Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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Hitachi pairs sustainable insulating gas production in Germany with HMAX Physical AI expansion, positioning itself to capitalize on enterprise AI investment tied to reliable power infrastructure.
Damovo introduces SovereignStack, the first integrated sovereign communications platform for the German public sector, unifying Rocket.Chat, Pexip, and Mitel to eliminate fragmentation and streamline government operations.
HashiCorp relaunched Validated Designs with role-aligned guides and improved search, offering enterprises field-tested blueprints for faster production deployment.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on SiFive’s BigSky, the first enterprise-grade RISC-V server, and why CUDA head node duty for NVIDIA GPUs is the socket that matters.
Thales Alenia Space’s MTG-I2 satellite completes the Meteosat Third Generation constellation, positioning Thales as a critical infrastructure security provider for European meteorological data in the expanding cybersecurity market.
ScyllaDB released an open-source Rust driver for its DynamoDB-compatible Alternator API, achieving 58% higher throughput than AWS SDK on 3-node clusters. The driver maintains full API compatibility while enabling cluster-aware load balancing.
Sprig replaced Postgres, ClickHouse, and Redis with ScyllaDB, achieving 4-8x better latency while processing 1.3 trillion events. The consolidation illustrates how enterprises are simplifying complex database stacks to manage explosive data growth.
Brad Shimmin analyzes Cloudera Anywhere Cloud, examining how modular blueprints, Apache Iceberg, and zero-copy lakehouse architectures resolve data gravity and MLOps bottlenecks across hybrid enterprise AI estates.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on the Cerebras CS-4 launch and why power delivery and networking now decide whether wafer scale can serve trillion parameter models at scale.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on NVIDIA’s exclusive guarantee of OpenAI’s Ohio data center at PORTS-Pike and why credit support is becoming the competitive weapon no rival chipmaker can match.
Fragmented multi-cloud visibility creates operational and financial risks; unified OpenTelemetry/LGTM stacks across AWS and GCP achieve 99.8% availability while controlling costs.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on the $240 million IBM and Together AI agreement and why an anchor-tenant inference cluster moves IBM Cloud to the landlord side of the GPU lease.
HashiCorp’s Packer v1.16.0 introduces native SLSA provenance attestations, addressing a critical vulnerability in cloud infrastructure where compromised machine images silently propagate to every workload launched from them.
Unisys and Dudley Building Society expand their partnership to modernize mortgage operations through Mortgage-as-a-Service and private cloud capabilities, positioning the vendor within a rapidly growing Software Lifecycle Engineering market.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on 100 days that put Blaize, CoreWeave, NVIDIA, Nokia, Firmus, and Indosat on Indonesia’s sovereign AI map, and the generation-plus-distribution model that can expand globally.
Futurum’s AI Platforms practice examines NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on NVIDIA’s $500 billion financing platforms and how DSX reference designs turn AI compute into collateral that banks, insurers, and pension funds can underwrite.
Hyperscalers’ $660B capex surge is cutting corners in data center construction, risking unsafe AI infrastructure. Standards-compliant network integration is essential to address structural power gaps and commissioning risks.
Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, Freshworks’ FedRAMP ‘In Process’ designation enables it to capture federal IT market share through its AI-powered Freshservice platform.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines NVIDIA’s FMS 2026 storage push and whether openness extends NVIDIA’s platform control to the data path.