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AI and automation headline Red Hat’s annual user fest

Paul Gillin — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:00:49 +0000

IBM Corp.’s Red Hat Inc. subsidiary today is kicking off its annual Red Hat Summit conference with the themes of “do more with less” and “scale for innovation” and a raft of enhancements to its core products that address both. It wouldn’t be 2023 if there weren’t an artificial intelligence angle, and Red Hat OpenShift […]

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Red Hat turns its software supply chain practices into products

Paul Gillin — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:00:47 +0000

Red Hat Inc. is betting that software development organizations will be willing to pay for the lessons it has learned over 30 years of working with open-source software at a time when software supply-chain attacks are proliferating. At its annual Red Hat Summit conference today, the company is launching Trusted Software Supply Chain, an offering […]

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Red Hat gives Ansible a generative AI front end and adds stream processing features

Paul Gillin — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:00:33 +0000

Ansible, the open-source automation tool that is the leading software used to automate software provisioning, configuration management and application deployment, is getting real-time, event-driven processing capabilities and an artificial intelligence-enabled front end in a series of announcements by Red Hat Inc. this week. Ansible Lightspeed with IBM Watson Code Assistant keys off the industry’s current […]

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Will AI kill jobs? MIT professor says that depends on how it’s used

Paul Gillin — Thu, 18 May 2023 17:56:18 +0000

The number of nurse practitioners in the U.S. has grown from 40,000 in 1995 to 300,000 today and is expected to grow an additional 40% by 2030. Technology has contributed to this trend by enabling nurse practitioners to take on many tasks that were formerly the sole domain of doctors. The same can’t be said […]

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Kyndryl beats earnings estimates but shares fall on weak guidance

Paul Gillin — Wed, 17 May 2023 14:26:36 +0000

Shares of Kyndryl Holdings Inc., the former services business unit of IBM Corp., fell more than 10% in early trading today as the company’s full-year revenue forecast issued Tuesday fell below analysts’ expectations. However, the company said it’s beating its goals on booking new business in the lucrative hyperscale market and is successfully shedding low-margin […]

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Qlik closes Talend acquisition, looks to grow its data integration footprint

Paul Gillin — Wed, 17 May 2023 03:42:19 +0000

Qlik Tech International AB today said announced it has closed its acquisition of Talend Inc., which was announced in January. The merged companies will be led by Qlik Chief Executive Mike Capone (pictured), who has spearheaded a campaign to build a data integration, data quality and analytics presence in large part through 10 acquisitions over the […]

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HPE Ezmeral refresh broadens open-source support and now works with objects and streams

Paul Gillin — Tue, 16 May 2023 13:00:35 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is simplifying its Ezmeral data analytics portfolio, brushing up the user interface, expanding the selection of open-source tools it offers, integrating object and streaming data sources, and improving interoperability across multiple clouds. The company says it’s attacking the problem of data silos by offering a complete data and analytics platform […]

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Confluent buffs up its cloud with data quality controls and managed connections

Paul Gillin — Tue, 16 May 2023 07:30:01 +0000

Confluent Inc., a provider of real-time data streaming tools based on Apache Kafka, today is using its London-based Kafka Summit to announce new capabilities in its Confluent Cloud that address data quality issues. The company is also simplifying the process of building connectors to third-party data sources, making it easier for customers to share streams […]

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MariaDB brings its Xpand distributed DBMS to PostgreSQL users

Paul Gillin — Tue, 09 May 2023 21:09:46 +0000

MariaDB plc today said it will make its Xpand distributed database management system available to PostgreSQL users in addition to its own customer base. “Our vision is to take databases to new heights of scale and resilience, in any cloud at a fraction of the cost of competitors,” said Chief Executive Michael Howard, in a statement. […]

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ThoughtSpot broadly enhances its BI platform and adds intelligent mobile client

Paul Gillin — Tue, 09 May 2023 16:00:59 +0000

Business intelligence platform provider ThoughtSpot Inc. today is broadly enhancing its core application and launching a new mobile client. New capabilities include expanded search options, additional connections to data sources and platforms, new ways to collaborate on analytics and options to deliver information without requiring a user login. ThoughtSpot, which has raised more than $663 […]

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Informatica adds GPT support and cloud migration enticements for on-premises customers

Paul Gillin — Tue, 09 May 2023 13:00:09 +0000

Informatica Corp. is doubling down on its Intelligent Data Management Cloud with a series of announcements today at its Informatica World conference in Las Vegas. They include expanded artificial intelligence capabilities, vertical market features and a broader scope of master data management products. The announcements come as the company is completing what it says is […]

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Tableau refreshes its visualization platform with GPT added

Paul Gillin — Tue, 09 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The Tableau Software subsidiary of Salesforce Inc. today added generative pre-trained transformer technology of the type used in the popular ChatGPT question-answering application to its core data visualization platform. The company cited its own research that found that 80% of senior information technology leaders believe generative artificial intelligence will help their organizations make better use of […]

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Kinetica adds ChatGPT front-end to its high-speed analytical database

Paul Gillin — Tue, 02 May 2023 12:00:42 +0000

Kinetica DB Inc., the developer of a real-time analytic database for time-series and spatial workloads, today announced that it has integrated its analytic database with OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence engine to enable users to compose SQL queries using natural language. The company said users can now ask any question about their own data, […]

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Enterprise DB entices Oracle users to move to Postgres

Paul Gillin — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:00:41 +0000

EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source Postgres database management system, today is announcing a program that helps qualifying organizations easily migrate from Oracle Corp. databases to Postgres. The EDB Guaranteed Postgres Migration program is aimed at organizations and divisions of organizations in North America and Europe that are attempting their […]

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SAP shares jump on positive outlook

Paul Gillin — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 14:23:47 +0000

SAP SE shares jumped in early trading today as the enterprise resource planning giant reported earnings and revenue that beat analyst expectations. The German software company adjusted its full-year guidance down to reflect the pending divestiture of its Qualtrics International Inc. subsidiary but said cloud revenue should be up between 23% and 26% at constant […]

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IBM misses on sales, but strong earnings and bullish forecast drive its stock higher

Paul Gillin — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:13:11 +0000

IBM Corp. narrowly missed revenue expectations for the first quarter but strong earnings results and strength in its software business helped drive shares up nearly 2% in after-hours trading. The enterprise computing giant reiterated its full-year outlook of revenue growth in the 3% to 5% range while cautioning that there could be some weakness in […]

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Prosimo unveils application-driven multicloud orchestration suite

Paul Gillin — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:00:58 +0000

Prosimo Inc., the developer of networking technology for orchestrating application delivery across multiple clouds, today introduced a suite of tools that organizations can use to securely interconnect applications and services across regions and clouds. The Cloud-Native Networking Suite aligns underlying cloud and network infrastructure with applications to simplify cloud onboarding, reduce network delivery lifecycles and […]

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Salesforce to integrate generative AI with workflow automation

Paul Gillin — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:00:34 +0000

Salesforce Inc. is expanding its generative artificial intelligence footprint today with new capabilities for its Einstein GPT general-purpose AI assistant that allow it to work with its Flow workflow automation suite. The company is also tightening integration between its Data Cloud “lakehouse” and Flow. The integration of Einstein GPT and Flow makes it possible for users […]

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Oracle boosts supply chain planning, adds support for subscription services across its financial applications

Paul Gillin — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 07:00:03 +0000

Oracle Corp. is continuing its aggressive development of new features in its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing suite with the addition of artificial intelligence-enabled lead time estimating for supply chain planning, the company announced today. Oracle is also enhancing the quote-to-cash process in several of its financial applications and adding career guidance features to […]

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Sumo Logic adds predictive analytics to its observability platform

Paul Gillin — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 13:00:55 +0000

Sumo Logic Inc., developer of an analytics-based platform for application performance management and observability, today added capabilities that predict application, cloud and infrastructure usage and resource demands based on historical data. It’s also stepping up its commitment to the OpenTelemetry collection of tools, application program interfaces and software development kits that can be used to instrument, […]

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Construction safety startup SafeGuard AI lands $8M initial funding round

Paul Gillin — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 16:03:00 +0000

Construction technology startup SafeGuard AI Inc. Co. today said it has raised an $8 million Series A funding round to develop its technology that uses machine learning to predict and prevent accidents during construction. The company also said it plans to expand the use of its decision-making toolset beyond construction to include compliance coverage. Citing […]

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C3 AI’s Tom Siebel sees power and peril in AI’s march to the mainstream

Paul Gillin — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:29:44 +0000

Any list of computer industry figures who could legitimately be classified as a living legend would have to include Tom Siebel. He and co-founder Pat House started Siebel Systems Inc. in 1993 and grew it to a $2 billion-a-year giant that practically defined the customer relationship management market for large enterprises. Oracle Corp. bought Siebel […]

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IBM acquires Ahana, joins the Presto Foundation

Paul Gillin — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:23:04 +0000

IBM Corp. has acquired Ahana Cloud Inc., a startup that offers managed and commercial versions of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, for an undisclosed price. In doing so, IBM becomes a member of the Presto Foundation, which curates the project that in 2013 was spun out of Facebook Inc., now Meta Platforms Inc. The […]

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AWS doubles down on generative AI training

Paul Gillin — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:50:50 +0000

Amazon Web Services Inc. is extending its reach further into the domain of artificial intelligence software development with the release today of several new tools for generative AI training and deployment on its cloud platform. In a post on the AWS Machine Learning blog, the company detailed new offerings that include the ability to build […]

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Snowflake’s newest industry cloud targets manufacturers

Paul Gillin — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:00:39 +0000

Snowflake Inc. today is rolling out its sixth industry-specific offering, this one targeting manufacturers. The Manufacturing Data Cloud is aimed at supporting companies in the automotive, technology, energy and industrial sectors in addressing information silos within their organizations and collaborating more efficiently with partners, suppliers and customers. Noting that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in […]

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Slingshot collaboration platform gets data catalog capabilities

Paul Gillin — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:01:56 +0000

Development tools maker Infragistics Corp. today is announcing the addition of data cataloging capabilities to its Slingshot collaboration software. The company said the catalog can be used by non-technical users to unify data across an organization and create visual dashboards. Slingshot’s data catalog can be used with a wide variety of data sources, including the most […]

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Observability platform Honeycomb pockets $50M in new funding

Paul Gillin — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 13:00:48 +0000

Observability platform maker Hound Technology Inc., which does business as Honeycomb, today announced that it has raised $50 million in a Series D venture round, bringing its total funding to $150 million. The seven-year-old firm, which takes credit for popularizing the term “observability” as an evolution of application performance management, has staked its reputation on […]

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C3.ai shares tumble on criticism by short seller

Paul Gillin — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:11:19 +0000

Shares of enterprise artificial intelligence software provider C3.ai Inc. tumbled for the second straight day on Wall Street in the wake of allegations by a short seller of accounting irregularities. The selloff also dragged down shares of other AI firms, which in general have bucked the downtrend among tech stocks this year. C3.ai’s stock fell […]

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HPE GreenLake gets hybrid block/file storage and expanded data protection

Paul Gillin — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 17:00:35 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today introduced a hybrid file and block storage offering that it will make available on-premises with as-a-service pricing, and also announced new disaster and backup recovery data services with uptime guarantees. The new file and block offerings are based on the HPE Alletra Storage platform the company introduced two years ago […]

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Databricks aims at manufacturers with its newest vertical lakehouse

Paul Gillin — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:00:34 +0000

Databricks Inc. today is adding another vertical industry lakehouse targeting the manufacturing industry. The Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing unifies data and artificial intelligence technology in a high-speed analytics engine that has already been adopted by DuPont de Nemours Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC, Royal Dutch Shell plc, and Tata Steel Ltd. This vertical […]

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