Internet of Things Articles
SUSE, a global leader in innovative, open and secure enterprise-grade solutions, is acquiring the full stack observability platform StackState, enabling SUSE to accelerate cloud-native observability for the enterprise by integrating the platform into Rancher Prime, its premium container management service.
Posted July 25, 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 25, 2024
Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, is offering the general availability of Identity Continuity, an addition to its Maverics Identity Orchestration platform that ensures business continuity and uninterrupted application access. The solution seamlessly fails over from a primary cloud Identity Provider (IDP) to a secondary IDP, using an on-premises IDP or cloud-to-cloud failover capabilities, according to Strata.
Posted July 23, 2024
Code Metal, the company powering AI-based development workflows for the edge, is announcing it has secured $13 million in seed funding, as well as $3.45 million in a pre-seed round. Led by Shield Capital and J2 Ventures—with participation from Fulcrum Venture Group, Underdog Labs, and more—this capital will propel Code Metal's efforts to build both its modular and verifiable agentic workflows that radically enhance the speed of development and its team of experts.
Posted July 23, 2024
After a system update pushed by CrowdStrike on Friday upended government services, emergency call centers, banks, airlines, hospitals, and other businesses, most systems are up and running as normal now. CrowdStrike is actively assisting customers affected by a defect in a recent content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts were not impacted. The issue has been identified and isolated, and a fix has been deployed. This was not a cyberattack, the company stressed.
Posted July 22, 2024
A faulty update to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor caused a global IT outage on Microsoft systems Friday, causing international flights to be grounded, knocking banks offline and media outlets off air. Further compounding the situation, several states in the U.S. are reporting disruptions to emergency services. The bug has affected many stock exchanges, supermarkets, government services, and even hospital and healthcare systems. Users are experiencing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error, which is causing their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly.
Posted July 19, 2024
OpenText is launching a solution to speed the triage and remediation of vulnerabilities throughout the stages of code development—dubbed OpenText Fortify Aviator. The platform is an AI-powered code security solution that saves developers significant time by enabling faster and easier auditing and remediation of static application security testing (SAST) vulnerabilities—all within a single solution. Fortify Aviator empowers teams to release secure software faster and with greater confidence, according to OpenText.
Posted July 17, 2024
In our last article, we discussed several great companies of Western civilization and why a poignant few of them, that were building game-changing technology, disappeared. Metaphorically they can be envisioned as having been buried in the proverbial Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse, never to be seen again.
Posted July 17, 2024
Oracle announced that Palantir's Foundry Platform and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) are certified on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), along with being generally available across all Oracle's distributed cloud deployment options. Oracle's distributed cloud, AI infrastructure, and sovereign AI capabilities, combined with Palantir's leading AI and decision acceleration platforms, help businesses and governments accelerate their AI initiatives, according to the vendors.
Posted July 17, 2024
Deloitte and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are collaborating on a multi-year strategic agreement to help clients around the world scale their generative Artificial Intelligence, data and analytics, and quantum computing capabilities by using AWS services.
Posted July 16, 2024
As a product manager, I have worked closely with data engineering teams and witnessed the fantastic ways to transform raw web data into insights, products, data models, and more. Data cleaning consistently stands out as a vital component of this transformation.
Posted July 16, 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 15, 2024
Rocket Software recently announced a special 4-part series on the Importance of APIs for Modernizing Your MV App. Rocket principal product manager Hernando Borda is the host for this MultiValue (MV) roundtable event—delving into the transformative power of APIs and how they can bring significant value to MV applications.
Posted July 11, 2024
Entrinsik Informer Cloud has been pivotal in higher education, where transparency and accessibility are paramount. Public Facing Dashboards in Informer Cloud are designed to meet these needs, offering numerous benefits that enhance the educational experience for students, parents, staff, and executive leadership, according to Entrinsik.
Posted July 11, 2024
SPHERE, a leading provider of identity hygiene solutions, is introducing its latest offering, Intelligent Discovery—an innovative SaaS solution designed to support CyberArk PAM Solutions, both SaaS and Self-Hosted deployments to provide comprehensive and insightful discovery capabilities for privileged accounts.
Posted July 10, 2024
While AI has been the talk of science fiction-aficionados and tech-enthusiasts for many years, it wasn't until the tail-end of 2022 that AI entered the mainstream conversation with generative AI and the popularity of ChatGPT technologies. To help readers gain a greater understanding about this complex area of information technology, the solutions available, and their role in handling real-world challenges, DBTA and Big Data Quarterly present the list of Awesome Companies in AI.
Posted July 10, 2024
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
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
Hydrolix, a streaming data lake company disrupting the economics of big data, is introducing its Powered by Hydrolix Partner Program to create new revenue streams for partners whose customers collect massive amounts of log data. By building products powered by the Hydrolix streaming data lake, partners can offer their customers hot access to four times more data at one fourth the cost, according to the company.
Posted July 01, 2024
ZincFive, a provider of nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery-based solutions for immediate power applications, announced it has surpassed 1 gigawatt (GW) in power delivered and contracted across multiple continents, underscoring the industry's demand for safe, reliable, and sustainable energy solutions. NiZn is rapidly gaining traction over incumbent technologies like lead-acid and lithium-ion due to its compact industry-leading footprint, unmatched safety features, leading sustainability, and unparalleled reliability, according to the vendor.
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
Data migrations can be a big undertaking for almost any organization. That's why it's so important that organizations set themselves up for long-term success. This means being able to ensure they'll enable their desired outcomes—such as compliance, data accuracy, and performance—for the long haul.
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
Gigamon, a leading deep observability company, is launching a new initiative to help customers gain greater visibility into their hybrid cloud infrastructure to better secure and manage it. The Gigamon Power of 3 Cloud Integration Initiative uniquely brings together Gigamon, a Gigamon channel partner, and a leading networking, security, or observability technology alliance partner to provide customers with access to technology integrations and support that will help deploy and manage solutions more efficiently, according to the company.
Posted June 20, 2024
Siren, the all-in-one investigation company, is releasing the latest version of its software, presenting investigators with a pre-built intelligence graph that hastens the investigation process. Siren 14.2 automatically makes complex connections from large volumes of disparate data, surfacing previously inaccessible intelligence and improving effectiveness, according to the company.
Posted June 19, 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
Tigera, the creator of Project Calico, is introducing Calico Cluster Mesh, delivering on its approach to secure microservices communication. According to the company, Calico Cluster Mesh delivers the benefits of a service mesh without the added complexity and latency of a traditional service mesh solution.
Posted June 19, 2024
DataBee, from Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS), is offering new capabilities in its DataBee Hive security, risk, and compliance data fabric platform—introducing DataBee EntityViews. DataBee EntityViews, powered by a patent-pending entity resolution technology, brings automated detection chaining that improves threat hunting, security detection fidelity, and insider risk monitoring, according to the company.
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
Cirata, the company that automates Hadoop data transfer and integration to modern cloud analytics and AI platforms, is now offering support for IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), a cluster file system used as storage for IBM Spectrum Scale data lakes. The new Live GPFS support, which is included in the recent release of Cirata Data Migrator 2.5, dramatically reduces latency between storage changes and replication or migration outcomes while also enhancing the performance and scale of GPFS-resident data assets migrating to the cloud, according to the company.
Posted June 17, 2024
Keebo is introducing Workload Intelligence, Powered by Snowflake on the Snowflake Marketplace, enabling joint customers to gain full visibility into their costs, identify their performance bottlenecks, identify their inefficient queries, and advise their data teams to take advantage of optimization opportunities.
Posted June 13, 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
Data modeling has always had a push-me/pull-you relationship in the IT world. The idea of complete logical and physical data models, insightful definitions, coherent data flow diagrams, and other related informational caches is always desirable. However, far too often, the expectation is that these activities take virtually no time to create. When the expenditure of resources goes beyond a certain level, the activities are jettisoned or otherwise given the short shrift. Actually, getting code in place is viewed as the only evidence of true progress.
Posted June 13, 2024
The world of open source has moved from being a niche interest that was the province of academics and self-described geeks to the mainstream. From being the purview of free software interest groups, open source is now ubiquitous. According to OpenUK, open source is used by 78% of private enterprises, and open source components and code are present in roughly 97% of all applications, proprietary or otherwise.
Posted June 13, 2024