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Enterprise AI ecosystem is a key ingredient in Cloudera’s recipe for customer success

Mark Albertson — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 19:01:56 +0000

Cloudera Inc. has taken a team approach by expanding its enterprise AI ecosystem to include a diverse range of industry-leading AI providers, building a portfolio of enterprise AI solutions for its customers. The data management and analytics firm announced partnerships with Amazon Web Services Inc., Nvidia Corp., and Pinecone Systems Inc. last year. Cloudera extended its […]

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CEO Charles Sansbury builds on Cloudera’s AI experience to help customers gain faster results

Mark Albertson — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:40:10 +0000

It has been a little over a year since Charles Sansbury (pictured) was appointed chief executive officer of Cloudera Inc., and it didn’t take him long to figure out that the AI experience would be his customers’ and his company’s focus after taking the helm at the data management and analytics firm. “Since I’ve joined, […]

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Nvidia partnership and perks for ClearScape fuel Teradata AI offerings

Mark Albertson — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:17:37 +0000

This week, Teradata Corp. unveiled new capabilities for VantageCloud Lake and ClearScape Analytics designed to speed the return on investment from generative AI use cases. The new Teradata AI offerings will enable customers to add their own large language models and take advantage of small or mid-size open AI solutions. “If you’re a data scientist […]

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What to expect during the ‘Partnerships for Smarter Security’ event: Join theCUBE Oct. 9

Mark Albertson — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 21:34:48 +0000

Detect. Respond. Recover. Those three actions capture the three-pronged security methodology for how Dell Technologies Inc. helps customers reduce the attack surface inside the IT environment. Yet there is a fourth action that also plays a significant role: collaborate. This concept is at the heart of Dell’s “Partnerships for Smarter Security” initiative, which emphasizes the importance […]

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Intel and Dell collaborate with CrowdStrike on managing enterprise security for the full stack

Mark Albertson — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:55:38 +0000

One of the basic problems confronting enterprise security is that malicious actors have more attack techniques available than defenders have detections for them. This reality was confirmed earlier this year when a security industry report found that enterprise security information and event management tools or SIEMs had detections for only 38 out of over 200 […]

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Living in the feed: Trust and AI drive strategic shifts for advertisers and content creators

Mark Albertson — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:54:28 +0000

The power of the internet and the growing use of artificial intelligence are going to change how the world defines trust. Tell signs for this shift can be seen among online users in Gen Z, the generation of 13- to 24-year-olds. Jigsaw, a subsidiary within Google LLC, conducted a study earlier this year that found […]

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What to expect during the ‘Making AI Real With Data’ event: Join theCUBE Oct. 15

Mark Albertson — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:17:34 +0000

Perhaps more than any single technology introduction, artificial intelligence has demonstrated its impact in a short space of time across nearly every key element of the enterprise computing platform. At the heart of this transformation for Dell Technologies Inc. is its AI Factory, an end-to-end solution designed to harness the power of AI to drive […]

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Dell’s collaboration with Nvidia highlighted by SuperPOD certification and PowerScale AI-optimized storage

Mark Albertson — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:33:19 +0000

As enterprises embrace new uses for artificial intelligence, data access bottlenecks have been a limiting factor in the throughput and scalability of compute-intensive workloads. Through a major collaboration with Nvidia Corp., Dell Technologies Inc. has addressed this issue with the certification of its PowerScale portfolio for Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD environments. The joint initiative, which became […]

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Alation’s data integration with Salesforce supports accuracy and compliance for AI models

Mark Albertson — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:48:26 +0000

When the data intelligence company Alation Inc. announced its integration with the Salesforce Data Cloud earlier this month, it provided another example of how businesses were seeking to harness the power of metadata and maximize AI initiatives. The integration of Alation with Data Cloud will enable Salesforce Inc. customers to govern their data estate using […]

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Healthcare becomes prime target for cyberattacks as security industry defends against AI-generated cybersecurity threats

Mark Albertson — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:08:32 +0000

Cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, and bad actors attacking digital environments operate on the same principles as many of the organizations they target. It’s a risk-and-reward model, where the return on investment can be quite lucrative when a victim pays ransomware to get their data returned. Ransomware attacks remain an ongoing threat, with healthcare becoming a […]

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At Dreamforce, tech leaders see adoption of AI agents as next chapter of change for enterprise computing

Mark Albertson — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:51:48 +0000

Salesforce Inc. used its messaging over the past week to elaborate on plans for delivery of its artificial intelligence agents. Yet beyond the hoopla surrounding the rollout of the company’s Agentforce platform can be found an ongoing conversation within the tech industry around exactly where the AI train is taking us. In presentations from leading […]

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What to expect at Vast Data’s ‘Enter the Cosmos’ event: Join theCUBE Oct. 1

Mark Albertson — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:00:42 +0000

There is disruption underway in the cloud industry itself as businesses begin to look outside of the major providers to support private artificial intelligence and AI cloud services. The growth of AI has led to a need for infrastructure that can rapidly optimize data flows and quickly scale resources to support next-generation enterprise workloads. Vast […]

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Agentforce leads the next evolution for Salesforce in its AI offerings

Mark Albertson — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:41:41 +0000

Salesforce Inc. is making a major push to deploy AI agents on its CRM platform, an initiative the company views as the next step in enterprise artificial intelligence adoption. Building on its predictive Einstein platform for sales, service, marketing and commerce, Salesforce announced Agentforce this month as the latest chapter in the development of AI solutions. […]

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Three insights you might have missed from Supermicro’s Open Storage Summit

Mark Albertson — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:40:44 +0000

The wave of artificial intelligence adoption sweeping the technology world has propelled a number of companies to prominence in 2024, as enterprises look for software-led, high-performance computing solutions. One such firm is Super Micro Computer Inc., which, despite recent financial headwinds, has established itself as a central player in AI deployment through its data center […]

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High-wire act: Salesforce’s big bet on Agentforce spotlights volatile nature of the AI world

Mark Albertson — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:12:36 +0000

During his keynote remarks at Salesforce Inc.’s Dreamforce gathering in San Francisco today, Chairman and Chief Executive Marc Benioff decided to put a local spin on the company’s introduction of its artificial intelligence platform Agentforce. Making a comparison between the announcement of his company’s ambitious enterprise AI technology and the Waymo LLC autonomous cars currently rolling on […]

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Hardware industry confronts challenges and embraces opportunities from AI juggernaut

Mark Albertson — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:14:28 +0000

While much of the attention surrounding the growth of artificial intelligence has centered on software development and building models, the engine driving AI is still hardware in the form of compute, storage and networking. Increasingly, the hardware engine has not always run smoothly as technologists grapple with the need to process massive amounts of data […]

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Glean leverages Google Cloud for data silo solutions and connecting with key enterprise customers

Mark Albertson — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:00:21 +0000

Glean Technologies Inc. is a rising star in conversational search, harnessing the power of Google Cloud’s infrastructure to break down data silos and amplify its marketing support. Glean is an artificial intelligence platform that connects and understands a customer’s data across sources such as email, Google Drive, Slack, Teams, Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow so that practitioners […]

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Network performance and IT economics help drive VMware’s private cloud strategy

Mark Albertson — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:17:26 +0000

A key focus of VMware by Broadcom at the Explore conference in Las Vegas last week centered around how enterprises can power network performance to drive GPUs and necessary data center infrastructure and deliver artificial intelligence. This need has been highlighted through an ongoing discussion within the tech community around the merits of various networking […]

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Moving to the endpoints: VMware positions Edge Compute Stack for the enterprise AI future

Mark Albertson — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:57:50 +0000

One of the clear messages to emerge from the VMware Explore conference in Las Vegas this week is that VMware remains fully committed to providing infrastructure solutions, and one of the most critical areas where enterprises will be looking for those solutions is at the edge. VMware LLC announced several new developments across its product […]

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Samsung and VMware collaborate on CXL solutions for server memory expansion

Mark Albertson — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:04:28 +0000

Compute Express Link, or CXL, has only been in use for five years, yet it is already having an impact in connecting server components. The technology, introduced by Intel Corp. in 2019 and designed as an open-standard interface for high-speed communications, connects a server’s central processing unit with accelerator chips attached to the machine. As […]

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VMware goes all-in on the private cloud, as Broadcom unit showcases AI and counters price concerns

Mark Albertson — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:37:36 +0000

Over the past year, the operational word for virtualization giant VMware’s strategic approach has been “private.” From the announcement of its Private AI initiative last August to the unveiling of the latest version of VMware Cloud Foundation today as an innovation for private cloud deployment, the Broadcom Inc.-owned VMware has made it clear where it […]

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AWS and Deloitte build on existing collaboration to provide industry-specific enterprise AI solutions

Mark Albertson — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:40:14 +0000

The announcement in July of a multiyear, global investment program between Amazon Web Services Inc. and Deloitte & Touche LLP signaled both a significant expansion of the ongoing relationship between the two technology powerhouses and the increasing influence artificial intelligence, more specifically enterprise AI solutions. The collaboration is focused on scaling generative AI, data and […]

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What to expect at VMware Explore 2024: Join theCUBE Aug. 26-28

Mark Albertson — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:34:32 +0000

When the VMware community gathered in Las Vegas last year for the annual Explore event, the company’s acquisition by Broadcom Inc. had yet to be finalized. The $69 billion purchase was completed three months later, and this year’s VMware Explore 2024 conference will be closely watched for signals around how Broadcom intends to manage its […]

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What to expect at the Juniper ‘AI-Native NOW’: Join theCUBE August 22

Mark Albertson — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:13:25 +0000

Juniper Networks Inc. is leveraging artificial intelligence to transform network management and operations, an approach that it has described as AI-native networking. The company’s networking strategy in this area was recently highlighted by the unveiling in July of its Ops4AI Lab, a multi-vendor lab for validating end-to-end automated AI data center solutions and operations. It […]

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GaiaNet offers decentralized AI platform for model building and monetization

Mark Albertson — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:24:12 +0000

The surge in artificial intelligence is seeing a transformative shift with the advent of decentralized AI, spearheaded by innovative startups such as GaiaNet Inc. GaiaNet is revolutionizing AI applications through a distributed network of individually managed nodes. By leveraging Web3 blockchain technology, it decentralizes model inferencing. “Within centralized AI infrastructure there’s a lot of vendor lock-in, […]

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Industry partnerships drive Supermicro’s storage approach for AI server solutions

Mark Albertson — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:08:07 +0000

Partnerships are playing a key role for Supermicro Computer Inc., as it develops AI server solutions that can meet the demands of graphics processing units or GPUs specifically tailored for artificial intelligence workloads. Supermicro’s contribution in this important area received a boost in June when the company introduced rack scale plug-and-play liquid-cooled AI SuperClusters for […]

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Defense leads in race to secure AI, but threats to models and data could soon change that

Mark Albertson — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 20:54:33 +0000

The good news in the cybersecurity world is that wider deployment of artificial intelligence has not yet opened a massive security hole in the world’s computer systems. The bad news: Flaws and vulnerabilities are beginning to appear that could foreshadow major problems ahead. That was the prevailing sentiment expressed by numerous research analysts and industry […]

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Big data gets a tailwind: Analysts see AI driving growth of next-gen data platforms

Mark Albertson — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 18:24:23 +0000

The era of big data has morphed into the era of generative artificial intelligence powered by data innovation. This was of one of the conclusions drawn from the Supercloud 7: Get Ready for the Next Data Platform event, as theCUBE Research Analysts looked back on the first day of discussion and prepared for Day Two. […]

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Analysts foresee changes ahead as database vendors navigate shifting landscape in compute engines for AI

Mark Albertson — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 15:32:44 +0000

Data applications are now being built on different platforms for different use cases, and artificial intelligence is one of the key drivers behind which compute engines for AI an enterprise may want to use. Databricks Inc. and Snowflake Inc. are in the hurricane’s eye of this change as the point of control shifts from the […]

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Enhancements for Microsoft Purview expand capabilities for data governance and security

Mark Albertson — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:43:44 +0000

Microsoft Corp. has announced general availability for its Microsoft Purview Data Governance solution, and it has deployed new innovations to help business users manage the growing challenges associated with a vast data landscape. “The approach that we’ve taken, and this is based on a lot of the customer feedback we received, is how do we […]

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