Research Note: IBM Boosts Oracle Consulting with Accelalpha Acquisition & Consulting Expansion
IBM recently announced its intent to acquire Accelalpha, a global provider of Oracle Cloud consulting services, as part of its strategy to expand its Oracle consulting expertise and enhance its broader consulting capabilities. Accelalpha’s specialized knowledge in supply chain, logistics, finance, and enterprise performance management bolsters IBM’s ability to help clients accelerate their digital transformations.
Quick Take: Confluent Acquires WarpStream
Confluent announced the acquisition of WarpStream, a Kafka-compatible streaming solution with a unique architecture. The acquisition adds a new cloud-native, bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) product to Confluent’s portfolio, complementing its existing offerings: Confluent Cloud, a fully managed, serverless platform, and Confluent Platform, a self-managed software solution.
Research Note: Lenovo & SentinelOne Collaborate on Endpoint Security
Lenovo and SentinelOne announced a multi-year collaboration to integrate AI-powered endpoint security into millions of Lenovo devices. The partnership will embed SentinelOne’s Singularity Platform and Purple AI into Lenovo’s new PC shipments, offering advanced autonomous protection against evolving cyber threats.
Research Note: Lenovo Introduces Range of New AI Services
Lenovo unveiled a new suite of services aimed at accelerating businesses’ AI transformation. These services include GPU resources on demand, AI-driven systems management, and advanced liquid cooling services.
Research Note: Dell and Red Hat Collaboration on APEX/OpenShift
Dell Technologies and Red Hat announced a deepening of their partnership. The companies will focus on the convergence of virtualization, containerization, and AI to simplify enterprise IT operations.
The collaboration integrates Red Hat’s OpenShift container orchestration platform into Dell’s APEX Cloud Platform, enabling virtual machines (VMs) and containerized applications to coexist within the same architecture.
Quick Take: Intel Gaudi 3 on IBM Cloud
IBM and Intel announced a partnership to integrate Intel’s Gaudi 3 AI accelerators into IBM Cloud, which will be available in early 2025. This collaboration aims to enhance the scalability and affordability of enterprise AI, focusing on performance, security, and energy efficiency. IBM Cloud will be the first cloud provider to offer Gaudi 3, which […]
Research Note: The Hammerspace Appliance
Hammerspace recently expanded its offerings by introducing a new line of appliances. Delivering Hammerspace’s data management technology as an appliance simplifies deployment and streamlines the process of purchasing and configuring its solutions.
Research Note: ServiceNow AI-rich ‘Xanadu’ Release
ServiceNow announced its most comprehensive AI innovations with the Xanadu release of its Now Platform. The new release introduces hundreds of new AI capabilities to increase customer agility, enhance productivity, and improve employee experiences. It also expands the Now Assist generative AI portfolio into critical enterprise functions, including Security Operations and Sourcing & Procurement Operations.
Quick Take: Rubrik Estimate-Beating Q2 Earnings
Rubrik reported impressive financial results for its Q2 FY2025, significantly outperforming key metrics and analyst expectations while raising its full-year guidance.
Research Note: IBM DS8000 Mainframe Storage
IBM introduced its tenth-generation DS8000 mainframe storage, designed to store more data and access it faster. The new lineup includes the DS8A10 entry-level product and the larger DS8A50, which succeed previous models like the DS8910F, DS8950F, and DS8980F.
Research Note: GenAI Enhancements to Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle recently introduced significant Generative AI enhancements to its Autonomous Database to simplify the development of AI-driven applications at enterprise scale. The enhancements leverage Oracle Database 23ai technology to empower organizations with tools that make integrating AI, streamlining data workflows easier, and modernizing application development.
Research Note: Oracle Database@Google Cloud
Oracle and Google announced Oracle Database@Google Cloud, offers Oracle Exadata Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on Google Cloud, enabling organizations to run mission-critical database workloads with improved performance, reduced latency, and streamlined management.
JFrog Introduces Comprehensive Runtime Security Solution & Nvidia Integration
Announced this week at its annual swampUp event, the new JFrog Runtime is a robust runtime security solution that offers end-to-end protection for applications throughout their lifecycle. Alongside this launch, JFrog also revealed a new product integration with NVIDIA, which will enable users to secure and manage AI models more effectively using NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure.
Research Note: Juniper Expands AIOps Portfolio
Juniper Networks expanded its AI-driven networking portfolio by introducing new Ops4AI initiatives. These solutions integrate AI-driven automation and optimization to enhance network performance, particularly focusing on the growing demands of AI workloads within data centers.
Research Note: Oracle Q1 FY2025 Earnings
Oracle’s fiscal Q1 2025 results beat Wall Street expectations, reporting $13.3 billion in total revenue, an 8% increase year-over-year. More impressively, its cloud revenue surged 22%, hitting $5.6 billion, a key driver of its overall growth. Oracle’s multi-cloud strategy, coupled with cutting-edge AI capabilities, has expanded its market reach and enhanced its profitability.
Research Note: Cerebras Inference Service
Cerebras Systems recently introduced Cerebras Inference, a high-performance AI inference service that delivers exceptional speed and affordability. The new service achieves 1,800 tokens per second for Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B model and 450 tokens per second for the 70B model, which Cerebras says makes it 20 times faster than NVIDIA GPU-based alternatives.
Research Note: HPE Aruba NDR
HPE Aruba has expanded its enterprise security portfolio by introducing a new Network Detection and Response (NDR) platform. The solution integrates AI-driven behavioral analytics to enhance threat detection, particularly focusing on the growing security challenges posed by IoT devices.
Research Note: HPE Q3 FY2024 Earnings
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) delivered a strong Q3 FY2024 earnings report, beating Wall Street estimates with its $7.7 billion in net revenue, up 10% year over year and exceeding guidance. The company saw growth across AI systems, hybrid cloud, and networking.
Research Note: NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints
NVIDIA launched its new NIM Agent Blueprints, a catalog of pre-trained, customizable AI workflows to help enterprise developers quickly build and deploy generative AI applications for critical use cases, such as customer service, drug discovery, and data extraction from PDFs.
Research Note: Dell Q2 FY2025 Data Center Earnings
Dell Technologies’ latest earnings report paints a picture of a company amid a transformative shift, fueled by increasing demand for AI-driven solutions. In its second quarter of fiscal 2025, Dell delivered strong revenue growth, underscored by the rapid expansion of its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) and a notable surge in AI server sales.
Quick Take: CrowdStrike Q2 FY2025 Earnings
CrowdStrike demonstrated remarkable resilience in its latest quarterly earnings report, overcoming significant challenges to deliver strong financial results that beat Wall Street estimates.
Quick Take: Nutanix Q4 FY 2024 Earnings
Nutanix reported its Q4 FY 2024 earnings, showing strong financial performance and strategic advancements and beating Wall Street estimates for both revenue and earnings. The company exceeded its financial targets, showcased innovation, and deepened partnerships, positioning itself as a critical player in the hybrid multi-cloud space.
Quick Take: NetApp Q1 FY’25 Earnings
NetApp reported strong financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2025. The company continues to demonstrate resilience and growth despite ongoing macroeconomic uncertainties, leveraging its innovative solutions in flash storage, cloud services, and AI to drive revenue growth and enhance market share.
Research Note: IBM Telum II & Spyre AI Accelerators
At the Hot Chips 2024 conference in Palo Alto, California, IBM unveiled the next generationj of enterprise AI solutions: the IBM Telum II processor and the IBM Spyre Accelerator. These new technologies should meet the demands of the AI era, providing enhanced performance, scalability, and AI capabilities. Both are expected to be available in 2025.
Research Note: VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9
Announced at its most recent VMware Discover event in Las Vegas, VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) is a significant evolution in private cloud technology. Designed to simplify operations, enhance security, and drive digital innovation, VCF 9 is a unified platform that merges public cloud environments’ agility with private cloud infrastructure’s control and security.
Research Note: AMD Acquires ZT Systems
AMD announced its strategic acquisition of ZT Systems, a specialty provider of AI and general-purpose compute infrastructure for major hyperscale companies, in a deal valued at $4.9 billion. The acquisition aligns with AMD’s AI strategy to enhance its capabilities in AI training and inferencing solutions for data centers.
Research Note: HPE Acquires Morpheus Data to Simplify GreenLake Management
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Morpheus Data, a company known for its innovative software in hybrid cloud management and platform operations. This acquisition is part of HPE’s broader strategy to simplify the complexity of IT environments by enhancing its HPE GreenLake cloud platform.
Research Note: Palo Alto Networks Q4 FY2024 Earnings
Palo Alto Networks recently announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2024. Delivering an estimate-beating $2.19 billion quarter, the company demonstrated robust financial performance, driven by strategic platformization efforts and significant advancements in its next-generation security offerings.
Research Note: Lenovo FQ1’2025 Earnings
Lenovo reported strong financial results for Q1 of its fiscal year 2025, driven by robust performance across its business segments, particularly by extreme growth in its data center-focused Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG).
Research Note: Dell & Nutanix Expand Relationship & Offerings
Dell Technologies and Nutanix recently announced a strategic expansion of their partnership aimed at capturing disillusioned VMware customers following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.
The updated partnership sees Dell offering Nutanix software on its PowerEdge servers and integrating Dell’s PowerFlex storage with the Nutanix Cloud Platform.
Research Note: Cisco FQ4 2024 Earnings
Cisco Systems reported its financial results for the fourth quarter (Q4) and full fiscal year 2024 (FY24), beating analyst expectations for both revenue and earnings.
Research Note: SiFive P870-D RISC-V Server CPU
The SiFive P870-D is a new cutting-edge RISC-V-based processor specifically designed for data center applications. As part of SiFive’s broader family of high-performance processors, the P870-D is engineered to meet the growing demands for compute density, power efficiency, and system resilience in modern infrastructure environments.
Cerabyte Expands to the USA with Innovative Data Storage Technology
Cerabyte, a start-up focused on advancing ceramic-based long-term archival storage solutions, announced its expansion into the United States with its unique, accessible permanent data storage technology.
IBM Algorithms Included in 1st NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
Two IBM-developed algorithms are now officially included in the world’s first post-quantum cryptography standards, published by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Quick Take: Quantum FQ1’2025 Earnings
Hard Disk Drive manufacturer Quantum announced its FQ1 2025 earnings, beating Wall Street estimates on earnings and missing slightly on revenue. The earnings reflect both the challenges and opportunities the company faces as it continues its strategic transformation.
Quick Take: Dynatrace FQ1 2025 Earnings
Dynatrace released its Q1 FY25 earnings report, showcasing a strong start to the fiscal year. The company’s performance highlights its resilience and leadership in the rapidly growing observability market.
Quick Take: Datadog Q2 2024 Earnings
Observability provider Datadog showed continued resilience and strategic focus in Q2 2024, delivering a solid financial performance and continuing its innovation and customer growth trajectory.
Research Note: Palantir Q2 2024 Earnings
Palantir Technologies delivered strong Q2 2024 earnings, underlining its position as a leader in enterprise AI solutions. The company’s strategic focus on moving from AI prototypes to full-scale production has driven significant growth and expanded its customer base.
Quick Take: CommVault FQ1 2025 Earnings
Commvault Systems delivered robust Q1 FY2025 earnings numbers, marked by significant growth in revenue and ARR, along with a strong emphasis on cyber resilience and cloud modernization. The company reported total revenue of $225 million, a 13% year-over-year increase, and an impressive 66% surge in SaaS ARR to $188 million.
Research Note: Ampere Computing Roadmap Updates
Ampere announced updates to its AmpereOne processor roadmap, highlighting its upcoming product AmpereOne Aurora processor. The company also offered pricing updates and other details about its overall roadmap.
Research Note: Qualcomm FQ3 2024 Earnings
In its fiscal third quarter, Qualcomm demonstrated strong financial performance, driven by its continued success in diversifying its business beyond mobile handsets into sectors like automotive, IoT, and PCs. With its focus on innovation, particularly in AI and advanced computing, Qualcomm is well-positioned to sustain its leadership across various industries.
Research Note: Western Digital FQ4 2024 Earnings
Western Digital Corporation (WDC) reported strong financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2024, highlighting robust performance across its product segments and strategic advancements in the storage market, mainly driven by AI data demands.
Research Report: Solving AI Data Pipeline Inefficiencies, the VAST Data Way
While AI is foundational to the next wave of digital transformation, traditional data and storage infrastructure -even many parallel file systems- isn’t prepared for the demands required to support today’s AI lifecycle, which places unprecedented demands on storage and data infrastructure.
Developing an effective data infrastructure for AI requires a holistic approach, considering data, database, processing, and storage as a unified entity. This is how VAST Data approaches the challenge.
Quick Take: Azure’s Impact on Microsoft FQ4 2024 Earnings
Microsoft closed its fiscal year with solid financial results, reporting a total annual revenue of more than $245 billion, a 15% year-over-year increase. Microsoft Cloud (which include Azure, LInkedIn, and Office 365) revenue surpassed $135 billion, growing 23% year-over-year.
Research Note: AMD Q2 2024 Data Center Earnings
AMD reported strong Q2 financial results, with total revenue reaching $5.8 billion, a 9% year-over-year increase. The Data Center segment, a key driver of this performance, achieved a record revenue of $2.8 billion, reflecting a 115% year-over-year growth.
Backgrounder: State of CXL
Compute Express Link (CXL) is a high-speed interconnect standard designed to enhance communication between CPUs, GPUs, memory, and other accelerators. It’s designed to address the growing needs for efficient data sharing and coherent memory access in data centers, HPC, and AI-driven workloads.
Research Brief: Oracle Exadata on Exascale Infrastructure
Oracle announced the general availability of the Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure, offering extreme performance, reliability, availability, and security for Oracle Database workloads. This new infrastructure is now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), catering to any workload size for all Oracle Database customers.
Research Note: onsemi EliteSIC M3e MOSFET
onsemi’s new EliteSiC M3e MOSFETs address the growing demands for more efficient, reliable, and cost-effective power solutions across various industries. The increasing global focus on mitigating climate change and transitioning to renewable energy sources necessitates significant advancements in power semiconductor technology. onsemi’s latest generation EliteSiC M3e MOSFETs are a major step forward.
Research Report: Impact of Storage Architecture on the AI Lifecycle
Traditional storage solutions, whether on-premises or in the cloud, often fail to meet the varying needs of each phase of the AI lifecycle. These legacy approaches are particularly ill-suited for the demands of distributed training, where keeping an expensive AI training cluster idle has a real economic impact on the enterprise.
Research Note: IBM Q2 2024 Earnings
IBM reported a robust second quarter, surpassing expectations across key financial metrics. The company continues to capitalize on its hybrid cloud and AI strategy, driving solid performance in software and infrastructure. However, consulting services experienced slower growth due to macroeconomic challenges.
Let OpenAI GPT-4o Mini Introduce Itself
We usually write our own content, using LLMs to help refine our research, but in honor of OpenAI releasing its new GPT-4o Mini language model just a day after Meta released its Llama 3.1, and on the same day Mistral releases its new Mistral Large 2, we’ll let GPT 4o Mini tell you about itself.
Research Note: Meta Llama 3.1
Meta recently released its new Llama 3.1 large language model, setting a new benchmark for open-source models. This latest iteration of the Llama series enhances AI capabilities while underscoring Meta’s continuing commitment to democratizing advanced technology. Along with the updated model, Meta also released a new suite of ethical AI tools.
Quick Take: Micron 9550, The Industry’s Fastest Data Center SSD
Micron today announced its new 9550 NVMe SSD, setting a new benchmark as the industry’s fastest data center SSD. The new SSD meets the stringent demands of modern data centers, particularly those supporting AI and other performance-sensitive workloads.
Research Note: NVIDIA AI Factory & NIM Inference Microservices
NVIDIA announced its new NVIDIA AI Foundry, a service designed to supercharge generative AI capabilities for enterprises using Meta’s just-released Llama 3.1 models, along with its new NIM Inference microservices.
The new offerings significantly advance the ability to customize and deploy AI models for domain-specific applications.
Research Note: NTT Data’s New AI Edge Platform
NTT Data unveiled its new Edge AI platform, which aims to accelerate IT/OT convergence by bringing AI processing to the edge. The fully managed solution enables real-time decisions, enhances operational efficiencies, and deploys secure AI applications across various industries, driving the adoption of advanced Industry 4.0 technologies.
Quick Take: SAP’s Strong Q2 Earnings
SAP SE delivered robust earnings and guidance largely in-line with analyst estimates for the second quarter of 2024, highlighted by strong cloud momentum and significant growth in key financial metrics.
Research Note: Mistral NeMo 12B Small Language Model
Mistral AI and NVIDIA launched Mistral NeMo 12B, a state-of-the-art language model for enterprise applications such as chatbots, multilingual tasks, coding, and summarization. The collaboration combines Mistral AI’s training data expertise with NVIDIA’s optimized hardware and software ecosystem, offering high performance across diverse applications.
Quick Take: OpenText Cloud Editions (CE) 24.3
OpenText announced the release of Cloud Editions (CE) 24.3, a significant updated integrating advanced information management, trusted cloud solutions, robust security measures, and AI.
Research Note: NetApp Updates Cloud Offerings
NetApp announced new capabilities designed for strategic cloud workloads, including GenAI and VMware, to help reduce the resources and risks for managing these workloads in hybrid multi-cloud environments.
Research Note: AWS Updates Bedrock
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a series of significant enhancements to its Bedrock platform aimed at bolstering the capabilities and reliability of generative AI applications. These enhancements focus on improved data connectivity, advanced safety features, and robust governance mechanisms.
Research Note: AMD Acquires Silo AI
AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire Silo AI, Europe’s largest private AI lab, for approximately $665 million in an all-cash transaction. This acquisition aligns with AMD’s strategy to deliver end-to-end AI solutions based on open standards, enhancing its partnership with the global AI ecosystem.
Quick Take: AWS Launches Graviton 4
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its Graviton4 processors, the fourth generation of its Arm-based custom processors. This new chip is touted as AWS’s most energy-efficient and high-performance solution for cloud workloads, marking a significant upgrade over its predecessor, Graviton3.
Quick Take: VAST Data Platform Achieves NVIDIA Partner Network Certification
VAST Data announced that its VAST Data Platform has been certified as a high-performance storage solution for NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partners. The certification highlights VAST’s position as a leading data platform provider for AI cloud infrastructure and enhances its collaboration with NVIDIA in building next-generation AI factories.
Research Note: Microsoft & IBM’s Expanded Cyber Security Alliance
Microsoft and IBM announced an enhanced collaboration to strengthen the cybersecurity capabilities of clients navigating hybrid cloud environments.
The partnership leverages IBM Consulting’s industry-leading cybersecurity services and Microsoft’s comprehensive security technology portfolio to provide advanced, integrated solutions for modern security operations and cloud identity management.
Research Note: Micron FQ3 2024 Earnings
Micron Technology delivered a strong performance in Q3 FY2024, significantly surpassing market expectations in several key areas. The company’s financial results reflect robust demand, strategic pricing, and technological advancements that position it well for future growth.
Research Note: Lenovo AI Updates
Lenovo recently introduced new enterprise AI solutions designed to simplify AI adoption. These include turnkey services, business-ready vertical solutions, and energy-efficient innovations to accelerate practical AI applications.
Oracle Releases APEX 24.1 Low-Code Development Platform
Oracle recently announced that its APEX 24.1 low-code development platform is now available for download. It is being rolled out globally across OCI APEX Application Development and Autonomous Database Cloud Service regions.
Quick Reference: Cyber Security Acronyms
The cybersecurity industry is filled with acronyms. For your reference (and ours!), we maintain the list of common acronyms. We hope you find it useful.
Research Brief: Oracle HeatWave GenAI
Oracle HeatWave GenAI is now generally available. The release features the industry’s first in-database large language models (LLMs), automated vector store, scale-out vector processing, and natural language conversations informed by unstructured content.
Research Note: Pure Storage Expands Platform @ Pure Accelerate
At its recent Pure Accelerate customer event, Pure unveiled a slew of new capabilities focused on bolstering Pure’s platform approach to enterprise storage. Pure delivers a comprehensive, flexible, high-performance platform tailored to modern “data first” enterprise needs.
In Conversation: Extending HCI to the Edge
I recently sat with Nutanix’s Greg White, Senior Director of Product Marketing, to understand the challenges of deploying resources, including AI, to the edge. Greg also talked in-depth about how hyper-converged architectures (HCI) can be leveraged to address many of these challenges.
Research Note: HPE OpsRamp Enhancements
Hewlett Packard Enterprises introduced several enhancements to its OpsRamp solution at its recent HPE Discover event in Las Vegas that bolster its autonomous IT operations vision.
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.
Research Note: NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE
At its HPE Discover event in Las Vegas, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NVIDIA announced a collaborative effort to accelerate the adoption of generative AI across enterprises.
The collaboration, branded as NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE, introduces a portfolio of co-developed AI solutions and joint go-to-market integrations to address the complexities and barriers of large-scale AI adoption.
Research Note: VAST Data/Cisco AI Collaboration
VAST Data and Cisco announced a new collaboration to deliver a robust, high-performance AI data infrastructure that integrates seamlessly with an Ethernet-based AI fabric designed to handle data at an exabyte scale. Each company brings specialized expertise to create a unified, high-performance AI data platform.
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.
Research Note: Fortinet Acquires Lacework
Fortinet, a converged networking and security market player, announced its definitive agreement to acquire Lacework, a data-driven cloud security company known for its AI-powered platform. This acquisition will bolster Fortinet’s already robust Security Fabric, delivering enhanced security solutions from code to cloud for its vast customer base.
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.
Research Note: AMD Computex MI325x & MI350 Accelerator Announcements
At the 2024 Computex event in Taiwan, AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed details about AMD’s upcoming MI350 and MI325X accelerators, follow-ons to its current MI300x products, highlighting significant advancements in AI performance and memory capacity. The new products are positioned as key components in AMD’s strategy to lead the AI accelerator market.
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.
Research Note: Red Hat Summit 2024 AI Announcements
At its recent Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced several new products and enhancements, many of which simplify or enable the use of AI within the enterprise. These include its new OpenShift AI, OpenShift LightSpeed enhancements, and a new RHEL AI release.
Research Note: UALink Alliance & Accelerator Interconnect Specification
UALink is a new open standard designed to rival NVIDIA’s proprietary NVLink technology. It facilitates high-speed, direct GPU-to-GPU communication crucial for scaling out complex computational tasks across multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) or accelerators within servers or computing pods.
Research Note: IBM InstructLab LLM Tool Kit
At IBM’s 2024 Think conference in Boston, IBM Research unveiled InstructLab, developed in collaboration with Red Hat, to address the inefficiencies of existing training approaches by enabling collaborative, cost-effective model customization.
Research Note: Nutanix FQ3 2024 Earnings
Nutanix reported impressive financial results for its fiscal Q3 2024 quarter, demonstrating significant growth and operational efficiency. The company surpassed its revenue expectations, achieving $525 million, a clear indicator of its robust execution and strategic advancements in the IT sector.
Research Note: Pure Storage FQ1 2025 Earnings
Pure Storage’s Q1 FY2025 earnings show a positive tone for the year, showcasing a remarkable return to double-digit revenue growth and solidifying its strategic position in the competitive data storage market. With an 18% year-over-year revenue increase, the company has demonstrated its ability to leverage emerging opportunities, particularly in AI-driven workloads and hyperscaler environments.
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.
Research Note: Ampere Computing 1H 2024 Roadmap Update
Ampere Computing released its annual roadmap update, outlining significant progress and strategic initiatives aimed at driving innovation in sustainable, power-efficient computing for cloud and AI applications.
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.
Research Note: Lenovo FQ4 2024 Earnings
Lenovo Group announced its fiscal Q4 and full-year results for fiscal year 2023/24, showing a significant resurgence with a near 10% year-on-year revenue growth to US$13.8 billion in the fourth quarter.
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.
Research Note: Dell PowerStore Prime
Dell Technologies announced its new PowerStore Prime solutions at the 2024 Dell Technologies World. PowerStore Prime combines cutting-edge all-flash storage technology with strategic business enhancements designed to address the rapidly evolving needs of modern enterprises.
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.