Category: Software Lifecycle Engineering

Observability: AI Is Eating the Budget That Keeps AI Safe
October 28, 2026

Observability: AI Is Eating the Budget That Keeps AI Safe

AI overruns are drawing money from monitoring budgets. Futurum explains why buyers should judge AI observability by whether it shows the full cost of work that passes review, not by...
IBM Bets on Vault's Installed Base to Secure AI Agent Identity
October 28, 2026

IBM Bets on Vault's Installed Base to Secure AI Agent Identity

Fernando Montenegro, Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience at Futurum, examines how IBM's new Agent Identity paired with HashiCorp Vault addresses critical security challenges for AI agents, offering...
Claude Agent Observability Can't Be the Audit Record on Its Own
October 26, 2026

Claude Agent Observability Can't Be the Audit Record on Its Own

Vikram Rathnam, Research Director, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, examines how Anthropic's new OpenTelemetry trace export for Claude Managed Agents...
OpenShell agent security
October 23, 2026

SUSE OpenShell Agent Security: Enforcement Is Table Stakes, Proof Is Not

Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of The Futurum Group share insights on SUSE's OpenShell agent security news and why proof of what an agent did, not enforcement, will separate the...
Qodo v3.1: Governing AI Code Review Before Noise Kills Adoption
October 19, 2026

Qodo v3.1: Governing AI Code Review Before Noise Kills Adoption

Qodo released v3.1 of its Code Quality and Governance platform, introducing automated rule deactivation and analytics to combat AI review noise that undermines developer productivity and adoption rates across enterprises....
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....

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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