Market CoverageCloudera and Mistral AI Deliver Sovereign Private IntelligenceBrad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes how Cloudera’s partnership with Mistral AI brings sovereign AI and local model fine-tuning to hybrid and air-gapped enterprise data estates.Brad Shimmin·September 15, 2026
Market CoverageIn-Process Analytics Goes Hyperscale: Inside the AWS DuckLabs Acqui-HireAWS 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.Brad Shimmin·August 28, 2026
Market CoverageCloudera Anywhere Cloud Targets Hybrid AI Complexity With In-Place ExecutionBrad 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.Brad Shimmin·August 21, 2026