Artificial Intelligence Articles
Teradata is acquiring Stemma Technologies (Stemma), a cloud-native, fully managed, data catalog solution, adding AI to accelerate transformative analytics value for customers. Stemma's robust data catalog solution will strengthen Teradata's data fabric and accelerate the analytic productivity of the Vantage platform, according to Teradata.
Posted July 26, 2023
Cosmo Tech announced that its Supply Chain Vulnerability Scan is now available on the SAP Store, arming SAP Integrated Business Planning software with an AI-Simulation add-on to deliver supply chain resilience at all levels of planning to customers.
Posted July 26, 2023
SAP announced it is making strategic direct investments in three leading generative AI companies, furthering its commitment to deliver Business AI that's relevant, reliable, and responsible. The investments in Aleph Alpha GmbH, Anthropic PBC, and Cohere reinforce SAP's open ecosystem approach to AI, leveraging the best technology to embed AI across the SAP portfolio, according to the company.
Posted July 26, 2023
ThoughtSpot, the AI-powered analytics company, is announcing the recent completion of its acquisition of Mode Analytics, the modern business intelligence (BI) platform that brings data teams and business teams together to drive impact.
Posted July 19, 2023
CodeSee, provider of the first code visibility platform, is announcing the latest feature to join its robust platform—generative AI-powered codebase understanding.
Posted July 19, 2023
Digital.ai, a leading AI-powered DevSecOps platform, is adding AI capabilities across its solutions that provide customers with enhanced software delivery capabilities and insights for better decision making. Digital.ai's AI-Powered DevSecOps Platform reflects enterprise demand to use AI to improve decision making, help govern and orchestrate the release of software created and optimized by generative AI tools, and automate software delivery workflows further with AI, according to the company.
Posted July 19, 2023
Oracle is adding generative AI-powered capabilities to Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) supported by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) generative AI service and embedded in existing HR processes to drive faster business value, improve productivity, enhance the candidate and employee experience, and streamline HR processes.
Posted July 19, 2023
Wallaroo.AI, the company scaling production machine learning (ML) from the cloud to the edge, and Ampere, the modern semiconductor company, are announcing their strategic collaboration, aimed toward creating optimized hardware and software solutions that innovate on efficiency, sustainability, and lower cost per inference for cloud AI.
Posted July 18, 2023
Experts in next-generation solutions and architectures joined DBTA's webinar, The Race to Unified Analytics: Next-Gen Data Platforms and Architectures, to examine both the business potential of new technologies, as well as its common hurdles—such as data silos, complex data and analytic systems, remaining legacy technologies, integration, and governance and security—that prevent the fruition of a modern, data-accessible enterprise.
Posted July 18, 2023
IBM announced it is rolling out IBM watsonx—the enterprise-ready AI and data platform. watsonx comprises three products to help organizations accelerate and scale AI—the watsonx.ai studio for new foundation models, generative AI and machine learning (now available); the watsonx.data fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture (now available); and the watsonx.governance toolkit to help enable AI workflows to be built with responsibility, transparency and explainability (coming later this year).
Posted July 17, 2023
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, is adding OpenAI observability as a native capability to Site24x7, its comprehensive cloud-based observability platform, to enable application owners to monitor the utilization of different OpenAI models seamlessly while tracking real-time performance and cost metrics.
Posted July 13, 2023
Zluri, a SaaS operations (SaaSOps) platform, announced the company received $20 million in a recent funding round, enabling the company to help organizations manage their SaaS estates and mitigate risks. The Series B funding round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from existing investors including MassMutual Ventures, Endiya Partners, and Kalaari Capital. The company has now raised $32 million in total venture funding since 2020.
Posted July 13, 2023
Traditionally, MongoDB has held its signature event—MongoDB World—in June in New York City. MongoDB usually announces significant releases of their flagship database product at this event. However, this year, the company has transitioned to a global tour of "local" events that start in New York and then proceed to a few dozen regional events across five continents.
Posted July 13, 2023
Now that we're emerging from the pandemic and the dust is starting to settle, organizations are taking a good, hard look at their digital transformation and modernization priorities moving forward. To shed light on the adoption and maturity of trending data architectures and where the industry is headed, Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, partnered with Radiant Advisors to field the latest survey, "Market Study: 2023 Modern Data Architecture Trends," sponsored by Cambridge Semantics, Informatica, Kinetica, Teradata, and Vertica.
Posted July 13, 2023
All eyes are on AI this year, with the space heating up as generative AI arrived on the scene with the popularity of ChatGPT technologies, along with new tools for automation and ease of use allowing companies to gain deeper insights into their analytics and better serve their customers.
Posted July 12, 2023
Deci, the deep learning company harnessing AI to build AI, is releasing DataGradients, a free, open-source tool for profiling computer vision datasets and distilling critical insights. According to the company, using DataGradients, data scientists can easily analyze the health of their data with one line of code, swiftly identifying problems such as corrupted data, distributional shifts between train and test sets, duplicate annotations, among many others.
Posted July 12, 2023
Landing AI, the data-centric AI company, is unveiling its newfound partnership with Snowflake, bringing AI models and compute closer to data. By extending the power of computer vision to unstructured data located within a Snowflake account, models can now be trained within the Landing AI platform to then be deployed into Snowflake as User-Defined Functions (UDFs), along with pre-trained, industry-standard models offered by Landing AI.
Posted July 11, 2023
Data is the soul of any algorithm, so investing time and resources can reap benefits in the future. Morgan Stanley AVP Supreet Kaur discussed best practices for AI data modeling during Data Summit 2023.
Posted July 10, 2023
Tabnine is announcing the expansion of its platform with the addition of Tabnine Chat, an AI code assistant that combines large language models (LLMs) with codebase familiarity, capable of answering queries backed by an organization's codebase.
Posted July 06, 2023
Many companies have been focusing on AI this year as new technologies and solutions have emerged that promise to leave organizations in the dust if they aren't paying attention. Behind all the wonders that AI brings, however, is the workhorse that must be attended behind the scenes—databases and associated data environments.
Posted July 05, 2023
SAS, a leader in analytics, announced it can now provision SAS Viya AI and decisioning capabilities securely in the Snowflake Data Cloud with Snowpark Container Services (private preview). The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted July 03, 2023
Qlik is releasing a suite of OpenAI connectors that will help customers securely bring Generative AI content into Qlik, providing support for a wide range of cloud analytics and automation use cases. Expanding Qlik's robust set of native artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) capabilities, Qlik's OpenAI connectors deliver the power of Generative AI directly within Qlik, bringing back rich contextual content through a ChatGPT experience to enhance data and insights in Qlik applications and automations, according to the company.
Posted June 30, 2023
Ajay Gollapalli, ecosystem solution director at Informatica, joined DBTA's webinar, Unlock Automation and AI with Microsoft and Informatica, guided viewers through how to tap into data sources to acquire real-time business insights, specifically by leveraging the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and the Microsoft Fabric.
Posted June 30, 2023
MongoDB, Inc. is launching five new products and introducing new features to its developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, making it faster and easier for customers to build modern applications, for any workload or use case. According to the company, these new features for MongoDB Atlas enable businesses to dramatically improve operational efficiency and speed up their pace of innovation by standardizing many types of workloads on a single developer data platform across the enterprise.
Posted June 30, 2023
Snowflake, the Data Cloud Company, and NVIDIA are partnering to provide businesses with an accelerated path to create customized generative AI applications using their own proprietary data, all securely within the Snowflake Data Cloud. The announcement was made at Snowflake Summit 2023. According to the companies, with the NVIDIA NeMo platform for developing large language models (LLMs) and NVIDIA GPU-accelerated computing, Snowflake will enable enterprises to use data in their Snowflake accounts to make custom LLMs for advanced generative AI services, including chatbots, search, and summarization.
Posted June 30, 2023
Tamr, Inc., a leader in data products, is launching Smart Curation, a Snowflake Native App on Snowflake Marketplace that allows data teams to monitor their data products seamlessly and proactively. The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted June 29, 2023
MemVerge, a cloud automation provider, is launching Memory Machine Cloud Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise built on the company's Cloud Automation 2.0 technology, offering a transformative portfolio for analytic application users that empowers millions of users who are non-cloud experts to take advantage of cloud computing.
Posted June 29, 2023
Oracle's new EU Sovereign Cloud is now available, and it aims to help private and public sector organizations across the European Union gain more control over data privacy and sovereignty requirements. One of the first cloud offerings designed to address the EU's emerging regulatory landscape, Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud gives customers the services and capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) public cloud regions with the same prices, support, and service level agreements (SLAs) to run all workloads, according to the vendor.
Posted June 29, 2023
Immuta, a data security leader, is making key enhancements to its Data Security Platform for Databricks, enabling data teams to leverage Immuta's full platform capabilities to unlock value from data, reduce costs, and speed up innovation while maintaining strong data security posture.
Posted June 28, 2023
RelationalAI, the industry's first AI coprocessor for cloud platforms and language models, is announcing that its cloud native, AI coprocessor—compatible with the Snowflake Data Cloud—is available for preview at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted June 28, 2023
Mendix, a Siemens business and global provider of modern enterprise application development, is releasing Mendix 10, introducing a host of innovations that empower organizations to meet unprecedented demand for software by enabling shifts in enterprise-wide digital solution delivery.
Posted June 27, 2023
AtScale, a provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, is partnering with Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, to help accelerate enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. By combining Dataiku's single data and AI platform with AtScale's universal semantic layer and AI-Link, organizations will be able to improve data science productivity with business-vetted features for AI model training and feature management.
Posted June 26, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is releasing Baffle Manager 2.0, delivering a new user interface (UI) and other features that highly automate enterprise-wide data protection for applications, analytics, and AI. With no code or application changes, Baffle cryptographically protects the data as it's created, used, and shared. Baffle Manager 2.0's new UI, APIs, automation, and expanded integrations deliver a single platform to create and manage data-centric protection policies that can be reused and enforced across all cloud-native stores, legacy and third-party applications, and new AI initiatives.
Posted June 23, 2023
Privacera, the cloud data governance and security provider founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, is announcing the private preview of Privacera AI Governance (PAIG), empowering organizations to efficiently manage the entire AI data security lifecycle.
Posted June 23, 2023
Oracle announced it plans to develop powerful, generative AI services for organizations worldwide in collaboration with Cohere, a leading AI platform for the enterprise, helping organizations automate end-to-end business processes, improve decision-making, and enhance customer experiences, according to the company.
Posted June 21, 2023
DBTA held a webinar, Game-Changing Technologies in Machine Learning and AI, joined by a panel of experts to explore the bustling world of AI and ML solutions that can propel any business into the modern age, an era characterized by the need for business flexibility, innovation, and efficacy.
Posted June 20, 2023
AMD recently unveiled the products, strategy, and ecosystem partners that will shape the future of computing, highlighting the next phase of data center innovation. AMD made a series of announcements showcasing its AI Platform strategy, giving customers a cloud to edge, to endpoint portfolio of hardware products, with deep industry software collaboration, to develop scalable and pervasive AI solutions.
Posted June 19, 2023
IBM announced plans to open its first Europe-based quantum data center to facilitate access to cutting-edge quantum computing for companies, research institutions, and government agencies. The data center is expected to be operational in 2024, with multiple IBM quantum computing systems, each with utility scale quantum processors, i.e., those of more than 100 qubits.
Posted June 19, 2023
Virtana, an IT operations management (ITOM) company accelerating hybrid, multi-vendor, and multi-cloud infrastructure innovation, is acquiring cloud observability platform, OpsCruise, a purpose-built cloud-native, and Kubernetes observability platform. According to the company, with this acquisition, Virtana continues to deliver on its vision to support simplified and unified hybrid infrastructure observability for on-prem, cloud, and edge multi-vendor environments by extending its hybrid coverage to support cloud-native, open-source, containers, and serverless functions.
Posted June 16, 2023
Zilliz is now offering its cloud vector database for free, including a plethora of new features along with additional pricing options for individuals and organizations. According to the company, the move makes vector databases accessible for projects of all sizes. Developers can now, regardless of budget, spin up generative AI applications while protecting against hallucination.
Posted June 15, 2023
Granica is emerging from stealth—backed by $45M in funding—and introducing its cloud native AI efficiency platform, built to put valuable, data-centric AI research into the hands of enterprises.
Posted June 14, 2023
CTERA, a provider of edge-to-cloud file services, is launching CTERA Ransom Protect, a new homegrown AI-powered cyber protection engine natively integrated into the CTERA global file system. Using activity sensors built into the file system that are feeding an advanced machine learning algorithm trained on an extensive dataset of attack flows, CTERA Ransom Protect is able to detect and block attacks within seconds and provides tools for immediate mitigation and instant recovery.
Posted June 14, 2023
The technology pendulum has long been swinging between centralization versus decentralization. Is it better to have a mainframe or distributed systems and data across Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms? Is it better to have these server farms or consolidate things with a cloud provider? Now, the action is moving away from the cloud, toward edge and Internet of Things (IoT) configurations. The enterprise market for edge computing will grow by 22% over the coming year, mainly for hardware, according to estimates from Deloitte Global. By contrast, enterprise networking equipment expenditures will grow by 4%, while overall enterprise IT spending is projected to rise by 6%.
Posted June 14, 2023
In the seminal novel 1984, George Orwell imagines a dystopian future in which governments routinely rewrite historical records as a means of control: "He who controls the past controls the future." While few Western governments have yet to engage in the wholesale creation of false history, the practice is too common in totalitarian governments. And with AI-generated fakes being increasingly hard to differentiate from the real thing, the ability to create alternate historical records has never been easier.
Posted June 14, 2023