AWS Brings Data and AI Together
December 2024
The shot heard round the world at AWS re:Invent 2024 was the unveiling of a rethought SageMaker. A year ago, we called for AWS to start what we termed a “new day” for consolidating and rationalizing its vast array of cloud services. And nowhere is the challenge arguably greater than with data, analytics, and AI, which are increasingly coming together, Operational analytics is blurring the line with transactions, and on the analytics side, machine learning in the form of predictive analytics is increasingly insinuating itself into the types of BI queries that business users rely on for making decisions. And then there’s generative AI for making queries conversational and bridging the gap with texts, documents, messages and other un- or semi-structured data that can add context to traditional BI queries. AWS has offered multiple channels between Redshift ML, Athena, and SageMaker for disparate audiences. SageMaker brings this all together in a manner that is transformational for AWS.
IBM AI & Hybrid: 2024 Progress Report
November 2024
Five years later, it’s tempting to view Red Hat as a reverse acquisition as it coincided with a turnaround ending over a decade of declining revenues with a path to growth, record stock price, and a best friend relationship with AWS. By providing the missing piece of IBM’s hybrid and multicloud strategy, how is that preparing the ground for IBM’s AI strategy?
Teradata Vantagecloud Hits Inflection Point
November 2024
With Teradata’s move to the cloud hitting the five-year mark, it is now comprising over a third of the company's business. And with the move to the cloud, Teradata is seeking to broaden its sights from the Global 1000 to the Global 10,000. Long positioned and perceived as a sophisticated data warehouse designed solely for the most complex use cases, with the scale of the cloud, many “mainstream” enterprises may have Teradata-class analytic problems but not realize it. How does Teradata get its voice heard above the background noise?