Artificial Intelligence Articles
I'm going to question this Beatlemania-like hysteria that recently hovered over Taylor Swift concert tickets as if Paul McCartney himself hadn't recently delivered, most likely, his last concert in North America. If I were cynical (LOL), I would ask how many bots it would take to create demand which exceeds a sufficient mathematical panic threshold so that actual fans would become so emotionally distraught that they would effectively pay any amount to acquire tickets. How does a monopoly music concert delivery system realize exponentially higher prices than conceivable, weeks before? What exactly does this witchcraft of "dynamic pricing" do? I need to go no further than to examine a similar situation myself. Self-reflection is a wonderful exercise of discovery.
Posted April 19, 2023
Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, and Genpact, a global professional services firm focused on delivering outcomes that transform businesses, are forming a strategic alliance to help organizations accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) initiatives. Dataiku's Everyday AI platform, combined with Genpact's technology-agnostic MLOps and Responsible AI framework, will provide a differentiated solution that addresses major challenges faced by organizations in the implementation of AI, such as data governance, model management, and compliance requirements, according to the companies.
Posted April 18, 2023
IBM is releasing new single frame and rack mount configurations of IBM z16 and IBM LinuxONE 4, designed to enhance flexibility and sustainability for the modern data center while still delivering the highest levels of reliability in the industry, according to the vendor.
Posted April 17, 2023
Are we finally seeing the democratization of artificial intelligence (AI)? New research out of OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania suggests that generative AI, thanks to open and widely available tools such as ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) models and GPT-4, will be part of the jobs of at least 80% of occupational groups.
Posted April 13, 2023
In mid-2020, I got a chance to work with several government tourism agencies. Their mandate was to promote local attractions and offer support to partners such as hotels, resorts, and other organizations. As you can imagine, things weren't going well for these agencies. I remember looking at their data reports and seeing unprecedented drops in volume. With every country imposing restrictions and lockdowns, no one was traveling. One agency stood out; it was completely frozen by the situation. It couldn't decide on anything. Even publishing the latest COVID numbers was difficult.
Posted April 13, 2023
Sooner or later, in business, even in IT, almost everyone must write something more than simple emails. Procedures, standards, business cases, proposals, plans: All kinds of things may need to be authored by everyone and contain descriptive narrative about the subject at hand. Much documentation can be found on the internet, but your organization's internal rules, goals, and desires cannot be found via a Google search. Even database designers and data architects must contribute to corporate internal literature.
Posted April 13, 2023
The biggest technology news of the year so far has undoubtedly been the release of the OpenAI ChatGPT technology. ChatGPT is a chat-bot style AI that can generate amazingly knowledgeable and human-like conversations. ChatGPT can also generate essay-type answers to exam questions, write halfway decent song lyrics, or even generate computer code. I was going to explain how ChatGPT works, but instead, I'll let ChatGPT tell you.
Posted April 13, 2023
Startups continue to emerge this year, addressing challenges and leveraging opportunities in innovative and novel ways. The landscape is constantly changing, and 2023 is no different. These companies bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, becoming a part of data fabric or mesh, and more.
Posted April 12, 2023
The 10th annual Data Summit conference will be held May 10-11, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Boston, with pre-conference workshops taking place on May 9, 2023. Whether your interests lie in the technical possibilities and challenges of new and emerging technologies or using Big Data for business intelligence, analytics, and other business strategies, Data Summit 2023 has something for everyone.
Posted April 11, 2023
Fivetran, a global leader in automated data movement, is introducing support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with Apache Iceberg data lake format to combine large-volume, cost-effective data storage with simple access and comprehensive compliance.
Posted April 11, 2023
Databricks is announcing the Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing, the first open, enterprise scale lakehouse platform—designed with the manufacturer in mind—to lower costs, boost productivity, and unify data ecosystems, as well as AI.
Posted April 05, 2023
Oracle is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA to include running strategic NVIDIA AI applications on the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster. NVIDIA has selected OCI as the first hyperscale cloud provider to offer NVIDIA DGX Cloud, an AI supercomputing service, at massive scale. In addition, NVIDIA is running NVIDIA AI Foundations, its new generative AI cloud services, which are available through DGX Cloud, on OCI.
Posted April 05, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, "From Edge to Cloud: IoT Data Management and Stream Processing," to explore how new approaches to data management can mean the difference between relying on archaic infrastructures and adopting agile, flexible, and scalable data processes.
Posted April 03, 2023
Digitate, a provider of SaaS-based enterprise software for IT and business operations, is releasing a new solution, dubbed Eagle, to help advance greater agility and resiliency in digital enterprises. The new release advances AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities across the entire ignio product line, solving key business challenges with better enterprise risk management, intelligent patching and compliance, automation of advanced SAP operations, and streamlined change management process.
Posted March 31, 2023
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through Wednesday, May 10.
Posted March 29, 2023
T-Systems will now have the ability to provide its customers with cloud access to IBM's quantum systems, including multiple quantum computers powered by the 127-qubit IBM Eagle processor. The Deutsche Telekom IT subsidiary will embark on the path to providing access to this technology, as well as insights on how it can be applicable to its customers' businesses. In addition, T-Systems will offer dedicated quantum know-how and training.
Posted March 27, 2023
Cleveland Clinic and IBM officially unveiled the first deployment of an onsite private sector IBM-managed quantum computer in the United States, dedicated to healthcare research with an aim to help Cleveland Clinic accelerate biomedical discoveries. Quantum computing is a rapidly emerging technology that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that today's most powerful supercomputers cannot practically solve. The ability to tap into these new computational spaces could help researchers identify new medicines and treatments more quickly, according to IBM.
Posted March 27, 2023
Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, is joining NVIDIAs DGX-Ready Software program, simplifying the deployment and management of AI for customers. Dataiku has been selected for the exclusive, invite-only program because of its tested and certified solutions that pair with NVIDIA DGX systems, allowing NVIDIA customers and partners to easily implement advanced analytics and AI.
Posted March 23, 2023
Domino Data Lab is announcing updates to its platform that will drive accessibility to open source tools and techniques—including Ray 2.0, MLflow, and Feast's feature store for machine learning (ML)—allowing enterprises to see tangible value from their AI, sooner; the announcement also features the launch of Domino Cloud, the fully-managed MLOps Platform-as-a-Service, and the general availability of Domino's hybrid and multi-cloud Nexus capability.
Posted March 23, 2023
Postman is announcing the general availability of Postman Flows, a low-code tool to enable those without extensive programming experience to create API applications.
Posted March 22, 2023
DataRobot is releasing DataRobot AI Platform 9.0, featuring deeper partner integrations, AI Accelerators, and redesigned service offerings, all centered on helping organizations derive value from their AI investments. The DataRobot AI Platform allows customers to leverage Value-Driven AI, a unique and collaborative approach that improves how organizations run, grow and optimize their business, according to the vendor.
Posted March 22, 2023
Evoke from BlueFinity allows MultiValue technologists to create native and web apps that are as modern as any app on a phone, tablet, or desktop. Evoke enables users to integrate MV data and legacy code, meaning faster to market with lower development cost and easier enhancement and modification, according to the vendor. Users can utilize tools such as chatbots, AI, ChatGPT, graphs, signature panels, retail card views, component libraries and much, much more without becoming a specialist in those technologies.
Posted March 22, 2023
Observability by definition is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. In other words, a system's behavior is determined from its outputs—information obtained by certain measures. Though observability as a term has been used for many years, the modern understanding originates in software observability, which is the ability to collect data about program execution, internal states of modules, and communication between components.
Posted March 22, 2023
To explore how DBAs can effectively address this myriad of challenges, experts joined DBTA's webinar, "The Role of the DBA in 2023: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities," identifying the methods and strategies for overcoming the growing pains of a constantly evolving data environment.
Posted March 20, 2023
SambaNova Systems is releasing the new SambaNova Suite, a collection of accurate generative AI models optimized for the enterprise, deployed on-premises or in the cloud.
Posted March 17, 2023
The world is becoming increasingly digital every day and, as a result, even more data-driven. The datasphere is experiencing stunning growth, with 90% of all data being created over just the past two years. This explosive growth is something that will only continue in the future, and it's clear that as companies begin to amass more and more data, they need to take a hard look at their data management practices.
Posted March 16, 2023
Altair, a global provider of computational science and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, is rebranding its entire data analytics and AI suite as Altair RapidMiner, uniting all data analytics technology into one platform, following the acquisitions of RapidMiner and World Programming. The Altair RapidMiner platform offers comprehensive end-to-end solutions from data ingestion and modeling to operationalization and visualization. Additionally, the platform is now available via Altair Units, delivering a new generation of frictionless AI capabilities to customers, according to the company.
Posted March 16, 2023
AI is advancing at a faster clip this year with the debut of several technologies boosting its usage. Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), for example, is the large-scale natural language technology that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. AI expert and Erudit's chief science officer and co-founder, Ricardo Michel Reyes, discussed the growing use of AI in programming and whether or not its advancement is something that programmers should fear when it comes to their job security.
Posted March 15, 2023
UiPath, an enterprise automation software company, announced that data science teams using Amazon SageMaker, an end-to-end machine learning (ML) service, can now connect to UiPath to quickly connect new ML models into business processes without the need for complex coding. The UiPath Business Automation Platform makes it simple for data scientists, ML engineers, and business analysts to automate deployment pipelines, reducing the cost of experimentation, and increasing the pace of innovation, according to the vendor.
Posted March 15, 2023
ClearML is unveiling their recent certification to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the end-to-end platform for building accelerated production AI, enhancing ClearML's efficiency and its GPU load, as well as ensuring compatibility with NVIDIA DGX systems and NVIDIA-Certified Systems.
Posted March 14, 2023
Lonestar Data Holdings announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding for furthering its plan to establish lunar data centers. Lonestar's initial data center, the size of a hardback novel, will be followed by a series of larger data centers offering data storage and edge processing.
Posted March 13, 2023
IBM and Cohesity are collaborating to address the critical need organizations have for increased data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments. Combining data protection, cyber resilience, and data management capabilities from both companies, IBM will launch its new IBM Storage Defender solution which will include Cohesity's data protection as an integral part of the offering.
Posted March 13, 2023
BrainChip Holdings Ltd is launching the second iteration of the Akida platform, the event-based digital neuromorphic processor IP that imitates the human brain for efficient data processing.
Posted March 10, 2023
Katie Roberts, PhD, data science solution architect at Neo4j, joined DBTA's webinar, "Solving Data Challenges with Knowledge Graphs and Context-Aware Recommendation Systems," to explore how building and leveraging the power of knowledge graphs can lead to better engagement with end customers through context-aware recommendation systems.
Posted March 08, 2023
Databricks is launching Databricks Model Serving, a solution aiming to streamline the management and scaling of production machine learning (ML) within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
Posted March 08, 2023
Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped carrying a wallet when leaving the house. Almost all shops supported—often insisted on—touchless payments, so there was no need to carry around paper money, and since my phone was fully able to perform touchless payments, my phone became all I needed to navigate the commercial world. I'm sure most of you have had a similar experience.
Posted March 08, 2023
MSRcosmos is launching an SAP modernization-in-a-box solution, powered by Microsoft Azure, the solution aims to transform the SAP landscape into an agile and intelligent enterprise architecture by extracting full capabilities of cloud, data and AI, and intelligent automation.
Posted March 08, 2023
Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity provider, is releasing its new Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) module for Cortex XSIAM, enabling customers to ingest user identity and behavior data and deploy state of the art AI technology to detect identity-driven attacks. The module further strengthens XSIAM's ability to consolidate multiple security operations capabilities into a unified, AI-driven security operations center (SOC) platform, according to the vendor.
Posted March 07, 2023
Fivetran, the global leader in automated data movement, is releasing three new offerings that extend the Fivetran Data Movement Platform to give users options for all deployment types for secure, real-time, and high-volume database replication. Trusted by thousands of market-leading companies such as Autodesk, Conagra Brands, Lionsgate, Morgan Stanley and Ziff Davis, Fivetran's fully managed service helps companies power mission-critical workloads and drive data-informed business decisions.
Posted March 03, 2023
Qlik is launching Connector Factory, its strategy to continually expand access to and delivery of data from hundreds of SaaS applications and data sources for enterprise cloud analytics and data integration needs. Connector Factory is an evolution in Qlik's continued focus on connecting and unlocking data from key enterprise sources for analysis and action, according to the vendor.
Posted March 02, 2023
It's time to submit nominations for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users. The nominations period has been extended through Wednesday, March 15, 2023, followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted March 01, 2023
TigerGraph, provider of an advanced analytics and ML platform for connected data, is releasing the latest version (3.9) of TigerGraph Cloud, the native parallel graph database-as-a-service. TigerGraph Cloud 3.9 includes new security, advanced AI, and machine learning capabilities that meet the demands of its rapidly growing customer base and streamline the adoption, deployment, and management of the most scalable graph database platform, according to the company. The underlying parallel native graph database engine is also available for on-prem or self-managed cloud installation.
Posted March 01, 2023
Talend, a provider of data integration and management, is making updates to Talend Data Fabric, its end-to-end platform for data discovery, transformation, governance, and sharing. In the Winter '23 release, Talend introduces advanced capabilities and enhancements to simplify and automate cloud migrations and data management, expand data connectivity, and improve data visibility, quality, control, and access.
Posted February 28, 2023
A recent report by IBM found that workers are having difficulties pursuing roles related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) across different industries. At the same time, online training and digital credentials are emerging as a recognized pathway to opportunity as respondents plan to seek new jobs in the year ahead.
Posted February 27, 2023
OneStream, the provider of corporate performance management (CPM) solutions, is launching new capabilities for Sensible ML, the time series ML solution for improving forecasting accuracy and efficiency.
Posted February 23, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is releasing Baffle Multi-Tenant Data Security, making SaaS applications and their underlying databases even easier to protect with record-level encryption. According to the company, this solution ensures that any SaaS provider meets the most stringent privacy regulations and gives their customers complete protection and control of their data. As a result, the SaaS vendor gains a competitive advantage and the ability to monetize enhanced data security.
Posted February 23, 2023