Tech Disruptors

“Every customer recognizes that it is data that is the fuel that powers AI,” says Arun Ulag, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Azure Data. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Ulag talks with BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana about how Microsoft has been reorganizing its data management and insights portfolio for customers looking to leverage their data...

Enterprise information management tools, processes and outcomes are set to evolve with AI and the shift to cloud. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, OpenText CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the development of the enterprise information management landscape, AI-led product and productivity initiatives and the company’...

“Generative AI with a combination of cloud and data is poised to transform every aspect of how organizations operate,” Amazon Web Services Vice President of AI and Data Swami Sivasubramanian says in the latest episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. Sivasubramanian sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to discuss key developments in data and generative AI, and...

Companies’ decision-making is increasingly driven by data, with the quality of that data critical, especially in AI-driven applications. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Barr Moses, founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the intricacies of data-dependent intelligence and how data-observability solutions can...

Helping the consumer tackle the financial marketplace for credit cards, auto loans, mortgages, insurance and other financial products is the value that Credit Karma brings to its over 130 million customers, says Ryan Graciano, co-founder and chief product officer of Credit Karma. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Graciano sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to e...

“Underlying large language models have advanced significantly in the past six months, so that’s allowed us is to start looking at software development in a much more ‘agentic’ approach, where the agent essentially becomes a collaborator with the software developer,” says Deepak Singh, vice president of next-gen developer experience at Amazon Web Services. On this episode of Tech Disruptors, Singh...

“Microsoft is making a bet that we’re not going to need a single AI, we’re going to need many different AIs” Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft’s vice president of generative-AI research, tells Bloomberg senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this Tech Disruptors episode, the two examine the differences between a large language model like ChatGPT-4o and a small language model such as Microsoft’s Phi-3...

The cloud’s need for a high-performing AI infrastructure to support growing large language models has opened a Pandora’s box of performance bottlenecks. In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Ayar Labs CEO Mark Wade and VP of Commercial Operations Terry Thorn sit down with BI hardware and networking analyst Woo Jin Ho to discuss the company’s co-packaged silicon photo...

Cohere is one of the frontier large-language-model companies focusing on enterprise-use cases to differentiate it from OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, Meta Llama, Anthropic Claude and Mistral. Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Mandeep Singh to discuss what makes Cohere unique in its approach to model training and deployment. They discuss retrieval augm...

The workflow-management-solutions sector is evolving fast, yet remains fragmented and likely on the hunt for new revenue models. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Thomas Scott, CEO of Wrike, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss how AI tools are used to boost client and internal productivity, the demand environment and the company’s produ...

“On average, a salesperson spends 30-45 minutes after a sales call on processing the sales call,” says Ketan Karkhanis, Salesforce’s executive vice president and general manager of Sales Cloud. In this installment of Tech Disruptors, Karkhanis sits down with Anurag Rana, Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst, to examine the problem of time-consuming and unproductive tasks faced by sales...

The rising capabilities of AI and progress in large language models are set to reduce communication barriers posed by language diversity. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors Podcast, Jaroslaw Kutylowski, founder and CEO of DeepL, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss how machine learning is reshaping language translation, along with competing langua...

AI computing employs GPU/XPU clusters that are growing at unprecedented speeds, as well the bandwidth and power requirements of networks to support them. Near Margalit, Broadcom’s vice president and general manager of the Optical Systems Division, sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior semiconductor analyst Kunjan Sobhani in this Tech Disruptors podcast episode to discuss Broadcom’s innova...

The readiness of companies’ data for AI use cases will be critical to their innovation and market leadership. In this episode of the Bloomberg Intelligence Tech Disruptors podcast, Precisely CTO Tendü Yoğurtçu and BI’s senior technology analyst Sunil Rajgopal discuss data integration, data quality, location intelligence and data-enrichment tools, and their roles in enterprise intelligence and deci...

“We’re seeing a big increase in GPU capacity demands and we expect the data centers over the next couple of years will need to support higher power densities giving us the ability to run very large clusters of GPUs,” says AWS Global Data Centers VP Kevin Miller. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Miller talks with BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana about all...

Expanded artificial-intelligence workloads are raising the power and cooling requirements of data centers, with individual rack consumption predicted to increase by 10x compared with traditional compute. Vertiv is a market-leading provider of UPS, liquid cooling and switchgear solutions catering to these needs. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Vertiv CEO Giordano “Gio” Albertazzi sa...

“We see a lot more focus on digital-first, whether you’re thinking of branding, social, advertising and so on. Everyone is thinking of digital first,” Adobe’s president of Digital Experience Anil Chakravarthy explains to Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. On his second appearance on the Tech Disruptors podcast, Chakravarthy homes in on new products GenStudio and Acrobat...

1Password has evolved from a consumer service to a B2B provider as passwords remain one of the points of vulnerability for cyberattacks. In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, 1Password’s CEO Jeff Shiner and BI’s Mandeep Singh talk about the integration of 1Password with other cybersecurity vendors including Okta and other single-sign on and multifactor authentication...

Seagate’s relentless hard-disk-drive technology innovation has expanded mass-capacity storage solutions over the past several years. Jason Feist, senior vice president of products and markets, sits down with Woo Jin Ho, Bloomberg Intelligence hardware and networking analyst, in this edition of the Tech Disruptor podcast. They discuss the company’s breakthrough heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAM...

Anthropic cofounder Jared Kaplan talks about the nuances of training LLMs and deploying them for enterprise use cases with Mandeep Singh, technology analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. The use of GPU clusters for training and inferencing, pitfalls related to hallucinations and LLM biases are among the topics discussed in this episode of BI’s Tech Disruptors podcast

Planning, management and collaboration over enterprise workflows has become more complex with a growing stack of enterprise-software tools, distributed work and agile development frameworks, driving demand for robust, single-pane workflow management solutions. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors Podcast, monday.com’s Chief Financial Officer Eliran Glazer and Chief Product and Technology Officer...

GSK’s Chief Digital and Technology Officer Shobie Ramakrishnan discusses how the company is leveraging AI and data models for vaccine development and drug discovery in this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast. BI’s Health-Care Analyst Sam Fazeli and Technology Analyst Mandeep Singh are hosts.

“Every modern business is a data business,” says Amazon Vice President Data Storage Services and Cloud Migration, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec that “will be won or lost on the quality of the data, not the volume.” In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana talks with Tomsen Bukovec about the evolution of AWS storage, specifically S3, and...

Gleaning intelligence from diverse and disaggregated customer touch points — particularly digital — is crucial for businesses. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Spenser Skates, CEO and co-founder at Amplitude, joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss the digital-analytics landscape, customer-adoption path and the impact of new AI tools. The...

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...