Internet of Things Articles
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 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
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
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
Absolute Software, a provider of self-healing, intelligent security solutions, is releasing Absolute Application Health, empowering digital enterprises to strengthen cyber resilience and boost end user productivity with resilient application health monitoring capabilities.
Posted November 02, 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
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
Acorn Labs is launching the public beta availability of its cloud developer platform Acorn, a service that makes it simple for anyone to run software in their own cloud sandbox and easily share their creations. From the creators of Rancher and k3s, Acorn aims to make cloud computing accessible, collaborative, and delightful for developers, according to the company.
Posted October 26, 2023
According to Gartner, global spending on the public cloud is expected to increase by approximately 20.7% to reach $591.8 billion (about $1,800 per person in the U.S.) in 2023. The advantages of migrating to the cloud are widely recognized. By adopting cloud-first models, businesses can move away from traditional, fixed-cost methods of managing IT infrastructure. Cloud migration allows for controllable, agile, and secure operations that can easily scale as needed while optimizing costs.
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
Zumasys is introducing Rover Pay, a unified payment processing service specifically designed with the needs of wholesale distributors in mind. Rover Pay leverages credit card processing technology to link each transaction to your payment processing network. This innovative solution not only saves money on monthly bills but streamlines the entire process, according to Zumasys.
Posted October 25, 2023
Rocket Software is on a mission to demonstrate that MultiValue products power the applications that support us all. A new Rocket Software infographic tells the story of a family's weekend "to do" list and how they interact with MV-based applications as they check off items on their list.
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
If you wait long enough, everything comes back into style. This timeless principle not only applies to fashion, but also to software development. The technology preferences in the industry have been swinging between bespoke solutions and platform-based solutions due to emerging technologies and their challenges. As someone who has been in the industry since the 1990s, I've witnessed these shifts firsthand.
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
United Medical, LLC, a multi-specialty ambulatory network with more than 225 full-service healthcare providers, has expanded its 20-year relationship with Oracle Health by another seven years. United Medical plans to deploy Oracle Health electronic health record (EHR) at additional outpatient surgery centers and accountable care organizations within its network, providing a more intuitive platform to streamline workflows and processes for health practitioners.
Posted October 18, 2023
Oracle announced it has acquired Next Technik, a leading provider of field service management solutions for NetSuite customers which is now part of the Oracle NetSuite organization. This acquisition provides field service management capabilities for NetSuite customers, which enables businesses to digitize and streamline scheduling and dispatch.
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
GridGain, provider of a leading unified real-time data platform, is offering GridGain Platform v8.9, strengthening its data integration and data hub capabilities. This latest version helps enterprises make their increasingly disparate, diverse, and distributed data more accessible for real-time processing and analytics, all at ultra-low latencies, according to the company.
Posted October 17, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Powering Modern Applications: Data Management for Speed, Scale, and Flexibility, to discuss key solutions and emerging best practices that properly underpin successful applications that are fast, agile, and easy to use.
Posted October 13, 2023
TDengine, the next-generation data historian, is unveiling several new connectors designed to support OPC-UA, OPC-DA, and MQTT protocols, ultimately forwarding zero-code, streamlined ingestion of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data into the TDengine platform.
Posted October 12, 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
Many people seem to become filled with anxiety over the word "normalization." Mentioning the word causes folks to slowly back away toward the exits. Why? What might have caused this data modeling phobia? Do people have images flashing through their minds of data modelers running around wearing a hockey mask and carrying a chainsaw screaming, "Give me your primary keys"? I hope not.
Posted October 12, 2023
Solace, a provider of event-driven architecture for real-time enterprises, is releasing a new version of its Solace Event Portal solution, giving organizations with Apache Kafka deployments better visibility into, and control over, their Kafka event streams, brokers, and associated assets.
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
Tricentis, the continuous testing and quality engineering company, is advancing its mission to make Tricentis Mobile the most comprehensive, end-to-end mobile testing solution on the market with the integration of Virtual Mobile Grid.
Posted October 09, 2023
New AI toolkits, machine learning (ML) frameworks, and AI-based private cloud tools are coming to IBM Z-series mainframe users, as the company looks to preserve its share of the fast-growing AI marketplace. The company announced that its newest offerings, meant to help organizations get to work on the latest and greatest in AI frameworks, will be available for IBM Z, LinuxOne, z/OS, and Cloud Pak architectures.
Posted October 09, 2023
Vantage Data Centers has raised $1.35 billion in securitized notes, enabling the company to refinance the existing loans in place for three of Vantage's data centers in Northern Virginia and five data centers in Quebec, Canada. The remaining funds will be used for "general corporate needs."
Posted October 09, 2023
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), the Center for Digital Government (CDG), and IBM released a report entitled, "Preparing for Future Shocks in State Government," aiming to help frame what future disruptions may look like for state chief information officers (CIOs) and how they can effectively tackle them.
Posted October 09, 2023
IonQ, a leader in the quantum computing industry, is debuting two rack-mounted solutions that introduce quantum capabilities to existing infrastructures: IonQ Forte Enterprise and IonQ Tempo.
Posted October 09, 2023
Docker is partnering with Neo4j, LangChain, and Ollama to create a new GenAI Stack designed to help developers get a running start with generative AI applications. Eliminating the need to search for and cobble together and configure technologies from different sources, the GenAI Stack is pre-configured, ready-to-code, and secure with large language models (LLMs) from Ollama, vector and graph databases from Neo4j, and the LangChain framework. Docker also announced its first AI-powered product, Docker AI.
Posted October 06, 2023
Akeneo, the Product Experience (PX) Company and provider of product information management (PIM) solutions, is acquiring Unifai, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for data collection, cleansing, categorization, and enrichment pioneered by leading experts in AI and machine learning (ML).
Posted October 04, 2023
SnapLogic, a leader in generative integration, announced it is collaborating Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expand the capabilities of SnapGPT, SnapLogic's generative integration interface. As part of this collaboration, SnapLogic will make Anthropic's cutting-edge Large Language Model (LLM), Claude 2, offered by Amazon Bedrock, available within the SnapGPT platform that was made generally available earlier this year. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides access to industry-leading foundation models via an API to build and scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Posted October 04, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is offering a solution for securing private data for use in generative AI (GenAI) projects that integrates seamlessly with existing data pipelines. With Baffle Data Protection for AI, companies can accelerate GenAI projects knowing their regulated data is cryptographically secure and remain compliant, while minimizing risk and gaining the benefits of a breakthrough technology, according to the company.
Posted October 03, 2023
Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, is unveiling the LLM Mesh, addressing the need for an effective, scalable, and secure platform for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) in the enterprise. In addition, Dataiku is partnering with Snowflake, Pinecone, and AI21 Labs on LLM Mesh and its features represent several of the key components of the LLM Mesh: containerized data and compute capabilities, vector databases, and LLM builders.
Posted October 03, 2023
SAP announced that Amadeus has successfully transitioned its main SAP software infrastructure to the cloud through the RISE with SAP solution, marking a significant milestone for one of the world's leading technology companies for the travel and tourism industry in its digital transformation journey. Leveraging RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, Amadeus transitioned its internal processes to the cloud with Microsoft Azure to improve operational resilience and evolve its operations to a cloud operations-based model.
Posted September 27, 2023
SAP and LeanIX GmbH anndounced that SAP has entered into an agreement to acquire LeanIX, a leader in enterprise architecture management (EAM) software, helping SAP expand its business transformation portfolio and giving customers access to the full suite of tools required for continuous business transformation and facilitating AI-enabled process optimization.
Posted September 27, 2023
Zumasys is examining ways to integrate AI into its Rover product suite, according to the latest blog post by Mike Wright, director of technology at Zumasys. AI will be making its mark in Rover ERP through the Rover Web Suite of Products and the Rover Business Suite. The heart of this integration is "Rover AI," a chatbot assistant. Once it's part of the system, users who have the required access can avail of this assistant directly within the Rover interface.
Posted September 27, 2023
Venafi, the inventor of machine identity management, is introducing Venafi Athena, the new underpinning AI technology for the Venafi Control Plane—made possible only by Venafi's modern software-as-a-service architecture built on decades of in-depth expertise and innovation. Venafi Athena combines the powers of machine learning, large language models, and Venafi's industry-leading data capabilities to make machine identity management easier and faster for security and platform teams, according to the company.
Posted September 25, 2023
GLP Pte Ltd. (GLP), a leading global business builder, developer, owner and operator of logistics real estate, data centers, and renewable energy, is launching Ada Infrastructure, a new global data center business founded on a commitment to being a positive force for technology, people, and the planet. Serving the digital infrastructure needs of hyperscale companies and large global enterprises, Ada Infrastructure launches with 850 megawatts (MW) of secured IT capacity across Japan, the U.K., and Brazil, and nearly 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of total future capacity.
Posted September 25, 2023
TruEra is releasing TruEra AI Observability, a full-lifecycle AI observability solution providing monitoring, debugging, and testing for ML models in a single SaaS offering along with covering both generative and traditional (discriminative) ML models. According to the company, the solution is aimed to meet customer needs for observability across their full portfolio of AI applications, as interest in developing and monitoring LLM-based apps accelerates.
Posted September 21, 2023
The boom in generative AI interest serves as a visible tipping point in the yearslong journey of the enterprise embracing the power of data interaction through natural language processing (NLP). In recent years, NLP has undergone significant changes that have made it increasingly easier for users at all skill levels to handle and explore data without being a data scientist.
Posted September 20, 2023