Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of December 6, 2024.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant artificial intelligence news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy artificial intelligence news items.
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Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of December 6, 2024
CDW Acquires Mission Cloud
The transaction complements CDW Digital Velocity – CDW’s cloud, data, AI and software platform engineering organization – while bolstering CDW’s existing cloud expertise, market scale and solution capabilities. Mission and CDW will come together as CDW’s dedicated AWS practice.
Couchbase Releases New Capella AI Service
This allows organizations to avoid the excess latencies and high operational costs that application developers often experience when introducing new technology components and workflows. Couchbase empowers teams to safely bring agent-based applications into production by giving developers control over data across the development lifecycle and mitigating security and privacy issues from large language models (LLMs) running outside the organization.
Informatica Unveils Blueprints for Enterprise GenAI Apps
New developments include blueprints for enterprise-grade GenAI applications and automation recipes for Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that provides a single API to access and utilize various high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies.
Red Hat Collaborates with AWS On Virtualization and AI
Red Hat OpenShift, with the inclusion of OpenShift Virtualization and migration toolkit for virtualization, allows for easier migration of VMs. The solution is designed with the cloud in mind for full automation from day one deployments and includes auto-healing and reconciliation, applied to both containers and VM workloads.
Teradata Announces New Rapid-Start GenAI Use Cases with Bedrock
With this integration, Teradata customers gain access to a large repository of 60+ Gen AI use cases across various functions and industries to deliver exceptional customer experiences, boost employee productivity, and streamline business processes.
Expert Insights Section
Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.
What to Expect at the 6th Annual Insight Jam LIVE!: Strategies for AI Impact, December 10-13
The 6th Annual Insight Jam LIVE! is the original celebration of enterprise tech and a 4-day virtual event dedicated to equipping builders, implementers, and experts with actionable strategies for maximizing AI’s impact across the enterprise.
Centered on the theme Strategies for AI Impact, the event features more than 25 Expert Keynotes and Roundtable panels with participation from over 100 executives and thought leaders.
December 19: Solutions Review is Set to Host Neudesic, Microsoft, Databricks & Solutions Review Thought Leader Wayne Eckerson for an Exclusive Roundtable on Scaling Your AI with an Intelligent Data Platform
With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Neudesic, Microsoft, Databricks, and Eckerson Group to hear from experts at Databricks, Microsoft, and Neudesic as they share practical learnings and best practices to ensure successful AI outcomes.
NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with Solutions Review Thought Leader John Santaferraro Featuring ThoughtSpot Chief Data Strategy Officer Cindi Howson
They discuss how, despite the widespread hype around GenAI, actual enterprise adoption remains narrow, with most use cases focused on marketing and sales. The conversation explores the challenges of implementing AI in analytics platforms, the importance of culture in technology adoption, and how to evaluate AI-enabled analytics solutions.
NEW by Solutions Review Thought Leader Robert Eve: To Succeed in 2025, Data Engineers Need to Become More Lazy!
When asked how he addresses difficult and complex challenges, Microsoft founder Bill Gates replied, “I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” Gates’ advice seems counterintuitive regarding the difficult and complex challenges data engineers will face in 2025. That is until you consider recent advancements in AI-enabled data engineering tools.
NEW by Solutions Review Thought Leader John Santaferraro: How to Spot an AI Imposter – Part 3
The use of generative AI in business intelligence is no different than all other content creation use cases just mentioned. Remember, generative AI, with its ability to use AI to create things, has mostly just highlighted the advances that have already been made over the last decade. Therefore, to understand the use of generative AI in business intelligence, we have to understand the history of AI enabled business intelligence.
NEW by Solutions Review Thought Leader Samir Sharma: Are You Ready for AI’s Realities?
From conference stages to office corridors to political campaigns, there’s no denying it, AI is the obsession of the world right now. But there is a bigger question here, are companies prepared for what it takes to make AI work for them?
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