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Featureform Inc., the developer of a feature store for artificial intelligence development, today said it has raised a $5.5 million seed round that brings its total funding to $8.1 million. The company is addressing what it says is a mainly bespoke process …
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 …
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, …
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% …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …