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AI, APIs and automation: Boomi builds for the future of the data integration market
It took a leap of faith to believe that a small software company founded over a Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, pizza shop in 2000 would one day be acquired by one of the world’s tech giants and become a central player in data integration. Yet this is exactly how the narrative has played out for Boomi. Having ...
The escalating battle for data protection in a hybrid world: Exploring key data protection trends
The data protection risk environment could be easily represented by an arrow pointing up. Up as in 90% of organizations have experienced some form of disruption in the past 12 months, and the average cost of a cyberattack has more than doubled, from 2022 to 2023. These are just two data points provided by Dell Technologies ...
Explosive AI growth: Threat report from Zscaler finds expanding risk for enterprises
Zscaler Inc. has released its inaugural “ThreatLabz 2024 AI Security Report,” and the results document explosive growth in artificial intelligence, a concurrent rise in blocked AI traffic and a growing threat landscape as bad actors increasingly leverage the technology. The report drew from over 18 billion transactions in the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange between April ...
Fabric platform highlights collaboration between Microsoft and SAS in building an open data solution
Microsoft Corp. raised the game for artificial intelligence developers in November with updates to its Azure cloud computing platform that included Fabric, a platform for integrating vital data assets with AI operations. In partnership with Microsoft, SAS Institute Inc. brought Decision Builder, a cloud-based intelligent decisioning solution, to Fabric as a unified analytics solution that ...
SAS Institute expands AWS partnership to support cloud managed services and Viya Workbench
Data analytics provider SAS Institute Inc. made two major announcements with Amazon Web Services Inc. on Thursday. The company expanded its SAS-hosted Managed Services to the AWS platform, and announced that SAS Viya Workbench, a new dedicated offering for artificial intelligence development within SAS Viya, would launch in the second quarter in the AWS Marketplace. The ...
Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Google Cloud Next
Google LLC might be in third place for cloud market share behind Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp., but artificial intelligence could allow Google Cloud to narrow that gap quickly. This was one of the takeaways from Google Cloud Next 2024 as theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, interviewed company executives, partners and industry analysts ...
National AI Advisory Committee seeks to head off disruption as use of AI expands
Members of the National AI Advisory Committee are tasked with advising the president of the United States on competitiveness, the state of science and workforce issues surrounding artificial intelligence. When 27 members were appointed to the committee in 2022, artificial intelligence had not yet become the economic and cultural juggernaut that it is today. The ...
From data custodians to AI innovators: The evolution of digital marketing
Analytics software provider SAS Institute Inc. is working with its customer base to navigate a new marketing world where the rise of generative artificial intelligence has created a whirlwind of change, while some elements remain unaffected. “I describe it as a tornado of change, but the constant is still the same,” said Mike Blanchard (pictured, ...
Persistent Systems and Neo4j collaborate on knowledge graph initiatives for AI
The rise of generative artificial intelligence has sparked renewed interest in knowledge graphs, and this has become a major opportunity for Persistent Systems Ltd. and Neo4j Inc. Knowledge graphs use graph-structured data models to describe entities and their relationships, an important factor in enabling large language models to provide the correct level of insight in ...
Gemini Code Assist draws developer interest in Google Cloud’s expanding AI role
One of the key takeaways from Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas last week was that developers will have a major say in which companies get to shape the future direction of artificial intelligence. This was noted by SiliconANGLE co-founder and research analyst John Furrier on theCUBE Pod following last year’s Google Cloud Next gathering, ...