Category: Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure

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,...
Nokia Q3 FY 2026 AI Network Demand Tests Supply Capacity
October 26, 2026

Nokia Q3 FY 2026: AI Network Demand Tests Supply Capacity

Futurum Research analyzes Nokia’s Q3 FY 2026 earnings, examining AI network demand, optical manufacturing capacity, and live AI-RAN deployments....
IBM Q3 FY 2026 Software Growth and Deal Recovery Lift Execution
October 23, 2026

IBM Q3 FY 2026: Software Growth and Deal Recovery Lift Execution

Futurum Research examines IBM’s Q3 FY 2026 earnings, including software execution, infrastructure deal recovery, sovereign AI demand, and consulting delivery efficiency....
WEKA and Smartbird End the Sovereignty-Performance Tradeoff
October 23, 2026

WEKA and Smartbird End the Sovereignty-Performance Tradeoff

WEKA and Smartbird announced a strategic partnership to deliver sovereign managed AI infrastructure for regulated enterprises in government, healthcare, and financial services, combining NeuralMesh software with dedicated clusters....
PyTorch Foundation Bets Open Infrastructure Can Win Enterprise AI
October 23, 2026

PyTorch Foundation Bets Open Infrastructure Can Win Enterprise AI

PyTorch Foundation's 'any chip, any cloud, any agent' mandate attracts 3,500+ attendees and nine new enterprise members, including Shopify, positioning open-source infrastructure as critical to capturing the $181.3B AI platforms...
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA Puts the AI Factory in an Actual Container
October 22, 2026

At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA Puts the AI Factory in an Actual Container

Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on NVIDIA GTC Berlin, where DSX POD, OpenShell, and physical AI anchored a pitch to Europe...
NVIDIA's 104-Qubit JUPITER Simulation Makes GPU Supercomputers the Design Platform for Fault-Tolerant Quantum
October 21, 2026

NVIDIA's 104-Qubit JUPITER Simulation Makes GPU Supercomputers the Design Platform for Fault-Tolerant Quantum

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines NVIDIA's record 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum simulation on JUPITER and why GPU supercomputers are becoming the quantum industry's design platform....
Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Shifts the Focus to Customer-Run AI
October 20, 2026

Microsoft Sovereign Cloud Shifts the Focus to Customer-Run AI

Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on Microsoft Sovereign Cloud's push into customer-run AI and why public cloud controls still leave Europe's...
Intel D-Series GPUs Make HBM Optional for Agentic Inference
October 19, 2026

Intel D-Series GPUs Make HBM Optional for Agentic Inference

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on Intel D-series GPUs, 46,000-core Xeon agentic racks, open prompt routing, and the photonics roadmap Intel detailed at the 2026 OCP Global...
SolarWinds Avior: Goal-Driven Agentic AI for Hybrid IT Ops
October 16, 2026

SolarWinds Avior: Goal-Driven Agentic AI for Hybrid IT Ops

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure at Futurum, examines SolarWinds' launch of Avior, a goal-driven agentic platform that enables IT teams to define objectives, coordinate specialized agents, and...
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....

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