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Why Databricks vs. Snowflake is not a zero-sum game

Dave Vellante with Erik Bradley — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:00:41 +0000

Three main pressure points are transforming the modern data landscape: 1) Increased interest in adopting open table formats to allow any compute to operate on any data; 2) The point of control is shifting from the database management system to the governance layer; and 3) AI is enabling the emergence of a new class of […]

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Rethinking productivity measurement in the age of AI

Ashley Kramer — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:02:22 +0000

Executives are laser-focused on how generative artificial intelligence can have an impact on employee output. As the chief strategy officer for a DevSecOps software company, GitLab, I spend a lot of time speaking with customers about AI’s impact on software development. Organizations have largely moved past the fear associated with AI and are now looking […]

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Gen AI is passé. Enter the age of agentic AI

Dave Vellante and George Gilbert — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:43:52 +0000

Early-phase generative artificial intelligence AI – or “request/response AI” — has not yet lived up to the expectations implied by the hype. We believe agentic AI is the next level of artificial intelligence that, while building on generative AI, will go further to drive tangible business value for enterprises. Early discussions around agentic AI have […]

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HPE and Nvidia rock the Sphere for HPE Discover

Rob Strechay and Bob Laliberte — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:45:06 +0000

The HPE Discover event in Las Vegas has long been a marquee event for technology enthusiasts and industry professionals, but this year the event was truly one for the books. The inclusion of Atmosphere, HPE Aruba Networking’s flagship show, within the Discover event provided a holistic view of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s expansive ecosystem. Furthermore, […]

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Decoding the chess moves of Snowflake and Databricks

Dave Vellante and George Gilbert — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:07:00 +0000

As customers try to “get artificial intelligence right,” the need to rationalize siloed data becomes increasingly important. Data practitioners could put all their data eggs into a single platform basket, but that’s proving impractical. As such, firms are moving to an open model where they maintain control of their data and can bring any compute […]

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Digital disruption at TM Forum’s DTW24-Ignite conference

Jason Bloomberg — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:21:42 +0000

The Telemanagement Forum bills itself as a driving force for digital transformation for telecommunications companies and the technology vendors that serve them. This transformation was prevalent across the TM Forum’s DTW24-Ignite flagship conference in Copenhagen this week. I interviewed several vendors at the conference and boiled down my list to nine of the most disruptive. Many […]

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Crystallizing Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024

Dave Vellante and George Gilbert — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:29:41 +0000

Snowflake Inc.’s Data Cloud Summit 2024 was a weeklong event that brought together more than 20,000 of Snowflake’s core enterprise customers, developers and ecosystem partners to San Francisco this past week. The event highlighted the expanding aspirations of the company as it evolves its Data Cloud into an AI Data Cloud and a platform for developing intelligent […]

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Is Nvidia becoming the de facto AI mainframe?

Tony Baer — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:34:42 +0000

Forgetting the fact that it took 30 years for Nvidia Corp. to become an overnight success, its incredible rise over the recent past looks like it has the makings of a bubble. About 15 years ago, the company made a riverboat gamble to pivot from gaming toward high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, and the numbers […]

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A sneak peek at Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024: Reframing the future of data platforms

Dave Vellante and George Gilbert — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:12:57 +0000

Snowflake Inc. is at a crossroads. The company, which defined the modern data platform, now faces fresh challenges on four fronts. Specifically, Snowflake must: 1) advance its data cloud vision; 2) transform into an artificial intelligence leader; 3) become a platform for data apps; and 4) address external market forces that pressure its core values […]

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Cybersecurity leaders must be prepared for cloud adoption

Charlie Winckless — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 14:06:02 +0000

Public cloud adoption is now the rule instead of the exception. In fact, Gartner has found that 94% of organizations agree that public cloud is a crucial part of their digital business initiatives. Though this trend toward cloud migration has many benefits, it also presents a significant disruption to cybersecurity functions. Almost every aspect of […]

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How Nvidia, TSMC, Broadcom and Qualcomm will lead a trillion-dollar silicon boom

Dave Vellante and David Floyer — Sat, 25 May 2024 21:48:16 +0000

We believe the artificial intelligence wave will bring profound changes, not only to the technology industry but to society as a whole. These changes will perhaps be as significant to the world as the agricultural and industrial revolutions, both of which had drastic economic consequences. Although the exact progression and timing of these changes are […]

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Supply chain planning as an intelligent data app

Dave Vellante and George Gilbert — Sat, 04 May 2024 15:15:48 +0000

The way to solve business resiliency is not inventory, it’s software – Duncan Angove, CEO of Blue Yonder The “sixth data platform,” or intelligent data platform, represents a cutting-edge evolution in data management. It aims to support intelligent applications through a sophisticated system that builds on a foundation of a cloud data platform. This foundation […]

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How software engineering leaders can improve user experience design

Brent Stewart — Fri, 03 May 2024 17:50:20 +0000

The majority of modern user interface design relies on the reuse and assembly of proven UI design patterns. Software engineering leaders must evaluate and select from platform-based, open-source and in-house design systems to build the best digital products in the least amount of time. They can use the following three best practices to build better products […]

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AI-powered metadata: Informatica’s role in the future of data management

Rob Strechay and George Gilbert — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 03:45:15 +0000

The journey to AI-integrated metadata systems As theCUBE Research has been tracking, the transformation of data management systems has been gradual yet profound. Over the past decade, organizations have increasingly recognized the value of separating computational power from data storage, leading to more centralized data consolidation and management. Informatica Inc., a data integration and management […]

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What to know about AI at this year’s RSA Conference

Dan Schiappa — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 17:58:14 +0000

Last year, the RSA Conference was dominated by the conversation around artificial intelligence and machine learning. Just months after the initial release of ChatGPT, virtually every vendor took the opportunity to tell visitors about how its platform or tool is powered by AI/ML engines, but few of those visitors were able to verify those claims […]

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Security budgets are growing, but so is vendor sprawl

Dave Vellante and Erik Bradley — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 18:46:55 +0000

Organizations continue to spend more on security, with 87% of firms expecting to increase spend on cybersecurity in the next 12 months. But are we safer? It’s estimated that firms on average have between 60 and 75 security tools installed. Although leading vendors logically market the benefits of addressing tools sprawl and complexity through consolidation, […]

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AI can see clearly now: Why transparency leads to ethical and fair AI systems

Tara DeZao — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 14:52:22 +0000

Although artificial intelligence has proved its ability to reshape industries, redefine customer experiences and reimagine business operations, it also carries inherent risks. And though robots haven’t overtaken the world as foreshadowed time and time again by science fiction movies, there’s a very real threat to businesses of AI going awry. One of the key components […]

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Adobe Summit highlights personalization at scale with generative AI

Dave Vellante with Andy Thurai — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 04:09:35 +0000

Adobe Summit 2024 put individualized digital experiences on full display. Personalization at scale is exceedingly difficult. By applying artificial intelligence, Adobe Systems Inc. showed off its ability to bring custom experiences to the masses and do so with trusted, enterprise-grade content. Moreover, Adobe highlighted an expanded total available market for its three major business segments […]

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How to make your office a magnet to attract employees

Bob Laliberte — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:19:19 +0000

Return-to-office initiatives are in the news more and more lately, but is mandating employees to return the best approach? Cisco Systems Inc. Chief Executive Chuck Robbins is taking a different approach. Instead of a mandate, Cisco has reimagined its offices to make them a magnet for employees to return. I toured its offices at Penn1 […]

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Platform engineering, API platforms and intelligent agents dominate innovation at KubeCon Paris

Jason Bloomberg — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:15:26 +0000

The sizzle at this past week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris was all about Kubernetes-based infrastructure for generative artificial intelligence. The steak, in contrast, was all about platforms. I attend conferences such as KubeCon to uncover particularly innovative vendors who are pushing the boundaries of their respective technologies. Since is my seventh article for […]

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Transforming supply chain resilience with generative AI and data

Muhammad Alam — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:58:50 +0000

Generative artificial intelligence has struck like a bolt of lightning, rapidly moving from an industry buzzword to a robust business opportunity. A report by Gartner indicates that chief supply chain officers are investing in growth through new technology investments, with many anticipating allocating an average of 73% of their supply chain information technology budgets to areas […]

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Harnessing data for retail excellence: Inside Walmart’s Element AI platform

Victor Dabrinze and Paul Gillin — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:16:36 +0000

Not many enterprises can tackle the complexity and expense of building a full-scale machine learning platform from the ground up, but not many are Walmart Inc. The retail giant intends to infuse artificial intelligence throughout its operations and wants the maximum flexibility to use whatever models, toolkits and cloud resources its developers prefer. The result […]

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How executive leaders can manage the impacts of the US executive order on AI

Lydia Clougherty Jones — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:00:56 +0000

The recent U.S. Executive Order on Safe, Secure and Trustworthy AI has major implications for U.S. and non-U.S. entities across the public, private, academic, nongovernmental organization, and consumer and citizen ecosystems. The EO also has an impact on U.S. federal agencies and those who work with them. It will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the […]

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Seven FinOps trends that are reshaping cloud cost management

Willy Sennott — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 19:10:57 +0000

FinOps, meaning the practice of managing cloud costs, has been around for years. Yet it continues to evolve in response to emerging challenges in the realm of cloud spending. If you want to stay at the forefront of cloud cost management best practices, you need to embrace up-and-coming FinOps trends. Let’s take a look at those […]

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Beyond the buzz: IoT and AI innovation at Mobile World Congress

Jason Bloomberg — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:11:20 +0000

Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is the largest telecommunications-focused conference in the world. More than 100,000 attendees descended on well over 1,000 exhibitors, teasing out all manner of innovative technologies and business strategies. Although every vendor at the conference struggled to put on its best face, there was nevertheless an undercurrent of desperation, as the much-hyped […]

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How will generative AI pay off?

Tony Baer — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:00:59 +0000

This is the second two parts. You can read part one here. Yesterday, we rained on the generative artificial intelligence parade. We stated that that today, gen AI is currently a cost sink, with the true promise not coming until at least 12 to 24 months off. Today it’s time to clear the clouds. We’ll […]

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Is that giant sucking sound generative AI?

Tony Baer — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:34:47 +0000

This is the first of two parts. Part two is here. It’s little mystery that generative artificial intelligence has dominated the spotlight in tech over the past year. A couple of KPMG surveys of top U.S. business executives conducted in March and June of last year document what has become conventional wisdom: Gen AI is being […]

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Organizations need a business-driven AI strategy, not a CAIO

Frances Karamouzis — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:18:49 +0000

The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and generative AI has many organizations wondering if a chief AI officer is needed. Gartner has found that each time there is a disruption, or new era of technology, another C-suite role is not necessarily warranted. This is the case with the role of the CAIO. Though it is […]

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Rethinking the business of software at ZohoDay 2024

Jason English — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:01:15 +0000

Enterprise software is a winner-take-all game, where also-rans are acquired or run out of business by a few dominant vendors that can lock in customers, demand their own price and grow at a disproportionate rate to the economies they serve. At ZohoDay 2024 near Zoho Corp.’s latest tech center in McAllen, Texas, an audience of […]

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The rising tide of sovereign AI

Pablo Chavez — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 02:55:17 +0000

In an interview late last year, Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang declared that the world is going through a second wave of artificial intelligence. The first one, he argued, was driven by the private sector – companies across the tech industry spectrum, from large tech multinationals to nascent startups. A major catalyst for the second […]

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