Even companies eager to jump on the GenAI bandwagon have struggled to organize their data and get past deployment hurdles, and nobody likes to spend all that time, effort, and money to build technology that can't be shipped because it can't be trusted.
Happy New Year! Today: after years of hype and investment, enterprise generative AI applications are still awaiting their breakout moment, the data-center investment boom continues, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
This year marked a turning point for enterprise tech as spending recovered and the economy stabilized following years of rising interest rates and supply-chain disruption. While no one knows what lies ahead, here are five things we thought summed up a pivotal year.
Today: Microsoft's array of AI and security add-ons is making its bundling strategy harder to navigate, Digital Ocean tests the low-cost GPU waters, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: how Pinecone hopes to carve out space for the standalone vector database amid an industry stampede into the sector, Satya Nadella does Davos, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: Google Cloud fails to address the real complaints about cloud data transfer fees, OpenAI courts the Pentagon, and the quote of the week.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: How Cushman & Wakefield got control of a sprawling app portfolio after several mergers, Salesforce plans a hiring freeze, and this week's enterprise moves.
A convoluted series of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures had left Cushman & Wakefield with "hundreds" of separate enterprise-resource planning applications. It wanted a flexible but standardized base to get everyone on the same page.
Today: how AI has caused one of the biggest inflection points in data-center architecture in decades, why hospitals might have to soon adopt certain security practices to get federal assistance, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Billions of dollars have already been invested over the last year retrofitting data centers to accommodate AI workloads in one of the biggest inflection points in data-center architecture in decades.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: why cloud providers are falling short with a key segment of the market, OpenAI's Thanksgiving-week management turmoil made customers consider their options, and the quote of the week.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: Intel makes another software move in hopes of denting Nvidia's AI advantage, why VMware partners are up in arms over Broadcom's new policies, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: why enterprise vendor promises to indemnify customers against AI lawsuits could be easier said than done, an insider's view on AWS at a crossroads, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Enterprise tech vendors promised customers that they will indemnify them from legal claims made against the output produced by generative AI tools. However, none of those companies want to talk about how it will actually work.
Today: Why the discovery that a leading AI dataset contained references to child sexual abuse material should give everyone pause, Cisco plunges further into the cloud-native community, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
