Joab Jackson

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman: AI Is Now Ready for the Enterprise

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

“Just do it,” is the advice of Sam Altman for enterprise leaders wondering how to get their organizations started down the path of AI. Of course, the OpenAI CEO has always been bullish about getting started on AI. But this is not the advice he would have given to enterprise execs even a year ago, he said, in a “fireside” discussion with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy for the kickoff of this year’s Snowflake Summit, being held this week in San Francisco.
Snowflake Streamlines Data Analysis for Enterprise AI

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

No longer is data just a concern to accountants. Now, with AI, data promises to transform how every department in an organization operates. “AI represents a new way of thinking about how different functions within a company operate,” said Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy in a virtual press conference. So Snowflake is gearing up for this wider use from its 10,000 customers.
Python Pandas Ditches NumPy for Speedier PyArrow

3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

Python Pandas is about to get a performance boost: When the long-awaited version 3.0 of the data analysis library is released, it will come with a faster engine for loading and reading columnar data. PyArrow will take the place of NumPy, the math library Pandas has used thus far. At present, Pandas already supports PyArrow, and has done so at least since version 2 released in April 2023.
Containers in the Age of AI: A Chat With New Docker President Mark Cavage

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

When a new CEO comes to a company, they usually bring their own posse. So, perhaps it was not a surprise that in March, Docker named Mark Cavage as its new president. He arrived a month after Docker picked its new CEO, Don Johnson, who helped create Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (taking the place of former longtime CEO Scott Johnston) — with the help of Cavage, who worked with Johnson at Oracle.
Q&A: Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami on the Cloud Native Enterprise

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

More applications will be built in the next three years than in the previous 30, estimated Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami, in a keynote at his company’s annual .NEXT user conference in Washington, D.C. last week. And this is why the enterprise will need Kubernetes. While K8s may seem like a complicated piece of software to manage, the average organization will need it to manage its own increasingly complex infrastructure.
ToolHive Simplifies MCP Server Orchestration with Kubernetes

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

The folks at StackLok have developed a command line utility, called ToolHive, to securely manage the Multiple Context Protocol (MCP) servers you may be running in-house, by using Kubernetes and containers. These days, everyone is building MCPs, which allow large language model (LLM)-based applications to access data and services from applications. Setting up multiple MCP servers, however, can lead to the usual headaches that always come with managing multiple copies of software.
Kubernetes v1.33 Advances in AI, Security and the Enterprise

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

Wednesday’s release of the latest version of the Kubernetes open source resource orchestration platform brings some long-awaited features for AI workloads, security and overall enterprise use. “It’s a pretty big release,” said Nina Polshakova, the engineer who was the release lead for version 1.33. This edition consists of 64 enhancements, significantly more than the 44 of the previous release.
Cloud Service: What Pope Francis Thought About AI

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

When it comes to matters of the soul, the Catholic Church has been one of its closest observers of human nature for centuries now. So, as the field of artificial intelligence grapples with the possibilities of emulating human intelligence, perhaps the Vatican would be in a good position to provide some insight into the current challenges of emulating human intelligence in digital form.
Valkey Bloom Filter Detects Fraud (While Not Breaking the Bank)

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

Just in time for spring (if you live in the Northern Hemisphere), the Valkey open source key-value datastore now supports a new data type, Bloom filters. The newly released valkey-bloom module can work on Valkey version 8 and later. (The most recent version of the data store, v8.1, was released last month.)A type of probabilistic search, Bloom filters offer a very efficient way of determining whether or not a given value is a member of a data set.
MongoDB Finds AI Can Help With Legacy System Migration

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

“We’re using LLMs and AI to fully modernize old applications,” said Scott Sanchez, MongoDB‘s product marketing and strategy leader, in an interview at the Google Next conference last week in Las Vegas. At the conference, the company introduced the integrated MongoDB cluster assessment as a menu item into Google’s Migration Center Use Case Navigator. This service provides a set of tools and best practices to move computer workloads onto Google Cloud.