Tech Disruptors

The rise of artificial-intelligence workloads has pulled forward years of compute, storage and networking-infrastructure technologies, exponentially increasing the complexity in building systems for large enterprises and hyper-scale cloud customers. In this episode of the Bloomberg Intelligence Tech Disruptors podcase, Penguin Solutions (a division of SGH) Chief Technology Officer Phil Pokorny and VP of Global Marketing Mark Seamans sit down with Woo Jin Ho, BI hardware and networking analyst, to discuss the next generation infrastructure requirements, the evolving hardware and systems needs as AI grows and how Penguin has become a partner in building out AI factories.

“Our job is to unlock data for people, and being able to generate insights from it, whether it’s structured or unstructured, is a big opportunity for customers,” says Tableau CEO Ryan Aytay. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast Aytay and Anurag Rana, BI’s senior technology analyst, discuss trends in data visualization, how Tableau has cemented itself as a leading provider and how generative AI promises to shift the landscape. Aytay also speaks about how Salesforce propelled Tableau’s growth since acquiring it in 2019, and the business-intelligence provider’s work on other initiatives like Einstein and Data Cloud.

When organizations begin planning to migrate business applications to the cloud, security starts to take the drivers seat, Onapsis Chief Technology Officer Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen says. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Perez-Etchegoyen joins Mandeep Singh, BI technology analyst, to discuss the deployment of security for enterprise resource-planning applications such as SAP. The conversation includes platformization, integration of Onapsis with other cyber providers and into the customers’ IT environment, and how the company stacks up against point products, including Qualys and Tenable, that specialize in vulnerability management and patching.

Softbank Vision Fund’s Director of Life Science and HealthTech John Cassidy discusses his approach to investing in health-care technology in this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. Co-hosts Sam Fazeli, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior pharmaceutical analyst, and Mandeep Singh, BI’s senior tech analyst, also talk with Jason Burch, head of platform technologies at Ventus Therapeutics, one of the Vision Fund’s portfolio companies. Burch shares his perspective on how to leverage technology for research and his prognosis for drug discovery in the age of generative AI.

Check Point’s CEO Gil Shwed sits down with Mandeep Singh, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior tech analyst, in this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, to talk about cybersecurity and the future of firewalls as attacks become more sophisticated. They discuss how companies are implementing a modern day SOC (Security Operations Center) and how consolidation and the emerging concept of “platformization” will impact the cybersecurity market.

The rise of generative-AI workloads has invigorated the cloud-services sector, with AI training and inference emerging as the next growth engine. Privately held provider, Vultr, pivoted early to building out an accelerated compute infrastructure. Vultr CEO J.J. Kardwell sits down with Woo Jin Ho, Bloomberg Intelligence tech analyst, in this Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss AI cloud demand and how the company’s holistic AI-services approach is far more than just stringing together a bunch of GPU clusters in a data center.

“Regulatory regimes change every day around the world,” says Clearwater Analytics CEO Sandeep Sahai, explaining one advantage of an investment reporting program that can reflect daily changes. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast Sahai talks with Anurag Rana, Bloomberg Intelligence technology analyst, about how Clearwater is disrupting institutional investment reporting, how it plans to monetize generative AI and how the company’s high customer retention is driven by consistent product innovation.

Machine learning is expanding the use of predictive analytics across all industries, and C3.ai’s software offerings made it well prepared for this moment of broad generative-AI adoption, says CEOThomas Siebel. In this episode of theTech Disruptors Podcast, Siebel joins hostSunil Rajgopal, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior software analyst, to discuss how developments in machine learning are reshaping businesses and industries as well as the opportunities and complexities of large-language models. The two also talk about C3.ai’s shifting business model and the company’s leadership pipeline.

The use of generative AI and large language models has accelerated in money management the past 12 months, opening up “endless” possibilities for companies such as Balyasny Asset Management, says Charlie Flanagan, the firm’s head of applied AI. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Flanagan joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh to discuss the impact and potential of generative AI for investing-related workflows. The conversation ranges from productivity enhancement for investment professionals and developers to large-language-model hallucinations. They also examine issues around GPU supply constraints and automation.

IT customers are scrutinizing their purchases more carefully than they had in the past, but they’re still spending because modernization and the digital transformation are critical for these companies, says Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Ramaswami returns to the studio and sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Woo Jin Ho to provide an update on the growing opportunities in so-called hyperconverged infrastructure. They also discuss the disruptive ripple effects for the industry of the Broadcom-VMware M&A, Nutanix’s strategic partnership with Cisco and generative AI.