Databricks: Get ready for the "lakebase"
Today: Databricks floats a new portmanteau for the ever-evolving world of data infrastructure, a widespread Google Cloud outage takes down sites around the world, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt discusses how AI is changing, and not changing, cybersecurity strategies, OpenAI reportedly finds new computing power in an unexpected place, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Schmidt discussed the frequency and style of the attacks Amazon fends off every day, the capabilities that cybersecurity defenders can bring to bear thanks to generative AI, and the potential that machine-generated code could lead to the rise of a new class of software vulnerabilities.
Today on Product Saturday: OpenAI previews a coding agent, AWS launches a new service designed to migrate old workloads to the cloud, and the quote of the week.
Today: AWS and Microsoft were on opposite sides of Wall Street's expectations during the first quarter of the year, Redis returns to open source more than a year after a Big Cloud fork, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Microsoft reveals its progress toward reorienting the company around security, AWS picks an interesting time for some "routine capacity management," and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today on Product Saturday: AWS spruces up its Outposts server gear for wireless carriers, Teradata jumps on the vector database train, and the quote of the week.
Today on Product Saturday: OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5, creating huge expectations for GPT-5, AWS joins its cloud competitors with a custom quantum chip, and the quote of the week.
Today on Product Saturday: ST Microelectronics and AWS collaborated on a new data center chip, VAST Data's core product now supports block storage and Kafka streaming, and the quote of the week.
Today: AWS narrowly misses analyst estimates if you're not into the rounding thing, Stanford and UW researchers think they've found a way to out-DeepSeek DeepSeek, and the latest enterprise moves.
How DeepSeek's new AI model upended industry assumptions about the price of building leading-edge AI models, the U.K. will consider remedies to address cloud competition involving AWS and Microsoft, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
This year marked a turning point for enterprise tech as spending recovered and the economy stabilized following years of rising interest rates and supply-chain disruption. While no one knows what lies ahead, here are five things we thought summed up a pivotal year.
Today: A look back at some of the most notable developments from the past year and the last Runtime Roundup of 2024.