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Snowflake catalog supports cross-engine access to Iceberg data
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 ...
Nutanix CEO sees sales slowdown as temporary
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 ...
Enterprise DB begins rolling AI features into PostgreSQL
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 ...
At Build, Microsoft Fabric, PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB get AI enhancements
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 ...
Microsoft simplifies Azure provisioning and debuts first VMs based on its custom silicon
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 ...
Informatica will infuse generative AI throughout its products
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 ...
Nutanix goes all-in on Kubernetes, bids for VMware defectors
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 ...
Dell expands AI-focused hardware line and tightens Nvidia alliance
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 ...
New Dell servers feature optimized cooling and Open Compute Project management
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 ...
Telus International CEO delivers blunt assessment of firm’s performance: ‘very disappointed’
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 ...