Tag: AI Data Platform

VAST Data Valuation Triples. Can a Unified Platform Scale AI Globally?
April 22, 2026

VAST Data Valuation Triples. Can a Unified Platform Scale AI Globally?

Brad Shimmin, Vice President & Practice Lead at Futurum, analyzes VAST Data valuation and its AI operating system strategy, questioning whether unified infrastructure can scale amid persistent market fragmentation....
Can Dell and NVIDIA’s AI Factory 2.0 Solve Enterprise-Scale AI Infrastructure Gaps?
May 29, 2025

Can Dell and NVIDIA’s AI Factory 2.0 Solve Enterprise-Scale AI Infrastructure Gaps?

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on Dell and NVIDIA’s upgraded AI Factory and how it enables enterprises to deploy high-performance, full-stack AI infrastructure with integrated services and...
A Conversation with Randy Kerns: A Look Back at 50 years in the Business - Infrastructure Matters, Episode 25
January 15, 2024

A Conversation with Randy Kerns: A Look Back at 50 years in the Business – Infrastructure Matters, Episode 25

In this episode of Infrastructure Matters, Camberley Bates is joined by Randy Kerns for a look back at 50 years in the data infrastructure business covering everything from mainframe to...

Welcome

The vision behind everything in Futurum’s Custom Research practice is this: research should show you what is happening, what comes next, and what to do about it. It should be personal to each audience, easy for people to grasp, and structured so LLMs can reason over it accurately. And it should be fast and turnkey; you want answers now, not another project to carry for quarters.

Whether you are defining business, channel, or go-to-market strategy; evaluating vendors or justifying ROI; or commissioning research to fill an emerging market need, we have your back, with a program that answers your questions with the objectivity and credibility to drive real decisions.

To do it, we bring unmatched data to bear: Futurum research, surveys, and market projections; validated market feeds; ETR’s 15 years of insight from 10,000 technology decision-makers; G2’s buyer and user data; and what our analysts hear every day. Add leading primary collection, from AI-moderated voice interviews to surveys and analyst-led interviews, all turnkey, and every project comes out credible, nuanced, and actionable.

And we don’t just drop the results in your lap. For internal work, we provide analyst-led sessions, interactive dashboards, and a range of formats. For market-facing work, Futurum delivers turnkey activation and amplification that actually gets seen, by people and by LLMs, through our media and share of voice. This is research that moves decisions and markets.

We will meet you wherever you are, from a fast-turn brief to a multi-year program, and shape the work to your goals, timeline, and budget. The right program for your moment.

If any of this is useful, I would love to talk.

Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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