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Dremio says it has dramatically improved query performance on Iceberg data lakes

Paul Gillin — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:56:26 +0000

Data lakehouse company Dremio Corp. today announced a set of advanced analytics performance capabilities that it says significantly speed query performance on Apache Iceberg tables while reducing the need for user intervention. The two major new features are Live Reflections and Result Set Caching. Dremio Reflections are a feature of the company’s data lake engine […]

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VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and Tanzu 10 simplify development and deployment in private clouds

Paul Gillin — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Broadcom Inc. today unveiled the latest version of VMware Cloud Foundation, calling it “the future” of the company’s private cloud platform. Broadcom said the new release simplifies private cloud deployment, consumption and operations while delivering public cloud-like scale, security, resilience and performance. The new release being announced at the VMware Explore conference in Las Vegas features […]

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Onehouse’s vector embeddings support aims to cut the cost of AI training

Paul Gillin — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:00:41 +0000

Onehouse Inc., a company that sells a data lakehouse based on Apache Hudi as a managed service, today said it has launched a vector embedding generator to automate embedding pipelines as a part of its cloud service. Vector embeddings are mathematical representations of objects, such as words and images, in a continuous space in which […]

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Wiliot brings generative AI to real-time supply chain analytics

Paul Gillin — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:00:16 +0000

Wiliot Ltd., a company that develops tiny, battery-free internet of things devices that enable data to be captured and transmitted as items traverse supply chains, is adding a generative artificial intelligence front end to its cloud analytics platform to allow customers to formulate sophisticated queries about the status and history of tracked items using natural […]

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Pindrop says it can detect deepfake audio with 99% accuracy

Paul Gillin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:26:09 +0000

Pindrop Security Inc. today announced the launch of its Pindrop Pulse Inspect deepfake detection tool in preview mode, saying it can detect artificial intelligence-generated speech in any digital audio file with 99% accuracy. A deepfake is synthetic media in which a person in an existing image, audio or video recording is replaced with false content. Recent advances in […]

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HPE to acquire Morpheus Data to round out hybrid cloud orchestration capabilities

Paul Gillin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:30:35 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said it will acquire hybrid cloud automation vendor Morpheus Data LLC for an undisclosed amount. HPE said the acquisition’s technology will add multicloud automation and orchestration to its GreenLake hybrid cloud and complement the observability capabilities it picked up with its acquisition of OpsRamp Inc. last year. The Greenwood Village, […]

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Tavus toolkit lets developers create video ‘digital twins’ that converse just like humans

Paul Gillin — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:00:26 +0000

Tavus Inc., a startup developing digital twin technology for human speakers, today announced a set of building blocks that developers can use to create interactive visual experiences with digital twins that speak, see and respond like humans. The technology (example pictured) delivers the nuances of a realistic face-to-face interaction with an AI agent with a […]

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Cybersecurity tool sprawl is out of control – and it’s only going to get worse

Paul Gillin — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 22:42:39 +0000

Any chief information officer who assembled a portfolio of 130 discrete products to address a single problem would probably be accused of mismanagement. But when the problem is cybersecurity, they’re more likely to be seen as prudent. That’s the number of products the average enterprise has assembled to protect its infrastructure, applications and data, according […]

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Kyndryl raises earnings forecast on strong consulting growth

Paul Gillin — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 23:28:07 +0000

Depending on whom you believe, Kyndryl Holdings Inc. defied the recent down-earnings trend by beating Wall Street estimates or it undershot expectations on critical metrics. The information technology infrastructure services and consulting firm reported revenues of $3.74 billion in its first fiscal quarter, a decline of 8% in constant currency from the same quarter last year. […]

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Strong Microsoft results dampened by slight miss on cloud sales

Paul Gillin — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:45:26 +0000

Microsoft Corp. shares fell 3% in after-hours trading as cloud computing revenue slightly undershot analysts’ estimates. Consistent with Alphabet Inc.’s announcement last week that it was sharply increasing its investments in cloud infrastructure to support artificial intelligence, Microsoft said it spent $13.9 billion to build out data centers and computing infrastructure for AI processing, up […]

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Nvidia expands microservices library and support for 3D and robotic model creation

Paul Gillin — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 20:30:11 +0000

Nvidia Corp. announced today at the Siggraph conference in Denver that it’s significantly expanding its library of Nvidia Inference Microservices to encompass physical environments, advanced visual modeling and a wide variety of vertical applications. Among the highlights are the availability of Hugging Face Inc.’s inference-as-a-service on the Nvidia cloud and expanded support for three-dimensional training […]

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A close look at JPMorgan’s aggressive cloud migration

Paul Gillin — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 20:05:54 +0000

With more than 300,000 employees and operations in more than 100 countries, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a vast and complex organization. But that hasn’t stopped the world’s largest bank from implementing an ambitious strategy to move most of its operations to the cloud. JPMorgan Chase isn’t inclined to shy away from big technology investments. […]

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Alphabet beats the Street but slowing ad growth drags on stock price

Paul Gillin — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:34:24 +0000

Google LLC reported a slowdown in advertising sales growth in the second quarter, triggering an after-hours selloff of its shares of about 1.5%. Parent Alphabet Inc. said Google generated $64.6 billion in ad sales in the quarter, up 11.1% from $58.14 billion in the same period last year. That was slightly ahead of analysts’ expectations […]

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SAP posts solid results and raises profit target for 2025

Paul Gillin — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:52:49 +0000

SAP SE posted second-quarter revenue and operating profit that beat analyst expectations and raised 2025 operating profit projections, sending the enterprise software maker’s stock up more than 4% after hours. Revenue rose to $9.02 billion from $8.22 billion in last year’s second quarter and beat analysts’ consensus forecast of $8.98 billion. Cloud and software revenue […]

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Gartner revises server spending forecast sharply upward as generative AI effect kicks in

Paul Gillin — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 19:26:11 +0000

Gartner Inc.’s latest worldwide information technology spending forecast predicts a 24.1% jump in spending on data center systems, more than double the 10% growth expected just three months ago and six times the actual growth of 4% last year — thanks to generative artificial intelligence. That’s according to John-David Lovelock (pictured), a distinguished vice president […]

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Red Hat enhances OpenShift with better support for diverse workloads

Paul Gillin — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:00:28 +0000

Red Hat Inc. today introduced enhanced and new features for its OpenShift version of the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers, with a particular focus on handling diverse workloads. Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 is intended to provide consistent management of disparate workloads ranging from transaction-intensive uses to artificial intelligence model training and inferencing. The new version […]

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C3 debuts generative AI platform for government agencies

Paul Gillin — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:41:41 +0000

C3 AI Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence models customized to different industries and use cases, today announced C3 Generative AI for Government Programs, a generative AI application aimed at helping federal, state and local governments deliver information about government programs via a chat interface. The company cited overburdened and underfunded government call centers that can create […]

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Oracle offers shared Exadata-as-a-service at dramatically lower cost than for full instances

Paul Gillin — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:00:21 +0000

In a bid to attract more small business and department-level customers to its high-end Exadata Cloud service, Oracle Corp. today launched what it calls an “intelligent data architecture” that delivers high-speed query performance across multiple cloud instances at a cost significantly lower than that of its flagship Exadata service. Exadata Cloud is a high-powered database […]

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Where does eBay do most of its AI development? You might be surprised

Paul Gillin — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:50:46 +0000

For a company doing business in the cloud before the concept of cloud computing existed, eBay Inc. has taken a decidedly non-cloud-centric approach to artificial intelligence training and deployment. Though the company bursts out to use public cloud resources during seasonal peaks, the bulk of its AI work happens in its own data centers. That […]

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Alluxio says it can achieve 97% GPU utilization across a distributed filesystem

Paul Gillin — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:00:18 +0000

Alluxio Inc., which sells a high-performance open-source distributed filesystem, announced a set of enhancements that optimize the use of costly graphic processing units along with performance improvements that make its storage performance competitive with storage subsystems optimized for high-performance computing. Alluxio Enterprise AI Version 3.2 also adds a Python interface and improved cache management features. […]

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Betamax blues: Hudi edging toward ‘also ran’ status in the data platform race

Paul Gillin — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:27:14 +0000

In announcing its Polaris Catalog last month, Snowflake Inc. Executive Vice President Christian Kleinerman said the product “extends Snowflake’s commitment to Apache Iceberg as the open standard of choice.” Statements like that raise the hackles of Apache Hudi adherents. They maintain their preferred open table format — whose name stands for Hadoop Upserts, Deletes and […]

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Managed PostgreSQL service provider Tembo raises $14M

Paul Gillin — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 18:48:28 +0000

Tembo Data Systems Inc., operator of a PostgreSQL managed service, today said it closed a $14 million Series A funding round that brings its total financing to $20.5 million. The company says it’s developer-focused, meaning it wants to simplify the task of installing and managing PostgreSQL as well as the more than 200 extensions in […]

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Innatera books $21M in funding for its ultra-low-power AI chips

Paul Gillin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:00:47 +0000

Netherlands-based microprocessor maker Innatera Nanosystems B.V. said it closed an oversubscribed $21 million Series A funding round, which included a $16 million investment the company announced in March and an additional $5 million from new investors. The company’s Spiking Neural Processor T1, unveiled in January, is an energy-efficient artificial intelligence chip for sensor-edge applications. It […]

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SingleStore adds Iceberg support and speedier vector search

Paul Gillin — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:00:53 +0000

SingleStore Inc., developer of a real-time database platform that performs both transactional and analytical operations in the same engine, today announced native integration with the Apache Iceberg open-source table format and advanced search and scaling capabilities. Apache Iceberg is rapidly emerging as one of the most popular formats for storing diverse datasets. It provides transactional […]

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Open lakehouse provider Onehouse lands $35M funding round

Paul Gillin — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:00:52 +0000

Managed data lakehouse company Onehouse Inc. said today it has raised $35 million in a Series B funding, bringing its total funding to date to $68 million. It also launched two new products to increase lakehouse performance and reduce cloud storage and processing costs. The company sells a data lakehouse as a managed service based […]

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Oracle HeatWave database gets host of generative AI features

Paul Gillin — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:00:47 +0000

Continuing its Swiss Army knife strategy with its managed MySQL database service called Heatwave, Oracle Corp. today is endowing the product with generative artificial intelligence capabilities. They include in-database large language models, automated in-database vector store, scale-out vector processing, the ability to query in natural language, and tools that enable customers to build their own […]

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No-code developer Creatio achieves unicorn status with $200M investment

Paul Gillin — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:00:56 +0000

No-code platform developer Creatio Inc. today said it has raised $200 million in a funding round that values the company at $1.2 billion, bringing the total amount raised by the Boston-based firm to $268 million. Creatio’s platform is principally used to automate workflows in customer relationship management scenarios. Founded in 2015, it employs 700 people […]

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VMware simplifies product portfolio around Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation

Paul Gillin — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:00:56 +0000

Vowing to simplify management of a collection of point products, Broadcom Inc. today announced updates to its VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud platform that integrate networking, storage and management functions more tightly. The company also announced a new release of the vSphere hypervisor aimed at customers that want basic virtualization technology. Cloud Foundation combines computing, networking, […]

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EchoMark says it has the definitive answer to data exfiltration

Paul Gillin — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:16:58 +0000

EchoMark Inc., a Seattle startup focused on protecting private information, is launching a software-as-a-service offering that uses forensic watermarking to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of internal communications. SecureView protects against information leaks caused by such hard-to-track elements as email attachments, downloads, image captures and untraceable emails, the company says. It allows for the trusted sharing and […]

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Oracle Autonomous Database is now an Azure service

Paul Gillin — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:22:31 +0000

Oracle Corp. is tightening its partnership with Microsoft Corp. with today’s announcement that Oracle’s Autonomous Database is now generally available on the Oracle Database@Azure comingled cloud service. The Oracle Autonomous Database is a fully automated and managed database-as-a-service. Initially available as a private offer in the Azure East U.S. region with deployment to 14 other regions to […]

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