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Iceberg project leader is bullish on prospects for unified tables and catalogs

Paul Gillin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:36:00 +0000

Some people hailed Amazon Web Service Inc.’s December announcement that S3 tables will fully support Apache Iceberg as a crowning triumph for the open-source table format. But Russell Spitzer, a principal software engineer at Snowflake Inc. and an Iceberg Project Management Committee member, noted that the announcement was less than a full-throated endorsement. “I personally […]

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Galileo unleashes platform for evaluating AI agents

Paul Gillin — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:45:40 +0000

Galileo Technologies Inc., which makes tools for observing and evaluation artificial intelligence models, today unveiled Agentic Evaluations, a platform aimed at evaluating the performance of AI agents powered by large language models. The company said it’s addressing the additional complexity created by agents, which are software robots imbued with decision-making capabilities that enable them to […]

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Gartner sees 10% IT spending jump in 2025, but don’t get too excited

Paul Gillin — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:30:06 +0000

Gartner Inc. expects worldwide information technology spending to grow 9.8% to $5.61 trillion in 2025, well ahead of the 7.7% increase in 2024, but don’t get your party hats out just yet. The research firm says much of the spending bump will cover price increases for existing products and services. “The median amount that CIOs are […]

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Google bids for multimodal AI leadership

Paul Gillin — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:56:52 +0000

With some forecasts calling for the multimodal artificial intelligence market to grow more than 35% annually over the next few years, Google LLC is betting it can grab a pole position. The company’s cloud computing unit recently asserted that multimodal AI, which combines text, images, video, audio and other unstructured data with generative AI processing, […]

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Onehouse says its runtime accelerator can speed data lakehouse operations up to 30-fold

Paul Gillin — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:54:41 +0000

Managed open data lakehouse provider Onehouse Inc. today released a runtime engine that it said can accelerate workloads across the most popular open data lake table formats up to 30-fold. The company said it achieves these results by deeply understanding common data workloads such as ingestion and transformation and implementing specialized optimizations for those workloads. Onehouse […]

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Snowflake claims breakthrough can cut AI inferencing times by more than 50%

Paul Gillin — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:00:36 +0000

Snowflake Inc. today said it’s integrating technology into some of its hosted large language models that it says can significantly reduce the cost and time required for artificial intelligence inferencing, the use of trained models to make predictions or generate outputs based on new input data. The technique, called SwiftKV, is an optimization technique for […]

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Insightsoftware boosts EPM capabilities with JustPerform acquisition

Paul Gillin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:00:44 +0000

Insightsoftware, a provider of software for chief financial officers, today announced its 29th acquisition since its 2018 founding, picking up enterprise performance management firm JustPerform Inc. for an undisclosed price. Insightsoftware, which is the business name of GS Topco GP LLC, said JustPerform adds cloud-native planning, consolidation and reporting to its portfolio. Enterprise performance management […]

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Red Hat releases OpenShift for virtualization and tools for multicloud traffic management

Paul Gillin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:00:32 +0000

IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat today announced the general availability of the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, a version of the OpenShift orchestration platform that’s geared exclusively toward virtualization workloads. The company also announced the general availability of Red Hat Connectivity Link, a hybrid multicloud traffic management, policy enforcement and role-based access control platform for […]

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Nvidia partnerships aim to accelerate use of AI agents in healthcare research

Paul Gillin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:00:05 +0000

Nvidia Corp. today will use the J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference in San Francisco to announce multiple partnerships with healthcare technology firms aimed at apply artificial intelligence to speed up workflows in tasks ranging from drug discovery to genetic engineering. The partnerships are based on Nvidia’s concept of “AI factories,” which are data centers that […]

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WatchGuard seeks to accelerate expansion into MDR market with ActZero acquisition

Paul Gillin — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:00:40 +0000

WatchGuard Technologies Inc., the maker of integrated threat management software, appliances and services, today said it has acquired ActZero Inc., a managed detection and response services provider for an undisclosed amount. WatchGuard said the deal would accelerate its expansion into the MDR market, which began in 2023. Both companies primarily serve managed service providers, which […]

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Oracle touts speedy vector search in new Exadata machine

Paul Gillin — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:00:48 +0000

Oracle Corp. today is rolling out the latest version of its Exadata database-optimized computing platform, claiming 55% better performance on vector searches used in artificial intelligence model training, 2.2 times faster analytics scanning throughput and 25% speedier transaction processing performance than its predecessor. The Exadata X11M succeeds the Exadata X10M, which was introduced 18 months […]

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Dell overhauls brand portfolio and adds NPU-equipped portables and desktops

Paul Gillin — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:45:32 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc. is using the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas today to announce a broad streamlining of its brand portfolio and new personal computers and monitors addressing uses ranging from schoolwork to artificial intelligence development to high-end design. The company also said it’s expanding its relationship with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to […]

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AI agents may lead the next wave of cyberattacks

Paul Gillin — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:09:44 +0000

While artificial intelligence agents are expected to lead the next wave of AI innovation, they’ll also empower cyberattackers with a more potent set of tools to probe for an exploit vulnerabilities in enterprise defenses. That’s according to Reed McGinley-Stempel, chief executive officer of identity platform startup Stytch Inc. OpenAI LLC’s GPT-4 large language model, which debuted early […]

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TransUnion’s AI initiatives pay off in some unexpected ways

Paul Gillin — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:56:50 +0000

Since launching a massive data lake earlier this year to support its analytics, application development and artificial intelligence use cases around the globe, TransUnion LLC has begun to realize the benefits of deploying artificial intelligence models in back-office cases – and they’re not necessarily what you would expect. Self-service AI models for data preparation are helping […]

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Florida rolls out AI-driven emergency warning system

Paul Gillin — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:39:51 +0000

Following the second-costliest hurricane season on record, the Florida Division of Emergency Management is launching a warning system that uses artificial intelligence to deliver detailed information to affected residents at what it says are unprecedented speeds and levels of detail. The Broadcast Emergency Alerts and Communications Operations Network, which news syndicator Futuri Media LLC developed […]

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Sonar acquires open-source security specialist Tidelift

Paul Gillin — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:02:08 +0000

SonarSource SA, which does business as Sonar, said today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tidelift Inc., a provider of services to manage open-source components. Terms weren’t disclosed. Sonar, which sells tools that check software code for bugs, inconsistencies and security flaws, said the deal will help round out its offerings in the […]

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Tray.ai unleashes low-code platform for building AI agents

Paul Gillin — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:00:28 +0000

Tray.ai Inc., the maker of a cloud-based, composable software integration platform, today is embellishing its Merlin Intelligence artificial intelligence development platform with features for building agents. Those autonomous systems can make decisions and take actions to achieve specific goals or tasks without direct human or programmatic oversight. The company is also bundling a set of prepackaged […]

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Red Hat expands AI model support in new release of Linux AI platform

Paul Gillin — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:00:56 +0000

IBM’s Corp.’s Red Hat subsidiary today released to general availability the latest generation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, a version of the company’s core Linux platform optimized for developing, testing and running artificial intelligence large language models. RHEL AI provides a foundation model for building and running LLMs and includes image mode, which allows […]

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Together AI acquires CodeSandbox, adds code interpreter to its AI development platform

Paul Gillin — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:00:32 +0000

Together Computer Inc., which does business as Together AI, today said that it has acquired CodeSandbox B.V, a startup that builds isolated cloud-based code execution environments known as devboxes. Together AI said combining the two companies will enable it to add a code interpreter component to its Together Inference Platform. The goal is to enable developers to run […]

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EnterpriseDB expands AI development features in PostgreSQL

Paul Gillin — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:00:27 +0000

EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source PostgreSQL database management system, today said it enhanced the hybrid features of its EDB Postgres AI platform with unified management and features that speed artificial intelligence development and processing. Citing its own research that found that 56% of enterprises use a hybrid model combining […]

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Acceldata adds AI-assisted reconciliation to its data observability platform

Paul Gillin — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:00:21 +0000

Data observability startup Acceldata Inc. today is adding artificial intelligence-powered data reconciliation capabilities to its platform that automate many manually intensive tasks such as column alignment across diverse datasets, rule creation, and handling nested arrays and complex structures. Acceldata’s platform provides insights into data quality, pipeline performance and infrastructure efficiency to support more reliable and efficient data operations. Functions include […]

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IBM touts fiber optic technology it says can cut AI training times and energy use by 80%

Paul Gillin — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:00:01 +0000

One of the ironies of graphics processing units is that, despite their high cost and limited availability, the chips spend much of their time waiting to receive instructions. A big reason, say IBM Corp. researchers, is that the connections within data centers still rely largely on copper wire instead of speedy fiber optics. “We estimate […]

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Vaultree open-sources its technology for computation on encrypted data

Paul Gillin — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:36:02 +0000

Data encryption startup Vaultree Ltd. said today that it has released and open-sourced elements of its data encryption technology stack that permit operations to be performed on encrypted data without the need for a decryption stage. The Cork, Ireland-based company’s technology is designed to address the scalability limitations of Fully Homomorphic Encryption schemes, which permit arbitrary computations, […]

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Sumo Logic brings generative AI to DevSecOps observability

Paul Gillin — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:39:34 +0000

Sumo Logic Inc. today announced what it calls the first artificial intelligence copilot for DevSecOps, an approach to software development that integrates security practices throughout the entire agile DevOps workflow. The company said Sumo Logic Mo Copilot can drastically reduce response times to resolve critical issues by applying generative AI to analyzing telemetry, which is […]

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AWS expands Q Business gen AI assistant features and integrates with its business intelligence platform

Paul Gillin — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:30:34 +0000

Amazon Web Services Inc. is using its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today to broaden the scope of its Q Business generative artificial intelligence assistant with new features and integration with its QuickSight business intelligence tool. Q Business, which AWS introduced at last year’s re:Invent, can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content and perform […]

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Cloud security firm Upwind nabs $100M funding at $900M valuation

Paul Gillin — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:11:00 +0000

Confirming earlier reports, cloud security startup Upwind Security Inc. today said it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding at a $900 million valuation, or roughly triple that of a him$50 million funding round 15 months ago. Since its founding in late 2022, the Israeli-based firm has raised $180 million. It plans to […]

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Oracle database on AWS cloud enters limited preview

Paul Gillin — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:00:39 +0000

Oracle Corp. today announced a limited preview of its Exadata Database offering on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. The announcement makes good on plans Oracle announced in September that appeared to put an end to the long-standing feud between the two companies. Oracle co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison has repeatedly taken jabs at […]

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Safety and reliability concerns temper agentic AI mania

Paul Gillin — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:14:28 +0000

When information services and technology firm Thomson Reuters Corp. acquired accounting software firm Materia in October, it paved the way for what it sees as the future of its business. Materia, which is the business name of Credere Technologies Inc., builds software agents that can break down complex queries and consult numerous information sources to […]

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AI agents are practical. Reliability is another matter.

Paul Gillin — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:00:40 +0000

Building artificial intelligence agents that can interact with each other reliably across services presents technical challenges that have never been tackled before. According to one AI researcher, that will limit their use to a narrow set of business processes for the next few years. Niloufar Salehi (pictured below), an assistant professor at the University of […]

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Strong renewals propel Nutanix past Wall Street estimates

Paul Gillin — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:17:38 +0000

Nutanix Inc. reported fiscal first-quarter revenue and earnings that topped Wall Street estimates and sent the stock up more than 4% after hours. The company swung from a loss of $15.85 million, or seven cents a share, a year ago to a profit of $29.9 million, or 10 cents a share. Adjusted earnings of 42 […]

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