Artificial Intelligence Articles
Cognizant is introducing Cognizant Neuro Edge, a new platform in the Cognizant Neuro suite, empowering businesses across industries to leverage artificial intelligence and generative AI at the edge. Neuro Edge is designed to power the entire value chain of edge AI, from chips and devices to applications and business solution deployments, shortening the path to business value, according to Cognizant.
Posted July 08, 2024
SingleStore, the real-time data platform for you to transact, analyze, and contextualize, is debuting bi-directional compatibility with Apache Iceberg, enabling enterprises to take advantage of the data "frozen" in their lakehouses. Additionally, SingleStore is announcing an array of new capabilities, including enhanced full-text search, autoscaling, and more.
Posted July 03, 2024
Pure Storage, an IT pioneer that delivers advanced data storage technologies and services, is introducing new capabilities to the Pure Storage platform that change how IT and business leaders can improve their ability to deploy AI, support cyber resilience, and modernize applications.
Posted July 03, 2024
Denodo, a leader in data management, is releasing Denodo Platform 9.0, enabling intelligent data delivery through AI-driven support for queries delivered in natural language while eliminating the need to know SQL. Denodo Platform 9.0 also provides large language models (LLMs) with real-time, governed data from across the enterprise, powering retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for trusted, insightful results from generative AI applications, as well as offers a set of powerful new features to further enhance data management.
Posted July 03, 2024
Oracle is introducing HeatWave GenAI, offering in-database large language models (LLMs), an automated in-database vector store, scale-out vector processing, and the ability to have contextual conversations in natural language informed by unstructured content. According to Oracle, these new capabilities enable customers to bring the power of generative AI to their enterprise data—without requiring AI expertise or having to move data to a separate vector database.
Posted July 03, 2024
To meet the rapidly growing demand for its AI and cloud services in Spain, Oracle announced plans to invest more than $1 billion to open a third cloud region in Madrid and drive AI skills development across the country. The new public cloud region will enable Oracle customers and partners across all industries in Spain, including its prominent financial services sector, to migrate mission-critical workloads from their data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) while helping them address regulations like the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the European Outsourcing Guidelines (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA), according to Oracle.
Posted July 03, 2024
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is releasing the latest update of the MicroStrategy ONE platform, enabling enterprises to layer contextual, bite-sized AI insights into any application within a no-code environment. According to the company, this capability builds on HyperIntelligence, a long-time feature within MicroStrategy ONE that pioneered contextual BI.
Posted July 02, 2024
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of StreamSets and webMethods from Software AG after receiving all required regulatory approvals—bringing together leading capabilities in integration, API management, and data ingestion. The acquisition builds on IBM's extensive software portfolio, with StreamSets adding new data ingestion capabilities to IBM's AI and data platform, and webMethods bringing Integration Platform as a Service (iPaas) capabilities to IBM's Automation solutions.
Posted July 02, 2024
Data engineering experts joined DBTA's webinar, The Future of Data Engineering: AI, Automation, and the Cloud, to examine key technologies and best practices that are playing significant roles in how data engineering can best manifest in the enterprise.
Posted July 01, 2024
IBM is unveiling a major upgrade to Db2 Warehouse on IBM Cloud, introducing several new capabilities that make Db2 Warehouse even more performant, capable, and cost-effective. The next generation of Db2 Warehouse introduces support for Db2 column-organized tables in Cloud Object Storage. Db2 Warehouse on IBM Cloud customers can now store massive datasets on a resilient, highly scalable storage tier, costing up to 34x less.
Posted July 01, 2024
IBM is unveiling IBM Concert, providing generative AI driven insights for applications and putting site reliability engineers (SREs) and developers in control of simplifying and optimizing their operations across any environment. IBM Concert is now generally available.
Posted July 01, 2024
Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, is releasing AllegroGraph 8.2 with enhancements to ChatStream, offering users a natural language query interface that provides accurate and contextually relevant responses.
Posted June 28, 2024
DBTA gathered experts from Microsoft and Informatica for the webinar, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud as an Azure Native ISV Service, to discuss the nuance of leveraging cloud capabilities for data management within the Azure ecosystem, helping to cultivate greater understanding around Informatica and Microsoft's collaborative software.
Posted June 27, 2024
Broadcom is introducing its latest updates to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the company's flagship private cloud platform, supporting customers' digital innovation with faster infrastructure modernization, improved developer productivity, and better cyber resiliency and security.
Posted June 27, 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 27, 2024
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
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