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Today: How Houston Methodist is using a generative AI assistant to check in on discharged patients, why AI coding assistants might soon be billion-dollar properties, and the latest enterprise moves.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: why vector databases are so hot right now, Microsoft open-sources an interesting application development platform, and the latest enterprise moves.
Behind every breakthrough in enterprise technology over the past few decades you'll find a database. This year, as engineering managers and CIOs are being asked to articulate a generative AI strategy in the middle of a hype cycle for the ages, the vector database is having its coming-out party.
Today: The Commerce Department places new restrictions on shipments of AI chips to China, a critical vulnerability in Cisco router software is being actively exploited, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: why Principal Financial Group splits its workloads between AWS and MIcrosoft Azure, Google Cloud becomes the latest to offer customers generative AI indemnity protections, and this week in enterprise moves.
For many years financial services companies Principal Financial Group started its transition to the cloud just before the pandemic made the need for modern digital services an existential crisis, and has only accelerated that process since Kathy Kay came on board.
Today: Runtime read the 254-page Ofcom report on cloud computing competition so you don't have to, Microsoft's GitHub is losing a lot of money serving up code suggestions, and the latest funding for enterprise tech startups.
Today: why Zendesk's CEO thinks structured data will help it find success in the AI era, the U.K. puts AWS and Microsoft under a regulatory microscope, and this week's enterprise moves.
Tom Eggemeier believes that a key product-strategy decision Zendesk made long before most of us had heard the term "generative AI" could spark a rebound in the company's fortunes.
DocuSign's service was built before the cloud, but last year it realized it needed to move to the cloud to handle data residency requirements and its plans for AI services.
Today: DocuSign President Inhi Cho Suh explains its hybrid cloud strategy and plans for generative AI, Zoom takes on Microsoft Office and Google Docs, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: how Cloudflare thinks it can outmaneuver the big clouds on the edge, Progress Software reveals another major vulnerability in a file-transfer product, and the quote of the week.
Today: why evaluating software developers like salespeople is misguided, IBM promises legal protection for generative AI customers, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.