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Oracle's infrastructure as a service business gained momentum in the fourth quarter courtesy of generative AI workloads, according to CTO Larry Ellison. The company's cloud business also showed strong sales with the addition of Cerner.
Salesforce launched AI Cloud, which aims to be the layer that keeps corporate data private and secure as enterprises roll out generative AI and large language models.
DisrupTV Episode 325: Cybersecurity, Regenerative Agriculture & Leadership Development
In this insightful episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three distinguished thought leaders:
Alex Yampolskiy – CEO & Co-founder, SecurityScorecard
Commercial PCs are going to become more powerful and more expensive as enterprises configure them for data science, analytics and model training. As a result, you can expect your work laptop to resemble workstations in terms of specifications.
Adobe is scaling its Firefly Generative AI across enterprise content workflows and embedding it into Adobe Express. The upshot is that enterprises will be able to safely scale on-brand images, video and text using generative AI.
ConstellationTV Episode 59 just dropped!👇🏽 Here's what you'll find in this latest episode:
00:00 - Introduction
01:12 - Co-hosts Dion Hinchcliffe and Doug Henschen talk #tech news with Editor in Chief Larry Dignan, specifically dissecting #GenerativeAI trends, #AI spending, and more.
15:47 - Holger Mueller and Doug Henschen give event recaps of #SAP's Sapphire events in Barcelona and Orlando.
27:36 - Holger gives an event recap from IBM's Quantum Partner Forum in Paris and the latest trends in #quantum.
32:39 - CRTV bloopers!
Salesforce launched Marketing GPT and Commerce GPT in a move that melds generative AI, Data Cloud and business outcomes.
At its Connections event, Salesforce outlined Marketing GPT and Commerce GPT. Generative AI has been a fixture on the earnings conference calls of both enterprise customers and vendors.
Catch the latest #CX Convo between Liz Miller and Alan Masarek, CEO of Avaya. They cover what's next for the organization, how Avaya has re-centered its brand financially and culturally, and how this #transformation will empower and shape its #customerexperience and #employeeexperience moving forward...
Alan Masarek unpacks these four key objectives of Avaya...
➡️ Objective #1: Make Avaya a Destination Place to Work (DPTW) - a company that attracts the most talented in its industry. Culture wins all.
Three experts on work, employee experiences and balancing life held court on DisrupTV Episode 324 and the takeaways are keepers.
Here's an abbreviated list of the lessons on the latest episode as companies and employees struggle with the new hybrid normal.
Apple launched its $3,499 Vision Pro extended reality headset with its VisionOS software, its first new software platform since watchOS launched with the Apple Watch in 2015. The core pitch: Vision Pro can be a hybrid work and collaboration tool. Vision Pro is available early next year.
"This is a day that has been years in the making. Augmented reality is a profound technology," said Apple CEO Tim Cook. "It's the first Apple product you look through, not at."
DisrupTV Episode 324: Rethinking Employee Experience, Work-Life Integration & Mental Health in Leadership
In this insightful episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three distinguished thought leaders:
Tiffani Bova – Global Growth Evangelist at Salesforce and Author of The Experience Mindset
Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti said his firm is betting on generative AI and technology that won't replace human workers but make them superhuman and prioritize the customer.
Speaking during the keynote at the Domino Data Lab Rev 4 conference, Argenti outlined a bevy of thoughts on digital transformation and staying ahead of the AI curve. Among the key takeaways from the Rev 4 keynote:
Data center infrastructure companies say there will be a spike in demand for AI-optimized hardware, but it'll take time to develop as many customers are working on their generative AI plans and determining what workloads will be on-premises, edge, or cloud.
Generative AI is the topic du jour on earnings conference calls and technology press releases, but enterprise customers are wary of data security, compliance and hype. There's a generative AI rocket ship ahead, but the timing of lift off is debatable.
Dell Technologies saw its revenue fall 20% in the first quarter, but lower operating expenses enabled it to handily beat expectations.
The company reported first quarter earnings of 79 cents a share on revenue of $20.9 billion, down 20% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings in the first quarter were $1.31 a share.
Salesforce reported better-than-expected first quarter earnings and CEO Marc Benioff said the company will infuse "trusted, secure generative AI across our entire product portfolio."
Box CEO Aaron Levie outlined his take on generative AI, software table stakes, productivity and the importance of being neutral as enterprises race to integrate the technology.
The comments from Levie came on Box's first quarter earnings conference call. The company reported first quarter earnings of 2 cents a share on revenue of
$251.9 million, up 5.6% from a year ago. For the second quarter, Box projected revenue of $260 million to $262 million with non-GAAP earnings of 34 cents a share to 35 cents a share. The results and outlook were better than expected.
HP's PC business in the second quarter was down 29% from a year ago a consumer and commercial units fell. HP's second quarter earnings were better than expected.
The company's results highlight the pandemic PC hangover that tech vendors are facing. HP reported second-quarter earnings of $1.07 a share on revenue of $12.9 billion, down nearly 22% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings in the second quarter were 80 cents a share.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise saw strong fiscal second quarter growth from its intelligent edge and high performance computing and AI units as its earnings were better than expected.
HPE reported second quarter earnings of 32 cents a share on revenue of $7 billion, up 4% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were 52 cents a share. Wall Street analysts were expecting HPE to report non-GAAP earnings of 48 cents a share on revenue of $7.31 billion.