Market Coverageenv zero EZ Control: Telling a Fix From a MistakeMitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO and Tech Buyers, and Vikram Rathnam, Research Director, Software Lifecycle Engineering at The Futurum Group, share insights on env zero EZ Control and the judgment its cloud remediation depends on.Vikram Rathnam, Mitch Ashley·October 6, 2026
Market CoverageDoes a 17-Year-Old Movement Need a DevOps Standard?Vikram Rathnam and Mitch Ashley of Futurum Research share insights on The DevOps Standard, why its AI agent governance is a well-built retrofit, and what enterprise leaders and platform vendors should do next.Vikram Rathnam, Mitch Ashley·October 6, 2026
Market CoverageDocker Reruns the Container Playbook, This Time for Cloud Sandbox KitMitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, and Vikram Rathnam, Research Director, Software Lifecycle Engineering at Futurum, on why Docker’s Kit spec wins the agent control plane only if Kubernetes and hyperscaler runtimes enforce it.Mitch Ashley, Vikram Rathnam·October 1, 2026
Market CoverageOpenAI Moves Up the Stack and Competes With the Platforms It PowersFuturum Research’s Mitch Ashley, Nick Patience, and Vikram Rothnam examine how OpenAI used DevDay 2026 to move up the stack, claiming the work surface, the agent runtime, and the pricing that meters both, and what it leaves the CIO to govern.Mitch Ashley, Nick Patience, Vikram Rathnam·October 1, 2026