Companies approach data transformation from different starting points. For Spark New Zealand Trading Ltd., marketing was the area of concern. It’s since leaned on Snowflake Inc.’s unified data platform to drive conversions up by 17% and beat down marketing costs by 16%, according to Kallol Dutta (pictured, right), group data and automation leader at Spark New ...

Snowflake Inc.’s raison d’etre is eliminating the need for data silos through a unified platform that simplifies data architectures and enables congruent governance controls. But it’s not enough to consolidate, secure and perform normal analysis on the data anymore. With artificial intelligence expanding the playing field for data programmability, what are solutions providers doing to ...

Databricks Inc.’s claim to fame is the tactful combination of data lakes and data warehouses into what it calls the “data lakehouse architecture.” Artificial intelligence has emerged as the universal enabler. Seeing that, Databricks is empowering its users by seamlessly unifying the AI and data platform with its lakehouse ethos. “We are really finding this great ...

A common misconception is that enterprises can afford to place cybersecurity on the backburner once they migrate assets to the cloud. On the contrary, security must remain top of mind — especially in robust hybrid cloud infrastructures, where it becomes a shared responsibility between the end user, cloud provider and other interconnected services, according to Bobby ...

Financial technology has disrupted the traditional banking space and brought about new-age ways for people to consume financial products. One of those disruptors is Current, the U.S.-based fintech that has leaned on the flexibility, speed and scalability of MongoDB Inc.’s Atlas to deliver outcomes and grow at a consistent, sustainable pace. “For Mongo in particular, we’ve ...

The future of cloud is hybrid, where it meets end users wherever they are. As companies race to embrace hybrid cloud, it falls on solutions providers to ensure seamlessness across storage, backup/recovery and compute, etc. — which are often spread across different providers. Danny Allan (pictured), chief technology officer of Veeam Software Group GmbH, weighed ...

The primary purpose of artificial intelligence is to help people become more creative, productive and ingenious. Targeted at citizen and enterprise developers equally, Vector Search for MongoDB Atlas allows advanced data querying capabilities and comparisons through AI-powered algorithms. “Do you focus on the buttoned-up enterprise developer in the bank, or do you focus on that hoodie-wearing developer in ...

Spanning more than two decades, the VMware Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. partnership has evolved to be expansive in scope. Both companies have worked to deliver solutions that combine software and hardware to enable cloud experiences that cater to today’s increasingly complex applications and data needs. “Great software needs great hardware, it needs great infrastructure and ...

While artificial intelligence is one of the hottest enterprise technology topics today, most companies are still figuring out how to harness AI as a competitive differentiator and driver for crucial business goals. Intel Corp. has collaborated with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. to deliver AI-focused offerings that combine powerful compute and intelligent software. “Intel and HPE, ...

As one of the world’s most prominent networking industry players, Cisco Systems Inc. is comprised of several moving parts: from networking hardware and telecom equipment to software products, such as Webex, Jasper and OpenDNS. The company has embarked on a journey of tying together its several business lines into a more coherent unit. A deliberate ...