Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Splunk .conf26, where Cisco made trust and cost the gate on the agentic SOC and positioned the data and control layer beneath the agents as the thing worth owning.
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.
Alex Smith, Analyst at The Futurum Group, covers the AWS Marketplace Seller Conference 2026, detailing strategies like ‘Marketplace Everywhere’, new GEO storefronts, and commercial upgrades such as 0% fees for professional services.
Keith Kirkpatrick, VP, Research, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows at Futurum, shares his insights on whether Qualtrics’ new XM Data & AI platform can close the AI-widened Experience Gap.
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.
Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Genesys’s new four-layer agentic orchestration stack, which aims to make Genesys Cloud the enterprise system of record for AI-driven customer experience.
Brad Shimmin, Vice President and Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, analyzes Broadcom’s VMware Tanzu Platform updates at VMware Explore 2026, covering deny-by-default agent runtimes, AI-ready data foundations, and TrueSource OSS security.
Brendan Burke and Olivier Blanchard, Research Directors at Futurum, share their insights from NXP Tech Days Silicon Valley, where reference designs from humanoid hands to a four-board MCX A5 networking demo gave NXP’s neural axis architecture production weight.
Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley of Futurum unpack Black Hat and DEF CON 2026: an agentic-AI wave on every booth, a record funding surge, a widening capability gap, and what a board will actually fund.