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BMC smooths path from mainframe to cloud

Paul Gillin — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 20:47:50 +0000

BMC Software Inc. today introduced a new product portfolio to help customers migrate mainframe data to a hybrid cloud environment. The BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence Cloud combines hybrid cloud technologies with on-premises mainframe computing to enable enterprises to run large-scale transaction processing while also moving to the cloud. There are three components to the suite. […]

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Informatica deepens ties to Snowflake ecosystem

Paul Gillin — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:00:27 +0000

Informatica Corp. is launching four new product capabilities for Snowflake Inc.’s Data Cloud platform that are aimed at simplifying and speeding up the data integration replication process, all available within the native Snowflake ecosystem. Informatica Superpipe for Snowflake is said to deliver up to 3.5 times faster ingestion and replication into Snowflake. It’s the result of collaboration […]

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Snowflake stresses app development in flurry of rollouts

Paul Gillin — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:00:33 +0000

The overarching message of a wave of announcements by Snowflake Inc. at its annual user conference this week will be about enabling applications to be built on its big-data cloud platform. Among the most significant is the availability in public preview of the Snowflake Native App Framework the company introduced a year ago on the Amazon […]

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Redpanda lands $100M to expand its streaming data pipelines

Paul Gillin — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:01:26 +0000

Redpanda Data Inc., the developer of a data platform that unifies historical and real-time data, today said it has raised $100 million in an over-subscribed Series C round that brings its total funding to $163 million. The size of the bankroll is notable given the moribund state of technology markets over the past year. Also […]

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Oracle more than triples query speed in new generation of Exadata processors

Paul Gillin — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 04:01:19 +0000

Oracle today announced the latest generation of its Exadata X10M computing platform, with up to three times higher transaction throughput and 3.6 times faster analytic query performance than the previous X9M version at the same starting price. The machine is based on Advance Micro Devices Inc.’s fourth-generation EPYC processors, which pack 96 cores into a single […]

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Capital One Software boosts Snowflake cost visibility and adds intelligent query adviser

Paul Gillin — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 13:00:16 +0000

Capital One Software, the software arm of Capital One Financial Corp., today is announcing new features in Slingshot, which is a set of templates, custom workflows and controls that help users of the Snowflake Inc. Data Cloud better manage their cloud compute costs. The offering is the first, and so far only, product the company […]

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Starburst broadens support for other data sources in update of managed Trino service

Paul Gillin — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:00:43 +0000

Starburst Data Inc., which sells a distributed query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today debuted a set of new features in its Starburst Galaxy managed cloud database that are intended to make it easier for organizations to manage data from multiple sources. The new release includes a public preview of Gravity, a centralized […]

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Databricks adds applications to its marketplace

Paul Gillin — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:00:06 +0000

Databricks Inc. today announced it’s expanding its marketplace to include lakehouse applications and artificial intelligence models. Databricks said the expansion of the marketplace is significant because customers increasingly are running full-fledged applications on top of its Lakehouse Platform and want to expand into building AI models as well. Previously, the marketplace was limited to data […]

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Aerospike takes on Neo4j and TigerGraph with launch of graph database

Paul Gillin — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 09:00:35 +0000

Aerospike Inc., maker of a highly scalable NoSQL database, today is entering the graph database market with an offering that it claims can outperform and outscale offerings from market leaders such as Neo4j Inc. and TigerGraph Inc. Based on the Apache TinkerPop open-source graph framework that is also the basis of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s […]

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Oracle to launch EU-only public cloud

Paul Gillin — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 08:00:51 +0000

Taking what it says is a unique approach to addressing the compliance needs of organizations in the European Union, Oracle Corp. today launched dedicated cloud infrastructure exclusively for use by the 27 EU member countries, providing the same services, service-level agreements and pricing as its broader public cloud. The EU Sovereign Cloud, which will be […]

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Data observability startup Telmai raises $5.5M in oversubscribed seed round

Paul Gillin — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:00:47 +0000

Data observability startup Telmai Inc. today said it has raised $5.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round, bringing its total funding to $8.5 million. The company has created what it says is a unique approach to data quality management with an engine based on the Apache Spark analytics framework. It can accommodate a wide variety […]

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Informatica acquires Privitar to strengthen privacy controls

Paul Gillin — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:50:13 +0000

Informatica Corp. said today it will acquire Privitar Ltd., a London-based maker of access controls and remediation for data privacy and security, for an undisclosed amount. The company said it plans to incorporate Privitar’s technology into its Intelligent Data Management Cloud, a platform for analyzing and managing data across large enterprises. The acquisition is expected to […]

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Oracle NetSuite gets auto-reconciliation capability

Paul Gillin — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:20:43 +0000

Oracle Corp. today said it has added account reconciliation and transaction matching capabilities to its NetSuite enterprise resource planning suite, addressing what it says is a major pain point for organizations closing their books. NetSuite Account Reconciliation can be used to standardize and automate the reconciliation process, produce more accurate financial statements and enable faster […]

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Oracle Cloud to incorporate latest AMD EPYC processors

Paul Gillin — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:00:57 +0000

Oracle Corp. today announced plans to upgrade its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E5 instances to use the latest generation of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. EPYC processors. The company will continue to offer the option of flexible instances that allow customers to allocate cores and memory as needed. The new EPYC processors provide about a 33% performance boost […]

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Salesforce adds generative AI support across its application portfolio

Paul Gillin — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:00:34 +0000

Salesforce Inc. today is jumping aboard the generative artificial intelligence train with the addition of large language model support across its portfolio of applications. Generative AI can now be incorporated into the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, Salesforce Data Cloud, Tableau analytics, Flow process manager and MuleSoft integration toolset for queries, code generation and business process […]

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Snowflake’s seventh industry cloud targets government and education

Paul Gillin — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:38:41 +0000

Snowflake Inc. today launched its seventh industry cloud, this one devoted to government and education. The cloud combines its data platform with software from its partners and industry-specific datasets. Snowflake said the cloud meets a wide variety of security and compliance standards around the globe and addresses the need for secure collaboration within and across government […]

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Imply Data gives Apache Druid schema auto-discover capability

Paul Gillin — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:00:20 +0000

Startup Imply Data Inc., which is promoting the use of the open-source Apache Druid real-time analytical database, today announced the third milestone in Project Shapeshift, its campaign to build a comprehensive toolset for developers to use in building applications on top of Druid. Imply is a multicloud data platform for real-time data ingestion and visualization […]

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VMware’s Cloud Foundation 5 hybrid cloud platform is now available

Paul Gillin — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:40:34 +0000

VMware Inc.’s Cloud Foundation 5.0 hybrid cloud platform is now available, touting improvements in scalability, security and deployment simplicity. The release, announced Thursday, includes the latest versions of the VMware vSphere hypervisor version 8.0 Update 1, vSAN storage virtualization layer 8.0 Update 1, NSX 4.1 for network and security virtualization and vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8.10 […]

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Dell’s revenue plunge was expected. The question is when growth will return

Paul Gillin — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:07:46 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc.’s revenue plunged 20% in its fiscal first quarter, but the results today beat lowered analysts’ estimates on both sales and profits. Shares gained about 1.5% today on an early release of the earnings statement about noon PDT, but they fell almost 3% after-hours on disappointing guidance for the second quarter and full […]

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Coalition of AI leaders sees ‘societal-scale risks’ from the technology’s misuse

Paul Gillin — Tue, 30 May 2023 16:42:32 +0000

A statement issued today and signed by more than 375 computer scientists, academics and business leaders warns of profound risks of artificial intelligence misuse and says the potential problems posed by the technology be given the same urgency as pandemics and nuclear war. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority […]

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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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