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Startup VirtualZ says it can connect cloud apps to mainframe data in real time
A team of mainframe computing veterans today is launching a set of products for streamlining access to big iron data and announcing $2.2 million in seed financing. VirtualZ Computing Corp. is addressing the difficulty organizations have integrating data from IBM Corp. mainframes into their cloud applications. Mainframe data is often in older, proprietary formats that ...
Logik.io applies AI to complex configure, price and quote processes
Logik.io Inc., a company that focuses on streamlining complex product sales with rules-base automation, today is announcing the launch of an artificial intelligence-based product for the configure, price and quote or CPQ processes used in complex sales to configure products or services, price them according to various factors, and generate quotes for customers. Cosmo AI ...
Hardware sales trough sends Dell revenue down for the fifth straight quarter
Dell Technologies Inc. dropped a lump of coal into investors’ stockings today with third-quarter financial results that beat analysts’ estimates on earnings per share but fell far short of revenue expectations on continuing weak PC demand. Dell’s stock dropped more than 4% in extended trading. Adjusted earnings of $1.88 a share beat Wall Street forecasts ...
HPE, Nvidia partner on AI-optimized platforms and services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. is tuning up its artificial intelligence portfolio with today’s announcement of a new set of hybrid cloud offerings for machine learning development, data analytics, AI-optimized file storage and fine-tuning of AI inferencing services. The company said the services will be delivered on a platform that incorporates a combination of open-source software ...
Strong Nutanix earnings contrast with weak forecast from Pure Storage
There was good and bad news from two of the rising challengers to the information technology infrastructure heavyweights today, as Nutanix Inc. reported strong revenue and earnings growth in its fiscal first quarter while Pure Storage Inc. beat estimates but issued a weak forecast for the year. Shares of Nutanix jumped 2.5% in early after-hours ...
Starburst simplifies analytics on data lakes
Starburst Data Inc., the commercial developer of a distributed query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today announced a set of new features intended to make it easier for organizations to build data-intensive applications on top of data lakes. The enhancements provide for unified data ingestion, data governance and data sharing on a single platform. ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE BATTLE FOR AI SUPREMACY
Who will win the battle for AI in the cloud? Maybe everyone
The speed with which Microsoft Corp. hired former OpenAI LP Chief Executive Sam Altman last weekend, along with the firm’s co-founder and an unspecified number of technical specialists, illustrates how high the stakes are in the $60 billion market for cloud artificial intelligence products and services. Microsoft, which by all accounts is the early leader ...
Tech firm uses a brace of generative AI tools to slash content production times
While most of us are still just getting our feet wet with generative artificial intelligence, Kiteworks Pte Ltd. is using it to change its business fundamentally. The company, which makes a secure platform for file sharing, file transfers and email, uses a suite of generative AI platforms for everything from email marketing to sales training. ...
Exclusive: Informatica and Microsoft team on native data integration for Fabric analytics
Informatica Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of jointly developed integrations between Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud and Microsoft’s Azure cloud ecosystem, including the Fabric integrated data analytics platform Microsoft announced in May. The partnership accompanies Microsoft’s announcement of Fabric’s general availability at its Ignite conference. The highlight is the integration of Informatica ...
Startup Fractl releases its language for building generative AI applications to open source
Fractl Inc., developer of a programming language for building generative artificial intelligence applications, today said it has raised $1.025 million in a pre-seed funding round and released its namesake language under an open-source license. The company also announced the limited availability of a programming platform for software-as-a-service development that it said is 10 times more cost-efficient than ...