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Healthcare analytics firm targets $10B in savings with the help of speedy data pipelines
Improving the quality of cardiovascular care while reducing its enormous cost is a big-data problem. Biome Analytics LLC believes it’s primed for a breakthrough. The San Francisco-based firm harvests data from more than 70 hospitals, health systems and clinicians and analyzes it to determine which medical treatments yield the best and most cost-effective results. The ...
Dremio appoints former Splunk exec Sendur Sellakumar as new CEO
Dremio Corp. developer of a data-as-a-service platform that enables businesses to analyze, curate and serve data from multiple sources in a converged platform called a “lakehouse,” today said it has appointed former Splunk Inc. Chief Cloud Officer Sendur Sellakumar as chief executive officer. The CEO position has been open since former CEO Billy Bosworth left the ...
How organizations can combat AI-equipped attackers
Assuming that artificial intelligence is poised to become a standard part of the cybercriminal’s toolbox, what can organizations do to protect themselves? Experts say doubling down on the basics is the best defense. AI doesn’t change the rules of the game as much as help adversaries do what they already do faster and better. With OpenAI ...
Salesforce’s sales and service clouds get GPT support
Salesforce Inc. today said it’s adding generative artificial intelligence capabilities to its Sales Cloud and Service Cloud applications that focus on customer interaction. Sales GPT uses technology for such purposes as automatically generating customer emails, call summaries and account research. Service GPT will automatically create service replies and customer interaction summaries into knowledge base articles. ...
Typeface lands $100M for its generative AI content creation engine
Generative artificial intelligence has given birth to another unicorn. Typeface Inc., a platform that automates enterprise content creation, today announced a $100 million Series B investment round led by a blue-chip cast of venture capitalists. The oversubscribed round brings the total amount the San Francisco-based startup has raised to $165 million at a valuation of ...
Databricks adds federation, generative AI front end and development tools to its lakehouse
Databricks Inc. is joining the generative AI parade today with a query engine that lets users ask questions and get contextually relevant answers in natural language. LakehouseIQ is integrated with the company’s Unity Catalog governance platform to ensure adherence to internal security and governance rules. The company noted that although large language models are good ...
Databricks’ Delta Lake 3.0 bridges compatibility gaps with Apache Iceberg and Hudi
Databricks Inc. today released the latest version of Delta Lake, the storage framework that it donated to open source a year ago. Version 3.0 adds support for the Apache Iceberg and Apache Hudi data lake platforms using a universal format that allows data stored in Delta Lake to be read from either source. The move is ...
Prosimo gives away software for orchestrating multicloud networking application delivery
Prosimo Inc., the developer of networking technology for orchestrating application delivery across multiple clouds, is giving away part of its multicloud networking software suite in a bid to attract more customers to its full platform. MCN Foundation is a kind of starter pack for organizations moving to a multicloud environment. It simplifies the process of ...
BMC smooths path from mainframe to cloud
BMC Software Inc. today introduced a new product portfolio to help customers migrate mainframe data to a hybrid cloud environment. The BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence Cloud combines hybrid cloud technologies with on-premises mainframe computing to enable enterprises to run large-scale transaction processing while also moving to the cloud. There are three components to the suite. ...
Informatica deepens ties to Snowflake ecosystem
Informatica Corp. is launching four new product capabilities for Snowflake Inc.’s Data Cloud platform that are aimed at simplifying and speeding up the data integration replication process, all available within the native Snowflake ecosystem. Informatica Superpipe for Snowflake is said to deliver up to 3.5 times faster ingestion and replication into Snowflake. It’s the result of collaboration ...