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Databricks launches free tool to streamline enterprise data warehouse migrations
Continuing a deluge of announcements clustered around making it easier for enterprises to build artificial intelligence-based agents and applications, Databricks Inc. today is wrapping up its Data+AI Summit with Lakebridge, a migration tool intended to simplify and accelerate the notoriously difficult process of migrating legacy data warehouses. Databricks said the free offering automates up to ...
New Databricks tools aim to cut costs and complexity in AI agent deployment
Databricks Inc. today unveiled a new suite of tools aimed at simplifying the development of artificial intelligence agents for enterprise use. The centerpiece of the announcement is Mosaic Agent Bricks, a unified workspace that automates agent building and optimization using customers’ enterprise data and synthetic equivalents. Agent Bricks enters public beta at the company’s annual Data ...
Cisco product blitz aimed at making networks more AI-friendly
Asserting that bandwidth limitations are throttling artificial intelligence’s potential, Cisco Systems Inc. is using its Cisco Live event today to introduce new products and updates designed to help enterprises and service providers adapt their infrastructure to the growing demands of AI-driven workloads. The updates span data center networking, AI workload optimization, security and operational management. ...
Exclusive: CData to embed its connectivity technology across Palantir analytics and AI platforms
CData Software Inc. today announced an expanded partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc. that integrates CData’s connectivity technology deeply into Palantir’s analytics platforms. The agreement expands a longstanding collaboration between the two companies and makes CData’s suite of more than 300 connectors to back-end data sources available directly to Palantir users. The deal lets Palantir customers ...
Exclusive: Unravel is giving away a Snowflake performance optimization analyzer
Unravel Data Systems Inc., which builds software that helps businesses understand and optimize the performance and cost of applications and data pipelines, today is introducing a free application that helps users of the Snowflake Inc. cloud data platform identify and address inefficiencies in their workloads. The announcement is being made at Snowflake Summit 2025 in ...
Ciroos.AI raises $21M for multi-agent site reliability engineering platform
Ciroos.AI, a startup that aims to automate much of the manual work involved in site reliability engineering, today said it has raised $21 million in a funding round led by Energy Impact Partners LP. The company said it will use the funding to expand hiring and build out engineering, sales and marketing capabilities. Ciroos describes ...
Snowflake platform enhancements focus on performance, governance and interoperability
Snowflake Inc. today is introducing a broad slate of platform updates aimed at improving performance, reducing operational overhead and expanding its range of interoperable tools. The flagship announcement is that the latest release of the company’s core data warehouse, called Standard Warehouse – Generation 2, is now generally available. Comprising both hardware and software upgrades ...
Snowflake expands AI tools to streamline enterprise data workflows and speed machine learning
Snowflake Inc. is leading off its Snowflake Summit 2025 user conference in San Francisco today by unveiling a series of new artificial intelligence capabilities intended to simplify the ways users interact with data. The announcements reflect the company’s push to embed generative AI across its platform and make advanced analytics more broadly accessible. Snowflake is ...
Informatica CEO sees Salesforce acquisition as strategic expansion, not exit
As the dust begins to settle from last week’s announcement that Salesforce Inc. will acquire data integration market leader Informatica Inc. in a deal valued at $8 billion, Informatica Chief Executive Amit Walia called the move the beginning of a new round of growth for his company rather than an endpoint. In an interview with ...
HPE expands fault-tolerant line with faster processors and more memory support
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today introduced two new additions to its Nonstop Compute portfolio that improve performance and capacity. The NS5 X5 uses Intel Corp.’s Xeon Bronze 3400 series processors, while the high-end NS9 X5 (pictured) incorporates Intel’s Xeon Gold 6400 series. Both models now support up to 8 terabytes of memory, double the capacity ...
