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Passage.AI aims to make building chatbots easy
You can hardly visit a commercial website these days without having a bot pop up with an offer to engage in a conversation. Startup Passage.AI is betting that those automated characters can be used to help as much as to annoy. The company is emerging from stealth mode today with $3 million in seed funding and ...
Splunk adds machine learning to simplify explosion of log data
Splunk Inc. is folding machine learning capabilities into its product portfolio in an attempt to address the growing volumes of analytical information that its users are trying to manage. The features are part of Splunk Enterprise 7.0, Splunk IT Service Intelligence 3.0, Splunk User Behavior Analytics 4.0 and updates to Splunk Cloud. The machine learning components ...
Why the new Open Container Initiative standard is a milestone for software
The recent release of the Open Container Initiative version 1.0 specification is a milestone in the development of container technology, setting the stage for innovation to move up the stack. That’s according to Brian Gracely (pictured), director of product strategy at Red Hat Inc. and a former analyst at Wikibon, owned by the same company as ...
SugarCRM boosts intelligent assistants in new release
SugarCRM Inc. is kicking off its annual SugarCon conference in San Francisco this week with significant updates to its Relationship Intelligence product, which gathers data about customers and prospects from a broad range of social and business sources to help sales people more quickly establish relationships. The company is also previewing a new intelligent digital ...
Microsoft and Red Hat strengthen alliance with SQL Server on Linux
In a move that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, Microsoft Corp. will port its Windows Server containers and SQL Server 2017 database management system to Red Hat Inc. Linux-based platforms. The announcement, which is being made at this week’s Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, strengthens a partnership between the onetime foes that ...
Riverbed extends Azure storage to remote devices
Riverbed Technology Inc. is extending a longstanding partnership with Microsoft Corp. with the announcement of Riverbed SteelFusion Azure-Ready Edge, a technology that extends Microsoft Azure cloud storage to network endpoints. SteelFusion uses Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization engine to give remote locations direct access to the Azure cloud for use as a primary storage tier, allowing data to be provisioned, ...
Oops! Researchers find academics often use Wikipedia but rarely cite it
Academic researchers, beware: Your secret is out. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pittsburgh published an analysis this week showing that the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is materially affecting academic research, even though the authors of that research almost never cite it as a source. The study used a statistical model to establish ...
Actian adds Apache Spark support to vector database on Hadoop
Actian Corp. has added support for Apache Spark to its hybrid data management, analytics and integration platform. Actian Vector in Hadoop, known as VectorH, uses vector processing and multi-level in-memory acceleration to speed up performance of Hadoop data stores. The added support was announced Tuesday. Vector processing is based on a topology that’s vectorized and ...
Syncsort quality manager aims to purify Hadoop data lakes
Syncsort Inc. is extending the data quality features of the Trillium Software Inc. subsidiary it acquired last November to native Hadoop environments with Trillium Quality for Big Data. The offering combines Trillium’s data quality features with its Intelligent Execution data integration platform to enable information technology organizations to normalize and integrate data at the same time. The Trillium ...
Taking on GE, Hitachi rolls Pentaho and HDS into new unit targeting industrial IoT
In a business strategy move apparently aimed at industrial rival General Electric Co., Hitachi Ltd. has unified three of its business units into a single entity that will pursue business structured around data-driven initiatives and the Internet of Things. The company is also using its Next 2017 conference today to announce new IoT-based software, hyperconverged ...