Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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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.
Alastair Cooke, analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on why Nasuni acquires DryvIQ and what the deal means for AI data governance and file platform consolidation.
Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead of AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on NVIDIA’s reported $12.9 billion bid for Hugging Face and what it would mean for the future of open AI.
AWS acquires DuckLabs to embed DuckDB’s in-process OLAP engine natively into Amazon S3 storage, challenging data warehouse economics while keeping open-source governance independent.
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.
Conduent has earned its tenth consecutive NelsonHall NEAT Leader designation in HR Transformation Services, marking a significant milestone that validates the company’s AI-first strategy centered on its Conni GenAI virtual assistant.
SCSK launched an AI-powered Digital Skill Assessment System evaluating 40 competencies across all employees, reflecting industry momentum as 86.7% of AI consulting sellers expect AI-driven growth in 2026.
Tech Mahindra and Uniphore partnered to create an Agentic AI Factory, combining Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud with Tech Mahindra’s global reach across 90 countries to serve BFSI and Retail enterprises.
FPT IS demonstrates its Akabot AI ecosystem to Lao PDR’s Deputy Prime Minister, signaling growing credibility as a regional platform partner for public-sector digital modernization across Southeast Asia.
PyTorch Conference North America 2026 showcases the framework’s evolution into production-grade infrastructure, addressing enterprise deployment gaps as the AI platforms market reaches $181.3B.
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.
Summit 7 earned CRN’s #57 Fast Growth ranking as DIB cybersecurity demand accelerates. The Huntsville firm tripled headcount to 300+ employees while the global cybersecurity market heads toward $337.8B by 2029.
You.com and Pydantic AI integrate real-time web search into AI agents, directly addressing hallucination—the top barrier to enterprise AI adoption cited by 55.4% of decision-makers.
Google Cloud unveiled Gemini Enterprise for Legal on August 25, 2026, a domain-specific agentic platform combining secure MCP connectors, legal skills, and governed controls to address enterprise adoption barriers in confidentiality and reliability.
Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services tackles enterprise adoption barriers by addressing reliability, hallucination management, and data security in financial workflows.
RingCentral unveiled AIR Pro, an agentic AI suite designed for enterprise contact centers, featuring vertical readiness for healthcare, unified workforce engagement, and built-in compliance analytics at Customer Contact Week 2026.
Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, examines Google Cloud’s new vertical AI platforms for legal and financial services, and asks whether governed connectors can finally close AI’s pilot-to-production gap.
nCino’s Q2 FY2027 results showcase agentic AI’s banking impact: subscription revenues grew 10% to $143.5M, GAAP operating income swung to $13.6M profit, aligning with 86.6% of tech leaders prioritizing agentic AI.
FPT IS and Atomi Digital partner to develop end-to-end insurance technology solutions targeting Vietnam’s Insurance Gap. The MOU aims to capitalize on government initiatives to grow the sector from 1.8% to 3.5% of GDP by 2030.
NCC Group’s July 2026 Threat Intelligence Report reveals 894 ransomware cases—a 22% surge and 2026 peak. The emergence of JADEPUFFER, the first fully autonomous AI attack agent, signals a critical escalation for channel partners and enterprises.