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IBM acquires Ahana, joins the Presto Foundation
IBM Corp. has acquired Ahana Cloud Inc., a startup that offers managed and commercial versions of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, for an undisclosed price. In doing so, IBM becomes a member of the Presto Foundation, which curates the project that in 2013 was spun out of Facebook Inc., now Meta Platforms Inc. The ...
AWS doubles down on generative AI training
Amazon Web Services Inc. is extending its reach further into the domain of artificial intelligence software development with the release today of several new tools for generative AI training and deployment on its cloud platform. In a post on the AWS Machine Learning blog, the company detailed new offerings that include the ability to build ...
Snowflake’s newest industry cloud targets manufacturers
Snowflake Inc. today is rolling out its sixth industry-specific offering, this one targeting manufacturers. The Manufacturing Data Cloud is aimed at supporting companies in the automotive, technology, energy and industrial sectors in addressing information silos within their organizations and collaborating more efficiently with partners, suppliers and customers. Noting that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in ...
Slingshot collaboration platform gets data catalog capabilities
Development tools maker Infragistics Corp. today is announcing the addition of data cataloging capabilities to its Slingshot collaboration software. The company said the catalog can be used by non-technical users to unify data across an organization and create visual dashboards. Slingshot’s data catalog can be used with a wide variety of data sources, including the most ...
Observability platform Honeycomb pockets $50M in new funding
Observability platform maker Hound Technology Inc., which does business as Honeycomb, today announced that it has raised $50 million in a Series D venture round, bringing its total funding to $150 million. The seven-year-old firm, which takes credit for popularizing the term “observability” as an evolution of application performance management, has staked its reputation on ...
C3.ai shares tumble on criticism by short seller
Shares of enterprise artificial intelligence software provider C3.ai Inc. tumbled for the second straight day on Wall Street in the wake of allegations by a short seller of accounting irregularities. The selloff also dragged down shares of other AI firms, which in general have bucked the downtrend among tech stocks this year. C3.ai’s stock fell ...
HPE GreenLake gets hybrid block/file storage and expanded data protection
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today introduced a hybrid file and block storage offering that it will make available on-premises with as-a-service pricing, and also announced new disaster and backup recovery data services with uptime guarantees. The new file and block offerings are based on the HPE Alletra Storage platform the company introduced two years ago ...
Databricks aims at manufacturers with its newest vertical lakehouse
Databricks Inc. today is adding another vertical industry lakehouse targeting the manufacturing industry. The Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing unifies data and artificial intelligence technology in a high-speed analytics engine that has already been adopted by DuPont de Nemours Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC, Royal Dutch Shell plc, and Tata Steel Ltd. This vertical ...
Glean adds generative AI interface to enterprise search engine
Glean Technologies Inc., the developer of a search engine that enterprises can use to index their own content, today announced the addition of generative artificial intelligence and other AI-grounded technologies to its core service. The company says it’s using generative machine learning models to understand and synthesize content to provide more precise answers to natural ...
Oracle gives developers free access to forthcoming database release
Oracle Corp. is making the next version of its flagship database management system available free to developers under a new program announced today. Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release is available for download as a Docker container image, Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine, or Linux RPM installation file without requiring a user account or login. A Windows ...