BDx Data Centers, a portfolio company of U.S. private equity firm I Squared Capital, is expanding its business growth strategy with the appointment of Manish Prakash as President and Chief Business Officer. Manish brings 25+ years of executive leadership in turnarounds, building sustainable organisations and digital transformation across leading global technology and telecom firms. At BDx, ...
Vishal Minocha, Infor vice president of product management, looks at the importance of integrating robotics with a modern warehouse management system (WMS) to optimise productivity and performance within the warehouse. Robotics has commanded headlines for its role in manufacturing and final assembly operations, with some of the world’s largest manufacturers reporting massive robotics-led ROI in th...
IFS has announced results of its global State of Service research study of Communication Service Providers (CSPs) which uncoversthe biggest field service challenges, technology adoption plans and top focus areas for the telecommunications industry this year. From improving customer experience to compete with new market entrantstoupdating legacy service management systems to optimize field engineer...
Dataiku, together with Databricks, has revealed survey findings that shed light on AI’s transformative impact on businesses globally. Over 70% of senior AI professionals see a positive return on investment for money spent on data science, analytics, and AI initiatives, with over half (54%) seeing at least a 2x return and five percent seeing a return greater than 10x. The findings confirm that AI, ...
Nutanix has announced the financial services industry findings of its fifth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey, which measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption. The research reveals that mixed deployments among financial companies are at 64%, which is slightly ahead of the global average, and data security considerations drive many of the financial sector’s infrastructure investment...
Cloudera has announced the appointment of Charles Sansbury as Chief Executive Officer. “I am pleased to announce that Charles Sansbury has been appointed as Cloudera CEO,” said Jeff Hawn, chairman of the board of directors. “In his twenty-plus years in corporate leadership roles, Charles has architected and led successful business strategies and operational initiatives that have delivered accelera...
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.7 trillion in 2023, an increase of 4.3% from 2022, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. As CIOs continue to lose the competition for IT talent, they are shifting spending to technologies that enable automation and efficiency to drive growth at scale with fewer employees. “Digital business transformations are beginning to morph,” said John-Davi...
Dell Technologies has introduced new offerings to help customers quickly and securely build generative AI (GenAI) models on-premises to accelerate improved outcomes and drive new levels of intelligence. New Dell Generative AI Solutions, expanding upon our May’s Project Helix announcement, span IT infrastructure, PCs and professional services to simplify the adoption of full-stack GenAI with ...
Digital Realty and TPG Real Estate, the real estate investment platform of alternative asset management firm TPG, announced today that they have established a joint venture in which TPG will acquire a majority stake in three stabilized hyperscale data centers in Northern Virginia (the “Portfolio”). Digital Realty will maintain a minority interest in the portfolio while continuing to m...
Schneider Electric and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) have announced the deployment of a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) on Microsoft Azure to more effectively maintain grid reliability, and accelerate customer adoption of distributed energy resources (DER) such as electric vehicles, energy storage and rooftop solar. Maintaining reliable energy service has grown ...
Eaton has announced the Gen2 version of its essential line interactive uninterruptible power supply (UPS) 5E. It provides power protection for the most essential applications in residential and professional settings and an excellent price-performance ratio. 5E Gen2 is a compact and reliable UPS that now covers a wider range of ratings (550 – 2200 VA) and operates even more silently for a better cu...
ServiceNow, NVIDIA and Accenture have announced the launch of AI Lighthouse, a first-of-its-kind program designed to fast-track the development and adoption of enterprise generative AI capabilities. Expanding on existing strategic partnerships among ServiceNow, NVIDIA, and Accenture, AI Lighthouse will assist pioneering customers across industries in the design, development, and implementation of ...