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Broadcom broadens private cloud options
Broadcom Inc. today will use its Explore conference in Barcelona to announce a range of updates to its VMware Cloud Foundation platform, introducing new services and partnerships to support generative artificial intelligence development, cybersecurity and sovereign clouds. Enhancements to vSphere Foundation, a version of VMware’s vSphere software primarily aimed at small to medium-sized virtualized environments, more ...
Rackspace offers GPUs as a cloud service with spot instance pricing
Rackspace Technology Inc. today announced an expansion of its spot instance service, Rackspace Spot, with a new location in San Jose, California, and launched a graphic processing unit-as-a-service option that gives customers access to Nvidia Corp. GPUs at prices determined by auction. Rackspace Spot is a cloud infrastructure service that uses an open market auction ...
Creatio combines multiple AI types in new release of its no-code platform
No-code platform developer Creatio Inc. today released a new version that combines agentic, generative and prescriptive artificial intelligence capabilities in a single platform driven by natural-language prompts. The “Energy” release can be used to build packaged capabilities called “skills” that perform common workflow and customer relationship management tasks involving decisions and autonomous actions. Creatio said its new ...
Dremio throws its support to Polaris data catalog and expands deployment options for Iceberg lakehouse
Dremio Corp., the developer of a data lakehouse platform based on the Apache Iceberg table format, today is throwing its support behind the Polaris data catalog that cloud data warehousing firm Snowflake Inc. released to open source in June. The move is an important third-party endorsement for Snowflake, battling rival Databricks Inc. to become the ...
IBM revenue misses, but execs say AI will drive future growth
IBM Corp. kicked off the tech sector’s quarterly earnings season with results that indicated that the artificial intelligence dividend has yet to pay off for the big infrastructure players. Third-quarter earnings of $2.30 per share, excluding nonrecurring items, were eight cents better than consensus estimates. Although revenues rose 2% year-over-year on a constant currency basis, ...
Qpoint bags $4M to improve visibility into external app services
Qpoint Inc., a startup focused on providing visibility into applications’ external services and traffic for improved performance and security, said Tuesday it has closed a $4 million pre-seed funding round. Qpoint uses extended Berkeley Packet Filter technology, a feature of the Linux kernel that allows for safe and efficient execution of custom programs inside the ...
IBM releases new Granite foundation models under ‘permissive’ Apache license
Furthering its drive to build a distinctive position in enterprise artificial intelligence, IBM Corp. today is rolling out a series of new language models and tools to ensure their responsible use. The company is also unveiling a new generation of its watsonx Code Assistant for application development and modernization. All of these new capabilities are ...
Big-data dust-up: Why two AI giants are at war over who’s more open
The battle for supremacy in the emerging market for platforms that best support the coming boom in artificial intelligence development may ultimately come down to a geeky storage format that even its inventor says only 20 people should care about. Apache Iceberg, a management layer that sits atop data files in cloud storage, has become ...
Clerk Chat raises $7M to simplify business text messaging
Clerk Chat Inc., a startup building a messaging platform that integrates with major telecommunications carriers, today said it has raised $7 million in seed funding. The San Francisco-based firm plans to use the cash to improve its messaging capabilities and strengthen relationships with telecom providers. The company was born from the limitations of conventional short messaging ...
Nvidia aims to boost Blackwell GPUs by donating platform design to the Open Compute Project
Nvidia Corp. today said it has contributed parts of its Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project and broadened support for OCP standards in its Spectrum-X networking fabric. Nvidia hopes the move will help solidify its new line of Blackwell graphics processing units, which are now in production, as a standard for ...