Ryan Stevens

Ryan is a senior writer covering live events with theCUBE. After an extensive academic career in engineering, he worked with dozens of tech startups developing new software and hardware products. He has also contributed to the content and documentation needs of companies such as Q4 Inc., PivIT Global and others.

Latest from Ryan Stevens

Same model, better answer: Enterprise data is what turns generic AI into a business tool

AI By RYAN STEVENS2 DAYS AGO

Generic AI models can write SQL, but they don’t know a company’s orders, customers or revenue definitions. Now, Oracle Database aims to give AI agents the context to move a stalled order forward. But that shift raises questions about complexity, lock-in and …

Oracle rethinks the lakehouse as AI agents become data consumers

AI By RYAN STEVENS3 DAYS AGO

A shared semantic layer is fast becoming the dividing line between lakehouses built for reporting and those built for artificial intelligence. As AI agents join human analysts in querying corporate data, enterprises need platforms that make sense of information scattered across clouds, …

University AI’s biggest challenge? Scaling research without losing control

SECURITY By RYAN STEVENS3 DAYS AGO

The push for sovereign AI is reaching university research labs, where control over data, models and compute now shapes what science gets done. Universities sit at an unusual crossroads in the current technological shift, as their work spans open education and tightly …

Enterprises bring AI to their data as privacy rules tighten and costs climb

AI By RYAN STEVENS5 DAYS AGO

Every enterprise AI strategy eventually comes down to the same question: Should proprietary data travel to the model, or should the model come to the data? As privacy rules tighten and geopolitical risk rises, more organizations are choosing the second option. That …

Project-by-project security reviews can’t keep pace with enterprise AI agents

SECURITY By RYAN STEVENS6 DAYS AGO

Enterprises racing to put AI agents into production are finding that tokenization and other data protection methods now decide how fast those projects move. But sensitive data fed into models is hard to pull back — and security reviews built for a …

Agent demand can’t be forecast, meaning the database has to be ready for anything

BIG DATA By RYAN STEVENS6 DAYS AGO

Enterprises building an agentic AI architecture are learning that the database matters as much as the model. AI agents fire off thousands of unplanned queries at once — and expect answers in milliseconds. PhoenixAI, the trade name of CelerData Inc., raised $80 …

Beyond the books: Real-time data is driving a small-business lending surge

AI By RYAN STEVENS1 WEEK AGO

Small businesses have long treated cash flow management as an afterthought, tallying expenses after the money is gone. Now, financial platforms are folding payments, payroll, credit and lending into one system that can see money moving both ways — and predict where …

The race to deploy AI agents finds a familiar hurdle in data access

AI By RYAN STEVENS1 WEEK AGO

Enterprises racing to put AI agents into production are discovering that role-based access control, not model choice, decides whether those agents can be trusted. Rising inference costs, privacy worries and sovereignty demands are also pulling more AI workloads back inside corporate data …

AI’s production push puts data platforms on the hook for results

AI By RYAN STEVENS1 WEEK AGO

Enterprise data platforms must turn AI pilots into measurable business returns while overcoming the data access, sovereignty and cost barriers that stand between experimentation and production. The conversation is shifting from what AI can do to how companies make it pay off. …

AI agents cut critical research time for humanitarian teams in conflict zones

AI By RYAN STEVENS1 WEEK AGO

Humanitarian groups working in conflict zones are finding that agentic AI can shorten the research cycle between a crisis and an informed response. Cloudera Inc. has built its AI strategy around deployment flexibility, and one nonprofit partner is testing that approach on …

Ryan Stevens

Latest from Ryan Stevens

University AI’s biggest challenge? Scaling research without losing control

Enterprises bring AI to their data as privacy rules tighten and costs climb

Project-by-project security reviews can’t keep pace with enterprise AI agents

Agent demand can’t be forecast, meaning the database has to be ready for anything

Beyond the books: Real-time data is driving a small-business lending surge

The race to deploy AI agents finds a familiar hurdle in data access

AI’s production push puts data platforms on the hook for results

AI agents cut critical research time for humanitarian teams in conflict zones

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