The AI technologies of today—including not just large language models (LLMs) but also deep learning, reinforcement learning, and natural-language processing (NLP) tools—will equip telcos with powerful new automation and analytics capabilities. AI-powered automation is already driving significant margin growth by reducing costs.

AI is the next revolutionary technology that will accelerate the mission of the Department of Defense. Newly boundless in its applications, “AI” joins “cyber” and “cloud” as the most important information technologies that have arrived in the last 25 years.

Telecommunications companies are currently executing on ambitious digital transformation, network transformation, and AI-driven automation efforts. While navigating so many simultaneous data-dependent transformations, they must balance the need to level up their data management practices—accelerating the rate at which they ingest, manage, prepare, and analyze data—with that of governing this data.

In the ever-evolving landscape of the financial services Industry, change is a constant and transformation is a requirement—to stay at pace with new regulations, risk mitigation, and the technological developments that support transformation. And just as financial services experiences its cycles, this time of year I find myself returning to the topic of cost reduction.

Cloudera recently released a fully featured Open Data Lakehouse, powered by Apache Iceberg in the private cloud, in addition to what’s already been available for the Open Data Lakehouse in the public cloud since last year. This release signified Cloudera’s vision of Iceberg everywhere. Customers can deploy Open Data Lakehouse wherever the data resides—any public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, and port workloads seamlessly across deployments.