Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
December 5, 2024
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: December 5, 2024. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
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.
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.
SurrealDB, the ultimate multi-model database, is debuting a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) version of SurrealDB, delivering a fully managed solution that abstracts the complexities of infrastructure management. Dubbed Surreal Cloud, its launch reflects an emphasis on ease and simplicity without sacrificing on power, scale, or resilience.
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.