Tech Disruptors by Bloomberg Intelligence features conversations with thought leaders and management teams on disruptive trends. Topics covered in this series include cloud, e-commerce, cybersecurity, AI, 5G, streaming, advertising, EVs, automation, crypto, fintech, AR/VR, metaverse and Web 3.0. This podcast is intended for professional investors only. It is being prepared solely for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer or investment advice.
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Learn how to use wireless communications to develop true dispatch communications, implement and manage communications tools, improve one-to-many communication, keep up to date with security and customer satisfaction trends, increase coverage and range, and roll out push-to-talk technology. The primary audience for the Wireless Communications Explained podcast is information technology (IT), engineering, and operations professionals that use wireless communications. Featuring Chas Elliott, Pr ...
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How Motorola Solutions Is Building Smarter Safety With AI
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51:53Generative AI has changed how humans and systems interact, and the science of human-computer interaction is now really the science of human-AI interaction, says Motorola Solutions EVP & CTO Mahesh Saptharishi. He joins Bloomberg Intelligence tech analyst Woo Jin Ho on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to share how his company is building …
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Vercel COO on Scaling the AI-Native Web Stack
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44:26Front-end development is rapidly evolving, driven by large-language models, agentic workflows and serverless architecture — enabling smarter, scalable apps and blurring front- and back-end boundaries. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Vercel’s Chief Operating Officer Jeanne DeWitt Grosser joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Su…
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While the tech world watches Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks unfold, Juniper is still moving ahead. CEO Rami Rahim joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s Woo Jin Ho to unpack how Juniper is seizing the AI moment and driving market-share gains with cutting-edge innovations like 800G AI switching and Mist AI. From cloud …
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Vertiv CEO on Futureproofing AI Data Center Power, Cooling Needs
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51:23Data centers that are being designed today will need to accommodate IT technology of the future and remain viable during their 15-20-year life cycle. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Vertiv CEO Giordano Albertazzi and Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior industrials analyst Mustafa Okur talk about the evolving power and cooling needs of data centers …
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Stack Overflow CEO on Dev Tools in the AI Era
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44:42Stack Overflow has long been the go-to platform for developers to learn, collaborate and solve coding challenges. In this Tech Disruptors episode, Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Sunil Rajgopal speaks with Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on how generative AI is reshaping developer workflows and platform strategy. They discuss the co…
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Akamai CEO on Tapping Security, Compute Growth
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32:46Akamai, a leading content delivery network (CDN) provider, has countered a decline in its CDN business by expanding into security and compute services, which offer much higher growth. These areas may expand at a double-digit rate over the next 3-5 years, with their combined revenue accounting for over two-thirds of sales and 100% of the company’s g…
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Pegasystems CEO on Rebuilding Workflows With AI
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47:31Enterprise software is evolving as generative AI enables smarter ways to build and run business processes. In this Tech Disruptors episode, Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Sunil Rajgopal speaks with Pegasystems CEO Alan Trefler on how tools like Blueprint and agentic workflows help modernize legacy systems and boost productivity. They discuss…
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DigitalOcean CEO on Navigating AI Cloud in a Sea of Hyperscalers
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50:57“When you talk about inferencing, you have a real application. The application has data. The application has compute. The application needs to interface with other third-party applications. So, you need a full general-purpose cloud to coexist with a GPU cloud to power inferencing application at scale,” DigitalOcean CEO Paddy Srinivasan tells Bloomb…
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JPMorgan CIO on How the Global Bank is Approaching Generative AI
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48:48“Agent-to-agent interactions are very different than traditional system-to-system interactions, and so there’s a huge uplift we’re thinking about today that we need to be there to get to that truly agentic autonomous world,” says Lori Beer, chief information officer of JPMorgan Chase. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Beer sits down with Bloomber…
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Qualys CEO on Cybersecurity Risk Environment
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47:36“How do you move the industry from what I call attack surface management to risk surface management?” Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar asks Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior technology analyst, Mandeep Singh. “Just because something is attackable doesn’t mean that it actually has a risk of a loss to you.” In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Thakar and Singh …
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Beyond Big Chips: Cerebras on Inference and AI
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39:43“We want every layer — chip, system, software — because when you own the stack you can outrun a GPU cluster by 40-70x,” Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Cerebras returns to the Bloomberg Intelligence podcast studios as Feldman joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s Kunjan Sobhani and Mandeep Singh to explain the progres…
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Qualtrics CEO on How AI Agents Are Changing Experience Management
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40:26“What we’re finding is that greater customer experience is particularly critical when you have more uncertainty in any particular market,” explains Qualtrics CEO Zig Serafin to Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana, “What’s interesting is if you hone in on understating what drives your customer behavior, that usually brings m…
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Google Code Assistant and Developer Workflows
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50:54From Microsoft to GitHub and now Google, Ryan J. Salva, who leads product management for developer tools and operations at Google Cloud, has spent over 20 years working in software development. He sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh to discuss the evolution of coding agents, Google’s coding assistant and how the new t…
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Google Cloud CTO on LLM Demand Surge, Use Cases
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37:48Since last year, Google has had 40x growth in Gemini use on its Vertex AI platform, highlighting the pace of demand in AI, says Will Grannis, chief technology officer of Google Cloud. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Grannis sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh to talk about the variety of use cases with large-langu…
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Microsoft on the Future of the Human-AI Agent Work Environment
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42:43“The average knowledge worker is interrupted every two minutes during work hours,” according to Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Jared Spataro. “You’re getting an email, a meeting kind of request, a chat coming in, and if you do the math, that’s 275 times a day.” On this episode of Tech Disruptors, Spataro joins Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Techn…
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Gusto Scales Up HR-Payroll Software for SMBs
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36:06Helping small businesses manage all things human resources — payroll, benefits, tax compliance and employee onboarding — is Gusto’s central focus, which presents unique challenges given the fragmented customer base. Chief Technology Officer Mike Tria outlines the company’s product-portfolio suite and the evolution of the human-capital management in…
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AWS VP on How AI is Revolutionizing the Contact Center Landscape
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44:53“I think people should stop thinking about contact centers as a thing that is sort of about being responsive and reactive, and instead, really how do we fundamentally change the way you think about the way you talk to customers,” says Pasquale DeMaio, Amazon Web Services’ vice president of Amazon Connect. “In that sense, I think the status quo is r…
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SambaNova on AI Amid Tariff Ups and Downs, LLMs
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39:02US tariffs won’t change the cyclical journey in tech, with artificial intelligence set to be the dominant force for years to come the same way the Internet was, according to Rodrigo Liang, CEO of SambaNova, which builds AI hardware and software platforms. Liang joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s analyst Mandeep Singh on the Tech Disruptors podcast to d…
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Altair Pushes Simulation Software Into AI Era
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38:23Artificial intelligence is opening up new possibilities for computer simulation, offering lower costs and expedited processes in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, financial services, energy and other industries. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Jim Scapa, founder and former CEO of Altair, speaks with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Nira…
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Lyft CEO on Ridesharing and Autonomous Vehicles
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36:31There has been a buildout of platforms for various marketplace sectors in the past 15 years, though ridesharing essentially remains a duopoly. Lyft’s CEO David Risher talks to Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior tech analyst Mandeep Singh about the ridesharing marketplace in this episode of Tech Disruptors. David also discusses the company’s positionin…
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Amazon CSO on Developing Cybersecurity Built for the Gen-AI Age
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46:19“Security is not a technology problem; security is a people and culture problem,”Amazon.com Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Schmidt discusses how enterprises should be thinking about all things cybersecurity, ranging from vendor assessment, …
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AWS Director on the Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
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40:01“The metric that we need to keep an eye on is the number of qubits,” Simone Severini, Amazon Web Services’ director of Quantum Technologies, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. Also important “is the quality of the qubits and the way people try to scale,” he says. On this episode of Tech Disruptors, Severini and Rana…
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Workday CTO On the Company’s Nuanced Approach to AI Integration
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43:24“You manage your workforce in a system like Workday; you have to do that with your digital workforce as well,” Workday Chief Technology Officer Jim Stratton says as he breaks down the company’s thinking behind its recently released Agent System of Record. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Stratton joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology an…
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DataRobot CEO on Building Domain-Specific AI
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48:25As enterprises across industries seek to leverage artificial intelligence in their workflows, demand is mounting for specialized models designed for specific tasks and verticals, creating new opportunities for companies that manage the entire AI life cycle, such as DataRobot. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, the company’s CEO, Debanj…
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Crusoe’s Energy-First Approach to AI Build-Out
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50:30The sharp rise of AI workloads and larger parameter-training models needs a new type of data center — one that can support the size, power and cooling needed for 100,000 GPU AI server clusters. Crusoe co-founder and CEO Chase Lochmiller sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Woo Jin Ho to discuss how Crusoe’s vertically integrated, energy-fi…
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Adobe’s President on Mastering the Entire Content Supply Chain
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37:22“For every knowledge worker, every business professional, an important element of what they do is creativity,” Anil Chakravarthy, Adobe’s Digital Experience president, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. On his third appearance on the Tech Disruptors podcast, Chakravarthy goes in depth on how Adobe is integrating its…
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Salesforce On How Agentforce 2.0, Data Cloud Expand Productivity
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45:10“Most customer service reps have five to 20 different tabs open in their browser of all these different systems — it’s the modern equivalent of the swivel chair,” said Salesforce AI’s Adam Evans, executive vice president and general manager. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Evans joined Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior technology anal…
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Grafana on Intersection of Observability, AI
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38:54The infusion of compute-heavy AI across enterprise applications and work flows, growing appetite for real-time business intelligence and more digitization calls for an expansion of compute, storage and networking resources. The growing dependency on digital services and tools likely necessitates ongoing monitoring of the IT value chain to prevent b…
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Google Cloud Scale in AI Training, Inferencing
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37:33Google is an AI-first company, according to Mark Lohmeyer, vice president and general manager of compute and machine learning infrastructure at the company. It has deep expertise in all of the relevant domains customers might need - research, models and finally how they get built into applications and services. Lohmeyer sits down with Bloomberg Int…
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Twilio CEO on Customer Data, Analytics and AI
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33:23Twilio is a customer-engagement platform that combines cloud-based communications tools with contextual customer data, analytics and AI that are used by brands like Nike, Dominos and Toyota. The company is expanding beyond its historical focus on cloud-based communications platform-as-a-service software to allow its clients to more narrowly target …
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Boomi’s CEO Making Sense of Disparate Data Leveraging Agentic AI
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41:42“The average enterprise has over 360 applications running in the cloud today,” Boomi Chairman and CEO Steve Lucas notes to Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. “Then, on top of that, the average enterprise is dealing with anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 difference sources of data.” In this episode of Tech Disruptors, the two …
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Elastic’s CEO on Powering the AI Value Chain
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45:03Corporate efforts to harness unstructured data to drive business intelligence could keep growing. Enterprises deploying more AI-infused applications and pushing more of their workflows through the technology appear likely to boost demand for platforms like Elastic, which enable users to index, search and update large swaths of data, monitor the hea…
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SAP Business Data Cloud Optimizing Customers for Enterprise AI
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40:26“More or less, the data strategy will inform the AI effectiveness,” SAP President and Chief Product Officer of Data and Analytics Irfan Khan explains to Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Khan and Rana delve into the three archetypes of data management, how zero copy sharing enables gre…
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Verizon Consumer CEO on AI’s Role in Telecom
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34:40Verizon is the biggest wireless-service provider in the US, with its business largely centered on the consumer segment. Wireless is a high-touch business, which has prompted the company and peers to deploy AI across its customer-care operations to drive greater efficiencies and higher cross-selling. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, S…
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Procore’s Approach to Automating Construction
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33:02Delivering a comprehensive software platform for the construction industry that bridges project to financial management remains Procore’s central focus. Tooey Courtemanche, Procore’s founder and CEO, tells Bloomberg Intelligence that the platform has broad appeal for the various stakeholders, owners, general and specialty contractors. In this episo…
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WWT CEO on Building ‘AI First’ Business, Growth
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1:01:24World Wide Technology (WWT) has evolved from a value-added reseller to a global systems integrator with $20 billion in annual sales and 10,000 employees that today identifies itself as an “AI First” company. WWT CEO and co-founder Jim Kavanaugh joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Woo Jin Ho on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss…
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Citi CTO Griffiths on LLM Deployment, AI Agents
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37:23Costs for generative AI are coming down, with some of the leading models massively lower than they were a year ago, says Citigroup Chief Technology Officer David Griffiths. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, he chats about gen-AI deployment at his company with Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Alison Williams and Mandeep Singh. From back…
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Contentful’s CEO on Digital Content Creation
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33:47Contentful’s platform, built on an API-first architecture, provides differentiated technology for marketers and developers in creating landing pages, blogs, campaigns and other personalized content. CEO Karthik Rau talks about customer choices across the marketing-tech landscape and the company’s evolution to a broader platform from a composable co…
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Flodesk Drives to Best-in-Class Email Marketing
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29:52Automating email marketing with top-quality design and user experience is Flodesk’s central strategy. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Martha Bitar, CEO and founder of Flodesk, speaks with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel about empowering entrepreneurs and small businesses to reach their target customers more effectively. S…
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Yext CEO on Shifts in Search as LLMs Grow Scope
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35:26Creating an ever-changing knowledge-graph relational database isn’t a small thing. But then connecting it to all the end points (to publishers and social media publishers) and managing the distribution workflow through channels is extremely important. Yext CEO Michael Walrath talks to Mandeep Singh, senior technology analyst at Bloomberg Intelligen…
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Menlo Ventures on Developer Technology, M&A, AI
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36:20The tools that enable companies to build, operate and manage enterprise applications and infrastructure are evolving, and AI’s advancements could reset the technology, business and M&A landscape. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Tim Tully, a partner at Menlo Ventures, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelli…
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NTT DATA on DeepSeek’s AI, Data-Center Trends
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39:39What does DeepSeek’s efficiency breakthrough and the Stargate Project mean for the adoption of AI, data-center growth, power consumption and cooling-system demand? In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Abhijit Dubey, CEO of NTT DATA Group, sits with Omid Vaziri, BI senior analyst, to examine new trends in AI and cloud…
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GoDaddy CTO on Tech Investments Empowering SMBs
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31:09Building an online presence for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) is the central mission of GoDaddy. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Chief Technology Officer Charles Beadnall discusses the major trends likely to be encountered by entrepreneurs, including AI, the range of tools across applications like domains, website creation to …
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Cohesity CEO on Data Resilience for AI Era
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44:46Modern-day businesses are increasingly digital and data dependent, and organizations need to critically monitor their data assets, protect them against external threats and create guardrails around access. They also need to have robust mechanisms and tools that allow them to back up, preserve and reconstruct applications in case of a disruption, an…
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With AI “you can talk to your data for the first time ever. So you can ask almost any question on almost any amount of information in your enterprise,” Box CEO and Founder Aaron Levie tells Bloomberg Intelligence. The dispersed nature of enterprise information across regions and systems, accentuated by remote working, could drive the case for platf…
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Northern Data Build-Out of GPU Data Centers
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29:28Northern Data runs “a full customer platform, which offers that groundbreaking Nvidia GPU infrastructure to help bring AI applications to life,” COO Rosanne Kincaid-Smith tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, she sits down with BI senior analyst Mandeep Singh to discuss the build-out of GPU data centers in a …
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SentinelOne Pivots to LLMs in Endpoint Security
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31:55What separates SentinelOne from other security-software providers is that you’ll find large language models “in a lot of our automation capabilities that help you go through and deal with triage, investigation and ultimately the remediation of issues,” Chief Product Officer Ric Smith says. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Smith talks…
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Glean CEO On AI-led Democratization of Software
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43:00“The AI trend still feels significantly larger than all of those previous trends that we’ve seen in technology over the last three decades” Glean CEO and founder Arvind Jain tells Bloomberg Intelligence. The growing enterprise-information stack that’s dispersed across diverse systems adds complexity and Glean enables organizations to deploy AI-powe…
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It can be difficult to manage people via email or to coordinate work using spreadsheets or documents, raising the need for a “collaboration layer” such as that offered by Asana, Chief Product Officer Alex Hood tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, he joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at BI, to dis…
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Gutmans on Bringing Google AI to Existing Data
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44:07Andi Gutmans, VP and general manager of Databases at Google, said customers who house information in enterprise-grade databases — durable, reliable and secure — don’t want to move it around. As such, Google worked to bring AI capabilities into their existing databases. Gutmans sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology AnalystMandeep S…
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