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For most enterprises these days, hyperscale data workloads and AI have become the norm and are driving data strategies. However, while conventional wisdom dictates that this means greater reliance on cloud services and cutting-edge approaches to manage data pipelines, there's a place for more well-tread approaches as well. Many data managers intend to beef up their data warehouse capabilities and even return to on-prem systems in the near future.
Posted October 12, 2023
Mankind has long dreamed of the promise of automation. Our earliest ancestors imagined it as something the gods could wield. In Homer's The Odyssey, Hephaestus, the Greek god of smithing and craft, uses automation to complete simple repetitive labor. Buddhist legends speak of automated guards who watched over the Buddha's relics.
Posted October 12, 2023
Many people seem to become filled with anxiety over the word "normalization." Mentioning the word causes folks to slowly back away toward the exits. Why? What might have caused this data modeling phobia? Do people have images flashing through their minds of data modelers running around wearing a hockey mask and carrying a chainsaw screaming, "Give me your primary keys"? I hope not.
Posted October 12, 2023
Solace, a provider of event-driven architecture for real-time enterprises, is releasing a new version of its Solace Event Portal solution, giving organizations with Apache Kafka deployments better visibility into, and control over, their Kafka event streams, brokers, and associated assets.
Posted October 10, 2023
The "big data" world is pervasive—to the point in which every organization is now a big data organization. As AI, machine learning, and other high-end analytics become mainstream parts of business operations, new ways of handling data assets are coming to the fore. Industry leaders and experts recently shared their views with Big Data Quarterly on the latest technology developments shaping today's big data world.
Posted October 10, 2023
Tricentis, the continuous testing and quality engineering company, is advancing its mission to make Tricentis Mobile the most comprehensive, end-to-end mobile testing solution on the market with the integration of Virtual Mobile Grid.
Posted October 09, 2023
New AI toolkits, machine learning (ML) frameworks, and AI-based private cloud tools are coming to IBM Z-series mainframe users, as the company looks to preserve its share of the fast-growing AI marketplace. The company announced that its newest offerings, meant to help organizations get to work on the latest and greatest in AI frameworks, will be available for IBM Z, LinuxOne, z/OS, and Cloud Pak architectures.
Posted October 09, 2023
Vantage Data Centers has raised $1.35 billion in securitized notes, enabling the company to refinance the existing loans in place for three of Vantage's data centers in Northern Virginia and five data centers in Quebec, Canada. The remaining funds will be used for "general corporate needs."
Posted October 09, 2023
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), the Center for Digital Government (CDG), and IBM released a report entitled, "Preparing for Future Shocks in State Government," aiming to help frame what future disruptions may look like for state chief information officers (CIOs) and how they can effectively tackle them.
Posted October 09, 2023
IonQ, a leader in the quantum computing industry, is debuting two rack-mounted solutions that introduce quantum capabilities to existing infrastructures: IonQ Forte Enterprise and IonQ Tempo.
Posted October 09, 2023
Docker is partnering with Neo4j, LangChain, and Ollama to create a new GenAI Stack designed to help developers get a running start with generative AI applications. Eliminating the need to search for and cobble together and configure technologies from different sources, the GenAI Stack is pre-configured, ready-to-code, and secure with large language models (LLMs) from Ollama, vector and graph databases from Neo4j, and the LangChain framework. Docker also announced its first AI-powered product, Docker AI.
Posted October 06, 2023
Akeneo, the Product Experience (PX) Company and provider of product information management (PIM) solutions, is acquiring Unifai, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for data collection, cleansing, categorization, and enrichment pioneered by leading experts in AI and machine learning (ML).
Posted October 04, 2023
SnapLogic, a leader in generative integration, announced it is collaborating Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expand the capabilities of SnapGPT, SnapLogic's generative integration interface. As part of this collaboration, SnapLogic will make Anthropic's cutting-edge Large Language Model (LLM), Claude 2, offered by Amazon Bedrock, available within the SnapGPT platform that was made generally available earlier this year. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides access to industry-leading foundation models via an API to build and scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Posted October 04, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is offering a solution for securing private data for use in generative AI (GenAI) projects that integrates seamlessly with existing data pipelines. With Baffle Data Protection for AI, companies can accelerate GenAI projects knowing their regulated data is cryptographically secure and remain compliant, while minimizing risk and gaining the benefits of a breakthrough technology, according to the company.
Posted October 03, 2023
Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, is unveiling the LLM Mesh, addressing the need for an effective, scalable, and secure platform for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) in the enterprise. In addition, Dataiku is partnering with Snowflake, Pinecone, and AI21 Labs on LLM Mesh and its features represent several of the key components of the LLM Mesh: containerized data and compute capabilities, vector databases, and LLM builders.
Posted October 03, 2023
SAP announced that Amadeus has successfully transitioned its main SAP software infrastructure to the cloud through the RISE with SAP solution, marking a significant milestone for one of the world's leading technology companies for the travel and tourism industry in its digital transformation journey. Leveraging RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, Amadeus transitioned its internal processes to the cloud with Microsoft Azure to improve operational resilience and evolve its operations to a cloud operations-based model.
Posted September 27, 2023
SAP and LeanIX GmbH anndounced that SAP has entered into an agreement to acquire LeanIX, a leader in enterprise architecture management (EAM) software, helping SAP expand its business transformation portfolio and giving customers access to the full suite of tools required for continuous business transformation and facilitating AI-enabled process optimization.
Posted September 27, 2023
Zumasys is examining ways to integrate AI into its Rover product suite, according to the latest blog post by Mike Wright, director of technology at Zumasys. AI will be making its mark in Rover ERP through the Rover Web Suite of Products and the Rover Business Suite. The heart of this integration is "Rover AI," a chatbot assistant. Once it's part of the system, users who have the required access can avail of this assistant directly within the Rover interface.
Posted September 27, 2023
Venafi, the inventor of machine identity management, is introducing Venafi Athena, the new underpinning AI technology for the Venafi Control Plane—made possible only by Venafi's modern software-as-a-service architecture built on decades of in-depth expertise and innovation. Venafi Athena combines the powers of machine learning, large language models, and Venafi's industry-leading data capabilities to make machine identity management easier and faster for security and platform teams, according to the company.
Posted September 25, 2023
GLP Pte Ltd. (GLP), a leading global business builder, developer, owner and operator of logistics real estate, data centers, and renewable energy, is launching Ada Infrastructure, a new global data center business founded on a commitment to being a positive force for technology, people, and the planet. Serving the digital infrastructure needs of hyperscale companies and large global enterprises, Ada Infrastructure launches with 850 megawatts (MW) of secured IT capacity across Japan, the U.K., and Brazil, and nearly 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of total future capacity.
Posted September 25, 2023
TruEra is releasing TruEra AI Observability, a full-lifecycle AI observability solution providing monitoring, debugging, and testing for ML models in a single SaaS offering along with covering both generative and traditional (discriminative) ML models. According to the company, the solution is aimed to meet customer needs for observability across their full portfolio of AI applications, as interest in developing and monitoring LLM-based apps accelerates.
Posted September 21, 2023
The boom in generative AI interest serves as a visible tipping point in the yearslong journey of the enterprise embracing the power of data interaction through natural language processing (NLP). In recent years, NLP has undergone significant changes that have made it increasingly easier for users at all skill levels to handle and explore data without being a data scientist.
Posted September 20, 2023
Oracle is announcing the availability of Java 21, delivering thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, including platform enhancements that will help developers increase productivity and drive innovation and growth across their organizations.
Posted September 20, 2023
Oracle is adding new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX) to help marketers, sellers, and service agents grow revenue and deliver exceptional customer experience. According to the company, the latest AI capabilities liberate marketers, sellers, and service agents from time-consuming and manual tasks by unlocking relevant content, recommendations, and insights with automation and conversational interfaces.
Posted September 20, 2023
Pegasystems Inc., the low-code platform provider empowering the world's leading enterprises to Build for Change, is releasing the general availability of Pega Infinity '23, offering new capabilities that help organizations get closer to becoming an autonomous enterprise by unifying AI and automation to promote self-optimization that drives maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
Posted September 15, 2023
My fascination with AI began in 2009, when the technology was yet to gain mainstream traction. Today, the recent ChatGPT boom has made AI a normal topic of conversation, and there is no denying that it has become an integral part of our daily lives. From personalized social media recommendations to autonomous vehicles, many more people are aware of AI's potential to enhance our quality of life.
Posted September 14, 2023
The dramatic advances in generational AI—chatGPT in particular—have motivated almost all technology companies to find an AI story that can break through the heavily AI-oriented technology news feeds. It can be hard for database companies to tell an AI story. While most AI is data-driven and therefore dependent on database technology, advances in database technology have not in themselves driven advances in AI, and AI has generally not yet revolutionized database technology.
Posted September 14, 2023
As the world slowly transitions to a post-covid landscape, organizations are looking at what the "new normal" is shaping up to be. To support organizations in navigating through new challenges and a rapidly evolving big data ecosystem, Big Data Quarterly presents 2023's "Big Data 75," a list of companies driving innovation and expanding what is possible in terms of collecting, storing, and extracting value from data.
Posted September 13, 2023
Denodo is receiving a $336 million investment by TPG, underscoring the strength of Denodo's solutions, growth, and potential in the data management space. TPG's investment in Denodo will help to further strengthen Denodo's balance sheet and accelerate the company's market initiatives on a global scale. With more than 300 companies in its portfolio, headquartered across 30 different countries, TPG brings deep expertise in the software business and a long trajectory of researching and building relationships to help drive transformational growth, according to Denodo.
Posted September 13, 2023
Ant Group Digital Technologies is launching a new brand called ZAN, comprising of a full suite of blockchain application development products and services for both institutional and individual Web3 developers. For institutional customers, ZAN provides a solution to help them issue and manage real world assets (RWAs) in compliance with local regulatory requirements.
Posted September 13, 2023
ARPA Network, a permissionless, decentralized, secure computation network, is publicly launching MainNet, pioneering applications of Threshold Signature Scheme (TSS) technology, and taking a leading role in the industry. The ARPA Boneh-Lynn-Shacham Threshold Signature Scheme (BLS-TSS) Network is a decentralized cryptographic system designed to provide secure and reliable random number generation on the Ethereum blockchain.
Posted September 13, 2023
Unisphere and DBTA, in partnership with Radiant Advisors, gathered real-world experts to discuss and evaluate popular data architecture plans in DBTA's recent webinar, 2023 Modern Data Architecture Trends: New Market Research and Guidance, using its latest market study on these innovative strategies and technologies.
Posted September 11, 2023
What are the key pain points that produce slow time to value with today's geospatial data technology implementations? Foursquare SVP of engineering Ankit Patel explained how to utilize geospatial data effectively during his presentation at Data Summit 2023.
Posted September 08, 2023
Descope, the drag-and-drop authentication platform for developers, is announcing the availability of third-party connectors that enable app developers to create and customize entire user journeys using no-code tools. These available connectors include Google reCAPTCHA Enterprise, Traceable, Segment, HubSpot, Amazon Rekognition, Google Cloud Translation, Amazon Translate, SendGrid, Datadog, Twilio, and Amazon S3.
Posted August 30, 2023
Rambus Inc., a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, is introducing a suite of Security IP solutions for the FPGA market with state-of-the-art cryptographic, side-channel, and Quantum Safe protections. According to the company, designed to meet the unique needs of FPGAs, the offering secures the broad range of devices from high-performance accelerators for generative AI, to low-power solutions for IoT devices. Rambus security IP protects FPGAs serving applications in the data center, AI/ML, edge, IoT, defense, and beyond.
Posted August 28, 2023
VMware, Inc. is launching new Private AI offerings to drive enterprise adoption of generative artificial intelligence and tap into the value of trusted data. The announcement was made at VMware Explore 2023. Private AI is an architectural approach that unlocks the business gains from AI with the practical privacy and compliance needs of an organization, according to the company.
Posted August 23, 2023
Software AG and SAP are extending their partnership with an agreement to integrate its market-leading Intelligent Asset Management Suite including Asset Performance Management (APM) with Software AG's market-leading Industrial IoT Platform, Cumulocity IoT. According to the companies, customers will benefit from tight product integration and closed-loop asset performance management.
Posted August 23, 2023
SAP announced that L3Harris Technologies selected the RISE with SAP solution to help power the aerospace and defense company's enterprise transformation initiative, streamlining its ERP systems. RISE with SAP will support L3Harris' long-term strategy as it moves away from multiple ERP systems to a single platform. This single offering—which includes cloud ERP applications, cloud application services, SAP Business Technology Platform, testing services for SAP solutions and SAP Business Network for Procurement—will help L3Harris move to the cloud with greater confidence.
Posted August 23, 2023
XponentL Data (XponentL), a leading data products solution provider, and Tamr, Inc. (Tamr), a cloud-native data mastering solution, are partnering to deliver cutting-edge data product solutions. According to the companies, this collaboration brings together two industry-leading companies with a shared vision of empowering clients to unlock the full potential of their data.
Posted August 17, 2023
Oracle announced the U.S. Intelligence Community has authorized Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to host Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) missions. This new accreditation provides the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community access to Oracle Cloud innovations and expands Oracle's enterprise accreditations to support unclassified, controlled unclassified information (CUI), and top-secret workloads. Oracle also offers customers access to dedicated cloud regions authorized at FedRAMP High/DISA IL2-4, DISA IL 5, and FedRAMP+.
Posted August 16, 2023
Oracle announced that Wendy's has successfully implemented Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite and moved business-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to increase productivity, expand business insights, and improve the experience it delivers to its growing customer base.
Posted August 16, 2023
In the 1992 movie Sneakers, hackers discover a device that can break the encryption of virtually any computer system. At the time of release, the idea seemed far-fetched. But today, because of quantum computers, we may soon have a similar device. Quantum theory is now approaching its 100th anniversary, with the central tenants of the theory having been well-established by the mid-1920s. Together with general relativity, quantum theory is one of the foundational theories of modern science. Our modern world would not be possible without quantum theory: It's central to the design of semiconductors, lasers, MRIs, and even LEDs.
Posted August 16, 2023
MindsDB, an artificial intelligence virtual database enabling the creation of the next wave of AI-centered applications, announced it has received an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA's venture capital arm, bringing total seed funding raised to $46.5 million. The latest round—which includes existing investors Benchmark, Mayfield, Y Combinator, OpenOcean, and Walden Catalyst—will further advance MindsDB's mission, making AI more accessible to all businesses by enabling the world's 30 million software developers to implement AI capabilities in their products.
Posted August 15, 2023
PEAK:AIO, a provider of a transformative software defined storage platform, is partnering with Stormgrid, a provider of cutting-edge hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, offering state-of-the-art AI infrastructure to enhance performance and scalability for Stormgrid's burgeoning customer base.
Posted August 14, 2023
What are the liability and cost traps you need to watch out for when contracting for data ownership? Adler Law Group president and founder David Adler discussed these key legal considerations in his presentation at Data Summit 2023. Liability and cost traps fall into three areas including laws, rules, and regulations; IT integrations; and third parties, Adler explained.
Posted August 11, 2023
For more and more organizations, real time is not only the right time—it's the only time that matters. No longer can decision makers afford to only understand the material events affecting their businesses a month, a day, or even just a few hours after the fact. They need a sense of what is happening in the moment to be able to predict and adjust for events that are arising. The value of real-time data "is that it provides needed information to accelerate business insights so teams can make better informed decisions and avoid the issues around using older data," said Tarun Chopra, vice president of product management for data and AI at IBM.
Posted August 10, 2023
Existing data infrastructures are crumbling under the weight of data, leading to unsustainable energy consumption, increased management complexity, and declining security. That's the word from a recent survey of 1,288 executives, released by Hitachi Vantara. The survey also finds 76% feel their current data infrastructures "will be unable to scale to meet upcoming demands"—such as AI. Another 61% report they are simply "overwhelmed" by the amount of data they manage. By 2025, the report's authors predict, large organizations will be storing more than 65 petabytes (PB) of data.
Posted August 10, 2023