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No-code developer Creatio achieves unicorn status with $200M investment
No-code platform developer Creatio Inc. today said it has raised $200 million in a funding round that values the company at $1.2 billion, bringing the total amount raised by the Boston-based firm to $268 million. Creatio’s platform is principally used to automate workflows in customer relationship management scenarios. Founded in 2015, it employs 700 people ...
VMware simplifies product portfolio around Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation
Vowing to simplify management of a collection of point products, Broadcom Inc. today announced updates to its VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud platform that integrate networking, storage and management functions more tightly. The company also announced a new release of the vSphere hypervisor aimed at customers that want basic virtualization technology. Cloud Foundation combines computing, networking, ...
EchoMark says it has the definitive answer to data exfiltration
EchoMark Inc., a Seattle startup focused on protecting private information, is launching a software-as-a-service offering that uses forensic watermarking to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of internal communications. SecureView protects against information leaks caused by such hard-to-track elements as email attachments, downloads, image captures and untraceable emails, the company says. It allows for the trusted sharing and ...
Oracle Autonomous Database is now an Azure service
Oracle Corp. is tightening its partnership with Microsoft Corp. with today’s announcement that Oracle’s Autonomous Database is now generally available on the Oracle Database@Azure comingled cloud service. The Oracle Autonomous Database is a fully automated and managed database-as-a-service. Initially available as a private offer in the Azure East U.S. region with deployment to 14 other regions to ...
Pure Storage adds AI features to improve performance and detect attacks
Pure Storage Inc. is playing its artificial intelligence hand this week with a clutch of announcements aimed at simplifying AI training and inferencing as well as applying machine learning to help customers better unravel storage conundrums. The new Evergreen//One offering for AI is billed as the first purpose-built AI storage as-a-service. It provides guaranteed storage ...
HPE, Nvidia partner on scalable hardware platform for AI development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is the latest systems maker to join the Nvidia Corp. express with today’s announcement of a lineup of co-developed systems optimized for artificial intelligence and joint sales and marketing integrations aimed at generative AI. During its HPE Discover conference starting today in Las Vegas, the company said the packaged systems can ...
LogicMonitor says new AI assistant can reduce IT operations alerts by 95%
Venerable observability vendor LogicMonitor Inc. today introduced a generative artificial intelligence copilot tuned for use by information technology operations staff. The company said Edwin AI (pictured) is aimed at reducing alert fatigue, diagnosing incidents more quickly, lowering resolution times and simplifying complex observability issues. It was built from the ground up and is not based on ...
Surprise: Google tops Forrester’s first ranking of AI foundation models
Forrester Research Inc. just released its first Wave ranking of artificial intelligence foundation models, and the findings might raise some eyebrows. The research firm rated Google LLC as the leader in the category by a substantial margin, with Databricks Inc., Nvidia Corp., IBM Corp. and OpenAI LLC listed as “strong performers.” Google earned the top spot ...
Startup claims it can automate 80% of software development with generative AI
A five-person startup based in Paris and San Francisco is emerging today with the audacious claim of being able to create enterprise-grade software with generative artificial intelligence entirely from natural language descriptions, slashing development times by 80% in the process. Shreds.AI is self-funded and unknown, but nothing is modest about its ambitions. It wants to ...
Databricks broadly boosts support for AI model training
Databricks Inc. today announced several enhancements to its Mosaic AI toolset for building and deploying artificial intelligence models that specifically target generative AI applications. The improvements, announced at the company’s Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, are aimed at better supporting compound AI systems, or those that involve several interacting components, as well as ...