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The list of VMware rivals trying to poach workloads is swelling and recent days highlight how vendors such as HPE, AWS, Red Hat and Nutanix are stepping up the pressure.
HPE reported better-than-expected fourth quarter results as server revenue surged due to AI demand. HPE also said that it expects its acquisition of Juniper Networks to close in early 2025.
Amazon Web Services has added new features to AWS Marketplace that will resonate with enterprise procurement teams, grow the cloud provider's reach and bring Amazon's commerce knowhow to partner websites.
AWS CEO Matt Garman at re:Invent 2024 elaborated on the company's strategy to serve up foundational building blocks, Intel's future, model choices, sustainability and why storylines about Trainium competing with Nvidia are misplaced.
Amazon Web Services added capacity sharing and training plans to Amazon SageMaker Hyperpod and added Lumi AI and Poolside models to Amazon Bedrock's selection of third party models. AWS also launched Amazon Bedrock Marketplace.
The next-gen Amazon SageMaker will compete with DataBricks, Microsoft Fabric and Google Cloud's BigQuery.
Here's how AWS filled out the Amazon Q Business narrative at re:Invent.
PagerDuty's increased integration with Amazon Web Services' Bedrock and Q Business is likely to give the company's strategy to target larger enterprises a lift.
Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Nova, a series of foundation models available in Bedrock, in a move that aims to provide large language model choice and commoditize the market.
AWS is expanding Amazon Bedrock to enable multi-agent collaboration to address higher complexity tasks. Alexa's overhaul will feature some of this orchestration.
