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Apple's AI Challenger Sale

Tom Tunguz

” For privacy to become one of the leading selling points of software, competitive dynamics & user preferences have evolved. Enterprises push for their data to be under their control in virtual private clouds, in open data formats like Iceberg, to run AI models in their own environments - the cloud-prem architecture.

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What Has Your GPU Done For You Today?

Tom Tunguz

Today, buyers are more familiar & have security options : deploying AI on virtual private cloud architectures, tools to delete data from cloud AI vendors, dedicated security tools for AI, & a panoply of open source alternatives. How much better is AI than existing software? What revenue has AI increased?

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Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tom Tunguz

Typically, the data resides in the customer’s cloud account. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet. Some call it a VPC for virtual private cloud. Others call it cloud prem, a contraction of cloud and on-prem(ises). But the drivers are real. That’s the twist.

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The Challenge of the AI Demo

Tom Tunguz

Proofs of concept are extended demonstrations of the software. We’re hosting an event on the evening of Sep 10th in San Francisco to interview leaders in the space moderated by Dave Morse, former CRO at Hebbia & VPS/VPCS at ScaleAI to talk about some of these questions. But, they can be problematic in proofs-of concept.

AI 191
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Big Switch targets shadow IT, hybrid cloud growth with fortified software family

IT World

Big Switch has rolled a variety of new software packages aimed at simplifying customer networks and helping them manage on-premises and hybrid-cloud data-center growth. VPCs provide the on-demand access to a pool of shared cloud-computing resources.

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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Bigger Picture: Other Needs When I broadened my thinking, I quickly realized we had already implemented two other one-off remote access solutions: To enable SQL GUI tool access to the database, we set up bastion servers on our staging and production VPCs. ” To drill down a bit: Keep our AWS Virtual Private Clouds walled off and private.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

During this time of remote workforce, budgets are tightening and a lot of our enterprise customers are using their pre committed cloud security contracts to buy enterprise software and software from ISVs. It’s not frictionless, but it’s trying to smooth out as many of the bumps as we can with regards to that.

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