Will generative AI make enterprise data centers cool again?
The lowly enterprise data center may be making a comeback as companies look to leverage generative AI but keep corporate data secure and lower costs.

Data to decisions examines the enablement of data-driven decisions across organizations. Holistic, data-informed decisions require a multi-disciplinary approach that combines performance monitoring with traditional business intelligence and analytic technologies. In addition, data-driven decisions are increasingly delivered in the context of business applications rather than in separate, analytic interfaces.
The lowly enterprise data center may be making a comeback as companies look to leverage generative AI but keep corporate data secure and lower costs.
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu's approach is refreshing and effective--not to mention a touch quirky compared to many CEOs we encounter.
Oracle continued to build out its generative AI tools for its Autonomous Database with conversational AI, a broad set of large language models, new analytics for knowledge graphs, spatial learning and no-code modeling.
The Leap Year Brings A New Copilot - Finance
Microsoft announced the public preview of Copilot for Finance. With tools such as Copilot, the user experience begins and ends with generative AI. In conversations with Vice President of Business Applications Engineering - Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President of Business Applications Marketing - Emily He, Vice President of AI-led ERP Engineering - Georg Glantshnig, users can now apply geneative AI across departments such as sales, service, finance, and IT with Copilot for M365, Copilot for Sales, Copilot for Service, Copilot for Finance, and Copilot Studio.
Snowflake has a new CEO. The company said Sridhar Ramaswamy will become CEO immediately as Frank Slootman stepped down but remains Chairman of the board.
Marketing and Commerce Cloud had fourth quarter growth of 7% with Sales, Service and Platform posting revenue growth of 10% to 12%.
Carl Eschenbach, CEO of Workday, said the company saw "continued momentum with full platform customer wins and expansions within our base."
Mistral AI said it will first bring Mistral Large to Azure, which is most closely associated with OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Equifax in 2024 will decommission mainframes and data centers in North America as it largely completes a cloud transformation that dates back to 2018. Now Equifax CEO Mark Begor is looking for more product velocity, artificial intelligence capabilities and competitive advantage.
Constellation Research held its February call with Business Transformation 150 and SAP's RISE program, process automation and AI were top-of-mind topics.
As the licensing boom for model training data kicks off, I want to see a nutrition label on LLMs, and a list of data sources used for training. I'd also want to check off sources too.