At OpenText World 2024, CEO Mark Barranechea provides an update on the company’s Titanium X roadmap for data management and multi-cloud integration.
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
OpenText CEO makes the case for business AI
by Robert Dutt •
Big Data
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
NetApp CEO: We’ll bring AI to your data
by Robert Dutt •
To NetApp CEO George Kurian, the challenges around AI today resemble the challenges of the early days of the cloud, and the solution is the same, break down silos between systems and get data and AI applications closer together.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud
New Snowflake CEO Ramaswamy lays out vision for company’s future
by Mark Cox •
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, in his first Snowflake Data Cloud Summit as CEO, introduced himself to the large audience in his opening keynote, and discussed where he sees the company moving as it goes forward.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Partnerships, Storage
VAST Data launches key new partnerships with NVIDIA and Super Micro
by Mark Cox •
Both partnerships expand AI capabilities by combining VAST’s software with NVIDIA and Super Micro’s hardware, with more such partnerships on the way.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud, Small Business
Sage extends presence in sports platforms with Sportable partnership
by Mark Cox •
Following up on last year’s partnership with Major League Baseball, Sage is announcing a different type of sports partnership, with Sportable, a global data collection and analytics platform, which is designed to bring deeper, AI-led insights to major sports.
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Big Data, Data Management, Security, Storage
NetApp CEO Kurian lays out vision at return of live NetApp INSIGHT event
by Mark Cox •
George Kurian explained NetApp’s broad strategy through which their customers can turn disruption into opportunity, through consolidating data management, treating data like the key product it is, and developing a modern data architecture.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Managed Services
CrushBank adds new Generative AI capabilities to their knowledge management platform
by Mark Cox •
CrushBank continues its evolution beyond an AI-powered search platform with the addition of new Generative AI capabilities to their platform.
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VAST Data turns its technology to AI with announcement of Thinking Machine
by Mark Cox •
The VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase and DataBase Engine combine to deliver on VAST’s long term plan of utilizing their storage technology for deep learning as well.
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Alteryx announces new Generative AI capabilities in core products which are shipping now
by Mark Cox •
The new AI features are aimed at non-technical business users as well as technical ones, expanding the democratization of analytics to cover many more users.
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Boomi expands presence in Canada with new Vancouver Center of Excellence
by Mark Cox •
The enormous scaling up of Boomi’s Canadian operations will see the immediate addition of 80 new staff, with further large growth slated for the future.
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New Boomi channel chief looks to grow channel further and better align with internal sales
by Mark Cox •
The announcement of Dan McAllister’s appointment as Senior Vice President of Global Alliances and Channels at Boomi is but one of multiple senior changes in the leadership team just announced, including a new Chief Commercial Officer, a new Chief Strategy Officer, and a new Global Commercial Market Vice President.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud, Partnerships
ThoughtSpot expands market reach with AWS Marketplace listing for Team and Pro Editions
by Mark Cox •
ThoughtSpot also made a deeper commitment to the AWS platform with the hiring of Britny Holloway as Director of AWS Global Alliances, while Rajesh Dhiman is now Senior Director, Global Systems Integrators.
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HPE study finds most organizations still can’t extract value from the data they have
by Mark Cox •
While the large majority of organizations in the survey agreed it was important for organizations to control their data to extract value from it, few of them did so, with only 3% reaching the desirable highest level of maturity.
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Big Data, Cloud, Software
Veeam Backup for Salesforce now available on Salesforce AppExchange
by Mark Cox •
Veeam is also announcing a free 50-seat version of the native backup application for Salesforce, and indicated that a couple more product-specific like this one and an earlier one for Microsoft 365 are on the roadmap.
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Big Data, Channel Programs, Cloud, Partnerships
Alteryx expands partner ecosystem and strengthens relationship with Snowflake
by Mark Cox •
Alteryx’s shift to a partner-led strategy, their expansion of their ISV ecosystem, and their encouraging of joint sales between themselves, partners and ISVs, has led to a major increase in channel business.
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Big Data, Channel Programs
Alteryx continues refocus around Partner-Led in partner program restructure
by Mark Cox •
The program adds new tiers for GSIs, ISVs and OEMs, to move beyond the original VAR partner base and deepen the enterprise focus, and also enhances partner benefits across the board.
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Big Data, Cloud, Data Management
Data transformation startup Coalesce emerges from stealth
by Mark Cox •
Coalesce, which is working with channel partners out of the gate, thinks that while problems around data migration have largely been solved, the major challenge today is solving bottlenecks to rebuilding and documenting data moving to the cloud.
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Boomi unveils new vision, product at annual user event
by Mark Cox •
Boomi emphasizes their focus on hyperautomation, as an extrapolation of their traditional integration approach, and unveils Boomi Event Streams and a new Discover catalogue.
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Backup, Big Data, Cloud
HPE moves into unified analytics and data protection around GreenLake consumption-based services
by Mark Cox •
The two new services, which will be available in the first half of 2022, expand both HPE’s cloud services portfolio and as-a-service opportunities for their channel partners.
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Big Data, Channel Programs
HP enhances Amplify channel program with HP Amplify Data Insights
by Mark Cox •
HP Amplify Data Insights provides data derived from HP, partners, and third-party sources to give partners insights that HP has not previously been able to provide them.
