Data infrastructure stories
The funding will help the London-based consultancy expand through acquisitions and into new markets as demand for digital change and security grows.
Existing resellers and distributors will get higher margins and longer deal protection as Scality shifts rewards towards certifications and demand creation.
Disconnected procurement and logistics data is leaving finance chiefs exposed to slower decisions, hidden costs and weaker forecasts across businesses.
Retailers can tap seller and customer data without duplicating systems after Marketplacer expanded its integration with Snowflake's AI Data Cloud.
Connected coolers are becoming a key source of real-world data, helping bottlers predict failures and dispatch repairs before sales are lost.
Ad-hoc data work is draining staff time and slowing AI projects, as only a quarter of large firms have structured data programmes.
The tie-up gives Databricks users quality and lineage checks for AI workflows, helping teams spot risky data before it reaches models.
Rising AI workloads are pushing more firms towards managed monitoring as operational complexity and telemetry costs make self-hosted tools harder to justify.
Bad contact records can send autonomous AI workflows off course, with errors compounding across thousands of customer actions at once.
Legacy systems are slowing enterprise AI gains, with only 10% of large firms saying the technology is core to operations.
The rise reflects growing demand for its expanded technology platform after a recent acquisition and caps 14 straight years on CRN's list.
Banks and retailers are adopting the platform as AI projects mature, with data sovereignty now shaping budgets, risk and infrastructure choices.
The deal should help the European consultancy expand as demand grows for data analytics and AI advice across financial services and retail.
Growing AI use is making bills harder to predict, pushing firms to track costs across models, agents, data and compute.
The carmaker aims to streamline production and back-office systems as it pushes data and AI into its Crewe Dream Factory project.
Thousands of civil servants and government systems are set to gain AI and cyber tools as the Philippines widens digital public services and network resilience.
Lenders in Australia can now score borrowers without moving data out of Snowflake, as the app targets faster, simpler underwriting.
Many Australian businesses still miss contract insights after signing, even as AI cuts agreement cycle times by 34% and saves 18 hours each.
The award strengthens Myriad360's standing as enterprises seek fewer suppliers for networking, security and artificial intelligence projects.
Enterprises can now turn plain-language requests into reviewable AI workflows, as Dataiku seeks to close the gap between prototypes and production.