Category: Software Lifecycle Engineering

Ikusi's Triple Certification Signals Compliance-Ready Managed Services
October 16, 2026

Ikusi's Triple Certification Signals Compliance-Ready Managed Services

Ikusi's simultaneous achievement of ENS, NIS2, and ISO 27001:2022 certifications positions it as a compliance-ready provider for Spanish public-sector and EU critical-infrastructure buyers....
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...
Harness Shows Why LLM Security Scanning Needs a Repeatable Verdict
October 14, 2026

Harness Shows Why LLM Security Scanning Needs a Repeatable Verdict

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of The Futurum Research share insights on Harness's LLM security scanning research and why any AI scan should show verdict stability before it can block...
Meta Muse Wonder Reaches the Frontier. Can Meta Sell It
October 14, 2026

Meta Muse Wonder Reaches the Frontier. Can Meta Sell It?

Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on Meta Muse Wonder, how it compares with Google’s Gemini 4 Argon, and what Meta must...
The AI Last Mile Problem
October 14, 2026

The AI Last Mile Problem

In our latest thought leadership brief, The AI Last Mile Problem, completed in partnership with Snowflake, Futurum Research examines why enterprise AI stalls between pilot and production and lays out...
Liquibase Goes Four-for-Four on Cloud Marketplaces
October 14, 2026

Liquibase Goes Four-for-Four on Cloud Marketplaces

Liquibase Secure now available on Google Cloud and Microsoft Marketplaces alongside AWS and Snowflake, enabling enterprises to purchase through existing agreements while supporting 65+ databases with AI-powered governance....
Centre Technologies Bets on Governed AI to Close the Enterprise Adoption Gap
October 13, 2026

Centre Technologies Bets on Governed AI to Close the Enterprise Adoption Gap

Centre Technologies appoints Dean Wheeler as Director of AI to help enterprises move beyond isolated experiments toward governed, enterprise-wide adoption, addressing a critical gap as 47.2% of organizations remain stuck...
Octopus Deploy's Remote MCP Removes the Last Excuse Not to Go Agentic
October 13, 2026

Octopus Deploy's Remote MCP Removes the Last Excuse Not to Go Agentic

Octopus Deploy's new built-in remote MCP server eliminates per-machine installation friction, enabling enterprise teams to scale agentic DevOps workflows with governance enhancements including scoped API keys and OAuth on the...
With Kong Volcano, Kong Hosts the Agents It Governs
October 9, 2026

With Kong Volcano, Kong Hosts the Agents It Governs

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of The Futurum Group share their analyst insights on Kong Volcano: what it gives developers building AI agents and whether Kong can host agents and...
env zero EZ Control Telling a Fix From a Mistake
October 6, 2026

env zero EZ Control: Telling a Fix From a Mistake

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO and Tech Buyers, and Vikram Rathnam, Research Director, Software Lifecycle Engineering at The Futurum Group, share insights on env zero EZ Control and...
Does a 17-Year-Old Movement Need a DevOps Standard
October 6, 2026

Does a 17-Year-Old Movement Need a DevOps Standard?

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of Futurum Research share insights on The DevOps Standard, why its AI agent governance is a well-built retrofit, and what enterprise leaders and platform vendors...

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The vision behind everything in Futurum’s Custom Research practice is this: research should show you what is happening, what comes next, and what to do about it. It should be personal to each audience, easy for people to grasp, and structured so LLMs can reason over it accurately. And it should be fast and turnkey; you want answers now, not another project to carry for quarters.

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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