Artificial Intelligence Articles
SQL Server databases often contain precious data such as customer information, financial records, and account passwords—assets that are often both essential to the business and subject to compliance regulations. Today, that data is more at risk than ever because readily available AI tools can help less-technical cybercriminals plan and execute attacks. Indeed, the latest version of ChatGPT can be misused to get recommendations about effective tools and technologies to employ in cyberattacks and even examples of how to use them.
Posted November 21, 2024
Exabeam, a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations, is partnering with Wiz, a leader in cloud security, with the aim of powering secure, resilient cloud environments with enhanced threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) capabilities. Featuring a Wiz product integration for the Exabeam New-Scale Platform, this collaboration emphasizes the power of cloud security intelligence and AI-powered analytics.
Posted November 21, 2024
CloudBolt Software, The Cloud ROI Company and leader in cloud FinOps, is pursuing a strategic partnership with CloudEagle.ai, a leading SaaS management and procurement platform, to move toward a unified approach to optimizing and governing both cloud and SaaS spend.
Posted November 21, 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 21, 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 21, 2024
Avantra, a global leader in AI-driven SAP operations automation, is debuting Avantra AIR, an advanced AI copilot for SAP operations, and announced the forthcoming release of Avantra 25, a new and further enhanced version of the company's renowned AIOps platform. These announcements were made at its 2024 Global Summit in Germany.
Posted November 20, 2024
Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, is debuting three new features for Microsoft Azure that are engineered to power AI and analytics innovations with trusted data. Each innovation serves to streamline the creation of GenAI applications and Microsoft Copilot experiences, paving the way for enterprises to derive greater value from Microsoft's AI and analytics services—including the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service.
Posted November 20, 2024
Oracle announced that Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) will offer Oracle Academy technology education curriculum and teaching and learning resources across its 14 campuses, which serve 82,000 students. This initiative will help the system equip students with vital skills in cloud, software development, and business applications, according to Oracle.
Posted November 20, 2024
Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, is unveiling an expanded partnership with Microsoft, establishing a new Snowflake Power Platform connector for Microsoft Power Platform—a low-/no-code set of services for building enterprise solutions. This connector enables bidirectional access between Dataverse—the enterprise data platform for Copilot—and Snowflake's AI Data Cloud, simplifying data interoperability between Snowflake, the Microsoft Power Platform, and Dynamics 365.
Posted November 19, 2024
Selector, the AIOps solution that gives the world's largest companies complete visibility and intelligence into their highly complex networks, infrastructure, and applications, is announcing the close of its Series B funding round, having raised $33 million. Led by Ansa Capital with participation from Two Bear Capital, Atlantic Bridge, Sinewave Ventures, AT&T Ventures, Bell Ventures, Singtel Innov8, and Hyperlink Ventures, Selector's latest capital infusion will accelerate the development of its AIOps, large language model (LLM), and digital twin technologies.
Posted November 19, 2024
Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, is unveiling two major announcements: The company is releasing Cloudera Copilot for Cloudera AI, a new AI assistant for data practitioners, and has entered a definitive agreement with Octopai to acquire its data lineage and catalog platform. Each announcement reflects Cloudera's commitment towards delivering optimal, data-driven outcomes for data scientists, engineers, and developers alike.
Posted November 18, 2024
Sabey Data Centers, a premier designer, builder, and operator of multi-tenant data centers, is partnering with SEGUENTE, a global technology company that provides innovative liquid-cooled IT hardware and AI software platforms for high-performance computing, to enhance both companies' ability to deliver sustainable, optimized, and scalable data center solutions to customers across Sabey's portfolio.
Posted November 18, 2024
Accelsius, whose proprietary two-phase, direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems enable high-performance computing and rack density for data center and edge operators, announced the successful raise of $24 million in a recent funding round, enabling the company to accelerate its plans for an international presence, continue to grow shipments and revenue in the U.S., and expand its professional teams across engineering, R&D, sales, marketing, manufacturing and operations. The Series A funding round started in early 2024.
Posted November 18, 2024
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5, the latest version of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux helps organizations deploy applications and workloads more quickly and with greater reliability, enabling them to lower costs and more effectively manage workloads across hybrid cloud deployments while mitigating IT risks, from the data center to public clouds to the edge.
Posted November 18, 2024
IBM announced quantum hardware and software advancements to execute complex algorithms on IBM quantum computers with record levels of scale, speed, and accuracy. IBM Quantum Heron, the company's most performant quantum processor to-date and available in IBM's global quantum data centers, can now leverage Qiskit to accurately run certain classes of quantum circuits with up to 5,000 two-qubit gate operations.
Posted November 18, 2024
BlackFog, a leader in ransomware prevention and anti data exfiltration (ADX), is releasing its next generation enterprise platform that delivers even more powerful ransomware and insider threat prevention. According to the company, BlackFog's pioneering platform focuses specifically on anti data exfiltration to prevent unauthorized data from leaving a device, ensuring that an organization's most sensitive information is protected.
Posted November 15, 2024
ThoughtSpot, the AI-powered analytics company, is debuting Spotter, an agentic AI analyst designed to help enterprises derive greater, actionable value from their data. Based around accessibility, reliability, and enriched insights, Spotter is ThoughtSpot's AI-powered solution for enterprises seeking to scale trusted, data-driven decision-making.
Posted November 14, 2024
Danny Sandwell, technology strategist, erwin by Quest, and Helen Kinsella, community of practice leader for data governance and privacy at Informatica, joined DBTA's webinar, Achieving AI-Ready Data: Active Metadata, Data Catalogs, and Data Observability, to discuss the latest advancements, technologies, and best practices in the area of data management that can make AI-ready data a tangible reality.
Posted November 14, 2024
Ian Ward, head of scaled enterprise adoption at MongoDB, and Corey Brune, senior principal sales engineer at Delphix by Perforce, joined DBTA's webinar, Powering Modern Applications: Data Management for Speed and Scale, to explore pivotal solutions for supporting today's applications with flexibility and automation at the forefront.
Posted November 13, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is announcing new solutions for its Virtual Storage Platform One data platform designed around enhancing storage and data management for AI and analytics workloads. Now offering a quad-level cell (QLC) flash storage array with public cloud replication and an object storage appliance, Hitachi Vantara brings improved simplicity, security, and sustainable scalability to the enterprise, according to the company.
Posted November 12, 2024
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
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
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