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CEOs confront AI challenges: Cisco event captures perils and opportunities

Mark Albertson — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:19:55 +0000

As a new year begins to unfold, the operative word surrounding the enterprise world’s adoption of artificial intelligence is uncertainty. This notable lack of confidence can be seen in survey results recently unveiled by Cisco Systems Inc., which found that only 13% of responding companies were fully ready to capture AI’s potential. And that’s down […]

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Transformation in billing: Metronome offers usage-based tech for the AI era

Mark Albertson — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:41:14 +0000

The story of Silicon Valley has been written by many engineers who got their start at a large tech firm, saw an opportunity to build something better, and started their own company to transform the way that business gets done. That’s the path followed by Metronome Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Scott Woody. Woody previously worked at […]

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Redefining enterprise storage: Dell’s PowerStore and the AI revolution

Mark Albertson — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:08:47 +0000

Product taglines can provide more than a catchy slogan, and the description of Dell Technologies Inc.’s PowerStore offers additional insight into the tech giant’s evolving enterprise storage and AI strategies. By providing a “smart choice for all-flash storage,” Dell is positioning PowerStore for AI innovation to leverage the efficiency and resilience that flash technology can […]

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Dell expands MDR portfolio to guard backup systems against attack

Mark Albertson — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:23:03 +0000

As cybercriminals learn how to attack backup infrastructure, it’s become even more important to have a process to detect intrusion and respond quickly. This escalation has led Dell Technologies Inc. to announce an expansion of its managed detection and response, or MDR service, which can manage and monitor Dell’s entire backup systems portfolio. “Think of […]

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Scaling up and scaling out: Dell and Nutanix team up to turbocharge the competitive hybrid cloud market

Mark Albertson — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:00:30 +0000

Global enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence has reshaped the technology landscape, and recent developments between Dell Technologies Inc. and Nutanix Inc. in the virtualization infrastructure market illustrate the transformation taking place. Virtualization infrastructure has become red hot as applications scale across on-premises, cloud and edge platforms. Strategic partnerships are critical for companies seeking to capture […]

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Silicon for the AI edge: Chipmakers in the spotlight at CES as hardware matters again

Mark Albertson — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 18:45:14 +0000

With more than 4,500 exhibiting companies and an expected 150,000 people gathered in Las Vegas this week for the CES consumer electronics show, it can be a supreme challenge to make news that will stand out amid the noise. Yet with artificial intelligence dominating the tech industry, including the consumer product world, Nvidia Corp. managed […]

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What to expect during the ‘Dell Bets Big on AI PCs’ event: Join theCUBE Jan. 6-8

Mark Albertson — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:10:11 +0000

Among the “Top Tech Predictions for 2024,” published by Dell Technologies Inc., was that AI PC innovation would continue to improve performance and provide users with a richer experience on the device. As the calendar page turns to 2025, artificial intelligence for the personal computer will again command attention, according to Dell’s 2025 predictions. Dell’s […]

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The ‘leather-jacket effect’: How the pace of AI innovation enabled Nvidia to reach the valuation pinnacle

Mark Albertson — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:17:53 +0000

In the most recent years since the pandemic, tech’s top players have held multiple in-person conferences in locations around the world. It seems as though Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Jensen Huang, clad in his signature black leather jacket, has made a personal appearance on the keynote stage at every one of them. The “leather-jacket effect” has […]

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They said it in 2024: From one reporter’s notebook, memorable quotes from SiliconANGLE’s coverage

Mark Albertson — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 06:29:03 +0000

The challenge for any reporter covering the enterprise technology world this year was keeping pace with the tidal wave of change engulfing the industry. Artificial intelligence has turbocharged a tech ecosystem that was already moving fast, and its impact could be felt in nearly every story of consequence during 2024. There was no shortage of […]

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Dawn of digital labor: Salesforce’s Marc Benioff envisions a multitrillion-dollar opportunity for AI agents

Mark Albertson — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:04:25 +0000

Following the highly publicized launch of Agentforce by Salesforce Inc. in September, the customer relationship management giant unveiled several enhancements for its AI offering today. During a presentation for media and analysts in San Francisco, company executives emphasized how an ability to build and customize generative artificial intelligence agents will transform workflows across the enterprise. […]

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Three insights you might have missed from AWS re:Invent

Mark Albertson — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:50:20 +0000

The AWS re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas last week provided several newsworthy announcements, including the cloud giant’s entry into the world of AI foundation models with the release of Amazon Nova, along with major enhancements for Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker and Q Developer. Yet beyond the announcement publicity generated was a clear statement from Amazon […]

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Second evolution: Dell’s PowerStore advances to meet today’s and future workloads for all-flash storage

Mark Albertson — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:30:45 +0000

Four years after unveiling PowerStore, Dell Technologies Inc. reshaped its storage offering in 2024 and revealed how all-flash technology has rapidly evolved to meet the needs of the modern enterprise. The company’s inclusion of quad-level cell, or QLC, as part of its latest release was just one example of how the storage industry is adapting […]

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Enhancements for SageMaker and Bedrock highlight AWS vision for integrated AI platform

Mark Albertson — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:53:44 +0000

Product announcements from Amazon Web Services Inc. this week highlighted the cloud giant’s interest in positioning itself at the center of the artificial intelligence conversation by offering a fully integrated AI platform. Key elements in that approach involve the firm’s SageMaker and Bedrock offerings. “We want AWS to be the best place for customers to […]

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Embracing ‘simplexity:’ Amazon CTO Werner Vogels offers key principles for managing the complex IT world

Mark Albertson — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:56:36 +0000

With 20 years of experience running one of the world’s largest distributed computer systems for online retail giant Amazon.com Inc., Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels knows a little bit about complexity. His message, delivered during a keynote address today, is that though complexity is inevitable in the computer world, it can also be managed to […]

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Exclusive: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reveals AWS’ strategy for building the enterprise AI platform

Mark Albertson — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:52:05 +0000

Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Andy Jassy made an unscheduled appearance at the AWS re:Invent cloud conference Tuesday to announce the company’s bid to reshape the world of artificial intelligence models. Today, in an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, Jassy doubled down on how important he views his company’s AI initiatives. “This is the biggest change since the […]

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Fast-moving and disruptive: Top AWS technologist outlines vision for AI’s enterprise future

Mark Albertson — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:42:41 +0000

The near-term future of enterprise AI will be model-driven, democratized, powered by agents, and under increasing pressure to control costs. These key trends were highlighted in today’s keynote presentation by Swami Sivasubramanian (pictured), vice president of AI and data at Amazon Web Services Inc., who spoke at the company’s annual re:Invent gathering in Las Vegas. His […]

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Salesforce’s Heroku emerges as a valuable developer tool for AI app deployment

Mark Albertson — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:37:39 +0000

As part of the Salesforce Inc. family of offerings, Heroku has become a useful tool for developers to build, run and operate applications entirely in the cloud. It has also emerged as an effective way to navigate the tricky process of AI app deployment at scale. “Heroku is well-known for taking things that are complicated […]

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Scaling up: At re:Invent, AWS focuses on enterprise AI with advances in Bedrock and launch of new models

Mark Albertson — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:42:58 +0000

The executive who helped turn spare computer capacity into the largest cloud business in the world returned to the keynote stage at AWS re:Invent today to announce Amazon.com Inc.’s bid to reshape the world of artificial intelligence models. Andy Jassy (pictured), who succeeded Jeff Bezos to became chief executive of retail giant Amazon in 2021 after previously […]

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New tools for building and deploying enterprise AI agents

Mark Albertson — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:27:22 +0000

Intelligent pieces of software, known as enterprise AI agents, that can perform specific tasks are emerging as a natural outcome of generative artificial intelligence. Salesforce Inc.’s MuleSoft recently announced a composability solution to help organizations build discrete AI services to facilitate this technology. MuleSoft and Salesforce are tackling the challenging computer science problem of converting an […]

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Microsoft and Hitachi Vantara team up for full stack hybrid cloud solution

Mark Albertson — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:54:07 +0000

Hitachi Vantara LLC is building on a collaboration with Microsoft Corp. announced last year to create an AI-ready full stack platform leveraging Azure for delivering a hybrid cloud solution. The agreement between the two companies launched Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for Azure Stack HCI, delivering enhanced cloud management across multiple environments encompassing data centers and […]

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Dell supports Microsoft Azure with focus on data security and simplified AI workloads

Mark Albertson — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:22:51 +0000

The announcement from Dell Technologies Inc. this week that it would introduce new products and services for Microsoft Corp. compute platforms points towards continued enterprise customer interest in data protection, resilience and security. It also highlights customer interest in simplifying deployment of AI workloads in multicloud environments such as Microsoft Azure. “Listening to customer feedback […]

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DDN appliance upgrades boost GPU performance and capacity efficiency for AI processing

Mark Albertson — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:54:44 +0000

With the launch this week of upgrades for its data intelligence platform, DataDirect Networks Inc. has signaled its intent to bring significant scalability and GPU performance to the infrastructure necessary for processing AI workloads. The company’s deep integration with Nvidia Corp. GPUs and the introduction of its next generation A³I data platform are designed to […]

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Cloudbrink’s legal issues shine spotlight on growing field of reputation management

Mark Albertson — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 21:05:07 +0000

The ongoing legal saga surrounding Cloudbrink Inc. involves allegations of fraudulent conduct that have drawn attention from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice — and in the midst of this turmoil, the company has pursued a strategy to elevate its online reputation and burnish the image of Chief Executive Prakash Mana. SiliconANGLE […]

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At Web Summit, cloud and chip providers maneuver for market share while others fret about AI’s impact

Mark Albertson — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:58:12 +0000

The rocket-powered growth of global adoption of artificial intelligence is accompanied by a paradox: Although the technology has generated tremendous optimism for its potential to positively transform whole sectors of society, AI has also triggered alarm bells over damage to trust and governance. Even a top executive for Microsoft Corp., which has as much invested […]

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Iceberg and Trino highlight enterprise demand for cross-platform data lake functionality

Mark Albertson — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:08:18 +0000

An iceberg is a piece of ice broken off from a glacier that floats freely in open water, and this definition also provides an appropriate name for the database table format project Iceberg. Open-source Apache Iceberg provides full database functionality on top of cloud object stores. It exemplifies how the separation of storage from compute […]

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What do multimodal AI and smaller language models mean for enterprises?

Mark Albertson — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:30:16 +0000

People have learned about the world through multiple inputs, so it makes sense that as communication between humans and machines continues to advance, it will also be multimodal. In the rapidly changing field of multimodal AI, systems can process multiple data inputs to provide insight or make predictions by training with and using video, audio, […]

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Cloudbrink co-founder’s lawsuit draws attention of the SEC and DOJ

Mark Albertson — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:44:00 +0000

A lawsuit filed in November of last year by the co-founder of Cloudbrink Inc. against his former company has attracted the scrutiny of two federal enforcement agencies, SiliconANGLE has learned. Individuals close to the matter have been interviewed by investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice, according to sources familiar […]

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Three insights you might have missed from the ‘Smarter Storage for Tomorrow’s Opportunities’ event

Mark Albertson — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:58:48 +0000

With its latest enhancements for PowerStore, Dell Technologies Inc. has been focused on smarter storage and integrating the IT stack, with a product portfolio that addresses enterprise needs for performance, efficiency, resiliency and multicloud data mobility. At the center of the Dell conversation has been AI and its impact on IT infrastructure design. As AI becomes more […]

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PowerScale and SuperPOD: Dell and Nvidia certification spotlights growing role for storage and Ethernet in AI deployment

Mark Albertson — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:05:35 +0000

Artificial intelligence is driving a new era of innovation, and the role of Ethernet AI architecture in supporting scalable, high-performance systems is becoming increasingly vital. Dell Technologies Inc.’s recent certification of its PowerScale portfolio for Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD is more than just an industry move — it highlights key advancements in AI infrastructure that are transforming […]

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Spotlight: How Dell and Nutanix are redefining enterprise computing in the hybrid cloud era

Mark Albertson — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:40:59 +0000

As the demand for hybrid cloud solutions surges, organizations are seeking more adaptable infrastructure that balances on-premises and cloud capabilities. Industry leaders are responding to this shift with collaborations that bring together complementary strengths in computing and storage to meet evolving needs in flexibility and scalability. Dell Technologies Inc. and Nutanix Inc., for instance, are […]

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