Smart Layouts, which was shown at Summit last year as a Summit Sneak, was also announced to be in General Availabiilty.
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
Adobe enhances its Sensei AI with new services
by Mark Cox •
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Software, Solution Provider News
Microsoft Canada integrator partners evolving to meet needs of changing AI market
by Mark Cox •
Systems integrators Adastra, Lixar and Shalom, all of whom had a major presence at Microsoft’s recent forum around AI, talked with ChannelBuzz at the event about what they are doing to be successful in the space.
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Artificial Intelligence, Storage
Pure Storage targets high end of AI market with Hyperscale AIRI
by Mark Cox •
In addition to these new hyperconverged models produced with partners NVIDIA and Mellanox, Pure Storage announced FlashStack for AI, an AI-optimized version of their Cisco-focused converged offering.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Software
Microsoft Canada highlights Canadian AI initiatives at Future Now 2019 event
by Mark Cox •
Microsoft holds this annual event both to demonstrate Microsoft’s position on the cutting edge of new technology, and to inspire customers and prospects in attendance with examples of how Canadians have had strong results putting these concepts into practice.
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Artificial Intelligence, Unified Communications
Bot enhancements, SMS support and Zapier platform integration highlight new release of Comm100 platform
by Mark Cox •
This is the last big improvement to the Comm100 customer experience platform before a next-gen version is introduced in about four months.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Managed Services, Storage
ZeroStack continues to execute on as-a-service offering strategy for partners with new AI-as-a-Service
by Mark Cox •
ZeroStack plans to roll more services out in the year, indicating some likely possibilities, as part of their strategy of providing MSP partners with more services they can sell on the scale-out private cloud they enable customers to create.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Hardware
HPE highlights memory-driven computing in cutting edge genomic research at HPE Discover
by Mark Cox •
Biotech startup Jungla is the first HPE customer to use the new Memory-Driven Computing Sandbox, to accelerate processing of individualized genomic testing data by more than 200 times compared with traditional hardware, taking the time needed to get results from around 250 days to as little as a day.
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Artificial Intelligence
Changing AI market impacts SAS strategy and channel
by Mark Cox •
SAS has reacted to the huge changes in the market around artificial intelligence, by rethinking how they approach the market, and how they sell into it.
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Artificial Intelligence
Canada still not tapping into full potential of artificial intelligence
by Mark Cox •
SAS Canada’s AI Executive event on Wednesday focused on how Canadian companies can best use AI to drive business outcomes. However, SAS also emphasized data that indicate that to date, that hasn’t been happening in Canada, which lags globally when it comes to adoption in production environments.
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Artificial Intelligence
SAS Canada delivers Artificial Intelligence for the real world session for customers at Toronto event
by Mark Cox •
SAS provided their business audience with industry and academic perspectives on deriving value from AI, and then related it specifically to best practices that organizations can use to make it part of their business strategy.
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Artificial Intelligence, Backup
Veritas brings new predictive analytics to appliances
by Mark Cox •
Veritas Predictive Insights will be a core, free feature of their appliances, beginning initially with NetBackup Appliances and extending to Access and Flex appliances next year.
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Artificial Intelligence, Data Centre, Storage
HCI vendor Maxta deepens analytics capabilities with new MxIQ analytics-insight platform
by Mark Cox •
Maxta provided analytics previously, but it was limited to data on an individual cluster, MxIQ broadens this to add metrics from additional clusters and additional data, to provide a greater degree of visibility and insight.
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Artificial Intelligence, Backup, Storage
Veritas partners with Pure Storage on joint solution around Pure’s data hub architecture
by Mark Cox •
The joint solution is targeted at larger customers, and will initially go to market through a select number of the two companies’ joint channel partners, before having its availability broadened out subsequently.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
Splunk CEO Merritt: Splunk opportunities riding the crest of a technology explosion
by Mark Cox •
Doug Merritt, Splunk’s President and CEO, kicked off the Splunk .conf18 event in Orlando by emphasizing the congruence between the company’s greatest wave of innovation ever, and the time in the market when the pace of change and the ability to tap into the monstrous mess that is contemporary data are at their peak of importance.
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Artificial Intelligence, Managed Services
CrushBank seeing good results in early post-launch days of IT Help-Desk application built on IBM Watson
by Mark Cox •
CrushBank, which came to ChannelCon a year ago to evangelize their product before it came to market, is finding the job easier this year, with customer references in tow and AI hotter than ever. Interestingly, Canadian MSPs have been particularly receptive.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Software
Zoho bringing Zia AI tool into Zoho One suite highlights major upgrades
by Mark Cox •
Other enhancements include a new unified dashboard and unified search feature for all 40 applications in Zoho One, as well as the 40th app – Backstage – an event management solution that is also sold separately.
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Artificial Intelligence
Data science startup Insight Engines adds log data analysis and hybrid cloud capability to ask better questions of data
by Mark Cox •
Grant Wernick, the CEO and co-founder of Insight Engines, says that their product revolutionizes log store search and helps companies address the scarcity and cost of data scientists by letting English majors do the same job.
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Artificial Intelligence, Backup, Partnerships
Commvault beefs up AI search capability with Lucidworks partnership
by Mark Cox •
The Commvault technology integration with Lucidworks will open up new conversations with partners where they can lead around search, and build their connections to a broader array of executive contacts beyond backup.
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Artificial Intelligence, Networking
Riverbed delivers enhanced scalability, integrated licensing with new SteelCentral release
by Mark Cox •
The enhanced SteelCentral also adds Prism, which uses AI to visualize the conversion funnel and spot issues, and full integration with Riverbed Xirrus WI-Fi.
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Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Storage
Pure Storage unveils AIRI Mini as ‘game changer’ to democratize AI in the enterprise
by Mark Cox •
AIRI Mini is a joint engineering initiative between Pure and NVIDIA that provides an AI-focused solution with much less compute capability than AIRI, announced in March. It thus has a much lower entry point, and the companies think it will lead to strong interactions between infrastructure teams and data scientists.
