Amazon Web Services Inc. Chief Executive Matt Garman’s keynote at AWS re:Invent was filled with product updates with vision sprinkled in to help customers understand why the innovation matters. To no surprise, this year’s keynote had a strong focus on the explosion of artificial intelligence and agents.
Given Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.‘s Juniper acquisition has now had a bit of time to percolate, I was expecting to see at HPE’s European version of its user event Discover this week in Barcelona how it’s using the combined assets to reshape itself for the artificial intelligence era. The event is the first real glimpse into how the Juniper Networks acquisition is taking shape, just five months after the deal closed.
The cloud and artificial intelligence have the power to change the world of sports, and few technology providers have done a better job of executing on this than Amazon Web Services Inc. The company has partnerships with the NFL, Bundesliga, PGA TOUR, F1 and many more. With each organization, AWS works closely with them to deliver several fan, league and team facing innovations.
There is a growing duality of opposing forces that needs to be dealt with if customers are to have success with artificial intelligence. My research shows that more than 90% of organizations believe the network to be more important to business operations than it was two years ago. At the same time, almost the same number believe it to be more complex. These opposing forces of complexity and importance needs to get solved if companies are to attain the return on investment they seek with AI.
Scaling artificial intelligence is not just a compute problem but increasingly a network issue, a reality that Arista Networks addressed Wednesday by unveiling its latest switch family targeted toward AI data centers. It’s new generation, the R4 Series platform is based on the Broadcom Jericho3 Qumran3D silicon and is designed for AI, cloud data centers and routed backbone deployments.