Artificial Intelligence Articles
Kaladhar Voruganti, senior technologist in office of the chief revenue officer at Equinix, and Rory Kelleher, director of global business development for healthcare at NVIDIA, led Data Summit's session, "Succeeding With AI in the Cloud," to discuss strategies and methods to effectively utilize AI within business operations.
Posted May 11, 2023
At the annual Data Summit's second keynote presentation, speakers Mike Bechtel, chief futurist at Deloitte Consulting LLC, and Ankit Patel, SVP of engineering at Foursquare, explored the possibilities that await any organization seeking to transform their businesses for the better, highlighting trust and geospatial datasets as the key.
Posted May 11, 2023
Financial institutions have rich, customer-centric data and are in a strong position when building AI solutions. Since the functions differ, AI use cases also differ. The recent intense interest in generative AI has given rise to a new aspect of data science: Prompt Engineering, which is basically how humans train models like GPT by creating appropriate prompts. At Data Summit 2023, Supreet Kaur, AVP, Morgan Stanley, discussed "Leveraging Data Science and Generative AI" during her session.
Posted May 11, 2023
The global hype surrounding ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs), and generative AI has launched a plethora of conversations about its efficacy in the business sphere; yet understanding how to best leverage these tools remains rather elusive. At Data Summit 2023, David Seuss led the session, "Investigating Neural Networks and AI," focusing on what ChatGPT, LLMs, and generative AI are, as well as how they can provide a competitive edge for a wide variety of organizations seeking to drive positive business outcomes.
Posted May 11, 2023
MLOps can streamline machine learning development, thus increasing operational effectiveness. With this in mind, Joey Jablonski, VP, analytics, Pythian, looked at the journey to defining and implementing an MLOps solution for the organization during his Data Summit 2023 presentation, "Building MLOps Organizations for Scale."
Posted May 11, 2023
Data science methods provide a means to establish analytic tradecraft, capable of managing a large amount of data, allowing for full characterization of actor behaviors, and providing valuable insights. Efrain Rodriquez, data manager, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), presented a case study on how the intelligence community (IC) is addressing these challenges by establishing innovative AI/ML governance and data management methodologies, during his Data Summit 2023 session, "Using Data Management Methodologies to Foster Development of Transformational AI/ML Tradecraft."
Posted May 11, 2023
Probably the most important reason for building knowledge graphs has been to answer this age-old question: "What is going to happen next?" Given the data, relationships, and timelines we know about a customer, patient, product, etc. ("the entity of interest"), how can we confidently predict the most likely next event? Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc discussed how to, "Build Predictions With Machine Learning & Graph Neural Networks," during his Data Summit 2023 presentation.
Posted May 10, 2023
While data quality tools find issues in production, it is too little, too late. Production data issues are expensive to fix and cause business discontinuity and reputation risk. iceDQ believes companies should adopt a left-shift approach to prevent faulty processes and data from entering production. Sandesh Gawande, CTO, iCEDQ, discussed "Data Testing: A Left-Shift Approach to Data Quality" during his Data Summit 2023 presentation.
Posted May 10, 2023
The Data Summit 2023 conference opened up focusing on "The World According to Data," with featured speakers David Weinberger, Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and Author, Christina Leber, principal data software engineer, iRobot, and Dave Mohr, regional VP, Neo4J.
Posted May 10, 2023
In an information economy, data is the currency of business. Digital upstarts are disrupting every industry, making it imperative that organizations have a strong data strategy that turns data into insights and profitable activity. At Data Summit 2023, Wayne Eckerson, president, Eckerson Group, discussed "Constructing Your Data Strategy: A Business And Technical Foundation For Success" during his workshop session.
Posted May 09, 2023
Knowledge graphs are a valuable tool that organizations can use to manage the vast amounts of data they collect, store, and analyze. At Data Summit 2023, Joseph Hilger, COO, Enterprise Knowledge LLC and Sara Nash, senior consultant, data and information management, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC discussed "Building Knowledge Graphs" during their workshop session.
Posted May 09, 2023
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period is now extended through Wednesday, May 17.
Posted May 08, 2023
Google announced plans to build two more data centers in Ohio to help power its artificial intelligence technology and other tools. With one data center already up and running near Columbus, the two new locations will bring Google's total investment in Ohio to more than $2 billion, officials said.
Posted May 08, 2023
IBM is unveiling its new security suite designed to unify and accelerate the security analyst experience across the full incident lifecycle. According to the company, the IBM Security QRadar Suite represents a major evolution and expansion of the QRadar brand, spanning all core threat detection, investigation, and response technologies, with significant investment in innovations across the portfolio.
Posted May 08, 2023
SAP and IBM announced that IBM Watson technology will be embedded into SAP solutions to provide new AI-driven insights and automation. The move aims to help accelerate innovation and create more efficient and effective user experiences across the SAP solution portfolio. SAP will use IBM Watson capabilities to power its digital assistant in SAP Start, which provides a unified entry point for cloud solutions from SAP.
Posted May 08, 2023
Honeycomb, an observability platform used by high-performing engineering teams, is launching and fully-executing Natural Language Querying using generative AI for its new capability, Query Assistant. This development dramatically scales the platform's query power and makes observability more usable for all engineering levels, according to the company.
Posted May 04, 2023
DataStax, the real-time AI company, is releasing Luna ML, a support service for Kaskada Open Source, the unified event processing engine for real-time machine learning (ML), that gives customers modern, open source event processing for ML. According to the company, Luna ML will provide customers with mission-critical support and offers options for incident response time as low as 15 minutes. Customers will also have the ability to escalate issues to the core Kaskada engineering team for further review and troubleshooting.
Posted May 04, 2023
Frank Liu, ML architect at Zilliz, joined DBTA's webinar, "Vector Databases Have Entered the Chat—How ChatGPT Is Fueling the Need for Specialized Vector Storage," to explore how purpose-built vector databases are the key to successfully integrating with chat solutions, as well as present explanatory information on how autoregressive LMs, unstructured data, vectors, and vector databases intersect.
Posted May 03, 2023
Frank Liu, ML architect at Zilliz, joined DBTA's webinar, "Vector Databases Have Entered the Chat—How ChatGPT Is Fueling the Need for Specialized Vector Storage," to explore how purpose-built vector databases are the key to successfully integrating with chat solutions, as well as present explanatory information on how autoregressive LMs, unstructured data, vectors, and vector databases intersect.
Posted May 03, 2023
Oracle is introducing new capabilities across Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite that help customers accelerate supply chain planning, increase operational efficiency, and improve financial accuracy. The updates include new planning, usage-based pricing, and rebate management capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing (SCM) and enhanced quote-to-cash processes in Oracle Fusion Applications.
Posted May 03, 2023
According to a new study, "The Decision Dilemma" by Oracle and Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, data scientist and author of Everybody Lies and Don't Trust Your Gut, people feel overwhelmed and under qualified to use data to make decisions. The study of more than 14,000 employees and business leaders across 17 countries found that people are struggling to make decisions in their personal and professional lives at a time when they are being forced to make more decisions than ever before.
Posted May 03, 2023
PingCAP is releasing its new GitHub Data Explorer tool—a dashboard tool designed to provide deep, actionable insights within GitHub activity.
Posted May 02, 2023
Kinetica is announcing an integration between Kinetica's analytic database and ChatGPT, marking the industry's first database integration with the radically popular generative AI tool.
Posted May 02, 2023
Digital.ai is releasing Corbett, the latest version of its leading AI-powered DevOps platform, to enable organizations to deliver applications with better customer experiences, along with improved productivity for software development teams. According to the company, Corbett features enhanced intelligence capabilities that enable teams and organizations, not just individuals, to better leverage the power of AI to deliver better software.
Posted April 27, 2023
Pureinsights, an independent search technology and services company, is partnering with MongoDB to help customers deploy search-based applications on the cloud-based MongoDB Atlas platform. With deep expertise in building applications on the latest search, AI, and data platforms, now including MongoDB Atlas Search, Pureinsights is uniquely positioned to help enterprises modernize search application infrastructures in the cloud, according to the company.
Posted April 27, 2023
In mid-2020, I got a chance to work with several government tourism agencies. Their mandate was to promote local attractions and offer support to partners such as hotels, resorts, and other organizations. As you can imagine, things weren't going well for these agencies. I remember looking at their data reports and seeing unprecedented drops in volume. With every country imposing restrictions and lockdowns, no one was traveling. One agency stood out; it was completely frozen by the situation. It couldn't decide on anything. Even publishing the latest COVID numbers was difficult.
Posted April 26, 2023
Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, and IBM announced an agreement under which Moderna will explore next generation technologies including quantum computing and artificial intelligence to advance and accelerate mRNA research and science.
Posted April 24, 2023
IBM is releasing new single frame and rack mount configurations of IBM z16 and IBM LinuxONE 4, designed to enhance flexibility and sustainability for the modern data center while still delivering the highest levels of reliability in the industry, according to the vendor.
Posted April 24, 2023
I'm going to question this Beatlemania-like hysteria that recently hovered over Taylor Swift concert tickets as if Paul McCartney himself hadn't recently delivered, most likely, his last concert in North America. If I were cynical (LOL), I would ask how many bots it would take to create demand which exceeds a sufficient mathematical panic threshold so that actual fans would become so emotionally distraught that they would effectively pay any amount to acquire tickets. How does a monopoly music concert delivery system realize exponentially higher prices than conceivable, weeks before? What exactly does this witchcraft of "dynamic pricing" do? I need to go no further than to examine a similar situation myself. Self-reflection is a wonderful exercise of discovery.
Posted April 19, 2023
Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, and Genpact, a global professional services firm focused on delivering outcomes that transform businesses, are forming a strategic alliance to help organizations accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) initiatives. Dataiku's Everyday AI platform, combined with Genpact's technology-agnostic MLOps and Responsible AI framework, will provide a differentiated solution that addresses major challenges faced by organizations in the implementation of AI, such as data governance, model management, and compliance requirements, according to the companies.
Posted April 18, 2023
Are we finally seeing the democratization of artificial intelligence (AI)? New research out of OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania suggests that generative AI, thanks to open and widely available tools such as ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models and GPT-4, will be part of the jobs of at least 80% of occupational groups.
Posted April 13, 2023
Sooner or later, in business, even in IT, almost everyone must write something more than simple emails. Procedures, standards, business cases, proposals, plans: All kinds of things may need to be authored by everyone and contain descriptive narrative about the subject at hand. Much documentation can be found on the internet, but your organization's internal rules, goals, and desires cannot be found via a Google search. Even database designers and data architects must contribute to corporate internal literature.
Posted April 13, 2023
The biggest technology news of the year so far has undoubtedly been the release of the OpenAI ChatGPT technology. ChatGPT is a chat-bot style AI that can generate amazingly knowledgeable and human-like conversations. ChatGPT can also generate essay-type answers to exam questions, write halfway decent song lyrics, or even generate computer code. I was going to explain how ChatGPT works, but instead, I'll let ChatGPT tell you.
Posted April 13, 2023
Startups continue to emerge this year, addressing challenges and leveraging opportunities in innovative and novel ways. The landscape is constantly changing, and 2023 is no different. These companies bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, becoming a part of data fabric or mesh, and more.
Posted April 12, 2023
The 10th annual Data Summit conference will be held May 10-11, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Boston, with pre-conference workshops taking place on May 9, 2023. Whether your interests lie in the technical possibilities and challenges of new and emerging technologies or using Big Data for business intelligence, analytics, and other business strategies, Data Summit 2023 has something for everyone.
Posted April 11, 2023
Fivetran, a global leader in automated data movement, is introducing support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with Apache Iceberg data lake format to combine large-volume, cost-effective data storage with simple access and comprehensive compliance.
Posted April 11, 2023
Databricks is announcing the Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing, the first open, enterprise scale lakehouse platform—designed with the manufacturer in mind—to lower costs, boost productivity, and unify data ecosystems, as well as AI.
Posted April 05, 2023
Oracle is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA to include running strategic NVIDIA AI applications on the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster. NVIDIA has selected OCI as the first hyperscale cloud provider to offer NVIDIA DGX Cloud, an AI supercomputing service, at massive scale. In addition, NVIDIA is running NVIDIA AI Foundations, its new generative AI cloud services, which are available through DGX Cloud, on OCI.
Posted April 05, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, "From Edge to Cloud: IoT Data Management and Stream Processing," to explore how new approaches to data management can mean the difference between relying on archaic infrastructures and adopting agile, flexible, and scalable data processes.
Posted April 03, 2023
Digitate, a provider of SaaS-based enterprise software for IT and business operations, is releasing a new solution, dubbed Eagle, to help advance greater agility and resiliency in digital enterprises. The new release advances AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities across the entire ignio product line, solving key business challenges with better enterprise risk management, intelligent patching and compliance, automation of advanced SAP operations, and streamlined change management process.
Posted March 31, 2023
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through Wednesday, May 10.
Posted March 29, 2023
T-Systems will now have the ability to provide its customers with cloud access to IBM's quantum systems, including multiple quantum computers powered by the 127-qubit IBM Eagle processor. The Deutsche Telekom IT subsidiary will embark on the path to providing access to this technology, as well as insights on how it can be applicable to its customers' businesses. In addition, T-Systems will offer dedicated quantum know-how and training.
Posted March 27, 2023
Cleveland Clinic and IBM officially unveiled the first deployment of an onsite private sector IBM-managed quantum computer in the United States, dedicated to healthcare research with an aim to help Cleveland Clinic accelerate biomedical discoveries. Quantum computing is a rapidly emerging technology that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that today's most powerful supercomputers cannot practically solve. The ability to tap into these new computational spaces could help researchers identify new medicines and treatments more quickly, according to IBM.
Posted March 27, 2023
Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, is joining NVIDIAs DGX-Ready Software program, simplifying the deployment and management of AI for customers. Dataiku has been selected for the exclusive, invite-only program because of its tested and certified solutions that pair with NVIDIA DGX systems, allowing NVIDIA customers and partners to easily implement advanced analytics and AI.
Posted March 23, 2023
Domino Data Lab is announcing updates to its platform that will drive accessibility to open source tools and techniques—including Ray 2.0, MLflow, and Feast's feature store for machine learning (ML)—allowing enterprises to see tangible value from their AI, sooner; the announcement also features the launch of Domino Cloud, the fully-managed MLOps Platform-as-a-Service, and the general availability of Domino's hybrid and multi-cloud Nexus capability.
Posted March 23, 2023