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Steven Dickens

Lenovo’s AI Milestone: Updates, Announcements, and New AI Capabilities Revealed

Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest AI-focused announcements from Lenovo. Lenovo has achieved a significant milestone by surpassing $2 billion in annual revenue from its AI infrastructure, demonstrating its commitment to advancing AI across industries. The company plans to invest an additional $1 billion over 3 years to expedite AI deployment globally. Lenovo aims to simplify AI implementation by bringing AI capabilities directly to the source of data and expanding its portfolio of smart devices, infrastructure solutions, and services. With a focus on end-to-end infrastructure solutions, Lenovo is well positioned to empower organizations of all sizes to leverage AI and drive transformative intelligence in various sectors.
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Simplifying Payment Processing with AWS Payment Cryptography

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens offers his take on the new AWS Payment Cryptography focusing to simplify cryptographic functions and key management for payment processing, ensuring PCI compliance.
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Cyber-Detection and Recovery Drive Commvault’s Portfolio Strategy

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens and Senior Analyst Krista Macomber offers their take on the latest announcements from Commvault and how Commvault's focus on cyber-resiliency and active defense through its ThreatWise solution is a significant step in the evolving landscape of data protection.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Introduces New Sustainability Solutions to Reduce IT Carbon Footprint

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest Sustainability focused announcements from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). HPE has introduced new sustainability solutions, including the HPE GreenLake sustainability dashboard and a comprehensive portfolio of services, to help organizations reduce their IT carbon footprint and achieve sustainable practices.
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Microsoft Launches Linux Distribution

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens offers his take on the introduction of Azure Linux, an optimized container host OS for AKS, marks a notable shift for the company.
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The Role of Open Source in AI Acceleration

The Futurum Group's Steven Dickens interviews Ken Exner, VP of Product at Elastic, and discusses Elastic's role in the open-source community and its expansion into different industries through Elasticsearch, an open-source search and indexing technology. They also explore the relationship between open source and commercial interests, focusing on the increasing use of Elasticsearch in AI. Elastic's emphasis on leveraging generative AI in enterprise settings, such as security and search, is highlighted, along with their new offering that bridges the gap between public language models and proprietary enterprise data. Elastic is positioned as a foundational company enabling developers to create unique solutions on top of their platform in the AI Gold Rush.
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A Conversation with Elastic’s CEO Ash Kulkarni About the Company’s 2023 Sales Kick Off

The Futurum Group's Steven Dickens interviews Ash Kulkarni, CEO of Elastic, the discussion explores the company's recent achievements, including product releases and partnerships with hyper-scaler partners. Elastic has listened to its customers' needs for efficient data analysis and business growth, developing its relevance engine that ensures privacy and security while making sense of data. As Elastic expands its offerings beyond search analytics to observability and security solutions, the potential for connecting private enterprise data with large language models for generative AI applications becomes evident.
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Elastic Announces New Functionality and Solutions

The Futurum Group’s Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest announcements from Elastic. Elastic, the company built on the open-source Elastic code base, is focusing on foundational efforts to harness the potential of AI. Elastic recently released new semantic search capabilities and a growing catalog of open code database and storage connectors to enhance search experiences quickly. They emphasized AI/ML-powered relevance to unify search across various data sources and provide web and search analytics visualization. They aim to be a foundational technology in the enterprise AI space by providing the building blocks for AI adoption against in-house datasets.
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Elastic Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2023 Financial Results

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest earnings announcement from Elastic. Elastic Q4 and FY23 performance demonstrates its strength in the face of explosive AI-powered growth, demand for observability, and cybersecurity solutions. Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and Elastic stack, is gaining attention as a key player in the generative AI market, providing essential technologies for the widespread adoption of AI for enterprise data applications. Despite not being well-known among enterprise C-suite buyers, Elastic's platform offers high-performance search, ML capabilities, and security features necessary for generative AI applications. With strong financial performance and positive guidance for future growth, Elastic is poised to capitalize on the demand for generative AI and become a major player in enterprise AI deployments.
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Splunk Announces Q1 2024 Earnings

The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest earnings announcement from Splunk. Splunk's Q1 performance demonstrates its strength in the face of explosive data growth and cybersecurity threats. The company's ARR growth and expanding customer base highlight its success in the security and observability market. Splunk's comprehensive data analytics and security platform enable CIOs and CISOs to make data-driven decisions, gain operational visibility, and enhance security intelligence.
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Red Hat Summit 2023 in Review

The Futurum Group’s Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest announcements from Red Hat Summit, including the plethora of new solutions announced that are designed to enhance application connectivity, software supply chain security, developer productivity, AI operations, and automation.
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Google Cloud’s Doha Region Investment Furthers Global Expansion

The Futurum Group’s Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest announcement from Google Cloud around the company’s recent expansion into Doha, Qatar, and outlines the benefits this expansion will provide to Qatar and the Middle East, as well thoughts on why GCP and other cloud providers are looking to expand outside the U.S.
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