AnalystANGLE

with Rob Strechay

About the podcast

TheCUBE’s AnalystANGLE videos dive into the world of technology through the expert lens of TheCUBE Research analysts. We provide comprehensive breakdowns of the latest technology events, as well as bring you in-depth interviews that highlight key takeaways, innovations and the future of tech as seen through the eyes of seasoned industry experts. Stay ahead of the curve with our insightful industry analysis. Whether it’s emerging trends, market shifts or predictive outlooks, our content is designed to keep you informed and prepared.

Get up close and personal with industry experts, as our interviews provide unique perspectives, expert opinions and thought-provoking discussions that are not just informative, but also inspiring.

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The Causal AI Marketplace

There is a missing ingredient in today’s AI, which, when added, will make AI a truly indispensable partner in business. The missing ingredient is CAUSALITY. Explore the emergence of the Causal AI marketplace.

Tracer’s Agentic AI Aims to Revolutionize Brand Protection: A Game-Changer in Digital Security

Tracer has introduced Flora, the world’s first agentic AI solution designed to combat digital brand misuse, provide digital security, and safeguard brands and customers in

Harnessing the Power of Enriched Metadata for Cloud Workloads

As organizations continue to distribute applications and infrastructure across public clouds, private data centers, and edge locations, securing and managing workloads across these private and public cloud environments has become critical. Whether it’s an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system or business analytics applications, these workloads require robust security measures, consistent service delivery, and seamless performance monitoring. Achieving these goals, however, is becoming increasingly complex, especially when dealing with disparate infrastructure deployed across different cloud environments. Gigamon recognized these struggles and created GigaVUE Enriched Metadata (GEM) for Cloud Workloads to overcome these challenges. The enriched metadata provides the ability to standardize workload monitoring, security, and performance management by drawing on workload context directly from cloud services and network traffic. At their recently held Visualyze Bootcamp customer conference, they outlined the value of enriched metadata and GEM for Cloud Workloads, highlighting that organizations can gain actionable insights to enable security compliance, accelerate

The Rise of Private 5G: Exploring Use Cases, Challenges, and Future Outlook

The Rise of Private 5G

Pedal To The Metal Against Ransomware With Cobalt Iron

raditional backup and recovery methods have shortcomings in protecting against ransomware. Ransomware attackers often target backup repositories, compromising an organization’s ability to recover data without paying the ransom. Cobalt Iron’s solution addresses these shortcomings with their solution to enhance organizations’ cyber resilency.

Zoho Raises the Bar in Self-Service BI with AI-Powered Zoho Analytics Platform

This Zoho Analytics update represents a quantum leap, leveraging Zoho’s extensive investments in AI, machine learning, and low-code development. The result is a powerhouse platform that combines ease of use with advanced capabilities typically reserved for data scientists and specialized BI teams.

Optimize Network Operations

Modern IT environments are highly dynamic and constantly evolving, creating numerous challenges for network operations teams. With more devices connecting to networks due to IoT and hybrid work, and the need for seamless connectivity across all locations, operations teams are under pressure. I had the opportunity to sit down with Anil Varanasi, the founder of Meter, highlighting how Meter addresses these challenges with innovative solutions to optimize network operations. The Growing Complexity of Networks According to recent research by theCUBE Research and ZK Research, 80% of organizations find their networks are more or much more complex than just two years ago. This complexity is driven by the proliferation of devices, the amount of data being transported over a distributed environment and having to leverage multiple management tools. Whether it’s a school, a warehouse with automated robots, or an office with remote workers, networking has become a critical part of operations.

Optimizing the Performance of Time-sensitive Applications

Optimizing the performance of time-sensitive applications

Gen AI and IT Infrastructure: Exploring the Impact on the Network

theCUBE Research’s Bob Laliberte is joined by Dell Technologies’ James Wynia and Saurabh Kapoor for this conversation about the impact of Gen AI on the network.

Expanding on Execution Engines and Composable Data Platforms

ABSTRACT: The future of intelligent data platforms is being reshaped by the growing adoption of composable architectures and cutting-edge execution engines. This research delves into transitioning from traditional, monolithic data systems to flexible, scalable, and high-performance modular data platforms. Key technologies like the Theseus execution engine, which utilizes GPU-accelerated hardware, are highlighted for reducing energy consumption while drastically enhancing query performance. Emphasizing the critical role of open standards and interoperability, the article explains how organizations can build custom data platforms that integrate best-of-breed components from various vendors. The benefits of composable data platforms, such as cost efficiency, innovation, and freedom from vendor lock-in, are explored alongside the challenges of managing complexity, ensuring consistent performance, and maintaining security. As AI and big data analytics converge, this analysis anticipates the future landscape of data platforms, where advanced composability and execution engine technologies will empower businesses to stay competitive in an increasingly data-centric

Commvault’s Laser Focus On Cyber Resilience

The conversation provides insights into a recent outage that affected various companies globally. Tim Zonca from Commvault discusses the widespread impact of the outage and emphasizes the importance of being prepared for such events, whether they are malicious or not. He also highlights the interconnected nature of technology and the need for organizations to have contingency plans to address similar incidents in the future.

Kaseya To The Rescue

Kaseya explains the cause of the July 2024 global outage and highlights the challenges faced in recovery due to the large number of affected endpoints. The conversation emphasizes the need for a quick and scalable resolution, detailing Kaseya’s involvement in the recovery and software solutions business.

Impact of GenAI on Data Center Infrastructure

The increasing demand for power and cooling in GenAI data centers poses new challenges for facility design and operations.

Paris 2024 Olympics: Tech Innovation on Display

As the Paris 2024 Olympics approach, there has been a lot of buzz about the tech innovation that will no doubt play an outsized role at the games, ranging from enhancing the fan experience to helping ensure safety for attendees. It’s fascinating to see how this technology integrates into large-scale events. I sat down with Rob Strechay, my colleague and fellow analyst here at theCUBE Research, to discuss some key technologies making headlines

Data Compliance is the Next Frontier: Meet Odaseva

Odaseva is a French-born, but now global enterprise data security platform that supports over 100 million Salesforce users. They recently secured a $54 million Series C round.

Unlocking the Future of Mainframes: Why They’re More Relevant Than Ever!

Mainframes continue to be a critical component of enterprise data strategies, evolving to meet the demands of modern data environments. This article explores the modernization of mainframes, their significance for real-time analytics, and their integration with AI and ML applications. It highlights the sustainability advantages of mainframes, their robust security and governance features, and their strategic role in future data infrastructures. By embracing modernization without disruption, businesses can leverage the scalability, reliability, and security of mainframes while integrating them with cloud-native technologies and modern data platforms. The future of mainframes is bright, offering a path to innovation and growth for organizations.

HPE and NVIDIA Rock the Sphere

Discover how HPE is revolutionizing AI and sustainability at HPE Discover 2024. Learn about HPE Private Cloud AI, Nvidia AI Computing by HPE, advanced networking solutions following the Juniper acquisition, and innovative sustainability practices. Explore HPE’s holistic approach to AI deployment and its commitment to reducing environmental impact through cutting-edge liquid cooling technologies. Find out how HPE is shaping the future of AI and sustainable IT.

Pure Accelerate 2024: Implementing AI to Bolster Support Cyber Resilience

Pure Accelerate 2024 announcements focus on implementing AI to bolster cyber resilience and providing creative ways to better support users.

VeeamON 2024: Veeam Announces New Capabilities

VeeamON 2024, Veeam’s annual event, featured news of new capabilities covered in this discussion with VP of Product Strategy, Rick Vanover

Veeam 2024 Ransomware Research Report Tracks Cyber Market Trends

This discussion explores the Veeam 2024 Ransomware Research Report, which tracks cyber market trends and explores the state of ransomware

Dell Focuses on AI Factories: Highlights the Importance of Networking

Dell Technology World 2024 took place at the Venetian Expo Center last week, just a stone’s throw from the Sphere, celebrating 40 years in business. As has been the theme of tech events this spring, Dell also focused on AI and, more specifically, the Dell AI Factory. As Michael Dell explained, the stated goal of these AI factories is to bring AI to the data and leverage these factories to convert data to intelligence for a business. Jensen Huang of NVIDIA highlighted this significance by stating, “For the very first time in history, we now have the ability to manufacture intelligence”. To accelerate the building of these AI factories, Dell and its partner ecosystem will provide all the infrastructure and services required to build these on-premises environments. This includes high-performance servers, GPUs, networking, storage, and even AI-enabled PCs. To optimize these AI factories, Dell made many new product announcements including

What about Data?

Exploring the crucial role of data in business operations and the challenges organizations face in managing and safeguarding it.

Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2024: AI’s Linux Moment

The 2024 Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest in Denver highlighted the pivotal role of open-source AI in accelerating organizational transformation and innovation. The event emphasized the transformative potential of open-source AI infrastructure, showcasing significant announcements, one being the open sourcing of IBM’s Granite Models. Red Hat’s commitment to an open partnership model was evident, aiming to democratize AI through collaborations that tailor solutions to customer needs. Other key announcements included the RHEL Image Mode and RHEL AI, which focused on enhancing the deployment and management of AI applications across hybrid cloud environments. The event also marked the launch of InstructLab, a community-driven project for creating synthetic data and fine-tunig large language models (LLMs) in an open-source framework. Additionally, OpenShift AI’s evolution was showcased with new capabilities for model deployment and management, focusing on enhanced developer productivity and operational efficiency at scale. Overall, the event underlined the critical role of community and open-source frameworks in advancing AI technologies and strategies for future developments.

Riverbed Ramps Up Innovation: Launches AI-Powered Platform and Much More

In case you missed it this week, Riverbed had a significant technology and innovation launch, rolling out a new platform along with several new or enhanced solutions designed to optimize experiences and drive operational efficiencies. In this launch, Riverbed unveiled its AI-powered, open observability platform, supported by a new unified agent, data store, and topology viewer. If that wasn’t enough innovation, the launch also included several other new solutions including Riverbed Aternity Mobile, Riverbed NPM+, Riverbed IQ 2.0, and an enhanced Riverbed NetProfiler. My first take on this launch is one of a company level. Riverbed has been in business for a couple of decades and has always remained focused on delivering high-fidelity data across the networking and application domains. However, over time those technologies were separated. Now that both those technologies are together again, it is great to see the integration and innovation accelerating to deliver even more value

IBM + HashiCorp + Red Hat: It’s about the Cloud Operating Model

IBM’s acquisition of HashiCorp presents a pivotal moment for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments. With a focus on aligning missions and accelerating growth, IBM intends to operate HashiCorp independently, akin to the Red Hat model. Synergies in product offerings, particularly Terraform and Vault, promise enhanced cloud operations. Financially, increased investment in R&D and cloud-hosted solutions is anticipated, leveraging IBM’s extensive customer base. Licensing discussions hint at potential adjustments, reflecting industry trends. Amidst integration challenges, preserving HashiCorp’s culture remains paramount. With implications for the cloud operating model landscape, including OpenShift versus VMware, the acquisition signifies a transformative phase for cloud infrastructure providers.

AI-Powered Metadata: Informatica’s Role in the Future of Data Management

Metadata plays a pivotal role in modern data management, helping organizations streamline data utilization across industries. A unified metadata system addresses integration challenges by harmonizing diverse data sources into a coherent knowledge graph, while AI automates complex processes such as data ingestion, transformation, and pipeline creation. This network effect strategy enhances metadata quality throughout the data lifecycle, and advanced entity resolution capabilities ensure accurate 360-degree views of customer data. Metadata management empowers stakeholders, from data engineers to business analysts, to make informed decisions and boost productivity. The continued integration of AI into metadata management systems aims to develop intelligent data platforms, products, and apps, driving innovation in data management.

Zoom News and Announcements from Enterprise Connect

On this episode of our AnalystANGLE series, I explored Zoom’s announcements out of Enterprise Connect, held a couple of weeks ago in Orlando. Zoom announced many new features to its AI-powered collaboration platform, Zoom Workplace. Zoom Workplace brings the entire Zoom ecosystem under one roof for meetings, team chat, and phone interaction and can be seamlessly integrated into existing technologies. As expected, Zoom’s AI Companion is at the core of Zoom Workplace and is included at no additional cost, which is a significant differentiator from Zoom’s competitors. With a nod to some earlier troubles on this front, Zoom made a special point to note on more that one occasion that the company does not use any customer data or third-party data to train its AI model. While AI companion was introduced in September 2023, Zoom has added new capabilities such as auto language detection capabilities to generate more valuable summaries

Kyndryl Cloudflare, Dell’s Gen AI Solutions, NVIDIA GTC, and Nile’s AI Networking Solution

We also discuss Cloudflare’s acquisition earlier this month of multicloud networking startup Nefeli Networks, Dell’s expansion of its Gen AI Solutions Portfolio in collaboration with support from NVIDIA. We covered news out of NVIDIA’s GTC event this past week, including announcements around NVIDIA NVlink and 6G research platform. And last but not least, we touched on news from Nile introducing the industry’s first AI Networking Solution with performance guarantee