Artificial Intelligence Articles
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
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 August 26, 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 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
In an era marked by rapid urbanization and technological advancement, the concept of smart cities has captured the imagination of urban planners, technologists, and policymakers worldwide for over a decade. As cities grapple with the challenges of accommodating growing populations, managing resources efficiently, and improving quality of life, a new paradigm is emerging that promises to revolutionize urban living: the cognitive city. At the heart of this transformation lies the game-changing potential of generative AI, poised to unlock the true potential of smart cities and usher in a new age of urban intelligence.
Posted August 15, 2024
Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions, is releasing its new Scenario Simulation and Intelligence suite—enabling companies to simulate thousands of possible scenarios against their resilience plans and strategies to identify points of weakness at scale.
Posted August 14, 2024
Foundry, an emerging cloud provider founded by alumni from Google DeepMind's core Deep Learning team, is debuting the Foundry Cloud Platform, the real-time market and orchestration engine for GPU compute that democratizes access to the necessary infrastructure to build and deploy AI. Built from the ground up to solve for inaccessibility to GPU compute—typically reserved for well-funded labs—the Foundry Cloud Platform serves to reduce the operational complexity of AI development and enhance compute cost efficiency by up to 6x, according to the company.
Posted August 14, 2024
Ridge Security Technology Inc. is releasing RidgeBot version 4.3.3, introducing a powerful integration that enhances proactive exposure management for organizations—combining RidgeBot's automated vulnerability detection and validation capabilities with leading vulnerability management (VM) solutions.
Posted August 14, 2024
With the recent AI boom, data is being created and generated at unprecedented rates. Per the latest estimates, 402.74 million terabytes of data are created each day. This increase calls for a paradigm shift in company efficiency—quickly enabling enterprises to uncover quality insights and effective organization of this data. 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!
Posted August 13, 2024
Snyk, a leader in developer security, announced the integration of Snyk Analytics for Snowflake, enabling organizations to equip their developer, application security (AppSec), and security operations (SecOps) teams with the ability to bring custom context from their own security posture together with unique developer security analytics from Snyk.
Posted August 13, 2024
deepset, the mission-critical AI company, is unveiling deepset Studio, a free, user-friendly enabler of custom AI development that abstracts the rampant complexities from AI pipeline development. With a visual, drag-and-drop environment, engineering and data teams can create robust, composable AI systems with ease—including agentic and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) apps—which are immediately deployable within cloud and on-prem environments via deepset Cloud and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
Posted August 12, 2024
Analysis by global real estate consulting firm JLL predicts edge IT infrastructure and data centers will become a $317 billion market globally by 2026, representing a 107% growth from the 2020 market valued at $153 billion. Globally, the growth of edge computing will be influenced by not only the emergence of several technology-based megatrends but also the need for faster data transfer and high computation, as well as factors such as policies and regulations.
Posted August 12, 2024
Lumen Technologies announced an agreement with Corning Incorporated for a substantial supply of next-generation optical cable, more than doubling Lumen's U.S. intercity fiber miles to provide significant capacity to major cloud data centers racing to stay ahead of AI workloads and high bandwidth applications fueled by massive amounts of data.
Posted August 12, 2024
IBM is adding generative AI capabilities to its managed Threat Detection and Response Services utilized by IBM Consulting analysts to advance and streamline security operations for clients. Built on IBM's watsonx data and AI platform, the new IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant is designed to accelerate and improve the identification, investigation, and response to critical security threats, according to the company.
Posted August 12, 2024
Supply Wisdom, the market's full-stack, real-time risk intelligence SaaS platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), is partnering with Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a leading provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions—offering Fusion customers a seamless integration for enhanced third-party risk management (TPRM) and operational risk and resilience program needs.
Posted August 09, 2024
Vectra AI, Inc., the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), is unveiling a recent expansion to its Vectra AI Platform, the integrated signal solution for XDR. This update focuses on affording security operations center (SOC) teams with the necessary tools to proactively address threats and deter behaviors within increasingly dynamic hybrid environments.
Posted August 09, 2024
CalypsoAI, the leader in AI security, is announcing a suite of new capabilities that empower enterprises to tailor their generative AI (GenAI) security to their unique needs. Furthering its mission to secure GenAI across the enterprise, CalypsoAI's latest updates transcend legacy security techniques that lack the nuance to effectively combat the continuously evolving AI threat landscape.
Posted August 08, 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 08, 2024
There is a confluence of activity—including generative AI models, digital twins, and shared ledger capabilities—that are having a profound impact on helping enterprises meet their goal of becoming data driven. Capturing data, converting it into the right insights, and integrating those insights quickly and efficiently into business decisions and processes is generating a significant competitive advantage for those who do it right.
Posted August 08, 2024
With today's data-driven practices and AI demands, there has never been more pressure on data managers and professionals to deliver real-time, high-quality information when and where it is needed. Many organizations are struggling to achieve such a level of "data management maturity," in which data is provided on an agile, automated basis.
Posted August 08, 2024
Despite the overwhelming promise of AI, its rapid proliferation has been accompanied by some unwanted side effects, including a dramatic uptick in cyberattacks— particularly social engineering attacks like phishing, which have grown 1,265% since late 2022. As a result, organizations across industries are faced with an ever-evolving challenge: balancing the positive use cases associated with AI, such as automated monitoring and streamlined workflows, with its very real risks.
Posted August 08, 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 August 08, 2024
Picture this: there's a new face in the IT department, ready to step in to help tackle the increasingly complex challenges caused by modern hybrid on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Overstretched technology teams always appreciate an extra set of helping hands, but what happens when this new team member isn't human—but artificial intelligence (AI)?
Posted August 08, 2024
Apiiro, the leading application security posture management (ASPM) platform, is unveiling a new, AI-driven capability that detects risks during the design phase of the application development lifecycle. By enabling application security (AppSec) professionals to detect and mitigate risks before a line of code is written, Apiiro forwards proactive security management that saves time, costs, and resources while accelerating software delivery.
Posted August 07, 2024
Scamnetic, a company dedicated to protecting individuals and businesses from digital threats using advanced AI, is debuting its AI-based scam-detection solution—helping consumers detect every type of scam including deepfake video and audio across any channel in real time, removing human error from the process.
Posted August 07, 2024
Ampere and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are releasing second-generation Ampere-based compute instances, OCI Ampere A2 Compute, based on the AmpereOne family of processors. The new offering builds upon the success of OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances, which have been adopted by OCI customers and deployed across over 100 OCI services, including Oracle Database services like HeatWave, MySQL, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to meet the increased demands for generative AI, large language models (LLMs), advanced graphics, and digital twins to hasten operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) announced the release of NVIDIA L40S GPU bare-metal instances, available to order and the upcoming availability of a new virtual machine accelerated by a single NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU.
Posted August 07, 2024
Varonis Systems, Inc., a leader in data security, is debuting new AI capabilities designed to automatically discover, understand, and classify customer data. By enhancing its data classification engine with new machine learning (ML) techniques, Varonis forwards powerful data classification characterized by cost efficiency, transparency, and minimal effort.
Posted August 06, 2024
Code42 Software, Inc. (now part of Mimecast), the leader in data loss and insider threat protection, is unveiling a series of enhancements to Incydr, the SaaS data protection solution. With these enhancements, designed specifically to protect against data exfiltration to generative AI (GenAI) tools, enterprises can embark on GenAI initiatives with confidence, according to the company.
Posted August 06, 2024
Hazelcast, Inc., a leading software provider powering mission-critical applications that move the economy, is debuting vector search capabilities for its flagship product, the Hazelcast Platform. Now providing the necessary tools for Hazelcast users to modernize for the AI era, Hazelcast Platform 5.5 enables a variety of new use cases—including semantic search, fraud detection, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG)—as well as additional advancements in compute, resilience, and continuity.
Posted August 02, 2024
Protect AI, a leader in AI security, is announcing the acquisition of SydeLabs, the company that specializes in automated red teaming—or attack simulations—for generative AI (GenAI) systems. This acquisition will serve to propel Protect AI's mission toward helping organizations test and improve large language model (LLM) security.
Posted July 31, 2024
Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading fully-managed service for Apache Airflow, is unveiling its latest platform release, forwarding pipeline resilience, release velocity, and hardened security, as well as support for dbt on Astro—the platform's first foray outside of the Airflow universe.
Posted July 31, 2024
Weaviate, an AI-native vector database company, is releasing a developer "workbench" of tools and apps along with flexible tiered storage to help organizations put AI into production. Inspired by Weaviate's vibrant open source community, Weaviate's new developer offerings accelerate AI application development and provide end-to-end solutions for some of the most common AI use cases, helping organizations make the leap from AI prototypes to production, according to the company.
Posted July 31, 2024
Devo Technology, the security data analytics company, is unveiling a series of data orchestration, data analytics, and security operations center (SOC) workflow enhancements designed to bring data control, cost efficiency, and automation to security teams. With data volumes increasing while team budgets remain the same, Devo's latest offerings aim to ease the pressures of security while delivering robust data control.
Posted July 30, 2024
KNIME, one of the leading open-source data science and AI companies, is unveiling new generative AI (GenAI) capabilities that will empower organizations to securely scale its use and broaden the availability of models. Equipping enterprises with a set of internal controls, KNIME's release enables the secure use of GenAI according to an enterprise's unique risk assessment and internal policies.
Posted July 29, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is releasing the general availability of the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services. Including NVIDIA DGX BasePOD certification, the first Hitachi iQ infrastructure offering meets the highest standards of performance and reliability and helps customers seamlessly power their most critical AI applications. Featuring the Hitachi Content Software for File solution, Hitachi iQ provides customers the speed, efficiency, and processing to accelerate and optimize their time to insights so that they can drive transformative outcomes for their business, according to the company.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM announced it is a new partner of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, as approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a major national and international research center, SQMS is dedicated to advancing critical quantum technologies, with a focus on superconducting quantum systems.
Posted July 29, 2024