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Snowflake adds bevy of features for AI development and managed Polaris catalog
Snowflake Inc. today announced at its annual Build 2024 virtual developer conference numerous enhancements to its cloud data platform, many focused on artificial intelligence. Among them is a natural-language front-end to internal data with agentic capabilities, tools that help developers more quickly build conversational front-ends for managing and accessing structured and unstructured data, enhancements that ...
Nutanix offers cloud-native AI deployment platform with predictable pricing
Nutanix Inc. today is breaking out the inferencing components of its GPT-in-a-Box toolkit in the form of a cloud-native artificial intelligence infrastructure platform that runs on any Kubernetes installation. That can be at the edge, in private data centers and on public cloud services like Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Elastic Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure ...
Akamai rolls out packaged platform for distributed Kubernetes applications
Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced Akamai Application Platform, described as a packaged platform for deploying, managing and scaling highly distributed applications. Akamai Application Platform is built on top of Otomi, a productivity suite for Kubernetes with preconfigured applications and self-service tasks that Akamai acquired from Red Kubes Holding B.V. earlier this year. Its templates address ...
AI agent offloads global employment tasks from HR pros
Globalization Partners LLC, which does business as G-P, today announced a large language model-based artificial intelligence platform trained on more than a decade of the company’s experience managing human resources around the world. G-P is an employer of record, an entity that hires people in distant locations on behalf of its clients and takes care ...
Broadcom broadens private cloud options
Broadcom Inc. today will use its Explore conference in Barcelona to announce a range of updates to its VMware Cloud Foundation platform, introducing new services and partnerships to support generative artificial intelligence development, cybersecurity and sovereign clouds. Enhancements to vSphere Foundation, a version of VMware’s vSphere software primarily aimed at small to medium-sized virtualized environments, more ...
Rackspace offers GPUs as a cloud service with spot instance pricing
Rackspace Technology Inc. today announced an expansion of its spot instance service, Rackspace Spot, with a new location in San Jose, California, and launched a graphic processing unit-as-a-service option that gives customers access to Nvidia Corp. GPUs at prices determined by auction. Rackspace Spot is a cloud infrastructure service that uses an open market auction ...
Creatio combines multiple AI types in new release of its no-code platform
No-code platform developer Creatio Inc. today released a new version that combines agentic, generative and prescriptive artificial intelligence capabilities in a single platform driven by natural-language prompts. The “Energy” release can be used to build packaged capabilities called “skills” that perform common workflow and customer relationship management tasks involving decisions and autonomous actions. Creatio said its new ...
Dremio throws its support to Polaris data catalog and expands deployment options for Iceberg lakehouse
Dremio Corp., the developer of a data lakehouse platform based on the Apache Iceberg table format, today is throwing its support behind the Polaris data catalog that cloud data warehousing firm Snowflake Inc. released to open source in June. The move is an important third-party endorsement for Snowflake, battling rival Databricks Inc. to become the ...
IBM revenue misses, but execs say AI will drive future growth
IBM Corp. kicked off the tech sector’s quarterly earnings season with results that indicated that the artificial intelligence dividend has yet to pay off for the big infrastructure players. Third-quarter earnings of $2.30 per share, excluding nonrecurring items, were eight cents better than consensus estimates. Although revenues rose 2% year-over-year on a constant currency basis, ...
Qpoint bags $4M to improve visibility into external app services
Qpoint Inc., a startup focused on providing visibility into applications’ external services and traffic for improved performance and security, said Tuesday it has closed a $4 million pre-seed funding round. Qpoint uses extended Berkeley Packet Filter technology, a feature of the Linux kernel that allows for safe and efficient execution of custom programs inside the ...