Artificial Intelligence Articles
Oracle is entering a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to support the explosive growth of AI services, enabling Microsoft to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI infrastructure, along with Microsoft Azure AI infrastructure, for inferencing of AI models that are being optimized to power Microsoft Bing conversational searches.
Posted November 15, 2023
Oracle is announcing several key contributions to the open source community aimed at accelerating the adoption of cloud native computing and collaboration across the open source ecosystem. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023, Oracle announced plans to donate $3 million in Ampere Arm-based compute credits on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) per year for three years to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Posted November 15, 2023
Actian Corporation, the data and analytics division of HCLSoftware, has relaunched the Actian Data Platform, known previously as Avalanche, accompanied by a variety of new capabilities, including hybrid Integration-as-a-Service. Designed to drive data confidence, data quality, and affordability, the Actian Data Platform centralizes data processes while inviting easy, efficient data integration.
Posted November 14, 2023
Experts in analytics joined DBTA's webinar, The Future of Analytics: Data Warehouses, Data Lakehouses, and Data Mesh, to offer IT leaders and practitioners best practices and new technologies for navigating where modernity meets analytics.
Posted November 14, 2023
LogicMonitor, a leading SaaS-based hybrid observability platform powered by AI, is introducing its generative AI-based tool, LM Co-Pilot, which uses generative intelligence to assist users in their day-to-day operations, recognize issues and offer solutions, and empower IT and cloud operations teams to focus on innovation.
Posted November 13, 2023
LiquidStack, a global provider in liquid cooling for data centers, is offering its new single-phase liquid cooling solution, providing data centers with a powerful and economical option to shift from air cooling to energy-efficient and sustainable immersion cooling. According to the company, the announcement marks the first step in the company's planned expansion of its DataTank product portfolio to offer a comprehensive range of advanced liquid cooling solutions.
Posted November 13, 2023
IBM is releasing the new IBM Storage Scale System 6000, a cloud-scale global data platform designed to meet today's data intensive and AI workload demands, and the latest offering in the IBM Storage for Data and AI portfolio. According to the company, the new IBM Storage Scale System 6000 seeks to build on IBM's leadership position with an enhanced high performance parallel file system designed for data intensive use-cases. It provides up to 7M IOPs and up to 256GB/s throughput for read only workloads per system in a 4U (four rack units) footprint.
Posted November 13, 2023
IBM is evolving its flagship IBM QRadar SIEM product, redesigning on a new cloud-native architecture, built specifically for hybrid cloud scale, speed, and flexibility. IBM also unveiled plans for delivering generative AI capabilities within its threat detection and response portfolio—leveraging watsonx, the company's enterprise-ready data and AI platform.
Posted November 13, 2023
IBM announced that it is launching a $500 million venture fund to invest in a range of AI companies—from early-stage to hyper-growth startups—focused on accelerating generative AI technology and research for the enterprise. According to the company, with a differentiated model and strategy consisting of domain expertise from across IBM and a dedicated portfolio development team, the IBM Enterprise AI Venture Fund will invest in current and future AI leaders that are helping businesses around the world realize the potential of AI for business.
Posted November 13, 2023
CData, the company making it easy to connect, integrate, and automate enterprise data, is introducing a new capability for CData Connect Cloud, dubbed the Connect Cloud AI Generator, which is a GPT-powered, text-to-SQL feature that effortlessly converts natural language into dynamic SQL queries across a variety of data sources.
Posted November 10, 2023
Frontegg, the customer identity and access management platform for modern SaaS, is debuting Frontegg Forward, a series of enhancements to the Frontegg platform that drive user management innovations for SaaS companies.
Posted November 10, 2023
CAST, the software intelligence leader, is upgrading CAST Imaging, a software imaging system, adding a suite of "Advisors" to provide personalized recommendations to help companies accelerate and de-risk application modernization and cloud migration. According to the company, these Advisors serve as guiding beacons for software architects and developers as they embark on significant transformations within their applications.
Posted November 10, 2023
Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, is expanding its strategic partnership with Google Cloud, enabling Google Cloud customers to proactively observe and secure their cloud-native and hybrid applications within Datadog's unified platform.
Posted November 10, 2023
Flip AI is debuting its observability intelligence platform, Flip, powered by a large language model (LLM) that predicts incidents and generates root cause analyses in seconds. In addition to the company's launch, Flip AI announced $6.5 million in seed funding led by Factory.
Posted November 09, 2023
To offer partners the simplest and most scalable solutions to help customers get their infrastructure AI-ready, Cisco is collaborating with leading ecosystem partners—including NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, NetApp, Nutanix, Pure Storage and Red Hat—on Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) for AI use cases. This announcement was made at Cisco Partner Summit 2023.
Posted November 09, 2023
Entrinsik is announcing the launch of Informer AI, a game-changing solution that promises to revolutionize how users interact with Informer by leveraging artificial intelligence. According to the company, utilizing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, Informer AI automates tasks, simplifies workflows, and offers real-time analytics and trend analysis.
Posted November 09, 2023
SnapLogic, the generative integration company, is announcing its partnership with Acolad, a content and language solutions provider, aimed at developing and delivering generative AI (GenAI) translation solutions for both language and integration professionals alike.
Posted November 03, 2023
At the Snowday 2023 event, Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, launched an extensive series of innovations centered around deriving value from AI and powering a robust data strategy that permeates throughout the rest of the application development process.
Posted November 03, 2023
Honeycomb, the observability platform that enables engineering teams to find and solve problems they couldn't before, is announcing the launch of Honeycomb for Kubernetes, expanding Honeycomb's observability to Kubernetes workflows.
Posted November 01, 2023
Straive, a leader in helping organizations operationalize the data, insights, knowledge, AI value chain, is acquiring Gramener, a design-led data science company. Straive is owned by BPEA EQT, part of EQT, a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies.
Posted November 01, 2023
Oracle announced that NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an enterprise-grade software that accelerates data science and streamlines development and deployment of production-ready AI, and the NVIDIA DGX Cloud AI supercomputing platform are now available through the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
Posted November 01, 2023
Denodo, a leader in data management, is enhancing the Denodo Platform, helping organizations to democratize data usage across the enterprise using generative AI, enforcing consistent security and cost management policies, and enabling self-service for business users, so they can create their own data products.
Posted October 31, 2023
U.S. President Joe Biden signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that aims to balance the needs of cutting-edge technology companies with national security and consumer rights, creating an early set of guardrails that could be fortified by legislation and global agreements. The order is an initial step that is meant to ensure that AI is trustworthy and helpful, rather than deceptive and destructive. The order—which will likely need to be augmented by congressional action—seeks to steer how AI is developed so that companies can profit without putting public safety in jeopardy.
Posted October 31, 2023
Alation, Inc., the data intelligence company, is expanding its partner ecosystem with the addition of Monte Carlo, Sigma Computing, and ThoughtSpot, extending Alation's connectivity to new data sources, building upon more than 100 existing connectors that enable organizations to gain insight across the modern data stack.
Posted October 30, 2023
Digital.ai, a provider of AI-powered software delivery solutions for the enterprise, is releasing Denali, the latest version of its AI-powered DevSecOps platform, exemplifying its commitment to delivering an open platform tailored to the needs of the modern enterprise.
Posted October 27, 2023
Joe McKendrick, research analyst at Unisphere, and Robert Stanley, senior director special projects at Melissa Informatics, joined DBTA's webinar, The State of Data Quality: The Elephant in the AI Room, to explore both the recent findings of Unisphere's latest data quality survey and crucial insights that can dictate the success of data quality initiatives in the modern enterprise.
Posted October 26, 2023
Stacklet, creators and lead maintainers of CNCF's Cloud Custodian project, is unveiling Jun0, a powerful new assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to help teams speed up cloud governance tasks, reporting, and initiatives using simple text-based queries.
Posted October 26, 2023
Databricks, the Data and AI company, is acquiring Arcion, a Databricks Ventures portfolio company that helps enterprises quickly and reliably replicate data across on-prem, cloud databases, and data platforms. According to the company, this move will enable Databricks to provide native solutions to ingest data from various databases and SaaS applications into the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. The transaction is valued at over $100 million, inclusive of incentives.
Posted October 26, 2023
Deloitte announced it is expanding its practices for SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) to build and deliver generative AI solutions to clients. Deloitte's approach of Clean Core + Edge Innovation relies on cloud application development and embedding AI capabilities and data-driven insights to help cloud ERP clients deliver real business value while limiting technical debt.
Posted October 25, 2023
Digitate, a provider of SaaS-based enterprise software for IT and business operations, today released a study conducted in partnership with ASUG, America's largest network of SAP customers, partners, and professionals, focusing on the issues that are at the forefront in the mind of SAP users.
Posted October 25, 2023
DataGPT, a provider of conversational AI data analytics software, is emerging from stealth and launching DataGPT AI Analyst, uniting the creative, comprehension-rich side of a large language model (LLM) with the logic and reasoning of advanced analytics techniques. According to the company, this combination makes sophisticated analysis accessible to more people without compromising accuracy and impact.
Posted October 24, 2023
News agency Jiji reported that SoftBank is looking to invest $40-60 billion yen ($266-400 million) in developing "one of Japan's largest data centers" in Tomakomai City, Hokkaido. Details are sparse, but the company is reportedly looking to launch the facility in 2026. SoftBank is said to be targeting a new facility in the northern island of Hokkaido to address concerns around energy consumption amid the growing demands of generative AI.
Posted October 23, 2023
IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are expanding their partnership to help more mutual clients operationalize and derive value from generative artificial intelligence (AI). As part of this expansion, IBM Consulting aims to deepen and expand its generative AI expertise on AWS by training 10,000 consultants by the end of 2024; the two organizations also plan to deliver joint solutions and services upgraded with generative AI capabilities designed to help clients across critical use cases.
Posted October 23, 2023
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, is adding a next-generation antivirus (NGAV) capability in its unified endpoint management (UEM) solution,?Endpoint Central, positioning it as an endpoint protection platform (EPP).
Posted October 20, 2023
Alluxio, the data platform company for data-driven workloads, is unveiling Alluxio Enterprise AI, a high-performance data platform designed to unify performance, data accessibility, scalability, and cost efficiency in powering AI and machine learning (ML) workloads.
Posted October 19, 2023
Recently, companies such as Dropbox, Amazon, Lyft, and Meta, as well as Apple, have used the draconian and cruel layoff approach to economic optimization. Yet while the "R" word is bantered around, the "mainstream media" continues to claim that a recession has not yet arrived. This is despite the academic definition of "recession," that is, consecutive quarters of negative gross domestic product growth, as was the case in the first half of 2022.
Posted October 19, 2023
Airbyte, the creators of the fastest-growing, open source data movement platform, are debuting its latest set of connectors—for the Milvus, Qdrant, and Weaviate vector databases—amid customer requests for more vector database support.
Posted October 18, 2023
Oracle NetSuite is introducing a series of new product innovations to help organizations reduce costs and run more efficiently. The latest NetSuite innovations include both traditional and generative AI-powered capabilities across the entire suite; new field service management and enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions; and new capabilities that help finance and customer experience professionals improve the speed and accuracy of business processes.
Posted October 18, 2023
Databricks, the data and AI company, is debuting the launch of the Databricks platform on the AWS Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC).
Posted October 16, 2023
Crowdbotics, the enterprise helping organizations harness the power of CodeOps, is debuting a new set of AI capabilities for the Crowdbotics platform, empowering organizations to generate organization-level strategies for systemic code reuse, rapidly create application build plans, and instantly produce a running application via prebuilt components.
Posted October 16, 2023
It may be well-understood that cybersecurity needs to be front and center in all technology projects, but organizations are still slow or hesitant to fully commit to it. This is becoming a problem for data-intensive organizations, which need to brace for an onslaught of both external and internal threats. Only about one-half of organizations are beginning to recognize how important cybersecurity is from the start in any transformation effort, an Accenture survey of 3,000 executives shows.
Posted October 12, 2023
For most enterprises these days, hyperscale data workloads and AI have become the norm and are driving data strategies. However, while conventional wisdom dictates that this means greater reliance on cloud services and cutting-edge approaches to manage data pipelines, there's a place for more well-tread approaches as well. Many data managers intend to beef up their data warehouse capabilities and even return to on-prem systems in the near future.
Posted October 12, 2023
Mankind has long dreamed of the promise of automation. Our earliest ancestors imagined it as something the gods could wield. In Homer's The Odyssey, Hephaestus, the Greek god of smithing and craft, uses automation to complete simple repetitive labor. Buddhist legends speak of automated guards who watched over the Buddha's relics.
Posted October 12, 2023
TileDB, Inc., the modern database provider, is announcing its recent financial milestone, having raised $34 million in its Series B funding round, led by AlleyCorp. The funding will serve to advance TileDB's "modern database" mission, including support for product development, growth endeavors, and accelerating go-to-market initiatives.
Posted October 11, 2023
insightsoftware, a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, is debuting new capabilities that will be integrated with the Logi Symphony software suite, the flexible, purpose-built BI and analytics platform for embedding into other applications. This latest release enables Logi Symphony to easily embed self-service, end-to-end business intelligence and analytics (ABI), amplified by AI, into any web-based application.
Posted October 10, 2023
The "big data" world is pervasive—to the point in which every organization is now a big data organization. As AI, machine learning, and other high-end analytics become mainstream parts of business operations, new ways of handling data assets are coming to the fore. Industry leaders and experts recently shared their views with Big Data Quarterly on the latest technology developments shaping today's big data world.
Posted October 10, 2023
HumanFirst, the low-code data productivity suite, is announcing a new Google Cloud alliance aimed at enabling enterprises all over the world to enhance data insight discovery and AI application performance based on unstructured, text-based data.
Posted October 09, 2023