Heard on the Street – 8/21/2024

Welcome to insideAI News’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column. In this feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the AI industry ecosystem. We cover the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

deepset Launches Studio for Architecting LLM Applications with Native Integrations to deepset Cloud and NVIDIA AI Enterprise

deepset, the mission-critical AI company, today announced an expansion of its offerings with deepset Studio, an interactive tool that empowers product, engineering and data teams to visually architect custom AI pipelines that power agentic and advanced RAG applications. AI teams are now able to more easily build top-tier composable AI systems, and immediately deploy them in cloud and on-premises environments using deepset Cloud and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.

Cohesity Bolsters Cyber Resilience with GenAI Capabilities 

Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security and management, today extended its first-mover advantage in GenAI detection and recovery capabilities with the addition of significant new enhancements to the Cohesity Data Cloud. These improvements allow customers to use Cohesity’s built-in AI capabilities to rapidly detect, investigate, and address potential threats within their environment, enabling them to restore operations far more quickly.

Qlik Releases Qlik Talend Cloud, Providing Reliable AI Foundations for the Modern Enterprise

Qlik®, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), announced the general availability of Qlik Talend Cloud, a comprehensive integrated solution designed to enhance data trust and accessibility for AI value creation at scale. Underpinned by trusted Qlik and Talend® technologies, trusted by some of the world’s largest brands, Qlik Talend Cloud is designed to facilitate responsible enterprise AI adoption. 

Storj Acquires Leading AI Compute Provider, Valdi

Storj announced a new era in distributed cloud innovation with the acquisition of Valdi. Storj is a leader in distributed cloud object storage, disrupting the $100 billion cloud storage market, delivering up to 90% cost savings and 90% less carbon emissions for customers. Valdi is the leader in on-demand high performance cloud computing (GPUs) widely used for AI training and inference in data-intensive industries like technology, research and life-sciences.

Introducing Cognizant Neuro® Edge: Revolutionizing AI Deployment at the Edge

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) announced the launch of Cognizant Neuro®️ Edge, a new platform in the Cognizant Neuro®️ suite, designed to empower businesses across industries to leverage artificial intelligence and generative AI at the edge.

Teradata Collaborates with Google Cloud on Enterprise-Scale Trusted AI Offerings that Accelerate Time-to-Value and ROI

Teradata (NYSE: TDC) announced that it will offer Teradata VantageCloud Lake on Google Cloud, featuring updates that are designed to leverage the strengths of both Teradata and Google Cloud to deliver Trusted AI with the expertise, scale, and technology that enterprises require.

The insideAI News IMPACT 50 List for Q3 2024

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Hammerspace Advances GPU Data Orchestration Capabilities to Accelerate Access to S3 Data

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced the addition of the S3 interface to its Global Data Platform, advancing the orchestration of existing data sets to available compute resources. With today’s announcement, Hammerspace continues to offer organizations new, advantageous ways to manage and leverage data. By adding S3 to all other standard protocols for data ingestion, the Hammerspace platform ensures a seamless and efficient transfer of existing data into a global file system fueled by its automated orchestration system.

In the Era of Cloud and AI, Hard Drives are More Critical than Ever Before 

In this contributed article, Jason Feist, Seagate’s Senior Vice President of Products and Markets, believes that amidst the data center boom and growth of AI, data storage is more important than ever, and it’s high time we revisit the HDD vs. SSD debate. While flash offers latency advantages and prices dropped temporarily, SSDs haven’t – and
never will – replace HDDs,