Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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Brad Shimmin, industry analyst at The Futurum Group, analyzes how Salesforce and NVIDIA designed the Koa CRM reasoning model to solve inference economics and defend platform data gravity.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights from AI Infra Summit 2026, where power-capped data centers pushed vendors toward optics, near-memory silicon, and physical AI ahead of a 2028 co-packaged optics ramp.
Salesforce's AIforce platform delivers CRM data, workflows, and governance to any AI interface, positioning Everywhere Intelligence Layer as the next interface revolution for enterprises seeking faster time-to-value.
Nick Patience, VP & AI Platforms Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, examines Equinix Fabric One and Inference Exchange, and asks whether neutral infrastructure solves a problem enterprises have today or one they may have later.
Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026: an ambitious, largely defensible push into its own AI models and agent security, anchored to the endpoint and the promise to stop breaches.