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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. is tuning up its artificial intelligence portfolio with today’s announcement of a new set of hybrid cloud offerings for machine learning development, data analytics, AI-optimized file storage and fine-tuning of AI inferencing services. The company said the services …
Strong Nutanix earnings contrast with weak forecast from Pure Storage
There was good and bad news from two of the rising challengers to the information technology infrastructure heavyweights today, as Nutanix Inc. reported strong revenue and earnings growth in its fiscal first quarter while Pure Storage Inc. beat estimates but issued a …
Starburst simplifies analytics on data lakes
Starburst Data Inc., the commercial developer of a distributed query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today announced a set of new features intended to make it easier for organizations to build data-intensive applications on top of data lakes. The enhancements provide …
Who will win the battle for AI in the cloud? Maybe everyone
The speed with which Microsoft Corp. hired former OpenAI LP Chief Executive Sam Altman last weekend, along with the firm’s co-founder and an unspecified number of technical specialists, illustrates how high the stakes are in the $60 billion market for cloud artificial …
Tech firm uses a brace of generative AI tools to slash content production times
While most of us are still just getting our feet wet with generative artificial intelligence, Kiteworks Pte Ltd. is using it to change its business fundamentally. The company, which makes a secure platform for file sharing, file transfers and email, uses a …
Exclusive: Informatica and Microsoft team on native data integration for Fabric analytics
Informatica Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of jointly developed integrations between Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud and Microsoft’s Azure cloud ecosystem, including the Fabric integrated data analytics platform Microsoft announced in May. The partnership accompanies Microsoft’s announcement of Fabric’s …
Startup Fractl releases its language for building generative AI applications to open source
Fractl Inc., developer of a programming language for building generative artificial intelligence applications, today said it has raised $1.025 million in a pre-seed funding round and released its namesake language under an open-source license. The company also announced the limited availability of a programming …
Commvault re-integrates Metallic service into expanded security cloud
Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced an integrated cloud offering that combines its various software-as-a-service and packaged software products into a single offering built on the concept of cyber resilience and incorporating artificial intelligence for threat diagnosis and recovery. That …
VMware product blitz highlighted by data services and Cloud Foundation enhancements
VMware Inc. is convening its annual Explore conference in Barcelona this week with a huge batch of product and partnership announcements aimed at strengthening its Cloud Foundation hyperconverged infrastructure with improved data services and security as well as advancing its Tanzu application …
VMware, Google team up to deliver PostgreSQL-compatible database for AI development
VMware Inc. and Google LLC announced today that they will partner to deliver Google Cloud’s AlloyDB Omni database management system on VMware’s cloud, giving PostgreSQL users an alternative to the popular open-source platform that is purpose-built for artificial intelligence development. PostgreSQL is …