At Commvault SHIFT 2024, The Futurum Group’s Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead sat with CEO Sanjay Mirchandani, who discussed Commvault’s strategic pivot towards a cloud-first approach in cyber resilience. This shift involves key acquisitions, such as Appranix and Clumio, and new partnerships with AWS and Google, aimed at enhancing cloud data protection and recovery. Mirchandani also introduced the concept of “Continuous Business,” highlighting its distinction from traditional business continuity by emphasizing ongoing readiness and adaptability in a dynamic digital landscape.

The rise of AI and the importance of data to modern businesses has driven us too recognize that data matters, not storage. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast focuses on AI data infrastructure and features Camberley Bates, Andy Banta, David Klee, and host Stephen Foskett, all of whom will be attending our AI Data Infrastructure Field Day this week.

The use of artificial intelligence technology is taking hold in the enterprise, and many are discovering the importance of a solid data infrastructure for these new applications. No matter what model or technology is used, or whether it’s part of training or inferencing or RAG, data is the foundation for productive AI applications. That’s why the next Tech Field Day event will focus on AI Data Infrastructure, serving as a companion to our recent AI Field Day event, happening October 2 and 3. This event will feature presentations from MinIO, Google Cloud, HPE, Infinidat, Solidigm, and Pure Storage.

We’re happy to have Dr. Bob Sutor joining us this week on the Rundown, since he covers quantum and advanced computing for The Futurum Group. IBM made two important announcements in the quantum space this week. The first announcement was Qiskit, a quantum SDK that runs on Python for quantum computers. This promises to bring quantum compute to a more mainstream audience and converting the underlying code to Rust. This solution is much faster than competing solutions from Google, Amazon, and Quantinuuum. IBM is also putting together an app store for quantum applications and runtime functions, including from third-party developers. This matches the moves that we have seen in areas like cloud and AI, and serves to push IBM as the leader in quantum computing. This and more on The Rundown.

As companies are exposed to more and more attackers, they’re realizing that cyber resilience is increasingly important. On this episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, presented by Commvault, Senior Director of Product and Ecosystem Strategy Michael Stempf joins Justin Warren, Karen Lopez, and Stephen Foskett to discuss the growing challenges companies face in today’s cybersecurity landscape.

Join us for Edge Field Day on September 18th and 19th, streaming live on LinkedIn and TechStrong.TV! Hear from leading companies like VMware, Avassa, TSecond, ZEDEDA, and OnLogic, and catch special presentations from our delegates and analysts. Tune in live on LinkedIn and Techstrong TV or watch the recordings on YouTube and the Tech Field Day website.

Although AI can be quite useful, it seems that the promise of generative AI has lead to irrational exuberance on the topic. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, recorded ahead of AI Field Day, features Justin Warren, Alastair Cooke, Frederic van Haren, and Stephen Foskett considering the promises made about AI.

Join us for AI Field Day, a three-day event from September 11-13, showcasing cutting-edge AI applications and solutions in enterprise environments. Featuring live presentations from industry leaders like Keysight, Integral, Cisco, VMware, Elastic, and Arista, AI Field Day explores topics like AI-ready infrastructure, agentic AI, and advanced vector databases. Tune in live on LinkedIn and Techstrong.TV, or catch the recordings on YouTube. Stay connected through social media with #AIFD5, and follow our LinkedIn page and YouTube channel for updates, tech talks, and behind-the-scenes content.

This year, at the smallest VMware conference in many years, Broadcom made some important announcements. As we’ve previously discussed, VMware Cloud Foundation 9 was detailed, along with Tanzu Platform 10, an enhanced Edge Orchestrator platform, VeloCloud Software-Defined Edge, and more. Although we miss the community coming together at VMworld every year, this smaller VMware Explore conference is very much in line with the direction taken by Broadcom since their acquisition of the company. This and more on The Rundown.

The current hype about building massive generative AI models with massive hardware investment is just one aspect of AI. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Frederic Van Haren, Karen Lopez, Marian Newsome, and host Stephen Foskett taking a different perspective on the larger world of AI.