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Innatera books $21M in funding for its ultra-low-power AI chips

Paul Gillin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:00:47 +0000

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 […]

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SingleStore adds Iceberg support and speedier vector search

Paul Gillin — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:00:53 +0000

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 […]

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Open lakehouse provider Onehouse lands $35M funding round

Paul Gillin — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:00:52 +0000

Managed data lakehouse company Onehouse Inc. said today it has raised $35 million in a Series B funding, bringing its total funding to date to $68 million. It also launched two new products to increase lakehouse performance and reduce cloud storage and processing costs. The company sells a data lakehouse as a managed service based […]

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Oracle HeatWave database gets host of generative AI features

Paul Gillin — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:00:47 +0000

Continuing its Swiss Army knife strategy with its managed MySQL database service called Heatwave, Oracle Corp. today is endowing the product with generative artificial intelligence capabilities. They include in-database large language models, automated in-database vector store, scale-out vector processing, the ability to query in natural language, and tools that enable customers to build their own […]

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No-code developer Creatio achieves unicorn status with $200M investment

Paul Gillin — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:00:56 +0000

No-code platform developer Creatio Inc. today said it has raised $200 million in a funding round that values the company at $1.2 billion, bringing the total amount raised by the Boston-based firm to $268 million. Creatio’s platform is principally used to automate workflows in customer relationship management scenarios. Founded in 2015, it employs 700 people […]

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VMware simplifies product portfolio around Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation

Paul Gillin — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:00:56 +0000

Vowing to simplify management of a collection of point products, Broadcom Inc. today announced updates to its VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud platform that integrate networking, storage and management functions more tightly. The company also announced a new release of the vSphere hypervisor aimed at customers that want basic virtualization technology. Cloud Foundation combines computing, networking, […]

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EchoMark says it has the definitive answer to data exfiltration

Paul Gillin — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:16:58 +0000

EchoMark Inc., a Seattle startup focused on protecting private information, is launching a software-as-a-service offering that uses forensic watermarking to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of internal communications. SecureView protects against information leaks caused by such hard-to-track elements as email attachments, downloads, image captures and untraceable emails, the company says. It allows for the trusted sharing and […]

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Oracle Autonomous Database is now an Azure service

Paul Gillin — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:22:31 +0000

Oracle Corp. is tightening its partnership with Microsoft Corp. with today’s announcement that Oracle’s Autonomous Database is now generally available on the Oracle Database@Azure comingled cloud service. The Oracle Autonomous Database is a fully automated and managed database-as-a-service. Initially available as a private offer in the Azure East U.S. region with deployment to 14 other regions to […]

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Pure Storage adds AI features to improve performance and detect attacks

Paul Gillin — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:00:38 +0000

Pure Storage Inc. is playing its artificial intelligence hand this week with a clutch of announcements aimed at simplifying AI training and inferencing as well as applying machine learning to help customers better unravel storage conundrums. The new Evergreen//One offering for AI is billed as the first purpose-built AI storage as-a-service. It provides guaranteed storage […]

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HPE, Nvidia partner on scalable hardware platform for AI development

Paul Gillin — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:30:18 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is the latest systems maker to join the Nvidia Corp. express with today’s announcement of a lineup of co-developed systems optimized for artificial intelligence and joint sales and marketing integrations aimed at generative AI. During its HPE Discover conference starting today in Las Vegas, the company said the packaged systems can […]

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LogicMonitor says new AI assistant can reduce IT operations alerts by 95%

Paul Gillin — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:00:06 +0000

Venerable observability vendor LogicMonitor Inc. today introduced a generative artificial intelligence copilot tuned for use by information technology operations staff. The company said Edwin AI (pictured) is aimed at reducing alert fatigue, diagnosing incidents more quickly, lowering resolution times and simplifying complex observability issues. It was built from the ground up and is not based on […]

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Surprise: Google tops Forrester’s first ranking of AI foundation models

Paul Gillin — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:23:47 +0000

Forrester Research Inc. just released its first Wave ranking of artificial intelligence foundation models, and the findings might raise some eyebrows. The research firm rated Google LLC as the leader in the category by a substantial margin, with Databricks Inc., Nvidia Corp., IBM Corp. and OpenAI LLC listed as “strong performers.” Google earned the top spot […]

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Startup claims it can automate 80% of software development with generative AI

Paul Gillin — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:00:52 +0000

A five-person startup based in Paris and San Francisco is emerging today with the audacious claim of being able to create enterprise-grade software with generative artificial intelligence entirely from natural language descriptions, slashing development times by 80% in the process. Shreds.AI is self-funded and unknown, but nothing is modest about its ambitions. It wants to […]

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Databricks broadly boosts support for AI model training

Paul Gillin — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:00:29 +0000

Databricks Inc. today announced several enhancements to its Mosaic AI toolset for building and deploying artificial intelligence models that specifically target generative AI applications. The improvements, announced at the company’s Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, are aimed at better supporting compound AI systems, or those that involve several interacting components, as well as […]

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Pegasystems expands generative AI to process design and user training

Paul Gillin — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 15:30:21 +0000

Low-code workflow automation provider Pegasystems Inc. today is using its PegaWorld iNspire conference in Las Vegas to roll out enhancements to its Pega GenAI Blueprint application design-as-a-service tool and introduce an overhauled approach to training that uses generative artificial intelligence to simulate individual tutoring. Pega has already incorporated generative AI into several of its products. Its […]

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Study finds fears of post-Broadcom VMware customer flight may be overblown

Paul Gillin — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:44:02 +0000

Forecasts of mass abandonment of VMware Inc. customer defections to other virtualization technology providers in the wake of Broadcom Inc.’s $61 billion acquisition of the virtualization giant may be overblown, according to a study released today by CloudBolt Software Inc. in partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. CloudBolt surveyed 300 information technology executives with responsibility […]

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How some enterprises have licked the AI data problem

Paul Gillin — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:34:38 +0000

Thomson Reuters Corp. is betting big on generative artificial intelligence, and it has the data foundation in place to do so. The global provider of professional information for the legal, accounting, government and media industries announced last November that it plans to invest more than $100 million in generative AI and fold the technology into […]

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Databricks acquires Tabular in a big move to close the compatibility gap with Apache Iceberg

Paul Gillin — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:45:05 +0000

Databricks Inc. today agreed to acquire Tabular Technologies Inc., developer of a universal storage platform based on the Apache Iceberg standard. The move signals stepped-up efforts by Databricks to bridge the compatibility gap between its Delta Lake storage format and Iceberg. Terms weren’t announced, but Databricks Chief Executive Ali Ghodsi (pictured) told CNBC the price tag was more […]

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Neo4j integrates dozens of graph analytics functions with data in Snowflake

Paul Gillin — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:00:12 +0000

Graph database vendor Neo4j Inc. is teaming up with Snowflake Inc. to make a library of Neo4j’s graph analytics functions available in the Snowflake cloud. The deal announced today allows users to access more than 65 graph algorithms using SQL without moving data out of the Snowflake environment. The algorithms cover a variety of common […]

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Snowflake broadly enhances AI features, adds no-code platform and boosts AI development tools

Paul Gillin — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:00:07 +0000

Snowflake Inc. is using its annual Snowflake Summit to introduce enhancements to Cortex AI, a managed service that makes it easier for organizations to discover, analyze and build artificial intelligence applications in the Snowflake Data Cloud. New features include the ability to quickly develop chatbots for querying data, a no-code interactive interface, access to several […]

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Snowflake catalog supports cross-engine access to Iceberg data

Paul Gillin — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:00:12 +0000

Snowflake Inc. is expanding its support for the Apache Iceberg open-source table format with today’s announcement of Polaris Catalog, described as a vendor-neutral, open catalog implementation for Iceberg and other data architectures. Polaris is intended to provide centralized, cross-engine access to data. Snowflake said the catalog, which will be released to open source within the […]

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Nutanix CEO sees sales slowdown as temporary

Paul Gillin — Thu, 30 May 2024 15:55:20 +0000

With its stock down more than 20% this morning following a disappointing outlook issued during yesterday’s earnings call, Nutanix Inc. ad its Chief Executive Rajiv Ramaswami maintained the sales slowdown the company is seeing is temporary and several large contracts currently in negotiation will boost the Nutanix’s fortunes in the near term. In a briefing […]

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Enterprise DB begins rolling AI features into PostgreSQL

Paul Gillin — Thu, 23 May 2024 13:00:24 +0000

EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source PostgreSQL database management system, is launching itself into the artificial intelligence fray with today’s introduction of EDB Postgres AI. It’s a platform that combines transactional, analytical and AI workloads — a single PostgreSQL package that can be deployed in a cloud instance, on-premises or […]

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At Build, Microsoft Fabric, PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB get AI enhancements

Paul Gillin — Tue, 21 May 2024 15:30:26 +0000

Among the roughly 60 announcements Microsoft Corp. is making at its Build conference today are new artificial intelligence capabilities across its cloud-based database management products. Fabric, the company’s unified data platform introduced last year, is a major beneficiary. A Workload Development Kit currently in preview can be used to extend applications within Fabric. Fabric Data Sharing […]

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Microsoft simplifies Azure provisioning and debuts first VMs based on its custom silicon

Paul Gillin — Tue, 21 May 2024 15:30:04 +0000

Microsoft Corp.’s Build conference in Seattle this week will launch several enhancements to the company’s Azure public cloud. Azure Compute Fleet is a new service in preview intended to simplify the provisioning of Azure compute capacity across different virtual machine types, availability zones and pricing models. Microsoft said it should dramatically simplify how Azure compute capacity is currently provisioned and managed. Customers […]

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Informatica will infuse generative AI throughout its products

Paul Gillin — Tue, 21 May 2024 13:00:39 +0000

Informatica Inc. kicked off its Informatica World conference in Las Vegas today with a promise to infuse generative artificial intelligence into every facet of its product line and to enable users to build natural language features into their applications. Citing its research that found that 58% of chief data officers need five or more data […]

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Nutanix goes all-in on Kubernetes, bids for VMware defectors

Paul Gillin — Tue, 21 May 2024 11:30:27 +0000

Nutanix Inc. today announced a broad set of enhancements to its core infrastructure software and its Project Beacon portfolio of data-centric platform-as-a-service offerings that can run across multiple cloud and on-premises platforms. The company is aiming to cater to the 80% of organizations that use multiple public cloud platforms or plan to in the future. It’s also looking […]

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Dell expands AI-focused hardware line and tightens Nvidia alliance

Paul Gillin — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:00:05 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc. is making its case for keeping customers’ artificial intelligence workloads on-premises with a long list of new and enhanced products being announced today at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas under the banner of its recently introduced Dell AI Factory. They include new flash storage systems tuned to AI workloads, a parallel […]

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New Dell servers feature optimized cooling and Open Compute Project management

Paul Gillin — Tue, 14 May 2024 13:00:37 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc. today is rolling out a new set of PowerEdge servers that incorporate hardware designs created by the Open Compute Project and are configured for cold-aisle deployment. For cloud service providers, the PowerEdge R670 and R770 CSP Edition servers feature improved performance and a new standardized server architecture for easier deployment and servicing. For […]

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Telus International CEO delivers blunt assessment of firm’s performance: ‘very disappointed’

Paul Gillin — Fri, 10 May 2024 21:56:54 +0000

Customer experience service and technology firm Telus International Inc. reported higher earnings but declining revenue on Thursday. Despite issuing an upbeat press release and reaffirming full-year guidance, the company is clearly struggling to offset lower revenues in its contact center outsourcing with artificial intelligence-based customer experience market growth. Contact center services have been under pressure from […]

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