Tag: Cloud Software

While Splunk-Cisco product integration was big news at this week’s .conf24 event, Splunk also debuted new products around AI, next-generation Security Operations Centers and data management. Splunk has unveiled a series of AI tools and assistants across its product portfolio that the company said are designed to help organizations speed up routine tasks, glean new…

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The report scores the world’s top 10 AI foundation models for language, including Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Amazon Bedrock, IBM Granite and OpenAI GPT-4. Forrester has reviewed, scored and ranked the world’s top AI foundation models for language—from Amazon Bedrock and Google Gemini to OpenAI GPT-4 and Anthropic Claude. AI startups like Cohere and Mistral…

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At Splunk .conf24, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Go-to-Market President Gary Steele spoke to Splunk customers about the benefits of integrating the companies’ security and observability products and highlighted the opportunities those combinations will create for partners. Cisco Systems and Splunk executives are putting on a full-court press at Splunk .conf24 this week to tout…

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Upgrades to Databricks’ Mosaic AI, a deeper collaboration with Nvidia and the open-sourcing of Unity Catalog are among the biggest updates from Summit 2024. Upgrades to Databricks’ Mosaic AI unified tooling product for artificial intelligence and machine learning. A deeper collaboration with Nvidia. And the open-sourcing of Unity Catalog. These are some of the biggest…

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With the new “Build with Confluent” program, the company looks to help systems integrators develop use-case solutions around the Confluent data streaming platform and market those solutions to potential customers. Expanding on its recent initiatives to work with the channel, Confluent today launched the Build with Confluent program through which the company is providing technical…

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‘This new round puts us in a unique position to push the frontier of AI and bring state-of-the-art technology to everyone’s hands,’ says Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch. Microsoft-backed startup Mistral AI has raised $643 million in a new funding round, which increased the company’s valuation to $6 billion. Arthur Mensch, CEO and co-founder of…

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Venture capital continues to flow to startups developing artificial intelligence and generative AI technology. Here’s a look at 10 companies that successfully raised new funding in May. Follow The Money The venture capital space continues to show signs of exiting the slump it has been in since early 2022. But while startups in such technology…

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‘We have developed this marketplace with one goal in mind, your success,’ says Libby McIlhany, chief product officer for Pax8. ‘We’re giving you the keys to the kingdom of easy-to-use tools and AI insights designed to save you time and accelerate the growth of your business.’ Pax8 has unveiled the next generation of its revamped…

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Gary Steele, who serves as Splunk general manager in addition to his Cisco post, says in an interview with CRN that a major focus for him is not allowing the nitty-gritty of the ongoing Cisco-Splunk integration to disrupt Splunk’s track record of innovation. In mid-March Cisco Systems completed its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk in…

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‘Belcan’s deep engineering capabilities and domain expertise across the aerospace and defense market will be complemented by Cognizant’s scale and own multidecade digital engineering expertise, providing Belcan’s blue-chip client roster access to our advanced AI, cloud and data technologies,’ says Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar. Solution provider powerhouse Cognizant is acquiring engineering services specialist Belcan for…

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