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StarTree brings batch-like flexibility and performance to streaming data
StarTree Inc., the developer of a managed service based on the Apache Pinot real-time data analytics platform, today rolled out a set of enhancements aimed at helping organizations more efficiently accommodate evolving data structures, enhance query performance and streamline user access management. The company said the rapid expansion of table sizes and numbers and soaring ...
Dell boosts Azure AI storage and adds services to support Copilot+ PCs
Dell Technologies Inc. today introduced new products and services for Microsoft Corp. platforms that address data protection, resiliency and security. Dell APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure will be a Dell-managed option for organizations seeking to simplify storage management in multicloud environments. It was previously available only as a customer-managed service. The service applies Dell ...
Snowflake to broaden interoperability with Microsoft Dataverse and Dynamics
Snowflake Inc. said today that it is expanding its partnership with Microsoft Corp. to support a connector that enables bidirectional access between Microsoft’s Dataverse platform for copilot development and the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Snowflake said the connector simplifies interoperability between Microsoft’s Power Platform low-code/no-code suite, Dynamics 365 business applications and data stored in Snowflake. ...
OpenText broadly enhances customer experience cloud suite
OpenText Corp., the maker of a diversified set of cloud-based information technology and knowledge management products, today unveiled a set of enhancements and new products around the theme of artificial intelligence enablement. They’re combined in version 24.4 of Cloud Editions, a platform that combines information management, cloud-based applications, security and AI. Collectively, the new features ...
Copilots will be everywhere in Microsoft Ignite announcement spree
Microsoft Corp. is going all in on agents as it expands its line of Copilots to take on unique roles handling mundane tasks as well as complex, multi-step business processes. Agentic artificial intelligence refers to AI systems that are designed to act autonomously, make decisions and take actions to achieve specific goals, using reasoning, planning, ...
Oracle expands integration with Microsoft Azure infrastructure
Oracle Corp. is using Microsoft Corp.’s Ignite conference today to announce that it has expanded the number of its Exadata database-optimized servers and Real Application Clusters colocated in Microsoft Azure data centers to nine regions,. Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available in nine regions worldwide with an additional 24 more regions planned by the end ...
Microsoft Fabric gets enhanced AI development and data integration features
Microsoft Fabric is getting new tools and capabilities to streamline artificial intelligence application development, enhance data integration and improve security in a series of announcements at Microsoft Corp.’s Ignite conference today. Fabric is an integrated analytics platform that unifies data integration, engineering, warehousing, science and business intelligence on top of a unified data lake. The updates ...
Informatica expands support for AI and Microsoft Fabric on Azure
Informatica Inc. today announced three new capabilities for Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud aimed at smoothing the process of building, deploying and activating artificial intelligence and analytical applications using trusted data. The Gen AI Blueprint for Azure OpenAI provides a set of reference architectures and templates based on Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud platform and Azure Open AI ...
Dell expands AI Factory with new high-powered servers and dense racks
Dell Technologies Inc. is expanding its AI Factory in announcements being made today at the SC24 high-performance computing conference in Atlanta. The AI Factory is intended to help organizations adopt and scale up artificial intelligence across their operations by deploying an integrated set of infrastructure, software and services including Nvidia Corp. AI infrastructure and software. ...
Five9 ups the intelligence level of its virtual agents
Contact-center-as-a-service provider Five9 Inc. today said it has expanded the Genius AI suite it announced in August with intelligent virtual agents that incorporate generative artificial intelligence and natural language processing to simulate the conversational abilities of a human. Businesses can fine-tune Five9 AI Agents to balance flexibility and control by adjusting the amount of generative ...
