Topic: data infrastructure
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Snowflake's 32% Growth Defies Tech Slowdown, Proves Data Infrastructure Resilient
Snowflake's revenue grew 32% year-over-year, highlighting strong demand for data infrastructure despite broader tech budget constraints. AI is a key driver, influencing half of new customer acquisitions and a quarter of use cases on Snowflake's platform. The company's innovations, such as Cortex ...
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IBM Acquires Confluent for $11B to Boost Data Capabilities
IBM is acquiring data infrastructure firm Confluent for $11 billion to strengthen its position in the competitive cloud and AI markets. Confluent's real-time data stream management technology is highly valuable for AI applications and will enhance IBM's data and AI product portfolio. This acquisi...
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Pure Storage & Cisco Launch AI Factories with NVIDIA
Pure Storage and Cisco have partnered to create a validated FlashStack design, integrating compute, storage, and networking into a unified platform to help businesses scale generative AI from pilots to production, addressing common data bottlenecks. The solution emphasizes data readiness by lever...
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Fivetran and dbt Labs Merge in Major Data Infrastructure Shift
Fivetran and dbt Labs have merged in an all-stock deal to create an open data infrastructure platform that integrates data movement, transformation, and activation, aiming to simplify workflows and support various tools and AI models. The merger reinforces a commitment to open-source development,...
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Fivetran and dbt Merge to Power AI Data Pipelines
Fivetran and dbt are merging to create a unified platform, combining data movement and transformation capabilities to simplify complex data architectures. The new entity will focus on open data infrastructure, supporting multiple cloud environments and tools while maintaining dbt Core as an open-...
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Alloy Unlocks Data Management for Robotics
Robotics companies face a major challenge in managing the immense volume of data—up to a terabyte per day per robot—generated by automated systems from cameras and sensors. Alloy, a Sydney-based startup, provides specialized data infrastructure that uses natural language queries and custom rules ...
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Gitex Global 2025: AI Use Cases Take Center Stage
Gitex Global 2025, scheduled for October 13-17 in Dubai, will showcase transformative AI applications and position Dubai as a central hub in the global AI economy, focusing on data, algorithms, and interconnected digital systems. The event will feature over 6,800 companies and 2,000 startups from...
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AI FDI Hits 22% in 2025, Set to Top $1.2 Trillion by 2029
Artificial intelligence and sustainability are now central drivers of global investment, reshaping capital allocation and economic growth, with AI-related foreign direct investment projected to reach 22% of global FDI in 2025 and investments in AI infrastructure expected to exceed $1.2 trillion b...
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Prove AI's ROI: 5 Expert Tips for Your Business
Demonstrating the business value of AI is challenging but crucial for securing support, requiring a shift from technical metrics to tangible outcomes that resonate with decision-makers. Successful AI initiatives depend on starting with small experiments, modernizing data infrastructure, and makin...
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97% of Firms Can't Prove AI ROI: 5 Expert Fixes
97% of organizations struggle to prove ROI from generative AI, but strategies like setting clear project boundaries and modernizing data infrastructure can help manage this challenge effectively. Securing organizational buy-in requires using business-relevant metrics, aligning stakeholders, and i...
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Your AI's Weakest Link: Bad Data
Businesses increasingly see data as a vital asset, but many struggle to convert it into reliable insights, with a majority of technical leaders reporting difficulties in using data effectively for core priorities. The rise of AI is driving a transformation into 'agentic enterprises,' requiring an...
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Africa Tech Festival 2025: Leaders from Gov, Biz & Sport to Drive Digital Future
The Africa Tech Festival 2025, scheduled for November 11–13 in Cape Town, is the premier event for advancing Africa's digital transformation through expanded speaker lineups and cross-sector collaboration. Key speakers include government officials like South Africa's Minister of Communications, c...
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Global Trust in GenAI Rises Despite AI Safety Gaps
Trust in generative AI is rising significantly, yet investments in making these systems genuinely trustworthy are lagging behind, creating a critical gap between perception and practice. Companies that invest heavily in responsible AI governance and ethics are 1.6 times more likely to see doubled...
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UAE Firms Lead EMEA in AI Productivity, 44% Expect ROI in a Year
UAE businesses are leading the EMEA region in AI-driven productivity gains, with 77% reporting significant operational improvements and 44% expecting ROI within a year. The adoption of AI is shifting from experimentation to full-scale execution, enhancing decision-making, automating tasks, and tr...
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Struggling With AI ROI? The Human-Centric Solution
A recent MIT study found that up to 95% of enterprise AI projects fail to deliver meaningful results, highlighting widespread underperformance in generating ROI. Research identifies a critical trust gap, with businesses rapidly adopting AI but lacking confidence in its reliability, exacerbated by...
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Saudi Telecom Giant GO Group Launches AI Hub in Pakistan
Saudi Arabia's GO Telecommunications Group has launched its first Artificial Intelligence Hub in Pakistan, strengthening digital ties between the two countries with support from key officials. The hub aims to foster bilateral cooperation in AI research, skill development, and technology creation,...
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Measure Account Progression, Not Just Attribution
Shift from traditional lead-based metrics to measuring account progressio, which tracks how target accounts move through defined buying stages (e.g., unaware to customer) for a more accurate, holistic view of revenue potential. Account progression aligns marketing and sales by focusing on ad...
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Unlock Business Value with Logical Data Management
Logical data management creates virtual connections between disparate data sources, establishing a unified framework for secure, governed data access without physical movement. This approach is essential for meeting modern AI and self-service data needs by providing real-time, trusted information...
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GITEX GLOBAL 2025 Sets Record with Global Tech Dialogues
GITEX GLOBAL 2025 set records as the world's premier tech event, featuring 6,800 enterprises and showcasing innovations in AI, quantum computing, and digital health across five days at Dubai venues. The event emphasized international collaboration and policy discussions on AI, with key dialogues ...
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Alphabet Shifts Focus to AI, Shuts Down Verily Medical Devices
Verily, Alphabet's life sciences division, is discontinuing its medical devices program and reducing staff to focus more on artificial intelligence and data infrastructure. This strategic pivot is part of Alphabet's broader effort to streamline operations and invest in high-growth areas, followin...
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Gartner Predicts Gen AI Disillusionment by 2025
Gartner's 2025 Hype Cycle report highlights AI agents and data management as peak hype areas, but warns of an impending reality check for many AI innovations due to inflated expectations. The study emphasizes the need for strategic AI implementation, refined data infrastructure, and AI Trust, Ris...
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Intuit Inks $100M OpenAI Deal to Integrate Apps With ChatGPT
Intuit has invested over $100 million in a partnership with OpenAI to integrate its financial tools like TurboTax and QuickBooks into ChatGPT, enabling users to manage tasks through conversational AI. The integration uses personal financial data with user consent to provide tailored services, whi...
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