Christopher Mende

We're excited to announce new capabilities in Google Cloud #VertexAI Training designed to simplify and accelerate large-scale model development. Key highlights from our latest update: 🔹 Flexible, Self-Healing Infrastructure: Leverage fully managed, resilient Slurm environments with automated failure detection and performance-optimized checkpointing. 🔹 Cost-Effective Scheduling: Utilize Dynamic Workload Scheduler (DWS) for fixed future reservations or flexible on-demand capacity. 🔹 Integrated Frameworks: Access optimized recipes for the full model lifecycle (including SFT and DPO) and seamless integration with NVIDIA NeMo. Whether you're fine-tuning standard models or training massive custom foundational models from scratch, these new features are built to get you to production faster. Read the full announcement to see how organizations like Salesforce and AI Singapore are already leveraging these tools to elevate their models. 👇 https://lnkd.in/gVVq3WCw

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Proud to see Dell Technologies partnering with Technological University of the Shannon to deliver a powerful new AI platform powered by Dell PowerEdge servers that will power advanced AI research capabilities. Powered by our high-performance infrastructure, the AI platform will enable researchers at the university to accelerate groundbreaking research in cybersecurity, sustainability and healthcare. Our work with TUS, and other public and private organisations across the country demonstrates how our innovative AI solutions and expertise are making a real difference in critical industries like healthcare and sustainability. By working together across industry and academia we can continue to strengthen Ireland’s AI ecosystem and empower innovation that shapes the future. As we look ahead, I’m excited to see how this platform drives new possibilities in these critical research fields and fosters innovation that will benefit people, society and industry across Ireland. https://lnkd.in/dv7bc6DZ

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AWS Transform is a new agentic AI service that uses modernization and migration agents to accelerate and simplify the transformation of your infrastructure, applications, and code. You can migrate VMware applications to Amazon EC2, modernize .NET applications to cross-platform .NET, and modernize IBM z/OS mainframe apps, all up to 4x faster than before. To learn more: * AWS Transform Launch - https://lnkd.in/gCHiQm_y * Mainframe Modernization - https://lnkd.in/gt2DZnxH * .NET Transformation - https://lnkd.in/gbekNpVQ * Why Organizations Around the World are Choosing AWS Transform for .NET - https://lnkd.in/gAfwM6Yu * VMware - https://lnkd.in/gj-aKcyC * Migration Planning Assessments - https://lnkd.in/gE_C3M_X

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Microsoft is powering next-level media solutions. MediaKind trusts Microsoft Azure as the backbone for instant, global distribution of content. By leveraging Azure’s scalable infrastructure, they can handle real-time coverage demands without missing a beat. Check out the story here: https://lnkd.in/gqxZnJzw Erik Ramberg, Allen Broome, Simon Crownshaw, Silvia Candiani, Jessica Alderson, Rich Anderson, MBA, Sebastian Rasino, Monica Reynolds, Kyle Nielsen, Eliot Sakhartov #MediaTech #MediaInnovation #BroadcastSolutions

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People often ask me about the differences in architecture between Amazon Dynamo (the 2007 SOSP paper), DynamoDB (the AWS serverless NoSQL database), and Aurora DSQL (the AWS serverless SQL databases). I captured the key points on durability, high availability, programming model, and trade-offs in my blog: https://lnkd.in/gkMG_tVD TL;DR: Despite the shared name, Dynamo and DynamoDB have little in common architecturally, and make very different trade-off decisions.

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Turning siloed machine data into actionable intelligence leads to empowered teams, delighted customers, and innovation at scale. Ahead of #splunkconf25, Splunk's Kamal Hathi shares how Splunk and Cisco are helping organizations embrace the promise of AI. https://bit.ly/3IxESA3

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Google Cloud Next 2025: Agentic AI, Ironwood, customers and everything you need to know https://bit.ly/4jjqCIk Google Cloud announced a bevy of capabilities and services designed to enable multi-agent systems for its customer base, which is increasingly integrating the company’s models, data platform and agent development tools into their stacks. #GoogleCloudNext

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As we close out Microsoft #Build 2025, one thing is clear: the future of software is being built with AI—and our partners are leading the way. This year’s announcements reflect a unified vision to empower the entire partner ecosystem, from software companies to systems integrators, managed services providers, resellers, and startups to enterprise, to innovate faster and scale smarter: • New AI capabilities and agentic tools are transforming how apps are built, deployed, and experienced. • Azure AI Foundry helps partners optimize performance, reduce costs, and accelerate time to value. • Programs like the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program and Microsoft for Startups are meeting partners where they are—with the right support at the right time. • And we’re doubling down on skilling with AI Agents Day, Certification Weeks and technical bootcamps to help every role stay ahead. This is more than a moment—it’s a movement. Let’s keep building together. Read the full blog  https://lnkd.in/gHBxDE6K

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We held our #AWSSummit in New York, and the announcements made could shape the future of how we build and scale with AI. As Matt Garman put it, agentic AI represents a shift as profound as the arrival of the internet. To support our customers in this next chapter, we have launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: a new solution that allows organisations to deploy and manage AI agents at scale, boosting innovation and productivity. We are also making our second $100m investment in the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, including doubling down on agentic capabilities. After two years of helping customers turn ideas into impact – including Formula 1 – we are now focused on what comes next. This is a pivotal moment. At AWS, we are committed to providing the platform, expertise, and momentum to help customers lead in this new era. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/debsU3CE

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At AWS re:Invent I spoke to Woon Ho Jung, CTO for Cloud Native at Commvault, to talk about how they are helping AWS customers protect more than just one type of workload We spoke about how they started with BackTrack for S3 and now support DynamoDB and Apache Iceberg, and what real problem that solves when your data is spread across so many services! For teams who are new to Apache Iceberg on AWS, I asked Woon to break down the basics. What do you need in place so that recovery is not a theory, but something you can rely on when a table, job, or pipeline goes wrong! If you care about resilience across modern AWS workloads, this one will be worth watching. #data #ai #awsreinvent #aws #agents Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Partners AWS Events #awspartners #awscompetencypartners #agenticai #theravitshow

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Frontier firms are moving fast from AI ambition to AI outcomes. At Microsoft, we built Experience Center One to help customers turn AI ambition into measurable business value. In this new executive‑briefing destination, customers work hands‑on with experts across the end‑to‑end Microsoft cloud to accelerate AI transformation.     GeekWire got a first look at the space and captured the energy behind it. As they put it, “Microsoft’s pitch isn’t just about off‑the‑shelf AI models — it’s about custom agentic systems that act on behalf of workers to complete tasks across multiple tools and data sources.”     And the results speak for themselves: an IDC study cited in the article found:  💠Companies integrating AI across an average of seven business functions are realizing 2.84x ROI, while “laggards” see 0.84x.  💠And, 88% of Frontier Firms report top‑line growth from AI initiatives vs. 23% of laggards.     Agentic AI is fast becoming the next defining chapter of a frontier organization. You can see it in the Experience Center One hands‑on demos: a custom Copilot in BlackRock’s Aladdin platform to help analysts process market data; teams of agents diagnosing factory issues for Mercedes-Benz AG in minutes instead of days; and AI‑accelerated drug discovery with Insilico Medicine compressing weeks or months of research into days or hours.     If you’re steering your company’s AI agenda, this is where we roll up our sleeves together and build what’s next.      Read: Inside Microsoft’s new “Experience Center One”: What we learned at the edge of the AI frontier — GeekWire  https://lnkd.in/g7eqxrdf Mariana Castro Monica DeMeulemeester Justin Chandoo

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