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SPECIAL REPORT: AI AND THE CLOUD
Safety and reliability concerns temper agentic AI mania
When information services and technology firm Thomson Reuters Corp. acquired accounting software firm Materia in October, it paved the way for what it sees as the future of its business. Materia, which is the business name of Credere Technologies Inc., builds software agents that can break down complex queries and consult numerous information sources to ...
SPECIAL REPORT: AI AND THE CLOUD
AI agents are practical. Reliability is another matter.
Building artificial intelligence agents that can interact with each other reliably across services presents technical challenges that have never been tackled before. According to one AI researcher, that will limit their use to a narrow set of business processes for the next few years. Niloufar Salehi (pictured below), an assistant professor at the University of ...
Strong renewals propel Nutanix past Wall Street estimates
Nutanix Inc. reported fiscal first-quarter revenue and earnings that topped Wall Street estimates and sent the stock up more than 4% after hours. The company swung from a loss of $15.85 million, or seven cents a share, a year ago to a profit of $29.9 million, or 10 cents a share. Adjusted earnings of 42 ...
Microsoft integrates source-code analysis into its cloud security suite
Endor Labs Inc. says Microsoft Corp. has natively integrated its software composition analysis technology into its Microsoft Defender for Cloud cloud-native application protection platform. That means security teams can consolidate their application security and cloud security programs into a single platform and unified dashboard that spans all stages of the software development and deployment cycle. ...
Procore to add AI agents to its construction management software platform
Construction software firm Procore Technologies, Inc. today announced plans to release a set of artificial intelligence agents early next year that are tuned to enforcing project efficiency, improving safety, enhancing decision-making and streamlining workflows. Agents are based on Procore AI, a unified platform that combines generative AI with predictive analytics. They will aim to automate ...
StarTree brings batch-like flexibility and performance to streaming data
StarTree Inc., the developer of a managed service based on the Apache Pinot real-time data analytics platform, today rolled out a set of enhancements aimed at helping organizations more efficiently accommodate evolving data structures, enhance query performance and streamline user access management. The company said the rapid expansion of table sizes and numbers and soaring ...
Dell boosts Azure AI storage and adds services to support Copilot+ PCs
Dell Technologies Inc. today introduced new products and services for Microsoft Corp. platforms that address data protection, resiliency and security. Dell APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure will be a Dell-managed option for organizations seeking to simplify storage management in multicloud environments. It was previously available only as a customer-managed service. The service applies Dell ...
Snowflake to broaden interoperability with Microsoft Dataverse and Dynamics
Snowflake Inc. said today that it is expanding its partnership with Microsoft Corp. to support a connector that enables bidirectional access between Microsoft’s Dataverse platform for copilot development and the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Snowflake said the connector simplifies interoperability between Microsoft’s Power Platform low-code/no-code suite, Dynamics 365 business applications and data stored in Snowflake. ...
OpenText broadly enhances customer experience cloud suite
OpenText Corp., the maker of a diversified set of cloud-based information technology and knowledge management products, today unveiled a set of enhancements and new products around the theme of artificial intelligence enablement. They’re combined in version 24.4 of Cloud Editions, a platform that combines information management, cloud-based applications, security and AI. Collectively, the new features ...
Copilots will be everywhere in Microsoft Ignite announcement spree
Microsoft Corp. is going all in on agents as it expands its line of Copilots to take on unique roles handling mundane tasks as well as complex, multi-step business processes. Agentic artificial intelligence refers to AI systems that are designed to act autonomously, make decisions and take actions to achieve specific goals, using reasoning, planning, ...
