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Cloudian and Supermicro collaborate to enhance AI infrastructure
Cloudian and Supermicro have confirmed a strategic collaboration to deliver a data management solution designed to simplify and accelerate largescale AI implementations .
This solution integrates exabyte-scalable storage and GPU-based computing to accelerate and simplify AI deployment in data-intensive use cases such as genomics , healthcare imaging , autonomous vehicles , video surveillance , security and scientific research .
Key capabilities include exabyte scale , military-grade security , highest S3 API compatibility , bi-modal data access and a platform portfolio including Supermicro Petascale All-Flash storage servers and Supermicro SuperServer 90 drive bay storage servers f- in addition to other 1U , 2U and 4U high products in the Supermicro family .
“ As AI users transition towards increasingly capacity-intensive applications , the need for hyperscale-class infrastructure that enables direct access to massive data sets is critical ,” said Jon Toor , CMO , Cloudian .
“ Our collaboration with Supermicro merges our enterprise-proven , exabyte-scalable AI data lake platform with Supermicro ’ s leading GPU compute expertise , delivering the industry ’ s richest technology stack for largescale AI computing .”
Michael McNerney , Senior VP of Marketing and Network Security , Supermicro , said : “ Combining Supermicro ’ s NVIDIA-Certified Systems with Cloudian ’ s exabyte-scale software enables the next wave of largescale AI deployments . In addition to these , Supermicro ’ s SuperServer storage systems offer high capacity to help drive deep insights into learning massive data sets seamlessly and efficiently .”
Designed for enterprise-class deployment , the Cloudian platform provides a comprehensive software infrastructure for data-intensive computing . Cloudian ’ s data lake provides a consolidated repository to ingest , catalogue , enrich and preserve data through real-time analysis and deep learning .
Five9 to acquire Acqueon and expand Omnichannel Outreach
Five9 has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire real-time revenue execution platform Acqueon .
Adding Acqueon ’ s capabilities to Five9 ’ s Intelligent CX Platform is a big step toward realizing Five9 ’ s ambition to become the orchestration engine for every interaction across the entire customer journey , including marketing , e-commerce , sales and customer service .
The combination is set to accelerate the Five9 vision by helping to enable companies to maximize revenue while delivering proactive , AI-elevated CX .
With AI at the forefront , and with access to valuable contextual data , enterprises are increasingly empowered to make informed decisions in real-time to predict with precision when and how to contact their consumers to maximize connection rates and business outcomes .
“ Today ’ s customers have become more sophisticated and have higher demands – this strategic acquisition enables Five9 to expand the strength of our outbound solutions , which we pioneered from our inception ,” said Mike Burkland , Chairman and CEO , Five9 .
Ashish Koul , CEO , Acqueon , said : “ We ’ ve had an extremely successful partnership over the last two years with deep product integrations between Acqueon ’ s Revenue Execution Platform and Five9 ’ s Intelligent CX platform – including a focused initiative around our Epic integration within the Five9 platform for the healthcare industry .
“ With our AI powered solutions , innovation center , experienced team and leadership in the outbound omnichannel category , we look forward to enhancing Five9 ’ s leadership position in the CX market .”
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2024 .
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