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Red Hat broadens virtualization options in latest OpenShift release
Red Hat Inc. is adding features aimed at improving security, simplifying operations and enhancing virtualization management in the latest release of OpenShift 4.18, its Kubernetes-powered hybrid cloud application platform, which is available today. Citing recent Gartner Inc. research that found that many operations teams are reevaluating their virtualization choices because of licensing changes, Red Hat ...
Venture investors see DeepSeek accelerating AI market growth
Last month’s news that a Chinese startup called DeepSeek had developed a large language model for a tiny fraction of the cost of those built by U.S. companies triggered a nearly $1 trillion selloff in the stock market and sent investors scurrying for their calculators. Did DeepSeek’s innovations permanently alter the economics of artificial intelligence ...
Informatica plunges 33% on revenue miss, citing ‘internal issues,’ but says underlying business is strong
Informatica Inc.’s stock plummeted more than 33% in after-hours trading after the data integration company reported lower-than-expected revenue in the fourth quarter. Informatica blamed internal sales issues and customers’ more rapid than expected migration to the cloud, which hit maintenance revenues. Revenue fell nearly 4% from a year ago, to $428.3 million, below consensus estimates ...
HPE rolls out ProLiant servers optimized for AI and security-sensitive workloads
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. today is rolling out eight new ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers, claiming advanced security capabilities, performance optimized for complex workloads and artificial intelligence-driven management features. The servers are based on the new Intel Corp. Xeon 6 processors, which are designed for high levels of performance and power efficiency. The ProLiant Compute DL384 ...
Snowflake partners with Anthropic to release its first AI agents
Snowflake Inc. today launched agentic artificial intelligence capabilities that allow users to query combinations of structured and unstructured data using enhanced versions of its Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search query tools in combination with the Claude 3.5 Sonnet large language model from Anthropic PBC. AI agents are autonomous systems that perceive their environment, process information ...
Cisco embeds security services in new line of programmable switches
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced a family of data center switches that enable services to be embedded directly into the switching layer, beginning with security services. Cisco’s Nexus 9300 Series Smart Switches (pictured) combine the company’s Silicon One E100 network processors and programmable data processing units from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. The switch functions as ...
Amplitude integrates in-app surveys into its behavioral analysis platform
Behavior-tracking software firm Amplitude Inc. today said it has completed the integration of the personalized user assistance and survey technology it acquired with Command AI last October. Relaunched as Amplitude Guides and Surveys, the product allows marketing and product teams to deliver personalized messages and questions to users based on behavior. For example, it can deliver ...
Oracle boosts generative AI feature in its human capital management cloud application
Oracle today is rolling out new role-based artificial intelligence agents within it Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management application aimed at automating tedious workflows and helping resolve common employee questions. New agents in Release 25A of HCM address “problematic areas that require a lot of time and research,” said Miranda Nash, group vice president of Oracle ...
Aerospike says it has achieved a milestone in NoSQL OLTP performance
Aerospike Inc., which sells a commercial version of its namesake open-source, scalable, real-time NoSQL database management system, today unveiled a new version that it said is the first real-time distributed database to guarantee strict serializability of ACID transactions at a small fraction of the cost of competing systems. Strict serializability is the strongest consistency guarantee for ACID ...
Alluxio boosts performance for AI model training
Alluxio Inc., which sells a commercial version of an open-source distributed filesystem and cache, today announced new features that accelerate artificial intelligence model training and enhance integration with Python software development kits. The company said the updates collectively enable organizations to train models faster, handle large datasets more efficiently and simplify complex AI infrastructure. Alluxio ...
