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Neo4j CTO says new Graph Query Language standard will have ‘massive ripple effects’
The International Standards Organization’s publication of a standard for the Graph Query Language earlier this month generated relatively little media interest, but executives at graph database makers were turning virtual cartwheels in the halls. The GQL standard is the first to be ratified by the ISO since Structured Query Language in 1986. The 600-page document ...
Strong cloud growth boosts Microsoft earnings and stock price
Microsoft Corp. rode strong cloud performance to better-than-expected financial results in its fiscal third quarter today, with enterprise spending on artificial intelligence playing an increasingly important role in cloud growth. Revenue rose 17%, to $61.86 billion, eclipsing analysts’ estimates by nearly $1 billion. Net income of $21.9 billion, or $2.94 per share, also came in ...
Oracle generative AI drumbeat continues with new customer experience features
Continuing its strategy of embellishing its enterprise applications incrementally with generative artificial intelligence capabilities, Oracle Corp. today announced new features in its Fusion Cloud Customer Experience application. They provide more precise responses to customer questions, improve sales force productivity and enable marketing organizations to assess lead quality in account-based marketing scenarios more effectively, the software giant ...
IBM misses on revenues but foresees rapid growth from HashiCorp purchase
As the first major information technology provider to report earnings in most quarters, IBM Corp. results are often seen as a bellwether for the industry’s health. However, securities analysts may need to go back to their spreadsheets following Big Blue’s announcement today of a revenue miss after three straight quarters of beating expectations. First-quarter earnings ...
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State agency proves DevOps and mainframes can coexist
Mainframe computing and the modern agile development methodology called DevOps don’t need to be mutually exclusive. The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is showing why. The agency, which services 6.2 million licensed drivers and identification card holders and processed 16.8 million transactions last year, has successfully adopted DevOps and its continuous integration and development processes ...
Software AG applies generative AI to process modeling and IT asset management
Software AG is enhancing its Aris process mining and Alfabet portfolio management products with generative artificial intelligence capabilities in announcements at its International User Groups conference in Dublin this week. Both are based on the off-the-shelf Azure OpenAI service from Microsoft Corp. ARIS is used to represent processes within an organization and to model improvements. ...
Starburst to release its Iceberg-based lakehouse as a managed service
Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial version of the open-source Trino distributed query engine, today announced a fully managed Icehouse data lake on its Galaxy cloud. Icehouse is an open-source lakehouse that combines Trino and Apache Iceberg storage. A lakehouse is a new type of data architecture that combines the flexibility of data lakes ...
Google introduces distributed cloud search and strengthens multicloud support
Google LLC is upping its edge game at the Cloud Next conference this week. The cloud division today announced a generative artificial intelligence feature that works on internal data, as well as expanded cross-network features that allow users to train AI models on data from any cloud or on-premises data store in a fully managed ...
TransUnion unites global operations on multicloud analytics and AI platform
In the process of completing 25 acquisitions and building a trove of information on more than 1 billion consumers across 30 countries over the past 56 years, TransUnion LLC had created a lot of data siloes. Now it’s attacking that problem with a massive data lake intended to support all of its analytics, application development ...
Aerospike reels in $109M to accelerate its high-speed database
Aerospike Inc., which sells a highly scalable, real-time NoSQL database management system, said today it closed a $109 million investment round led by Sumeru Equity Partners LP with participation from Alsop Louie Partners LLC. That brings its total funding to $241 million. Aerospike’s flash-optimized in-memory model scales from gigabytes to petabytes with high consistency and ...