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Dremio says it has dramatically improved query performance on Iceberg data lakes
Data lakehouse company Dremio Corp. today announced a set of advanced analytics performance capabilities that it says significantly speed query performance on Apache Iceberg tables while reducing the need for user intervention. The two major new features are Live Reflections and Result Set Caching. Dremio Reflections are a feature of the company’s data lake engine ...
VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and Tanzu 10 simplify development and deployment in private clouds
Broadcom Inc. today unveiled the latest version of VMware Cloud Foundation, calling it “the future” of the company’s private cloud platform. Broadcom said the new release simplifies private cloud deployment, consumption and operations while delivering public cloud-like scale, security, resilience and performance. The new release being announced at the VMware Explore conference in Las Vegas features ...
Onehouse’s vector embeddings support aims to cut the cost of AI training
Onehouse Inc., a company that sells a data lakehouse based on Apache Hudi as a managed service, today said it has launched a vector embedding generator to automate embedding pipelines as a part of its cloud service. Vector embeddings are mathematical representations of objects, such as words and images, in a continuous space in which ...
Wiliot brings generative AI to real-time supply chain analytics
Wiliot Ltd., a company that develops tiny, battery-free internet of things devices that enable data to be captured and transmitted as items traverse supply chains, is adding a generative artificial intelligence front end to its cloud analytics platform to allow customers to formulate sophisticated queries about the status and history of tracked items using natural ...
Pindrop says it can detect deepfake audio with 99% accuracy
Pindrop Security Inc. today announced the launch of its Pindrop Pulse Inspect deepfake detection tool in preview mode, saying it can detect artificial intelligence-generated speech in any digital audio file with 99% accuracy. A deepfake is synthetic media in which a person in an existing image, audio or video recording is replaced with false content. Recent advances in ...
HPE to acquire Morpheus Data to round out hybrid cloud orchestration capabilities
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said it will acquire hybrid cloud automation vendor Morpheus Data LLC for an undisclosed amount. HPE said the acquisition’s technology will add multicloud automation and orchestration to its GreenLake hybrid cloud and complement the observability capabilities it picked up with its acquisition of OpsRamp Inc. last year. The Greenwood Village, ...
Tavus toolkit lets developers create video ‘digital twins’ that converse just like humans
Tavus Inc., a startup developing digital twin technology for human speakers, today announced a set of building blocks that developers can use to create interactive visual experiences with digital twins that speak, see and respond like humans. The technology (example pictured) delivers the nuances of a realistic face-to-face interaction with an AI agent with a ...
CYBERSECURITY SPECIAL REPORT
Cybersecurity tool sprawl is out of control – and it’s only going to get worse
Any chief information officer who assembled a portfolio of 130 discrete products to address a single problem would probably be accused of mismanagement. But when the problem is cybersecurity, they’re more likely to be seen as prudent. That’s the number of products the average enterprise has assembled to protect its infrastructure, applications and data, according ...
Kyndryl raises earnings forecast on strong consulting growth
Depending on whom you believe, Kyndryl Holdings Inc. defied the recent down-earnings trend by beating Wall Street estimates or it undershot expectations on critical metrics. The information technology infrastructure services and consulting firm reported revenues of $3.74 billion in its first fiscal quarter, a decline of 8% in constant currency from the same quarter last year. ...
Strong Microsoft results dampened by slight miss on cloud sales
Microsoft Corp. shares fell 3% in after-hours trading as cloud computing revenue slightly undershot analysts’ estimates. Consistent with Alphabet Inc.’s announcement last week that it was sharply increasing its investments in cloud infrastructure to support artificial intelligence, Microsoft said it spent $13.9 billion to build out data centers and computing infrastructure for AI processing, up ...