Amazon Invests Another $2.75 Billion Into Anthropic
The GenAI boom last year triggered a desperate scramble among tech companies to adopt the new technology. With such immense potential on the line, an AI arms race is underway. Amazon is spending billions as it looks to g Read more…
MicroStrategy Fleshes Out AI-for-BI Strategy, Bets Big On Bitcoin
MicroStrategy this week unveiled a new customizable AI bot called Auto that lets business users interact with MicroStrategy’s data analytics offerings through natural language. But investors in the publicly traded Virg Read more…
GoodData Unveils Major Update to Redefine the Landscape for BI Practitioners
In the realm of business intelligence (BI) and analytic platforms, artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a behind-the-scenes force for a while. However, the advent of GenAI has revolutionized the way organizations levera Read more…
Redis Acquires Speedb, Expanding Its Data Platform Capabilities Beyond DRAM
In a strategic move to cater to the escalating demands of real-time and generative AI applications, Redis has announced the acquisition of data storage engine Speedb. This acquisition will boost Redis's capabilities in d Read more…
Zilliz Unveils Game-Changing Features for Vector Search
Vector databases have emerged to become an integral component of many AI applications. However, as AI applications continue to grow, vector databases are presented with more complicated use cases. This requires vector da Read more…
Data Observability in 2024: A Guide
In today's data-driven world, data observability is a critical concept for organizations aiming to effectively manage their data. Simply put, it means having the ability to constantly monitor and understand the status of Read more…
AI Evolution: Challenges Persist Despite Growing Optimism
The majority of business leaders and technical analysts believe that AI is an essential tool for business sustainability. Nearly 3 in 4 decision-makers believe that not investing in AI puts their business at risk of fail Read more…
AI Software Vendors Move to Support Nvidia NIMs
Nvidia Inference Microservices (NIMs) are just a few days old, but AI software vendors are already moving to support the new deployment scheme to help their customers get generative AI applications off the ground. Nvi Read more…
Nvidia Introduces New Blackwell GPU for Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Nvidia’s latest and fastest GPU, code-named Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company’s AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from its predecessors, including the red-hot H100 and A100 Read more…
Confluent Adds Flink, Iceberg to Hosted Kafka Service
Confluent today made a pair of big announcements at its Kafka Summit London event, including the general availability of Apache Flink and the addition of Apache Iceberg support in its Kafka-based cloud offering. The new Read more…
The Generative AI Future Is Now, Nvidia’s Huang Says
We are in the early days of a transformative shift in how business gets done thanks to the advent of generative AI, according to Nvidia CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang, who shared his vision for the future of computing to Read more…
DDN Cranks the Data Throughput with AI400X2 Turbo
DDN today launched a new version of its high-end storage solution for AI and high-performance computing, which Nvidia uses to power its massive Eos supercomputer. The AI400X2 Turbo features a 30% performance boost compar Read more…
Nvidia Looks to Accelerate GenAI Adoption with NIM
Today at the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia launched a new offering aimed at helping customers quickly deploy their generative AI applications in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Dubbed Nvidia Inference Microser Read more…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Deliver Keynote at GTC 2024
Few companies have ever enjoyed the hot streak that NVIDIA is going through. With the booming GenAI market, NVIDIA shares have tripled in 2023, and continue to rise sharply this year. The meteoric rise of the “kingpin� Read more…
Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud Reveals Spending as the Top Challenge of Cloud Computing
The economic uncertainties have led many organizations to invest in transformation technology such as GenAI. Meanwhile, managing costs remains a top priority. This makes it challenging for organizations to balance betwee Read more…
How the FDAP Stack Gives InfluxDB 3.0 Real-Time Speed, Efficiency
The world of big data software is built on the shoulders of giants. One innovation begets another innovation, and before long, we’re running software that’s doing some amazing things. That in part explains the evolut Read more…
AWS Delivers ‘Lightning’ Fast LLM Checkpointing for PyTorch
AWS customers who are training large language models (LLMs) will be able to complete their model checkpoints up to 40% faster thanks to improvements AWS has made with its Amazon S3 PyTorch Lightning Connector. The compan Read more…