Market CoverageSmartsheet Bets on APAC Leadership to Capture AI Work Management SurgeKeith Kirkpatrick, Vice President, Research, at Futurum, says Smartsheet’s APAC leadership moves signal aggressive enterprise work management positioning, driven by generative AI adoption and integration capabilities.Keith Kirkpatrick·September 9, 2026
Market CoverageQualcomm Lands $60 Billion Custom Silicon and 1.6T Optics Deal with AWS, Backed by a $4 Billion WarrantQualcomm announced a multi-generation collaboration with AWS covering customized silicon for AI inference and optical connectivity solutions extending up to 1.6T.Brendan Burke·September 9, 2026
EarningsDell Technologies Q2 FY 2027: AI Orders Fuel Server and Storage GrowthFuturum Research analyzes Dell Technologies’ Q2 FY 2027 earnings, focusing on AI server backlog, infrastructure demand, storage pull-through, and FY 2027 guidance.September 9, 2026
Market CoverageWhy HPE Gave Oracle Equity Instead of a Price Cut on AI GearTom Hollingsworth at Futurum examines why HPE issued Oracle a nominal-cost equity warrant alongside an expanded Juniper networking deal for Oracle’s AI data centers.Tom Hollingsworth·September 9, 2026
EventsBeyond Raw Compute: Equinix’s Strategic Bet on AI InfrastructureNick 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.Nick Patience·September 9, 2026
EventsCrowdStrike Bets on Its Own Models to Secure the AI RevolutionFernando 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.Fernando Montenegro·September 8, 2026
EarningsSnowflake Q2 FY 2027: CoCo and CoWork Expand AI ConsumptionFuturum Research analyzes Snowflake’s Q2 FY 2027 earnings, focusing on AI-led consumption, CoCo adoption, CoWork growth, and raised FY 2027 guidance.September 8, 2026
EventsGenesys Bets on Agentic Orchestration to Own Enterprise CXKeith 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.Keith Kirkpatrick·September 8, 2026
Market CoverageHCLTech’s Semiconductor Lab Bet Targets a $25.7B Channel OpportunityHCLTech launched its Advanced Semiconductor Lab in Bengaluru, investing Rs. 185 crore in a 40,000 sq ft facility to capitalize on a $25.7B channel ecosystem opportunity.September 8, 2026
Market CoverageEntelgy Brasil Bets on Febraban Tech to Own LatAm’s AI Banking MomentEntelgy Brasil’s full-team commitment to Febraban Tech 2026 signals a deliberate channel-ecosystem strategy timed to capture AI consulting growth in Latin American banking, where 86.7% of partners identify AI as their top priority.September 8, 2026
Market CoverageSovereign Cloud as Channel Strategy: Visiativ’s Free Pro BetVisiativ’s deployment of Free Pro’s sovereign cloud infrastructure across French datacenters demonstrates how ISVs are turning data residency compliance into a competitive channel trust asset, shielding clients from extraterritorial legislation.September 8, 2026
Market CoveragePyTorch Foundation Deepens Chinese AI Ecosystem TiesThe PyTorch Foundation welcomed Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon, and Ant Group as Platinum and Gold members at PyTorch Conference China 2026, strengthening its position in the world’s second-largest AI market with over 250 contributing organizations.September 8, 2026
Market CoverageOPSWAT at GISEC 2026: Can You Secure What You Can’t Detect?OPSWAT debuted its AI Content Inspector at GISEC Global 2026, introducing a new defense layer against semantic fraud and AI-generated content that bypasses traditional malware scans in enterprise environments.September 7, 2026
Market CoverageHGC and Macroview Bet on AI SecOps Education to Win Enterprise TrustHGC and Macroview Telecom co-launch an AI ASOC Workshop Series in October-November 2026, positioning themselves as trusted advisors helping enterprises modernize network and security operations amid critical SOC capacity gaps.September 7, 2026
Market CoverageGPT-6 Astra Sharpens Cross-File Bug Detection at a 2.5× PriceCodeRabbit’s evaluation reveals GPT-6 Astra catches 20% more bugs than GPT-5.6 Sol on cross-file reviews, demonstrating superior multi-system reasoning despite premium pricing at $10/M input tokens.September 5, 2026
Market CoverageGuidewire FY2026: AI Demand Accelerates the Cloud TransitionGuidewire closed FY2026 with $1.24B ARR (19% growth) and $1.48B total revenue (23% growth), with AI emerging as the primary catalyst for insurance customers’ cloud transition and platform modernization.September 5, 2026
Market CoverageForescout Brings National-Scale OT Security to Water UtilitiesForescout Technologies joins Project Watershed 250, a White House and Texas-backed initiative delivering continuous monitoring and AI-enabled defense to water and wastewater utilities across the nation.September 5, 2026
Market CoverageOpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra: Benchmarks, Cyber Risks, and Market ImpactNick Patience, VP and Practice Lead, AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on GPT-6 Astra and what its cyber threshold and monitorability trade-offs mean for Anthropic and Google.Nick Patience·September 4, 2026
Market CoverageAdobe’s CEO Succession Bets on Agentic AI and CX DominanceKeith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how Adobe’s CEO succession positions the company to capitalize on surging enterprise demand for agentic AI and customer experience orchestration.Keith Kirkpatrick·September 4, 2026
Market CoverageSalesforce Bundles AI, Slack, and Tableau Into Three New Edition TiersKeith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on new Agentforce Edition tiers, and discusses how consolidation of AI, Slack, Tableau Next, data security, and Premier Success Plans into a single SKU may help buyers.Keith Kirkpatrick·September 4, 2026