Google LLC today announced new capabilities for customers to harness their data in the cloud for use with generative artificial intelligence. The additions include new tools from the company’s Google Cloud unit with BigQuery Studio into a single interface that simplifies data workflows. Data has become the golden standard for generative AI, and companies are ...

Recent earnings prints from Amazon.com Inc. and Snowflake Inc., along with new survey data, have provided additional context on top of the two events that Snowflake and Databricks Inc. each hosted last June. Specifically, we believe that the effects of cloud optimization are still being felt but are nearing the end of peak negative impact ...

The Federal Trade Commission continues to drag its feet on approving Broadcom Inc.’s acquisition of VMware Inc. Ironically, in our view, these delays only hurt the very competitive environment the FTC claims to be protecting. The artificial intelligence era is accelerating at a breakneck pace and the Big Three hyperscale cloud vendors already have a ...

Dating from 1955, SHARE was the first enterprise information technology user group back when mainframes were the only game in town. Today, 68 years later, SHARE is still going strong, as it transforms itself to support a new generation of mainframe professionals. The crowd at this week’s SHARE conference in New Orleans nevertheless had its ...

As the global talent shortage continues, chief information security officers have grown concerned about the continuing deficit of cybersecurity talent. To attract and retain talent amidst today’s talent shortage, cybersecurity leaders are shifting their focus to more formal human-centric talent management tactics. Gartner has identified a cybersecurity talent management framework that CISOs and information technology ...

The evolution of cloud-native applications has become a topic of great significance to enterprises. The transition toward these applications, their deployment strategies and the choices organizations make regarding modernization are key factors shaping the digital landscape in a recent discussion I had with Paul Nashawaty, principal analyst from Enterprise Strategy Group, a TechTarget company. Paul ...

The annual enterprise cybersecurity conference Black Hat exploded into Las Vegas this week, giving the Moscone-constrained RSA Conference earlier this year a run for its money. On the one hand, cybersecurity’s popularity is understandable. Bad actors continue to innovate, and threats continue to proliferate. The cybersecurity needs of organizations continue to multiply as a result. ...

Dynatrace Inc., known in the fields of unified observability and security, recently announced its new Security Analytics solution. Integrated within the Dynatrace platform, this solution is designed to enhance an organization’s defense against threats in hybrid and multicloud setups. The offering uses Davis AI, combining predictive and causal AI technologies, to provide security analysts with ...

Generative artificial intelligence has rapidly captured the imagination of millions, thanks to the way it uses a broad range of inputs to create new stories, code, images, music, video and more. For organizations seeking business value from this dynamic, it is the underlying process, not the eye-popping results, that raises the critical strategic consideration of ...

We have had data on the brain for the past few months. Building on the discussion of the brewing battle for data platform dominance, I thought it would be good to unpack what a data product is. We are basing this definition, which we will continue to evolve, on conversations we had with Shinji Kim, ...