HPE Networking- Not quite ready to take over the world and that’s okay.
An AI wave is soon to hit enterprise shores and is bringing a need to totally rethink enterprise network design, support models, and functional capabilities. HPE is spending billions to develop offerings for IoT, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence (AI).The years-long build is leading to HPE’s realization that a more advanced network offering is critical to the successful deployment of its AI portfolio, hence the pending Juniper acquisition.
HPE Updates Partner Programs for AI
At HPE Discover 2024, HPE announced an ambitious new AI enablement program in collaboration with NVIDIA to boost profitability and deliver new revenue streams for partners. This program includes enhanced competencies and resources across AI, compute, storage, networking, hybrid cloud, sustainability, and HPE GreenLake offerings.
Quick Take: Mirantis and Portworx Collaboration
Pure Storage’s Portworx and Mirantis announced a new collaboration to address the complexities of data management in Kubernetes environments, providing enterprises with a robust solution that enhances their containerization strategies.
Quick Take: Hammerspace Integrates Gryf with SourceCode/GigaIO Partnership
Hammerspace announced a significant addition to its Global Data Platform, enabling it to process, store, and manage data in edge compute environments. This advancement is achieved through the integration with Gryf, a portable AI supercomputer developed by SourceCode and GigaIO. This combined solution brings increased shared AI processing power to edge locations, even those with limited or no network infrastructure.
What is Intent-Based Networking?
Intent-Based Networking (IBN) is an advanced approach to network management and operation that uses high-level business goals and policies to automate and manage the network. Unlike traditional network management methods that require manual configurations and constant monitoring, IBN focuses on the desired outcomes or “intent” and uses AI, machine learning, and automation to achieve those outcomes.
Quick Take: Databricks to Acquire Tabular
Databricks announced its agreement to acquire Tabular, a data management company founded by Ryan Blue, Daniel Weeks, and Jason Reid. The acquisition aims to unify the Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake open-source lakehouse formats, enhancing data compatibility for organizations.
Quick Take: Lenovo & Cisco Expand Relationship for AI Innovation
Ahead of Cisco Live, Lenovo and Cisco announced a global strategic partnership to deliver fully integrated infrastructure and networking solutions that accelerate digital transformation and AI innovation for businesses of all sizes.
Quick Take: IBM & AWS Collaborate on Responsible AI
At the IBM Think conference, IBM announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate the full suite of IBM’s watsonx AI and data platform with AWS services. The partnership helps streamline enterprise AI scaling through an open, hybrid approach with comprehensive governance.
Quick Take: Hitachi/Google Cloud AI Partnership
Hitachi and Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership to drive enterprise innovation and productivity using generative AI. Hitachi will establish a new business unit that addresses industry challenges with AI technologies like Gemini models and Vertex AI. The partnership also helps expand Hitachi’s Lumada digital business and improve operational efficiencies within the Hitachi Group.
Quick Take: Microsoft Corp. and G42 Digital Investments in Kenya
Microsoft and G42 announced a substantial digital investment initiative in Kenya, partnering with the Republic of Kenya’s Ministry of Information, Communications, and the Digital Economy.
The initiative, supported by an initial $1 billion investment arranged by G42, aims to enhance Kenya’s digital infrastructure, AI capabilities, and connectivity, fostering the region’s digital transformation and economic growth.
Quick Take: CoreWeave $7.5B Debt Financing to Expand AI Infrastructure
GPU-cloud provider CoreWeave announced a definitive agreement for a $7.5 billion debt financing round. The funds will be used to expand CoreWeave’s high-performance computing infrastructure to meet the demands of existing contracts with enterprise customers and AI innovators.
Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based VMs
At its 2024 Microsoft Build Event this week, Microsoft announced the preview of new Azure Virtual Machines powered by Microsoft’s previously announced in-house-design Arm-based processor, the Cobalt 100
Microsoft New Phi-3 Model Additions
This week at the Microsoft Build 2024 conference, the tech giant announced an exciting set of updates to its Phi-3 family of small, open models. The news includes the introduction of Phi-3-vision, a multimodal model that combines language and vision capabilities, providing developers with powerful tools for generative AI applications.
Quick Take: IBM and Salesforce Strategic Partnership
At IBM Think in Boston this week, IBM and Salesforce announced an expanded strategic partnership integrating IBM’s watsonx AI and Data Platform capabilities with the Salesforce Einstein 1 Platform. This collaboration gives enterprise customers great choice and flexibility in AI and data deployment.
Quick Take: Informatica GenAI Enhancements
At the ongoing Informatica World in Las Vegas, enterprise cloud data management leader Informatica announced significant product innovations that promise to use generative AI to bring secure and instant access to critical data insights to its customers.
Quick Take: Palo Alto Networks FQ3 2024 Earnings
Palo Alto Networks released its FQ3 2024 earnings, beating consensus on revenue and earnings, but disappointing with weaker than expected guidance.
Quick Take: 2024 Red Hat Summit Wrap-Up
Red Hat held its annual Red Hat in Denver, Colorado, showcasing significant innovations in AI and policy automation, reinforcing Red Hat’s commitment to advancing AI applications within the enterprise sector. Key highlights included the introduction of “Policy as Code” in the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, expansions in the Red Hat Lightspeed portfolio to incorporate […]
Quick Take: Dynatrace FQ4 2024 Earnings
Dynatrace wrapped up its fiscal year 2024 with robust financial performance and strategic advancements. The company’s ARR exceeded expectations, crossing the $1.5 billion mark, growing 20% year-over-year. This growth is bolstered by significant deals, including a landmark 9-figure TCV deal, highlighting Dynatrace’s competitive edge in the observability and AI ops markets.
Quick Take: AWS Leadership Transition
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is undertaking a significant leadership change as longtime CEO Adam Selipsky steps down to “prioritize family time” after a 14-year tenure with the company. Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at AWS, is slated to succeed Selipsky effective June 3.
Quick Take: New Dell PowerEdge Models
Dell Technologies announced enhancements to its PowerEdge server portfolio. The servers are designed for versatility and aim to simplify operations across various sectors, including CSPs, small businesses, and edge operations.
Quick Take: IBM Power S1012
IBM expanded its server portfolio with the introduction of its new IBM Power S1012. Based on IBM’s Power10 processor, the new server offers up to three times more performance per core compared to its predecessor, the Power S812, in a 1-socker half-width form factor.
Quick Take: HPE Zerto Updated Cyber Resilience Vault w/ HPE Alletra Storage MP
Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, enhanced its Cyber Resilience Vault with a new HPE Alletra Storage MP integration. The integration enhances the vault’s immutability features, ensuring that data copies remain inaccessible to threat actors. It also offers a 100% data availability guarantee for the landing zone within the vault.
Riverbed’s New Platform Approach to AI-powered Observability
This week at the 2024 RSA conference, observability company Riverbed launched an aggressive update to its advanced AI-powered observability platform. The new platform includes several new solutions and features built on an open architecture, addressing critical visibility challenges across public cloud, Zero Trust, SD-WAN, and remote work environments.
Quick Take: New Relic Brings Observability to Atlassian
At the recent Atlassian Team24 event, New Relic announced new integrations with Atlassian’s offerings to enhance the efficiency of incident management and resolution within software development environments.
Quick Take: Panasas Rebrands as VDURA, Shifts to SaaS Model
Legacy parallel file system provider Panasas is transitioning from hardware sales to focusing on the public cloud under its new brand, VDURA. Traditionally, Panasas offered the PanFS software platform, which supports high-capacity drives and diverse connectivity options targeting the HPC market.
Quick Take: Google Cloud Threat Intelligence
Google announced its new Google Threat Intelligence at the 2024 RSA Conference in San Francisco. The latest offering addresses longstanding issues in threat intelligence by offering a more comprehensive view and easier operationalization of data.
Quick Take: Informatica Q1 2024 Earnings
Informatica released its Q1 2024 earnings, showing strong financial performance in the first quarter, reflecting the successful execution of its strategic initiatives.
Quick Take: Fortinet Q1 2024 Earnings
Fortinet released its earnings for its fiscal Q1 2024, demonstrating robust financial performance across several key metrics.
Quick Take: IBM’s Storage Assurance Program
IBM announced its new IBM Storage Assurance program. IBM’s new IT lifecycle management option aims to maximize performance and provide clients with enhanced choice and control within the data center.
Quick Take: Sygnia & NVIDIA’s Edge Security Play
Sygnia and NVIDIA announced a strategic collaboration to enhance cybersecurity in the energy and industrial sectors using AI-powered edge solutions. The aim is to directly improve data collection, threat detection, and response capabilities at the edge of industrial and critical infrastructure networks.
Sovereign Cloud Explained
As enterprises increasingly migrate to the cloud, ensuring that data remains secure, private, and within legal jurisdictional boundaries is paramount. Sovereign cloud solutions have emerged as a pivotal technological innovation designed to address these complex requirements.
Amdocs Survey Says: Telecom Slow to Embrace Generative AI
Amdocs, one of the giants in the telecommunications industry, together with analytics company Analysys Mason, released the results of a global survey of communications service providers to understand how generative AI impacts those CSPs. The results were surprising.
While the IT industry rapidly embraces generative AI to understand and manage infrastructure, telecom is moving much more slowly. The Amdocs survey showed that less than a quarter of CSPs use GenAI today. The surprising statistic is that nearly half of the respondents haven’t even begun exploring the technology.
Nvidia And Dell Build An AI Factory Together
At last month’s Nvidia GTC conference, Dell Technologies unveiled the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia, a comprehensive set of enterprise AI solutions aimed at simplifying the adoption and integration of AI for businesses.
Dell also announced enhancements to its flagship PowerEdge XE9680 server, including options for liquid-cooling, which allows the server to deliver the full capabilities of Nvidia’s newly announced AI accelerators.
AWS And Nvidia Expand AI Relationship
At the Nvidia GTC event in San Jose, Nvidia and Amazon Web Services made a series of wide-ranging announcements that showed a broad and strategic collaboration to accelerate AI innovation and infrastructure capabilities globally.
The joint announcements included the introduction of Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPU-based Amazon EC2 instances, Nvidia DGX Cloud integration, and, most critically, a pivotal collaboration called Project Ceiba.
Google Cloud Transforming Healthcare With AI
At the recent HIMSS24 event in Orlando, Google Cloud unveiled a set of new solutions designed to enhance interoperability, establish a robust data foundation, and deploy generative AI tools within the healthcare and life sciences sectors, all of which promise to improve patient outcomes.
Quick Take: SPDX 3.0 Release
The SPDX community, in collaboration with the Linux Foundation, recently released SPDX 3.0, marking a significant milestone in the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) communication format.
SPDX 3.0 provides a comprehensive set of updates, including an overhauled model, specification, and license list and the addition of SPDX profiles designed to handle modern system use cases. This release improves the versatility and adaptability of the SBOM format.
What Microsoft’s FQ3 2024 Earnings Reveal About Azure
Microsoft announced its fiscal Q3 2024 results, demonstrating robust growth. The company reported a total revenue of $61.9 billion, a 17% increase year-over-year, primarily driven by the cloud segment.
Microsoft’s Cloud business, which includes Azure and other cloud properties such as LinkedIn, generated over $35 billion in revenue, up 23%. During its earnings call, Microsoft said that Azure’s expansion and the increasing demand for AI infrastructure propelled much of its growth.
What Alphabet Earnings Tell Us About Google Cloud
Google Cloud showed significant growth during the quarter, driven by the increasing demand for AI and cloud-based solutions. The business is positioned for continued growth, with a focus on infrastructure leadership, AI-driven innovations, and strong customer adoption.
Quick Take: Western Digital’s FQ3 2024 Earnings
Western Digital reported strong earnings for its third quarter of fiscal 2024, with revenue reaching $3.5 billion, a non-GAAP gross margin of 29.3%, and non-GAAP earnings per share at $0.63. WD exceeded consensus estimates.
Quick Take: Apple’s OpenELM Small Language Model
Apple this week unveiled its OpenELM, a set of small AI language models designed to run on local devices like smartphones rather than rely on cloud-based data centers. This reflects a growing trend toward smaller, more efficient AI models that can operate on consumer devices without significant computational resources.
Quick Take: Intel FQ1 2024 Earnings Results
Intel announced solid Q1 earnings, with revenue meeting expectations and EPS exceeding guidance. The company’s results reflect a disciplined approach to cost reduction and steady progress toward long-term goals.
Quick Take: Vultr Launches Global Inference Cloud
Vultr recently announced the launch of Vultr Cloud Inference, a new serverless platform aimed at transforming AI scalability and reach. The new solution facilitates AI model deployment and inference capabilities worldwide.
Quick Take: SAP’s New Business AI Capabilities
At the recent NVIDIA GTC event, SAP and NVIDIA announced an expanded partnership to enhance generative AI integration across SAP’s cloud solutions and applications. The collaboration focuses on developing SAP Business AI, which integrates scalable, business-specific generative AI capabilities within various SAP offerings, including SAP Datasphere, and SAP BTP.
Quick Take: NetApp’s Updates to Google Cloud Offering & GenAI Toolkit Reference
NetApp is expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud to enhance data utilization for generative AI and hybrid cloud workloads, introducing its Flex service level for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.
Additionally, NetApp previewed its GenAI toolkit reference architecture that facilitates retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform.
Quick Take: VAST Data’s Nvidia DPU-Based AI Cloud Architecture
VAST Data recently introduced a new AI cloud architecture based on Nvidia’s BlueField-3 DPU technology. The architecture is designed to improve performance, security, and efficiency for AI data services. The approach seeks to enhance data center operations and introduce a secure, zero-trust environment by integrating storage and database processing into AI servers.
Quick Take: Oracle GA’s Globally Distributed Autonomous Database
Oracle recently announced the general availability of its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database, marking a significant enhancement in its database technology.
Quick Take: NetApp’s Real-Time Ransomware Detection For ONTAP
NetApp announced new cyber-resiliency capabilities to help customers better protect against and recover from ransomware attacks. Integrating AI and ML into its enterprise primary storage solutions, NetApp offers real-time ransomware protection for primary and secondary data, regardless of whether it’s stored on-premises or in the cloud.
CrowdStrike’s Earnings Beat + Flow Acquisition
CrowdStrike released its fiscal Q4 2024 results, beating consensus on revenue and earnings while providing strong guidance for the coming year. The company also announced the acquisition of Flow, which offers unique capabilities for protecting data within cloud environments.
Quick Take: Google Axion Arm-based Processor
At its Google Cloud Next event, Google announced its new in-house designed Axion processor, a series of custom Arm-based CPUs explicitly designed for data center applications. These processors are part of Google’s continued investment in custom silicon to enhance its cloud computing services’ performance and energy efficiency.
Quick Take: Wasabi AiR Intelligent Media Storage
Wasabi AiR integrates artificial intelligence to transform how video content is stored, accessed, and utilized. The new offering combines the cost-effectiveness and high performance of Wasabi’s object storage with sophisticated AI capabilities, including automatic metadata tagging and multilingual searchable speech-to-text transcription.
Subscription Growth Fuels Pure Storage Earnings Beat
In its fiscal Q4 2024 earnings release, Pure Storage exceeded revenue and operating profit guidance, demonstrating strong financial performance and market demand for its products and services. The most interesting aspect of Pure’s earnings is the growth of its subscription-based business, now accounting for more than 40% of its total revenue.
Quick Take: Dell Technologies New 5G Solutions
Dell Technologies introduced several new offerings designed to simplify the deployment of advanced 5G solutions by communication service providers.
The new offerings center around the Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite, which automates the management and orchestration of a CSP’s network infrastructure. The new suite also sits at the center of Dell’s Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat update.
Quick Take: Hammerspace Hyperscale NAS For AI & HPC
Hammerspace unveiled its new high-performance NAS architecture, Hyperscale NAS, to cater to the growing demands of enterprise AI, machine learning, deep learning initiatives, and the increasing use of GPU computing both on-premises and in the cloud.
Quick Take: Lacework Expands Enterprise Capabilities
Cloud security company Lacework announced new platform capabilities to enhance efficiency for security stakeholders.
The enhancements include the introduction of Lacework Explorer, a combination of a security graph and resource explorer for better asset visibility and relationship analysis. New dashboards have been introduced to provide in-depth insights into the performance of security programs against set goals.
Quick Take: Datastax Acquires Langflow
DataStax announced the acquisition of Logspace, the company behind Langflow, a low-code tool for building applications based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Quick Take: Observe’s $115M Series B
Observe, a SaaS observability company focused on transforming the management and analysis of machine-generated data, has secured $115 million in Series B funding. The round closed with a valuation 10x of its Series A.
Quick Take: Microsoft & Quantiniuum Achieve Quantum Error Correction Breakthrough
Microsoft and Quantinuum announced an advancement in quantum computing that significantly reduces quantum error correction, a significant achievement that addresses one of the major hurdles in quantum computing.
Is NVIDIA Lagging in Lucrative Automotive Segment?
Nvidia’s most recent earnings release is a tremendous achievement for the company, with reported revenue of $22.1 billion, up an incredible 265% year-on-year. Earnings grew an equally unbelievable 765% year-on-year.
Its automotive revenue was $281 million.
Quick Take: Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Gains Data & AI Capabilities
Microsoft introduced new data and AI solutions in its Cloud for Sustainability at its recent AI for Sustainability event. The new offerings will assist organizations transitioning from sustainability pledges to tangible sustainability progress.
Quick Take: VAST Data and Supermicro Collaborate on Scalable AI Solution
Supermicro/VAST Data’s new solution provides innovative parallel architecture and unified global namespace ensure optimal GPU utilization, scalability, and smooth data access from edge to cloud, eliminating the usual trade-offs between performance and capacity.
Quick Take: Cisco Completes Splunk Acquisition
Cisco announced that it’s completed its acquisition of Splunk, positioning Cisco as one of the world’s largest software companies, with the resulting organization promising to bring a new level of visibility and insights across organizations’ entire digital landscapes.
Quick Take: CrowdStrike Acquires Flow Security
CrowdStrike announced its pending acquisition of Flow Security, a company specializing in cloud data security with an approach emphasizing runtime analysis for real-time data discovery, classification, risk detection, and policy enforcement.
The Breakthrough Verification of vRAN by SoftBank, NEC, and VMware
SoftBank Corp., NEC Corporation, and VMware (recently acquired by Broadcom Inc.) have jointly verified the virtualization of the Radio Access Network (RAN), demonstrating a significant step towards RAN modernization through the convergence of O-RAN architecture and Telco Cloud.
Quick Take: IBM & the GSMA’s Collaboration for GenAI Adoption in Telecom
The GSMA and IBM recently announced a significant new collaboration to promote the adoption and development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) skills within the telecom industry.
This partnership launches through two main initiatives: the GSMA Advance’s AI Training program and the GSMA Foundry Generative AI program.
Quick Take: Juniper Network’s AI-Native Networking Platform
Juniper Networks announced its AI-Native Networking Platform, designed to fully integrate AI into network operations to enhance experiences for users and operators. The platform, a first in the industry, is built to use AI to make network connections more reliable, secure, and measurable.
Quick Take: WEKA Brings Data Platform to NexGen Cloud
WekaIO is partnering with NexGen Cloud, the leading UK-based sustainable infrastructure-as-a-service provider, to establish a high-performance foundation for NexGen Cloud’s upcoming AI Supercloud. This Supercloud and NexGen Cloud’s Hyperstack GPU-as-a-Service platform will leverage WEKA’s technology.
Quick Take: Dynatrace Runecast Acquisition
Earlier this month, on the eve of its annual Perform customer conference, Dynatrace announced the definitive acquisition of Runecast, an AI-powered security and compliance solutions provider, including Cloud Security Posture Management.
Quick Take: Venafi ‘Stop Unauthorized Code’ Solution
Venafi has launched its new “Stop Unauthorized Code Solution,” designed to address the rising complexities inherent in software development security, specifically targeting unauthorized code and software supply chain attacks.
Quick Take: OpenText Cloud Edition 24.1
OpenText recently announced its OpenText Cloud Edition 24.1, bringing new generative AI capabilities to its OpenText Content Aviator, while also bringing new features targeting supply chain efficiency, improved business intelligence, security and governance, and even DevOps. There’s a lot in this release; let’s take a look.
Quick Take: AI-RAN Alliance launch at MWC Barcelona 2024
The AI-RAN Alliance is a collaborative initiative focused on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into cellular technologies to enhance radio access network (RAN) technology and mobile networks.
Quick Take: Clumio’s $75M Series D Round
Clumio, an emerging leader in the public cloud backup and recovery space, announced that it raised $75M in series D funding, showcasing strong investor confidence in its innovative cloud data management solutions.
Quick Take: Oracle’s OCI Generative AI Service
Oracle announced the general availability of its OCI Generative AI Service, along with several substantial enhancements to its data science and cloud offerings. Let’s take a look at what Oracle announced.
Quick Take: Dell’s PowerScale F210 and F710
Dell Technologies today announced the introduction of two new all-flash storage arrays, the PowerScale F210 and F710, as part of its commitment to delivering AI-optimized infrastructure. The PowerScale platform is designed to be AI-ready, offering exceptional performance, scalability, efficiency, federal-grade security, and multi-cloud agility.
Quick Take: IBM Acquisition of Advanced’s Application Modernization Division
IBM announced the pending acquisition of application modernization capabilities from Advanced, a strategic move by IBM to bolster its position in hybrid cloud and AI. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but is expected to close in the second quarter of 2024.
This acquisition will enhance IBM Consulting’s services in mainframe application and data modernization, marking a significant step in IBM’s ongoing commitment to supporting clients through their digital transformation journeys.
Quick Take: Tanium’s Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM)
Tanium, a leader in converged endpoint management, is bringing AEM into the mainstream, highlighting the technology as the future direction of its XEM platform at its recent Converge event.
Let’s look at AEM and how it might impact the cybersecurity market.
Observability’s Now Strategic for IT
Observability allows IT organizations to monitor and understand the internal states of systems by examining their outputs. Observability has transcended its origins in monitoring, evolving into a sophisticated discipline that leverages AI to provide deep insights and predictive capabilities; it’s become a strategic need for enterprise IT.
Quick Take: Microsoft & Vodafone’s Strategic Engagement
Vodafone and Microsoft announced a significant 10-year strategic partnership aimed at driving digital transformation for businesses and consumers across Europe and Africa, leveraging their combined strengths in technology and connectivity.
The collaboration will focus on enhancing Vodafone’s customer experience through Microsoft’s AI, expanding Vodafone’s managed IoT connectivity platform, developing new digital and financial services for SMEs, and revamping Vodafone’s global data center strategy.
After A Year: Checking in on IBM Ceph
It’s been about a year since IBM brought Red Hat’s OpenShift Data into the IBM Storage group. In that time, IBM has focused on addressing data challenges in AI scaling and the storage requirements to support the rapidly growing data, along with various formats and locations, within the modern hybrid-cloud enterprise.
Quick Take: HPE to Acquire Juniper Networks
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced its definitive agreement to acquire Juniper Networks, Inc., a leader in AI-native networks, for approximately $14 billion in an all-cash transaction. This is a premium of approximately 32% over Juniper’s closing stock price on the day the deal was announced.
Quick Take: Intel’s Big Automotive Play
At the CES show in Las Vegas, Intel outlined a bold strategy to expand its AI capabilities into the automotive sector. This includes an agreement to acquire Silicon Mobility, a company specializing in system-on-chips (SoCs) for EV energy management, marking a significant step in Intel’s pursuit of automotive market growth.
Quick Take: Databricks Acquires Einblick
Databricks recently acquired the team behind Einblick, a natural language data science notebook. The acquisition, for an undisclosed amount, is the latest in a series of strategic purchases by Databricks.
Quick Take: SentinelOne Acquires PingSafe, Expands Unified Security Offerings
SentinelOne, a leader in AI-driven security, announced its pending acquisition of PingSafe, an emergent player in the Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) space, for an undisclosed amount.
The acquisition will allow SentinelOne to extend its cloud workload and data security offerings with PingSafe’s CNAPP technology to offer an integrated platform for comprehensive coverage and automation across cloud environments.
Halcyon’s Latest Funding Shows Robust Cybersecurity Growth
Halcyon, an emerging player in the cybersecurity anti-ransomware sector, recently marked a significant milestone in its growth trajectory, securing an additional $40 million in a Series B funding round. This recent infusion of capital brings the company’s total funding to an impressive $84 million, following a $44 million Series A round last April.
Quick Take: Chronosphere Acquires Calyptia
Chronosphere, a cloud-native environment observability provider, recently announced the acquisition of Calyptia, a specialist in observability pipelines. This marks a significant expansion in Chronosphere’s capabilities.
Equinix Launches Fully Managed NVIDIA DGX AI
Equinix launched a fully managed private cloud service to facilitate enterprises’ acquisition and management of NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure. This service is aimed at helping businesses build and run custom generative AI models.
The Unexpected Impact of VMware Cost Reductions
While VMware’s new price reductions may seem positive on the surface, there are significant questions as to whether IT buyers are actually saving money, especially as clarity emerges on the details of VMware’s new bundling scheme and the operational limits it’s now placing on products like vSAN.
Quick Take: Intel’s New Emerald Rapids Processor
Intel unveiled its new Emerald Rapids processors, part of its 5th-Gen Xeon Scalable lineup. The new processors arrive with multiple features designed to enhance performance across workloads, including AI and HPC.
IBM Simplifies SW Development for Quantum Computing with New Tools
As the quantum computing landscape rapidly advances, IBM stands at the vanguard with innovative solutions designed to make quantum computing more practical and accessible. This is particularly evident in its innovations in developing quantum applications.
VMware Customers Cautious after Recent Broadcom Actions
Broadcom is moving quickly in undertaking several critical initiatives with VMware that, while likely beneficial to Broadcom shareholders over the long term, are causing uncertainty among many VMware customers.
VAST Data More Than Doubles Valuation to $9.1B in Latest Funding Round
VAST Data recently announced a $118 million in a Series E funding round, elevating its valuation to $9.1 billion post-money. The valuation is more than double that of VAST’s previous funding round.
SentinelOne Earnings Validates Strategy
SentinelOne released earnings for its most recent quarter that beat consensus estimates for the top and bottom line for the third consecutive quarter, showing a dramatic year-over-year increase in revenue, annual recurring revenue (ARR), and growth in gross margin.
IBM And Meta Launch an AI Alliance for Safe AI
Created by IBM and Meta, the AI Alliance is a testament to the belief that open and transparent innovation is crucial for harnessing AI advancements in a way that prioritizes safety, diversity, and widespread economic opportunity.
IBM Introduces New Quantum Computing Processors & Platforms
IBM recently announced significant advancements in both quantum processors and platforms for quantum computing at its Quantum Summit 2023.
In doing so, IBM highlighted several significant advancements in quantum computing, showcasing the company’s commitment to pushing the boundaries of this revolutionary technology.
Elastic Shows Robust Growth on the Back of GenAI & Cloud Expansion
Elastic demonstrated an impressive performance in its latest earnings release, handily beating consensus estimates for revenue and EPS, and even surprised Wall Street with its forecast. The earnings showed Elastic making significant strides across every segment of its business.
SentinelOne Expands Cybersecurity Capabilities, Positions for Growth
SentinelOne has consistently redefined its approach to encompass a comprehensive suite of cybersecurity services, ranging from endpoint to cloud to identity security, broadening its scope and addressing the multifaceted nature of cyber threats today.
WEKA Lights Up the Vegas Sphere for U2
Supplying the data infrastructure for something like U2’s show at the Sphere in Las Vegas is significant challenge.
This piece looks at how WEKA stepped up to meet the demanding challenges of one of the biggest bands in the world.
IBM Introduces watsonx.governance for AI Governance
IBM’s focus on enterprise-readiness continues with its announcement of watsonx.governance, designed to assist business in managing and governing AI models, will be generally available in early December.
Dell Partners with Hugging Face & Meta for Enterprise AI
Dell and Hugging Face are working together to aid enterprise adoption of AI by providing a platform where businesses can easily select, deploy, and fine-tune AI models for their specific use cases using Dell’s infrastructure.
Lacework’s new SCA & SAST Cyber-Security Capabilities
Cloud security provider Lacework recently announced the extension of its platform to include code security, enhancing its coverage of the full application lifecycle. The new features provide Lacework customers with comprehensive visibility throughout the application development process, helping to identify and address security issues before deployment.
Dynatrace’s Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering
Dynatrace recently announced its new Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering. Dynatrace built the new solution in response to the growing need for organizations to manage and monitor their Kubernetes-based containerized environments more efficiently.