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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 …
EDB boasts ‘five nines’ uptime in new Postgres database version
EnterpriseDB Corp., which sells a commercial version of the popular open-source Postgres database management system, today announced version 5.0 of EDB Postgres Distributed with new high-availability features, easier installation and the ability to integrate with the Open Telemetry suite of observability tools. …
VMware entices telcos with expanded 5G and Open RAN portfolio
VMware Inc. today is expanding its line of products for communications service providers and unveiling a service management and orchestration framework that follows the O-RAN Alliance’s guidelines for simplifying and automating radio access networks and their applications. A radio access network or …
An open standard threatens to disrupt the cloistered world of wireless networking
Suppose you’re a major supplier of fertilizer to the agriculture market and you have ambitions of digitally transforming your business. Your idea is to place thousands of sensors in 10-foot-by-10-foot blocks across the fields your customers farm. The sensors will continually report …
Amplitude CEO says firm is well-positioned to navigate lean times
Behavior-tracking software firm Amplitude Inc. couldn’t escape the gravitational forces that have pulled down the entire information technology industry in its most recent quarter, but Chief Executive Spenser Skates said the company’s cost-sensitive culture and strong financial management equip it well for the …