Internet of Things Articles
Airbyte, a leading open data movement platform, announced that its PyAirbyte open-source Python library, that was introduced in late-February, has helped more than 10,000 AI and data engineers to sync over 6 billion records of data. Users have completed more than 221,000 PyAirbyte sync jobs, or over 10,000 syncs per week. PyAirbyte now boasts an average of 25,000 monthly downloads, according to metrics from the popular PyPi Python package repository.
Posted August 27, 2024
We decided this Sourcebook was timely, given how enterprise AI has caught mainstream attention and triggered the imaginations of those working in IT, knowledge management, and a score of other areas within the enterprise. AI is dominating headlines, and people want to know how they can best apply the various technologies under the AI banner.
Posted August 26, 2024
Apheros announced it has received $1.85 million in a recent funding round to introduce its innovative metal foam technology, offering a superior solution to cooling data centers. The pre-seed funding round, led by venture capital firm Founderful, will accelerate development and deployment of Apheros' revolutionary metal foam-based cooling solutions.
Posted August 26, 2024
IBM announced that two IBM-developed algorithms have been officially formalized within the world's first three post-quantum cryptography standards, which were published by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The official publication of these algorithms marks a crucial milestone to advancing the protection of the world's encrypted data from cyberattacks that could be attempted through the unique power of quantum computers, which are rapidly progressing to cryptographic relevancy.
Posted August 26, 2024
IBM is releasing Qiskit SDK v1.2, introducing several important new features and improvements, all aimed at boosting the Qiskit SDK's industry-leading performance and functionality. Since transitioning to the v1.x era with the release of its first major version earlier this year, IBM has been laser-focused on making the Qiskit SDK the most powerful, high-performant quantum SDK in the world.
Posted August 26, 2024
In many organizations, microservices have become the default method of application building and deployment, leveraging containers and Kubernetes. The resulting architecture has been a flexible network of services that provide resiliency by operating independently, unaffected by potential failures in other parts of the system. Recently, however, some technology leaders have been questioning if this is the best way to build.
Posted August 26, 2024
To help organizations increase the efficiency of global supply chains, Oracle is introducing new user experience (UX) enhancements to Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM). Built with Oracle Redwood Design System, the UX updates help procurement professionals, logistics managers, field service technicians, and product managers increase productivity and accelerate supply chain processes, according to the company.
Posted August 21, 2024
In a crucial next step toward bringing real-time communications to its suite of cloud applications, Oracle announced that it is incorporating AT&T IoT connectivity and network APIs into its Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP). This integration will enable Oracle's industry cloud application customers to connect and manage their IoT devices on the AT&T network all in one platform, according to the vendors.
Posted August 21, 2024
Decube, a pioneer in unified data management solutions, is launching its Copilot, an advanced AI-driven tool designed to give organizations seamless, data-driven decision-making capabilities. Decube's Copilot is poised to transform how businesses interact with and leverage their data, making it more accessible, actionable, and insightful, according to the company.
Posted August 19, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is releasing the general availability of Qlik Answers, its newest self-service AI solution designed to help organizations harness the power of AI. According to the company, Qlik Answers transforms unstructured data into actionable results through generative AI, offering full explainability—a common obstacle in enterprise AI adoption.
Posted August 15, 2024
Securonix, Inc., a cybersecurity leader in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), is launching two new capabilities within the Securonix EON suite of AI-Reinforced capabilities—introducing Cyber Data Fabric and Noise Canceling SIEM. These innovations bolster the Unified Defense SIEM solution empowering CyberOps teams to better respond to and counter the rise in sophisticated cyberattacks, according to the company.
Posted August 15, 2024
KDNuggets, a community site for data professionals, ranked "We Don't Need Data Scientists, We Need Data Engineers," by Mihail Eric, a venture capitalist, researcher, and educator, as its top story of 2021. This sentiment holds even more true today, especially with the unending rush to leverage both generative and predictive AI within enterprise operations. Without the right kind of data, AI is dead in the water.
Posted August 15, 2024
In an era marked by rapid urbanization and technological advancement, the concept of smart cities has captured the imagination of urban planners, technologists, and policymakers worldwide for over a decade. As cities grapple with the challenges of accommodating growing populations, managing resources efficiently, and improving quality of life, a new paradigm is emerging that promises to revolutionize urban living: the cognitive city. At the heart of this transformation lies the game-changing potential of generative AI, poised to unlock the true potential of smart cities and usher in a new age of urban intelligence.
Posted August 15, 2024
Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions, is releasing its new Scenario Simulation and Intelligence suite—enabling companies to simulate thousands of possible scenarios against their resilience plans and strategies to identify points of weakness at scale.
Posted August 14, 2024
Ridge Security Technology Inc. is releasing RidgeBot version 4.3.3, introducing a powerful integration that enhances proactive exposure management for organizations—combining RidgeBot's automated vulnerability detection and validation capabilities with leading vulnerability management (VM) solutions.
Posted August 14, 2024
With the recent AI boom, data is being created and generated at unprecedented rates. Per the latest estimates, 402.74 million terabytes of data are created each day. This increase calls for a paradigm shift in company efficiency—quickly enabling enterprises to uncover quality insights and effective organization of this data. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers!
Posted August 13, 2024
Analysis by global real estate consulting firm JLL predicts edge IT infrastructure and data centers will become a $317 billion market globally by 2026, representing a 107% growth from the 2020 market valued at $153 billion. Globally, the growth of edge computing will be influenced by not only the emergence of several technology-based megatrends but also the need for faster data transfer and high computation, as well as factors such as policies and regulations.
Posted August 12, 2024
Lumen Technologies announced an agreement with Corning Incorporated for a substantial supply of next-generation optical cable, more than doubling Lumen's U.S. intercity fiber miles to provide significant capacity to major cloud data centers racing to stay ahead of AI workloads and high bandwidth applications fueled by massive amounts of data.
Posted August 12, 2024
Advanced Info Service (AIS), one of Thailand's largest mobile network operators, announced plans to deploy Oracle Alloy and launch AIS Cloud, the country's first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud. Oracle Alloy will provide AIS' customers and all enterprises in Thailand, including the public sector, access to more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including the latest artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Posted August 12, 2024
There is a confluence of activity—including generative AI models, digital twins, and shared ledger capabilities—that are having a profound impact on helping enterprises meet their goal of becoming data driven. Capturing data, converting it into the right insights, and integrating those insights quickly and efficiently into business decisions and processes is generating a significant competitive advantage for those who do it right.
Posted August 08, 2024
With today's data-driven practices and AI demands, there has never been more pressure on data managers and professionals to deliver real-time, high-quality information when and where it is needed. Many organizations are struggling to achieve such a level of "data management maturity," in which data is provided on an agile, automated basis.
Posted August 08, 2024
Despite the overwhelming promise of AI, its rapid proliferation has been accompanied by some unwanted side effects, including a dramatic uptick in cyberattacks— particularly social engineering attacks like phishing, which have grown 1,265% since late 2022. As a result, organizations across industries are faced with an ever-evolving challenge: balancing the positive use cases associated with AI, such as automated monitoring and streamlined workflows, with its very real risks.
Posted August 08, 2024
Everyone likes a diagram. Diagrams often help make an issue clear—except when they don't. There are plenty of diagrams that really do not convey information to the viewer, and that is a sad state for any diagram to find itself in. Maybe, just maybe, not everyone has the proper temperament to create a useful diagram? Before composing a diagram, the diagram-builder needs to be clear about what viewers of the created diagram should gain from viewing it.
Posted August 08, 2024
In Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, various alien races were able to communicate with each other thanks to the Babel Fish, which, when placed in one's ear, decoded brainwave emanations from one species to provide instantaneous translation to the other. In Star Trek, a "universal translator" allowed instantaneous translation between any alien species and humans. Until recently, these universal translators have existed only in the domain of science fiction.
Posted August 08, 2024
Picture this: there's a new face in the IT department, ready to step in to help tackle the increasingly complex challenges caused by modern hybrid on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Overstretched technology teams always appreciate an extra set of helping hands, but what happens when this new team member isn't human—but artificial intelligence (AI)?
Posted August 08, 2024
Scamnetic, a company dedicated to protecting individuals and businesses from digital threats using advanced AI, is debuting its AI-based scam-detection solution—helping consumers detect every type of scam including deepfake video and audio across any channel in real time, removing human error from the process.
Posted August 07, 2024
Ampere and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are releasing second-generation Ampere-based compute instances, OCI Ampere A2 Compute, based on the AmpereOne family of processors. The new offering builds upon the success of OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances, which have been adopted by OCI customers and deployed across over 100 OCI services, including Oracle Database services like HeatWave, MySQL, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to meet the increased demands for generative AI, large language models (LLMs), advanced graphics, and digital twins to hasten operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) announced the release of NVIDIA L40S GPU bare-metal instances, available to order and the upcoming availability of a new virtual machine accelerated by a single NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU.
Posted August 07, 2024
AvePoint, a global leader in data management and data governance, is releasing AvePoint Cloud Backup Express, designed to use Microsoft 365 Backup Storage for rapid and more efficient data protection.
Posted August 06, 2024
Data experts joined DBTA's webinar, The Role of Data in Driving Growth, to examine how the speakers' respective companies have driven enterprise growth through the successful taming of their data estates.
Posted August 02, 2024
Weaviate, an AI-native vector database company, is releasing a developer "workbench" of tools and apps along with flexible tiered storage to help organizations put AI into production. Inspired by Weaviate's vibrant open source community, Weaviate's new developer offerings accelerate AI application development and provide end-to-end solutions for some of the most common AI use cases, helping organizations make the leap from AI prototypes to production, according to the company.
Posted July 31, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is releasing the general availability of the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services. Including NVIDIA DGX BasePOD certification, the first Hitachi iQ infrastructure offering meets the highest standards of performance and reliability and helps customers seamlessly power their most critical AI applications. Featuring the Hitachi Content Software for File solution, Hitachi iQ provides customers the speed, efficiency, and processing to accelerate and optimize their time to insights so that they can drive transformative outcomes for their business, according to the company.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM announced it is a new partner of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, as approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a major national and international research center, SQMS is dedicated to advancing critical quantum technologies, with a focus on superconducting quantum systems.
Posted July 29, 2024
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