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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 ...
Cisco aims to turn machine data chaos into AI Intelligence with Data Fabric
Continuing its campaign to position itself as the control plan for the artificial intelligence era, Cisco Systems Inc. today is using its Splunk subsidiary’s .conf25 to unveil the Splunk-powered Cisco Data Fabric, a network architecture designed to unify stovepipes of fragmented machine data. Cisco also unveiled Splunk Federated Search for Snowflake. This integration enables users ...
Databricks discloses latest funding round and path toward profitability
Databricks Inc. today put some meat on the bones of its announcement three weeks ago that it had raised new funding that valued the company at more than $100 billion. The company said it is closing a Series K venture capital round of $1 billion, bringing its total funding to over $20 billion. Databricks said ...
Recall.ai lands $38M to unlock spoken data at scale
Recall.ai, a startup that provides backend infrastructure for artificial intelligence that understands human conversations, has closed a $38 million Series B funding round that brings its total funding to $51 million and values the company at $250 million. The firm’s core product is a unified application programming interface that abstracts the complexity of building and ...
Neo4j unifies real-time transactions and graph analytics at scale
Graph database maker Neo4j Inc. today launched Infinigraph, calling it a significant advancement in distributed graph technology. The company said the architecture allows users to run both operational and analytical workloads on a single graph database platform at over 100 terabytes in scale without fragmenting the graph, duplicating infrastructure or compromising performance. The product of ...
HubSpot’s 200+ product blitz aims to power hybrid human-AI teams
HubSpot Inc. kicks off its fall 2025 Spotlight conference today with a sweeping set of updates aimed at helping marketers build hybrid teams of humans and artificial intelligence services. The updates span data infrastructure, AI agent deployment and enhanced tools for marketing, sales and commerce. HubSpot called it one of the most extensive product overhauls ...
Kong acquires OpenMeter to power API and AI monetization
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API and AI technologies, today said it has acquired OpenMeter, the developer of an open-source platform for usage-based metering and billing. Terms weren’t disclosed. The acquisition of OpenMeter, the business name of Tailfin Cloud Inc., will add native monetization capabilities to Kong Konnect, Kong’s unified API platform, enabling organizations ...