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Oracle to colocate in Azure data centers under expanded Microsoft partnership
Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are expanding their four-year-old cloud relationship with a deal that will colocate Oracle’s Exadata database-optimized server and Real Application Clusters in Microsoft Azure data centers. The new offering, called Oracle Database@Azure, will give customers of both companies a low-latency option to comingle their data with Microsoft’s applications and infrastructure using ...
SAS ups AI features in its analytics and CRM platforms
Analytics software provider SAS Institute Inc. today is amping up development features in its Viya artificial intelligence and analytics platform and previewing some of the work it is doing with generative AI. It also said users of its Customer Intelligence 360 customer relationship management application can now integrate with generative AI models of their choice ...
FeatureByte adds a copilot to its feature engineering platform
FeatureByte Inc., a startup focused on simplifying the artificial intelligence development task of feature engineering, today launched an automated feature recommendation product that it says can move AI projects along more quickly while cutting computing costs fivefold. Feature engineering is the process of selecting, transforming or creating relevant input variables or attributes called features from ...
Lessons from a ransomware attack: How one healthcare CIO helped her company recover
In the early-morning hours of Feb. 25, 2021, Terri Ripley got the call every chief information officer dreads: Her company, OrthoVirginia Inc., had been hit by a massive attack of the Ryuk ransomware that had shut down its entire computing fabric. Although it would be 18 months before systems were fully restored, OrthoVirginia never shut ...
EnterpriseDB releases PostgreSQL cluster deployment tool to open source
EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source PostgreSQL database management system, today said it’s making Trusted Postgres Architect available as open source under the GNU General Public License v3. TPA is a tool for automating the deployment and configuration of high-availability Postgres clusters. It automates much of the complexity of cluster deployment ...
C3 AI shares sink as plans to invest in generative AI cut profit forecast
Shares of C3 AI Inc. initially dropped more than 10% in extended trading today despite fiscal first-quarter revenues and profits that exceeded analysts’ estimates. Executive statements that the maker of market-specific artificial intelligence software would invest more aggressively in generative AI in coming quarters to take advantage of what it called a “massive opportunity” did ...
C3 AI releases 28 domain-specific generative AI models
Vertically focused artificial intelligence developer C3 AI Inc. today launched a set of 28 domain-specific generative AI offerings aimed at the specific needs of a variety of industries, business processes and enterprise systems. The C3 Generative AI Suite is built on its C3 AI Platform, which provides a single workspace for the development, testing and ...
HubSpot climbs aboard generative AI train with broad enhancements
Inbound marketing software maker HubSpot Inc. today is adding generative artificial intelligence capabilities to its flagship platform along with predictive analytics features that improve forecasting and visibility into pending sales. The company will use its Inbound 2023 conference (pictured) to unveil a set of platform-wide AI-powered products called HubSpot AI that are aimed at boosting ...
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To accelerate business insights, a clinical lab turns to a data fabric
For Mark Clare, the data fabric he’s putting in place at Quest Diagnostics Inc. is the realization of a vision he has been pursuing for more than a decade. Clare, a veteran data and analytics executive who joined the clinical laboratory early this year as enterprise head of data and analytics, is passionate about giving ...
Dell, Nutanix continue the string of recent upbeat earnings news
Updated: Strong demand for servers customized for artificial intelligence workloads and a rebound in small and midsized business demand helped Dell Technologies Inc. smash expectations for both revenue and earnings in its second fiscal quarter. Its smaller but similar rival, Nutanix Inc., also blew past expectations on strong demand for purpose-built AI hardware and subscription ...