Thomas Kurian at the Google Cloud campus in Sunnyvale, California. Google Cloud employees were baffled when they learned that their next boss would be Thomas Kurian, an executive who struggled to shepherd Silicon Valley mainstay Oracle Corp. into the promised land of internet computing. It was November 2018 and the cloud division’s then-chief Diane Greene and Kurian held a question-and-answer session with staff who worried about his impending leadership. “A lot of people have concerns about the fact that you came from Oracle, which is a very different culture,” one person said to Kurian. “So how are you going to preserve the culture at …
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For the past several years, tech giants have been trying to make artificial intelligence in its many guises HPC, data analytics, and other advanced workloads more available and easier to use for enterprises. Traditional OEMs such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies, and Lenovo are using a combination of hardware, software, and services to make technologies that in years gone by would only be employed by research institutions and the largest of corporations more widely accessible. The public clouds, particularly those that have their own hyperscale applications driven by machine learning and scale, also function a bit like OEMs when …
Some of the most important data at your company isn’t living in databases but in documents, and marketing assets. Yet most companies are still manually writing copy and are reliant on guesswork to get consumers to click or share. Organizations are also leaving heaps of value on the table in the form of new and better social marketing that can be unlocked with artificial intelligence applied to the process. In this episode, we chat with Kate Bradley Chernis, CEO of Lately.ai to learn what she thinks about life, music, innovation, and how her company is reinventing social marketing with artificial …
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