Company news from The Futurum Group, and the research announcements that go out with new Futurum Intelligence data.
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Brad Shimmin at Futurum shares his insights on how the shift to autonomous, read-write AI agents is forcing legacy databases to evolve. Discover why strong consistency, multi-tiered memory, and speculative branching are the new mandatory benchmarks.
Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on the buy vs build debate for enterprise applications, and discusses the appropriate use of AI to build functional application extensions.
Futurum’s Brad Shimmin, VP of Data Intelligence, Analytics & Infrastructure, notes AI infrastructure fragmented in 1H 2026. Cloud catalogs (41.3%), basic RAG (59.4%), and an even vector DB split reveal a market lacking architectural consensus.
Fernando Montenegro, VP and Cybersecurity Practice Lead at Futurum, shares findings from the 1H 2026 Cyber Market Sizing and Decision Maker Survey: $521.7B by 2031 at 7.6% CAGR, with buyer budget growth moderating to flat, not cuts.
Dion Hinchcliffe examines which vendors are emerging as the operational control planes for enterprise agentic AI, and why orchestration, governance, and interoperability now define market leadership.
Futurum Research’s 1H 2026 data center semiconductor survey of 824 enterprise decision makers finds 52.3% of model-serving compute now goes to reasoning models, 54.0% describe their AI workload as balanced between training and inference, and tokens per watt has emerged as the primary productivity…
Futurum’s Keith Kirkpatrick reveals best-of-breed procurement has fallen to 20.7% as 41% of enterprises plan to consolidate app stacks, driven by the data unification demands of enterprise AI.
Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights into outcome-based or hybrid pricing models offered by SaaS vendors, and discusses how these models help to align vendors and customers.
Futurum Research’s 1H 2026 AI platforms market forecast finds a $109.9B market on a base-case path to $496.9B by 2030 (35.2% CAGR), with even the bear scenario more than tripling to $358B as inference overtakes training and agentic operations scales.
Tom Hollingsworth, Advisor at Futurum, shares his insights on the rise of scale-across AI networking design. He focuses on how it can alleviate resource constraints and create more capacity for data center operators.
Brad Shimmin, Research Director at Futurum, reveals key findings from the 1H 2026 Data Intelligence survey, showing a move from broad AI hype to pragmatic technical task automation in documentation and coding.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, reveals chip supply and power constraints are the dominant barriers to scaling data center compute, with nearly half of organizations citing these as their biggest challenge.
Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, shares new research revealing that API security and AI-driven risks are the top challenges for application security teams as they navigate complex cloud-native environments.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, explores how declining launch costs and rising terrestrial power bottlenecks could make orbital data centers a $1 trillion market by 2030.
Futurum Research’s 1H 2026 edge silicon market forecast finds a $278B market heading to $340B by 2030, with Robotics leading at 9.9% CAGR and IoT registering a near-flat -0.2% CAGR as destinations diverge sharply.
Mitch Ashley, VP Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes how MCP evolved from viral agent connectivity tool to indispensable AI standard requiring security, governance, and control plane maturation.
Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, explains the core factors that are driving the evolution of the increasingly agentic-focused sales, marketing, and service platforms market.
Futurum’s Tiffani Bova and Alex Smith explore how AI is collapsing the GSI consulting pyramid, ushering in the Orchestration Era. Vendors must shift to outcome-based partnerships.
Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on the battle to control the agent orchestration layer, and discusses the key aspects that concern enterprise buyers as the shift to agent-centric workflows continues.
Futurum’s Keith Kirkpatrick finds enterprise buyers prefer consumption-based pricing for GenAI at 42.9%, while rejecting it for core software, a pricing bifurcation reshaping vendor strategy among 830 IT decision-makers.