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SodaGPT uses generative AI to ‘shift left’ on data quality testing

Tim Keary — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:00:27 +0000

Data quality testing platform Soda Data NV today announced the launch of SodaGPT, a data management platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help users define data quality expectations. SodaGPT uses generative AI’s natural language processing capabilities and SodaCL’s domain-specific language capabilities to translate natural language queries into data quality tests. “SodaGPT is the first generative […]

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HPE wants to turn supercomputing leadership into generative AI profits

Dave Vellante with Rob Strechay and Andy Thurai — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 03:07:09 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s recent announcement of an artificial intelligence cloud for large language models highlights a differentiated strategy that the company hopes will lead to sustained momentum in its high-performance computing business. Although we think HPE has some distinct advantages with respect to its supercomputing intellectual property, the public cloud players have a substantial […]

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Rethinking your college major in the age of AI

Joseph Hickman — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:19:14 +0000

I recently had a good friend call me with a dilemma and he asked me if I would talk to his son. His son was considering putting his third year in college on hold to pursue his computer animation career in Southern California. I got a call later that evening from my friend’s son and […]

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Uber’s real-time architecture represents the future of data apps: Meet the architects who built it

Dave Vellante with George Gilbert — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 18:27:36 +0000

Uber Technologies Inc. has one of the most amazing business models ever created. The company’s mission is underpinned by technology that helps people go anywhere and get anything — and the results have been stunning. In just over a decade, Uber has become a firm with more than $30 billion in annual revenue, an annual […]

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Databricks’ Data + AI Summit will focus on next-gen data infrastructure for AI and more

Rob Strechay — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 22:26:43 +0000

Our analysis and end-user discussions continue to demonstrate that a new modern data stack is emerging along with sophisticated data-oriented “personas,” such as data analysts and data scientists. Discussions with data professionals in leading organizations show that Databricks Inc. is heavily influencing these emergent personas. We believe Databricks is embarking on a mission to broaden […]

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Trend Micro launches GPT-based cybersecurity assistant for the copiloted security operations center

Tim Keary — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:00:58 +0000

Trend Micro Inc. today released Companion, a new generative artificial intelligence assistant based on GPT 3.5, to which security operations center teams can ask threat hunting questions. Companion integrates with the Trend Vision One XDR or extended detection and response platform. It can explain cross-layer event alerts, decode tracker scripts, create breach mitigation recommendations, email automations […]

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Snowflake Summit will reveal the future of data apps. Here’s our take.

Dave Vellante with George Gilbert — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 20:28:05 +0000

Our research and analysis point to a new modern data stack that is emerging where apps will be built from a coherent set of data elements that can be composed at scale. Demand for these apps will come from organizations that wish to create a digital twin of their business to represent people, places, things […]

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Report: Just 42% of US workers see generative AI as a threat

Tim Keary — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:00:56 +0000

Most white-collar works aren’t all that worried that adoption of generative artificial intelligence will hurt their job security in the foreseeable future. That’s one takeaway from a survey released today by KPMG LLP that polled 1,035 U.S. white-collar workers on the latest trends affecting the workforce. It found that 43% believe generative AI poses an immediate threat to […]

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Oracle’s ‘Starlink’ cloud strategy gets interesting

Tony Baer — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 23:52:24 +0000

A common narrative among cloud database providers is that they are winning lots of migrations from Oracle Corp. By conventional wisdom, Oracle’s market should be shriveling. Yet Oracle continues to show very strong growth numbers, with an organic annual constant dollar growth rate of 8%, including substantial increases from cloud databases. Furthermore, its Autonomous Database […]

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Red Sift starts using GPT-4 to pinpoint identities and phishing sites

Tim Keary — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:00:46 +0000

Cybersecurity firm Red Sift today launched Relevance Detection, the first GPT-4 powered asset discovery and classification solution for its OnDOMAIN hostname and certification monitoring platform. Relevance Detection uses OpenAI LP’s GPT-4 large language model to automatically discover and contextualize identities associated with DNS, WHOIS info and SSL certificates. It tells the user what identities are associated with […]

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Six technical security trends CISOs need to know in 2023

Richard Bartley — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 22:46:02 +0000

Organizations face countless potential cybersecurity threats as they pursue digital transformation and criminals evolve their attack techniques. Even the most well-funded enterprises cannot address every one of these threats. Responding effectively is about validating and prioritizing the risks that are most impactful for the business. Security and risk management leaders must refine their strategy to […]

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Blink Copilot shows how generative AI can supercharge cloud security operations

Tim Keary — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:00:08 +0000

No-code security automation platform Blink Ops today announced the launch of Blink Copilot, a generative artificial intelligence assistant designed to generate cloud security operations workflows on-demand. The solution, based on LLMs provided by Microsoft Corp., Google LLC’s Bard and OpenAI LP, has been trained on thousands of security workflows so that it can automatically generate no-code […]

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IBM doubles down on generative AI and hybrid cloud

Tony Baer — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:25:04 +0000

Returning to live in-person events, our overriding impression from IBM Corp.’s annual Think event a couple weeks back was that the company showed unusual discipline by confining the focus to a couple of core themes: generative AI and hybrid cloud. Given the hype around generative AI with the public preview of ChatGPT and the central […]

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CIOs’ relationship with AI is complicated, but they have hopes for a promising future

Paul Gillin and David Strom — Wed, 17 May 2023 18:07:14 +0000

Artificial intelligence — its value, risks and utility in enterprise scenarios — not surprisingly dominated the discussion at this week’s MIT CIO Symposium, one of the year’s biggest gatherings of senior information technology executives. Although the agenda revolved around tried-and-true topics such as digital transformation and the business value of IT, discussions invariably turned to […]

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Dear CEO: Your employees are already using AI to do their work. What’s your AI plan?

Joseph Hickman — Sun, 14 May 2023 23:54:10 +0000

Employees are already using AI tools such as ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and Midjourney to do some of their work. They are using it at work (on your network), on their phones and at home. Although AI is not yet fully integrated into every piece of software used within the workplace, one should be under no illusion that […]

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How technology service providers can raise their relevance in 2023

Mark McDonald — Sun, 14 May 2023 21:46:59 +0000

Economic challenges that include inflation and the looming possibility of a recession continue to create uncertainty in technology markets. Yet despite recent turbulence, a recent Gartner Inc. survey found that 72% of high-tech leaders have plans to grow revenue in 2023, and nearly half of those leaders believe they will be able to outperform their […]

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Searching for gold in enterprise AI

Dave Vellante with Andy Thurai — Sat, 13 May 2023 15:46:12 +0000

The artificial intelligence gold rush is on. The paths to monetization are seemingly endless but the most obvious converge on making humans more productive or supercharging existing business models such as search advertising or subscription licenses. Much of AI adoption in enterprise information technology is hidden. Our research shows a very high overlap (around 40% […]

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Isovalent’s Cilium Mesh bridges gap between Kubernetes and legacy workloads

Alice Gillin — Fri, 05 May 2023 21:03:00 +0000

Open-sourced platform Cilium was created by Isovalent Inc. to help address the rising security and networking challenges emerging as cloud-native environments, including Kubernetes, grow in scale and complexity. Recently, Isovalent introduced Cilium Service Mesh, which goes even further by enabling users to now connect workloads and systems across multiple clouds and on-premise locations. “This week […]

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Reflections on Kubecon + CloudNativeCon EU

Rob Strechay — Wed, 03 May 2023 00:25:34 +0000

In the run-up to Open Source Summit NA in Vancouver next week, I wanted to reflect on what happened a week ago in Amsterdam. A sold-out event with more than 10,500 people showed up in real life at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in the Netherlands. Of those, 58% had never been to a KubeCon themselves, including […]

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Innovation targets hard problems at RSA Conference

Jason Bloomberg — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:16:27 +0000

The RSA Conference 2023 is now in the books, hosting more than 40,000 attendees and hundreds of exhibitors at San Francisco’s Moscone Center and giving chief information security officers and other cybersecurity professionals a mind-numbing shopping list of must-have security gear. My mission: Narrow down the throngs of vendors to a handful of innovative standouts – […]

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Plenty of gas: Innovations continue apace at the first post-pandemic KubeCon

Jason Bloomberg — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:01:38 +0000

The first post-Covid KubeCon/CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam this week did not disappoint, as a sold-out crowd of more than 10,000 professionals turned up in person to learn about all things Kubernetes. The signs of maturity of this massive open-source ecosystem were everywhere. Some 58% of attendees were first-timers, illustrating the explosive interest in Kubernetes among […]

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API security playbook: What you need to do to protect your APIs

William Dupre — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 14:24:47 +0000

Application programming interfaces are modern application architecture solutions that enable digital business by improving connectivity and enabling composable architectures. They are used to support modern user experiences across web, mobile and other channels. They also support internal processes, customer and partner integration and automation. Growth of API deployments has exploded over the past decade, but […]

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Chief data and analytics officers must lead upskilling initiatives in data science and machine learning

Peter Krensky — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:30:29 +0000

As data scientist hiring continues to boom, many organizations report sustained difficulty finding, attracting and retaining data science talent. Even as initiatives to upskill quantitative professionals grow, machine learning literacy remains low in many organizations. Chief data and analytics officers, or CDAOs, must build development paths that support budding citizen data scientists with the right […]

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Databricks faces critical strategic decisions. Here’s why.

Dave Vellante with George Gilbert — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 17:59:48 +0000

When Apache Spark became a top-level project in 2014, and shortly thereafter burst onto the big data scene, it along with the public cloud disrupted the big data market. Databricks Inc. cleverly optimized its tech stack for Spark and took advantage of the cloud to deliver a managed service that has become a leading artificial intelligence […]

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Analysis: SAP starts weaving its own data fabric

Tony Baer — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:00:24 +0000

Almost any business, large or small, that uses technology typically has a strategic supplier that is, in effect, first among equals. It becomes the platform that drives choices for third-party applications, tools or databases. In small businesses, that strategic platform supplier is likely to be Microsoft Corp. or Apple Inc., with the choice of Google […]

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Four key revenue growth opportunities from enterprise 5G

Gaspar Valdivia — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 19:22:05 +0000

Competitive market dynamics are driving communication service providers or CSPs to build out 5G public cellular networks amidst a great deal of uncertainty on what incremental revenues that investment will drive for them. Although 5G has been the first cellular standard designed with business needs in mind from the start, its industry-specific use cases are […]

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The evolving role of the data engineer

Tony Baer — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:03:43 +0000

It’s always tempting to say that things were simple in the old days. But speak with any surviving COBOL or Fortran programmer, especially those who had to deal with punch cards or rotating drums, and the old days look anything but simple. Still, when it came to engineering roles, there was a fairly rudimentary breakdown: […]

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The big game is big business – for threat actors too

Mike Spanbauer — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:21:31 +0000

The numbers surrounding the National Football League’s Super Bowl LVII Sunday in Arizona are staggering. More than $150 million in bets will be placed, the host city will see upwards of $400 million in direct and indirect revenue surrounding the event day, 100 million pounds of chicken wings will be consumed and, of course, the […]

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Generative AI drives an explosion in compute: The looming need for sustainable AI

Sid Sheth — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 22:22:43 +0000

After years of preparation, 2022 highlighted the amazing potential for generative AI as models such as OpenAI LLC’s DALL-E and GPT-3 swept across the world. Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Google LLC have been training machine learning models for years, but the introduction of transformer-based large language models or LLMs that could “learn” created a […]

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OneSignal extends Series C funding round with strategic investment from ServiceNow

Mike Wheatley and Maria Deutscher — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:00:01 +0000

Customer engagement platform OneSignal Inc. said today it has closed on a new strategic investment from ServiceNow Ventures. The funding, whose amount was not revealed, extends its recently announced $50 million Series C round of funding. OneSignal is the creator of a customer engagement platform that enables mobile, web, email, SMS and in-app message push […]

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