Artificial Intelligence Articles
Krishna Raman, vice president, ISM R&D at Quest, and Aaron Sonntag, senior software development engineer at EDB, joined DBTA's webinar, Ensuring Performance, Scalability, and Security in the Cloud, to examine today's best practices for cloud adoption and management, discussing various factors that can derail success.
Posted June 27, 2024
Pulumi, a leader in infrastructure as code, is debuting the Pulumi Copilot, an AI designed to help users surface greater insights and more robust controls over their cloud infrastructure. Combining the strengths of large language models (LLMs) and semantic understanding, engineers can use their natural language to interact with their cloud environment, achieving greater agility and innovation, according to Pulumi.
Posted June 27, 2024
SnapLogic, a leader in generative integration, is offering new connectivity and support for Snowflake vector data types, Snowflake Cortex, and Streamlit, assisting companies modernize their businesses and accelerate the creation of generative AI applications.
Posted June 27, 2024
Microsoft-backed OpenAI is acquiring search and database analytics startup Rockset to improve infrastructure for its enterprise products. "Rockset's infrastructure empowers companies to transform their data into actionable intelligence. We're excited to bring these benefits to our customers by integrating Rockset's foundation into OpenAI products," said Brad Lightcap, OpenAI COO.
Posted June 26, 2024
At its annual SAP Sapphire conference, SAP unveiled a variety of generative AI innovations and partnerships that showcase how the company is taking business to the next level. According to SAP, by infusing Business AI across an enterprise cloud portfolio that powers the world's most mission-critical processes and partnering with companies pushing the edge of what's possible with AI, the company is igniting a new wave of insight and ingenuity in global business.
Posted June 26, 2024
SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement unveiled its June 2024 product release, featuring a host of omnichannel additions, enterprise enhancements, and AI-infused features that build on the platform's long-standing legacy in artificial intelligence. According to the company, the recent updates reflect the desire and urgency of marketers to use AI to supercharge personalized campaigns and productivity, strengthening the platform's AI features and functions, and enabling marketers to benefit from the time-saving powers of generative AI.
Posted June 26, 2024
Oracle is adding new AI innovations in the latest release of the Oracle APEX low-code development platform—introducing the new APEX AI Assistant that simplifies application development and helps developers quickly build feature-rich, mission-critical applications at scale. According to Oracle, developers now can create applications by using natural language prompts to specify desired capabilities and components and automatically generate SQL statements, perform one-click debug correction, eliminate the need to remember table names, and easily add an out-of-the-box conversational interface to their applications.
Posted June 26, 2024
Teradata is debuting the availability of Teradata VantageCloud Lake on Google Cloud, merging the powers of Teradata and Google Cloud—with additional new enhancements—to deliver trusted AI at scale. This announcement seamlessly integrates key Teradata components with an array of Google Cloud AI technologies and models, offering a modern data platform designed to support and scale a variety of AI types—from predictive AI to generative AI (GenAI).
Posted June 25, 2024
Substrate Labs, an AI infrastructure startup, has received $8 million in a seed round to deliver elegant APIs that enable developers to build more modular AI systems and accelerate a new era of software development. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from South Park Commons, Craft Ventures, Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Immad Akhund (Mercury), Will Gaybrick (Stripe), and others. Led by co-founder and CEO Rob Cheung and co-founder Ben Guo, the company also announced the official launch of its API optimized for running ensembles of models.
Posted June 25, 2024
Abstract Security, crafted by category creators who redefined the cybersecurity landscape, announced the general availability (GA) of its platform designed for the future of security operations. Already in use by customers, Abstract's platform helps security analysts and operations teams navigate the complexities of data pipelines, increase security effectiveness, and lower costs, according to the company.
Posted June 25, 2024
Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation leader, and Connor Group, a leading specialized professional services firm, are unveiling the Enterprise GenAI Governance Framework, a detailed guide and methodology for educating enterprises of all sizes on GenAI readiness, risk, and ethics. A product of the expertise of over 1,000 business leaders, academics, and industry bodies, the Enterprise GenAI Governance Framework aims to provide a structural, responsible approach for implementing AI as its popularity continues to grow.
Posted June 24, 2024
Airbyte, creator of the leading open-source data movement infrastructure, is releasing its Snowflake Cortex destination, a new data connector for Snowflake users who are interested in building generative AI (GenAI) capabilities directly within their existing Snowflake accounts.
Posted June 19, 2024
LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based Hybrid Observability platform powered by AI, is unveiling Edwin AI, a highly scalable AI assistant designed to ease the workloads of ITOps teams by reducing alert fatigue, avoiding incidents, reducing mean time to resolve (MTTR), and solving complex observability issues.
Posted June 18, 2024
Next DLP, a leader in insider risk and data protection, is debuting Secure Data Flow, a new feature of the Reveal Platform—a flexible, cloud-native, AI- and ML-powered solution built for today's threat landscape—that illuminates the specificities of data origins, movements, and modifications. This latest capability aims to replace legacy data protection technologies—which only effectively apply to a small range of text-based data types—to bring customers a comprehensive, false-positive-free security solution.
Posted June 18, 2024
Reltio, a leader in data unification and management solutions, is debuting the latest iteration of the Reltio Connected Data Platform, the scalable data unification and multidomain master data management (MDM) platform that connects to any source. With this update, Reltio delivers new capabilities for Reltio Customer 360 Data Product, Reltio Multidomain MDM, and Reltio Entity Resolution which reflect both market conditions and customer demands.
Posted June 18, 2024
AI is only accelerating its adoption among global corporate enterprises, thus CEOs and business leaders are positioned at the confluence of innovation and ethics as it relates to implementing AI projects in their businesses. While technical prowess and business potential are usually the focus of conversations around AI, the ethical considerations are sometimes overlooked, especially those that aren't immediately obvious.
Posted June 18, 2024
Gretel, a provider of synthetic data generation, is releasing Gretel Navigator, an agent-based, compound generative AI system built to automate data creation and curation processes for AI development. With simple natural language or SQL prompts, Gretel Navigator enables users to create, edit, and augment tabular data, and design realistic, high-quality test and training datasets from scratch, according to the company.
Posted June 17, 2024
Alation, Inc., the data intelligence company, is deepening its integration with Databricks to offer trusted data for AI initiatives to the enterprise—strengthening the partnership through the Alation Open Data Quality Initiative improves data reliability, streamlines compliance, and facilitates effective decision-making.
Posted June 17, 2024
Pliops, a provider of data processors for cloud and enterprise data centers, is delivering broad-spectrum workload acceleration with its Extreme Data Processor (XDP). The company is also collaborating with scale-out software provider Hammerspace and will introduce a new joint solution.
Posted June 17, 2024
Never before has the business spotlight been on database managers and professionals as it is at this time. Every business leader now wants a data-driven organization, as they recognize this is the key to competitive differentiation. Data monetization is seen as a vast new revenue source. AI—both operational and generative—relies on effective data management and quality. The ongoing transition to digital business demands real-time delivery of insights to end users and applications.
Posted June 13, 2024
Two surveys show that many executives are skeptical they can move forward with AI demands, which include the right data, at the right time. AI is a high priority, and is in production at most sites, but supplying trustworthy data is still a challenge at the back end.
Posted June 13, 2024
How would you like a partner who always agreed with you, never got cross or upset, was always available, and was willing to engage in whatever intimate activities you desired whenever you wanted? In the real world, that's an unrealistic and undesirable outcome. True intimacy results from a meeting of equals, not through a totally subservient partner.
Posted June 13, 2024
Most times, if asked, I will rattle off, without hesitation, a list of ways AI is being applied along with all the ways it can go wrong. You may also get bit of a diatribe about why speaking of AI in the royal sense (i.e., "the AI") is always a bad idea. It's practically a (bad) party trick. Yet recently, when asked to characterize the primary ethical issues in AI, I had a perfect moment of mental blankness. It was an uncomfortable and instructive moment on many fronts.
Posted June 12, 2024
Bitfinex, a premier digital asset trading platform, announced that it will list AIOZ, the native token of AIOZ Network, a decentralized platform leveraging blockchain technology to enhance AI, storage, and streaming services. AIOZ Network aims to transform digital media by providing decentralized solutions for storage and streaming, to create a more efficient and scalable ecosystem.
Posted June 12, 2024
Timescale, the Postgres cloud database company, is debuting two new open source extensions—pgvectorscale and pgai—which extend the strengths of PostgreSQL to AI development use cases, such as building retrieval augmented generation (RAG), search, and AI agent applications. Enabling enterprises to benefit from the familiarity of PostgreSQL while still achieving the sort of performance that a specialized vector database provides, Timescale's latest extensions aim to make PostgreSQL better for AI development.
Posted June 11, 2024
Cloudera, the data company for trusted enterprise AI, is acquiring Verta's Operational AI Platform—further solidifying Cloudera's position in the AI landscape. The Verta team will join Cloudera's machine learning group, reporting to chief product officer, Dipto Chakravarty. The Verta team will draw on their collective expertise to help drive Cloudera's AI roadmap and enable the company to effectively anticipate the needs of its global customer base, according to Cloudera.
Posted June 11, 2024
Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking, is introducing a new round of innovations to its AI-Native Networking Platform, delivering exceptional value and cost savings to enterprises requiring secure branch connections.
Posted June 11, 2024
To gain insight on the adoption and maturity of data management technologies and practices, DBTA and Radiant Advisors surveyed more than 250 IT leaders and professionals at organizations across North America to identify the key perceptions, priorities, challenges, and technology plans underlying modernization efforts today.
Posted June 11, 2024
SqlDBM, a leading collaborative, cloud-based data modeling platform for the enterprise, is unveiling Tx, a transformational workflow solution that empowers teams to facilitate both relational and transformational modeling in one platform. Allowing users to quickly and collaboratively develop and automate modular analytics code, Tx closes the relational/transformational data gap by centralizing these workflows in a single solution.
Posted June 10, 2024
Cube, the provider of the universal semantic layer for every data app, is announcing the completion of its latest funding round—led by new investor Databricks Ventures—having raised $25 million. Seeing participation from existing investors Decibel, Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and 645 Ventures, this latest funding round will help Cube invest in its growth and development strategies for its flagship product, Cube Cloud.
Posted June 10, 2024
Alation, the data intelligence company, is announcing that it has expanded its partnership with Snowflake, enabling Alation's Open Data Quality Framework to now support integration with Snowflake Horizon. This integration aims to empower enterprises to surface and remediate data quality issues before they impact downstream business and data operations, driving better governance, faster, more accurate AI model development, and more trusted decision making, according to Alation.
Posted June 10, 2024
Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity AI, is introducing its new service offering, Darktrace Managed Detection and Response (MDR), combining its detection and response capabilities spanning across the enterprise, with the expertise of its global analyst team. According to Darktrace, this powerful combination augments internal security teams with AI-powered threat containment and expert alert management across Darktrace environments, allowing them to focus resources on more strategic security efforts, like improving cyber resilience.
Posted June 10, 2024
Offering their expertise on UC migrations, speakers from Databricks and Blueprint joined DBTA's webinar, Achieving Unified Governance for Data and AI: Unity Catalog Migration Simplified, to explore the ways to accelerate, simplify, and automate the transition process.
Posted June 07, 2024
Digital.ai, an industry-leading technology company, is introducing Erawan, the next iteration of its open, AI-powered DevSecOps platform, delivering on the company's mission to provide global enterprises with a powerful solution that supports the delivery of high-quality software applications at scale.
Posted June 07, 2024
Galileo, a provider developing generative AI for the enterprise, is releasing Galileo Luna, a suite of Evaluation Foundation Models (EFMs) designed to transform how generative AI evaluations are conducted. According to the company, this novel approach is faster, more cost-effective, and more accurate than existing evaluation methods such as askGPT and human "vibe checks." With Galileo Luna, enterprises can bring trustworthy AI solutions to market faster and at production scale.
Posted June 07, 2024
Guiding enterprises through the thicket of the latest database technologies and strategies, experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, New Database Technologies and Strategies for the AI Era, to offer their expertise on the market's best solutions for supporting AI projects.
Posted June 06, 2024
Matillion, the modern data pipeline platform provider, is bringing no-code Generative AI (GenAI) to Snowflake users with new GenAI capabilities and integrations with Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake ML Functions, and support for Snowpark Container Services.
Posted June 06, 2024
AI has become pervasive across enterprises, and the drive is now on to push this potentially powerful intelligence out to the edge and network, where it can deliver insight and operational performance in real time. These days, no discussion of edge and IoT is complete without weighing the implications of AI. "If people think AI will stop at data centers, they have an unfortunate blind spot, because AI is likely to be deployed in some form at the edge," said Kevin Brown, SVP at Schneider Electric. "In my opinion, it will bring with it a host of new challenges regarding data privacy concerns, an increasing demand for power, and an infrastructure that will be even more broadly distributed. Undoubtedly, we need to get ahead of these challenges."
Posted June 05, 2024
Neo4j, the graph database and analytics leader, is announcing a partnership with Snowflake that brings Neo4j's fully integrated, native graph data science solution to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. This news—which was announced at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024—empowers enterprises to leverage advanced, graph-enabled insights without moving their data from the Snowflake environment.
Posted June 04, 2024
Mei Long, product manager at Prophecy, and Nathan Tong, sales engineer at Prophecy, joined DBTA's webinar, Build Data Pipelines on Databricks in 5 Easy Steps, to discuss various practical strategies and techniques to streamline data transformation, foster seamless collaboration between teams, and establish data transformation standards that value reliability and quality.
Posted June 04, 2024
Jitterbit, a global leader in empowering transformation through automation, is introducing Jitterbit Premier Support, a comprehensive service designed to address and resolve issues with immediacy and effectiveness to minimize downtime, maintain business continuity, and ensure quality of service.
Posted June 03, 2024
IBM is expanding its portfolio of servers with the introduction of IBM Power S1012, delivering 3X more performance per core. This 1-socket, half-wide Power10 processor-based system is available in a 2U rack-mounted or tower deskside form factor and is optimized for edge-level computing, delivering the lowest entry price point in the Power portfolio to run core workloads for small and medium-sized organizations, according to IBM.
Posted June 03, 2024
Building on more than 20 years of partnership, IBM and Adobe are delivering guidance and technology to help clients benefit from the full value of Generative AI in marketing, content creation, and brand governance. The companies are accomplishing this through a unique alliance spanning technology and consulting services, driving joint innovation through hybrid cloud infrastructure, data, applications, and a multi-model generative AI approach.
Posted June 03, 2024
Zilliz is introducing Milvus Lite, a lightweight vector database that runs locally within the Python application, making it a compact and efficient solution ideal for environments with limited computing resources such as laptops, Jupyter Notebooks, and mobile or edge devices. Based on the open-source Milvus vector database, Milvus Lite reuses the core components for vector indexing and query parsing while removing elements designed for high scalability in distributed systems.
Posted May 31, 2024
In the latest DBTA webinar—Microsoft Fabric Essentials and Modernization Pathways—Tobin Thankachen, lead architect, data management at Datavail—Microsoft's solution partner—offered their expertise on Microsoft Fabric, answering viewers' questions while demonstrating how it works and the modernization pathways fit for organizations' unique architectures.
Posted May 30, 2024
Bolster, a provider of multi-channel phishing protection, announced it has received $14 million in a Series B financing round, enabling the company to invest in GTM initiatives that strategically prioritize executive monitoring, business email compromise (BEC) attack detection and takedown, and threat-hunting automation.
Posted May 30, 2024
LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based hybrid observability solution powered by AI, is announcing a new capability as part of its LM Envision platform—a SaaS-based, unified observability platform that empowers modern enterprises to adopt a cloud-ready operating model for effectively meeting key business demands. This new feature—dubbed LM Cost Optimization—leverages AI to power cost optimization for next-gen cloud operations (CloudOps) and platform engineering teams.
Posted May 30, 2024