The National Basketball Association and Amazon Web Services Inc. today entered a multiyear partnership in which AWS will serve as the official cloud artificial intelligence provider for the NBA and all its affiliates, which includes the NBA G League, WNBA and Basketball Africa. The partnership centers on using the NBA’s data and AWS AI to transform the game experience for fans.
This past week the Ryder Cup was held at the famed Bethpage Black Golf Course in Farmingdale, New York. While the raucous crowd cheered the U.S. team, and European fans sang, “Ole, Ole,” Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. worked with the Ryder Cup to provide a rock-solid technology foundation for all aspects of the event including fan experience, back-office operations and all other aspects of running an event like this.
QumulusAI, a Georgia-based provider of graphics processing unit-powered cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence, is making moves to claim a leadership position in the emerging neocloud market today by naming Michael Maniscalco new chief executive officer. Maniscalco (pictured), former chief technology officer of Applied Digital Corp., will bring his technical skills to an already deep team to bring enterprise-grade AI infrastructure to market.
Zoom Communications Inc. has a variety of products, including meetings, contact center, front-line worker applications and others, but this week there’s a single theme that cut across the fully virtual Zoomtopia event: artificial intelligence. In fact, with that emphasis on how AI is expanding and enhancing Zoom’s conferencing and related services, they could have called the event ZoomtopAI.
F5 Inc., the Seattle-based application delivery and security company, is expanding its portfolio with today’s acquisition of CalypsoAI Inc., a leader in enterprise artificial intelligence security. The acquired company was founded in 2018, showing it has been pioneers in the AI security market long before the latest hype cycle. The purchase price was announced at $180 million. The company had raised $43.2 million over three rounds, so the acquisition price provided the investors a strong return.