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Microsoft 365 Copilot Expands Researcher Agent with Secure Computer Use
November 4, 2025

Microsoft 365 Copilot Expands Researcher Agent with Secure Computer Use

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at Futurum, examines Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher with Computer Use, which securely blends reasoning and real-world action through a sandboxed Windows 365 virtual machine for authenticated...
Microsoft Introduces New Agents and Benchmarks for Dynamics 365
October 29, 2025

Microsoft Introduces New Agents and Benchmarks for Dynamics 365

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Microsoft's new Dynamics 365 agents, which aim to transform business applications from systems of record to systems of action....
Veeam Makes Bigger Data Security Play with Acquisition of Securiti
October 22, 2025

Veeam Makes Bigger Data Security Play with Acquisition of Securiti

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, shares his insights on Veeam's $1.7B Securiti AI deal. This move shifts Veeam from just recovery to full data lifecycle control and opens a new...
New Amazon Devices Signal the Expansive Market Potential of Alexa+
October 22, 2025

New Amazon Devices Signal the Expansive Market Potential of Alexa+

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on how new Amazon Alexa+ devices and companion product updates reflect Amazon’s expanding AI-driven smart home strategy anchored in purpose-built hardware....
Qualcomm’s Arduino Acquisition Expands Edge AI Access for Developers
October 22, 2025

Qualcomm’s Arduino Acquisition Expands Edge AI Access for Developers

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on “Qualcomm acquires Arduino,” launching UNO Q and Arduino App Lab to give 33+ million developers access to a full-stack edge...
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...
NetApp Insight 2025 Will AI Unlock New Growth for the Storage Market
October 17, 2025

NetApp Insight 2025: Will AI Unlock New Growth for the Storage Market?

Alex Smith, Vice President at The Futurum Group, shares highlights from NetApp Insight 2025: The debut of AFX and AI Data Engine signals NetApp’s evolution into a software-driven leader for...
Lattice Launches New FPGA for Quantum Security
October 15, 2025

Lattice Launches New FPGA for Quantum Security

Ray Wang, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Lattice MachXO5-NX TDQ, the first CNSA 2.0-compliant PQC-ready secure control FPGA, highlighting its crypto-agility, Root of Trust, and quantum-resistant security...
Amazon’s Alexa Plus Takes A Voice-First Design With AI
October 15, 2025

Amazon’s Alexa+ Challenges GPT and Gemini with Voice-First Design

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on how Amazon’s Alexa+ redefines the AI assistant market by prioritizing voice-first, home-centered intelligence over productivity and search-driven models....
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...
Amazon’s AZ3 Chips Help Advance Voice-First AI Agentic UX
October 14, 2025

Amazon’s AZ3 Chips Help Advance Voice-First AI Agentic UX

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on how Amazon AZ3 chips and AZ3 Pro enable on-device AI acceleration, sensor fusion, and advanced language model execution for Alexa+....
Can Google Gemini Enterprise Unlock the Front Door for Business AI?
October 10, 2025

Can Google Gemini Enterprise Unlock the Front Door for Business AI?

Nick Patience, AI Platforms Practice Lead at Futurum shares his insights on the launch of Google Gemini Enterprise, an all-in-one AI platform aimed at democratizing workflow automation and providing a...

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