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Snowflake platform enhancements focus on performance, governance and interoperability
Snowflake Inc. today is introducing a broad slate of platform updates aimed at improving performance, reducing operational overhead and expanding its range of interoperable tools. The flagship announcement is that the latest release of the company’s core data warehouse, called Standard Warehouse – Generation 2, is now generally available. Comprising both hardware and software upgrades ...
Snowflake expands AI tools to streamline enterprise data workflows and speed machine learning
Snowflake Inc. is leading off its Snowflake Summit 2025 user conference in San Francisco today by unveiling a series of new artificial intelligence capabilities intended to simplify the ways users interact with data. The announcements reflect the company’s push to embed generative AI across its platform and make advanced analytics more broadly accessible. Snowflake is ...
Informatica CEO sees Salesforce acquisition as strategic expansion, not exit
As the dust begins to settle from last week’s announcement that Salesforce Inc. will acquire data integration market leader Informatica Inc. in a deal valued at $8 billion, Informatica Chief Executive Amit Walia called the move the beginning of a new round of growth for his company rather than an endpoint. In an interview with ...
HPE expands fault-tolerant line with faster processors and more memory support
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today introduced two new additions to its Nonstop Compute portfolio that improve performance and capacity. The NS5 X5 uses Intel Corp.’s Xeon Bronze 3400 series processors, while the high-end NS9 X5 (pictured) incorporates Intel’s Xeon Gold 6400 series. Both models now support up to 8 terabytes of memory, double the capacity ...
Pegasystems expands features to build and manage AI agents
Workflow automation firm Pegasystems Inc. today is using its annual PegaWorld conference in Las Vegas this week to announce what it calls a major extension of its artificial intelligence automation capabilities. The announcements center on Pega Agentic Process Fabric, a new orchestration service designed to unify AI agents across an enterprise. The Pega Blueprint workflow ...
Broadcom reboots CloudHealth with enhancements to broaden FinOps use
Broadcom Inc.’s Tanzu division today unveiled a sweeping redesign of CloudHealth, its longstanding cloud financial management platform, aimed at democratizing FinOps across technical and nontechnical teams. The semiconductor and infrastructure software giant said it’s the most significant overhaul of CloudHealth since the product’s launch in 2012. The new release introduces artificial intelligence-powered features called Intelligent ...
Exclusive: Superblocks raises $23M to rein in the Wild West of vibe coding
DayZero Software Inc., a maker of secure software development tools that does business as Superblocks, today said it has raised $23 million in a Series A venture capital round extension, bringing its total funding to $60 million. The company is addressing a problem caused by generative artificial intelligence: Large language models have made it easy ...
Vast Data says it has built an operating system for large-scale agent deployment
Consolidating a series of recent enhancements around a single theme, Vast Data Inc. today launched what it calls an AI Operating System intended to support the coming age of “agentic computing,” where trillions of artificial intelligence-equipped agents operate across a global network. The launch caps nearly a decade of engineering, starting with Vast’s Disaggregated and ...
Red Hat expands hybrid cloud capabilities with AI assistant, edge manager and AMD partnership
At Red Hat Summit today, the IBM Corp. subsidiary unveiled a suite of tools and strategic updates aimed at productivity, simplifying operations and modernizing infrastructure across hybrid and edge computing environments. They include the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed, a generative AI assistant for OpenShift users; the tech preview of Red Hat Edge ...
Red Hat Linux gets a gen AI upgrade and other administrative goodies
IBM Corp.’s Red Hat subsidiary says the new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is being announced today at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, is a complete rethink of the operating system around hybrid cloud environments and artificial intelligence workloads. The details, however, are less about vision than pragmatic improvements, such as simpler ...