Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has shared plans for a new data center architecture for AI workloads, along with the development of its own custom chip for running artificial intelligence models. "This new data center will be an AI-optimized design, supporting liquid-cooled AI hardware and a high-performance AI network connecting thousands of AI chips together for data center-scale AI training clusters," said Santosh Janardhan head of infrastructure at Meta, in a blog post, adding that the new data center systems will be faster and more cost-effective to build than earlier facilities.
Posted May 22, 2023
IBM is acquiring Polar Security, an innovator in technology that helps companies discover, continuously monitor, and secure cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) application data, along with addressing the growing shadow data problem. IBM plans to integrate Polar Security's DSPM technology within its Guardium family of leading data security products. With the integration of Polar Security's DSPM technology, IBM Security Guardium will provide security teams with a data security platform that spans all data types across all storage locations—SaaS, on premise, and in public cloud infrastructure.
Posted May 22, 2023
IBM announced the creation of IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh, a SaaS offering that is designed to enable enterprises to bring management to their hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure. Driven by "Application-Centric Connectivity," IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh is engineered to automate the process, management, and observability of application connectivity in and between public and private clouds to help modern enterprises operate their infrastructure across hybrid multi-cloud and heterogeneous environments, according to the company.
Posted May 22, 2023
Zendesk, the business process innovator, is announcing the launch of Zendesk AI, a customer experience (CX) solution built on billions of customer service interactions to deliver personalized, efficient, and more empathetic CX, according to the vendor.
Posted May 18, 2023
Cloud experts joined DBTA's webinar, "Cloud Migration Best Practices: Top Strategies and Tools," to explore the risks and potential of cloud transformation, where certain strategies, solutions, and requirements may be the difference between a successful migration and one that fails to root.
Posted May 18, 2023
NeuroBlade, the company reinventing infrastructure for data analytics, is announcing the launch of the NeuroBlade SQL Processing Unit (SPU)—a processor designed solely for analytics in mind—now available with select Dell Power Edge servers.
Posted May 18, 2023
Satori, provider of the data security platform, is announcing the availability of Posture Management and Data Store Discovery, new capabilities added to the solution that detects and monitors the authorization of users accessing data throughout all of an enterprise's data stores to prevent data breach risks.
Posted May 17, 2023
VAST Data, the data platform company for the AI era, announced VAST's data platform is now a certified datastore for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, providing organizations with agile, scalable performance for the most challenging machine learning and deep learning workloads, including generative AI.
Posted May 17, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, "The Top Data Engineering Challenges and How to Solve Them," to discuss how organizations can navigate and best support data engineering functions, where next-gen data architecture strategies may pose a wealth of opportunity for organizations attempting to build efficient, agile, and resilient data systems.
Posted May 17, 2023
Oracle is adding innovations to Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, the industry's autonomous database powered by machine learning and optimized for analytics workloads, breaking through the proprietary and closed nature of traditional data warehouses and data lakes. Oracle is providing native multi-cloud capabilities and open standard-based data sharing across databases, simplifying data integration and analysis with a unique low-code based tool, and transforming the economics of data lakes by providing ultra-fast enterprise storage at the same low cost as object storage.
Posted May 17, 2023
DigiCert, a global provider of digital trust and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), is integrating DigiCert ONE, the platform for digital trust, on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). According to the companies, customers will benefit from DigiCert ONE's fast time to value combined with OCI's high-performance and security-first architecture for single and multi-cloud deployments. Moving forward, DigiCert and Oracle will collaborate on further integration into the OCI ecosystem to help joint customers manage their digital trust initiatives in a unified architecture.
Posted May 17, 2023
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is announcing its Spring '23 release, which includes support for flexible Standard shapes with independent scaling of compute and storage.
Posted May 17, 2023
Qlik announced it has closed its acquisition of Talend, expanding the company's capabilities for modern enterprises to access, transform, trust, analyze, and act with data. Qlik and Talend solutions are complementary, extending the capabilities in many vital areas such as data quality, transformation, application connectivity, and API services.
Posted May 16, 2023
Cognizant is introducing a new, enterprise-wide platform, dubbed Cognizant Neuro AI, designed to provide enterprises with a comprehensive approach to accelerate the adoption of generative AI technology. According to the company, the platform leverages Cognizant's consulting, advisory, ecosystem partnership, digital studios, solutioning, and delivery capabilities, in conjunction with industry expertise, to help clients transition seamlessly into the era of generative AI.
Posted May 16, 2023
The global hype surrounding ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs), and generative AI has launched a plethora of conversations about its efficacy in the business sphere; yet understanding how to best leverage these tools remains rather elusive. At Data Summit 2023, David Seuss led the session, "Investigating Neural Networks and AI," focusing on what ChatGPT, LLMs, and generative AI are, as well as how they can provide a competitive edge for a wide variety of organizations seeking to drive positive business outcomes.
Posted May 15, 2023
Doug MacWilliams discussed a technology-agnostic methodology for employing a data fabric that will be conducive to faster data on-boarding, automatic agility for data changes, manageable solutions across technologies, all united under a monitorable, maintainable data fabric at the Data Summit session, "Implementing a Data Fabric."
Posted May 15, 2023
Pratima Tripurneni led the session, "Overcoming Big Data Silos With Data Mesh," to explore how Northern Trust's recent digital modernization initiative provides a thorough example of how data mesh can transform an enterprise to remediate challenges in data sharing, management, and governance.
Posted May 15, 2023
AvePoint, an advanced platform that optimizes SaaS operations and secures collaboration, is introducing updates to the AvePoint Confidence Platform that will help organizations modernize their digital workplaces with scalability and control. According to the company, as organizations increase their dependencies on SaaS applications for digital collaboration, AvePoint's new SaaS management capabilities further improve operational efficiency, increase visibility, and enable security and compliance.
Posted May 15, 2023
Jeff Fried, director of product management at InterSystems, led the Data Summit session, "Viewing Data Fabric and Data Mesh as Complementary," to explore the ways in which data fabric and data mesh can be lifted beyond an "either/or" approach, where when united, these paradigms can propel enterprises into accessible and comprehensively data-driven entities.
Posted May 12, 2023
Alec Gilarde, senior associate at Bullpen Capital, led the Data Summit session, "Data-Driven Investment in a Changing World," delving into venture capitalist investments—powered by data—that radically transform the efficacy of investing while offering reduced risk, scalability, and increased transparency.
Posted May 12, 2023
Erwann Millon, founding engineer at Krea.ai, led Data Summit's session, "Taking a Deep Dive Into Cutting-Edge Techniques for Data Management," to discuss best practices for maximizing AI pipelines through an in-depth case study of an inference pipeline serving hundreds of models on multi-cloud clusters.
Posted May 11, 2023
Prioritizing data quality is step one to becoming data-driven. However, what is step one to improving data quality? In most IT suites, the argument is better processes, better data fields, and better technology. Kasara Weinrich, principal consultant, future of work, ADP disagrees. Organizational data literacy is the most important step to truly achieving great data quality, data-driven decision making, and data management. At Data Summit 2023, Weinrich talked about this during her session, "Data as a Second Language: Every Layer of Your Organization Needs to Be Fluent."
Posted May 11, 2023
Frank Cervone, program coordinator of information science and data analytics at San Jose State University, led the Data Summit session, "Developing Database DevOps," to explore how DataOps can be optimized to lead organizations to better business outcomes in regards to both data and analytics work.
Posted May 11, 2023
Kaladhar Voruganti, senior technologist in office of the chief revenue officer at Equinix, and Rory Kelleher, director of global business development for healthcare at NVIDIA, led Data Summit's session, "Succeeding With AI in the Cloud," to discuss strategies and methods to effectively utilize AI within business operations.
Posted May 11, 2023
At the annual Data Summit's second keynote presentation, speakers Mike Bechtel, chief futurist at Deloitte Consulting LLC, and Ankit Patel, SVP of engineering at Foursquare, explored the possibilities that await any organization seeking to transform their businesses for the better, highlighting trust and geospatial datasets as the key.
Posted May 11, 2023
Financial institutions have rich, customer-centric data and are in a strong position when building AI solutions. Since the functions differ, AI use cases also differ. The recent intense interest in generative AI has given rise to a new aspect of data science: Prompt Engineering, which is basically how humans train models like GPT by creating appropriate prompts. At Data Summit 2023, Supreet Kaur, AVP, Morgan Stanley, discussed "Leveraging Data Science and Generative AI" during her session.
Posted May 11, 2023
Jeff Jockisch, CEO of PrivacyPlan and partner at Avantis Privacy, offered his expertise in data privacy and privacy laws at the annual Data Summit's pre-conference workshop, "Essentials of Data Privacy and Security," highlighting the ways in which evolving technology and consumer preferences affect information practices and data security.
Posted May 10, 2023
Probably the most important reason for building knowledge graphs has been to answer this age-old question: "What is going to happen next?" Given the data, relationships, and timelines we know about a customer, patient, product, etc. ("the entity of interest"), how can we confidently predict the most likely next event? Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc discussed how to, "Build Predictions With Machine Learning & Graph Neural Networks," during his Data Summit 2023 presentation.
Posted May 10, 2023
While data quality tools find issues in production, it is too little, too late. Production data issues are expensive to fix and cause business discontinuity and reputation risk. iceDQ believes companies should adopt a left-shift approach to prevent faulty processes and data from entering production. Sandesh Gawande, CTO, iCEDQ, discussed "Data Testing: A Left-Shift Approach to Data Quality" during his Data Summit 2023 presentation.
Posted May 10, 2023
John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst in data strategy and architecture at Radiant Advisors, led Data Summit's pre-conference workshop, "Build The Modern Data Architecture & Plan That Transforms Your Company," to demystify the steps toward building a data architecture that fits an enterprise's unique needs while addressing the challenges that might arise.
Posted May 10, 2023
Industry publications and thought leaders have been touting the benefits of composable design for both business and architecture. Andy Vidan, CEO and co-founder, Composable Analytics talked "Composable Design Patterns," during his session at Data Summit 2023.
Posted May 10, 2023
MLOps can streamline machine learning development, thus increasing operational effectiveness. With this in mind, Joey Jablonski, VP, analytics, Pythian, looked at the journey to defining and implementing an MLOps solution for the organization during his Data Summit 2023 presentation, "Building MLOps Organizations for Scale."
Posted May 10, 2023
Data science methods provide a means to establish analytic tradecraft, capable of managing a large amount of data, allowing for full characterization of actor behaviors, and providing valuable insights. Efrain Rodriquez, data manager, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), presented a case study on how the intelligence community (IC) is addressing these challenges by establishing innovative AI/ML governance and data management methodologies, during his Data Summit 2023 session, "Using Data Management Methodologies to Foster Development of Transformational AI/ML Tradecraft."
Posted May 10, 2023
The Data Summit 2023 conference opened up focusing on "The World According to Data," with featured speakers David Weinberger, Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and Author, Christina Leber, principal data software engineer, iRobot, and Dave Mohr, regional VP, Neo4J.
Posted May 10, 2023
In an information economy, data is the currency of business. Digital upstarts are disrupting every industry, making it imperative that organizations have a strong data strategy that turns data into insights and profitable activity. At Data Summit 2023, Wayne Eckerson, president, Eckerson Group, discussed "Constructing Your Data Strategy: A Business And Technical Foundation For Success" during his workshop session.
Posted May 09, 2023
Knowledge graphs are a valuable tool that organizations can use to manage the vast amounts of data they collect, store, and analyze. At Data Summit 2023, Joseph Hilger, COO, Enterprise Knowledge LLC and Sara Nash, senior consultant, data and information management, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC discussed "Building Knowledge Graphs" during their workshop session.
Posted May 09, 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 is now extended through Wednesday, May 17.
Posted May 08, 2023
CIQ, the company behind Rocky Linux, added a new service to its portfolio aimed at enhancing how organizations manage complex software infrastructure and solutions. CIQ Mountain is a "mountain of solutions" that provides software and artifact delivery and lifecycle management for turnkey solution management at any scale.
Posted May 08, 2023
Google announced plans to build two more data centers in Ohio to help power its artificial intelligence technology and other tools. With one data center already up and running near Columbus, the two new locations will bring Google's total investment in Ohio to more than $2 billion, officials said.
Posted May 08, 2023
IBM is unveiling its new security suite designed to unify and accelerate the security analyst experience across the full incident lifecycle. According to the company, the IBM Security QRadar Suite represents a major evolution and expansion of the QRadar brand, spanning all core threat detection, investigation, and response technologies, with significant investment in innovations across the portfolio.
Posted May 08, 2023
SAP and IBM announced that IBM Watson technology will be embedded into SAP solutions to provide new AI-driven insights and automation. The move aims to help accelerate innovation and create more efficient and effective user experiences across the SAP solution portfolio. SAP will use IBM Watson capabilities to power its digital assistant in SAP Start, which provides a unified entry point for cloud solutions from SAP.
Posted May 08, 2023
Honeycomb, an observability platform used by high-performing engineering teams, is launching and fully-executing Natural Language Querying using generative AI for its new capability, Query Assistant. This development dramatically scales the platform's query power and makes observability more usable for all engineering levels, according to the company.
Posted May 04, 2023
DataStax, the real-time AI company, is releasing Luna ML, a support service for Kaskada Open Source, the unified event processing engine for real-time machine learning (ML), that gives customers modern, open source event processing for ML. According to the company, Luna ML will provide customers with mission-critical support and offers options for incident response time as low as 15 minutes. Customers will also have the ability to escalate issues to the core Kaskada engineering team for further review and troubleshooting.
Posted May 04, 2023
Frank Liu, ML architect at Zilliz, joined DBTA's webinar, "Vector Databases Have Entered the Chat—How ChatGPT Is Fueling the Need for Specialized Vector Storage," to explore how purpose-built vector databases are the key to successfully integrating with chat solutions, as well as present explanatory information on how autoregressive LMs, unstructured data, vectors, and vector databases intersect.
Posted May 03, 2023
data.world, the data catalog platform, is acquiring the Mighty Canary technology and incorporating it into a new DataOps application to use automations to surface contextual insights and real-time data quality updates directly to the BI, communications, and collaboration tools that data consumers use.
Posted May 03, 2023
Deloitte is expanding its operating system for health care to include services for Oracle, a provider of operational and clinical technology for hospitals and health care systems worldwide. According to the company, Deloitte's expanding health care technology offerings, Deloitte Health—Oracle Accelerated, are designed to keep pace with the changing world of health care, which is moving into broad ecosystems and platforms, and shifting from being driven by hospitals, providers, or insurance companies to being driven by patients.
Posted May 03, 2023
Oracle is introducing new capabilities across Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite that help customers accelerate supply chain planning, increase operational efficiency, and improve financial accuracy. The updates include new planning, usage-based pricing, and rebate management capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing (SCM) and enhanced quote-to-cash processes in Oracle Fusion Applications.
Posted May 03, 2023
According to a new study, "The Decision Dilemma" by Oracle and Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, data scientist and author of Everybody Lies and Don't Trust Your Gut, people feel overwhelmed and under qualified to use data to make decisions. The study of more than 14,000 employees and business leaders across 17 countries found that people are struggling to make decisions in their personal and professional lives at a time when they are being forced to make more decisions than ever before.
Posted May 03, 2023
PingCAP is releasing its new GitHub Data Explorer tool—a dashboard tool designed to provide deep, actionable insights within GitHub activity.
Posted May 02, 2023
Kinetica is announcing an integration between Kinetica's analytic database and ChatGPT, marking the industry's first database integration with the radically popular generative AI tool.
Posted May 02, 2023