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ARPA-H Taps Duality’s Homomorphic Encryption for Rare Disease Research

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in September awarded Duality Technologies a contract worth up to $6 million to develop a framework for enabling healthcare organizations to share highly sensitive Read more…

Polars Gets GPU Support as Cloud Version Nears Launch

A new speedy DataFrame library called Polars is starting to turn heads in the data science community thanks to its performance and adoption rate. The open source project, which provides a multithreaded, vectorized query Read more…

Can Cerabyte Crack the $1-Per-Petabyte Barrier with Ceramic Storage?

A German startup named Cerabyte is hoping to solve the burgeoning market for secondary and archival data storage with a novel approach that uses lasers to etch bits onto glass with a ceramic coating. The “grey ceramic� Read more…

DataOps.Live: The Data Product Assembly Line for Snowflake

When it comes to building great data products, all the key ingredients are available in the cloud--big data, massive compute, and sophisticated analytics and AI tools. What’s missing is an easy way to turn all those in Read more…

Starfish Helps Tame the Wild West of Massive Unstructured Data

“What data do you have? And can I access it?” Those may seem like simple questions for any data-driven enterprise. But when you have billions of files spread across petabytes of storage on a parallel file system, the Read more…

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Reltio Gooses Entity Resolution with AI

With the latest update to its data unification and management software, Reltio is employing one-shot learning techniques using large language models (LLMs) to resolve identities of objects in organizations' data, which w 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…

Databricks Sees Compound Systems as Cure to AI Ailments

Databricks today unveiled a series of enhancements to its Mosaic AI stack that is aimed at addressing some of the challenges that customers face building GenAI systems, including accuracy, toxicity, latency, and cost. At Read more…

Altair Bolsters Analytics Offering with Cambridge Semantics Buy

Altair Engineering will soon fortify its end-to-end data science offering with the acquisition of Cambridge Semantics and its semantic graph database. Terms of the deal, which was announced yesterday, were not disclosed. Read more…

Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage

Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…

This Just In

Monterey Data Conference Explores Role of AI Foundation Models in Future of Science

Oct 22, 2024 |

Oct. 22, 2024 — In science, data is essential. Scientific methods rely on accurate, well-documented data to draw conclusions, test hypotheses, build models, and explain the natural world. Data isn’t just a byproduct of research; Read more…

Liquid Web Introduces Flexible GPU Hosting with NVIDIA-Powered Servers

Oct 18, 2024 |

ATLANTA, Oct. 18, 2024 — Liquid Web, a leader in managed hosting and scalable cloud solutions for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has announced the launch of its new GPU hosting solution, offering affordable reserved and hourly pricing. Read more…

Esri Releases New Edition of Best-Selling GIS Map Design Guide

Oct 11, 2024 |

REDLANDS, Calif., Oct. 11, 2024 — Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced the publication of Designing Better Maps: A Guide for GIS Users, Third Edition. Read more…

Vultr Announces Launch of Industry Cloud to Accelerate AI Innovation Across Verticals

Aug 8, 2024 |

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 8, 2024 — Vultr, the world’s largest privately held cloud computing platform, has announced the launch of its industry cloud solution, which delivers industry-vertical, cutting-edge cloud computing solutions that meet specific industry needs and regulatory requirements across the retail, manufacturing, healthcare, media, telecommunications, and finance sectors. Read more…

Esri Partners with Microsoft to Provide Spatial Analytics in Microsoft Fabric

Jul 15, 2024 |

REDLANDS, Calif., July 15, 2024 — At its 44th annual User Conference, Esri announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to integrate spatial analytics technology with Fabric, Microsoft’s unified analytics SaaS platform. Read more…

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