Artificial Intelligence Articles
Kaseya, a global provider of AI-powered cybersecurity and IT management software, is releasing Kaseya 365 User, which joins Kaseya 365 Endpoint which launched in April 2024. Kaseya 365 User gives managed service providers (MSPs) the ability to help their customers prevent, respond to, and recover from threats to user identity and security.
Posted November 08, 2024
Timescale, a leading PostgreSQL database platform, is expanding its PostgreSQL AI offerings with the launch of a pgai Vectorizer, available open-source and hosted in the cloud. Pgai Vectorizer unlocks the ability for any developer to build advanced AI applications without the need for external tools or specialized expertise.
Posted November 07, 2024
In DBTA's recent webinar, The Future of Open: What's Next in Lakehouse Architecture, experts offered their perspectives on why open lakehouse architectures continue to be a popular vehicle for enabling modernization and innovation across the enterprise, examining the latest trends, tools, and emerging best practices.
Posted November 07, 2024
Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, is releasing Generative AI (GenAI) Blueprints to make it faster and easier for customers to build enterprise-grade GenAI applications on several industry-leading technology platforms. The blueprints—for AWS, Databricks, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, and Snowflake—include standard reference architectures, prebuilt, ecosystem-specific "recipes," and GenAI Model-as-a-Service and vector database connectors to minimize GenAI development complexity and accelerate implementation, according to Informatica.
Posted November 06, 2024
WSO2, the largest independent software provider of open source API management, integration, and identity and access management (IAM) products, is announcing its latest releases of WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes, which emphasize the crossroads between AI innovation, Kubernetes, and cyberattack protection.
Posted November 05, 2024
Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader, is releasing FortiDLP, a next-generation data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management solution based on Next DLP's innovative technology and integration into the Fortinet Security Fabric, the new solution bolsters Fortinet's overall portfolio of DLP capabilities.
Posted November 04, 2024
IBM is launching IBM Guardium Data Security Center—allowing organizations to protect data in any environment, throughout its full lifecycle, and with unified controls. IBM Guardium Data Security Center provides a common view of organizations' data assets, empowering security teams to integrate workflows and address data monitoring and governance, data detection and response, data and AI security posture management, and cryptography management together in a single dashboard.
Posted November 04, 2024
Flexential, a leading provider of secure and flexible data center solutions, is announcing that it has received a strategic investment from Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP), serving to accelerate Flexential's growth and go-to-market efforts.
Posted November 04, 2024
GMI Cloud, a leading AI-native GPU cloud provider, is announcing the results of its Series A funding round, having raised $15 million in equity funding and $67 million in debt financing. This funding round—led by Headline Asia with participation from Banpu Next and Wistron Corporation—propels GMI Cloud's expansion in the U.S. and its strategic vision to power the AI-driven future with advanced GPUs and cloud infrastructure.
Posted November 01, 2024
At its latest developer conference, GitHub unveiled a series of new innovations that emphasize developer choice, control, and ease of use for the AI era. Culminating in three key announcements—the now multi-model GitHub Copilot, the introduction of GitHub Spark, and additional updates across Copilot and GitHub Models—GitHub continues to innovate, motivated by its ambition to reach 1 billion developers.
Posted October 31, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is debuting a series of new features for dbt Cloud, the control plane for enterprise data stacks. These latest enhancements serve to empower users across the various stages of the analytics development lifecycle, adhering to One dbt, the company's mission of delivering a single, unified dbt experience regardless of an enterprise's infrastructure, data platform, or cloud.
Posted October 31, 2024
MinIO, the leader in high-performance storage for AI, is announcing new optimizations for Arm-based chipsets powering on its object store, expanding the software ecosystem for the power of Arm. Centering low-power, computationally dense chips, MinIO's enhancements for Arm aim to better accommodate the AI-powered future.
Posted October 30, 2024
Keeper Security, a leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software, is introducing several significant updates to its KeeperFill browser extension, enabling users to customize their viewing experience with landscape mode, a new option for an expanded view of their extension window.
Posted October 30, 2024
Solix Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of cloud data management solutions, is debuting its multi-cloud, transactional, streaming data lake built on the cloud-native Solix Common Data Platform (CDP), designed to centralize data warehouse and database capabilities within a single offering. The SOLIXCloud Enterprise Data Lake is a third-generation data platform that addresses the complex, diverse data needs of modern enterprises with the convenience of a low-cost, secure, cloud data management solution.
Posted October 29, 2024
Cofense, the leading provider of intelligence-driven phishing defense solutions, is unveiling new AI-powered capabilities for its Phishing Detection and Response (PDR) platform that work to ease SOC analyst workloads with AI spam reduction. SOC analysts, plagued by heavy workloads and alert fatigue, benefit from the ability to sort through alert noise and focus on genuine threats with Cofense's new AI functionality.
Posted October 28, 2024
LightBeam.ai, a leader in AI-driven data security, privacy, and governance solutions, is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, enabling organizations to easily leverage LightBeam's platform for a comprehensive approach to data security, privacy, and compliance all from within their Google Cloud environment.
Posted October 28, 2024
In DBTA's latest webinar, Stop Fixing, Start Predicting: Mastering Predictive Maintenance with IoT Data Analytics and AI, experts from OpenText explained how to implement a predictive maintenance program—shaped by the latest advancements in AI, machine learning (ML), and data analytics—to ensure that business operations remain on, available, and drive successful outcomes.
Posted October 25, 2024
Vectorize, a pioneering startup in the field of AI-powered data integration, announced it has secured $3.6 million in seed funding, along with unveiling its Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform designed to transform how businesses of all sizes leverage their data for AI applications. The funding round was led by True Ventures.
Posted October 24, 2024
Accenture is making a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Reality Defender, an RSA Innovation award-winning cybersecurity company specializing in deepfake detection. Together, Accenture and Reality Defender will equip clients in the financial services, media, and high-tech industries with the ability to rapidly identify, detect, respond to, and prevent deepfake fraud.
Posted October 23, 2024
Semantic Web Company and Ontotext announced that the two organizations are merging to create a knowledge graph and AI powerhouse, Graphwise. Semantic Web Company brings expertise in knowledge engineering, semantic AI, and intelligent document processing, while Ontotext brings the most versatile graph database engine and state-of-the-art AI models for linking and unifying information at scale.
Posted October 23, 2024
SAP is expanding its partnership with Mistral AI by hosting some of Mistral's commercially available models, including Mistral Large 2, on SAP's operated infrastructure. This extended collaboration provides customers with a trusted and secure environment to use Mistral AI in conjunction with SAP, according to the vendors.
Posted October 23, 2024
SAP is updating its spend management solutions to help companies collaborate strategically, increase productivity, manage compliance effortlessly, and gain business insights. SAP is embedding its generative AI copilot Joule across the SAP Ariba source-to-pay solution portfolio to make it easier for customers to manage routine inquiries, such as status updates, summarization, and frequently asked questions. Generative AI will be further infused in SAP Ariba solutions to recommend buying bundles and provide comprehensive supplier summaries.
Posted October 23, 2024
SAP is adding AI innovations across a its generative AI copilot Joule, including collaborative AI agents imbued with custom skills to complete complex cross-disciplinary tasks. Other innovations include the SAP Knowledge Graph, a next-generation solution poised to help developers unlock the full value of SAP data by connecting it with rich business context, and new tools to ensure developers can continue driving Business AI innovation.
Posted October 23, 2024
Zumasys, a leader in innovative ERP solutions, is announcing significant progress in migrating customers from the PICK MultiValue platform to Rover ERP, a modern, web-based ERP system. To date, Zumasys has successfully completed 10 customer migrations, with an additional 5 currently in progress, totaling 15 signed deals. This achievement, reached in just under three years, reaffirms Zumasys' commitment to helping businesses modernize and thrive in a competitive marketplace, the company said.
Posted October 23, 2024
DataBank, a provider of enterprise-class edge colocation, interconnection, and managed services, announced a $2.0 billion equity raise led by AustralianSuper, Australia's largest superannuation fund, which committed $1.5 billion. Upon closing of the transaction, AustralianSuper will become a significant minority owner of DataBank and will join the company's board of directors.
Posted October 21, 2024
Lightmatter, a leader in photonic supercomputing, announced it has raised a $400 million Series D, valuing the company at $4.4 billion and bringing the total capital raised to date to $850 million—empowering Lightmatter to ready Passage for mass deployment in partner data centers, enabling the scaling required for sustained AI innovation.
Posted October 21, 2024
To drive the development of open, efficient, and scalable data center technologies, NVIDIA announced that it has contributed foundational elements of its NVIDIA Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project (OCP) and broadened NVIDIA Spectrum-X support for OCP standards.
Posted October 21, 2024
IBM is extending the capabilities of Power Virtual Server to deploy in a client data center, delivering the flexibility around consumption and management capabilities of the cloud while keeping the data on-premises to help address regional compliance and governance requirements of the business.
Posted October 21, 2024
Progress, the trusted provider of AI-powered infrastructure software, is unveiling the latest release of Progress Flowmon, the AI-powered network observability platform that reduces risk and improves resilience across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. This release introduces IP Address Indexing, a capability that dramatically enhances IP search efficiency, improving network administrators' and cybersecurity professionals' ability to detect and track network activity associated with a specific IP address.
Posted October 18, 2024
Rocket Software, Inc., a global technology leader in modernization software, is announcing an expansion of its Hybrid Cloud solutions with generative AI (GenAI) capabilities engineered to streamline modernization. Aimed at enhancing organizational agility and decision making, Rocket Software's latest updates serve to close the operational gap between enterprises and an AI-powered future.
Posted October 17, 2024
Informatica is introducing innovative updates to its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) aimed at equipping organizations with AI-ready data. With enhancements to advanced analytics, AI-driven application integration and master data management, users can now ensure their AI systems are powered by the most reliable, accurate, high-quality data, according to Informatica.
Posted October 17, 2024
It has been a whirlwind time for data managers and their enterprises, and the innovations that are reshaping data operations aren't showing any signs of slowing down soon. AI and advanced analytics are changing the game, of course, as are a myriad of technologies now available to help manage and extract business value from the data flowing through organizations. Here is what industry experts tell BDQ they now see emerging and what we can expect in the months and years to come.
Posted October 17, 2024
Cube, the company bringing consistency, context, and trust to the next generation of data experiences, is debuting a series of innovations for Cube Cloud—Cube's universal semantic layer—geared around enhancing data management and consumption. The new capabilities—from a next-gen data modeling engine to new data access policies, Cube Copilot, and more—address the present modeling, governance, productivity, and collaboration needs of enterprises.
Posted October 16, 2024
ScaleFlux, a leader in data storage and memory technology, is expanding its product portfolio to meet the demands for global data production. The company is introducing cutting-edge controllers for both NVMe SSDs and Compute Express Lin (CXL) modules, reinforcing its leadership in innovative technology for the data pipeline, according to the vendor.
Posted October 16, 2024
Generative AI (GenAI) is having an Agile moment or two, but this is not a positive development. One aspect of this moment in time is the continued hyping of GenAI's unlimited agility—wherein GenAI is trumpeted as something akin to an analytic Swiss Army knife. The analogy is not only problematic, but it is actively harmful.
Posted October 16, 2024
Oracle is offering the Oracle Financial Services Crime and Compliance Management Investigation Hub Cloud Service to enable banks to investigate and resolve financial crime cases faster. According to Oracle, the new AI-powered case management solution delivers a modern user experience that reduces manual tasks, removes data silos, and elevates the insights investigators need to focus their time on analysis and combating financial crime.
Posted October 16, 2024
Oracle is offering new AI-powered capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Service and Oracle Fusion Cloud Field Service that help service teams increase productivity, better understand customer issues, and serve their customers more effectively. According to Oracle, the latest updates improve customer satisfaction by automatically identifying customer issues, recommending actions, streamlining resolution, and improving first-time fix rates.
Posted October 16, 2024
To meet the rapidly growing demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in Malaysia, Oracle announced plans to invest more than $6.5 billion to open a public cloud region in the country. The upcoming cloud region will enable Oracle customers and partners in Malaysia to leverage AI infrastructure and services and migrate mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Posted October 16, 2024
As companies measure the health and performance of their IT/cloud/application infrastructure and various data-in-motion streams such as metrics, events, logs, and traces, the number of monitoring tools grows, resulting in a complicated and overloaded observability stack. Kishore Gopalakrishna, co-founder and CEO at StarTree, believes unified observability platforms can solve these pain points by providing the flexibility, data autonomy, and extensibility offered by a disaggregated model.
Posted October 15, 2024
Sonar, the leading Clean Code solution provider, is announcing its recent acquisition of Structure101, a pioneer in code structure analysis. This acquisition reflects Sonar's mission of empowering every developer to enhance the quality and security of their AI-generated and human-written code, according to the company.
Posted October 15, 2024
Predibase, the developer platform for productionizing open source AI, is debuting the Predibase Inference Engine, a comprehensive solution for deploying fine-tuned small language models (SLMs) quickly and efficiently. Designed for rapid, streamlined deployment across both private serverless (SaaS) and virtual private cloud (VPC) environments, the Predibase Inference Engine offers the most resource-efficient serving stack that empowers enterprises to scale specialized models at a fraction of the cost, according to the company.
Posted October 15, 2024
BMC, a global leader in software solutions, announced the decision to create two stand-alone, independent companies, BMC and BMC Helix. According to BMC, the two independently operating businesses will leverage the reignited innovation pipeline, industry-recognized product offerings, strengthened go-to-market capabilities, revived brand, and focus on customer success of the current company to accelerate growth across all markets.
Posted October 14, 2024
ApertureData, the company solving the data management challenges for large scale, multimodal data, is announcing the close of its oversubscribed seed round, having raised $8.25 million for its purpose-built, multimodal AI database. Serving to bridge the gap between enterprises' diverse data assets and AI success, ApertureData delivers a unified solution for managing and accessing complex, multimodal datasets.
Posted October 11, 2024
ClearML, the leading solution for unleashing AI in the enterprise, is debuting its new multi-tenant GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) for Enterprise, an offering that delivers greater GPU utilization for enterprises to improve their AI innovation and ROI. GPUaaS for Enterprise empowers organizations to successfully support their AI initiatives with the compute required while offering a centralized location for monitoring and managing AI resources.
Posted October 11, 2024
AI—both generative and machine learning/statistical—is essentially dead in the water without well-vetted, timely, quality data. This is holding back AI efforts more than anticipated, a recent survey finds. Data issues hampering AI were explored in a recent survey released by Precisely and Drexel University, which exposed widespread data trust issues and its impact on data and AI initiatives. Data quality and governance have hampered organizations for decades, and such deeply rooted distrust in the data is now being reflected in their embrace of AI output.
Posted October 10, 2024
Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, is unveiling Cloudera AI Inference powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform. Designed to enhance the performance, security, and scalability of AI models, Cloudera AI Inference is one of the industry's first AI inference services that provides embedded NIM microservice capability, according to the company.
Posted October 09, 2024