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Dynatrace broadly expands tools for cloud observability analysis
Infrastructure observability vendor Dynatrace Inc. today is enhancing the Grail data analytics platform to support metrics, distributed traces and multicloud topology and dependencies in addition to the log and business event support that was included in the product’s launch in October. The company vendor said the additions expand Grail’s ability to store, process and analyze ...
Data provider Knoema launches new brand and analytics platforms for retail and CPG companies
Knoema, a data provider subsidiary of Eldridge Industries LLC, is teaming up with its Seek Data analytics consultancy on a new brand called Seek Inc. and introducing two new products under the Seek brand that provide preconfigured analytics and access to experts initially in the retail and consumer packaged goods markets. Seek Insights is described ...
Report: Data lakehouses are on track to make most warehouses obsolete
Data lakehouses, a new kind of data store that combines the flexibility of data lakes with the structure and performance of data warehouses, are on track to co-opt data warehouses although they will not supplant data lakes or purpose-built data marts, predicts Tony Baer, a longtime database analyst and founder of the research firm dbInsight. ...
Informatica CEO Amit Walia says its pivot is complete: ‘Full cloud ahead’
Continuing a theme that has become commonplace during 10 months of uproar in technology markets, Informatica Corp.’s fourth-quarter earnings release on Wednesday contained some good news and some bad news. On the plus side, 42% growth in the company’s cloud annual recurring revenues exceeded the estimates of 35% to 40% growth the company issued the ...
How ChatGPT will – and won’t – change the face of business
ChatGPT has been hailed as everything from the future of search to the end of term papers, but it’s far from a sentient being. While OpenAI LLC’s chatbot is a wonder at explaining the infield fly rule in Shakespearean English, detractors have noted that its answers can be overly simplistic, confusing or just plain wrong. ...
Starburst adds a data catalog, high-speed indexing and Python support to its distributed query engine
Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial distribution of the Trino distributed SQL query engine, used its third annual Datanova conference today to announce updates that it says significantly speed the performance of its engine while reducing barriers to the ability of users to find data. The company also announced a private preview of a ...
Data observability startup Acceldata lands $50M Series C funding
Acceldata Inc., developer of a data observability platform, today is announcing that it has raised $50 million in new funding, bringing its total amount raised to nearly $100 million. The Series C round comes less than two months after the vendor released its platform under an Apache open-source license in what it said was an ...
Kyndryl beats the street and raises outlook on strong hyperscale cloud bookings
Kyndryl Holdings Inc., the services business that IBM Corp. spun off in late 2021, today reported a 3% constant-currency revenue increase to $4.3 billion in its fiscal third quarter and a net loss of $106 million, or 47 cents per diluted share. That compared with a net loss of $731 million in the same period ...
AI chipmaker SiMa releases development platform and edge plug-in boards
SiMa Technologies Inc., the maker of a purpose-built machine learning system-on-a-chip, Tuesday said it has begun shipping its SiMa.ai Palette software platform for full machine learning stack development, along with two plug-in processing cards. The San Jose, California-based company said the development platform supports the deployment of any machine learning workflow at the edge without ...
Wasabi targets surveillance video with ‘bottomless’ cloud storage service
Wasabi Technologies Inc. today expanded into the physical security market with a version of its cloud storage service customized for digital video. The Boston-based firm, which closed $250 million in new funding last fall, said its “bottomless” storage option is aimed at the surveillance industry, which is struggling to manage the requirements of high-resolution cameras ...