Generative AI is reshaping the cloud computing market and is expected to lead to more AI workload-specific cloud platforms in the future, a new research report from leading global technology research and advisory firm Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III) says.

The ISG Buyers Guides for Cloud Platforms, produced by ISG Software Research (formerly Ventana Research), say cloud technology, due to its scale and shared services model, is best suited for the delivery of GenAI-enabled applications at scale and the development of general-purpose foundation models.

The reports note specialty cloud providers will become an important consideration for many enterprise cloud architectures. The emergence of domain-specific models, which can be smaller, less computationally intensive and lower the hallucination risks associated with general-purpose models, suggests a future where cloud platforms may become increasingly specialized, the reports say.

“As GenAI continues to evolve, we can expect to see more AI workload-specific cloud platforms in the future,” said Jeff Orr, director for digital technology, ISG Software Research. “GenAI applications require extensive computational resources, and cloud computing platforms provide the scalability enterprises need to allocate resources dynamically based on the needs of various GenAI workloads. This has led to a reshaping of the cloud computing market, with specialized infrastructures catering to computational giants like large language models (LLMs).”

The reports say that by migrating to the cloud, businesses can streamline operations, reduce costs and accelerate innovation. To meet the efficiency and innovation challenge, enterprises are expected to adopt multiple clouds.

ISG projects that by 2027, over three-quarters of enterprises will operate across multiple public cloud computing environments, necessitating the requirement for a unified data platform to virtualize access for business continuity.

When an enterprise CIO or IT leader is considering a cloud platform, the choice between public, private, hybrid, multi-cloud or industry/sovereign cloud should be driven by the organization’s specific objectives, goals and desired outcomes.

“The conversation in enterprises has shifted from ‘Why cloud?’ to which types of cloud for which workloads,” said Orr. “A diversity in cloud service providers now exists to align with specific industry and business requirements rather than a one-size-fits-all agreement.”

In addition to aligning with strategic objectives and operational needs, it is also important for enterprises to consider factors such as cost, resource availability, technical expertise and the potential need for digital transformation when choosing cloud platforms. A well-chosen cloud strategy, the reports say, can drive innovation, enhance customer experiences and provide a competitive edge in the digital marketplace.

The reports cite other benefits of using a cloud service provider over building on-premises servers. They include low capital outlay, faster time-to-market, agility and optimal cloud delivery models from Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). While on-premises servers will not go away entirely, they must continue to compete effectively with cloud computing as an alternative for many applications and services, the reports say.

The ISG Buyers Guide for Cloud Platforms is designed to provide a holistic view of a software provider’s ability to serve a variety of cloud workloads with a set of cloud platform products. As such the Buyers Guide includes the full breadth of deployment models, services and functionality.

For its 2024 Buyers Guides for Cloud Platforms, ISG assessed software providers across four cloud platform categories – Cloud Computing Platforms, Public Cloud Platforms, Private Cloud Platforms and Hybrid Cloud Platforms – and produced a separate Buyers Guide for each. A total of 13 providers were assessed: Akamai, Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean, Google, Huawei Cloud, IBM, Leaseweb, Microsoft, Oracle, OVHcloud, Tencent and Vultr.

ISG Software Research designates the top three software providers as Leaders in each category. For the 2024 study, the leading providers in ranked order are:

Cloud Computing Platforms: Microsoft, AWS and Google

Public Cloud Platforms: Microsoft, AWS and Google

Private Cloud Platforms: Microsoft, Google and Oracle

Hybrid Cloud Platforms: Microsoft, AWS and Google

”Cloud computing has become as ubiquitous as the power and water in your home or business, but the software platforms for providing this service are still in an evolutionary transition to be able to interoperate across systems in an enterprise and across multiple enterprises,” says Mark Smith, partner of Software Research at ISG. “This Buyers Guide gives enterprises that need to consolidate and simplify their cloud platforms a better understanding of the current cloud landscape.”

The ISG Buyers Guides for Cloud Platforms are the distillation of more than a year of market and product research efforts. The research is not sponsored nor influenced by software providers and is conducted solely to help enterprises optimize their business and IT software investments.

Visit this webpage to learn more about the Buyers Guides for Cloud Platforms and read executive summaries of each of the four reports. The complete reports, including provider rankings across seven product and customer experience dimensions and detailed research findings on each provider, are available by contacting ISG Software Research.

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Vultr, the world’s largest, privately-held cloud computing platform, today released a new industry report, The New Battleground: Unlocking the Power of AI Maturity with Multi-Model AI. The groundbreaking new study reveals a clear correlation between an organization’s AI maturity and its ability to achieve superior business outcomes, outpacing industry peers in revenue growth, market share, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.

Commissioned by Vultr and conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence, the research surveyed over 1,000 US-based enterprise IT and digital transformation decision-makers responsible for their organization’s AI strategy across industries, including healthcare & life sciences, government/public sector, retail, manufacturing, financial services, and more. Of the respondents surveyed, almost three-quarters (72%) are at higher levels of maturity of AI use. The report also includes a qualitative perspective on AI use by enterprises of varying sizes across the United States through in-depth interviews with AI decision-makers and practitioners.

“As organizations worldwide capitalize on strategic investments in AI, we wanted to look at the state of AI maturity,” said Kevin Cochrane, CMO of Vultr’s parent company, Constant. “What we’ve found is that transformational organizations are winning the hearts, minds, and share of wallets while also improving their operating margins. AI maturity is the new competitive weapon, and businesses must invest now to accelerate AI models, training, and scaling in production.”

The Age of Multi-Model AI

The number of models actively used within an organization is a reliable measure of its deployed AI capabilities and overall AI maturity. The data reveals that advanced AI adopters leverage a multitude of models simultaneously as part of a multi-model approach.

On average, the number of distinct AI models currently operational stands at 158 with projections suggesting this number will rise to 176 AI models within the next year. This growth highlights remarkable acceleration in AI adoption across industries, underscored by the 89% of organizations anticipating advanced AI utilization within two years.

AI proficiency and maturity is the new business performance battleground

AI is poised to permeate throughout the enterprise with 80% adoption anticipated across all business functions within 24 months. This will include AI being embedded across all applications and business units.

As AI builds on its new foothold across businesses, there will be an immense impact on enterprise-wide performance. According to the report, those with transformational AI practices reported that they outperformed their peers at higher levels. Specifically, 50% of transformational companies are performing “significantly better” against industry peers than those at operational levels, while a large majority of AI-driven organizations say they improved their 2022/2023 year-over-year performance in customer satisfaction (90%), revenue (91%), cost reduction/margin expansion (88%), risk (87%), marketing (89%), and market share (89%). Meanwhile, nearly half (40-45%) of organizations say AI is having a “major” impact on market share, revenue, customer satisfaction, marketing improvements, and cost and risk reduction.

“AI’s transformative impact is undeniable—it’s devouring industries and is becoming ubiquitous in every facet of business operations. This necessitates a new era of technology, underpinned by a composable stack and platform engineering to effectively scale these innovations,” said Cochrane.

AI spending is expected to outpace IT spend

To fully harness AI’s potential, 88% of the enterprises surveyed intend to increase their AI spend in 2025 with 49% expecting moderate to significant increases. Findings related to key infrastructure, partner, and implementation strategies include:

• For cloud-native applications, two-thirds of organizations are either custom-building their models or using open-source models to deliver functionality.
• In 2025, the AI infrastructure stack will be hybrid cloud with 35% of inference taking place on-prem and 38% in the cloud/multi-cloud.
• Thanks to the skills shortage, 47% of enterprises are leveraging a partner to help them with strategy and implementation, and deployment of AI at scale. Only 15% are leveraging hyperscalers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Open, secure, and compliant are the top attributes of cloud platforms for scaling AI across the organization, geographies, and to the edge.

“For years the hyperscalers have dominated the infrastructure market, relying on scale, resources, and technological expertise, but that is all about to change,” added Cochrane. “Over the next decade, everything will be rebuilt with AI at the core, with organizations integrating the principles of cloud engineering into their operations. As a result, we will see the rise of AI specialists and independents as they empower organizations to do transformative work and gain a competitive edge.”

Challenges to scaling AI across all enterprises

As the race to AI heats up, it will not be without its share of obstacles. Budget limitations, building or obtaining AI algorithms, lack of skilled personnel, and data quality are among the top hurdles organizations say they must resolve to graduate to the next stage of AI maturity.

For those at a transformational level of maturity, governance (30%) becomes much more of an issue, while company culture is the larger issue for those still in the accelerating stage

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Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced that it has named Brian Martin as Chief Legal Officer, effective June 18, 2024. With more than 20 years of experience in legal leadership roles, Martin has a proven track record of managing large, multinational teams while developing legal department personnel into company leaders at B2B technology businesses. In previous roles, he has helped drive transitions to cloud services and has consistently driven engagement among his teams while building legal functions as a competitive advantage and making it easier to do business in deep engineering cultures.

“It is my philosophy that through the delivery of strategic and sensible legal counsel, a legal department will provide a competitive advantage to a company,” said Brian Martin, Chief Legal Officer at Nutanix. “I am honored to work with the world-class legal team at Nutanix and look forward to helping drive forward the company’s unrivaled innovation and execution.”

“Brian has a wealth of experience in driving the ethical and legal achievement of business objectives,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, President and Chief Executive Officer at Nutanix. “We are proud to welcome him to Nutanix as he will guide trust, transparency, and compliance with our employees, customers, partners, investors, and regulators.”

In this role, Martin will be responsible for all aspects of the company’s legal department. Previously, he was the EVP and general counsel of Lyten, Inc., an advanced materials company located in San Jose, California. Prior to that, he served as SVP, general counsel, and corporate secretary at Juniper Networks for 6 years. He also served as general counsel of KLA-Tencor Corporation for 8 years and spent 10 years in senior legal positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Martin is an instructor at the Stanford University School of Law where he teaches a course on the role of the general counsel. He has also taught legal ethics at the Southern University Law Center and the University of Buffalo Law School.

Martin currently serves on the Board of Directors of Family Supportive Housing, a non-profit organization that provides shelter and supportive services to homeless families. He also serves on the Board of Directors of The Law Foundation Silicon Valley, whose mission is to advance the rights of under-represented individuals and families in the community through legal services, strategic advocacy, and educational outreach. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Rochester and a Juris Doctor degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. Martin was named Bay Area’s General Counsel of the Year by the San Jose Business Journal/SF Business Times and as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by the Ethisphere Institute.

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Pia, the ultimate ai-led automation platform for MSPs, empowering them with improved efficiency, faster ticket management, and elevated customer service, is excited to announce a new usage-based pricing model for its partners. This innovative model allows partners to pay only for the resources and automations needed, providing a flexible alternative to Pia’s fixed-base pricing model.

“Our partners have expressed a need for usage-based pricing to better control costs, and we heard them loud and clear,” said Gerwai Todd, CEO of Pia. “The feedback after sharing the news with our current partners has been overwhelmingly positive, and we are now opening this pricing model option to all.”

Key benefits of Pia’s usage-based pricing model:

• Cost control: Partners only pay for what they use, offering savings and cost management.
• Flexibility: Usage-based pricing allows partners to adjust the platform usage according to business needs without being tied to a fixed rate.
• Transparency: Pia provides clear and transparent reporting of usage and costs for better expense monitoring.

For partners who value simplicity and predictability, Pia continues to offer fixed pricing plans with unlimited usage. This option provides maximum value, allowing partners to manage their costs while benefiting from the platform’s full capabilities for a fixed monthly or annual fee.

“We believe that offering both usage-based and fixed pricing with unlimited usage options empowers partners to select the pricing model that best aligns with their business needs,” Todd said. “Whether partners prefer the flexibility of usage-based pricing or the simplicity of fixed pricing, we are committed to ensuring they have the right solution for their businesses.”

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Microsoft is experiencing a period of growth and innovation in the burgeoning Mexican cloud market, ISG Provider Lens report says

Buoyed by the steady migration of systems to online and remote access environments, Microsoft’s Azure is rapidly extending its reach in the Mexico cloud market, according to a new research report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm.

The 2024 ISG Provider Lens Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem report for Mexico finds the Azure platform is recording growth superior to that of other cloud computing services in the country. The main reasons cited are the constant development of new resources and tools for the platform as well as Microsoft’s increased competitiveness in a hotly contested market, the ISG report says.

“The Azure managed services market in Mexico is witnessing rapid growth,” said Bill Huber, partner, Digital Platforms and Solutions, for ISG. “An increasing number of cloud service providers are investing in resources and training and seeking the Azure Expert MSP seal as proof of their ability to comply with the highest standards of managed services.”

Sparked by a stepped-up need to reduce costs while responding to a growing customer demand originally brought on by the pandemic, Mexican companies are looking for solutions that increase productivity and improve interoperability, the ISG report says.

Microsoft 365, a suite of cloud productivity applications, helps companies reduce operational and infrastructural costs and increase efficiency and collaboration among teams, while offering security and compliance resources, the ISG report says. It includes Microsoft Teams, a collaboration tool that enables real-time work while providing artificial intelligence and data analysis to aid companies in making more informed decisions, the report says.

With the growth of the software-as-a-service market in Mexico, SAP on Azure, a solution that allows companies to execute SAP applications in the Microsoft cloud, has become an attractive option for reducing costs while increasing efficiency and collaboration, the ISG report says. High-performance providers offer migration services for the SAP S/4HANA platform, ensuring compatibility and visibility in the new architecture and providing strategic recommendations to optimize performance in the cloud, the report says.

The Mexican market is increasingly adopting the RISE with SAP proposal, which allows companies to acquire cloud infrastructure, applications, integration services and support for SAP implementations under a single contract. RISE is spurring a growing number of new implementations and migrations to the Azure cloud, ISG says.

“Enterprises in Mexico are turning to cloud computing services to aid their digital transformation and make it easier to adopt innovative technologies,” said Jan Erik Aase, partner and global leader, ISG Provider Lens Research. “The flexibility and scalability of cloud services have allowed these companies to innovate and scale more efficiently.”

The report also examines how the Microsoft partner ecosystem in Mexico has proactively responded to the introduction of generative AI.

For more insights into the Microsoft cloud ecosystem challenges facing enterprises in Mexico, including dealing with skills shortages and responding to immediate technology demands, and ISG’s advice for addressing them, see the ISG Provider Lens Focal Points briefing here.

The 2024 ISG Provider Lens Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem report for Mexico evaluates the capabilities of 28 providers across five quadrants: Managed Services for Azure, Microsoft 365 Services, SAP on Azure Services, Power Platform Services and Generative AI Services for the Microsoft Clouds.

The report names Accenture and DXC Technology as Leaders in all five quadrants, while Softtek and SoftwareONE are named as Leaders in three quadrants each. Ingram Micro, Logicalis and Telefónica Tech are named as Leaders in two quadrants each, while AlfaPeople, bSide, IBM and NEORIS are named as Leaders in one quadrant each.

In addition, Readymind, SoftwareONE and TCS are named as Rising Stars — companies with a “promising portfolio” and “high future potential” by ISG’s definition — in one quadrant each.

In the area of customer experience, Bechtle is named the global ISG CX Star Performer for 2024 among Microsoft cloud ecosystem providers. Bechtle earned the highest customer satisfaction scores in ISG’s Voice of the Customer survey, part of the ISG Star of Excellence program, the premier quality recognition for the technology and business services industry.

The 2024 ISG Provider Lens Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem report for Mexico is available to subscribers or for one-time purchase on this webpage.

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Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) announce a strategic partnership to combine their deep industry expertise with telecom software, solutions and support, to guide communications service providers (CSPs) through their radio access network (RAN) cloud transformation journeys.

CSPs are looking to network cloud and operations transformation to achieve improved economics and agility, while maintaining network reliability. According to a new MeriTalk study released today, sponsored by Dell Technologies, nine in 10 CSPs say network transformation is critical to their organization’s survival. However, 96 percent of CSPs surveyed say their network transformation vision is lagging due to a variety of factors including limited time and budget, as well as reliability and security concerns, ultimately holding them back from giving their customers a modern network.¹

Dell and Ericsson’s partnership aims to address these concerns by working alongside CSPs to develop simple and reliable Open RAN-based network cloud transformation strategies, using Dell and Ericsson integrated solutions and support.

“Communications service providers have a crucial window of opportunity to lay the foundation for network cloud transformation and drive business growth,” says Dennis Hoffman, senior vice president and general manager, Telecom Systems Business, Dell Technologies. “Our collaboration with Ericsson, combined with our decades of digital transformation expertise, will provide network operators the full plan and technologies they need to accelerate their network and operation transformations to positively impact the trajectory of their businesses.”

“Working closer with Dell Technologies will help further develop cloud-native programmable networks that bring new ideas and practices to the telecom market,” says Fredrik Jejdling, Executive Vice President and Head of Business Area Networks, Ericsson. “Building upon years of collaboration, this strategic partnership will strengthen our cloudification efforts as we gear up to launch Open RAN-based commercial solutions. The cloud-native network will enable frequent updates and the rollout of new features using continuous deployment. It will ease the adoption of Cloud RAN technologies and prepare both companies’ portfolios for new markets.”

Through the new agreement, Dell and Ericsson will:

• Collaborate to develop tailored network cloud transformation plans and advise CSPs on network architectures and operating models, while also reducing the risks associated with deploying on open, multi-vendor environments. Dell and Ericsson plan to co-create solutions that drive energy efficiencies and innovate on Cloud RAN infrastructure operations.
• Commercially introduce Ericsson Cloud RAN software on Dell PowerEdge servers. The solution will offer continuous integration testing and lifecycle management to speed deployment and de-risk day-2 operations around updates and upgrades, with Dell as a solution partner.
• Co-develop services that simplify the entire deployment process from factory validation to installation and ongoing operational management, backed by Dell and Ericsson’s joint support for any integrated solution.

“To accelerate cloud-based open networks, the telecom industry needs vendors to come together to develop solutions that deliver more growth opportunities with minimal risk,” says Chris Sambar, Head of Network, AT&T. “We look forward to the continued innovation and collaboration as we continue our Open RAN journey.”

In 2023, Ericsson and Dell Technologies began a collaboration to develop Cloud RAN solutions, leveraging Ericsson Cloud RAN software and RAN equipment paired with Dell Technologies infrastructure, with the common goal of broadening the ecosystem and bringing more flexibility to customers.

Ericsson is participating in the Network X Americas event in Irving, Texas, with keynote speeches by Dr. Sibel Tombaz, Head of Product Line Cloud and Purpose-built 5G RAN and Paul Challoner, CTO at Global Customer Unit AT&T. Together with other Ericsson representatives they are at the event to share insights on the latest progress in the Cloud RAN and Open RAN market and how Ericsson is working with key partners and customers to drive the Open RAN industry forward. Discussion topics include the evolution of wireless networks, defining key performance indicators for sustainable growth into future networks, Open RAN industrialization, and more.

Additional resources 

• Blog: Network Transformation Critical to Survival, Say Communications Service Providers
• Connect with Dell via X and LinkedIn 
• Connect with Ericsson via X

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Telefónica and Google Cloud today announced the renewal and extension of their partnership to bring best-in-class cloud offerings to the market and to help businesses accelerate their digital transformations. The agreement includes the expansion of Google Cloud services offered by Telefónica Tech for the B2B market, cloud adoption by Telefónica for its own business, and the strengthening of collaboration in key areas of innovation, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI).

Telefónica is using Google Cloud internally to advance in its own digital transformation, leveraging Google Cloud’s technologies in areas such as IT through its “Go to Cloud” program. Telefónica has accelerated the transformation of its own operations systems, improving application deployment time and optimizing infrastructure. The strategic collaboration agreement between Telefónica and Google Cloud has demonstrated great value for both companies over the last several years, which has encouraged Telefónica to extend for three additional years — and to explore collaboration on areas such as the use of AI and data services, the use of Google Cloud’s solutions to host network functions under a telco cloud approach, and the improvement of Telefónica’s network operation via automation.

Telefónica Tech, the digital transformation arm of the company, continues to evolve its capabilities by achieving five specializations in Google Cloud: Workspace for Enterprise, Infrastructure, Application Development, Data Analytics, and Cloud Migration. Additionally, Telefónica Tech has attained Google Cloud’s Managed Service Provider status, solidifying its position as a proven expert in helping customers accelerate growth, enhance productivity, and innovate with Google Cloud technology.

“This extension of the partnership reinforces Google Cloud as a key partner for Telefónica in the coming years. Many of our new services and processes will be based on the innovation, agility, scalability and flexibility that Google Cloud provides to us,” said Enrique Blanco, Telefónica Global CTIO.

“Telefónica’s ambition and commitment to innovation is inspiring. Our renewed and expanded partnership is a testament to the shared vision and trust we’ve built together. We are incredibly excited about the potential of this collaboration to drive innovation, accelerate digital transformation, and create lasting value for Telefónica and its customers,” said Tara Brady, President of Google Cloud EMEA.

Telefónica is building next-generation digital products and services, with Google Cloud technologies as strategic enablers. Telefónica will explore a set of innovation projects with Google Cloud on previously agreed areas, which include AI, Gen AI, MLOps, accelerated computing infrastructure for AI, Web3, blockchain, quantum, and edge computing.

Google Cloud is also working closely with Wayra, Telefonica’s corporate venture capital, to provide startups with technology to help them innovate their product development processes, optimize costs, and support their market expansions.

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Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced an expanded collaboration to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as an element of Nutanix Cloud Platform.

The Nutanix Cloud Platform provides a consistent cloud operating model with a single platform for running applications and data across hybrid multicloud endpoints. Nutanix delivers resilience with self-healing nodes, persistent storage natively integrated to best support modern application deployments, performance and capacity scale linearly. Additionally, the Nutanix Cloud Platform can help deliver cost efficiencies by eliminating unused compute and storage resources. The foundation of this platform is Nutanix AOS, which combines components of a traditional operating system with additional services and packages.

Through this expanded collaboration, Nutanix AOS will now build on the enterprise-ready innovation Red Hat delivers with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for traditional operating system capabilities. This enables Nutanix to focus on the novel intellectual property delivered by Nutanix AOS, providing a more consistent cloud operating model for running applications and data across hybrid multicloud endpoints.

Many of the fastest, most innovative high performance computing environments in the world use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the standardized platform for underlying Linux management and maintenance tasks. By addressing these IT needs with the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, technology teams are able to better focus on the operational tasks that matter, freeing up crucial resources to help deliver the innovations that make customers and end users more successful.

With an IT foundation established with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat customers can help realize key benefits such as:

• Direct access to enterprise-grade Linux experts specifically dedicated to the needs of a flexible, scalable Linux operating system.
• Enhanced stability for hybrid cloud infrastructure to help organizations more consistently manage and scale cloud-native workloads from on-premises datacenters to multiple public clouds.
• Access to trusted, security-optimized Linux to support greater resilience, with backing from Red Hat’s product security and security incident response teams to generate faster responses to potential security vulnerabilities.

As part of this extended collaboration, Nutanix will also contribute to CentOS Stream, working with Red Hat and the broader open source community on hypervisor functionality, networking and storage performance for emerging artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. By joining CentOS Stream, Nutanix will be able to contribute to and fuel future distributions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to help accelerate the adoption of more performant applications on the Nutanix Cloud Platform.

Supporting Quotes

Stefanie Chiras, senior vice president, Partner Ecosystem Success, Red Hat

“From virtualized and cloud-native applications to AI and edge workloads, a trusted, more consistent and comprehensive operating system foundation remains a critical component of the technology stack. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has served as an enterprise-ready innovation catalyst for decades, and we’re pleased for the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform to underpin the expansion of our existing collaboration with Nutanix.”

Thomas Cornely, senior vice president, Product Management, Nutanix

“Nutanix and Red Hat are in a unique position to help customers manage the ongoing market disruptions. We’re excited to strengthen our product and go to market partnership with Red Hat to further build on each other’s strengths and enable enterprise customers to make the most of opportunities around cloud, modern application platforms and AI”

Additional Resources

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• Explore the benefits of migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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The worldwide smart home market is currently seeing a robust expansion due to the emergence of increasingly mature smart technologies like cloud computing, AI, and the IoT. Being a pioneer in the field of smart solutions, Tuya is actively driving industry change in the smart home space, and working with many of the world’s top technology companies, including Google, to pursue technological breakthroughs.

Being a reliable long-term partner of Google, Tuya was among the first businesses to connect its developer platform to the Google Assistant. In 2021, Tuya became one of Google’s first authorized solution providers. In 2023, Tuya integrated Google Cloud into its own multi-cloud architecture, offering developers a wider range of cloud tools and more stable services.

Apps are becoming an essential tool for controlling smart devices as smart homes grow more and more common. Tuya has introduced the Tuya Smart App Solution to address the requirements of developers for app construction, and to assist them in resolving issues related to interaction logic design, interface development, and integration, which arise during the development process.

Tuya can offer developers an inclusive service based on its Smart App Solution, covering everything from planning and design, development and testing, app store listing, and operation and maintenance. By offering a one-stop-shop for app solutions, Tuya can help developers cut down on time and R&D expenditures. Additionally, each app has billions of devices and millions of concurrent processing capabilities thanks to Tuya’s worldwide cloud deployment, which can completely fulfill the expectations of the fragmented and individualized market.

Google unveiled a number of new APIs at I/O 2024, such as the Matter Commission API, Device and Structure APIs, Automation APIs, etc., providing new chances for developers worldwide to investigate the smart home market.

Tuya intends to integrate the Device and Structure APIs into Tuya-enabled App considering the superior performance. In the meantime, the Tuya-enabled App will effectively reduce the latency of local management and remote access for smart home devices, giving developers more options and flexibility. The Tuya-enabled App will break down the barriers of the original ecosystem with the support of Google Device and Structure APIs, enabling developers to manage all smart home devices that support Google Home in a one-stop manner within Tuya’s Smart App Solution.

Furthermore, the Solution will provide cross-platform and cross-scenario management, enabling developers to craft more intricate and customized smart home scenarios that will enhance users’ lives and make them feel smarter and more at ease. Using the home cleaning scenario as an example, the Tuya-enabled App, which integrates Google Device and Structure APIs, will turn off the fan, adjust the air conditioning to economy mode, and simultaneously start the sweeping robot to clean the living room when the motion sensor powered by Tuya detects that the user has left the room for five minutes. This increases convenience for people’s family lives by ensuring cleanliness in the house and reducing energy use.

It is noteworthy that Tuya has experimented with Device and Structure APIs in the past, utilizing the Tuya Smart App to create customized smart home scenarios. At the Google I/O 2024, the scenario was completely exhibited this time as well, grabbing the audience’s attention. It displays the good ecosystem compatibility of Tuya-enabled App in addition to the application possibilities of Google Device and Structure APIs. This creative approach can also offer developers everywhere helpful references and direction in the meantime.

In the future, Tuya plans to collaborate with industry leaders like Google to delve further into the domain of smart homes, provide worldwide developers with access to more dependable, secure, and stable cutting-edge technology, and together promote the industry’s advancement.

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As an Akamai Qualified Compute Partner, EZDRM will offer its robust, comprehensive security service operating inside the Akamai cloud to optimize edge video workflows and enable complete live-streaming solutions to operate closer to their users. EZDRM is already recognized for close collaboration with live edge encoder technologies from Bitmovin, Ateme, and others. Having security operate in very close conjunction with these encoders and packagers helps the drive toward low-latency streaming services at a competitive price point, while reducing the potential attack surface.

“Our edge security solutions enabled by Akamai Connected Cloud increase the range of sophisticated architectures that we can offer to the demanding world of live event streaming,” commented Olga Kornienko, COO and Co-Founder at EZDRM. “We always appreciate the opportunity to illustrate our close industry partnerships with leaders in the space — and keep the threats further away!”

“Akamai is pleased to make cloud-based, fully managed digital rights management services from EZDRM easily available to Akamai customers through the Akamai Qualified Computing Partner Program,” said Dan Lawrence, Vice President, Cloud Computing, Akamai. “With EZDRM, service operators and content owners can securely distribute premium content to a wide range of client device types across Akamai Connected Cloud, the world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery.”

The Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program is designed to make solution-based services that are interoperable with Akamai Cloud Computing easily accessible to Akamai customers. The services are provided by Akamai technology partners that complete a rigorous qualification process to ensure they are readily available to deploy and scale across the globally distributed Akamai Connected Cloud.

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