Insight Type: Events

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...
NetSuite Accelerates AI Adoption with SuiteWorld 2025 Announcements
October 10, 2025

NetSuite Accelerates AI Adoption with SuiteWorld 2025 Announcements

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director with Futurum, covers SuiteWorld 25, and discusses the key platform, AI, and partnership announcements and their relative impact on customers and the mid-market ERP sector....
IBM TechXchange 2025: The Real Headliner is Data, Not AI
October 10, 2025

IBM TechXchange 2025: The Real Headliner is Data, Not AI

Brad at Futurum looks at IBM TechXchange 2025 and uncovers a strategic pivot from AI hype to the foundational challenge of enterprise data. IBM's latest announcements for watsonx, AgentOps, and...
CrowdStrike fal.con 2025: A Vision and a Path to the Human-Led Agentic SOC
October 3, 2025

CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2025: A Vision and a Path to the Human-Led Agentic SOC

Fernando Montenegro, VP and Practice Leadat Futurum shares his insights on CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2025 conference, where the company went all-in on AI, unveiling its ambitious vision for an "agentic SOC"...
Balancing AI Goals and Core Strengths: Twilio’s Customer Engagement Platform
October 3, 2025

Balancing AI Goals and Core Strengths: Twilio’s Customer Engagement Platform

Keith Kirkpatrick and Mitch Ashley with Futurum share insights on Twilio’s shift to a unified customer engagement platform, its pragmatic AI strategy, and the company’s challenge of winning mindshare while...
Workday Rising 2025: AI Agents, Data Cloud, and Flex Credits Unveiled
October 2, 2025

Workday Rising 2025: AI Agents, Data Cloud, and Flex Credits Unveiled

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on Workday Rising 2025 announcements, including Illuminate agents, Flex Credits, Data Cloud partnerships, and Microsoft integration for AI governance....
Cloudera EVOLVE25 While the Market Chased Cloud-Native Deployments, Cloudera Built the Hybrid Endgame
September 26, 2025

Cloudera EVOLVE25: While the Market Chased Cloud-Native Deployments, Cloudera Built the Hybrid Endgame

Brad Shimmin, Principal Analyst at Futurum, analyzes Cloudera's new hybrid multi-cloud fabric. At EVOLVE25, the company declared a hybrid endgame, betting that predictable economics and Private AI will win the...
Splunk .conf25: Forging a Data Foundation for Cisco's AgenticOps Vision
September 26, 2025

Splunk .conf25: Forging a Data Foundation for Cisco’s AgenticOps Vision

Mitch Ashley and Fernando Montenegro of Futurum analyze Splunk .conf25. They discuss Splunk's role in AI under Cisco, focusing on the new Data Fabric, security integrations, and the push toward...
Neo4j GraphSummit The OG (Original Graph) Database Player Makes a Bold Play for the Future of AI
September 9, 2025

Neo4j GraphSummit: The OG (Original Graph) Database Player Makes a Bold Play for the Future of AI

Brad Shimmin, Analyst at Futurum, shares insights on Neo4j's Infinigraph, its bold bet on becoming the data layer for agentic AI, and if it's a future-proof strategy or a solution...
Security Summer Camp: Black Hat 2025, Def Con, And Others
August 14, 2025

Black Hat 2025, Def Con, And Others: Yes, AI, Sure, But Much, Much More

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, shares his insights on how the many conversations at this year's Security Summer Camp - Black Hat, DEF CON, and more - line up with...
Samsara Beyond 2025: Bringing Digital Innovations to Physical Operations World
June 27, 2025

Samsara Beyond 2025 – Bringing Digital Innovations to Physical Operations World

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director with Futurum, covers Samsara’s latest product announcements at Beyond 2025, and discusses how the vendor is bringing AI and automation to the physical operations world....

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