Lightmatter, a leader in photonic supercomputing, announced it has raised a $400 million Series D, valuing the company at $4.4 billion and bringing the total capital raised to date to $850 million—empowering Lightmatter to ready Passage for mass deployment in partner data centers, enabling the scaling required for sustained AI innovation.
Posted October 21, 2024
To drive the development of open, efficient, and scalable data center technologies, NVIDIA announced that it has contributed foundational elements of its NVIDIA Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project (OCP) and broadened NVIDIA Spectrum-X support for OCP standards.
Posted October 21, 2024
IBM is extending the capabilities of Power Virtual Server to deploy in a client data center, delivering the flexibility around consumption and management capabilities of the cloud while keeping the data on-premises to help address regional compliance and governance requirements of the business.
Posted October 21, 2024
Aerospike is releasing Aerospike Database 7.2, with enhancements to multi-zone deployments through a new active-rack feature and a new version of shipping control for Cross Datacenter Replication (XDR). Version shipping controls provide flexible choices for backups and connectors and will subsequently be leveraged by the Aerospike Backup Service (ABS).
Posted October 18, 2024
StreamNative, the cloud-native data streaming company founded by the original creators of Apache Pulsar, is unveiling a managed Apache Flink Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) service, designed to merge the powers of both Flink and StreamNative for the latter's customer base. This product offering—powered by Ververica, the original creators of Apache Flink—serves to inject more simplicity into the process of deploying real-time applications in the cloud, according to StreamNative.
Posted October 18, 2024
Progress, the trusted provider of AI-powered infrastructure software, is unveiling the latest release of Progress Flowmon, the AI-powered network observability platform that reduces risk and improves resilience across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. This release introduces IP Address Indexing, a capability that dramatically enhances IP search efficiency, improving network administrators' and cybersecurity professionals' ability to detect and track network activity associated with a specific IP address.
Posted October 18, 2024
Rocket Software, Inc., a global technology leader in modernization software, is announcing an expansion of its Hybrid Cloud solutions with generative AI (GenAI) capabilities engineered to streamline modernization. Aimed at enhancing organizational agility and decision making, Rocket Software's latest updates serve to close the operational gap between enterprises and an AI-powered future.
Posted October 17, 2024
Adaptiv Networks, a leader in cloud-based SD-WAN and SASE solutions, and Coro, a leading cybersecurity platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), are collaborating to empower Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to deliver a complete portfolio of network and data security solutions.
Posted October 17, 2024
Enabling the collection and utilization of data is crucial to successfully supporting AI projects at enterprise scale. From data integration to data pipelines, AI performance, data governance, compliance, and more, adhering to data engineering best practices has never been more prudent for enabling an AI-powered future.
Posted October 17, 2024
Informatica is introducing innovative updates to its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) aimed at equipping organizations with AI-ready data. With enhancements to advanced analytics, AI-driven application integration and master data management, users can now ensure their AI systems are powered by the most reliable, accurate, high-quality data, according to Informatica.
Posted October 17, 2024
Amplitude, a leading digital analytics platform, is debuting Web Experimentation, a solution that offers self-service A/B testing that enables enterprises to drive better conversion while preserving page performance. Designed for product managers, marketers, and growth leaders alike, Web Experimentation brings accessible, point-and-click interactions that accelerate A/B testing success.
Posted October 16, 2024
Qualys, Inc., a provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, is launching a Risk Operations Center (ROC) with Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) to enable CISOs and business leaders to manage cybersecurity risks in real time, transforming fragmented, siloed data into actionable insights.
Posted October 16, 2024
Cube, the company bringing consistency, context, and trust to the next generation of data experiences, is debuting a series of innovations for Cube Cloud—Cube's universal semantic layer—geared around enhancing data management and consumption. The new capabilities—from a next-gen data modeling engine to new data access policies, Cube Copilot, and more—address the present modeling, governance, productivity, and collaboration needs of enterprises.
Posted October 16, 2024
ScaleFlux, a leader in data storage and memory technology, is expanding its product portfolio to meet the demands for global data production. The company is introducing cutting-edge controllers for both NVMe SSDs and Compute Express Lin (CXL) modules, reinforcing its leadership in innovative technology for the data pipeline, according to the vendor.
Posted October 16, 2024
Oracle is offering the Oracle Financial Services Crime and Compliance Management Investigation Hub Cloud Service to enable banks to investigate and resolve financial crime cases faster. According to Oracle, the new AI-powered case management solution delivers a modern user experience that reduces manual tasks, removes data silos, and elevates the insights investigators need to focus their time on analysis and combating financial crime.
Posted October 16, 2024
Oracle is offering new AI-powered capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Service and Oracle Fusion Cloud Field Service that help service teams increase productivity, better understand customer issues, and serve their customers more effectively. According to Oracle, the latest updates improve customer satisfaction by automatically identifying customer issues, recommending actions, streamlining resolution, and improving first-time fix rates.
Posted October 16, 2024
To meet the rapidly growing demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in Malaysia, Oracle announced plans to invest more than $6.5 billion to open a public cloud region in the country. The upcoming cloud region will enable Oracle customers and partners in Malaysia to leverage AI infrastructure and services and migrate mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Posted October 16, 2024
Sonar, the leading Clean Code solution provider, is announcing its recent acquisition of Structure101, a pioneer in code structure analysis. This acquisition reflects Sonar's mission of empowering every developer to enhance the quality and security of their AI-generated and human-written code, according to the company.
Posted October 15, 2024
Predibase, the developer platform for productionizing open source AI, is debuting the Predibase Inference Engine, a comprehensive solution for deploying fine-tuned small language models (SLMs) quickly and efficiently. Designed for rapid, streamlined deployment across both private serverless (SaaS) and virtual private cloud (VPC) environments, the Predibase Inference Engine offers the most resource-efficient serving stack that empowers enterprises to scale specialized models at a fraction of the cost, according to the company.
Posted October 15, 2024
SpyCloud, the leader in Identity Threat Protection, is announcing that SpyCloud Investigations—the company's cybercrime and identity threat investigation solution—now features IDLink, an automated digital identity correlation capability. This new feature enhances SpyCloud Investigations by streamlining and accelerating successful outcomes of complex investigations—from days or hours to as little as minutes, according to the vendor.
Posted October 14, 2024
BMC, a global leader in software solutions, announced the decision to create two stand-alone, independent companies, BMC and BMC Helix. According to BMC, the two independently operating businesses will leverage the reignited innovation pipeline, industry-recognized product offerings, strengthened go-to-market capabilities, revived brand, and focus on customer success of the current company to accelerate growth across all markets.
Posted October 14, 2024
ApertureData, the company solving the data management challenges for large scale, multimodal data, is announcing the close of its oversubscribed seed round, having raised $8.25 million for its purpose-built, multimodal AI database. Serving to bridge the gap between enterprises' diverse data assets and AI success, ApertureData delivers a unified solution for managing and accessing complex, multimodal datasets.
Posted October 11, 2024
ClearML, the leading solution for unleashing AI in the enterprise, is debuting its new multi-tenant GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) for Enterprise, an offering that delivers greater GPU utilization for enterprises to improve their AI innovation and ROI. GPUaaS for Enterprise empowers organizations to successfully support their AI initiatives with the compute required while offering a centralized location for monitoring and managing AI resources.
Posted October 11, 2024
Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, is taking its Data Integrity Suite to the next level with several major enhancements, including the launch of the Data Graph API. From a new connector framework to an advanced data catalog, hybrid execution agents, and more, Precisely's latest release centers simplicity, speed, and security in the realm of data integrity.
Posted October 11, 2024
Eon, a next-generation cloud backup solution, is emerging from stealth, having raised a total of $127 million in funding in its efforts to replace legacy backup tools and generic snapshots, transforming backups into useful, easy-to-manage assets. The first backup autopilot for the age of cloud infrastructure, Eon monitors cloud resource sprawl and brings cloud backup posture management (CBPM) to enterprises, according to the company.
Posted October 10, 2024
Central to any modernization strategy is data management, acting as the true foundation for any advanced technology to succeed and thrive. As scalability, flexibility, and cost effectiveness continues to dictate key goals for data management strategies, the migration to the cloud is the vehicle by which enterprises transform into agile, data-driven entities.
Posted October 10, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is debuting a series of new features for dbt Cloud, the control plane for enterprise data stacks. These latest enhancements serve to empower users across the various stages of the analytics development lifecycle, adhering to One dbt, the company's mission of delivering a single, unified dbt experience regardless of an enterprise's infrastructure, data platform, or cloud.
Posted October 09, 2024
Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, is unveiling Cloudera AI Inference powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform. Designed to enhance the performance, security, and scalability of AI models, Cloudera AI Inference is one of the industry's first AI inference services that provides embedded NIM microservice capability, according to the company.
Posted October 09, 2024
Event Store, the event-native data platform company, is announcing a series of improvements to Event Store Cloud, the company's fully managed offering of EventStoreDB, centered on streamlining management as well as increasing ease of use and time-to-value. In addition to the enhancements, Event Store Cloud is now available on the AWS Marketplace.
Posted October 09, 2024
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is partnering with Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technologies and services, with the goal of delivering a joint cyber readiness solution to help companies deal with today's complex, rigid regulations.
Posted October 08, 2024
Egnyte, a leading provider of cloud-based content collaboration and governance solutions, announced it has been granted five United States Utility Patents this year that address complex data governance and compliance challenges. According to the company, these patents reinforce its commitment to innovation in data privacy and cloud storage management.
Posted October 08, 2024
Grafana Labs, the company offering open and composable operational dashboards, is adding a variety of updates to its platform including advancements in AI/ML for observability, significant enhancements to the fully managed Grafana Cloud observability platform, and the launch of Grafana Labs' new startup program.
Posted October 07, 2024
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is debuting the latest iteration of MicroStrategy ONE, the fully cloud-native AI/BI platform for solving some of the world's toughest data challenges. The newest version centers on the power of generative AI (GenAI) to make enterprise data and insights more readily available to all employees, including the less-technical frontline.
Posted October 07, 2024
Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, is expanding Darktrace / CLOUD to support Microsoft Azure environments, leveraging Microsoft's virtual network flow logs for agentless deployment. Also available for AWS deployments, Darktrace / CLOUD is built from the ground up for cloud defense. It leverages Darktrace's unique Self-Learning AI to monitor cloud assets, containers, and users, and correlate that activity with identity and network data from across an organization's digital ecosystem.
Posted October 07, 2024
WekaIO (WEKA), the AI-native data platform company, announced that the WEKA Data Platform has been certified as a high-performance data store for NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Partners. With this certification, NVIDIA Cloud Partners can now leverage the WEKA Data Platform's performance, scalability, operational efficiency, and ease of use through the jointly validated WEKA Reference Architecture for NVIDIA Cloud Partners using NVIDIA HGX H100 systems.
Posted October 07, 2024
The EY organization is expanding its collaboration with IBM to leverage software from Apptio, an IBM Company. EY strategy and consulting experience, used in concert with Apptio software, can help enable organizations to focus their resources on their strategic priorities at all levels of the organization, according to the vendor.
Posted October 07, 2024
To help clients embrace generative AI, IBM is extending its high-performance computing (HPC) offerings, giving enterprises more power and versatility to carry out research, innovation and business transformation. With the general availability of NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU instances on IBM Cloud, businesses will have access to a powerful platform for AI applications, including large language model (LLM) training.
Posted October 07, 2024
BMC's latest "2024 BMC Mainframe Survey" is now available, revealing the state of the mainframe is strong, with a bright outlook, thanks to emerging technologies and continued digital transformation. The mainframe's speed, processing capacity, and security continue to make the platform a key component of the ever-changing IT landscape.
Posted October 07, 2024
SingleStore, the world's only database that empowers users to transact, analyze, and search petabytes of data in milliseconds, is announcing its recent acquisition of BryteFlow, a leading data integration platform. With this acquisition, SingleStore expands its ability to ingest data from a range of sources—such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, and more—and helps its users operationalize data from their CRM and ERP systems.
Posted October 04, 2024
IOTech, the edge software company, is debuting Edge Manager v3, the end-to-end, flexible, scalable solution for the management of hardware nodes and their edge applications. Designed to simplify and automate edge systems management at scale, the latest update introduces new multi-tenancy, workflow automation, and integrated tooling capabilities.
Posted October 04, 2024
Venafi, a CyberArk company, is unveiling a series of new functionalities for its Control Plane for Machine Identities, the solution for standardizing machine identity management and accelerating digital transformation. Introducing enhancements designed specifically for the multi-cloud and post-quantum future, Venafi empowers organizations to manage their most critical machine identity security challenges and future-proof their businesses, according to the vendor.
Posted October 03, 2024
Quadrant Information Security (Quadrant), a leading provider of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions, is introducing a new service, Quadrant Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), to help organizations systematically manage and reduce the risks associated with the ever-expanding attack surfaces in complex enterprise IT environments.
Posted October 03, 2024
MongoDB is releasing MongoDB 8.0, offering significant performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, and additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities. Architectural optimizations in MongoDB 8.0 have significantly reduced memory usage and query times, and MongoDB 8.0 has more efficient batch processing capabilities than previous versions.
Posted October 03, 2024
Acquia, the leader in open digital experience software, is announcing that Acquia Cloud Next—the enterprise-grade, Kubernetes-native Drupal hosting platform—has achieved Authorized status from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). This achievement reflects Acquia's investment in the public sector as the only commercial Drupal hosting company to meet U.S. federal government security standards, according to the company.
Posted October 02, 2024
Crowdbotics, pioneer of CodeOps as the new standard methodology for software development, is adding new capabilities to its AI-powered application development platform, aimed at addressing the most significant challenges in the application development industry.
Posted October 02, 2024
Oracle Health is providing electronic health record (EHR) innovations that will help clinicians streamline routine tasks and deliver more efficient, informed patient care. According to Oracle, with the new capabilities, caregivers can more quickly and easily update and access critical patient information from practically anywhere to help increase efficiency and reduce burden.
Posted October 02, 2024
Oracle and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the launch of Oracle Database@AWS, a new offering that allows customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. Oracle Database@AWS will provide customers with a unified experience between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS, offering simplified database administration, billing, and unified customer support.
Posted October 02, 2024
Oracle is releasing Java 23, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform, delivering thousands of improvements to help developers increase productivity and drive innovation. Additional enhancements to the platform's performance, stability, and security will help organizations accelerate business growth, according to Oracle.
Posted October 02, 2024
CloudBolt, the Cloud ROI Company, is debuting the new CloudBolt Platform, a cloud lifecycle optimization platform designed to deliver Augmented FinOps—CloudBolt's method of proactively and retrospectively ensuring value balance in the cloud. By centering AI- and machine learning (ML)-based insights, the CloudBolt Platform works to maximize the value of enterprises' cloud investments.
Posted October 01, 2024
SQream, a leading accelerated data processing platform, is debuting its native Snowflake connector which brings its cloud data solution, SQream Blue, to the Snowflake environment. With this connector, SQream delivers the best of its GPU parallelizing solution to Snowflake's data warehouse platform, eliminating the need for intermediate data transfers or complex ETL processes.
Posted October 01, 2024