Artificial Intelligence Articles
Vectra AI, Inc., a leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), is partnering with Lumifi, a leading managed detection and response (MDR) technology company, now integrating Vectra AI Network Detection and Response (NDR) into Lumifi's service offerings to provide customers with greater visibility into their networks, insights into attacker behavior, and the ability to stop network-based attacks early in their progression.
Posted December 23, 2024
BattleFin Group, Inc, a market leader and pioneer in the alternative data discovery industry, is acquiring Exabel, an alternative data analytics platform, solidifying BattleFin's global leadership in both data discovery and data intelligence markets.
Posted December 20, 2024
AI innovation in the big data space shows no signs of slowing down, with companies rushing to adopt or create their own solutions based on AI, automating redundant tasks, and spinning up all kinds of use cases to justify spending big bucks in the area. Here, tech experts share their predictions for AI in 2025.
Posted December 20, 2024
KNIME, the open source data analytics and AI company, is releasing its AI companion, K-AI, enabling users to co-create powerful data workflows with AI. According to the company, K-AI will answer questions, make recommendations, and extend or build whole data workflows based on user prompts. The AI companion speeds up the time to insight, while giving users complete transparency into and control over what AI is doing.
Posted December 19, 2024
Nuon Inc. announced it has secured $16.5 million in funding and is providing an early access release of its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) platform. Nuon is currently powering a few dozen AI and data infrastructure companies already using the platform to deliver BYOC solutions. The company plans to launch general availability by late Q1 2025.
Posted December 19, 2024
I once wrote an article titled "Do Your Metrics Matter?" It was inspired by the joy of sitting in an airplane, at the gate, going nowhere fast for close to 2 hours. All the while the airline app was proclaiming an on-time departure. Having ample time to discuss this perceived error with the crew, I learned that the closed aircraft door equaled departure. Departed, it turned out, was not an indication of a flight in motion but a process gone awry (a circumstance that may persist to this day, for what it's worth).
Posted December 19, 2024
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading Postgres data and AI company, is adding a variety of enhancements to EDB Postgres AI, empowering enterprises to deploy secure, flexible AI-driven applications in a sovereign, hybrid environment.
Posted December 19, 2024
Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, is announcing an expansion of its partnership with Nokia, aiming to bring advanced data center network services to enterprises around the world. Merging the powers of Kyndryl's enterprise knowledge and experience in designing, building, and managing hybrid cloud and data center environments with Nokia's high-performance, reliable data center networking infrastructure solution, the two companies address the present need for fortified, scalable, and secure data center network solutions.
Posted December 19, 2024
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), and SAP announced GROW with SAP on AWS, which will allow customers of all sizes to rapidly deploy SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution while leveraging the reliability, security, and scalability of the world's most broadly adopted cloud.
Posted December 18, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is expanding its AI-ready data integration capabilities, delivering new enhancements across SAP, Databricks, and Snowflake. According to the company, these advancements empower enterprises to streamline data workflows, accelerate AI deployment, and gain faster insights, ensuring that business intelligence is built and scaled on quality, real-time data running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Posted December 18, 2024
Avantra, a leading provider of AIOps for SAP, is releasing Avantra 25, the latest edition of its renowned observability and automation platform. Poised to transform SAP systems with new levels of efficiency and flexibility, Avantra 25 is the first edition to integrate fully with the Avantra AIR cloud product and brings a wealth of new features and functionality, according to the company.
Posted December 18, 2024
Acceldata, the leader in all-in-one enterprise data observability, is debuting its newly expanded AI-powered data reconciliation capabilities that fortifies enterprises with trusted data, at scale. Bringing the necessary data integrity for managing complex, modern data ecosystems, Acceldata's new capabilities ensure data is accurate, consistent, and audit-ready across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Posted December 18, 2024
DBTA's latest webinar, The Next Era of Database Management: Emerging Technologies and Best Practices, featured the viewpoints of database experts from Datavail and Oracle, covering topics such as cloud native databases, database types, vendor lock-in, AI, optimization, and more.
Posted December 18, 2024
In today's competitive business environment, empowering your teams with data-driven decision-making is essential. However, amid an organization's vast sea of data, the process of effectively navigating through this abundance of information is daunting. In fact, the likelihood of human error while sorting through such data volumes for key insights is virtually guaranteed, further complicating the already daunting task at hand.
Posted December 18, 2024
To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products, highlighting a commitment to innovation and to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements. Several MV leaders including Kore Tech, Revelation Software, and Rocket Software continue to make an impact and again top this list.
Posted December 18, 2024
To achieve fundamental data quality, data integration is crucial for growing organizations. In a recent blog post by Kore Tech, Maxwell Dallinga, explains how the best data integration tool for the future is Kore Integrate. Integration processes provide huge organizational boosts, connecting disparate systems and ensuring sources of data are reliable and accurate. Doing so prevents redundant information and data silo backups, keeping tools and applications like AI from being hampered by poor data.
Posted December 18, 2024
Zilliz, the company behind the open-source vector database Milvus, is debuting the latest iteration of Milvus, which unites hybrid semantic and keyword search into a single, high-performance platform. This centralization dramatically boosts query processing speed—30x faster than traditional solutions—driving accessibility of AI-powered, advanced search to a variety of enterprises, according to Zilliz.
Posted December 17, 2024
RapidCanvas, democratizing AI-driven business transformation, announced it has secured $16 million in a funding round for its AI agents, empowering the company to further support the automation of complex tasks traditionally performed by data scientists and engineers.
Posted December 17, 2024
Back in July, CrowdStrike pushed out a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor that caused worldwide outages on Microsoft operating systems. Users experienced the BlueScreen of Death (BSOD) error, which caused their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly. The effects were immediately wide reaching: Doctors weren't able to diagnose patients, airports abruptly paused travel, and there were also disruptions to emergency services and responses. Government services, banks, and other businesses had to shut down.
Posted December 17, 2024
Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, announced it has closed a $600 million Series D funding round, enabling the company to advance its mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. With the latest fundraise, Crusoe will invest in expansion and growth across the value chain, including its data centers and Crusoe Cloud. Crusoe focuses on utilizing clean, abundant, and low-cost energy to power its computing resources and has over 15 gigawatts in development.
Posted December 16, 2024
Experts joined DBTA's special roundtable webinar, The Future of Analytics: Cloud Data Warehouses, Data Lakehouses, and More, to discuss how better, faster insights can be achieved through an assortment of modern systems that emphasize flexibility, scalability, and agility.
Posted December 13, 2024
Cloud remains important as ever as AI makes gains in the industry. Other key factors leading to the continued importance of the cloud include the increasing adoption of cloud services by businesses for cost-efficiency and scalability, advancements in cloud technologies, the growth of big data and analytics, and the rising need for remote work solutions. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2025.
Posted December 13, 2024
Quest Software, a global leader in systems management, data protection, and security software, is unveiling two updates designed to expedite PostgreSQL adoption. The solutions— a Performance Investigator for PostgreSQL add-on for Foglight and SharePlex—work to make PostgreSQL a reality for enterprises by streamlining migrations and optimizing performance and availability.
Posted December 12, 2024
Aerospike Inc., the real-time database built for infinite scale, speed, and savings, is debuting the latest version of Aerospike Vector Search, equipped with new indexing and storage capabilities. Centering flexibility, performance, and streamlined operations, Vector Search addresses current customer problems with new engineering techniques and innovations in the vector space.
Posted December 12, 2024
Blockchain is poised to underpin more and more financial transactions, as the traditional finance world (TradFi) starts to embrace decentralized finance (DeFi), opening them up to cryptocurrency transactions and more. Here, several experts in the field predict the next moves for the technology in 2025.
Posted December 11, 2024
Data Centers are the focus of increased scrutiny and renewed interest as more and more power consumption and resource statistics show eye-popping figures. A significant aspect of energy consumption is dedicated to data center cooling systems, which are crucial for maintaining optimal operating temperatures and preventing hardware failure. Current estimates suggest that data centers account for 3% of global electricity consumption, with predictions indicating a rise to a potential 10% by 2030.
Posted December 09, 2024
IBM and AMD are collaborating to deploy AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud. This offering, which is expected to be available in the first half of 2025, aims to enhance performance and power efficiency for GenAI models such as and high-performance computing (HPC) applications for enterprise clients.
Posted December 09, 2024
Clarifai, a global leader in AI and pioneer of the full-stack AI platform, is unveiling new compute orchestration capabilities for AI workloads, designed for any AI model, on any compute, at any scale. This innovation enables organizations to better optimize their compute and cloud investments for AI by eliminating vendor lock-in and forwarding efficient compute spend.
Posted December 09, 2024
As AI technologies and services have accelerated their own proliferation throughout the market, the data that trains these machines is more important than ever. The global big data and analytics industry is expected to experience significant growth in the next few years. It is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 14.9% between 2024 and 2032 and reach $1.088 trillion by 2032. Here, data professionals share their big data and database/infrastructure predictions for 2025.
Posted December 06, 2024
Big data is continuing to proliferate at organizations, this time spurred by AI and machine learning within enterprise software tools, followed by advancements in software for managing unstructured data, and the substantial increase in data volume. To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products, highlighting a commitment to innovation and to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements.
Posted December 05, 2024
New Relic, the Intelligent Observability Platform, is announcing an integration between New Relic AI—New Relic's in-platform generative AI (GenAI) assistant—and Amazon Q Business, AWS' GenAI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work. Propelled by the goal of affording enterprises both visibility and actionable, intelligent insights on their operational infrastructures, New Relic and AWS' integration drives fast, intelligent, cost-effective business operations amid increasingly complex data environments.
Posted December 05, 2024
Weaviate is launching its latest SaaS service, Weaviate Embeddings, to bring freedom and flexibility to a crucial area of AI development: data vectorization. According to the company, Weaviate Embeddings combines the flexibility of open source with the convenience and scalability of a managed service and pay-as-you-go pricing.
Posted December 05, 2024
Vaultree, a leader in advanced data encryption, is debuting Vaultree Encrypted Numbers (VENum), as well as announcing its open source availability. The VENum stack—which includes Vaultree Encrypted Numpy (VENumpy) and VENum Machine Learning (VENumML)—enables developers to build and deploy ML models on encrypted data without compromising data privacy.
Posted December 04, 2024
Innovative Solutions, a leading provider of cloud services solutions for growing businesses and a Premier Tier AWS Partner with generative AI competency, is debuting Tailwinds, a generative AI (GenAI) accelerator platform for a variety of enterprise personas, which is now available on the AWS Marketplace. Engineered to transform GenAI adoption and implementation, Tailwinds enables users to build GenAI proof of concepts (POCs) up to 100x faster than traditional methods, at 1% of the price, according to Innovative Solutions.
Posted December 02, 2024
Domino Data Lab, provider of the leading Enterprise AI Platform trusted by the largest AI-driven companies, is announcing an array of platform capabilities and integrations with leading AI innovators—AWS, NetApp, and NVIDIA—that focus on accelerating AI time-to-value while reducing costs and risk. Accompanied by Domino's ongoing momentum in the SaaS market—having experienced a 750% increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR) over the last year—the company continues its rapid innovation in the AI enablement space.
Posted November 27, 2024
Continuent, the leading provider of high availability and continuous operations solutions for business-critical applications using MySQL and MariaDB databases, is unveiling Tungsten Copilot, an AI-powered tool designed to enhance technical and customer support, increasing issue detection, analysis, and resolution speed. As part of Continuent's ongoing strategy to improve its customer service operations, Tungsten Copilot intelligently identifies and provides actionable steps in the event of technical issues.
Posted November 26, 2024
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is debuting a new capability that delivers near-instant recovery of large datasets stored in Amazon S3—Clumio Backtrack. By enabling organizations to automate the process of reverting a high quantity of objects to a specific version, at a specific point in time, Clumio Backtrack accelerates the recovery period in the event of an error or attack, ensuring enterprises can keep operations online.
Posted November 26, 2024
Vultr, one of the world's largest privately held cloud computing platform, announced that NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, has joined the Vultr Cloud Alliance, a partnership program consisting of solutions that enable composable AI cloud services.
Posted November 26, 2024
Kinesis Network, a global compute optimization platform, is announcing a new serverless innovation that allows enterprises to run workloads across a dynamic, multi-cloud environment. Addressing the demand for high-performance computing needed for AI, Kinesis' serverless feature empowers enterprises to unlock the value of idle computing power within its Compute-as-a-Service platform.
Posted November 25, 2024
Pegasystems Inc., The Enterprise Transformation Company, is introducing new AI-driven legacy discovery capabilities in Pega GenAI Blueprint to accelerate the task of modernizing legacy systems. These new features empower IT teams to analyze their existing systems in seconds and reimagine their workflows while reducing technical debt, according to Pega.
Posted November 25, 2024
LogicMonitor, a leading SaaS-based hybrid observability platform powered by AI, is announcing a substantial infusion of capital—an investment of $800 million—from PSG, Golub Capital, and other contributors. Powering LogicMonitor's innovations in bridging AI and data centers, this latest funding will contribute to LogicMonitor's platform expansion, global footprint, and investment in new verticals.
Posted November 25, 2024
Baffle, the easiest way to protect sensitive data, is debuting the extension of its data protection platform to pgvector on PostgreSQL. With this release, Baffle expands its data protection and control capabilities to the vector database space, ensuring that enterprises using vector databases for their GenAI apps are secured against potential data leakage.
Posted November 22, 2024
The importance of real-time data and analytics, as well as its plethora of advantages, is clear—according to DBTA subscribers, real-time data and analytics ranked as their company's #1 modernization priority. Yet data silos, data latency, and legacy infrastructures prevent real-time data and analytics from succeeding. In DBTA's special roundtable webinar, Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Data and Analytics, experts shared key solutions and best practices for effectively shifting data strategies to meet the latest modernization priorities.
Posted November 22, 2024