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Is Autonomous IT the Endgame for AI in Operations or Just the Start of a Bigger Shift?
April 11, 2026

Is Autonomous IT the Endgame for AI in Operations or Just the Start of a Bigger Shift?

As Autonomous IT evolves, CIOs must weigh efficiency gains against vendor lock-in and skills gaps, raising the question: is this AI's operational endgame or just the beginning?...
Agentic AI
April 10, 2026

Oracle’s Fusion Agentic Apps: Can Platform-First AI Finally Deliver Enterprise ROI?

Oracle launches Fusion Agentic Applications with autonomous AI agents in enterprise platforms. Research shows 38.8% of enterprise buyers now expect GenAI delivery via agents, signaling a fundamental shift in how...
Will SiFive's $400 Million Round Unblock the Data Center CPU Bottleneck?
April 10, 2026

Will SiFive’s $400 Million Round Unblock the Data Center CPU Bottleneck?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how SiFive's $400M Series G positions RISC-V to address the AI memory wall through decoupled vector architecture and latency-hiding queues for data center...
Can Intel Foundry’s Advanced Packaging Bring the Terafab Vision to the Stars
April 10, 2026

Can Intel Foundry’s Advanced Packaging Bring the Terafab Vision to the Stars?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how Intel's Terafab partnership with Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI positions Intel Foundry as a domestic advanced packaging and fabrication alternative at scale....
Can AI Save the Mainframe BMC Bets on Governance and Agentic AI
April 10, 2026

Can AI Save the Mainframe? BMC Bets on Governance and Agentic AI

Brad Shimmin and Mitch Ashley, Analysts at Futurum, examine BMC Software’s April 2026 AI expansion. The report details how uniting AMI with Control-M's new Agent Gateway addresses the mainframe demographic...
Canva Doubles Down on AI and Martech to Bolster its Creative OS
April 9, 2026

Canva Doubles Down on AI and Martech to Bolster its Creative OS

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, covers Canva’s Simtheory and Ortto acquisitions, and discusses the impact on Canva and its competitors in the highly competitive enterprise content creation...
Applied Materials Arms Chipmakers for the GAA Era With Angstrom-Class Tools
April 9, 2026

Applied Materials Arms Chipmakers for the GAA Era With Angstrom-Class Tools

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his analysis of Applied Materials' new GAA deposition systems and what the shift from lithography-led scaling to materials engineering means for the $115...
Anthropic's Gigawatt-Scale TPU Deal with Broadcom Creates a Structural Advantage
April 9, 2026

Anthropic’s Gigawatt-Scale TPU Deal with Broadcom Creates a Structural Advantage

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines Anthropic TPU expansion with Google and Broadcom, highlighting how multi-gigawatt compute deals and custom silicon are reshaping AI infrastructure scale and competition....
Slack Expands Slackbot for Enterprise Work; Can It Simplify Execution?
April 9, 2026

Slack Expands Slackbot for Enterprise Work; Can It Simplify Execution?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, examines Salesforce’s Slackbot enterprise update, expanding Slack into a unified work interface with AI skills, CRM, and orchestration capabilities....
Does Honoring Matei Zaharia Signal a New Era for Open-Source Data and AI Systems?
April 9, 2026

Does Honoring Matei Zaharia Signal a New Era for Open-Source Data and AI Systems?

Matei Zaharia's ACM Prize for Apache Spark reflects enterprise AI's shift toward open-source platforms, showing how democratized data infrastructure is transforming competitive dynamics across the industry....
Can Nasuni’s File Data Activation Drive Real AI ROI, or Is It More AI Hype?
April 8, 2026

Can Nasuni’s File Data Activation Drive Real AI ROI, or Is It More AI Hype?

Alastair Cooke, Research Director, Cloud and Data Center at Futurum, shares his insights on Nasuni’s announcement of the Resilio Active Everywhere V6 and AI Active products, which enable file data...
Anthropic Glasswing: AI Vulnerability Detection Has Crossed a Threshold
April 8, 2026

Anthropic Glasswing: AI Vulnerability Detection Has Crossed a Threshold

Analysts Mitch Ashley and Fernando Montenegro explore Anthropic's Project Glasswing. As AI vulnerability detection crosses a new threshold, the economics and speed of offensive and defensive cybersecurity are forever changed....

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