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AI and automation headline Red Hat’s annual user fest
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 ...
Red Hat turns its software supply chain practices into products
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 ...
Red Hat gives Ansible a generative AI front end and adds stream processing features
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 ...
Will AI kill jobs? MIT professor says that depends on how it’s used
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 ...
Kyndryl beats earnings estimates but shares fall on weak guidance
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 ...
Qlik closes Talend acquisition, looks to grow its data integration footprint
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 ...
HPE Ezmeral refresh broadens open-source support and now works with objects and streams
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 ...
Confluent buffs up its cloud with data quality controls and managed connections
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 ...
MariaDB brings its Xpand distributed DBMS to PostgreSQL users
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. ...
ThoughtSpot broadly enhances its BI platform and adds intelligent mobile client
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 ...