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Gartner revises server spending forecast sharply upward as generative AI effect kicks in
Gartner Inc.’s latest worldwide information technology spending forecast predicts a 24.1% jump in spending on data center systems, more than double the 10% growth expected just three months ago and six times the actual growth of 4% last year — thanks to generative artificial intelligence. That’s according to John-David Lovelock (pictured), a distinguished vice president ...
Red Hat enhances OpenShift with better support for diverse workloads
Red Hat Inc. today introduced enhanced and new features for its OpenShift version of the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers, with a particular focus on handling diverse workloads. Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 is intended to provide consistent management of disparate workloads ranging from transaction-intensive uses to artificial intelligence model training and inferencing. The new version ...
C3 debuts generative AI platform for government agencies
C3 AI Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence models customized to different industries and use cases, today announced C3 Generative AI for Government Programs, a generative AI application aimed at helping federal, state and local governments deliver information about government programs via a chat interface. The company cited overburdened and underfunded government call centers that can create ...
Oracle offers shared Exadata-as-a-service at dramatically lower cost than for full instances
In a bid to attract more small business and department-level customers to its high-end Exadata Cloud service, Oracle Corp. today launched what it calls an “intelligent data architecture” that delivers high-speed query performance across multiple cloud instances at a cost significantly lower than that of its flagship Exadata service. Exadata Cloud is a high-powered database ...
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Where does eBay do most of its AI development? You might be surprised
For a company doing business in the cloud before the concept of cloud computing existed, eBay Inc. has taken a decidedly non-cloud-centric approach to artificial intelligence training and deployment. Though the company bursts out to use public cloud resources during seasonal peaks, the bulk of its AI work happens in its own data centers. That ...
Alluxio says it can achieve 97% GPU utilization across a distributed filesystem
Alluxio Inc., which sells a high-performance open-source distributed filesystem, announced a set of enhancements that optimize the use of costly graphic processing units along with performance improvements that make its storage performance competitive with storage subsystems optimized for high-performance computing. Alluxio Enterprise AI Version 3.2 also adds a Python interface and improved cache management features. ...
Betamax blues: Hudi edging toward ‘also ran’ status in the data platform race
In announcing its Polaris Catalog last month, Snowflake Inc. Executive Vice President Christian Kleinerman said the product “extends Snowflake’s commitment to Apache Iceberg as the open standard of choice.” Statements like that raise the hackles of Apache Hudi adherents. They maintain their preferred open table format — whose name stands for Hadoop Upserts, Deletes and ...
Managed PostgreSQL service provider Tembo raises $14M
Tembo Data Systems Inc., operator of a PostgreSQL managed service, today said it closed a $14 million Series A funding round that brings its total financing to $20.5 million. The company says it’s developer-focused, meaning it wants to simplify the task of installing and managing PostgreSQL as well as the more than 200 extensions in ...
Innatera books $21M in funding for its ultra-low-power AI chips
Netherlands-based microprocessor maker Innatera Nanosystems B.V. said it closed an oversubscribed $21 million Series A funding round, which included a $16 million investment the company announced in March and an additional $5 million from new investors. The company’s Spiking Neural Processor T1, unveiled in January, is an energy-efficient artificial intelligence chip for sensor-edge applications. It ...
SingleStore adds Iceberg support and speedier vector search
SingleStore Inc., developer of a real-time database platform that performs both transactional and analytical operations in the same engine, today announced native integration with the Apache Iceberg open-source table format and advanced search and scaling capabilities. Apache Iceberg is rapidly emerging as one of the most popular formats for storing diverse datasets. It provides transactional ...