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Nvidia aims to boost Blackwell GPUs by donating platform design to the Open Compute Project

Paul Gillin — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:30:11 +0000

Nvidia Corp. today said it has contributed parts of its Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project and broadened support for OCP standards in its Spectrum-X networking fabric. Nvidia hopes the move will help solidify its new line of Blackwell graphics processing units, which are now in production, as a standard for […]

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Domino Data Lab seeks to embed governance in AI development

Paul Gillin — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:17:34 +0000

Data science startup Domino Data Lab Inc. has become the latest company to introduce a platform for automating governance in artificial intelligence development, saying its extensive experience with large organizations and federal government agencies gives it a unique advantage. Domino Governance is an attempt to automate the largely manual processes that many organizations use to […]

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Dell introduces AMD-based AI servers and tightens Hugging Face ties

Paul Gillin — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:00:38 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc. today launched five new PowerEdge servers using Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s 5th Generation EPYC processors and targeted at artificial intelligence development and model deployment. The announcements represent “a massive expansion of our partnership with the AMD,” said Varun Chhabra, senior vice president of product marketing at Dell. The PowerEdge XE7745 is designed […]

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Relyance AI raises $32M to make AI data governance more transparent

Paul Gillin — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:03:59 +0000

Relyance AI Inc., developer of a governance platform that provides visibility and control over enterprise-wide data, today announced a $32.1 million Series B funding round. The four-year-old startup, which secured a $30 million funding round in 2021, plans to use the money to scale up operations and address the rapidly growing demand for more transparency […]

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Apollo bridges the gap between GraphQL and REST APIs

Paul Gillin — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:00:14 +0000

Apollo GraphQL Inc., a provider of tools and services for working with the GraphQL open-source data query language, today announced a set of connectors that bridge the gap between GraphQL and representational state transfer application programming interfaces, which are widely used to build web services that allow communication between services and applications. Developed by Facebook […]

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Smartsheet overhauls user experience and expands project management capacity

Paul Gillin — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:00:20 +0000

Smartsheet Inc. used its annual Engage conference today to unveil a completely overhauled user experience aimed at making its work management platform simpler to use. The company’s platform, which is used by more than 13 million professionals and 85% of Fortune 500 companies, enables project managers to track their tasks at a fine-grained level, displaying […]

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Sonar now inspects AI-generated code for glitches

Paul Gillin — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:00:11 +0000

Sonar, which sells tools that check software code for bugs, inconsistencies and security flaws, today announced two new products aimed at artificial intelligence-powered software development. AI Code Assurance for the company’s SonarQube and SonarCloud managed services inspects code created by generative AI copilots to ensure it meets a business’s quality and security standards. A companion […]

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Nvidia and Accenture partner to foster development of AI agents

Paul Gillin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:00:06 +0000

Nvidia Corp. and Accenture plc today are announcing a partnership that will apply 30,000 Accenture consultants trained in Nvidia technology to building artificial intelligence agents for customers across 120 countries. The newly formed Accenture Nvidia Business Group is aimed at laying the foundation for the next generation of AI functionality using Accenture’s AI platform and […]

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DataPelago raises $47M to optimize hardware for analytical workloads

Paul Gillin — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:00:20 +0000

DataPelago Inc. today unveiled what it calls a “universal data processing engine” that powers high-speed computing at massive scale by making better use of an organization’s underlying infrastructure. The three-year-old startup also announced $47 million in new funding. The company’s cloud-based software framework is independent of the operating system and leverages all available CPU, graphics […]

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StarTree eyes observability market with Apache Pinot-based real-time engine

Paul Gillin — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:27:58 +0000

StarTree Inc., a company that’s commercializing the open-source Apache Pinot real-time data analytics platform, is setting its sights on the market for observability tools, saying it’s a ripe target for disruption. Last week the company demonstrated how its StarTree Cloud, a managed Pinot service, can now be used as a time-series database compatible with the […]

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HP applies AI to fix the most maddening printing problems as it debuts new AI PCs

Paul Gillin — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:48:45 +0000

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 […]

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Pure Storage offers move-less data tiering and VM optimization service

Paul Gillin — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:00:37 +0000

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 […]

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Exclusive: ConductorOne automates access controls for employees on the move

Paul Gillin — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:00:14 +0000

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 […]

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Exclusive: Vantage expands cloud cost optimization service to GitHub

Paul Gillin — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:00:10 +0000

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 […]

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Enterprise AI search platform Glean raises $260M+ on $4.6B valuation

Paul Gillin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:47:19 +0000

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 […]

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Oracle boosts AI development features for analytics and HeatWave managed service

Paul Gillin — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:00:05 +0000

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 […]

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Nvidia beats expectations but disappoints investors’ sky-high expectations

Paul Gillin — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:07:26 +0000

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 […]

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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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