The Impact of AI on Software Engineering Productivity

It is hard to imagine a time not long ago where AI has not been front and centre of our everyday news, let alone in the software engineering world? The advent of LLMs coupled with the existing compute power catapulted the use of AI in our everyday lives and in particular so in the life of a software engineer. This article breaks down some of the use cases of AI in software engineering and suggests a path to investigate the key question: Did we actually become more productive?

The AI Tipping Point: What Public Sector Leaders Need to Know for 2025

AI is proving that it’s here to stay. While 2023 brought wonder and 2024 saw widespread experimentation, 2025 will be the year that the public sector gets serious about AI's applications. But it’s complicated: AI proofs of concept are graduating from the sandbox to production, just as some of AI’s biggest cheerleaders are turning a bit dour.

Optimizing Query Performance in Snowflake Using AI Tools

Have you ever wondered how to unlock the full potential of the Snowflake AI suite? This webinar will provide the answers! Join Maja Ferle and Pooja Kelgonkar, Snowflake Data Superheroes, to learn how to identify and resolve query performance bottlenecks, optimize resource usage, and accelerate data insights using Snowflake AI tools. Discover best practices for writing optimized queries and leveraging Snowflake’s built-in tools, such as Co-Pilot, to enhance performance.

AI-Driven SOC Transformation with Cloudera: Enhancing Security Operations with Agentic AI

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are the backbone of organizational cybersecurity, responsible for detecting, investigating, and responding to threats in real-time. Yet, the increasing complexity and volume of cyber threats present significant challenges. SOC teams often grapple with alert fatigue, skill shortages, and time-consuming processes.

EP 7: Women Leaders in Technology: The Art of Getting Stuff Done with NVIDIA's Kari Briski

For the inaugural episode of Women Leaders in Technology on The AI Forecast, we’re joined by one of the top female leaders in the technology industry, Kari Briski - Vice President of AI Software Product Management at NVIDIA. Kari shares the stories and strategies that inform her leadership style–like GSD or “getting stuff done”–what it means to trust your instinct, and the advice she gives to young women embarking on a career in tech and to women further along who feel stuck where they are.

Google Cloud & Confluent Marketplace Marvels Series

In this episode of the Google Cloud Marketplace Marvels series, theCUBE Research’s John Furrier talks to Shaun Clowes, CPO of Confluent, and Stephen Orban, VP of migrations, ISVs, and marketplace, Google Cloud at Google. Clowes highlights the strategic partnership with Google Cloud, emphasizing seamless integration, scalable solutions and flexibility in marketplace consumption models. Together, they explore the platform’s impact on AI initiatives, enterprise analytics and rapid IT modernization, demonstrating how businesses can build next-generation data infrastructures one step at a time.

New in Reports: Make Better Decisions, Together

It helps you make better decisions. Don’t get me wrong, saving 12~ hours every month is great. But the biggest value is the ability to gather stakeholders around the data, to help them see what performance was, what changed, and what to do next. That’s where the magic happens. You’re not just saving time. You’re focusing on improving key metrics together. Great reports help you find opportunities to improve, or address downward trends before they get worse.

Advanced, Built-In Data Governance and Data Discovery with Snowflake Horizon Catalog

With the advent of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), enterprises are racing to unlock as much business value as possible from their data assets, including apps and models. Unfortunately, these data assets are often locked away in silos across multiple cloud service providers and solutions, as well as across different partner, customer and vendor ecosystems.

Allium and Confluent: How to Build a Foundational Data Platform for Blockchain

Blockchains enable individuals and organizations to record and verify transactions as part of a secure, transparent, and decentralized system. They form the basis of most cryptocurrencies, and are used as the foundation of many other applications—smart contracts, supply chain management, and digital identity verification, to name but a few.

The Marketing Agency of the Future: Powered by Unified Data, Trust and AI

We are entering a new era for marketing and advertising agencies. From evolving consumer expectations and increasingly stringent privacy regulations to the rise of AI, the landscape is shifting rapidly. To remain competitive, agencies need to reimagine how they operate. The winners will be those that adopt forward-thinking data strategies, build trust with partners and clients, and leverage AI to deliver real-time insights and personalized campaigns.