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WEKA Lights Up the Vegas Sphere for U2

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

IBM Launches $500M AI Venture Fund

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IBM this week unveiled a $500 million venture fund to invest in AI companies, ranging from early-stage startups to high-growth enterprises.

IBM Introduces its Storage Scale System 6000

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IBM recently introduced its Storage Scale System 6000. IBM’s cloud-scale global software-defined data platform addresses the escalating demands of data-intensive workloads and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

What Q3 Earnings Tell Us about Public Cloud

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The recent earnings reports from the top three public cloud providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google Cloud, shows that the overall public cloud market remains robust and is starting to show signs of increased growth after several quarters of shrinking growth.

Inside HashiCorp’s Multiple Announcements at HashiConf

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HashiCorp recently wrapped up its annual HashiConf event in San Francisco, where it talked to developers and investors alike. HashiCorp tells a good story, one that you should know. Let’s look at some of its recent innovations.

Lenovo Relentlessly Focused on AI at Tech World 2023

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Lenovo’s Global Tech World is underway in Austin this week where the company shows off the latest innovations from its wide range of product teams. Despite its expansive portfolio, the clear focus for Lenovo is on capturing mindshare around enterprise AI while also riding the wave propelling most of the growth in the IT industry.

IBM Acquires Manta, Bolsters Watson.x

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IBM announced the acquisition of Manta Software for an undisclosed amount. Manta is a leading data lineage platform that allows enterprises to understand their data better.

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud Gains Code-to-Cloud Intelligence

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Palo Alto Networks has unveiled the latest iteration of its leading Prisma Cloud offering, which it calls “Darwin.” The new Prisma Cloud release introduces tools and features that secure the entire application lifecycle, from the code’s inception to its deployment and runtime in the cloud.

ServiceNow Introduces Now Assist, Bringing GenAI to its Now Platform

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ServiceNow unveiled its new “Now Assist” family of solutions earlier this month as part of a major expansion of its powerful Now Platform, introducing new generative AI capabilities for IT Service Management, Customer Service Management, HR Service Delivery, and creators.

OpenText Releases Aviator AI Tools for Business & Technologists

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OpenText unveiled a broad expansion of its enterprise-class Aviator platform with new AI capabilities spanning business and technology needs. Aviator is OpenText’s AI platform, designed to enable organizations to leverage AI for various applications without moving their data.

Google Brings Vertex AI Search to Healthcare

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Google Cloud introduced enhancements to its Vertex AI Search tailored for healthcare and life sciences organizations. The solution enables the application of medical-tuned generative AI search on diverse data sources, including clinical data like FHIR data and clinical notes.

SailPoint Introduces Atlas Identity Management Platform

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SailPoint Technologies this week unveiled its new SailPoint Atlas platform, its new multi-tenant SaaS platform that serves as the foundation for the SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, offering a common set of services that simplify and accelerate identity security operations for modern enterprises.

Cloudian, AMD & Micron Boost Performance of Object Storage

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Cloudian, in partnership with AMD and Micron, recently demonstrated a significant breakthrough in object storage performance and energy efficiency, delivering extreme performance levels from Cloudian’s software-defined object storage solution.

Inside Pure Storage’s New Evergreen Offerings

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Pure announced that it would pay back its customers for the power and rack costs for its Evergreen//One Storage-as-a-Service.

The company also introduced new guarantees for its overall storage portfolio that make its storage easier to procure while increasing its longevity. The new options include flexible financing, enhanced resilience, and AI-powered service capabilities.

In Conversation: Infinidat CMO Eric Herzog on Strengthening Enterprise Storage

Enterprise storage is changing as IT organizations demand more flexible, more affordable, easier to use, cyber-resilient, and higher-performance storage solutions.

Infinidat CMO Eric Herzog and NAND Research Principal Analyst Steve McDowell delve into the evolving needs of enterprise storage, and how Infinidat’s recent innovations expand the options available to enterprise IT.

Dell Launces APEX Block Storage for Azure

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This week, Dell has launched its new APEX Block Storage for Azure, just days after it released its APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure.

Let’s look at what Dell is delivering.

Dell’s Validated Design for Generative AI + New Tools & Services

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Dell Technologies announced a significant expansion of its Generative AI Solutions portfolio to empower businesses embarking on their GenAI journeys. This expansion delivers advanced infrastructure, professional services, and a collaborative data solution to help organizations derive intelligence from their data securely and efficiently.

Dell Launches APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure

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Today Dell Technologies launched its APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure. This makes Dell the first partner in Microsoft’s Premier Solutions for Azure Stack HCI category, the latest in a long history of joint innovation between the two companies.

Let’s look at the new Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Azure.

Dell Launches APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure

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Dell Technologies today launched its APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure. This makes Dell the first partner in Microsoft’s Premier Solutions for Azure Stack HCI category, the latest in a long history of joint innovation between the two companies.

HPE Announces Top-Down Reorganization

In a move that includes multiple executive departures and reassignments, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is restructuring to accelerate its hybrid cloud sales offensive. CEO Antonio Neri announced the reorganization details in a public blog released today.

Cisco and Nutanix Embark on Strategic Relationship

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Cisco and Nutanix are collaborating to offer an integrated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) product line that combines Cisco’s SaaS-managed compute and networking solutions with Nutanix’s software-defined storage platform.

Google Cloud Introduces New Vertex AI Capabilities

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Google introduced its Vertex AI machine learning (ML) platform in 2021 to allow its customers to manage the entire ML lifecycle, from model development to deployment. Vertex AI combines data engineering, data science, and ML engineering workflows, enabling teams to collaborate using a common toolset and scale your application. Last week at Google’s Google Cloud […]

Qualcomm’s New Auto Platform, Partnership with AWS & Expanded Reach into Auto OEMs

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Qualcomm made a number of announcements at this week’s IAA Mobility Event in Munich. Let’s look at what the company said. News: AWS Cloud Innovation Partnership Qualcomm and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a strategic partnership to advance innovation in the automotive industry. Recognizing the growing significance of software-defined features, the explosion of data analytics, […]

Marvell Sees Momentum in Cloud, AI, and Automotive

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Last week, Marvell released its earnings for the second quarter of its fiscal 2024, demonstrating robust performance with $1.34 billion in top-line revenue. While that number was down year-over-year, it surpassed the midpoint of the company’s guidance. Insight: Growth in Cloud & AI Marvell’s data center business was a bright spot. Revenue from that business […]

Arm Enables Faster Silicon Development with Neoverse CSS N2

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At this week’s Hot Chips 2023 event, Arm unveiled its Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) offering, which promises to simplify and accelerate the adoption of Arm Neoverse technology into new solutions. It’s a powerful enabler that will reduce the friction of integrating Arm IP into new designs and accelerate the time-to-market for Arm’s partners. News: […]

Pure Storage Demonstrates the Sustainability of Flash in New ESG Report

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Pure Storage takes ESG seriously, making it not just a pillar of its messaging but a core part of the company’s values. Earlier this month Pure Storage released its annual ESG Report, detailing its progress on the environmental, social, and governance issues that most impact the company, its customers and its stakeholders. Insight: Pure’s Flash […]

Nutanix Introduces new Generative AI-in-a-Box

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Earlier this month, Nutanix announced its new GPT-in-a-Box™ solution, which promises to simplify the implementation of Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) capabilities. Nutanix’s solution aims to help organizations harness the power of AI while maintaining robust control over their data and applications. New: Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box Nutanix’s new GPT-in-a-Box brings together the elements necessary to deploy a […]

Sysdig Sees Continued Momentum In Cybersecurity

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Context While Sysdig emerged in the observability space over a decade ago, the company entered the security realm in 2017, bringing container security features into its observability tools. Its offering correlates logs with the security information it collects on container workloads to identify threats. The company has grown since adding a cloud security posture management […]

Qualcomm Grows Automotive Business With Cadillac Win

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This month, the momentum continues as Cadillac announces it’s putting Snapdragon Digital Chassis technology into its upcoming 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ, Cadillac’s first all-electric full-size SUV. The design win includes more than just Snapdragon Digital Cockpit. The new vehicle will consist of Snapdragon Auto Connectivity and Snapdragon Ride.  

VAST Data Unveils New VAST Data Platform

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The new VAST Data Platform extends VAST’s universal storage capabilities with new data access and analytics features. The VAST Data Platform combines the VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase, and VAST DataSpace. The company also teased the VAST DataEngine, coming sometime next year. Let’s look at each of these elements.

Lenovo Unveils New ThinkSystem Storage Offerings Targeted At AI And SMB

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Lenovo announced two new storage offerings that build on its overall infrastructure momentum. The new ThinkSystem DG series of enterprise storage arrays are designed to balance the needs of high-performance workloads, such as AI, with capacity-optimized performance. Lenovo’s new ThinkSystem DM3010H storage array brings the enterprise-level features of the ThinkSystem DM series to the SMB market.

Oracle Introduces MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse

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Oracle’s new MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse takes on the complexities of analyzing enterprise data outside the database, but as if that data were stored natively within the database.

Ampere’s Momentum Continues with New Oracle Database Support

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Oracle and Ampere Computing held an event today to talk about Ampere’s role at Oracle, in Oracle’s cloud business, and in support of Oracle’s enterprise Oracle Database.  Today’s announcement goes beyond Oracle Database simply gaining support for a new processor architecture. The news acknowledges Ampere’s credibility, will contribute to Ampere’s growing momentum, and will play […]

HPE Brings AI-as-a-Service to the Enterprise with Its GreenLake for LLMs

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has always taken a decidedly infrastructure-centric approach to delivering flexible consumption-based compute, storage, and networking to enterprise IT. HPE provides that flexibility through its popular HPE GreenLake offerings. Last week at its annual HPE Discover Event in Las Vegas, HPE introduced the first of what the company says will be many domain-specific […]

NVIDIA H100 Dominates New MLPerf v3.0 Benchmark Results

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To know how a system performs across a range of AI workloads, you look at its MLPerf benchmark numbers. AI is rapidly evolving, with generative AI workloads becoming increasingly prominent, and MLPerf is evolving with the industry. Its new MLPerf Training v3.0 benchmark suite introduces new tests for recommendation engines and large language model (LLM) […]

MongoDB Embraces AI & Reduces Developer Friction With New Features

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Servicing the quickly evolving needs of modern application development requires rapid innovation and fast product cycles. MongoDB demonstrated both last week at its MongoDB.local 2023 event in New York City, introducing a broad set of new features and services. The announcements cover a wide breadth of territory, with new capabilities to leverage the latest AI […]

Pure Storage Unveils New Market-Expanding Storage Products At Pure Accelerate

At Pure Accelerate, Pure Storage announced a new capacity-optimized scalable storage solution, new generations of its FlashArray storage products, new flash modules, and even new data resiliency SLAs in Evergreen//One. There’s a lot here that will make Pure’s customers happy. Its new capacity-optimized solutions should also give investors something to smile about. Replacing HDDs with Flash […]

Oracle Introduces new Exadata X10M for High-Performance OLTP Database

Oracle Corporation continues its cycle of redefining OLTP database performance with its purpose-built Exadata platforms. Last week the company continued the tradition, introducing its twelfth Exadata platform, the Oracle Exadata X10M database machine. The X10M is engineered to do only one thing: run Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Database faster and better than anything else […]

Elastic’s Elasticsearch Relevance Engine Enables Generative AI Search

Background The challenge for an enterprise wanting to harness the power of large language models (LLMs) is that a language model is only as capable as the data it’s trained on and understands. This hampers the ability to leverage the technology to solve real-world business problems. LLMs become infinitely more powerful when deeply integrated with […]

Scality ARTESCA 2.0 Object Storage Focuses On CyberSecurity And Enterprise Features

Background Scality is a company with the wind at its back. Chief Marketing Officer Paul Speciale recently told me that the company outgrew the overall storage market in 2022, increasing its business by about 20% year-on-year. A surprising amount of that business, nearly 40%, was from public sector business, while another 40% was from enterprise […]

The Innovative Cooling Approach Behind NVIDIA’s $5M COOLERCHIPS Grant

Background Cooling a data center was a challenge even before the current AI-driven boom in accelerated computing heated up. Servers run hot, with processor thermal designs reaching 500 watts by 2025. Add GPUs to the mix, some of which approach 700W today, and the problems of power consumption and heat dissipation begin to expand exponentially. […]

Infinidat Grows Its Momentum With New Cloud & Cyber-Resiliency Offerings

Background The storage market is the most competitive that I’ve ever seen. While enterprise sales cycles are unusually elongated, and the market is stuttering forward in fits-and-starts, innovation continues unabated. Nearly any solution currently offered by the top five storage vendors can be deployed without regret – there’s no dog in the bunch. As a […]

APEX Is The Center Of Dell’s Multi-Cloud Strategy

Background Nearly every OEM today offers some form of consumption-based infrastructure. Hewlett Packard Enterprise paved the way, and bet the company, on its HPE GreenLake offerings. Lenovo’s TruScale is another excellent option. The storage industry has also stepped up, with Pure Storage’s Evergreen offerings and NetApp’s Keystone each making industry-best storage solutions available as consumption-based […]

Cognizant Shows Growing Momentum In Health Sciences

Background Cognizant is a professional services company – that employs a workforce of over 350,000 associates. Cognizant makes its money, and furthers its reputation, helping other organizations achieve their digital transformation goals. It has a substantial presence in health sciences, communications, financial services, and automotive, to touch on just a few of its market segments. Cognizant […]

Inside the IBM FlashSystem Realtime Ransomware Detection

Background As the market for cybersecurity products explodes, we’re also beginning to see innovative approaches to detecting threats built into the infrastructure. A storage array, for example, should be able to detect data corruption. After all, storage is where your data lives. The challenge, however, is that a storage array often needs more context to […]

Nutanix’s Project Beacon Lights The Way To A Unified Hybrid Multi-Cloud Future

Background In the hybrid-cloud world, every infrastructure has a distinct way of managing workloads. Every cloud, even on-prem consumption-based offerings, forces a different control plane. Unfortunately, for all the flexibility that the cloud enables, that flexibility is offset by increased complexity. This is a problem facing nearly every enterprise IT shop. Nutanix’s Cloud Manager offering […]

NVIDIA Grows Momentum in Public Cloud

NVIDIA lives at the center of the AI revolution. Its GPUs are the most common, and most powerful. Beyond its hardware, NVIDIA is enabling the adoption of AI with software tools that span the gamut from edge inference to autonomous driving to medical imaging. The list truly is limitless.

NVIDIA Updates Data Center Platform Strategy at GTC 2023

It’s become clear that NVIDIA strives to own the entire platform for AI-infused analytics. The time is right, as accelerated AI is fueling a shift in how enterprises derive value from their data and how businesses operate and engage with their customers.

HPE Grows GreenLake with OpsRamp Acquisition

HPE has filled the gaps in its GreenLake offerings with an aggressive run of strategic acquisitions. Since announcing GreenLake in 2018, HPE has acquired nearly a dozen companies that directly contribute to GreenLake functionality. Today it added OpsRamp to that list.

VAST Data Reports Record Momentum in 2022

VAST is not a company that’s shy about its success or aspirations, and appears to have reasonable cause to brag. VAST Data told us this week that it more than doubled its business in 2022, exiting the year with its best quarter in company history.

Palo Alto Networks Earnings Show Growing Momentum

Background The most recent projections from Canalys show that the cybersecurity market is expected to grow by 13.2% in 2023, with total spending of up to $223.8B worldwide. Cybersecurity products make up $79.5B and are expected to grow by 13% this year. Palo Alto Networks benefits from the overall growth of the market. The company […]

The 2023 Enterprise Storage Agenda

2023 is going to be an exciting year in enterprise storage. Principal Analyst Steve McDowell walks us through his predictions for the storage industry over the coming calendar year.