Tag: Big Data

Veeam’s big pivot on display at VeeamON 2026

Veeam Software Group GmbH used VeeamON 2026 in New York City this week to punctuate its shift from “the backup company” to a data and artificial intelligence trust platform for the agentic era. With a new architectural layer and an aggressive product roadmap, Chief Executive Anand Eswaran (pictured) and President of Products and Technology Rehan Jalil are betting that the next decade of enterprise infrastructure will be defined less by how quickly you can restore a virtual machine or data set and more by how confidently you can let AI act on your data.

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Veeam’s big pivot on display at VeeamON 2026

How the NFL is using Amazon Quick to humanize the offseason

For years, the National Football League offseason was a period defined by information asymmetry. While front offices sat behind “glass walls” in war rooms, armed with proprietary Next Gen Stats and sophisticated modeling tools, the average fan was left to navigate a fragmented landscape of mock drafts, cap calculators, PDF guides and Twitter rumors.

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How the NFL is using Amazon Quick to humanize the offseason

How AWS is partnering with F1 to reshape auto racing

Even in auto racing, it’s all about the data today. Amazon Web Services Inc. is a global partner of Formula One and has been the official cloud and machine learning provider for the league since 2018. The dynamic, longstanding partnership comes down to three core pillars: transforming data into racing intelligence, fan experience enhancement and technical transformation.

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How AWS is partnering with F1 to reshape auto racing

Splunk .conf25 shows good progress with Cisco integration

It has been almost a year and a half since Cisco Systems Inc. acquired Splunk Inc. At the time, investors were happy because it was a good financial move. Cisco spent $28 billion and would get back about $4 billion a year in revenue that was accretive to profit margins. Splunk revenue is primarily subscription-based, which would accelerate Cisco’s march toward this model.

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Splunk .conf25 shows good progress with Cisco integration

NiCE-Snowflake partnership addresses a significant AI customer pain point

One of the major announcements at contact-center-as-a-service leader NiCE Ltd.‘s Interactions user event in Las Vegas last week was a partnership with Snowflake Inc., the cloud-based data warehousing company. This might seem like a strange partnership as typical partners for contact center vendors include customer relationship management companies, service firms and the like, but this addresses a huge customer pain point, which is management of data.

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NiCE-Snowflake partnership addresses a significant AI customer pain point