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Extreme Networks CEO sees competitor disruption and its new AI platform driving growth
Extreme Networks Inc. is riding a wave of market recovery, competitor upheaval and the launch of a new artificial intelligence-driven networking platform to position itself for continued growth, Chief Executive Ed Meyercord said in an interview with SiliconANGLE following the company’s strong quarterly earnings report. The Morrisville, North Carolina-based networking firm earlier this week reported ...
Oracle high-availability Exadata service targets AI and location-sensitive use cases
Oracle Corp. today announced that the Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure offering it announced early this year is now generally available. The service is aimed at artificial intelligence-driven applications and those requiring high levels of uptime and reliability while running across cloud regions. It combines global data distribution with Exascale’s serverless architecture to support ...
Chief AI role gains traction as firms seek to turn pilots into profits
A growing number of organizations are appointing chief artificial intelligence officers and seeing an average of 10% greater return on investment in AI spending and 24% greater innovation compared to their peers — but most organizations remain stuck in pilot mode and struggle to scale AI initiatives more broadly. Those are among the findings of ...
StarTree to support Apache Iceberg in a bid to expand lakehouse use cases
StarTree Inc., which sells a real-time analytics platform and cloud service based on the Apache Pinot open-source online analytical processing database, today becomes the latest data analytics provider to announce full support for Apache Iceberg. The StarTree Cloud managed service will employ Iceberg as the analytic and serving layer on top of its data lakehouse, ...
Aerospike unveils native Rust client preview, targeting real-time ‘safe’ applications
Aerospike Inc., which sells a commercial version of an open-source, scalable, real-time NoSQL database management system, has released a preview version of a fully supported Rust client for developers building high-throughput, low-latency applications with the popular programming language. The client, now available on GitHub, marks what Aerospike said is a “significant shift” from a community-led ...
Creatio embeds AI agents across CRM and workflow automation platform
Creatio Inc. today launched a new version of its no-code platform for workflow automation and customer relationship management with new agents and natural language capabilities. Release 8.3 is called “Twin, ” a moniker the company says reflects the increasingly collaborative relationship between human users and artificial intelligence agents. Creatio said the release embeds AI deeper into ...
HPE goes full stack with AI factories, agentic ops and cloud software suite
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s theme for this week’s Discover event in Las Vegas could be that artificial intelligence isn’t an application but a factory. And it wants enterprises to believe it has all the right parts to build it. In a sprawling slate of announcements that spans everything from private clouds to sovereign-scale infrastructure and ...
Pure Storage launches unified data management cloud and new flash arrays
Pure Storage Inc. today introduced the Enterprise Data Cloud, calling it a sweeping architectural upgrade to how organizations store, manage, and use data across hybrid environments. The company says EDC enables organizations to manage block, file and object workloads in on-premises, cloud and hybrid deployments. The maker of all-flash storage subsystems said traditional, siloed approaches ...
Broadcom says VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 recognizes the ascendancy of private cloud
Broadcom Inc. today announced the general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0, the latest iteration of its private cloud platform. Dubbed “the future” of the company’s private cloud strategy at its announcement last August, the release marks a significant architectural shift aimed at delivering a more integrated, secure and developer-friendly private cloud experience. VCF 9.0 ...
Databricks launches free tool to streamline enterprise data warehouse migrations
Continuing a deluge of announcements clustered around making it easier for enterprises to build artificial intelligence-based agents and applications, Databricks Inc. today is wrapping up its Data+AI Summit with Lakebridge, a migration tool intended to simplify and accelerate the notoriously difficult process of migrating legacy data warehouses. Databricks said the free offering automates up to ...