There is currently a tremendous amount of interest in quantum computing, which can potentially solve some of the world’s biggest problems. However, despite the feverish efforts of cloud providers, hardware manufacturers, and software industry, quantum computing is still on the drawing board. It will happen someday. But, for now, we’ll have to settle for quantum ...

The Boston Red Sox, one of the iconic names in the world of baseball, is reinventing the fan experience. In an age of data-driven decisions and personalized outreach, the Major League Baseball team is tapping into generative artificial intelligence to revolutionize its marketing campaigns. Here’s how: Rising complexity and democratization of data The Red Sox’s ...

No stranger to hype, Zoom Video Communications Inc. is jumping on the generative artificial intelligence bandwagon with both feet. After introducing AI in early June for composing team chats and meeting summaries, the company on Tuesday expanded that commitment in two areas: Zoom AI Companion: Formerly known as Zoom IQ, the company describes this service ...

In my VMware Explore wrap-up post, one of my key takeaways was that the edge is the next big frontier for the company. Given that, I thought examining VMware Inc.’s vision of the edge a bit more closely made sense. The afternoon keynotes were highlighted by Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager for ...

VMware Inc.’s user event last week in Las Vegas, Explore, formerly known as VMWorld, offered a cornucopia of news, with multicloud and artificial intelligence the overarching themes. Given the pending acquisition by Broadcom Inc. and the fact that this was the first user event with Raghu Raghuram (pictured) as chief executive for a full year, I ...

Our research shows that an average enterprise uses 68 security tools from 32 vendors, so the platform concept has become the preferred deployment model in this world of multiple security and networking vendors since it helps simplify operations. Fortinet Inc., which has disrupted the once- undisruptable wide-area network market, today announced a number of updates ...

For the past few years, artificial intelligence has been front and center in the communications industry. This has been spurred further this year with the release of ChatGPT, which has put generative AI in the cross hairs. This week, on the same day that it announced a series of management changes and quarterly earnings that ...

Infoblox Inc. recently published a second threat report to provide updates on the remote access toolkit, or RAT, called “Decoy Dog,” which the company discovered in April. To establish command and control, Decoy Dog uses the Domain Name System. The company also suspects it’s a secret tool nation-states use in cyberattacks. Once Infoblox disclosed it ...

Artificial intelligence was the focus this week at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS Summit New York, which makes sense given the massive interest in the topic since ChatGPT was launched. For example, AWS announced several updates to its managed foundational model service, Amazon Bedrock. This was just one of many announcements that make it easier for customers ...

Everywhere we look these days, data-intensive applications are increasing at breakneck speed. One of the companies at the center of this development is Nvidia Corp., which has been riding high of late because of the chips it makes to power artificial intelligence. Recently, Nvidia hosted an analyst briefing, presented John Zedlewski, senior director of data ...