Displaying items by tag: Artificial intelligence

Although Teradata has almost a half-century of on-prem data warehousing experience, it's a cloud-first business today and is bringing its considerable experience to help its customers modernise. Teradata CEO Steve McMillan spoke to iTWire about growth, AI, and the changing nature of data.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire talks to Nathan Knight, Managing Director of Hitachi Vantara, ANZ.

Everybody is talking about the amazing things you can do with AI, but few are talking about the environmental and energy impacts it brings. In comes Pure Storage who has made this front of mind and says vendors like it must be helping businesses reduce energy consumption and boost sustainability.

Hybrid data, analytics, and AI platform Cloudera says AI will add about $US15.7T - that's trillion - to the global economy by 2030. To get there your data needs to be in order, and Cloudera says it has the best platform to help you succeed, and not be left behind.

COMPANY NEWS: NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent data infrastructure company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Fioretto as the new Area Vice President and Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand. This strategic move comes as NetApp continues to build on its solid revenue and growth, particularly in its cloud and flash storage businesses, and looks to artificial intelligence as a key driver for future growth.

This story comes to you fresh off the keyboard of a brand new Microsoft Surface laptop. It's out, it's beautiful, and it's full of smarts.

I looked forward to trying Microsoft's new Copilot+ AI PC to see the goodness and seamlessness of its AI smarts, only to find, well, it's disappointingly dumb on the first try out of the box. Fortunately, with effort, including dealing with a lying AI, you can pull through.

Hitachi Vantara, the data infrastructure and cloud management subsidary of Japanese mega-company Hitachi, Ltd. has launched its new data strategy and product line around AI, including a collaboration with NVIDIA.

Snowflake the data cloud is now Snowflake the AI data cloud; the cloud data company has announced new innovations and enhancements to Cortex AI to embed AI in more places, making life easier for developers, business analysts, and all users.

Zoho Corporation hosted its annual Zoholics 2024 conference in Austin, Texas this week. The event brought major product announcements, as well as news about its Australian expansion.

Intel ran some useful Lunar Lake presentations at its pre-Computex Tech Tour. Here we cover four regarding the technologies.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire talks to Adrian Hall (Director at Citrus Consulting) and Matt Swinbourne (CTO, Cloud Architecture at NetApp) about how Citrus Consulting uses NetApp technology and Ai in the New Zealand market.

Posts made on Reddit will be used for training OpenAI's ChatGPT under an agreement struck between the two companies.

Given ongoing uncertainty within the tech sector, most decision makers are choosing technologies that offer more noticeable, near-term benefits, and with the drive towards operational efficiency, AI and generative AI are the “top two priorities for organisations”, a study has found.

Apple lovers and users — I mean the computer company, not the fruit — are prone to occasional emotional outbursts about the hardware and software that emerge from the compnay's portals in Cupertino. It never fails to amuse me when grown adults get their knickers in a knot over any digital device. One would think that there are far more important things in life over which one should get agitated.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, a non-profit that oversees development of the CentOS alternative AlmaLinux, has launched its newest special interest group that will focus on the needs of the high-performance computing and artificial intelligence community within AlmaLinux.

SAS has been at the forefront of statistical analysis for almost five decades and has brought its rich, deep experience to help solve industry-specific challenges through packaged AI models to facilitate rapid deployment with low overheads.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Dror Davidoff, Co-Founder and CEO of Aqua Security, talks to iTWire about the current cloud security threat landscape, the impact of Ai and what CISOs can do to mitigate modern risks.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has gone the way of all flesh with the release version 2.0 of its Assistant: it is now pushing AI-as-a-service.

Australian artificial intelligence start-up Intellisoftware has unveiled a new wide-ranging strategic partnership with the Australian Revenue Management Association (ARMA) - a peak industry body active in the hospitality and tourism sectors focused on “elevating the standards of revenue and yield management and driving continuous growth in professional skills, knowledge and innovation”.