Today on Product Saturday: Nvidia and Snowflake try to get more enterprises on the AI train by focusing on safety and costs, and the quote of the week.
Today: Visual Studio Code fueled Microsoft's decade-long enterprise winning streak, but new challenges loom, why Google and Microsoft are forcing you to use their AI tools, and the latest enterprise moves.
Visual Studio Code is a vital pieces of Microsoft's enterprise strategy, which banks on the goodwill developers have for both products to drive business to Azure and its other enterprise software products. But software development practices and preferences are changing rapidly.
No one really agrees on a strict definition of "agent," but recent breakthroughs in large-language models have allowed companies to build enhanced versions of chatbots that can respond to natural-language queries with a plan of action.
Now that open data formats are here to stay, unifying them to remove incompatibilities will be a challenge. Delta Lake and Iceberg get all the attention, but tech developed by the creators of Hudi could make it happen.
Tech and media leaders are increasingly worried that the push to use generative AI to automate analytical business tasks could produce a generation of workers that never develop the foundation to do the job well at a senior level.
As Snowflake and Databricks gear up for back-to-back user conferences in early June, their customers are increasingly betting on open storage formats that give them new flexibility.
Rowan Trollope started work as the new CEO of Redis earlier this year in February, arguably a low point for enterprise tech growth. Redis hasn't been immune to those trends, but it has also enjoyed the spoils of the generative AI hype cycle.
The speed, flexibility, and efficiency provided by newer data tools have become much more important than simply dumping "Big Data" into a storage facility and running relatively simple analytical queries.
