Snowflake Inc.’s Data Cloud Summit 2024 was a weeklong event that brought together more than 20,000 of Snowflake’s core enterprise customers, developers and ecosystem partners to San Francisco this past week. The event highlighted the expanding aspirations of the company as it evolves its Data Cloud into an AI Data Cloud and a platform for developing intelligent ...

Forgetting the fact that it took 30 years for Nvidia Corp. to become an overnight success, its incredible rise over the recent past looks like it has the makings of a bubble. About 15 years ago, the company made a riverboat gamble to pivot from gaming toward high-performance computing and artificial intelligence, and the numbers ...

Snowflake Inc. is at a crossroads. The company, which defined the modern data platform, now faces fresh challenges on four fronts. Specifically, Snowflake must: 1) advance its data cloud vision; 2) transform into an artificial intelligence leader; 3) become a platform for data apps; and 4) address external market forces that pressure its core values ...

Public cloud adoption is now the rule instead of the exception. In fact, Gartner has found that 94% of organizations agree that public cloud is a crucial part of their digital business initiatives. Though this trend toward cloud migration has many benefits, it also presents a significant disruption to cybersecurity functions. Almost every aspect of ...

We believe the artificial intelligence wave will bring profound changes, not only to the technology industry but to society as a whole. These changes will perhaps be as significant to the world as the agricultural and industrial revolutions, both of which had drastic economic consequences. Although the exact progression and timing of these changes are ...

The way to solve business resiliency is not inventory, it’s software – Duncan Angove, CEO of Blue Yonder The “sixth data platform,” or intelligent data platform, represents a cutting-edge evolution in data management. It aims to support intelligent applications through a sophisticated system that builds on a foundation of a cloud data platform. This foundation ...

The majority of modern user interface design relies on the reuse and assembly of proven UI design patterns. Software engineering leaders must evaluate and select from platform-based, open-source and in-house design systems to build the best digital products in the least amount of time. They can use the following three best practices to build better products ...

The journey to AI-integrated metadata systems As theCUBE Research has been tracking, the transformation of data management systems has been gradual yet profound. Over the past decade, organizations have increasingly recognized the value of separating computational power from data storage, leading to more centralized data consolidation and management. Informatica Inc., a data integration and management ...

Last year, the RSA Conference was dominated by the conversation around artificial intelligence and machine learning. Just months after the initial release of ChatGPT, virtually every vendor took the opportunity to tell visitors about how its platform or tool is powered by AI/ML engines, but few of those visitors were able to verify those claims ...

Organizations continue to spend more on security, with 87% of firms expecting to increase spend on cybersecurity in the next 12 months. But are we safer? It’s estimated that firms on average have between 60 and 75 security tools installed. Although leading vendors logically market the benefits of addressing tools sprawl and complexity through consolidation, ...