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.
This is the last big improvement to the Comm100 customer experience platform before a next-gen version is introduced in about four months.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As SAS seeks to add AI to all its analytics offerings, it says partners play an important role in connecting those smart systems with domain and business expertise.
