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IBM rolls out cross-platform managers for AI, multiclouds and security
Furthering its campaign to become an agnostic integrator and management provider for outside technologies, IBM Corp. has rolled out separate frameworks for managing artificial intelligence applications, multicloud instances and collections of security products. The frameworks make extensive use of Kubernetes, the wildly popular software for managing large numbers of the lightweight virtual machines called containers. With ...
Looker gets vertical in new version of its business intelligence platform
Looker Data Sciences Inc. today added industry- and function-specific templates along with a host of new goodies for analysts in version 6 of its namesake business intelligence platform. Compared with the overhaul Looker made a year ago, this round of enhancements is more modest, consisting of a suite of software development tools targeted at data analysts, support ...
MarkLogic claims to do data lakes one better with cloud integration engine
MarkLogic Inc. is continuing to bulk up the data integration features it introduced last spring by combining its NoSQL database with its Data Hub and delivering the two as a service. The company claims the MarkLogic Data Hub Service is an alternative to data lakes that makes it simple to manage, curate, secure and use data without ...
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In post-hurricane cleanup efforts, there’s a new ally: drones
At one point during last month’s Hurricane Florence, a storm surge completely cut off the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, and its nearly 120,000 residents from the outside world. People desperate to return to their homes via Interstate 40 – the main highway leading into Wilmington – were confronted by an ocean that seemed to ...
Unicorn sighting: Talkdesk raises $100M for its intelligent contact center software suite
Talkdesk Inc. today said it has raised a $100 million funding round, calling it the largest round ever raised by a private company in the contact center industry. The Series B funding, which was led by hedge fund Viking Global Investors LP with participation from existing investor DFJ Growth Management LLC, boosts the company’s valuation above ...
Eximchain claims first supply chain network based on public blockchain
With $20 million in initial coin offering financing in its pocket, Eximchain Inc. today launched a blockchain-based global supply chain platform that companies of all sizes can use to validate their credibility for help in financing and finding new contracts. Hatched out of the MIT Media Lab, the Singapore-based company is tackling one of the ...
Adaptive Insights targets workforce planning with first products since Workday buyout
Adaptive Insights Inc. today is releasing its first new product since Workday Inc. snapped it up in June for $1.55 billion on the eve of its initial public offering. The corporate performance management software provider is making available a workforce planning module for its Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud, which is used to create and test complex ...
Kafka alternative Apache Pulsar gains top-level project status
Apache Kafka is finally getting some serious competition. Apache Pulsar, a distributed messaging platform originally developed at Yahoo! Inc. and open-sourced two years ago, was designated a top-level project by the Apache Software Foundation on Tuesday. The foundation bestows that designation when a technology has acquired a sufficient community of developers and users as well ...
Segment adds governance features to its data unification platform
Segment.io Inc. is adding a data governance layer to its data collection and integration product that helps organizations ensure that their customer data is consistent and accurate across the organization. Called Protocols, the toolset builds upon the company’s expanding platform for gathering and normalizing customer’s data from multiple sources. Unlike self-contained integration tools that work ...
Neo4j tunes its graph engine for AI applications
Neo4j Inc. is targeting artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with a new version of its graph database announced today. Graph engines differ from conventional relational and NoSQL databases in that they document connections between data elements. That enables organizations to map relationships that would be impractical or impossible to represent in other database engines, ...