Category: Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure

MWC 2025: The AI Factor
March 25, 2025

MWC 2025: The AI Factor

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines how AI portfolio development and marketing moves by key players HPE, Cisco, Ericsson, and Rakuten Symphony will play a more integral role in the overall success...
Why Organizations Are Switching to Google Cloud
March 24, 2025

Why Organizations Are Switching to Google Cloud

In our latest Research Brief, “Why Organizations Are Switching to Google Cloud”, completed in partnership with Google, The Futurum Group uncovered the top drivers for making the switch to Google...
MWC 2025: Why Mobile Security Matters More than Ever
March 17, 2025

MWC 2025: Why Mobile Security Matters More than Ever

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines how cybersecurity portfolio development and marketing moves by key players Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, IBM, Palo Alto, AWS, Nokia, and Microsoft will play a more integral role...
Pure Storage announces FlashBlade //EXA for the AI Factory
March 14, 2025

Pure Storage Announces FlashBlade //EXA for the AI Factory

Camberley Bates at The Futurum Group covers Pure Storage FlashBlade //EXA announcement for the AI Factory....
IBM Announces Ceph as a Service - A Managed StaaS Offering
March 6, 2025

IBM Announces Ceph as a Service – A Managed StaaS Offering

Camberley Bates at The Futurum Group covers IBM’s Ceph as a service offering, bringing IBM cloud capabilities to on premises....
Synopsys Introduces New HAV Tools to Address Growing SoC Design Complexity
March 3, 2025

Synopsys Introduces New HAV Tools to Address Growing SoC Design Complexity

Richard Gordon, VP & Practice Lead, Semiconductors at The Futurum Group, explores how Synopsys’ HAV expansion with HAPS-200 and ZeBu-200 tackles AI, multi-die complexity, and scalable verification in semiconductor design....
MWC 2025: Qualcomm and IBM Raise GenAI Competitive Stakes
March 3, 2025

MWC 2025: Qualcomm and IBM Raise GenAI Competitive Stakes

Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines how the Qualcomm IBM alliance can spur broader enterprise adoption of on-device inferencing and low-power features key to sustainable GenAI deployment that improves energy efficiencies, performance,...
AI Agents and Hybrid AI: Preserving Mainframe Knowledge and the Impact of BMC’s AMI Assistant
February 27, 2025

AI Agents and Hybrid AI: Preserving Mainframe Knowledge and the Impact of BMC’s AMI Assistant – Six Five On The Road

David Jeffries and Priya Doty from BMC Software discuss preserving mainframe knowledge and driving transformation with AI Agents and Hybrid AI on the latest Six Five On The Road....
Gemini 2.0, AI Agents, and the Future of IT - A Recap from The CIO Pulse Report
February 20, 2025

Gemini 2.0, AI Agents, and the Future of IT – A Recap from The CIO Pulse Report

Dion Hinchcliffe, VP of CIO Practice at The Futurum Group, highlights Google’s Gemini 2.0, OpenAI’s Deep Research, and Anysphere’s Cursor, showing how they reshape IT leadership, AI adoption, and custom...
NetApp Introduces New Members to the ASA Block Storage Family
February 11, 2025

NetApp Introduces New Members to the ASA Block Storage Family

Camberley Bates at The Futurum Group covers NetApp’s announcement on block, cyber resiliency, and BlueXP....
Zoho Analyst Day 2025: Zoho Readies Agentic AI to Elevate IoT Proposition
February 11, 2025

Zoho Analyst Day 2025: Zoho Readies Agentic AI to Elevate IoT Proposition

Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores how Zoho is positioned to develop AI-enhanced solutions that can drive customer value including the optimization and full security of IoT assets that improve business outcomes...
End of Free Preview: Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents Move to Paid Metered Model
February 11, 2025

End of Free Preview: Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents Move to Paid Metered Model

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines Microsoft’s shift to metered pricing for autonomous agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot and its impact on enterprise AI adoption....

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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