Anthropic enters the enterprise chat
Today: Anthropic throws its hat in the enterprise AI ring, AT&T has had it with Broadcom's changes to VMware licensing, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Today: Lost in last months' discussions of open data formats was Hudi, but its tech will enable true format compatibility, Stack Overflow's annual developer survey, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: Lost in last months' discussions of open data formats was Hudi, but its tech will enable true format compatibility, Stack Overflow's annual developer survey, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
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Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi laid out a compelling vision for enterprise data storage buyers last month as he described the strategy behind his company's purchase of Tabular. Founded by the creators of the Apache Iceberg open data format. Tabular will allow Databricks to work on making Iceberg, widely adopted by other data companies including archrival Snowflake, compatible with the Delta Lake format born inside Databricks, Ghodsi said in a press conference at its Data & AI Summit in June.
Ghodsi's unification drive appeared to leave out the first open data format to pave the way toward the creation of the data lakehouse: Apache Hudi. Hudi, which was developed inside Uber and is actually older than Delta Lake or Iceberg, has many similarities with the other two and is widely used by companies like Walmart and Notion that depend on real-time data.
But in a recent interview, OneHouse CEO Vinoth Chandar, who created Hudi at Uber, pointed to an announcement released two days after the hubbub of the Tabular acquisition.
Hudi was born from a problem Uber encountered as it went through a period of explosive growth, Chandar said.
Hudi was by far the best format choice for Notion's needs when it was looking to modernize its data strategy two years ago, said Daniel Sternberg, head of data.
But format compatibility is much more important for larger companies that have multiple business units with different technology requirements or need to integrate recent acquisitions into their tech stacks. It also appeals to companies looking to cut costs and simplify their data infrastructure.
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After years of generative AI hype, 63% of professional software developers are using AI coding tools, an increase from a year ago according to Stack Overflow's annual developer survey results. That doesn't mean they're fully comfortable with those tools.
When asked how they feel about AI developer tools overall, 72% rated them very favorable or favorable, which is a pretty good satisfaction rating. But it's a decrease from 77% of developers who felt the same way last year, and an overwhelming majority of those surveyed said AI development tools have trouble handling complex tasks.
Still, an overwhelming majority also said their companies plan to increase the use of AI tools in their development workflows next year. The entire survey is always worth a read for insights into what developers really think about developer tools, programming languages, databases, and cloud providers, and can be found here.
Nadav Zafrir is the new CEO of Check Point Software, with plans to take over the role from founder Gil Shwed in December.
Larry D’Angelo is the new chief revenue officer at DigitalOcean, joining the cloud provider from Rapid7.
Pranay Ahlawat is the new chief technology and AI officer at Commvault, a newly created role for the former partner at Boston Consulting Group.
Jason Wakeam is the new chief revenue officer at Backblaze, also a newly created position for the former vice president of global sales at SnapLogic.
Manish Gupta and Marilyn Miller are the new chief marketing officer and chief people officer, respectively, at LaunchDarkly.
ServiceNow's strong earnings performance in the second quarter was eclipsed by the resignation of president and chief operating officer CJ Desai, who acknowledged violating internal hiring practices as part of an ongoing internal investigation into the company's pursuit of a government contract.
IBM beat Wall Street expectations for revenue and profit, but it's still only growing at 1.9%.
CrowdStrike sent $10 Uber Eats cards to partners as an apology for forcing them to reboot so many Windows PCs, thanks to what it acknowledged Wednesday was a bad update rolled out all at once.
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