InsightAnderon Finalizes $1 Billion CHIPS Award. Who Buys Quantum Wafers Besides IBM?Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on Anderon's finalized $1 billion CHIPS award and whether its quantum wafer manufacturing can build a customer base beyond its parent, IBM.Brendan Burke·September 22, 2026
InsightCan the IBM/Arm Dual Architecture Processor Align the Mainframe With the Agentic CPU Market?Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on IBM’s native Arm mainframe design and the execution tests that remain before deployment.Brendan Burke·September 14, 2026
InsightRapidus’ IIM-1 Fab Construction is Completed. Will Cadence Make It the First Agentic Foundry?Rapidus’ IIM-1 fab completes construction in Chitose, leveraging Cadence Innostack AI Super Agent for its Raads platform and IBM 2nm transistor IP to compete with TSMC, Intel, and Samsung in inference accelerator production.Brendan Burke·August 31, 2026
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
InsightWhy AI Learned to Attack Before It Learned to DefendFernando Montenegro, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how offensive AI succeeds because it’s easier to verify than defensive security, shifting the need for vendors to sell proof of exploitability over volume.Fernando Montenegro·August 24, 2026
InsightIBM Links Modular Cryogenic Systems. Is the Fridge Quantum’s Real Bottleneck?Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on IBM’s first connected modular cryogenic systems and why the fridge, as much as the wafer fab, decides who ships a fault-tolerant quantum computer in 2029.Brendan Burke·August 20, 2026
InsightData Intelligence Platforms – Futurum SignalThe 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…August 19, 2026
InsightIBM and Together AI: Did IBM Cloud Just Become a Neocloud?Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on the $240 million IBM and Together AI agreement and why an anchor-tenant inference cluster moves IBM Cloud to the landlord side of the GPU lease.Brendan Burke·August 17, 2026
Research ReportOrchestrating IT at Global Scale How IBM Consulting Enabled Nestlé’s AI-Driven Delivery ModelIn our latest case study, Orchestrating IT at global scale: How IBM Consulting enabled Nestlé’s AI-driven delivery model, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines how Nestlé consolidated a 50-plus-vendor delivery model into an outcome-based framework with IBM Consulting as…Donald Jin·August 6, 2026
Research ReportIBM as Client Zero: How IBM Built an Enterprise AI Orchestration Model at Global ScaleIn our latest case study, IBM as Client Zero: How IBM built an enterprise AI orchestration model at global scale, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines how IBM transformed its own workflows with AI — capturing $4.5 billion in annualized productivity savings, more than double…Donald Jin·August 6, 2026
Research ReportThe Orchestrator: Who’s Conducting Your Enterprise?In our latest thought leadership report, The Orchestrator: Who’s Conducting Your Enterprise?, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines why AI capability has outpaced enterprise coordination – and why naming an orchestrator, not buying another platform, is what will separate…Mitch Ashley·August 5, 2026
Research ReportBuilding A Digital-Native Airline: How IBM Powered Riyadh Air’s LaunchIn our latest case study, Building a digital-native airline: How IBM powered Riyadh Air’s launch, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines how orchestration and integration discipline helped a pre-revenue airline achieve a level of execution sophistication that typically takes…Donald Jin·July 29, 2026
Research ReportThe Governance Gap: Why Scaling AI Requires More Than MonitoringIn our latest market brieft, The Governance Gap: Why Scaling AI Requires More Than Monitoring, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines why AI governance must evolve from periodic oversight into continuous operational infrastructure built around visibility, control, and…Nick Patience·July 15, 2026
Research ReportThe Enterprise Imperative for Digital Sovereignty: Architecture, Control, and Competitive AdvantageIn our latest Market Brief, The Enterprise Imperative for Digital Sovereignty: Architecture, Control, and Competitive Advantage, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research explores why AI is changing the sovereignty conversation and how enterprises can evaluate sovereign platforms for…Nick Patience·June 17, 2026
Research ReportIBM watsonx Orchestrate: The ROI Is RealIn this BEV Report, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research explores how enterprise customers are using IBM watsonx Orchestrate to move beyond AI experimentation and generate measurable value through agentic workflow automation.Donald Jin·May 20, 2026
Research ReportThe New Rules of Digital Sovereignty: Architecture, Control, and Competitive AdvantageIn our latest Market Brief, The New Rules of Digital Sovereignty: Architecture, Control, and Competitive Advantage, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research explores how MSPs and system integrators can turn the digital sovereignty imperative into competitive advantage.Nick Patience·May 4, 2026
Research ReportEnabling Enterprise Agility with Low-Code/No-Code, AI, and PlatformsIn Enabling Enterprise Agility with Low-Code/No-Code, AI, and Platforms, Futurum Research explores how enterprises are modernizing application development by combining LCNC tools, AI-powered development, and platform engineering.Mitch Ashley·January 27, 2026
Research ReportThe Importance of Strategic Portfolio Management and Data-Driven Planning for Modern EnterprisesIn our latest Market Report, The Importance of Strategic Portfolio Management and Data-Driven Planning for Modern Enterprises, developed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines how enterprises are using modern SPM platforms to drive alignment between strategy, execution, and financial…Keith Kirkpatrick, Donald Jin·October 21, 2025
Research ReportLeveraging Small Language Models for Enterprise AI: Benefits, Use Cases, and IBM’s ApproachIn Leveraging Small Language Models for Enterprise AI: Benefits, Use Cases, and IBM’s Approach, Futurum outlines why SLMs are becoming the pragmatic choice for enterprise AI—pairing targeted accuracy and faster responses with lower infrastructure demands—and explores IBM’s Granite approach to…Nick Patience·October 17, 2025
Research ReportEfficiency & Innovation: IBM LinuxONE for Modern WorkloadsIBM LinuxONE is a modern IT platform that combines efficiency, high performance, and security in one solution. It helps organizations reduce costs and energy usage, improve responsiveness, and protect sensitive data—all while enabling them to scale for future business needs.Mitch Ashley·October 1, 2025