As artificial intelligence and agentic systems transform the way that businesses operate, data platforms have taken on a more significant role beyond mere operational infrastructure. They have emerged as the organizing focus of the modern enterprise, delivering a cohesive, scalable AI data platform system that enables the storing, processing and management of data across key ...

In many organizations today operations managers, product leads, sales practitioners and finance professionals can add a new title to their resumes: software engineer. That’s one of the outcomes from the rise of low-code/no-code platforms through which developing and safely deploying software for internal use is becoming more widely adopted. One of the companies at the ...

Around this time last year, Salesforce Inc. CEO Marc Benioff decided to rewrite his entire audience-tested keynote address for the company’s annual Dreamforce conference to focus on AI agents and his firm’s initiative to deploy the autonomous technology across its base of over 150,000 customers. As over 40,000 people prepare to gather in San Francisco this ...

The challenge of meeting artificial intelligence mandates, coupled with a push to build workloads that can manage traditional applications alongside containers and edge computing, is putting significant pressure on IT organizations these days. This challenge has led to the emergence of private cloud as a key solution for supporting a rapidly changing IT landscape. The ...

Artificial intelligence innovation is moving at warp speed, but major tech industry players are sounding alarm bells that infrastructure is failing to keep pace with advancements in the field. “AI is kicking our butts and teaching us that we know nothing about infrastructure,” Yee Jiun Song (pictured below), vice president of engineering at Meta Platforms Inc., ...

The enterprise data storage world is undergoing a transformation as IT vendors rethink how their offerings handle both the volume and complexity of artificial intelligence workloads. It’s a transition that requires new approaches to enable faster data retrieval and support the need for AI systems to process and retain large amounts of relevant information instantaneously. ...

Enterprise security is facing a turning point as attackers abandon traditional malware in favor of stealthy, AI-powered intrusions. For today’s security leaders, the challenge is no longer just detecting files — it’s defending against invisible, fileless threats that exploit identities, cloud environments and the very infrastructure enterprises depend on. CrowdStrike Inc. released two threat reports ...

Hyperscale data center operators are poised to invest billions to build out AI infrastructure, and this has placed a spotlight on the role of software-defined storage in new platform deployment. For Supermicro Computer Inc., this represents an opportunity to not only showcase its portfolio of servers, storage systems and switches, but also to work with ...

A series of announcements from Broadcom Inc. this week underscored its plan to transform VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 into an AI-native platform. At the heart of that vision is artificial intelligence, with private AI serving as a key element that makes VCF a secure, scalable private cloud foundation. On Tuesday, Broadcom announced the addition of ...

The challenge confronting Dell Technologies Inc. is how to capitalize on the explosive AI opportunity while transitioning its millions of servers, storage arrays and PCs to a new era of innovation. This challenge will require a focus on go-to-market, supply chain, services and product, according to Alex Barretto (pictured, right), senior vice president at Dell. ...