Market CoverageCalian’s Dual Capital Move: Buybacks Meet Shelf FlexibilityCalian Group filed a renewed bid to repurchase 994,301 shares and a shelf prospectus, demonstrating strategic capital management as the software lifecycle engineering market accelerates toward $344B by 2028.August 29, 2026
Analyst InsightAutonomy Over Analytics: The Read-Write Decree Rewiring Enterprise Data PlatformsBrad Shimmin, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, reveals findings from the new Data Intelligence Platforms Signal report, highlighting how read-write AI agents and transactional execution realigned competitive market standings.Brad Shimmin·August 28, 2026
Market CoverageSiFive BigSky Ships the First RISC-V Server. Is the GPU Head Node the Prize?Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on SiFive’s BigSky, the first enterprise-grade RISC-V server, and why CUDA head node duty for NVIDIA GPUs is the socket that matters.Brendan Burke·August 28, 2026
Market CoverageNasuni Acquires DryvIQ to Bring AI-Ready Data GovernanceAlastair Cooke, analyst at Futurum, shares his insights on why Nasuni acquires DryvIQ and what the deal means for AI data governance and file platform consolidation.Alastair Cooke·August 28, 2026
EarningsOkta Q2 FY 2027 Earnings Beat and Raise on Core Identity StrengthMitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers at The Futurum Group, reviews Okta’s Q2 FY 2027 earnings, where core identity strength and new products drove a beat and raise while agentic identity stayed an early, forward-looking driver.Mitch Ashley·August 28, 2026
Market CoverageNVIDIA Nears $12.9B Deal for Hugging Face, Escalating AI Ecosystem StrategyNick Patience, VP & Practice Lead of AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on NVIDIA’s reported $12.9 billion bid for Hugging Face and what it would mean for the future of open AI.Nick Patience·August 28, 2026
EarningsQumulusAI Q2 FY 2026: 118% Revenue Growth for Hyperspeed AI Compute DeploymentBrendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, analyzes QumulusAI’s Q2 FY 2026 earnings, focusing on direct AI compute demand, GPU fleet expansion, and capacity execution.Brendan Burke·August 28, 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
EventsNXP Tech Days: Can Physical AI Reference Designs Solidify the Neural Axis?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.Brendan Burke, Olivier Blanchard·August 28, 2026
Market CoverageMTG-I2 Launch Reveals Thales’s Critical Infrastructure Security DepthThales Alenia Space’s MTG-I2 satellite completes the Meteosat Third Generation constellation, positioning Thales as a critical infrastructure security provider for European meteorological data in the expanding cybersecurity market.August 28, 2026
Market CoverageConduent’s Tenth NEAT Leader Win: Is AI the New Moat?Conduent has earned its tenth consecutive NelsonHall NEAT Leader designation in HR Transformation Services, marking a significant milestone that validates the company’s AI-first strategy centered on its Conni GenAI virtual assistant.August 28, 2026
Market CoverageSCSK Embeds Generative AI Into Workforce DNASCSK launched an AI-powered Digital Skill Assessment System evaluating 40 competencies across all employees, reflecting industry momentum as 86.7% of AI consulting sellers expect AI-driven growth in 2026.August 28, 2026
Market CoverageTech Mahindra and Uniphore Build an Agentic AI FactoryTech Mahindra and Uniphore partnered to create an Agentic AI Factory, combining Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud with Tech Mahindra’s global reach across 90 countries to serve BFSI and Retail enterprises.August 28, 2026
Market CoverageFPT IS Puts Its AI Platform on the Mekong MapFPT IS demonstrates its Akabot AI ecosystem to Lao PDR’s Deputy Prime Minister, signaling growing credibility as a regional platform partner for public-sector digital modernization across Southeast Asia.August 28, 2026
Market CoveragePyTorch Grows Up: Open-Source AI Tooling Targets Enterprise ProductionPyTorch Conference North America 2026 showcases the framework’s evolution into production-grade infrastructure, addressing enterprise deployment gaps as the AI platforms market reaches $181.3B.August 28, 2026
Market CoverageScyllaDB’s Rust Driver Delivers 58% Throughput Gain for DynamoDB UsersScyllaDB released an open-source Rust driver for its DynamoDB-compatible Alternator API, achieving 58% higher throughput than AWS SDK on 3-node clusters. The driver maintains full API compatibility while enabling cluster-aware load balancing.August 28, 2026
Market CoverageSummit 7’s CRN #57 Ranking Signals DIB Cybersecurity DemandSummit 7 earned CRN’s #57 Fast Growth ranking as DIB cybersecurity demand accelerates. The Huntsville firm tripled headcount to 300+ employees while the global cybersecurity market heads toward $337.8B by 2029.August 28, 2026
Market CoverageYou.com Turns Real-Time Web Search Into a One-Line Agent CapabilityYou.com and Pydantic AI integrate real-time web search into AI agents, directly addressing hallucination—the top barrier to enterprise AI adoption cited by 55.4% of decision-makers.August 28, 2026
EarningsSalesforce Q2 FY 2027: Can Agentforce Drive Revenue Reacceleration?Futurum Research analyzes Salesforce’s Q2 FY 2027 earnings, focusing on AI and data momentum, Agentforce adoption, Anthropic partnership expansion, and FY 2027 guidance.August 27, 2026
Market CoverageGoogle Cloud Targets Legal AI With Purpose-Built Governed PlatformGoogle Cloud unveiled Gemini Enterprise for Legal on August 25, 2026, a domain-specific agentic platform combining secure MCP connectors, legal skills, and governed controls to address enterprise adoption barriers in confidentiality and reliability.Keith Kirkpatrick·August 27, 2026