Episodes
Published 05/21/24
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...
Published 05/21/24
“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...
Published 05/16/24
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...
Published 05/14/24
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...
Published 05/09/24
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.
Published 05/07/24
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...
Published 05/02/24
“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...
Published 04/30/24
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...
Published 04/25/24
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...
Published 04/23/24
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...
Published 04/18/24
The AI landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and a focus on economically scalable models is gaining increased attention. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Naveen Rao, VP of generative AI at Databricks, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss a wide range of topics, including neural networks, human vs. machine compute and the future of AI and LLMs. The two also talk about Databricks’ AI and product initiatives, the competition...
Published 04/16/24
Establishing a marketing-software platform that powers brands in customer engagement across any channel is where companies such as Braze can differentiate themselves, Bill Magnuson, CEO and co-founder, tells Bloomberg Intelligence. To do so, Braze looks to leverage AI technology and event-streaming data architecture, processing trillions of API requests and messages. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Magnuson sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to explain...
Published 04/11/24
Creating an accounts-payable solution that leverages AI from the start and extends to B2B payments differentiates Stampli in the mid-market customer segment. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Stampli’s co-founder and CEO Eyal Feldman sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to explain the company’s technology stack, use of generative AI and the greenfield opportunity in accounts-payable automation. Tune in to learn what is Billy the Bot, how Stampli views ERP...
Published 04/09/24
A global pullback in discretionary IT spending in 2023 was barely noticed by Globant, which reported another year of solid revenue growth by helping clients leverage digital transformation to improve user experiences, Globant co-founder and CEO Martin Migoya tells Bloomberg Intelligence. He joins Tamlin Bason, BI technology analyst, to discuss how the company’s unique go-to-market approach has helped it disrupt the IT services space. Migoya also talks about opportunities for the sector as...
Published 04/04/24
Digital transformation, the cloud transition and AI adoption are top-of-mind themes for businesses of all sizes. In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Planview CEO Razat Gaurav joins Sunil Rajgopal, BI’s senior software analyst, to discuss the state of enterprise digital transformation, the importance of a strong data foundation and the dilemma of seat-based pricing models for software-as-a-service businesses. They also talk about the company’s AI-led product...
Published 04/02/24
“Data Cloud is a binding layer that binds all of these different siloes in which you engage with your customers,” Rahul Auradkar, Salesforce’s executive vice president and general manager of the Data Cloud and Einstein businesses, explains to Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Anurag Rana. The two break down the importance of having a unified data layer when leveraging generative AI, and discuss how the Data Cloud can be complementary to other third-party data lakes and...
Published 03/28/24
Adobe President of Digital Media Business David Wadhwani joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to explore how generative AI is expanding client engagement across the company’s Creative and Document Cloud suites. They discuss improvements in consumer navigation and the growth of enterprise solutions through tools like GenStudio, while underscoring the significance of upholding content authenticity among creators. Additionally, they analyze generative-AI...
Published 03/26/24
B2B service providers must be innovative in how they develop solutions that enable online gaming companies to optimize customer experiences, Playtech US Chief Commercial Officer Marcus Yoder tells Bloomberg intelligence. He joins Brian Egger, BI’s senior gaming and lodging analyst, to discuss the company’s player account management (PAM) solutions and online gaming services. The two also discuss how Playtech’s SaaS business model has enabled it to bring game content to operators with their...
Published 03/21/24
Driving intelligence and monetizing enterprise data depends on the underlying data architecture, query engines and storage resources. In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Dremio cofounder and Chief Product Officer Tomer Shiran joins BI senior software analyst Sunil Rajgopal, to discuss the evolving data-management architecture and technologies and how the company is working to curtail bottlenecks and enable business-intelligence analysts and data scientists to...
Published 03/19/24
Accelerators and compute are becoming technology’s picks and shovels for processing artificial-intelligence workloads. Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman joins the Bloomberg Intelligence Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the dynamic AI-server market and how its Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) chip and Super Computer could offer a more cost-effective and powerful alternative to today’s cluster-based infrastructure to run AI models. Woo Jin Ho, BI’s hardware and networking analyst, explores...
Published 03/14/24
One of the critical components of the software value chain is resiliency, or how quickly a system can recover with the fewest people affected or noticing, says PagerDuty Chief Technology Officer Tim Armandpour. He joins Sunil Rajgopal, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior software analyst, to discuss the IT operations landscape, key changes in incident-response software and the importance of integration with the broader software value chain, including observability and IT-service software...
Published 02/29/24
Coupling AI with more complex workflows is where companies such as Canva can differentiate themselves, Cameron Adams, co-founder and chief product officer of the graphic-design platform, tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In his second appearance on BI Tech Disruptors, Adams joins senior technology analyst Anurag Rana for a conversation on innovations in AI and how the technology is shaping privacy and copyright concerns. Additionally, they discuss how Canva is trying to create value across its...
Published 02/23/24
Vaccine-maker Moderna is also a data company, and that’s enabling it to use AI to drastically reduce drug-development times, Chief Information Officer Brad Miller tells Bloomberg Intelligence’s Sam Fazeli and Mandeep Singh. This episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast looks at a wide range of related topics, from the use of mRNA technology, to applying data for speeding up R&D for rare diseases. The discussion also touches on the deployment of generative AI across different parts of the...
Published 02/15/24
Cato Networks is looking to challenge network security incumbents including Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet by deploying its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform offering to enterprise customers. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, CEO Shlomo Kramer sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh to talk about the convergence of point products such as secure web gateway, SD-WAN and endpoint detection with a SASE approach.
Published 02/06/24