At Qlik Connect in Orlando, significant announcements affecting the industry were examined. Key highlights included the integration of Talend Cloud to enhance data pipeline capabilities and the introduction of Qlik Answers, an AI-powered knowledge assistant tailored to enterprise data. The partnership with the United Nations to support climate change initiatives by leveraging data analytics was also discussed. Additionally, Qlik announced the formation of an AI Council composed of experts to guide their AI strategy. The discussions on data quality and seamless integration were particularly impressive and insightful. This and more on The Rundown. Thanks to Gina Rosenthal for cohosting.
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1:39 – Ticketmaster Hacked in Data Breach
Live Nation, parent company of Ticketmaster, filed a data breach with federal employees for an event that occured on May 20. A bad actor was selling their customers’ data on the dark web, They attributed the breach to a “third party cloud database, which turn out to be Snowflake. During the investigation, one of the credentials belonged to a Snowflake employee.
Read More: Live Nation confirms Ticketmaster was hacked, says personal information stolen in data breach
4:42 – NVIDIA Reveals Next-Gen AI Chips “Rubin”
Most major tech companies are at Computex in Taiwan this week, and we’re seeing a flood of announcements. The industry is buzzing following Jensen Huang’s announcement of the next-generation Rubin GPU platform and associated Vera Arm CPUs. These will replace Grace, Hopper, and Grace Hopper as Nvidia’s scalable AI platform in 2026 and beyond. It’s excellent to see Nvidia honor another woman in science with their platform names, in this case American astronomer Vera Rubin who passed away in 2016.
Read More: Nvidia jumps ahead of itself and reveals next-gen “Rubin” AI chips in keynote tease
7:29 – Google Cloud Customer Account Wiped
UniSuper is an Australian pension fund manager. It appears that due to a misconfiguration on the Google side, UniSuper had their entire account nuked from existence, including Google’s backups. Google confirmed this was an unprecedented, one of a kind outage.
Read More: “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
10:59 – Infinidat Announces G4 Storage Platform
Infinidat just introduced their biggest upgrade to date, enhancing their Infinibox enterprise storage platform with higher performance, cyber resilience, and hybrid multi-cloud offering in Azure and AWS. Lots of enterprise hardware companies have updated their offerings with the latest Intel Xeon CPUs, but Infinidat is headed in a different direction, using the latest AMD Epyc processors. Infinidat also claims to be the first high-end storage company to allow customers to updgrade just the controller, keeping their existing media.
14:35 – Cisco’s AI Innovations and Investments
At Cisco Live 2024, Cisco unveiled a series of AI-powered innovations aimed at enhancing digital resilience by integrating advanced networking, security, and observability capabilities. Cisco also introduced a $1 billion Global AI Investment Fund to drive industry innovation and customer readiness.
Since Tom Hollingsworth is attending Cisco Live for The Futurum Group, let’s check in with him on these announcements.
18:04 – Announcements from Qlik Connect
At Qlik Connect in Orlando, significant announcements affecting the industry were examined. Key highlights included the integration of Talend Cloud to enhance data pipeline capabilities and the introduction of Qlik Answers, an AI-powered knowledge assistant tailored to enterprise data. The partnership with the United Nations to support climate change initiatives by leveraging data analytics was also discussed. Additionally, Qlik announced the formation of an AI Council composed of experts to guide their AI strategy. The discussions on data quality and seamless integration were particularly impressive and insightful.
- 18:16 – Qlik Answers
- 23:42 – Qlik Talend Cloud
- 25:29 – Qlik’s AI Council
- 26:26 – Qlik’s Support of the UNFCCC
Tune in on June 6th for Qlik Connect content on the Tech Field Day website or on LinkedIn.
30:34 – The Weeks Ahead
Tech Field Day Experience at Qlik Connect – June 3 – 5
Tech Field Day Experience at Cisco Live – June 4 – 5
The Six Five Summit – June 11 – 13
Cloud Field Day 20 – June 12 – 13
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