Internet of Things Articles
Earlier in 2023, we discussed The Importance of Metadata here in the DBA Corner column. And, indeed, metadata is more important than ever before because it helps us to understand our data. Data without metadata lacks meaning, making it difficult to be used. Metadata gives data its form and makes it usable by your organization.
Posted January 17, 2024
Qlik is unveiling a completely new brand and website, transforming beyond aesthetics to symbolize the company's evolution at the forefront of data integration, analytics, and AI. According to the company, its new identity encapsulates innovation, clarity, and agility.
Posted January 16, 2024
Commvault is introducing its latest platform enhancements, offering "true cloud cyber resilience" to protect sensitive data. Commvault Cloud offers a multi-layered approach to enabling cyber resilience, safeguarding businesses from a wide spectrum of threats, including ransomware, malware, and natural disasters. According to the company, with Commvault Cloud, businesses can rest assured that their data is safe, secure, and recoverable, empowering them to navigate the digital landscape with confidence.
Posted January 15, 2024
Mila is adding PASQAL, a global leader in neutral atom quantum computing, to its partner community, the first exploratory step toward enhancing generative modeling with quantum computing benchmarking and coupling with tensor networks. Adding to Mila's community of nearly a dozen partners in the quantum space, this collaboration also aims to gather a community of researchers and companies at Mila around the topic of quantum machine learning. This is expected to be the start of future collaborative developments on the enhancement of AI by quantum technologies, according to Mila.
Posted January 12, 2024
In the year ahead, data managers and their enterprises will be at a crossroads. Organizations will be leaning more heavily than ever on data—and the teams that manage it—for success with their customers, markets, and operations. The world of data is changing rapidly, and with it, its role in the business, from sitting on databases in the back end to competitive differentiation. Data is driving everything, everywhere.
Posted January 11, 2024
Data managers, administrators, engineers, and analysts know more than anyone what kind of data is available to enterprises seeking to compete in the AI and analytics age. However, their perceptions of data quality are slipping—even though data quality has increased in importance due to the rise of analytics, AI, IoT, data monetization, and other next-generation initiatives.
Posted January 11, 2024
iboss, the cloud security company that redefines network protection, is unveiling its latest capability: the Government Protective DNS Module. In a digital environment where threats continually evolve, and DNS vulnerabilities are routinely exploited, iboss' latest offering ensures that government digital assets are fortified with the gold standard of protective measures, according to the company.
Posted January 10, 2024
AI caught everyone's attention in 2023 but with more eyes on data and analytics than ever before, it's become clear that it's not the only solution on the market that can assist companies in gaining value from their data. Here, data professionals share their data and analytics predictions for 2024.
Posted January 10, 2024
Radix IoT, LLC is releasing enhanced MQTT support in Mango 5.1, fortifying the company's market leadership as the IoT platform of choice for advanced scalability and monitoring of globally diverse facilities. Building on MQTT's wide adoption as an open-source protocol for data exchange and communication between IoT devices, Mango 5.1 reduces bandwidth usage to enhance the IoT system's resilience, performance, and reliability with unprecedented scalability options, according to the company.
Posted January 09, 2024
Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and supplier of Common Lisp (CL) development tools and knowledge graph solutions, is introducing Allegro CL v11, including key performance enhancements now available to solve complex problems in the field of AI.
Posted January 08, 2024
IBM is partnering with American Tower, a global digital infrastructure provider, to accelerate the deployment of a hybrid, multi-cloud computing platform at the edge. Through this collaboration, American Tower plans to expand its neutral-host, Access Edge Data Center ecosystem to include IBM Hybrid Cloud capabilities and Red Hat OpenShift.
Posted January 08, 2024
IBM announced that the South Fulton Police Department (SFPD) in South Fulton, GA has engaged IBM to help its officers rapidly access relevant data in the course of their day-to-day work. SFPD will use IBM's watsonx.data capabilities to accelerate the creation of reports and combine disparate data sources to assist officers in searching and discovering relevant information related to a given case.
Posted January 08, 2024
Armada, an edge computing pioneer redefining the future of connectivity, compute, and AI, has recently exited from stealth backed by over $55 million in funding. This funding will aid Armada in achieving its company mission: bridging the global digital divide while empowering enterprises to use all of their data, wherever it's generated, with the most advanced AI technology available today.
Posted January 08, 2024
Actility, a French low-power industrial IoT connectivity company, is announcing the results of a recent funding round, having raised €16 million (approximately $17.5 million USD). Driven by the technological potential of massive IoT deployment, this funding will serve Actility's growth efforts in making IoT a ubiquitous—as well as an efficient and sustainable—force in the digital world.
Posted January 04, 2024
Intel Corp. and DigitalBridge Group, Inc., a global investment firm, are creating an independent company offering enterprise customers a full-stack, vertically-optimized and secure generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software platform. The company, Articul8 AI, Inc. (Articul8), delivers AI capabilities that keep customer data, training, and inference within the enterprise security perimeter. The platform also provides customers the choice of cloud, on-prem, or hybrid deployment, according to Intel and DigitalBridge.
Posted January 03, 2024
Oracle announced that Oracle Health is the latest addition to the RegeneratOR's Innovation Accelerator, located in the Regenerative Medicine Hub (RegenMed Hub), a rapidly growing regenerative medicine ecosystem based in the Innovation Quarter of Winston-Salem. Oracle Health is committed to fostering a human-centric, global healthcare ecosystem by unifying data across an open, secure, cloud-based platform supported by applied AI-enabled clinical, payer, and enterprise applications.
Posted January 03, 2024
AI continues to be a hot topic as we enter 2024, with company's reevaluating the technology's impact and preparing to adapt to the fast-changing landscape. Here, experts share their thoughts on the future of AI for 2024.
Posted January 02, 2024
2023 was a year marked by innovation and change in the enterprise technology landscape. Companies of all sizes continue to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning-powered solutions, including observability tools, to keep up with today's increasingly complex network environments.
Posted December 21, 2023
VirtualZ Computing, which provides an out-of-the-box solution to connect mainframes to hybrid cloud for bi-directional data access, announced it raised $2.2 million in seed financing to build out its team and support enterprise innovation with mainframe data.
Posted December 21, 2023
Oracle is opening a second Oracle Cloud Region in Chile, making it the first hyperscaler to have two regions in the country. With the new Oracle Cloud Valparaíso Region and the existing region in Santiago, Oracle will help organizations across all industries in Chile strengthen business continuity while addressing data residency and sovereignty requirements.
Posted December 20, 2023
In 2023, AI dominated the news cycle while companies raced to implement their own versions of ChatGPT or offer AI-embedded solutions. Oracle boosted its cloud infrastructure along with recognizing the new interest in AI, offering its own generative AI service in OCI. Here, Oracle offers its predictions for 2024.
Posted December 20, 2023
Oracle announced that its first Oracle Database@Azure service is now generally available in the Microsoft Azure East U.S. region. Oracle will operate and manage Oracle Exadata Database Service, the first of several planned Oracle database services to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Azure data centers.
Posted December 20, 2023
HCLTech, a leading technology company, announced that its digital manufacturing solution for the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry, Base90, has been recognized as an SAP-qualified partner-packaged solution. HCLTech Base90 for A&D production engineering and operations (PEO) leverages SAP software and innovations and helps to accelerate the implementation of SAP S/4HANA, SAP's leading ERP solution that allows companies to perform transactions and analyze business data.
Posted December 20, 2023
SAP.iO announced it has surpassed the 125-mark for AI-powered startup partner solutions in the SAP partner ecosystem. These solutions are fully integrated with SAP and available via SAP Store for immediate adoption by SAP customers. The encompassing solutions range across lines of business and industries, including finance, HR, supply chain, and customer experience.
Posted December 20, 2023
SAP announced it has expanded its integration with financial services company, PayPal, through the creation of a digital payments plug-in for the PayPal Braintree platform built on SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). According to the company, SAP BTP brings together data and analytics, artificial intelligence, application development, automation, and integration into one unified environment.
Posted December 20, 2023
When one hears the term "degenerate dimension," thoughts of teenagers, leather jackets, motorcycles, and petty crime may come to mind. After all, the word "degenerate" is associated with something that is "below normal" or "corrupt." Science tries to rehabilitate degenerate's meaning by using it for a manner of simplification.
Posted December 20, 2023
SingleStore, the company behind a database that empowers users to transact, analyze and contextualize data in real time, announced that SingleStoreDB will available as a Snowflake Native App in the Snowflake Data Cloud, enabling organizations to vectorize and perform hybrid searches as part of generative AI applications without having to move or copy data outside of the Snowflake governance boundary.
Posted December 19, 2023
Data, the potent fuel powering the AI-driven enterprise, is always on the move, as are the tools, technologies, and techniques being employed to manage and deliver it. With the intense emphasis on AI and machine learning these days, it's urgent to ensure that data is available, timely, accurate, and relevant. That means no letup with efforts to ensure data pipelines are flowing unimpeded. With so much at stake, we canvassed industry leaders and experts on what challenges lie ahead and how to address them. Here are some leading issues:
Posted December 18, 2023
IBM announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Software AG, a company majority owned by Silver Lake, to purchase StreamSets and webMethods, Software AG's Super iPaaS (integration platform-as-a-service) enterprise technology platforms, for €2.13 billion in cash. StreamSets and webMethods are among the technology leaders in application integration, API management, and data integration.
Posted December 18, 2023
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, a leading research institute and innovation partner, is collaborating with Intel, to support the Infrastructure and Cloud research and test Environment (ICE), which is a data center testbed, with Thermal Test Vehicles, chip heat flux emulators.
Posted December 18, 2023
dotData, a provider of platforms for feature discovery, is releasing dotData Insight, an AI-driven insight discovery engine augmented with generative AI that enables enterprises to uncover unique business hypotheses from data for better analytics-driven decisions.
Posted December 15, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, Bringing the Power of AI to IoT: Data Strategies and Enabling Technologies, to offer IT leaders and data teams a variety of technologies and best practices to truly set up enterprise IoT strategies for success.
Posted December 14, 2023
Breaches and cyberattacks are growing more sophisticated each year despite a growing call for the implementation of more stringent security measures. Here, data security leaders share their thoughts on what lies ahead in cybersecurity for 2024.
Posted December 14, 2023
For most of the last few decades, AI has over-promised and under-delivered. However, behind the scenes, very significant advances in deep learning technologies have had a revolutionary impact within important but narrow domains. In 2022 these technologies became generally usable with the release of ChatGPT-3.
Posted December 14, 2023
Finding a needle in a haystack is next to impossible—so much so, it's become shorthand for the frustration of a fruitless search. Now, imagine you've been told there may be a needle in the haystack, or one could appear at any time, even in a place you already searched. You spend the most valuable hours of your day searching for the needles, but in our case the needle is performance or reliability anomalies. Meanwhile, the haystack grows larger by the second, as more and more is added to the overflowing pile.
Posted December 14, 2023
Deci, the deep learning company harnessing AI to build AI, is adding a large language model, DeciLM-7B, to its suite of innovative generative AI models—setting new benchmarks in accuracy and efficiency. Building upon the success of its predecessor DeciLM 6B, DeciLM-7B stands out for its unmatched performance, surpassing open-source language models up to 13 billion parameters in both accuracy and speed with less computational demand, according to the company.
Posted December 13, 2023
ScaleOut Software is releasing an open-source version of its digital twin APIs and development workbench for its ScaleOut Digital Twins hosting platform. Digital twin APIs allow developers to build powerful applications for real-time monitoring and simulating large systems. The workbench enables fast development and testing of digital twin applications before deployment.
Posted December 13, 2023
Although overshadowed by the buzz around generative AI in 2023, work on the next generation of Web3 apps and technologies continues. Here, experts in the field share their predictions for blockchain in 2024.
Posted December 13, 2023
Investment in the cloud shows no signs of stopping despite the recent uptick in organizations rushing to adopt AI and other rising solutions. According to Gartner, business needs and emerging technologies including GenAI will drive cloud model innovation. Here, tech leaders share their predictions for cloud in 2024.
Posted December 08, 2023
Data continues to grow and is poised to double in 2024. To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products. These products, platforms, and services range from long-established offerings that are evolving to meet the needs of their loyal constituents to breakthrough technologies that may only be in the early stages of adoption.
Posted December 06, 2023
Global data center market revenue is expected to reach $342.10 billion by 2023, up from $321.37 billion in 2022, according to Statista. The data center market was valued at $316.30 billion in 2021, up 6% from $298.30 billion in 2020. The continued explosion in AI and ML has not surprisingly placed new strain on data center power and processing resources. Looking ahead to 2024, data center operators are in the midst of an exciting time that presents both challenges and opportunities.
Posted December 04, 2023
BMC, a global leader in software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, is adding generative AI, low-code/no-code development, and contextual tooling to the BMC Helix Service Management solution, helping enterprise customers strengthen their security posture and elevate ways of working.
Posted December 04, 2023
Astronomer, the leader in modern data orchestration, is introducing a new set of Apache Airflow integrations to accelerate LLMOps (large language model operations) and support AI use cases. Modern, data-first organizations are now able to connect to the most widely-used LLM services and vector databases with integrations across the AI ecosystem, including OpenAI, Cohere, pgvector, Pinecone, OpenSearch, and Weaviate.
Posted November 30, 2023
Data quality is becoming a hot button issue as more and more businesses aggressively move into artificial intelligence (AI)—both generative and operational—which requires massive amounts of accurate and timely data. The rise of large language models (LLMs)—both publicly available as well as contained within enterprises—to support business decision making and customer communications means data is being pressed into service in new and highly demanding ways as training data and real-time streaming feeds.
Posted November 30, 2023