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MongoDB gives on-premises developers hybrid search and vector features
MongoDB Inc. today said its search and vector search features that had previously been confined to its Atlas cloud platform are now available for self-managed deployments, including MongoDB Community Edition and MongoDB Enterprise Server. The feature puts advanced artificial intelligence-building tools in the hands of millions of developers operating local and on-premises environments. Now in public ...
Mainframe confidence surges as modernization campaigns bear fruit
The mainframe, long the backbone of enterprise computing, is enjoying a surge of support as modernization projects bear fruit, according to BMC Software Inc.’s 20th annual mainframe survey. It found that 97% of respondents – all of whom are mainframe professionals — see the platform as a long-term part of information technology infrastructure that’s poised ...
MongoDB launches AI-powered service to modernize legacy applications
MongoDB Inc. is expanding beyond its database roots and taking aim at one of the thorniest challenges facing many enterprise IT organizations: outdated legacy applications. At its MongoDB.local New York City event today, the company is announcing the MongoDB Application Modernization Platform, an artificial intelligence-powered approach to transforming decades-old applications into modern, scalable services. The platform ...
Oracle expands Fusion HCM with 13 new AI agents for HR automation
Oracle Corp. today announced a series of new agentic artificial intelligence extensions to its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management suite, bringing the number of agents in the application to more than 100. The new additions support internal mobility, performance management, learning and development, payroll and staffing processes. Oracle has been steadily adding agents — a type ...
Microsoft expands Fabric with LinkedIn-based graph engine, real-time maps
Microsoft Corp. today is expanding its Fabric data platform with the addition of native graph database and geospatial mapping capabilities, saying the enhancements enhance Fabric’s capacity to power artificial intelligence-driven, data-centric applications in large enterprises. Fabric is a cloud-based data and analytics platform designed to unify most aspects of the data lifecycle, from storage and ...
Luminary Cloud raises $72M to advance AI-driven physical product design
Luminary Cloud Inc., a startup that last year set out to disrupt the desktop-bound engineering software market with a cloud-native platform, today announced a $72 million funding round and alignment with a bigger idea of bringing artificial intelligence into the physical world. The San Mateo, California-based company said the Series B round will be used ...
Splunk exec says Cisco acquisition has ignited platform expansion
In the 18 months since Cisco Systems Inc. finalized its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk Inc., the combined firms have focused on weaving Splunk’s machine data analytics technology with Cisco’s networking product line. The resulting “Cisco Data Fabric” is the networking giant’s most ambitious effort to find its place in the artificial intelligence revolution. Although ...
ThoughtSpot users can now embed its analytics into their own customer-facing applications
Business intelligence firm ThoughtSpot Inc. today announced a fresh batch of features aimed at pushing analytics beyond dashboards and into customers’ applications and workflows. The rollout includes a new version of its Spotter agent, dubbed Spotter 3, and a set of enhancements to its embedded analytics product that enable customers to expose analytics in their ...
Exclusive: Together AI launches self-service GPU infrastructure
Together Computer Inc., a startup building a cloud service optimized for artificial intelligence model development and deployment, today announced the general availability of Instant Clusters, a service that automates the provisioning of clusters of graphics processing units. The company, which operates as Together AI, said its service allows customers to access GPU clusters, ranging from ...
Cisco endows Splunk with agentic AI for security and observability
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced new editions of its Splunk data platform that use agentic artificial intelligence to improve both security operations and observability across digital infrastructure. The updates include two new Splunk Enterprise Security editions — Essentials and Premier — built on Splunk Enterprise Security 8.2 and a suite of features within the Splunk ...