Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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AI algorithms identified ultraconserved cancer cell states across patients and predicted synergistic drug combinations with ~90% accuracy, challenging assumptions about tumor heterogeneity.
Sprig replaced Postgres, ClickHouse, and Redis with ScyllaDB, achieving 4-8x better latency while processing 1.3 trillion events. The consolidation illustrates how enterprises are simplifying complex database stacks to manage explosive data growth.
Brad 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.
The Data Intelligence Platform market is undergoing its most consequential shift since the move to cloud data warehousing, as enterprise AI matures from read-only copilots into read-write autonomous agents that plan, negotiate, and execute transactions across business systems without continuous…
Brad Shimmin, Vice President and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how AWS Context moves beyond basic RAG to deliver a governed, open-format knowledge graph that provides autonomous systems with the mathematical truth they desperately need.
Futurum analyst Brad Shimmin breaks down the economic breaking point of cloud APIs and why enterprise AI is shifting to highly quantized, sovereign open-weights models.
Strategy’s coordinated $282M capital action—combining a $150M reserve increase with a $132M STRC repurchase—demonstrates deliberate balance sheet management aligned with surging enterprise generative AI investment priorities.
Jacobs Solutions won a $750 million contract to lead Utah’s Strawberry High Line Canal program, showcasing its expertise in complex water infrastructure projects enhanced by AI and digital engineering.
Futurum analysts Brad Shimmin and Guy Currier discuss how Tokenomics and AI FinOps are forcing enterprises to abandon massive frontier models in favor of smaller, domain-specific AI endpoints governed by strict agent control planes. Utilizing AI – Ep.
Brad Shimmin, VP at Futurum, analyzes the launch of native vector search in AWS DynamoDB. By embedding semantic retrieval directly into its serverless operational database, AWS eliminates fragile AI data pipelines and challenges standalone vector DBs.
Futurum Research analyzes Teradata’s Q2 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on hybrid AI, Teradata Factory, AI Studio, and guidance.
SK Hynix announces a massive 54 trillion won investment in AI memory production facilities, positioning itself at the center of the data intelligence supercycle as enterprise AI spending accelerates globally.
Brad Shimmin and Brendan Burke, analysts at Futurum, review Backblaze’s Q2 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on B2 Cloud Storage growth, AI infrastructure demand, and the CoreWeave agreement.
Enterprise agentic AI investment is accelerating, yet ROI remains elusive without proper data context. Impetus Technologies addresses this critical gap through Leap™ AI Solutions, targeting the $541B Data Intelligence market opportunity.
SK Hynix unveiled HBF specifications delivering 512GB capacity and 3TB/s bandwidth via UCIe interconnects, directly addressing the memory bottleneck constraining enterprise AI workloads as organizations prioritize generative AI investments.
OpenText’s Waqas Ahmed and Futurum’s Keith Kirkpatrick on why the fastest AI pilots fail for a data-governance reason nobody names in the demo. From Utilizing AI, “Trusted Data Foundations for AI Applications.”
Prodyna’s AI-powered ICU bed availability system shows how observability transforms healthcare operations, illustrating systems integrators’ role in the $344B software lifecycle engineering market.