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OCP Global Summit Unveiled Time to Online as a Newly Critical Measure
November 4, 2026

OCP Global Summit Unveiled Time to Online as a Newly Critical Measure

Futurum’s Guy Currier finds OCP Global Summit 2026 put three trends on stage: the overlooked time-to-online bottleneck, grid-to-chip convergence moving into standards, and heterogeneity deep enough to make compliance the...
Oracle AI World: Oracle Introduces Deep Trust AI to Enforce AI Safety at the Database Tier
November 2, 2026

Oracle AI World: Oracle Introduces Deep Trust AI to Enforce AI Safety at the Database Tier

Brad Shimmin analyzes Oracle Deep Trust AI Architecture, examining how embedding security policies, identity tokens, and SQL assertions into the database tier resolves autonomous agent write-back risks....
Cisco Partner Summit 2026 An Energized Cisco Bets on Partner-Led AI
October 30, 2026

Cisco Partner Summit 2026: An Energized Cisco Bets on Partner-Led AI

Alex Smith, GM Futurum Research, shares insights on Cisco Partner Summit 2026, where Cisco IQ, Model Foundry, and new deal registration move partners toward AI services....
Quantum Computing Will Break AI’s Science Barrier and Open a $1.5 Trillion Addressable Market by 2040
October 29, 2026

Quantum Computing Will Break AI’s Science Barrier and Open a $1.5 Trillion Addressable Market by 2040

AI took 15 years to disrupt knowledge work, and quantum has just produced its 2012 moment. Futurum sizes the breakthroughs quantum will deliver and the $1.51 trillion addressable market they...
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...
Enterprises Embrace Open Weights but Infrastructure Sellers Profit Most
October 27, 2026

Enterprises Embrace Open Weights but Infrastructure Sellers Profit Most

Open-weight models are moving into enterprise production for routine AI work, but Futurum data show the gains going to the platform vendors that sell the infrastructure underneath them, while frontier...
Amazon Ads unBoxed 2026 Amazon Positions Its Ad Business Around Agents
October 27, 2026

Amazon Ads unBoxed 2026: Amazon Positions Its Ad Business Around Agents

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Amazon Ads unBoxed 2026, where Amazon merged its DSP and console into Amazon Ads Agent and pushed sponsored ads into...
NetSuite Autonomous Suite: Is Zero-Day Close Real or Roadmap?
October 27, 2026

NetSuite Autonomous Suite: Is Zero-Day Close Real or Roadmap?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP, Research at Futurum, shares his insights on the NetSuite Autonomous Suite unveiled at SuiteWorld 2026, and whether its promise of a zero-day close is ready for finance...
Robotics TAM Mobile Ground Robots, Not Humanoids, Will Lead by 2035
October 26, 2026

Robotics TAM: Mobile Ground Robots, Not Humanoids, Will Lead by 2035

Futurum's robotics TAM model projects the market growing from $83B in 2025 to $391B by 2035. Humanoids draw the attention, but Mobile ground robots, driven by sub-two-year payback, build the...
Google Cloud Marketplace Can It Become Gemini's Front Door to the Enterprise
October 23, 2026

Google Cloud Marketplace: Can It Become Gemini’s Front Door to the Enterprise?

Alex Smith, Analyst at The Futurum Group, shares insights on how Google Cloud Marketplace is becoming the commercial engine for Gemini, industry agents, and agentic ISV solutions....
Solving the Agentic Context Dilemma Inside Neo4j’s Strategy to Build an Operational World Model
October 21, 2026

Solving the Agentic Context Dilemma: Inside Neo4j’s Strategy to Build an Operational World Model

Brad Shimmin, Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on how Neo4j is repositioning graph architecture into an enterprise context engine to resolve data bottlenecks and govern autonomous AI agents....

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