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The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leader Steven Dickens offers his take on the latest from MongoDB. MongoDB is a developer-centric company that offers a comprehensive developer data platform designed to meet the evolving needs of modern applications. They have announced a partnership with Google Cloud to integrate generative AI capabilities and simplify software development. Additionally, MongoDB has introduced new capabilities for its MongoDB Atlas platform, including enhanced search, real-time event processing, and multi-cloud options, catering to organizations' demands for improved user experiences and operational efficiency. These developments demonstrate MongoDB's commitment to empowering developers and driving innovation in the industry.
The Futurum Group VP & Practice Leaders Camberley Bates and Steven Dickens offer their take on the latest announcements from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. HPE has entered the AI cloud market by expanding its HPE GreenLake portfolio to offer large language models (LLMs) for enterprises. The new service, called HPE GreenLake for LLMs, allows enterprises to privately train, tune, and deploy large-scale AI using HPE's AI software and supercomputers. It is the first in a series of AI applications that HPE plans to launch, and it will be delivered in partnership with German AI startup Aleph Alpha.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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