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Terrabyte: Germany’s New High Performance Data Analytics Platform for Earth Observation

Satellites and the data they generate enable scientists to monitor changes in the Earth’s environment such as deforestation, desertification, melting ice caps, and other forms of environmental degradation. They can als Read more…

A New Era of Natural Language Search Emerges for the Enterprise

Large language models and their applications are suddenly a hot topic due to the popular release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the subsequent search engine wars between Google and Microsoft. ChatGPT and similar systems are r Read more…

Google Claims Its TPU v4 Outperforms Nvidia A100

A new scientific paper from Google details the performance of its Cloud TPU v4 supercomputing platform, claiming it provides exascale performance for machine learning with boosted efficiency. The authors of the resear Read more…

Hyperscale Analytics Growing Faster Than Expected, Ocient Says

After spending more than five years and close to a hundred million dollars to rewrite the innards of an analytics database around the superfast I/O of NVMe drives, Ocient enjoyed better-than-expected 2022 results, the co Read more…

AnyScale Bolsters Ray, the Super-Scalable Framework Used to Train ChatGPT

ChatGPT developer OpenAI is using Ray, an open-source unified compute framework, to ease the infrastructure costs and complexity of training its large language models. Anyscale, the company behind Ray, has made enhanceme Read more…

News In Brief

Apache Cassandra 5.0 Brings Major Updates with Enhanced Indexing and AI Capabilities

The Apache Cassandra Community has announced the general availability of Apache Cassandra 5.0, offering better data efficiency, integration of GenAI functionality, and improved performance.  Apache Cassandra is a dis Read more…

pgEdge Raises $10M to Advance Distributed PostgreSQL Platform

pgEdge, a Virginia-based company specializing in distributed database solutions based on PostgreSQL, announced $10 million in new funding. The investment will be used to expand the company's operations and further develo Read more…

Grafana Labs Raises $270M, Boosting Valuation to Over $6B

Grafana Labs, one of the leading providers of open-source and enterprise software for monitoring, observability, and data visualization, has announced the successful completion of a primary and secondary transaction tota Read more…

Wyoming DOT Uses GIS to Reduce Truck Blow-Overs

Wyoming faces significant challenges with weather conditions on its interstate highways, particularly due to its location in the Rocky Mountains region. The state's three major interstates regularly endure severe weather Read more…

Cloudian Partners with Lenovo for EPYC All-Flash ‘HyperStore’

Cloudian and Lenovo today announced they’re teaming up to deliver a new HyperStore cluster designed to run big data, AI, and HPC workloads. Each HyperStore cluster will be composed of six Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 V3 Read more…

This Just In

Monte Carlo Announces New GenAI Capabilities to Streamline Data Quality Management at Enterprise Scale

Nov 15, 2024 |

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15, 2024 — Monte Carlo, the data and AI observability company, has announced a series of product enhancements and new capabilities at its annual IMPACT Data Observability Summit, aimed at helping enterprises deliver reliable, trustworthy data to power their data and AI products. Read more…

AMD Enhances Data Center and Edge Performance with Versal Premium Series Gen 2 SoCs

Nov 14, 2024 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 14, 2024 — AMD has announced the AMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2, an adaptive SoC platform designed to deliver the highest levels of system acceleration for a wide range of workloads. Read more…

LandingAI Announces General Availability of LandingLens as Snowflake Native App on Snowflake Marketplace

Nov 12, 2024 |

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 12, 2024 — LandingAI, a pioneer in visual AI, today announced at Snowflake’s annual developer conference, BUILD 2024, the general availability (GA) of LandingLens, its Snowflake Native App, via Snowflake Marketplace. Read more…

UnifyApps Raises $20M Series A to Deliver AI Agents Across the Enterprise

Nov 8, 2024 |

NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2024 — UnifyApps, the Unified Enterprise AI Agent platform, today announced the closing of a $20 million Series A funding round led by ICONIQ Growth, with participation from existing investors including Elevation Capital. Read more…

New Relic Launches Intelligent Observability Platform with AI-Powered Automation for Enhanced Business Impact

Nov 1, 2024 |

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2024 — New Relic has unveiled the New Relic Intelligent Observability Platform, transforming observability from ensuring uptime and reliability into a key driver of business growth and developer velocity for enterprises worldwide. Read more…

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