Artificial Intelligence Articles
HCLSoftware, the software business division of HCLTech, is announcing that it has acquired Zeenea, an innovator in data catalog and governance solutions. This acquisition positions Actian—a division of HCLSoftware—to deliver a complete data ecosystem for its customers, driven by seamless discovery and governance of their data assets, according to the company.
Posted September 16, 2024
The concept of risk is more complex than it is typically perceived. When Mark Zuckerberg said that "the biggest risk is not taking any risk," he was referring to the age-old risk versus innovation dynamic. Innovation certainly requires some level of risk, but is it possible that minimizing risk can actually lead to more risk?
Posted September 16, 2024
Tines, the trusted leader in smart, secure workflows, is announcing the GA of Workbench, an AI chat interface that empowers security teams to interact with proprietary data and dynamically orchestrate mission-critical processes with their natural language.
Posted September 13, 2024
Operant AI, provider of the Runtime AI Application Protection Platform, announced it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to accelerate team and product expansion bringing unprecedented transparency and active cloud-native protection to all APIs, AI, and cloud applications with a particular focus on securing the entire data-in-use lifecycle as it flows through every layer of modern application environments.
Posted September 13, 2024
With more and more use cases for AI and all its branches taking shape, big data is surging in relevance as the backbone of these projects—prompting DBAs, IT, data scientists, and more to take a closer look at the information being fed into their forecasts and models. To support organizations in navigating through new challenges and a rapidly evolving big data ecosystem, Big Data Quarterly presents 2024's "Big Data 75," a list of companies driving innovation and expanding what is possible in terms of collecting, storing, and extracting value from data.
Posted September 12, 2024
Druva, the leading provider of data security, is debuting Dru Investigate, a generative AI (GenAI)-powered tool designed to help IT admins and security teams investigate cyberthreats with natural language. By eliminating the need for complex queries, enterprise teams can effectively and intuitively understand potential data risks, streamlining the investigation process and fueling positive outcomes.
Posted September 12, 2024
Zoho Corporation, a leading global technology company, is releasing a new version of Zoho Analytics—Zoho's self-service BI and analytics platform introducing new AI and ML capabilities. Among more than 100 other enhancements, Zoho Analytics now enables diagnostic insights, predictive analysis, and automated report and dashboard generation.
Posted September 12, 2024
Vantiq, a leader in real-time intelligent platforms for smart applications, and Blaize, Inc., a provider of purpose-built, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled edge computing solutions, are collaborating to create an AI-enabled chip loaded with intelligent software and unmatched computing power, all at an accessible price point.
Posted September 12, 2024
Rocket Software is introducing an innovative tool for its UniVerse and UniData systems: the Rocket U2 Auto License Python Script. In today's fast-paced tech environment, manual processes are often seen as a bottleneck. This is especially true when it comes to software installations and upgrades. This is where the new U2 Auto License Python Script comes in, according to the company. With this tool, Rocket Software is making it easier than ever to manage and automate licensing for UniVerse and UniData systems.
Posted September 12, 2024
Entrinsik is releasing Informer 5.10, boosting Informer AI Assistants, improving data accessibility and security, along with data analytics, visualization, and reporting. Informer 5.10 enhances data accessibility and security by introducing Integrations, a new way for users to connect from Informer to outside APIs through OAuth.
Posted September 12, 2024
In DBTA's webinar, Modern Data Architecture for AI, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, led experts through a thorough discussion of how to cultivate the right data infrastructure to support AI initiatives, from leading best practices to key technologies.
Posted September 12, 2024
appCD, the generative infrastructure from code company, is announcing the results of its latest seed funding round—having raised $12.3 million—as well as the debut of its new identity, StackGen. The rebranding and latest funding round propels StackGen to continue its journey toward transforming infrastructure from code, focusing on empowering developer workflows while helping them adapt to the latest in AI innovations.
Posted September 11, 2024
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Data Security and Governance for the AI Era, to showcase top solutions and best practices for navigating the space of data security and governance, especially as it faces increasing investment in cloud and AI technologies.
Posted September 09, 2024
Blue Owl Capital Inc. (Blue Owl), Chirisa Technology Parks (CTP), and PowerHouse Data Centers (PowerHouse) are announcing the first phase of a $5 billion joint venture (JV) development partnership focused on the development of large-scale AI/HPC data centers for CoreWeave, Inc. (CoreWeave).
Posted September 09, 2024
IBM is adding a new feature update to watsonx.ai that delivers an open framework, giving users access to a catalogue of built-in models and patterns that can be seamlessly extended through a "build your own model" capability. Users can now do even more with IBM's enterprise AI studio; they can upload and deploy their own custom foundation models across software and SaaS environments.
Posted September 09, 2024
IBM is unveiling new processor innovations designed to accelerate AI initiatives across next-generation IBM Z mainframe systems. The new technologies—IBM Telum II processor, IO acceleration unit, and IBM Spyre accelerator—serve to improve latency, sustainability, and scale processing capacity to better accommodate the demands of AI and large language models (LLMs).
Posted September 09, 2024
Revefi, the company enabling businesses to maximize ROI on their data investments, is announcing the launch of Raden, the world's first AI data engineer designed to complement traditional data engineers and enhance their overall efficacy. As the scope of the data engineer's workload has significantly broadened, Raden offers "distinguished engineer" expertise as a comprehensive, zero-touch, zero-data-access AI solution that delivers automations across the entire data lifecycle.
Posted September 04, 2024
Tabnine, the originators of the AI code assistant category, is announcing several ecosystem updates that forward Tabnine's mission to help developers maintain control over code while future-proofing AI investments. These announcements—which include a new platform partnership with Broadcom Inc., an integration with IBM, and an extension of existing partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)—culminate in driving controlled, flexible, AI-powered coding for enterprises' infrastructures of choice.
Posted September 04, 2024
In Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, various alien races were able to communicate with each other thanks to the Babel Fish, which, when placed in one's ear, decoded brainwave emanations from one species to provide instantaneous translation to the other. In Star Trek, a "universal translator" allowed instantaneous translation between any alien species and humans. Until recently, these universal translators have existed only in the domain of science fiction.
Posted September 04, 2024
Couchbase, Inc., the cloud database platform company, is announcing the official launch of Capella Columnar on AWS, bringing real-time operational and analytic workload enablement to AWS. Additionally, Couchbase is also debuting Couchbase Mobile with vector search, as well as Capella Free Tier, expanding the way Couchbase serves developers while reducing costs and simplifying operations.
Posted September 03, 2024
Sumo Logic, a leading SaaS Log Analytics Platform, is announcing that it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS, aiming to accelerate AI-based cybersecurity, application observability, and automation for customers in a variety of industries. By integrating Sumo Logic's SaaS Log Analytics Platform with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Security Lake, joint customers' AWS environments benefit from expansive cloud security and observability.
Posted September 03, 2024
Veeam Software, a leader by market share in Data Resilience, is releasing Veeam Data Platform v12.2 to broaden support for protecting data on an extensive range of new platforms while continuing to advance end-to-end cybersecurity. According to the company, this latest release combines data backup, recovery, and security capabilities with the ability to empower customers to migrate and secure data across new platforms.
Posted August 30, 2024
Anomali, an AI-Powered Security Operations Platform, is offering powerful new capabilities for Anomali Copilot to help security, and now IT departments, use the latest AI abilities to successfully defend, protect, and propel their organizations forward.
Posted August 30, 2024
The consistent throughline of any business looking to stay competitive in an evolving market is extracting value from data—from key trends to relevant insights, prescriptive actions, and more. This is done through data applications, acting as enablers of productivity, efficiency, and innovation across the enterprise. However, due to the dichotomy of legacy systems, data silos, and poor data quality and the demands for real-time, scalable data, building effective data apps is a challenging—yet rewarding—feat.
Posted August 29, 2024
In many organizations, microservices have become the default method of application building and deployment, leveraging containers and Kubernetes. The resulting architecture has been a flexible network of services that provide resiliency by operating independently, unaffected by potential failures in other parts of the system. Recently, however, some technology leaders have been questioning if this is the best way to build.
Posted August 29, 2024
SAP is releasing new process AI capabilities for SAP Signavio—process recommender and performance indicators recommender. Embedded into SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite, these novel capabilities deliver instant, tailored process and metrics recommendations that will help process owners and process analysts accelerate process model design, more readily define their process monitoring strategy, and improve the quality of business outcomes, according to SAP.
Posted August 28, 2024
SAP announced that Xerox Holdings Corp. has chosen multiple SAP solutions to transform its enterprise architecture as part of its multi-year Reinvention. Xerox's Reinvention involves aligning its resources to improve and stabilize its core print businesses, increase productivity and efficiency, and focus on its emerging digital services and IT services capabilities to improve business outcomes for its clients.
Posted August 28, 2024
Collibra, the Data Intelligence company, is offering the general availability of its initial integration with SAP Datasphere, a comprehensive data service that delivers seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. The first phase of integration between Collibra and SAP Datasphere is for SAP Analytics Cloud. In addition, Collibra also announced the public launch of its integration support of SAP Datasphere models with general availability to follow next month.
Posted August 28, 2024
To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers. MultiValue software vendors continue to address emerging challenges and opportunities that are affecting the IT landscape by frequently adding new features and integrations with other platforms and services, helping their loyal and committed customers to stay up-to-date with the latest technology trends.
Posted August 28, 2024
Quest Software, a global leader in systems management, is announcing the latest version of erwin Data Intelligence and erwin Data Modeler, forwarding comprehensive, end-to-end data lifecycle management that prepares enterprises for the challenges of AI and other technological advancements. Offering enhanced data intelligence, quality, and modeling capabilities, enterprises benefit from a consistent view of their data architectures while maintaining high quality, reliable data.
Posted August 27, 2024
Airbyte, a leading open data movement platform, announced that its PyAirbyte open-source Python library, that was introduced in late-February, has helped more than 10,000 AI and data engineers to sync over 6 billion records of data. Users have completed more than 221,000 PyAirbyte sync jobs, or over 10,000 syncs per week. PyAirbyte now boasts an average of 25,000 monthly downloads, according to metrics from the popular PyPi Python package repository.
Posted August 27, 2024
Lineaje, a leader and force in continuous software supply chain security management, announced a landmark $20 million Series A funding round led by Prosperity7 Ventures, Neotribe, and Hitachi Ventures, alongside existing investor Tenable Ventures—underscoring the escalating global demand for robust software supply chain security solutions and recognizing Lineaje's innovative approach to addressing the critical challenges faced by enterprises across diverse industries.
Posted August 26, 2024
Balbix, an AI-powered Cyber Risk and Exposure Management platform, unveiled its BIX conversational AI assistant, improving the cyber risk and exposure management experience. The BIX AI assistant is already in use at many Fortune 1000 companies as part of an early access program.
Posted August 26, 2024
We decided this Sourcebook was timely, given how enterprise AI has caught mainstream attention and triggered the imaginations of those working in IT, knowledge management, and a score of other areas within the enterprise. AI is dominating headlines, and people want to know how they can best apply the various technologies under the AI banner.
Posted August 26, 2024
IBM announced that two IBM-developed algorithms have been officially formalized within the world's first three post-quantum cryptography standards, which were published by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The official publication of these algorithms marks a crucial milestone to advancing the protection of the world's encrypted data from cyberattacks that could be attempted through the unique power of quantum computers, which are rapidly progressing to cryptographic relevancy.
Posted August 26, 2024
IBM is releasing Qiskit SDK v1.2, introducing several important new features and improvements, all aimed at boosting the Qiskit SDK's industry-leading performance and functionality. Since transitioning to the v1.x era with the release of its first major version earlier this year, IBM has been laser-focused on making the Qiskit SDK the most powerful, high-performant quantum SDK in the world.
Posted August 26, 2024
FICO, the company powering decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper, is announcing new enhancements for the FICO Platform—the next generation, applied intelligence platform to power customer connections. These updates address the ongoing data complexities of growing enterprises, improving real-time decision-making, productivity, and overall efficiency.
Posted August 23, 2024
LambdaTest, a leading, cloud-based, unified testing platform, is debuting KaneAI, an end-to-end software AI Test Assistant designed to help users author, debug, and evolve complex test cases through natural language.
Posted August 21, 2024
Decube, a pioneer in unified data management solutions, is launching its Copilot, an advanced AI-driven tool designed to give organizations seamless, data-driven decision-making capabilities. Decube's Copilot is poised to transform how businesses interact with and leverage their data, making it more accessible, actionable, and insightful, according to the company.
Posted August 19, 2024
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC., a leading provider of performance management, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, is debuting a new initiative centered on delivering the high-quality, curated data necessary to support AIOps across the enterprise. By leveraging its existing partner ecosystem—including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, Splunk, and more—NETSCOUT's Omnis AI Insights solution will produce AI-ready data that effectively serves business-critical operations, said the company.
Posted August 16, 2024
Solita is partnering with global master management (MDM) solution provider Stibo Systems to help companies implement agile and business-oriented data management principles to meet the challenges of timely, accurate, data quality. Solita's deep expertise in business-adapted data management combined with Stibo Systems' cloud-native solutions will help customers solve data problems and rise to the challenges of AI, according to the companies.
Posted August 16, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is releasing the general availability of Qlik Answers, its newest self-service AI solution designed to help organizations harness the power of AI. According to the company, Qlik Answers transforms unstructured data into actionable results through generative AI, offering full explainability—a common obstacle in enterprise AI adoption.
Posted August 15, 2024
Securonix, Inc., a cybersecurity leader in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), is launching two new capabilities within the Securonix EON suite of AI-Reinforced capabilities—introducing Cyber Data Fabric and Noise Canceling SIEM. These innovations bolster the Unified Defense SIEM solution empowering CyberOps teams to better respond to and counter the rise in sophisticated cyberattacks, according to the company.
Posted August 15, 2024
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced it is aiming to acquire Morpheus Data, a pioneer in software for hybrid cloud management and platform operations—reflecting HPE's commitment to simplify IT complexity by expanding the hybrid operations capabilities available through HPE GreenLake cloud.
Posted August 15, 2024
KDNuggets, a community site for data professionals, ranked "We Don't Need Data Scientists, We Need Data Engineers," by Mihail Eric, a venture capitalist, researcher, and educator, as its top story of 2021. This sentiment holds even more true today, especially with the unending rush to leverage both generative and predictive AI within enterprise operations. Without the right kind of data, AI is dead in the water.
Posted August 15, 2024