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Dell ships integrated OpenShift application delivery appliance
Dell Technologies Inc. today said it’s shipping the integrated application delivery platform combining Dell hardware and Red Hat Inc.’s OpenShift management platform for software containers that it announced in May. Jointly engineered with Red Hat, and based on 4th Generation Intel Corp. processors, the Apex Cloud Platform is said to provide simplified installation and maintenance ...
Neo4j boosts query speed and support for hybrid transaction/analytical uses
Graph database market leader Neo4j Inc. today announced new features that it says can improve the speed of analytical queries up to 100-fold and enable users to run both transactional and analytical workloads within a single database while tracking real-time data changes. The performance is achieved via parallelization, which adds concurrent threads across multiple CPU ...
Microsoft posts strong results on growing demand for AI services
Microsoft Corp.’s growth accelerated in its fiscal first quarter thanks to growing demand for artificial intelligence products and the first expansion of growth in its cloud business in the past five quarters. Revenue grew 13%, to $56.5 billion, for the quarter ended in September, up from the 11% growth the company reported in the same ...
EnterpriseDB targets analytical ambitions with Splitgraph acquisition
EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source PostgreSQL database management system, today announced that it has acquired Splitgraph Inc., a startup that provides a Postgres-compatible serverless SQL application program interface for accessing data from hundreds of sources, for an undisclosed price. The UK-based Splitgraph describes its service as a content delivery ...
SPECIAL REPORT: GENERATIVE AI TRANSFORMS EVERY INDUSTRY
Enterprise software developers prepare for generative AI’s ‘productivity revolution’
Daniel Saroff tells of a client who is going through a modernization project that involves rewriting applications created in Pick, an operating system and programming language built for mainframes in the 1960s, to run on modern infrastructure. The company found that the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence model knew enough about the now-obscure Pick environment to ...
Druva to use generative AI for faster problem diagnosis and resolution
Automated cloud backup provider Druva Inc. said today that it’s incorporating generative artificial intelligence into its platform to simplify customer interactions. The copilot, called Dru, uses a conversational interface (pictured) to help users more quickly pinpoint the cause of a problem and identify a solution. It lets users request real-time, custom reports, ask follow-up questions and act ...
Alluxio rolls out new filesystem built for deep learning
Alluxio Inc., which sells a high-performance open-source distributed filesystem, today introduced a completely overhauled version of its product fine-tuned for artificial intelligence workloads. Alluxio Enterprise AI is aimed at data-intensive deep learning applications such as generative AI, computer vision, natural language processing, large language models and high-performance data analytics. It’s designed for high-performance model training ...
Oracle NetSuite gets generative AI, performance management and much more
Oracle Corp.’s NetSuite subsidiary today is adding dozens of new features and financial tools to its enterprise resource planning suite grounded in generative artificial intelligence and aimed at improving operational productivity, financial planning and business analysis, along with a more flexible licensing model for task-specific employee roles. The generative AI highlight is NetSuite Text Enhance, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: GENERATIVE AI TRANSFORMS EVERY INDUSTRY
AI model training rekindles interest in on-premises infrastructure
Enterprises have spent the last 15 years moving information technology workloads from their data centers to the cloud. Could generative artificial intelligence be the catalyst that brings some of them back? Some people think so. Interest in natural language processing has exploded since OpenAI LP’s release of the ChatGPT large language model-based chatbot last November. ...
Salesforce’s MuleSoft integration studio gets generative AI front end
Salesforce Inc. is folding generative artificial intelligence capabilities into Anypoint Code Builder, an integration platform from its MuleSoft subsidiary, the company announced today. Citing its own research showing that 80% of information technology leaders say integration challenges slow digital transformation, the company said generative AI can significantly improve integration speed while enabling developers to build ...