Big Data

NetApp CEO: We’ll bring AI to your data

To NetApp CEO George Kurian, the challenges around AI today resemble the challenges of the early days of the cloud, and the solution is the same, break down silos between systems and get data and AI applications closer together.

New Snowflake CEO Ramaswamy lays out vision for company’s future

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, in his first Snowflake Data Cloud Summit as CEO, introduced himself to the large audience in his opening keynote, and discussed where he sees the company moving as it goes forward.

VAST Data launches key new partnerships with NVIDIA and Super Micro

Both partnerships expand AI capabilities by combining VAST’s software with NVIDIA and Super Micro’s hardware, with more such partnerships on the way.

Sage extends presence in sports platforms with Sportable partnership

Following up on last year’s partnership with Major League Baseball, Sage is announcing a different type of sports partnership, with Sportable, a global data collection and analytics platform, which is designed to bring deeper, AI-led insights to major sports. 

NetApp CEO Kurian lays out vision at return of live NetApp INSIGHT event

George Kurian explained NetApp’s broad strategy through which their customers can turn disruption into opportunity, through consolidating data management, treating data like the key product it is, and developing a modern data architecture.

CrushBank adds new Generative AI capabilities to their knowledge management platform

CrushBank continues its evolution beyond an AI-powered search platform with the addition of new Generative AI capabilities to their platform.

VAST Data turns its technology to AI with announcement of Thinking Machine

The VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase and DataBase Engine combine to deliver on VAST’s long term plan of utilizing their storage technology for deep learning as well.

Alteryx announces new Generative AI capabilities in core products which are shipping now

The new AI features are aimed at non-technical business users as well as technical ones, expanding the democratization of analytics to cover many more users.

New Boomi channel chief looks to grow channel further and better align with internal sales

The announcement of Dan McAllister’s appointment as Senior Vice President of Global Alliances and Channels at Boomi is but one of multiple senior changes in the leadership team just announced, including a new Chief Commercial Officer, a new Chief Strategy Officer, and a new Global Commercial Market Vice President.

ThoughtSpot expands market reach with AWS Marketplace listing for Team and Pro Editions

ThoughtSpot also made a deeper commitment to the AWS platform with the hiring of Britny Holloway as Director of AWS Global Alliances, while Rajesh Dhiman is now Senior Director, Global Systems Integrators.

HPE study finds most organizations still can’t extract value from the data they have

While the large majority of organizations in the survey agreed it was important for organizations to control their data to extract value from it, few of them did so, with only 3% reaching the desirable highest level of maturity.

Veeam Backup for Salesforce now available on Salesforce AppExchange

Veeam is also announcing a free 50-seat version of the native backup application for Salesforce, and indicated that a couple more product-specific like this one and an earlier one for Microsoft 365 are on the roadmap.

Alteryx expands partner ecosystem and strengthens relationship with Snowflake

Alteryx’s shift to a partner-led strategy, their expansion of their ISV ecosystem, and their encouraging of joint sales between themselves, partners and ISVs, has led to a major increase in channel business.

Alteryx continues refocus around Partner-Led in partner program restructure

The program adds new tiers for GSIs, ISVs and OEMs, to move beyond the original VAR partner base and deepen the enterprise focus, and also enhances partner benefits across the board.

Data transformation startup Coalesce emerges from stealth

Coalesce, which is working with channel partners out of the gate, thinks that while problems around data migration have largely been solved, the major challenge today is solving bottlenecks to rebuilding and documenting data moving to the cloud.

HPE moves into unified analytics and data protection around GreenLake consumption-based services

The two new services, which will be available in the first half of 2022, expand both HPE’s cloud services portfolio and as-a-service opportunities for their channel partners.

HP enhances Amplify channel program with HP Amplify Data Insights

HP Amplify Data Insights provides data derived from HP, partners, and third-party sources to give partners insights that HP has not previously  been able to provide them.