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AI as the next computing platform

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 ...
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What is a data product?

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, ...
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Equinix reports strong earnings amid growing demand for digital infrastructure

Equinix Inc., the supplier of data centers, continues to showcase robust performance and growth. The company’s second-quarter earnings report today reveals strong demand for digital infrastructure, bolstered by increasing adoption of artificial intelligence integration and what the company claims is a commitment to hybrid cloud architectures. This analysis will delve into Equinix’s second-quarter results, highlighting key figures ...
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Five best practices to capture AI value

Artificial intelligence has the potential to create substantial business value for organizations, but AI teams often find it challenging to realize and communicate these benefits. In fact, Gartner research has found that difficulty measuring AI value and a lack of understanding around AI benefits and uses are top barriers to its implementation. AI technologies are unique in that they can ...

API cyberattacks projected to jump nearly tenfold by 2030

New research from cloud-native application programming interface management firm Kong Inc. and an outside economist projects that API attacks will jump nearly 1,000% by 2030. The study, conducted by Kong analysts and Dr. Christopher Whaley, an associate professor at Brown University, studied attacks using APIs as entry points. It projects that the frequency of API ...

ChatGPT can write ransomware, but what about incident response plans?

In a relatively short amount of time, generative artificial intelligence platforms such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT have shown immense capabilities in how we can advance the way we use artificial intelligence in our everyday lives – from critical business functions to personal advice and recommendations. Whether developing SEO-friendly content, building marketing strategies, writing code or ...
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The brewing battle for data platform dominance

Given that data platforms have an estimated total addressable market in the tens of billions of dollars, it comes as no surprise that every vendor offering data-related solutions is striving to secure its share of this highly lucrative market. But the real question is: How do these different approaches compare? Today, on a new segment ...
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Enterprise-grade generative AI automation: Unpacking the hype, understanding the challenges

The recent news about generative artificial intelligence is creating a lot of justifiable excitement around the new possibilities for human-computer interaction. However, as with past AI and machine learning hype cycles, realizing material benefits will be elusive if generative AI is treated as a magic wand, particularly in the context of enterprise-grade automation. Although generative ...
SPECIAL REPORT: AI, CYBERSECURITY AND THE SUPERCLOUD

Cybersecurity in the AI age: The power, the promise, the peril

Just two months after OpenAI LLC released its ChatGPT large language model into an open beta test, researchers at WithSecure Corp. published a report demonstrating how the chatbot could be used to write convincing email messages that encouraged recipients to share corporate secrets, create tweets that hyped once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunities and even attack individuals through ...
BREAKING ANALYSIS

Connecting the dots on Snowflake’s Data Cloud ambitions

Over the past several months we’ve produced a number of in-depth analyses laying out our mental model for the future of data platforms. There are two core themes: 1) Data from people, places, things and activities in the real world drive applications, not people typing into a user interface; and 2) Informing and automating decisions means all ...