Dragging the mainframe into the AI era
Today: IBM and Arm strike a partnership to keep customers on mainframes as AI coding agents circle a modernization opportunity, Google drops a new open model, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today on Product Saturday: Manus gets in on the desktop agent craze three months after joining Meta, Snowflake introduces a new task-competition platform based around user data, and the quote of the week.
Today: Databricks co-founder Reynold Xin on the speed at which AI-driven coding is changing software, Snowflake launches a coding agent and previews its Postgres database, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: Why Snowflake's acquisition of Observe underscores the importance of observability to enterprise AI, Microsoft attempts to fend off the AI coding upstarts, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today on Product Saturday: rivals Databricks and Snowflake roll out new tools that promise to help companies get their agents over the finish line and into production, and the quote of the week.
Today: another batch of earnings reports shows that enterprises are still investing heavily in the raw materials for generative AI, Microsoft takes a careful step away from its dependence on OpenAI's models, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: dbt Labs' decision to go with a source-available license for its new Fusion product gets a vote of confidence from Snowflake, Windsurf faces a headwind, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Snowflake introduces new tools that promise to help companies find nuggets of insight in their corporate data, Thoma Bravo gears up for the coming wave of AI startup buyouts, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today: Ahead of this year's Snowflake/Databricks annual events, a look at the push to unify Delta Lake and Iceberg, Salesforce snaps up Informatica, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Last year at the Databricks Data & AI Summit Ghodsi pledged to bring Delta Lake and Iceberg together in a "USB-C format" for data. The communities behind both formats have made progress toward that goal, but the last mile is tricky, and new tools could let end users worry about other problems.
Today on Product Saturday: SAP strikes a big partnership with Databricks, Glean introduces its agent builder, and the quote of the week.
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.
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.