Category: Software Lifecycle Engineering

5 Reasons Snowflake Acquiring Observe Sets the Tone For 2026
January 9, 2026

5 Reasons Snowflake Acquiring Observe Sets the Tone For 2026

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead of Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, examines how Snowflake’s acquisition of Observe signals a shift toward AI observability platforms and why this move reshapes...
Karpathy’s Thread Signals AI-Driven Development Breakpoint
December 30, 2025

Karpathy’s Thread Signals AI-Driven Development Breakpoint

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead for Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, examines why industry researcher Andrej Karpathy’s X thread signals a breakpoint in AI-driven software development and what it...
Hybrid Multi-Cloud GitOps Controls Your Continuous Delivery and Promotion
December 11, 2025

Hybrid Multi-Cloud GitOps Controls Your Continuous Delivery and Promotion

Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on the updated Akuity platform for continuous delivery and promotion. Akuity provides unified visibility and control for hybrid...
Five Key Reasons Why Confluent Is Strategic To IBM
December 9, 2025

Five Key Reasons Why Confluent Is Strategic To IBM

Brad Shimmin and Mitch Ashley at Futurum, share their insights on IBM’s $11B acquisition of Confluent. This bold move signals a strategic pivot, betting that real-time "data in motion" is...
AWS re:Invent 2025: Wrestling Back AI Leadership
December 5, 2025

AWS re:Invent 2025: Wrestling Back AI Leadership

Futurum analysts share their insights on how AWS re:Invent 2025 redefines the cloud giant as an AI manufacturer. We analyze Nova models, Trainium silicon, and AI Factories as AWS moves...
Microsoft Ignite 2025 AI, Agent 365, Anthropic on Azure & Security Advances
November 21, 2025

Microsoft Ignite 2025: AI, Agent 365, Anthropic on Azure & Security Advances

Analysts Nick Patience, Mitch Ashley, Fernando Montenegro, and Keith Kirkpatrick share insights on Microsoft's shift to agent-centric architecture, cementing the role of Agent 365 as the operational control plane and...
Can ServiceNow and Microsoft Deliver Unified Oversight for AI Agents?
November 21, 2025

Can ServiceNow and Microsoft Deliver Unified Oversight for AI Agents?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on how new ServiceNow Microsoft AI integrations enhance governance, unify workflows, and connect agents across AI Control Tower, Agent 365, GitHub, and...
At Wizdom 2025, Wiz Presents a Broader Vision of Cloud Security
November 11, 2025

At Wizdom 2025, Wiz Presents a Broader Vision of Cloud Security

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, shares insights on Wiz's Wizdom event. Wiz is betting on an open AI strategy, evolving its graph into a "knowledge layer" to help secure cloud,...
GitHub Boldly Maps Out The Agentic Development Universe
November 3, 2025

GitHub Boldly Maps Out The Agentic Development Universe

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on GitHub's Agent HQ, the new control center transforming software development from code-assist to orchestrated, multi-agent...
AgentOps: AI Agents Take Command of Workflow Automation
October 20, 2025

AgentOps: AI Agents Take Command of Workflow Automation

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead of Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on how AI agents are overtaking rule-based workflow tools. AgentOps emerges as the discipline for...
Microsoft Agent Framework: Advancing The Agentic DevOps Vision
October 15, 2025

Microsoft Agent Framework: Advancing The Agentic DevOps Vision

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, analyzes how Microsoft’s Agent Framework extends its Agentic DevOps strategy and moves enterprises closer to adopting the agentic development...
IBM HashiCorp Stakes Its Claim to Agentic Infrastructure
October 14, 2025

IBM HashiCorp Stakes Its Claim to Agentic Infrastructure

Mitch Ashley, VP & Practice Lead, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, shares his insights on HashiCorp’s definitive move to own agentic infrastructure with Project Infragraph and MCP Servers, leveraging IBM’s...

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Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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