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The past two years have been a wild ride for data integration vendor Boomi Inc. Acquired by Dell Technologies Inc. in 2010, it was sold to private equity firms Francisco Partners Management LLC and TPG Inc. two years ago as Dell sought …
Startup debuts $299 outdoor fire sensor with 10-acre coverage range
With the California fire season looming in early summer, Startup Torch Systems today is launching early-stage outdoor fire and wildfire detection sensors that continuously monitor an area for signs of fire along with a free mobile app that immediately notifies users about …
CelerData expands lakehouse support in StarRocks-based analytics platform
CelerData Inc. maker of a real-time analytics platform based on the StarRocks open-source massively parallel database, today announced version 3 of its enterprise product with enhanced support for the hybrid data warehouse/data lake repositories known as data lakehouses. CelerData, which renamed itself …
ThoughtSpot’s business intelligence platform gets GPT-3 support
ThoughtSpot Inc. is climbing aboard the large language model bandwagon with today’s announcement that it is integrating the popular GPT-3 LLM into its business intelligence platform. GPT-3 is the model that underlies the enormously popular ChatGPT chatbot from OpenAI LLC. ThoughtSpot’s platform allows …
Qualtrics uses machine learning into improve agent, customer experiences
Qualtrics International Inc. is headlining its X4 Experience Management Summit conference in Salt Lake City today with a lineup of new capabilities that leverage machine learning to get a better understanding of customer experiences. The aim is to give call center agents …
Databricks exposes serverless machine learning inferencing engine via an API
Data analytics developer Databricks Inc. today announced the general availability of Databricks Model Serving, a serverless real-time inferencing service that deploys real-time machine learning models natively within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform and is exposed via a Representational State Transfer or REST application …
Startup pgEdge aims to land distributed Postgres at network’s edge
A startup headed by the co-founders of commercial PostgreSQL maker Enterprise DB Corp. is coming out of stealth mode today with $9 million in seed funding and a distributed version of PostgreSQL optimized for edge computing instances. Alexandria, Va.-based pgEdge Inc.’s Distributed PostgreSQL …
VMware reports strong results amid growing regulatory pressure on Broadcom acquisition
With its planned $61.2 billion sale to Broadcom Inc. under the cloud of investigations in the U.S. and Europe and speculation that the deal may be in trouble, VMware Inc. forged ahead today with a quarterly report that beat consensus estimates on both …
Snowflake stock falls as it hits the brakes on growth
Cloud data warehouse provider Snowflake Inc. beat expectations on revenue and earnings in its fiscal fourth quarter today, but a weak forecast sent the stock down more than 7% in initial after-hours trading. Quarterly revenue rose 59% from a year ago, to …
Informatica adds data integration to its budding line of free services
Informatica Corp. is extending its new “freemium” initiatives with today’s introduction of what it says say is the only free cloud data loading, integration and extract/transform/load service. The company is also launching a pay-as-you-go version for users who exceed the limits of …