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SPECIAL REPORT: AI AND THE CLOUD
Exclusive: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reveals AWS’ strategy for building the enterprise AI platform
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 ...
Fast-moving and disruptive: Top AWS technologist outlines vision for AI’s enterprise future
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 ...
Salesforce’s Heroku emerges as a valuable developer tool for AI app deployment
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 ...
Scaling up: At re:Invent, AWS focuses on enterprise AI with advances in Bedrock and launch of new models
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 ...
New tools for building and deploying enterprise AI agents
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 ...
Microsoft and Hitachi Vantara team up for full stack hybrid cloud solution
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 ...
Dell supports Microsoft Azure with focus on data security and simplified AI workloads
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 ...
DDN appliance upgrades boost GPU performance and capacity efficiency for AI processing
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 ...
Cloudbrink’s legal issues shine spotlight on growing field of reputation management
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 ...
At Web Summit, cloud and chip providers maneuver for market share while others fret about AI’s impact
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 ...