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HP applies AI to fix the most maddening printing problems as it debuts new AI PCs
HP Inc. today said it’s addressing some of the most common frustrations users have with printing webpages by introducing a new technology that it advertises as the “industry’s first intelligent print experience.” HP Print AI features a new capability called Perfect Output that reformats and reorganizes content to fit on the page in a way ...
Pure Storage offers move-less data tiering and VM optimization service
Flash storage and service vendor Pure Storage Inc. today announced a set of enhancements to its flagship platform, including file services that change in real time to adapt to underlying file system changes without extensive reconfiguration. The company also announced a virtual machine assessment service that helps information technology organizations make better decisions about modernizing ...
Exclusive: ConductorOne automates access controls for employees on the move
ConductorOne Inc., the developer of an identity governance platform, today announced access management capabilities to support joiners, movers and leavers, a human resources term for employee onboarding, internal transitions and offboarding. The software enables businesses to onboard hundreds of users with a few clicks by using predefined profiles that specify the applications the user is ...
Exclusive: Vantage expands cloud cost optimization service to GitHub
Cloud cost optimization service provider Vantage today is adding support for Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub software version control and collaboration platform to its growing list of native integrations with cloud platforms and applications. Vantage, the business name of VNTG Inc., helps companies track how much they spend on cloud services to find cost-cutting opportunities. It already ...
Enterprise AI search platform Glean raises $260M+ on $4.6B valuation
Glean Technologies Inc., the developer of a conversational search platform for enterprises, said today it has raised more than $260 million in a late-stage funding round that values the company at $4.6 billion. The Series E funding comes less than seven months after the company raised more than $200 million in a late-stage round that valued ...
Oracle boosts AI development features for analytics and HeatWave managed service
Oracle Corp. will use its Oracle CloudWorld conference today to announce new artificial intelligence capabilities spanning cloud database, analytics and development platform, led by a raft of new features for its HeatWave managed MySQL database service. Saying some organizations are building generative AI applications with HeatWave and moving them into production in less than a ...
Nvidia beats expectations but disappoints investors’ sky-high expectations
When your stock has been called “the most important on planet Earth” by Goldman Sachs Group, it’s hard to exceed expectations. That’s the challenge Nvidia Corp. encountered today when it announced 122% growth in second-quarter revenue and earnings. That beat analyst expectations and the company raised its revenue estimates for the third quarter, only to ...
Dremio says it has dramatically improved query performance on Iceberg data lakes
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 ...
VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and Tanzu 10 simplify development and deployment in private clouds
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 ...
Onehouse’s vector embeddings support aims to cut the cost of AI training
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 ...