Tag: Database and System Software
Executives from major cybersecurity vendors such as Palo Alto Networks and Proofpoint see the arrival of GenAI as a different story from prior technology shifts — with the need for having massive customer data being paramount. The history of technology shifts in recent decades has tended to center around scrappy upstarts, which burst onto the…
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For the week ending June 14, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including AWS, Mistral AI, Fortinet, Pax8 and Confluent. The Week Ending June 14 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Amazon Web Services for its plan to invest $230 million in AI startups, including…
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Google Cloud, Microsoft, Cube and Posit were among the most innovative vendors at Databricks Data+AI Summit 2024. Tech giants, startups and one company a Databricks co-founder dubbed “the coolest open source company” people haven’t heard of gathered this week for the open analytics platform provider’s annual Data+AI Summit. During the event, the San Francisco-based vendor…
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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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‘That’s what we’re attempting to do within our multi-cloud strategy. I think that’s what customers want. So I’m optimistic that’s the way the world will settle out. We’ll get rid of these fees for moving data from cloud to cloud,’ says Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on the company’s earnings call. Just prior to…
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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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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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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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