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Hitachi Vantara named Ayman Abouelwafa as its new chief technology officer as it continues to build out its executive team.
Abouelwafa, who was previously CTO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's storage group, lands at Hitachi Vantara just weeks after the hybrid cloud infrastructure company named Octavian Tanase as chief product officer. Tanase was previously at NetApp.
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Is there anyone who doesn't have an ad business?
Walmart's purchase of smart TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion to expand its Walmart Connect advertising business highlights how chief marketing officers have more options than ever. Amazon has a booming advertising business and has become No. 3 behind Google and Facebook. Uber sees advertising as a big growth business. So does Lyft.
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DisrupTV Episode 353 — Featuring Tim Eun, Jerry Colonna & Rebecca Homkes
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with:
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VMware acknowledged that customers are disgruntled, chafing against a switch to subscription licensing and annoyed that account contacts may change. You have to cut through a lot of VMware mansplaining--delivered via a Valentine's Day blog post--to get those takeaways.
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Google Cloud said Google's new Gemini 1.0 models, Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Ultra are generally available to enterprises and an private preview is available for Gemini 1.5.
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Informatica is planning on riding digital transformation, which is still a work in progress for enterprises, a need to integrate data across vendors, clouds and on-premises and generative AI in 2024.
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Twilio projected first quarter revenue growth of 2% to 3% to $1.025 billion to $1.035 billion, below expectations of $1.05 billion.
The company also projected non-GAAP earnings of 56 cents a share to 60 cents a share. Wall Street was looking for 55 cents a share. The outlook came as Twilio reported its fourth quarter earnings. Twilio's results were the first with new CEO Khozema Shipchandler at the helm.
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Cisco said it will cut 5% of its global workforce in a bid to "realign the organization and enable further investment in key priority areas." The company outlined the restructuring as it reported its second quarter results.
The networking giant reported second quarter revenue of $12.8 billion, down 6% from a year ago, with earnings of 65 cents a share. Non-GAAP earnings were 87 cents a share.
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Uber has leveraged its technology stack and data architecture to create a flywheel that can expand into multiple new markets. Uber is data incorporated and likely a glimpse into future business models.
At Uber's Investor Day, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and the company's executive team outlined the company's growth plans, a $7 billion buyback and its data flywheel.
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We are excited to release the latest updates to the Constellation ShortList™ portfolio.
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Akamai announced plans to embed cloud computing across its edge network via an initiative called Gecko (Generalized Edge Compute) in a bid to grab AI inferencing, multiplayer gaming, streaming media, analytics and spatial computing workloads.
The company historically has been known as a content delivery network (CDN) provider but has moved into distributed cloud services. Akamai's bet is that cloud and edge networks will converge over time instead of being treated separately.
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Shopify is best known for its online commerce platform, but future growth is increasingly coming from offline brick-and-mortar merchants and point-of-sale terminals as well as new channels such as business-to-business companies.
Those takeaways were highlighted on Shopify's fourth quarter conference call. For those keeping score at home, "offline" was mentioned seven times on Shopify's earnings conference call. "Generative AI" was mentioned three times although Shopify Magic, the brand for genAI tools at Shopify, was mentioned six times.
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Otter.ai launched Meeting GenAI, a set of tools aimed that mine meetings across multiple platforms to create insights.
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Datadog continues to land large customers with more than $1 million in annual recurring revenue, but the company's outlook for fiscal 2024 and the first quarter was below expectations.
The company, which features a cloud application monitoring and security platform, delivered a strong fourth quarter. The company had 396 customers with more than $1 million in annual recurring revenue, up from 317 a year ago.
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The manufacturing industry and its supply chains are being rewired and could ultimately evolve into data-driven signal chains.
Those are some of the takeaways from Raj Badarinath, Chief Marketing & Product Officer at Rootstock.
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Commercial generative AI use cases are promising, but CXOs at the Hitachi Vantara Exchange in New York note there's a lot of work ahead--data management, privacy and training models--to scale. Larry Dignan, Constellation Insights Editor in Chief, sits down with Mark Katz, CTO of Financial Services at Hitachi Vantara, to discuss some of the key takeaways from Hitachi Vantara Exchange in New York...
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SAP on Sunday shook up its Supervisory Board. SAP's Supervisory Board nominated Pekka Ala-Pietilä to the board as the successor to Chairman Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner.
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DisrupTV Episode 352 — Featuring Marta Cruz, Patricia Pastor & Raj Badarinath
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with:
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Cohesity and Veritas' data protection unit, best known for its NetBackup software, will merge to form a company with $1.6 billion in annual revenue.
The companies said in a statement that the combined entity will be able to scale better, serve an installed base of more than 10,000 customers and focus research and development on cloud, security and artificial intelligence.
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Google rebranded Bard as Gemini and replaced Google Cloud's Duet AI as Gemini for Workplace, launched the Gemini Ultra 1.0 model and launched a $19.99 a month Google One Premium plan.
Simply put, Google's AI efforts now have a unified brand under Gemini, which is Google's chief rival to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
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MicroStrategy has transformed its offerings with cloud, artificial intelligence and a unified platform that runs on all three big hyperscalers. But you'd never really know it since MicroStrategy is best known as a bitcoin development company.
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