Distributed AI: The Next Growth Frontier for Network Operators

Artificial intelligence is transforming networks into strategic assets that connect distributed compute, data, and inference workloads across cloud, datacenter, and edge environments

Company Included: Equinix

Top Trends in Networking for AI: Connectivity from AI Clusters to the Edge

Networking for AI is complex and difficult. In a new Futuriom report, we examine the challenges and choices

Sponsored by: Arrcus, Nokia, DRIVENETS

Tech Primer: Agentic Infrastructure Operations

This Tech Primer outlines how agentic operations can go beyond scripted automation by enabling AI systems to reason through context, construct a plan, and execute multi-step actions toward a goal.

Sponsored by: Itential

Company Included: Itential

Scale Everywhere: How Resolight’s Photonic Processing Could Revolutionize AI Networking

Israel-based Resolight has developed photonic processing technology that promises to increase networking bandwidth and lower energy consumption by an order of magnitude.

Sponsored by: Resolight

Company Included: Resolight

Identity Is the Foundation of Agentic AI Security

For an enterprise to shore up its attack surface against AI agents, it must first reconsider the importance of identity, as explained in this Leadership Brief

Sponsored by: Teleport

Company Included: Teleport

Data Management in the Age of AI

Good data is essential to enterprise AI. This report details all of the data and storage architectures and requirements in AI stacks.

Sponsored by: F5, Vultr, Attimis

Michaels' Three-Week Shift to NIaaS

Global retail chain Michaels leveraged Alkira’s NIaaS across approximately 1,400 stores across the U.S. and Canada in three weeks, enabling a rapid modernization push without new capex investment.

Sponsored by: Alkira

Company Included: Alkira

Futuriom 50 2026

Our annual report covers the top cloud, communications, and AI infrastructure trends as well as the leading private companies.

How a Global Investment Firm Modernized Its Network and Saved Millions with Alkira

This Leadership Brief examines how a global investment firm used Alkira’s NiaaS to modernize its global cloud and WAN architecture and save 75% on networking costs.

Sponsored by: Alkira

Company Included: Alkira

Building a “Recovery First” Cyber Resiliency Strategy

CIOs and CISOs need a better plan for ransomware recovery and cyber resiliency. Here is is.

Sponsored by: Index Engines

Company Included: Index Engines

Building Autonomous Infrastructure with Observability, Orchestration, and AIOps

The convergence of observability, AIOps (AI for Operations), and agentic AI is changing the way that enterprises and cloud providers manage infrastructure.

Sponsored by: Itential, Aviatrix, Selector

Unifying Security for AI and Post-Quantum

Why next-gen hardware security modules are vital to the coming wave of security challenges

Sponsored by: Fortanix

AI Clouds, GPU Clouds, and Neoclouds in the Age of Inference

AI datacenter spending is enormous and shows no signs of slowing. GPU clouds and neoclouds are currently all the rage. This report looks at the entire ecosystem

Trends in Platform Engineering and IaC 2025

Demand for data for AI apps increases the need for full platform visibility.

Sponsored by: Vultr

Delivering ROI at Valmont Industries with Graphiant

How Valmont Industries Achieved ROI with Graphiant Networking and Data Assurance

Sponsored by: Graphiant

Company Included: Graphiant

Cyber Sense Building Ransomware Resilience

Futuriom explores a series of user profiles of Index Engines' CyberSense to determine how it enables faster data corruption detection, along with rapids and confident recovery from ransomware attacks

Sponsored by: Index Engines

Company Included: Index Engines

RAGS to Riches: Using RAG and AI Data for Enterprise AI

This report explains why inferencing is the heart of enterprise AI and how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an important way to fine-tune AI models.

Sponsored by: Aryaka, F5

Delivering TCO Savings with Unified SASE

This Leadership Brief shows how Versa's “Unified SASE” approach to security and networking can deliver operational and direct cost savings of up to 50%.

Sponsored by: Versa Networks

Company Included: Versa Networks

Inside Index Engines CyberSense Research Lab

How Index Engines built an integrated cyber resiliency solution to backup, storage, and more to minimize the impact of ransomware attacks using highly trained AI and analytics.

Sponsored by: Index Engines

Company Included: Index Engines

What's Next For Networking Infra for AI 2025

A mixture of networking infrastructure will be needed to deliver LLMs for training, small language models (SLMs), and inferencing.

Sponsored by: Aryaka, Versa Networks, Arrcus, DRIVENETS, Hedgehog

Delivering ROI with Unified SASE as a Service

How Thetford Increased Reliability and Decreased Operational Costs with Aryaka

Sponsored by: Aryaka

Telco Trends & MWC 2025 Recap: AI at the Edge

Advancements in 5G centered on the benefits of combining Al, cloud, and 5G standalone for telco

Sponsored by: Arrcus

Delivering ROI with Extreme Fabric

This Leadership Brief demonstrates how Extreme Fabric saves time by enabling IT teams to unify campus, data center and branch networks and automate device configuration and convergence as well new network segment creation and related access security. It's based on end-users interviews.

Sponsored by: Extreme Networks

A Vision for Multicloud Network Operations With Colocation

As distributed application and data needs climb, a unified network management plane will be needed for multicloud environments

Sponsored by: Aviatrix

Futuriom 50 2025

Every year, Futuriom names the strongest private companies in key markets for cloud and communications infrastructure. Here's our list for 2025

Futuriom Object Storage in the AI Era: Emerging Trends and Players

Interest in AI has enterprises wrangling unstructured data across multiple silos. Object storage technology offers multiple solutions

Sponsored by: Cloudian, Scality, Supermicro, Wasabi

Driving AI Networking at Scale with Standards-Based Ethernet

With the expansion of AI use cases and services, the opportunities for AI Ethernet networking infrastructure will likely multiply. AI services will not be limited to a narrow range of use cases and deployment models.

Sponsored by: Arista

Future-Proofing Networks for AI: Building AI Fabric with SONiC and RoCE

Building AI Fabrics with SONiC and RoCE for Optimal Performance and Cost Efficiency

Sponsored by: Aviz Networks

Trends and Leaders in Platform Engineering and IaC 2024

Our first report on platform engineering and infrastructure as code (IaC) takes a look at the growing movement to build a better cloud automation and management

Sponsored by: Pulumi, Spacelift

Futuriom MCN and NaaS Survey Report 2024

Our 2024 MCN and NaaS survey report tell you what's happening in multicloud networking (MCN) and Network-as-a-Service (NaaS)

Sponsored by: Itential, Arrcus, Alkira, Aviatrix, Prosimo, F5, Equinix

2024 SD-WAN/SASE Managed Services Survey Report

See what end users are looking for from SASE/SD-WAN services, according to our 2024 survey of 192 experts

Sponsored by: Aryaka

Driving Cloud Automation with Observability, AIOps, and NetDevOps (2024)

Why observability, AIOps, and NetDevOps are key trends enabling cloud transformation.

Sponsored by: Itential, Aviatrix, Kentik

Networking Infrastructure for AI 2024

The debut Futuriom AI infra report examines new networking infrastructure for AI trends and technology developments

Sponsored by: Arrcus, Juniper Networks, Zentera Systems, F5

Cloud Cost Management and FInOps for the AI Era

In our second year of this report, we investigated the major considerations that enterprises decide on when crafting their cloud adoption strategies.

Applying Platform Engineering Principles to Networking final

How infrastructure platform engineering can facilitate and automate the delivery of network services for any application, on any platform

Sponsored by: Itential

Company Included: Itential

ROI Through Converged Cloud Networking and Security

Cloud cost optimization is now top of mind, which means that all cloud costs will be closely examined, including cloud networking and network security.

Sponsored by: Aviatrix

Company Included: Aviatrix

Hybrid Cloud Visibillty and AIOps

Futuriom research indicates that although many enterprises are using public cloud, they are trending toward hybrid cloud deployments. The demands of hybrid cloud management are thus taking center stage with many CxOs.

Sponsored by: Virtana

Company Included: Virtana

Futuriom 50 2024

Futuriom's annual report tracks the key cloud infrastructure and top private companies to watch in 2024.

SASE Ecosystem Growth: What to Expect in 2024

Our 2023 survey work as well as interviews with end users indicates customers would like to converge network, cloud, and edge security using SASE.

Sponsored by: Aryaka, Versa Networks, Cato Networks

One Network, One Cloud, One Extreme

Extreme Networks has demonstrated remarkable growth by focusing on the strategy of creating “One Network, One Cloud, and One Extreme” which emphasizes a unified approach to networking.

Sponsored by: Extreme Networks

Company Included: Extreme Networks

Futuriom 2023 MCN and NaaS Survey Report

Our survey of 125 qualified IT and networking professionals indicates a critical need for multicloud networking (MCN) and network-as-a-service (NaaS) technology

Sponsored by: Itential, Versa Networks, Arrcus, Aviatrix, Prosimo, F5 Networks

Building an ROI with Cloud Networking

Futuriom studied two recent Extreme Networks deployments at San Diego Community College District and E.ON. The deployments delivered better ease of use, productivity, lower operational costs, and better security -- with total ROI gains of 20-50%

Sponsored by: Extreme Networks

Company Included: Extreme Networks

Futuriom 2024 Research Calendar Preview

Here is a preview of our 2024 research calendar

Guide to RI Management for Cloud Cost Optimization

Cloud Cost Optimization and FinOps technology is a growing need at organizations looking to implement modern cloud infrastructure while controlling cloud spending.

Sponsored by: Zesty

Future of Hybrid Cloud Automation and NetDevOps 2023

Key drivers and technologies for implementing hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Sponsored by: Itential, UBiqube

Futuriom SD-WAN SASE Managed Services Report 2023

For this report, we surveyed 196 qualified enterprise networking and security users, director-level and above. The goal was to find key needs for software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and secure access service edge (SASE) in managed services.

Sponsored by: Aryaka, Versa Networks, Tata Communications

2023 Shift Left and API Security (with RSAC Wrap)

An overview of trends and hot companies in the shift left and API security market

Sponsored by: Wib

Company Included: Wib

Cloud Cost Management and FinOps 2023

Our new report dives into the challenges and solutions for cloud cost management (CCM) and FinOps

Sponsored by: Aviatrix, Prosimo, CAST AI, Zesty

Maximizing Success with SONiC

Learn how Aviz Networks helped a large e-commerce company deploy and manage a large-scale networking fabric with SONiC

Sponsored by: Aviz Networks

The Rise of NetDevOps & The Shift Left for Networking

For networking infrastructure, shift left pushes business goals, testing, and quality control the infrastructure or a service further to the left in the development process.

Sponsored by: Itential

The 2023 Futuriom 50

We have expanded our Futuriom 50 list of the top private companies in cloud infrastructure and communications

2022 Futuriom SASE Ecosystem

SASE technology is gaining momentum as end users look to combine SD-WAN functionality with cloud-orchestrated security

Sponsored by: Aryaka, Versa Networks

Futuriom MCN Survey Report 2022

A full overview of multicloud networking market drivers, including survey research and an overview of the companies to watch in the market

Sponsored by: VMware, Arrcus, Aviatrix, Prosimo

Futuriom Graphiant Leadership Brief v1 6 final

With a new spin on hybrid networking, Graphiant puts routing in the cloud core and application prioritization at the edge

Sponsored by: Graphiant

Broadband Community Profile - Westfield, Mass.

Futuriom's report for the Fiber Broadband Association describes the Westfield, Mass. broadband expansion

Sponsored by: OFS

Trends and Leaders in Zero Trust Network Access ZTNA and Identity based Security 2022 v1.8

Our second annual ZTNA report covers the leading trends and companies in this popular cybersecurity technology category

Broadband Community Profile - Douglas County, Oregon

Futuriom's report for the Fiber Broadband Association describes how rural Douglas County, Oregon, created its own fiber infrastructure capable of rates to 10 Gb/s

The Future of Hybrid Cloud Automation Cloud Market Trend Report 2022

Futuriom's 2022 report on hybrid cloud automation points to increased needs for automation tools to connect multiple clouds

Sponsored by: Itential, Netris.ai

SD-WAN and SASE Managed Services Survey 2022

Our annual survey shows growing momentum behind SD-WAN/SASE adoption of managed services, with service providers and vendors partnering on value-added services

Sponsored by: Aruba (a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company), Aryaka, Tata Communications

2022 Futuriom 40

After some major exits in 2021 including five IPOs, the Futuriom 40 list of top private companies in cloud tech has some fresh blood

Companies Included: Alkira, Arrcus, Aryaka Networks, Aviatrix, Cato Networks, Cockroach Labs, Anjuna

Cloud Secure Edge and SASE Trends Cloud Market Trend Report

Demand for security integration, SD-WAN, and cloud services are likely to propel the secure access service edge (SASE) market upward for many years.

Sponsored by: NetFoundry, Juniper Networks, Nokia, Cato Networks, Enea, Elisity

The Third Wave of Cloud Networks: Multi-Cloud Networking Market Growth Drivers

Futuriom's second annual multi-cloud networking survey indicates large demand for the transformative technology.

Sponsored by: Alkira, Aviatrix, Volterra

Futuriom - Apstra SONiC Leadership Brief

This Leadership Brief covers the network operating system (NOS) known as Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) and how it has emerged as part of the digital transformation accelerated by the shift to hybrid cloud networks among enterprises and service providers.

Sponsored by: Juniper Networks

Futuriom Identity based Security and Zero Trust Network Access ZTNA

This report analyzes the increase in demand for cybersecurity products to enable identity-based security for providing Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), as well as more than 30 vendors in the market.

Sponsored by: VMware, NetFoundry

Futuriom SD WAN Growth Report June 2021

The fifth annual Futuriom Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN) Infrastructure Growth Report analyzes key trends and growth projections for the market, including the evolution of SD-WAN toward Secure Access Service Edge.

Sponsored by: VMware, Itential, Aruba (a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company)

Futuriom 40 Top Cloud Trends and Private Companies 2021

Futuriom each year compiles the Futuriom 40 report, summarizing the most important trends and private companies in the cloud infrastructure market. Here are the top findings for 2021.

Futuriom Cloud Secure Edge and SASE Trends Report

Futuriom's Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Edge: The 2020 Cloud Secure Edge and SASE Report covers the convergence of networking and security, especially at the “edge” of the network.

Sponsored by: VMware, NetFoundry, Aryaka, Citrix, Versa Networks

Futuriom CSP Network Automation Leadership Survey

5G is going to drive network automation technologies deeper into communications service provider networks (CSPs), according to our latest independent research report.

Sponsored by: Itential, DRIVENETS

Futuriom Special Report: 5G Survivor's Guide

Our exclusive survey and report, sponsored by Arrcus, delves deep into the details of 5G networks anchored by a survey of highly qualified professionals at the major service providers, cloud operators, and large enterprises. All survey respondents were carefully screened and qualified as Director-level and above.