Object Storage for AI Factories

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Cloud and Data Center at Futurum, shares his insights on NetApp's StorageGRID 12.1 launch and what its federated namespace and throughput gains mean for AI-scale object...
Can Layer7 API Expertise Keep Pace with the Demands of Modern Enterprise Integration?
July 10, 2026

Can Layer7 API Expertise Keep Pace with the Demands of Modern Enterprise Integration?

Inetum-Realdolmen's investment in Layer7 API engineering talent reflects a critical channel partner trend: building proprietary managed services capabilities to compete in a $41.8B ecosystem market growing at 36% CAGR....
AWS Looks to Collapse the Search-Analytics Divide: How Its New OpenSearch Engine Fuels Agentic AI
July 9, 2026

AWS Looks to Collapse the Search-Analytics Divide: How Its New OpenSearch Engine Fuels Agentic AI

Brad Shimmin, VP at Futurum, explores how AWS is re-architecting Amazon OpenSearch Service. By fusing search and analytics and integrating native MCP support, AWS aims to slash log storage costs...
Kore.ai and Atos Bet on Sovereign Agentic AI, Will UK Enterprises Demand Proof, Not Promises?
July 8, 2026

Kore.ai and Atos Bet on Sovereign Agentic AI, Will UK Enterprises Demand Proof, Not Promises?

Kore.ai and Atos announce a strategic partnership to deliver Sovereign AI solutions to UK organizations, addressing data residency and compliance requirements in the rapidly expanding $181B AI platforms market....
Provisioned Throughput Redefines Open Model Inference Economics and Predictability
July 8, 2026

Provisioned Throughput Redefines Open Model Inference Economics and Predictability

Together AI's Provisioned Throughput offers enterprises reserved inference capacity, token-based pricing, 99% uptime SLA, and up to 90% cost savings, addressing critical production AI concerns....
Can DataRobot's Unified AI Governance Break the Silo Trap for Enterprise AI?
July 3, 2026

Can DataRobot’s Unified AI Governance Break the Silo Trap for Enterprise AI?

DataRobot's unified AI governance platform extends beyond public cloud to on-premises, edge, and air-gapped environments, directly addressing the enterprise AI fragmentation problem where visibility ends at deployment boundaries....
Claude Cowork on Amazon Bedrock and Brave Search: Is Secure, Real-Time AI Finally Enterprise-Ready?
June 30, 2026

Claude Cowork on Amazon Bedrock and Brave Search: Is Secure, Real-Time AI Finally Enterprise-Ready?

Claude Cowork is a breakthrough in agentic AI that combines advanced language models with real-time web search to eliminate hallucinations, removing the top barrier to enterprise AI adoption and capturing...
Everpure's Data Primacy Bet From Storage to System of Record
June 25, 2026

Everpure’s Data Primacy Bet: From Storage to System of Record

Fernando Montenegro, VP at The Futurum Group, analyzes Everpure Accelerate 2026: the rebrand from Pure Storage, the data-primacy thesis, Data Intelligence and Data Stream, a growing security story, and what...
Can Agentic AI Fix IT Incident Management, or Will Complexity Outpace Automation?
June 25, 2026

Can Agentic AI Fix IT Incident Management, or Will Complexity Outpace Automation?

Enterprise IT leaders struggle with hybrid cloud complexity. Agentic AI promises automated solutions, but reliability concerns, hallucinations, and data privacy risks hinder adoption....

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