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‘Which video games do you play?’ How firms are finding and keeping scarce tech talent
Between the Great Resignation and the chronic shortage of information technology talent, organizations have never had a harder time finding and keeping qualified people. Although the task is easier for hot startups swimming in venture capital, hiring managers in more prosaic fields have told nightmare stories of losing prospects while offer letters are being prepared ...
Neo4j introduces managed graph service for data scientists
Graph database maker Neo4j Inc. today introduced a version of its Aura managed service aimed at data scientists. The new offering complements an existing managed version of its core graph database the company rolled out early last year. Coincident with the announcement, Neo4j also announced version 2.0 of its Graph Data Science software, containing 65 ...
Monitaur releases AI governance platform
As the use of artificial intelligence has expanded into areas that increasingly affect people’s health, privacy and civil rights, the need for governance standards specific to AI use cases has grown. That’s a gap that Monitaur Inc. is attempting to fill starting today with a platform it says helps organizations create and enforce AI governance ...
8base lands $10.6M for low-code platform for professional developers
8base Inc. today said it has completed a $10.6 million early-stage funding round to build its low-code development platform. The firm, which has raised $15.3 million in total, said it will use the Series A funds to expand the product’s capabilities and invest in sales and marketing. 8base’s toolset includes features for building data models, ...
Databricks releases Delta Live Tables automated ETL framework
Databricks Inc. today announced the general availability of Delta Live Tables, which it claims is the first extract/transfer/load or ETL framework to use a declarative approach to building data pipelines and managing data infrastructure at scale. In declarative programming, the developer writes code to describe what the program should do as opposed to how it ...
Exclusive: Deepgram adds 23 new languages and dialects to voice recognition engine
Deepgram Inc., developer of a voice-recognition engine that it delivers as a service via application program interfaces, announced today that it has added 23 new language and dialect models to its original U.S. English model. The company promotes its service as being the fastest and most accurate on the market, capable of recognizing and transcribing ...
VMware to offer fully managed cloud storage-as-a-service
VMware Inc. today is breaking out the technology it uses for its Cloud Disaster Recovery service and selling it as a cloud storage service. Cloud Flex Storage is described as a scalable, elastic and cloud-native offering that is fully managed by VMware and delivered with pay-as-you-go pricing on the VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services ...
Aruba simplifies distributed network management and adds self-locating WiFi access points
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Aruba networking subsidiary today announced enhancements to its Aruba Edge Services Platform that enable users to centralize the management of distributed networks. It’s also releasing what it says are the industry’s first self-locating indoor access points with built-in GPS receivers, as well as Open Locate, a proposed standard for sharing location ...
Snowflake targets retailers with its fourth industry cloud
Snowflake Inc. today is launching its fourth industry-specific data cloud with an offering tailored for retailers and manufacturers of consumer packaged goods. The Retail Data Cloud combines Snowflake’s data platform with third-party software and datasets from partners. The announcement comes less than two weeks after the company rolled out its Healthcare & Life Sciences Data ...
Datagen lands $50M to build out its synthetic data platform for AI training
Datagen Technologies, the maker of a synthetic data platform that generates visual data for the training of computer vision systems, today said it closed a $50 million Series B financing round, bringing its total funding to $70 million. The company is creating a computer vision stack that can be used to simulate real-world images for ...