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Any list of computer industry figures who could legitimately be classified as a living legend would have to include Tom Siebel. He and co-founder Pat House started Siebel Systems Inc. in 1993 and grew it to a $2 billion-a-year giant that practically …
IBM acquires Ahana, joins the Presto Foundation
IBM Corp. has acquired Ahana Cloud Inc., a startup that offers managed and commercial versions of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, for an undisclosed price. In doing so, IBM becomes a member of the Presto Foundation, which curates the project that …
AWS doubles down on generative AI training
Amazon Web Services Inc. is extending its reach further into the domain of artificial intelligence software development with the release today of several new tools for generative AI training and deployment on its cloud platform. In a post on the AWS Machine …
Snowflake’s newest industry cloud targets manufacturers
Snowflake Inc. today is rolling out its sixth industry-specific offering, this one targeting manufacturers. The Manufacturing Data Cloud is aimed at supporting companies in the automotive, technology, energy and industrial sectors in addressing information silos within their organizations and collaborating more efficiently …
Slingshot collaboration platform gets data catalog capabilities
Development tools maker Infragistics Corp. today is announcing the addition of data cataloging capabilities to its Slingshot collaboration software. The company said the catalog can be used by non-technical users to unify data across an organization and create visual dashboards. Slingshot’s data catalog …
Observability platform Honeycomb pockets $50M in new funding
Observability platform maker Hound Technology Inc., which does business as Honeycomb, today announced that it has raised $50 million in a Series D venture round, bringing its total funding to $150 million. The seven-year-old firm, which takes credit for popularizing the term …
C3.ai shares tumble on criticism by short seller
Shares of enterprise artificial intelligence software provider C3.ai Inc. tumbled for the second straight day on Wall Street in the wake of allegations by a short seller of accounting irregularities. The selloff also dragged down shares of other AI firms, which in …
HPE GreenLake gets hybrid block/file storage and expanded data protection
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today introduced a hybrid file and block storage offering that it will make available on-premises with as-a-service pricing, and also announced new disaster and backup recovery data services with uptime guarantees. The new file and block offerings are …
Databricks aims at manufacturers with its newest vertical lakehouse
Databricks Inc. today is adding another vertical industry lakehouse targeting the manufacturing industry. The Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing unifies data and artificial intelligence technology in a high-speed analytics engine that has already been adopted by DuPont de Nemours Inc., Honeywell International Inc., …
Glean adds generative AI interface to enterprise search engine
Glean Technologies Inc., the developer of a search engine that enterprises can use to index their own content, today announced the addition of generative artificial intelligence and other AI-grounded technologies to its core service. The company says it’s using generative machine learning …