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Nutanix CEO sees sales slowdown as temporary

Paul Gillin — Thu, 30 May 2024 15:55:20 +0000

With its stock down more than 20% this morning following a disappointing outlook issued during yesterday’s earnings call, Nutanix Inc. ad its Chief Executive Rajiv Ramaswami maintained the sales slowdown the company is seeing is temporary and several large contracts currently in negotiation will boost the Nutanix’s fortunes in the near term. In a briefing […]

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Enterprise DB begins rolling AI features into PostgreSQL

Paul Gillin — Thu, 23 May 2024 13:00:24 +0000

EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source PostgreSQL database management system, is launching itself into the artificial intelligence fray with today’s introduction of EDB Postgres AI. It’s a platform that combines transactional, analytical and AI workloads — a single PostgreSQL package that can be deployed in a cloud instance, on-premises or […]

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At Build, Microsoft Fabric, PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB get AI enhancements

Paul Gillin — Tue, 21 May 2024 15:30:26 +0000

Among the roughly 60 announcements Microsoft Corp. is making at its Build conference today are new artificial intelligence capabilities across its cloud-based database management products. Fabric, the company’s unified data platform introduced last year, is a major beneficiary. A Workload Development Kit currently in preview can be used to extend applications within Fabric. Fabric Data Sharing […]

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Microsoft simplifies Azure provisioning and debuts first VMs based on its custom silicon

Paul Gillin — Tue, 21 May 2024 15:30:04 +0000

Microsoft Corp.’s Build conference in Seattle this week will launch several enhancements to the company’s Azure public cloud. Azure Compute Fleet is a new service in preview intended to simplify the provisioning of Azure compute capacity across different virtual machine types, availability zones and pricing models. Microsoft said it should dramatically simplify how Azure compute capacity is currently provisioned and managed. Customers […]

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Informatica will infuse generative AI throughout its products

Paul Gillin — Tue, 21 May 2024 13:00:39 +0000

Informatica Inc. kicked off its Informatica World conference in Las Vegas today with a promise to infuse generative artificial intelligence into every facet of its product line and to enable users to build natural language features into their applications. Citing its research that found that 58% of chief data officers need five or more data […]

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Nutanix goes all-in on Kubernetes, bids for VMware defectors

Paul Gillin — Tue, 21 May 2024 11:30:27 +0000

Nutanix Inc. today announced a broad set of enhancements to its core infrastructure software and its Project Beacon portfolio of data-centric platform-as-a-service offerings that can run across multiple cloud and on-premises platforms. The company is aiming to cater to the 80% of organizations that use multiple public cloud platforms or plan to in the future. It’s also looking […]

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Dell expands AI-focused hardware line and tightens Nvidia alliance

Paul Gillin — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:00:05 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc. is making its case for keeping customers’ artificial intelligence workloads on-premises with a long list of new and enhanced products being announced today at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas under the banner of its recently introduced Dell AI Factory. They include new flash storage systems tuned to AI workloads, a parallel […]

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New Dell servers feature optimized cooling and Open Compute Project management

Paul Gillin — Tue, 14 May 2024 13:00:37 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc. today is rolling out a new set of PowerEdge servers that incorporate hardware designs created by the Open Compute Project and are configured for cold-aisle deployment. For cloud service providers, the PowerEdge R670 and R770 CSP Edition servers feature improved performance and a new standardized server architecture for easier deployment and servicing. For […]

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Telus International CEO delivers blunt assessment of firm’s performance: ‘very disappointed’

Paul Gillin — Fri, 10 May 2024 21:56:54 +0000

Customer experience service and technology firm Telus International Inc. reported higher earnings but declining revenue on Thursday. Despite issuing an upbeat press release and reaffirming full-year guidance, the company is clearly struggling to offset lower revenues in its contact center outsourcing with artificial intelligence-based customer experience market growth. Contact center services have been under pressure from […]

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StarTree broadly enhances Apache Pinot-based analytics platform

Paul Gillin — Wed, 08 May 2024 12:00:18 +0000

StarTree Inc., a startup commercializing the open-source Apache Pinot real-time data analytics platform, is adding new observability and anomaly detection capabilities to its managed service along with vector search functionality for Pinot. Apache Pinot is an open-source, distributed, real-time analytics engine originally developed by LinkedIn Inc. It’s designed to handle large-scale, low-latency data ingestion and […]

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Sprinklr adds function-specific AI bots and enters customer survey market

Paul Gillin — Tue, 07 May 2024 12:00:39 +0000

Customer experience management software firm Sprinklr Inc. today announced a new generative artificial intelligence-driven “copilot” that can be used by multiple organizational functions. The company is also entering the customer feedback market with a generative AI-powered survey platform. Sprinklr Digital Twin is intended to be a copilot for customer-facing teams that taps into a customer’s […]

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Salesforce simplifies access to external data sources for AI model training

Paul Gillin — Mon, 06 May 2024 11:50:04 +0000

Eyeing the need for organizations to train their own artificial intelligence models, Salesforce Inc. today is announcing a new feature of its Data Cloud data lake that collects information from a variety of third-party sources. Called Unified Knowledge, the feature can be used to gather and curate data needed to train AI models for use […]

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Informatica CEO sees no slowdown in cloud growth

Paul Gillin — Thu, 02 May 2024 21:32:05 +0000

Reports of Salesforce Inc.’s failed acquisition bid apparently did nothing to damage Informatica Inc.’s momentum, as it reported first-quarter 2024 earnings and revenues that beat analyst estimates. Total revenue increased 6.3% to $389 million, up from $365 million a year ago and slightly ahead of analyst estimates of $388 million. Net income of 22 cents […]

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Oracle expands vector support in latest cloud database release

Paul Gillin — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:00:59 +0000

Oracle Corp.’s flagship database management system is now available as a cloud service. Oracle Database 23ai features vector search and more than 300 additional major features, with many focused on simplifying the development and use of artificial intelligence models. Vector search is used in information retrieval and machine learning to find and rank items based on […]

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Qualtrics generative AI gives surveys a real-time twist

Paul Gillin — Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:45 +0000

Today, Qualtrics International Inc. is introducing three new features to its line of customer experience measurement applications that incorporate generative artificial intelligence capabilities. They include a feature that makes it possible for anyone in an organization to easily ask questions and get feedback on customer opinions, survey customization based on responses and intelligent summaries that […]

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Neo4j CTO says new Graph Query Language standard will have ‘massive ripple effects’

Paul Gillin — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:17:23 +0000

The International Standards Organization’s publication of a standard for the Graph Query Language earlier this month generated relatively little media interest, but executives at graph database makers were turning virtual cartwheels in the halls. The GQL standard is the first to be ratified by the ISO since Structured Query Language in 1986. The 600-page document […]

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Strong cloud growth boosts Microsoft earnings and stock price

Paul Gillin — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:09:24 +0000

Microsoft Corp. rode strong cloud performance to better-than-expected financial results in its fiscal third quarter today, with enterprise spending on artificial intelligence playing an increasingly important role in cloud growth. Revenue rose 17%, to $61.86 billion, eclipsing analysts’ estimates by nearly $1 billion. Net income of $21.9 billion, or $2.94 per share, also came in […]

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Oracle generative AI drumbeat continues with new customer experience features

Paul Gillin — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:00:52 +0000

Continuing its strategy of embellishing its enterprise applications incrementally with generative artificial intelligence capabilities, Oracle Corp. today announced new features in its Fusion Cloud Customer Experience application. They provide more precise responses to customer questions, improve sales force productivity and enable marketing organizations to assess lead quality in account-based marketing scenarios more effectively, the software giant […]

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IBM misses on revenues but foresees rapid growth from HashiCorp purchase

Paul Gillin — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:22:30 +0000

As the first major information technology provider to report earnings in most quarters, IBM Corp. results are often seen as a bellwether for the industry’s health. However, securities analysts may need to go back to their spreadsheets following Big Blue’s announcement today of a revenue miss after three straight quarters of beating expectations. First-quarter earnings […]

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State agency proves DevOps and mainframes can coexist

Paul Gillin — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 01:04:37 +0000

Mainframe computing and the modern agile development methodology called DevOps don’t need to be mutually exclusive. The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is showing why. The agency, which services 6.2 million licensed drivers and identification card holders and processed 16.8 million transactions last year, has successfully adopted DevOps and its continuous integration and development processes […]

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Software AG applies generative AI to process modeling and IT asset management

Paul Gillin — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:20:16 +0000

Software AG is enhancing its Aris process mining and Alfabet portfolio management products with generative artificial intelligence capabilities in announcements at its International User Groups conference in Dublin this week. Both are based on the off-the-shelf Azure OpenAI service from Microsoft Corp. ARIS is used to represent processes within an organization and to model improvements. […]

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Starburst to release its Iceberg-based lakehouse as a managed service

Paul Gillin — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:00:50 +0000

Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial version of the open-source Trino distributed query engine, today announced a fully managed Icehouse data lake on its Galaxy cloud. Icehouse is an open-source lakehouse that combines Trino and Apache Iceberg storage. A lakehouse is a new type of data architecture that combines the flexibility of data lakes […]

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Google introduces distributed cloud search and strengthens multicloud support

Paul Gillin — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:00:34 +0000

Google LLC is upping its edge game at the Cloud Next conference this week. The cloud division today announced a generative artificial intelligence feature that works on internal data, as well as expanded cross-network features that allow users to train AI models on data from any cloud or on-premises data store in a fully managed […]

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TransUnion unites global operations on multicloud analytics and AI platform

Paul Gillin — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:25:24 +0000

In the process of completing 25 acquisitions and building a trove of information on more than 1 billion consumers across 30 countries over the past 56 years, TransUnion LLC had created a lot of data siloes. Now it’s attacking that problem with a massive data lake intended to support all of its analytics, application development […]

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Aerospike reels in $109M to accelerate its high-speed database

Paul Gillin — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:00:30 +0000

Aerospike Inc., which sells a highly scalable, real-time NoSQL database management system, said today it closed a $109 million investment round led by Sumeru Equity Partners LP with participation from Alsop Louie Partners LLC. That brings its total funding to $241 million. Aerospike’s flash-optimized in-memory model scales from gigabytes to petabytes with high consistency and […]

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VMware says Tanzu is key to strategy after Broadcom acquisition

Paul Gillin — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:29:26 +0000

With customers still jittery about Broadcom Inc.’s plans for VMware Inc., its new subsidiary is mounting a push to assure them that its Tanzu application development and modernization toolkit is not only alive and well but a key part of the post-acquisition strategy. In an interview with SiliconANGLE and a pre-recorded event on LinkedIn, Purnima […]

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Lumana launches with AI-powered video surveillance system

Paul Gillin — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:00:51 +0000

Lumana AI Inc., maker of a cloud-based security platform with image recognition capabilities, is emerging today with $24 million in seed funding. The company says its technology transforms any security camera into an AI-powered device capable of identifying complex events and risks. Its platform is built on a distributed hybrid cloud architecture that integrates cloud […]

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Oracle NetSuite expands gen AI features across its product line

Paul Gillin — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:29:25 +0000

Oracle Corp.’s NetSuite subsidiary today said it’s expanding generative artificial intelligence capabilities across the product line with additional Text Enhance features targeted to specific uses. The company also announced the launch of the NetSuite Analytics Warehouse Multi-Instance Connector for consolidating data from multiple application instances into a single NetSuite Analytics Warehouse The generative AI services, […]

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Qualtrics’ Delighted subsidiary folds generative AI into survey design service

Paul Gillin — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:00:39 +0000

Delighted LLC, a subsidiary of experience management firm Qualtrics LLC, today is adding generative artificial intelligence-powered recommended questions to its survey tool. Delighted’s platform lets users create and manage surveys for customer, employee or product feedback. The service is particularly popular with startups and is positioned as an onramp to Qualtrics’ enterprise-class customer feedback tools. […]

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Databricks open-sources its own large language model, DBRX

Paul Gillin — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:00:26 +0000

Databricks Inc. today launched DBRX, a general-purpose large language model that it says outperforms all existing open-source models — and some proprietary ones — on standard benchmarks. The company said it’s open-sourcing the model to encourage customers to migrate away from commercial alternatives. It cited a recent Andreessen Horowitz LLC survey that found that nearly 60% of […]

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