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

RelationalAI weighs in on how it’s using Snowflake Marketplace for native app monetization

Cloud players have made it abundantly clear: Ecosystems are important, but so are marketplaces. At Data Cloud Summit, one of the prominent companies using the Snowflake Marketplace is RelationalAI Inc. At the event, details were unveiled about how RelationalAI is building on its relationship with Snowflake Inc., with the public launch of its Snowflake Native ...

On theCUBE Pod: The great Iceberg debate and more from Snowflake’s Data Cloud Summit

It’s hard to create standards across all compute engines from a governance and catalog standpoint. This is what theCUBE Research Chief Analyst Dave Vellante calls a “convenient truth.” Snowflake Inc.’s strategy to open-source Polaris Catalog was one of the subjects of conversation on the latest episode of theCUBE Podcast, recorded during Snowflake’s Data Cloud Summit. “They’re open-sourcing Polaris, which is ...

Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Qlik Connect

Comprehensive data solutions are becoming increasingly important as generative AI adoption grows. There is a broader platform shift ongoing, making accessibility of quality data crucially important. How to respond to this seismic transformation in data integration and analytics innovations was a central focus of Qlik Connect. The event made it clear that QlikTech International AB ...

How Theom and Tradeweb Markets aim to take a unified approach to data governance in the AI era

Data governance has emerged as one of the top topics at this year’s Data Cloud Summit. Understanding what’s happening in one’s data environment in the generative AI era is critical. That’s what Theom Inc. is seeking to manage, according to Navindra Yadav (pictured, left), co-founder and chief executive officer of Theom, a data control plane ...

Qlik aims for data-centric strategy to streamline generative AI adoption

There’s no question that generative AI has transformative potential. But first, companies must adopt better data management foundationally at many different levels. That’s where QlikTech International AB hopes to step in with Qlik Answers. It’s a generative AI knowledge base and assistant that business users can build and deploy themselves off of unstructured data, according ...

Snowflake Notebooks aims to streamline developer workflows

In this new era of generative artificial intelligence, big data companies are innovating, and new companies are working in novel ways. At the Data Cloud Summit, Snowflake Inc. has sought to outline how it plans to help businesses of all sizes with its AI tools, including with Snowflake Notebooks. Technology has been moving quickly, according ...

On theCUBE Pod, Snowflake versus Databricks: The battle for data governance supremacy

It’s clear that Snowflake Inc. is at a crossroads. Examining why was the focus of the latest edition of the Breaking Analysis series, and was a big subject of conversation for theCUBE Research industry analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante on the latest episode of the CUBE podcast. “You saw this firsthand when Databricks announced the Unity ...

Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Informatica World

The battle for enterprise AI dominance is heating up, and companies such as Informatica Inc. have been seeking to capitalize. At this year’s Informatica World, executives, companies and partners weighed in on how best to stand out with data platform services. Planned announcements from Informatica were a key area of interest. The event was a ...

What to expect during the Databricks Data + AI Summit: Join theCUBE June 12-13

The hype around artificial intelligence focuses on infrastructure, but real progress is in data-oriented, application-driven retrieval. Once the infrastructure is established, the next innovation layer will be in data, according to theCUBE Research executive analyst John Furrier. “Databricks has their event coming up. If you look at the data layer, I see AI in three ...

On theCUBE Pod: Nvidia’s new breakthrough and the latest in open source

The computing industry is witnessing a future shift toward artificial intelligence-powered, Arm-based personal computers, marking a transition from traditional x86 architecture. There are ongoing battles in the middleware layer of technology, particularly involving open-source platforms. Experts predict that new startups will emerge during this AI-driven technological cycle, driven by disruptive enablers such as open-source software. ...