AI computing employs GPU/XPU clusters that are growing at unprecedented speeds, as well the bandwidth and power requirements of networks to support them. Near Margalit, Broadcom’s vice president and general manager of the Optical Systems Division, sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior semiconductor analyst Kunjan Sobhani in this Tech Disruptors podcast episode to discuss Broadcom’s innovations in optical networking, specifically on the role of its co-packaged optics (CPO) and how it could emerge as preferred solution for solving the bandwidth, power and cost challenges of AI infrastructure.
The readiness of companies’ data for AI use cases will be critical to their innovation and market leadership. In this episode of the Bloomberg Intelligence Tech Disruptors podcast, Precisely CTO Tendü Yoğurtçu and BI’s senior technology analyst Sunil Rajgopal discuss data integration, data quality, location intelligence and data-enrichment tools, and their roles in enterprise intelligence and decision-making. Yoğurtçu zeroes in on the data requirements needed to efficiently integrate generative-AI solutions, the data-integration tools landscape and how Precisely differs from the competition.
“We’re seeing a big increase in GPU capacity demands and we expect the data centers over the next couple of years will need to support higher power densities giving us the ability to run very large clusters of GPUs,” says AWS Global Data Centers VP Kevin Miller. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Miller talks with BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana about all things cloud infrastructure, including data-center demand for AI, the timeline to construct new centers, the differences in the stress that training and inferencing place on the hardware and ways in which AWS is keeping the environment in mind as they approach their 2040 goal of carbon neutrality.
Expanded artificial-intelligence workloads are raising the power and cooling requirements of data centers, with individual rack consumption predicted to increase by 10x compared with traditional compute. Vertiv is a market-leading provider of UPS, liquid cooling and switchgear solutions catering to these needs. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Vertiv CEO Giordano “Gio” Albertazzi sat down with Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Mustafa Okur and Woo Jin Ho to discuss the opportunities and challenges in the data-center infrastructure market.
“We see a lot more focus on digital-first, whether you’re thinking of branding, social, advertising and so on. Everyone is thinking of digital first,” Adobe’s president of Digital Experience Anil Chakravarthy explains to Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. On his second appearance on the Tech Disruptors podcast, Chakravarthy homes in on new products GenStudio and Acrobat AI Assistant. Together, he and Rana explore how these tools leverage AI, fit into the company’s broader portfolio and can lighten the workload at Adobe’s customers and partners.
1Password has evolved from a consumer service to a B2B provider as passwords remain one of the points of vulnerability for cyberattacks. In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, 1Password’s CEO Jeff Shiner and BI’s Mandeep Singh talk about the integration of 1Password with other cybersecurity vendors including Okta and other single-sign on and multifactor authentication (MFA) players focused on identity and device security.
Seagate’s relentless hard-disk-drive technology innovation has expanded mass-capacity storage solutions over the past several years. Jason Feist, senior vice president of products and markets, sits down with Woo Jin Ho, Bloomberg Intelligence hardware and networking analyst, in this edition of the Tech Disruptor podcast. They discuss the company’s breakthrough heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) based Mozaic 3+ platform, its role in serving cloud and enterprise data centers’ burgeoning storage needs and the relationship between hard drives and solid-state drives in AI infrastructure
Anthropic cofounder Jared Kaplan talks about the nuances of training LLMs and deploying them for enterprise use cases with Mandeep Singh, technology analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. The use of GPU clusters for training and inferencing, pitfalls related to hallucinations and LLM biases are among the topics discussed in this episode of BI’s Tech Disruptors podcast
Planning, management and collaboration over enterprise workflows has become more complex with a growing stack of enterprise-software tools, distributed work and agile development frameworks, driving demand for robust, single-pane workflow management solutions. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors Podcast, monday.com’s Chief Financial Officer Eliran Glazer and Chief Product and Technology Officer Daniel Lereya join Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the workflow management solutions landscape, pricing and AI-driven challenges and opportunities. They also talk about competition for the company’s multi-vertical solutions and their approach to growth.
GSK’s Chief Digital and Technology Officer Shobie Ramakrishnan discusses how the company is leveraging AI and data models for vaccine development and drug discovery in this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast. BI’s Health-Care Analyst Sam Fazeli and Technology Analyst Mandeep Singh are hosts.
“Every modern business is a data business,” says Amazon Vice President Data Storage Services and Cloud Migration, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec that “will be won or lost on the quality of the data, not the volume.” In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana talks with Tomsen Bukovec about the evolution of AWS storage, specifically S3, and how features like intelligent tiering have shaped the cloud-storage landscape. They also discuss how the notion around storage is changing to support generative AI and what AWS is doing to make sure its customers are prepared to adopt the right LLMs for their datasets.
Gleaning intelligence from diverse and disaggregated customer touch points — particularly digital — is crucial for businesses. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Spenser Skates, CEO and co-founder at Amplitude, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the digital-analytics landscape, customer-adoption path and the impact of new AI tools. The two also talk about potential changes in the industry, the competition backdrop and the company’s growth strategy.
The rise of artificial-intelligence workloads has pulled forward years of compute, storage and networking-infrastructure technologies, exponentially increasing the complexity in building systems for large enterprises and hyper-scale cloud customers. In this episode of the Bloomberg Intelligence Tech Disruptors podcase, Penguin Solutions (a division of SGH) Chief Technology Officer Phil Pokorny and VP of Global Marketing Mark Seamans sit down with Woo Jin Ho, BI hardware and networking analyst, to discuss the next generation infrastructure requirements, the evolving hardware and systems needs as AI grows and how Penguin has become a partner in building out AI factories.
“Our job is to unlock data for people, and being able to generate insights from it, whether it’s structured or unstructured, is a big opportunity for customers,” says Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast Aytay and Anurag Rana, BI’s senior technology analyst, discuss trends in data visualization, how Tableau has cemented itself as a leading provider and how generative AI promises to shift the landscape. Aytay also speaks about how Salesforce propelled Tableau’s growth since acquiring it in 2019, and the business-intelligence provider’s work on other initiatives like Einstein and Data Cloud.
When organizations begin planning to migrate business applications to the cloud, security starts to take the drivers seat, Onapsis Chief Technology Officer Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen says. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Perez-Etchegoyen joins Mandeep Singh, BI technology analyst, to discuss the deployment of security for enterprise resource-planning applications such as SAP. The conversation includes platformization, integration of Onapsis with other cyber providers and into the customers’ IT environment, and how the company stacks up against point products, including Qualys and Tenable, that specialize in vulnerability management and patching.
Softbank Vision Fund’s Director of Life Science and HealthTech John Cassidy discusses his approach to investing in health-care technology in this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. Co-hosts Sam Fazeli, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior pharmaceutical analyst, and Mandeep Singh, BI’s senior tech analyst, also talk with Jason Burch, head of platform technologies at Ventus Therapeutics, one of the Vision Fund’s portfolio companies. Burch shares his perspective on how to leverage technology for research and his prognosis for drug discovery in the age of generative AI.
Check Point’s CEO Gil Shwed sits down with Mandeep Singh, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior tech analyst, in this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, to talk about cybersecurity and the future of firewalls as attacks become more sophisticated. They discuss how companies are implementing a modern day SOC (Security Operations Center) and how consolidation and the emerging concept of “platformization” will impact the cybersecurity market.
The rise of generative-AI workloads has invigorated the cloud-services sector, with AI training and inference emerging as the next growth engine. Privately held provider, Vultr, pivoted early to building out an accelerated compute infrastructure. Vultr CEO J.J. Kardwell sits down with Woo Jin Ho, Bloomberg Intelligence tech analyst, in this Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss AI cloud demand and how the company’s holistic AI-services approach is far more than just stringing together a bunch of GPU clusters in a data center.
“Regulatory regimes change every day around the world,” says Clearwater Analytics CEO Sandeep Sahai, explaining one advantage of an investment reporting program that can reflect daily changes. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast Sahai talks with Anurag Rana, Bloomberg Intelligence technology analyst, about how Clearwater is disrupting institutional investment reporting, how it plans to monetize generative AI and how the company’s high customer retention is driven by consistent product innovation.
Machine learning is expanding the use of predictive analytics across all industries, and C3.ai’s software offerings made it well prepared for this moment of broad generative-AI adoption, says CEOThomas Siebel. In this episode of theTech Disruptors Podcast, Siebel joins hostSunil Rajgopal, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior software analyst, to discuss how developments in machine learning are reshaping businesses and industries as well as the opportunities and complexities of large-language models. The two also talk about C3.ai’s shifting business model and the company’s leadership pipeline.