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Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover

Mark Albertson — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:05:42 +0000

Artificial intelligence took center stage at HPE Discover last week. For three days, company executives captivated audiences with keynote sessions focused on Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s cutting-edge AI solutions and the robust infrastructure it’s building to support them. New solutions for AI deployment and how HPE’s enterprise customers can take advantage of them were discussed […]

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Tighter integration of networking, storage and management highlight latest VMware Cloud Foundation releases

Mark Albertson — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:29:55 +0000

Broadcom Inc. made a series of announcements on Tuesday that positioned its VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud platform to integrate critical functions more tightly. VCF delivers a virtualized infrastructure through vSphere, virtualized networking through NSX and virtualized storage using vSAN. Tuesday’s releases were aimed at reducing the complexity of VMware’s vast portfolio through the integration […]

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Enhancements for HPE GreenLake cloud set the stage for hybrid and AI deployments

Mark Albertson — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:26:37 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has been steadily refining GreenLake cloud, a hybrid cloud designed to deploy and manage resources across public and private infrastructure. This week, HPE rolled out Private Cloud AI, a self-serve cloud experience in partnership with Nvidia Corp. and enabled by the GreenLake hybrid platform. “We kept hybrid cloud in mind, and […]

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Navigating hybrid cloud: Zerto’s integration with HPE’s virtualization platforms

Mark Albertson — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:42:40 +0000

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. acquired Zerto Ltd. for $374 million in 2021, the expectation was that the venture-backed startup would help enterprise customers implement speedy data recovery solutions and protect workloads against lengthy outages in a data-driven world. “Where we really fit is in the resume and recoverability,” said Matt Boris (pictured, right), vice […]

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Hybrid cloud and AI-driven edge use cases highlight networking’s growing significance for HPE

Mark Albertson — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 22:57:33 +0000

The current focus on artificial intelligence tends to highlight data-powered insights and natural language understanding, but there’s an important subtext behind the AI craze: Major enterprise players such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. are also working to add new network functions that will pave the way for AI processing in a multitude of enterprise compute […]

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HPE and Nvidia’s top executives talk up new AI solutions for the enterprise

Mark Albertson — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:19:26 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. chose to deliver its HPE Discover keynote session today at the Sphere in Las Vegas, reputedly the largest spherical structure in the world. Perhaps mindful of the setting, HPE’s chief executive seized the moment to have a conversation onstage about the biggest topic of the moment in the tech world – […]

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Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Financial Services Symposium

Mark Albertson — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:39:40 +0000

Cloud spending in the financial services industry has been on a growth curve, and Amazon Web Services Inc. has gained momentum in this sector. For financial services companies, broader cloud adoption has led to a heightened focus on data and new ways to organize and manage vast amounts of information to create intelligent solutions using […]

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Impetus Technologies sees continued momentum for AI as it speeds legacy data migration to Databricks

Mark Albertson — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:27:19 +0000

As a partner with Databricks Inc., Impetus Technologies Inc. has been active over the past year in legacy data migration of large-scale environments to the Databricks platform. It is important work for many organizations seeking to rapidly transition from legacy systems and realize the value of data analytics and generative AI. “We’ve built IP that’s […]

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Data transformation gets a boost with Prophecy’s AI copilot for Databricks’ users

Mark Albertson — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:17:26 +0000

Data transformation is entering a new era with the advent of generative AI, significantly altering how users access and manipulate data for enhanced productivity. Prophecy Inc.’s latest innovation, the industry’s first copilot for Databricks, exemplifies this trend by streamlining the preparation of raw data for analytics and AI applications. “What’s happening with data transformation is […]

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Four insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Snowflake’s Data Cloud Summit

Mark Albertson — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:51:59 +0000

The Snowflake Data Cloud Summit in San Francisco last week offered an in-depth look at how artificial intelligence, data and open source are continuing to reshape the enterprise world. As Snowflake Inc. moves from its Data Cloud into the AI Data Cloud, the company is seeking to write its next chapter under the leadership of […]

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On the AI Insights and Innovation podcast: Where are the use cases to justify generative AI investment?

Mark Albertson — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:19:16 +0000

Generative AI investment is a focus of attention for processor manufacturers and cloud providers, as recently seen in Microsoft Corp.’s adoption of AMD Inc.’s MI300X AI chips in the Azure platform. Yet this interest among major industry players to compete with Nvidia’s H100 GPU processor for generative artificial intelligence business is a subplot in what […]

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Robotics, AI and data visualization solutions among the highlights at Qlik Connect

Mark Albertson — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:02:01 +0000

The Qlik Connect gathering in Orlando brought together a wide range of customers and company executives who offered their perspectives on how robotics, AI and data visualization solutions from QlikTech International AB and associated partners were making a difference. One of these perspectives came from United Parcel Service Inc., the global shipping company. UPS has […]

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Cost management and visibility play central role in this week’s Snowflake announcements

Mark Albertson — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 00:45:14 +0000

While Snowflake Inc. has orchestrated its platform to run with ease and simplicity for users, there is a subset of customers with an interest in cost management and performance tracking on a regular basis. At Data Cloud Summit in San Francisco this week, the company unveiled a set of tools designed to provide those insights. […]

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BET turns to Kumo’s predictive AI solution for attracting and retaining viewers

Mark Albertson — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:11:06 +0000

For major media content providers, such as Black Entertainment Television LLC, or BET, meeting the expectations of its viewers is of paramount importance. This is where a predictive AI solution takes on greater significance. “We are looking at data in different ways than the industry has looked at data before to start predicting what customer […]

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Zillow’s AI revolution: How Snowflake’s Data Cloud is transforming real estate

Mark Albertson — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:48:53 +0000

Snowflake Inc. built its AI Data Cloud as a single platform to bring data and workloads together. The ability to integrate internal and external data sources is proving to be attractive for a number of businesses, including Zillow Inc., the online real estate marketplace. “It’s not only about using your own data,” said Denise Persson […]

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What to expect during HPE Discover: Join theCUBE June 18-20

Mark Albertson — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:24:21 +0000

As Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. prepares to kick off HPE Discover on June 18, it’s been a long and winding road for the company since its inaugural event back in 2011. Back then, the event featured a performance by Paul McCartney of The Beatles fame. The agenda for this year’s HPE Discover is vastly different than what was […]

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Penske Truck Leasing and Qlik seize the moment with generative AI for predictive operations

Mark Albertson — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:41:36 +0000

As a major provider of business intelligence and data integration software, QlikTech International AB is leveraging generative AI to capitalize on the surging interest in artificial intelligence. With a portfolio of intelligence-based products spanning more than 30 years, Qlik believes that the market has come to it. “We’ve been getting ready for this moment for […]

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Qlik Council looks to accelerate responsible adoption of enterprise AI

Mark Albertson — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 02:12:38 +0000

In January, QlikTech International AB announced the formation of its inaugural AI Council, a set of four advisors with a mission to accelerate the responsible development of the Qlik AI-driven product portfolio. The council’s members were drawn from a community of AI experts and empowered to guide the company’s R&D direction and foster ethical and […]

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How the open-source world is wrestling with security and licensing issues for generative AI

Mark Albertson — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 21:57:08 +0000

The rise of generative artificial intelligence has been accompanied by a growing debate within the open-source community: Are OpenAI and other model providers really open, and how trustworthy is the technology? This debate has become more relevant as AI adoption becomes more entrenched in the engines running critical systems today. Transparency has been a hallmark […]

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Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Dell Technologies World

Mark Albertson — Wed, 29 May 2024 18:51:01 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc. devoted much of its annual conference in Las Vegas this month to defining its artificial intelligence strategy. Through announcements and various executive presentations, the company highlighted a set of networking and infrastructure solutions designed to capitalize on the technology tsunami that has become AI. What that picture looks like now and how […]

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What to expect during the AWS Financial Services Symposium: Join theCUBE 6-11

Mark Albertson — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:10:59 +0000

How is the financial services industry embracing artificial intelligence, and how will this AI transformation impact Amazon Web Services Inc. as it seeks to increase its presence in this sector? These two questions will be a central focus of coverage for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, at the AWS Financial Services Symposium in New York […]

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Informatica and Oracle team up to deliver cloud data integration and governance

Mark Albertson — Thu, 23 May 2024 14:21:18 +0000

When Informatica Inc. announced a strategic partnership with Oracle Corp. two years ago, the focus was on delivering cloud data management, database integration and governance solutions for enterprise customers. Since then, the two firms have continued to bring Informatica’s artificial intelligence-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as their customers increasingly build generative […]

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CEO Amit Walia positions Informatica to get customer data ready for generative AI

Mark Albertson — Wed, 22 May 2024 22:56:17 +0000

The creation of a tagline for a major conference or branding campaign can take weeks of research and discussion, yet the organizers of Informatica World 2024 didn’t have to do much for this year’s slogan, “Everyone’s ready for AI except your data.” Customers delivered it for them, according to Amit Walia (pictured), chief executive officer […]

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Dell’s Jeff Clarke foresees evolving architectures and a new wave of PC innovation

Mark Albertson — Wed, 22 May 2024 18:05:43 +0000

As Dell Technologies Inc. navigates another wave of innovation driven by artificial intelligence, the company is keeping a close eye on how compute technology is being transformed. This means developing products and architectures that involve the graphics processing unit, which is powering AI deployment today. “This is a different computing architecture,” said Jeff Clarke (pictured), […]

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Collaboration between Dell Technologies and Microsoft extends synergy between APEX and Azure

Mark Albertson — Tue, 21 May 2024 22:15:10 +0000

Microsoft Corp. made several announcements this week around generative artificial intelligence tools, and the news overlapped with enhancements released by Dell Technologies Inc. on Monday. Microsoft added to Azure’s arsenal of generative AI development tools while collaborating with Dell to enhance how businesses harness AI at the edge. The news bult on Dell’s previously announced […]

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Quantum and intelligent agents: Dell’s John Roese envisions how systems will be built around AI

Mark Albertson — Tue, 21 May 2024 18:01:12 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc. made a series of announcements at its major conference in Las Vegas yesterday that positioned it as the go-to vendor for on-premises artificial intelligence development. Behind these latest releases can be found an acknowledgement of how rapidly AI has progressed in barely a year’s time. “The level of understanding of the AI […]

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Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of the RSA Conference

Mark Albertson — Fri, 17 May 2024 21:19:34 +0000

In the 12 months since security practitioners gathered in San Francisco for the 2023 annual RSA Conference, the view of artificial intelligence has expanded. Where AI was once either bad for business or good for improving protection, it has now become a whole new challenge that will require a novel approach. This was one of the […]

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Infosys and Alteryx team up to boost data analytics amid rising enterprise AI use cases

Mark Albertson — Thu, 16 May 2024 16:30:42 +0000

With a global consulting practice in over 56 countries, Infosys Ltd. is in a prime position to chart the key drivers of digital transformation. After a wave of interest in artificial intelligence for consumer applications, broader use of AI is starting to migrate to new corners of the enterprise world as well. “Over the last […]

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Creating timeless software: How Software AG has remained relevant in the new age of AI

Mark Albertson — Wed, 15 May 2024 19:32:54 +0000

The year Software AG was founded provided two watershed moments in the future growth and direction of the technology industry. It was 1969, and IBM Corp. announced in June that it would begin pricing its software and services separately from its hardware, laying the groundwork for an emergence of the modern software consulting industry. One […]

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Unified data storage gets new look for the AI era with NetApp’s latest releases

Mark Albertson — Wed, 15 May 2024 16:22:28 +0000

On Tuesday, NetApp Inc. introduced new hardware designed to run demanding generative AI workloads in on-premises data centers. The data storage and management company announced the NetApp AFF A-Series systems, all-flash hardware that will support acceleration of advanced workloads while optimizing storage costs. “The major part of our announcement was that next major advance to […]

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