At the end of every baseball season, fans and commentators like to gather around and discuss the woulda-coulda-shoulda’s of the year in excruciating detail. Then there’s Extreme Networks, which powers networking for MLB. They’re all about “Been there, done that.”
It was an interesting year for the world’s largest networking vendor. Cisco Systems Inc. put up record revenue and earnings despite a highly volatile macro environment affected by wars, social issues, inflation, rising interest rates and the like. The company also made the biggest acquisition in its history in September when it announced the purchase of Splunk.
Seattle-based Qumulo, which describes itself as “the simple way to manage exabyte-scale data anywhere,” recently announced a new version of its Scale Anywhere platform. The solution, which can run on commodity hardware or in the public cloud, seeks to help enterprises vexed by unstructured data. The company says that Scale Anywhere uses a unified approach to improve efficiency, security, and business agility.
Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are more than just a trend; they have become a significant part of real-world applications. AI is transforming what’s possible, turning tasks that would take years to complete into ones that can be done in minutes.
A recent survey conducted by AWS and Morning Consult reveals a significant shift in business attitudes and plans toward responsible artificial intelligence for the upcoming year. A key finding from the survey’s many results: a remarkable 77 percent of the respondents acknowledge the importance of responsible AI, with younger leaders—aged 18 to 44—showing a higher familiarity with the concept of responsible AI compared to their older counterparts.