On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Matt Yanchyshyn, GM at AWS Marketplace and Partner Engineering for a conversation on what is driving the growth and adoption of AWS Marketplace and what buyers and sellers can expect in the future.

Their discussion covers:

• An introduction from Matt Yanchyshyn as GM at AWS Marketplace

• What factors drive the growth and adoption of cloud marketplaces

• How important is AWS Marketplace to the AWS business and their partners

• What buyers and sellers can look forward to from AWS Marketplace in the near future

Learn more about AWS Marketplace on the company’s website.

On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Sanjay Poonen, President and CEO at Cohesity for a conversation on Cohesity’s strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) by integrating Cohesity Turing with Amazon Bedrock.

Their discussion covers:

• A look at Cohesity’s Turing integration with Amazon Bedrock

• How this generative AI solution will allow customers to use the latest AI capabilities to better manage, interact with, and gain insights into their data

• Cohesity’s new upcoming capabilities for protecting AWS and VMware workloads

Learn more about Cohesity’s partnership with AWS, on the company’s website.

On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Nick Coult, GM at AWS Elastic Containers (ECS) for a conversation on how ECS has developed over the past year, what “AWS Serverless” means and the impact of generative AI on the serverless value proposition.

Their discussion covers:

• How AWS’ Elastic Container Service (ECS) has developed and how customer acceptance of an opinionated orchestrator has evolved over the last year

• The term ‘serverless’ is used differently by many, and how AWS defines ‘AWS Serverless’

• How the refactoring of legacy, monolithic applications turns out and how AWS Serverless helps

• GenAI’s impact on the serverless value proposition, especially from the user/operator experience point of view

On this episode of The Six Five – Insider, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Rob Thomas, SVP IBM Software and Chief Commercial Officer from IBM and Dr. Dario Gil, SVP and Director from IBM Research to continue their conversation from the IBM Think event back in May on IBM’s AI business strategy.

Their discussion covers:

• The latest in IBM’s AI business strategy

• The top concerns with enterprise AI and what IBM is doing to address these concerns for its customers

• What makes the recently released IBM Granite foundation models unique

• IBM’s thoughts on AI safety and governance and how they are addressing these areas 

Learn more about IBM’s AI platform, watsonx, on the company’s website.

On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Cloudera’s Cindy Maike, VP Industry Solutions, during Cloudera Evolve NYC for a conversation on the customer perspective on generative AI, adoption, and planning for the future of their data.

Their discussion covers:

• How Cloudera is talking to customers about AI adoption, generative AI solutions, and the benefits from the data that Cloudera has under management

• What customers have identified as barriers to adoption and operationalizing generative AI

• The biggest shifts in Cloudera’s customer interactions from traditional analytical AI phase to the generative AI phase

• What customers should be considering in the next two to three years, when it comes to AI adoption and their data

On this episode of The Six Five - Insider Edition, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Broadcom’s Krish Prasad, SVP & GM, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, for an inside look at how VMware Cloud Foundation fits into Broadcom’s larger strategy of delivering private and hybrid cloud choices and options for customers.

Their discussion covers:

• Broadcom’s strategy of delivering private and hybrid cloud choices and options for customers

• Broadcom’s priorities around data management, security, and networking and how they fit in with customers’ desire for interoperability and control of their data and workloads

• What customers of a combined Broadcom and VMware can expect around security solutions for software-enabled technologies, and what innovations are coming

• What customer needs VMware Cloud Foundation is addressing and how has that impacted or shifted innovation of the platform

• How VMware Cloud Foundation is adapting to support AI and generative AI workloads and what role VMware Cloud Foundation will play in support of Private AI architecture

On this episode of The Six Five - Insider Edition, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Broadcom’s Purnima Padmanabhan, VP & GM, Tanzu Division, for an inside look at how Tanzu furthers Broadcom’s hybrid cloud strategy, the next evolution of the Tanzu Application Platform, and more.

Their discussion covers:

• What makes Tanzu so valuable to customers, and how Broadcom will help accelerate the deployment of cloud-native applications going forward

• The recent announcement that VMware Tanzu and Aria will come together on a single track, and how customers will gain from this combination

• How Tanzu furthers VMware’s, and now Broadcom’s, hybrid cloud strategy

• How customers should be thinking about managing Kubernetes and how Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations helps support this

• The next evolution of the Tanzu Application Platform and what it offers for new and existing customers

On this episode of The Six Five - Insider Edition, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Broadcom’s Sanjay Uppal, VP & GM, Software-Defined Edge Division, for an inside look at how the now combined Broadcom and VMware are approaching opportunities at the edge.

Their discussion covers:

• Why a software-defined edge approach will enable the combined Broadcom and VMware to win going forward

• How is software-defined edge technology changing what customers can do at the edge 

• How do the combined Broadcom and VMware think about the need for infrastructure, orchestration, and programmability at the edge

• Why scalability and flexibility impacts the design of software-defined edge solutions

On this episode of The Six Five - Insider Edition, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Broadcom’s Hock Tan, President and CEO, for an inside look at the future of a combined Broadcom and VMware, the company’s private and hybrid cloud strategy, security, and more.

Their discussion covers:

• What to expect from a combined Broadcom and VMware and what the company plans to focus on throughout this next fiscal year

• Broadcom’s private and hybrid cloud strategy and what role VMware will play in furthering that strategy

• The impact of the VMware acquisition on Broadcom’s customers, and how what it means for the future of the private cloud

• How the inclusion of VMware’s services, will help Broadcom’s customers navigate challenging security issues

• How Broadcom plans to incorporate VMware’s existing partners into Broadcom’s robust partner ecosystem and what VMware partners can expect in the coming months

On this episode of The Six Five – Insider, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Jeff Reed, VP Product, Cloud Security at Google Cloud for a conversation on how they are using AI to supercharge Google Cloud Security’s unique combination of capabilities, including front line intelligence, security operations, and a secure cloud platform.

Their discussion covers:

• How Generative AI tackles critical issues and how Google and Google Cloud Security adopt a strategic approach to this technology

• Google's unique stance on Cloud security and Generative AI, encompassing a broader perspective on their comprehensive portfolio

• Google's emphasis on security in the Generative AI domain, ensuring responsible and trustworthy advancement

• The latest innovations within Google Cloud and gain insights into the platform's exciting trajectory