Global Stories

Evolving a data centre into an Artificial Intelligence factory

The advent of AI factories is revolutionising business operations by merging GenAI capabilities with modernised data centres, enhancing productivity and sustainability.

By George Dragatsis • 4 min read • Fri, 5th Jul 2024

DevOps

UiPath launches advanced AI tools to boost automation efficiency

UiPath revealed generative AI features at its London summit, including the Autopilot tool and new specialised language models, aiming to revolutionise automation efficiency.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Fri, 5th Jul 2024

Marketing Technologies

Exclusive: Informatica reveals benefits of CLAIRE GPT

Gaurav Pathak, who played a pivotal role in the AI tool's development, has described CLAIRE GPT as an enterprise-focused alternative to Chat GPT.

By Melania Watson • 5 min read • Tue, 25th Jun 2024

Application Performance Monitoring

Databricks & Shutterstock launch enterprise AI image model

Databricks and Shutterstock unveil Shutterstock ImageAI, a powerful text-to-image AI model designed for enterprises, leveraging millions of Shutterstock images for high-fidelity visuals.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Mon, 17th Jun 2024

Data Analytics

Databricks unveils AI/BI to transform business intelligence

Databricks introduces AI/BI, an AI-driven business intelligence tool with low-code dashboards and natural language queries, enhancing real-time data insights.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Fri, 14th Jun 2024

Hyperscale

Databricks open sources Unity Catalog, unifying data & AI governance

Databricks open sources Unity Catalog, enhancing data and AI governance across multiple clouds and platforms, with support from AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and more.

By Catherine Knowles • 4 min read • Fri, 14th Jun 2024

Storage

Cirata integrates Data Migrator 2.5 with Databricks Unity Catalog

Cirata has integrated its latest Data Migrator with Databricks' Unity Catalog, enhancing data governance and simplifying Hadoop data management in cloud environments.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Fri, 7th Jun 2024

Customer Experience

First-party data getting you down? 5 Tactics that will take you from zero to hero

Struggling with first-party data? Master these 5 tactics to overcome messy data, lack of strategy, and access issues, and transform your approach.

By Billy Loizou • 5 min read • Thu, 6th Jun 2024

Storage

Hitachi Vantara honoured as leader in 2024 GigaOm Radar study

Hitachi Vantara has been named a leader in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Unstructured Data Management, highlighting its excellence in intelligent data solutions.

By Imee Dequito • 3 min read • Thu, 6th Jun 2024

Risk & Compliance

How to build a compelling business case for AI projects

Crafting compelling AI business cases is crucial as AI reshapes industry. Leaders must benchmark, involve employees, focus on data quality, and consider ethical implications for success.

By Shaun Leisegang • 4 min read • Thu, 6th Jun 2024

Hybrid Cloud

Data management key to AI growth says IoT Analytics report

Robust data management is essential for AI efficacy, says IoT Analytics, with the market poised to hit USD $513.3 billion by 2030. Hyperscalers dominate, but emergent vendors rise.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Wed, 29th May 2024

Customer Relationship Management

IBM & Salesforce announce strategic AI partnership

IBM and Salesforce expand their partnership to merge IBM's watsonx AI with Salesforce's Einstein 1, aiming to revolutionise AI and data integration for businesses.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Fri, 24th May 2024

Data Protection

GDPR challenges: Baillie's six data management solutions

Six years post-GDPR, many businesses still grapple with compliance. Andy Baillie of Semarchy proposes six MDM solutions to address ongoing data management challenges.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Fri, 24th May 2024

Stories from Other Regions

Generative AI

Data streaming essential for 94% of Australian IT leaders

A Confluent report finds 94% of Australian IT leaders view data streaming platforms as essential, with many seeing ROI benefits and future importance in AI and ML applications.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Fri, 28th Jun 2024

IT Automation

Beyond the hype: Taking Gen AI mainstream with next-level automation

Generative AI, once a niche term, is now pivotal to automation and business processes, creating substantial value but requiring rigorous data governance.

By Darren Cockerell • 4 min read • Mon, 17th Jun 2024

DevOps

Preparing for a new AI-driven era in software development

As AI adoption expands in Australia, 68% of businesses are already using AI while 23% plan to in the next year. Ethical and strategic AI integration is essential.

By Craig Nielsen • 6 min read • Tue, 11th Jun 2024

Data Protection

NZ businesses struggle with data quality for AI adoption

New research from Datacom reveals only 9% of New Zealand businesses consider their data completely clean, posing significant risks as AI adoption grows.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Mon, 10th Jun 2024

Marketing Technologies

Data readiness identified as major hurdle to AI adoption

A new Fivetran and MIT Technology Review Insights report reveals data readiness as a key barrier to AI adoption, with 60% of organisations needing better data governance.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Thu, 30th May 2024

Unified Communications

Four ways businesses can un-silo their data and speed up the manufacturing process

Businesses can speed up manufacturing by un-siloing data. Experts at Codiance suggest improving efficiency, decision-making, customer experiences, and innovation.

By Mark Hesketh • 3 min read • Wed, 29th May 2024

Large Language Models

Australian firms face hurdles in Generative AI rollout

A lack of data maturity and resources threatens Australia's Generative AI rollout, warns ADAPT's 2024 survey, as firms struggle with fundamental requirements.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Tue, 28th May 2024