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Exclusive: Vantage expands cloud cost optimization service to GitHub
Cloud cost optimization service provider Vantage today is adding support for Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub software version control and collaboration platform to its growing list of native integrations with cloud platforms and applications. Vantage, the business name of VNTG Inc., helps companies track how much they spend on cloud services to find cost-cutting opportunities. It already ...
Enterprise AI search platform Glean raises $260M+ on $4.6B valuation
Glean Technologies Inc., the developer of a conversational search platform for enterprises, said today it has raised more than $260 million in a late-stage funding round that values the company at $4.6 billion. The Series E funding comes less than seven months after the company raised more than $200 million in a late-stage round that valued ...
Oracle boosts AI development features for analytics and HeatWave managed service
Oracle Corp. will use its Oracle CloudWorld conference today to announce new artificial intelligence capabilities spanning cloud database, analytics and development platform, led by a raft of new features for its HeatWave managed MySQL database service. Saying some organizations are building generative AI applications with HeatWave and moving them into production in less than a ...
Nvidia beats expectations but disappoints investors’ sky-high expectations
When your stock has been called “the most important on planet Earth” by Goldman Sachs Group, it’s hard to exceed expectations. That’s the challenge Nvidia Corp. encountered today when it announced 122% growth in second-quarter revenue and earnings. That beat analyst expectations and the company raised its revenue estimates for the third quarter, only to ...
Dremio says it has dramatically improved query performance on Iceberg data lakes
Data lakehouse company Dremio Corp. today announced a set of advanced analytics performance capabilities that it says significantly speed query performance on Apache Iceberg tables while reducing the need for user intervention. The two major new features are Live Reflections and Result Set Caching. Dremio Reflections are a feature of the company’s data lake engine ...
VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and Tanzu 10 simplify development and deployment in private clouds
Broadcom Inc. today unveiled the latest version of VMware Cloud Foundation, calling it “the future” of the company’s private cloud platform. Broadcom said the new release simplifies private cloud deployment, consumption and operations while delivering public cloud-like scale, security, resilience and performance. The new release being announced at the VMware Explore conference in Las Vegas features ...
Onehouse’s vector embeddings support aims to cut the cost of AI training
Onehouse Inc., a company that sells a data lakehouse based on Apache Hudi as a managed service, today said it has launched a vector embedding generator to automate embedding pipelines as a part of its cloud service. Vector embeddings are mathematical representations of objects, such as words and images, in a continuous space in which ...
Wiliot brings generative AI to real-time supply chain analytics
Wiliot Ltd., a company that develops tiny, battery-free internet of things devices that enable data to be captured and transmitted as items traverse supply chains, is adding a generative artificial intelligence front end to its cloud analytics platform to allow customers to formulate sophisticated queries about the status and history of tracked items using natural ...
Pindrop says it can detect deepfake audio with 99% accuracy
Pindrop Security Inc. today announced the launch of its Pindrop Pulse Inspect deepfake detection tool in preview mode, saying it can detect artificial intelligence-generated speech in any digital audio file with 99% accuracy. A deepfake is synthetic media in which a person in an existing image, audio or video recording is replaced with false content. Recent advances in ...
HPE to acquire Morpheus Data to round out hybrid cloud orchestration capabilities
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said it will acquire hybrid cloud automation vendor Morpheus Data LLC for an undisclosed amount. HPE said the acquisition’s technology will add multicloud automation and orchestration to its GreenLake hybrid cloud and complement the observability capabilities it picked up with its acquisition of OpsRamp Inc. last year. The Greenwood Village, ...