According to a new press release, “iland, an industry-leading provider of secure application and data protection cloud services built on proven VMware technology, today announced new upgrades to iland Catalyst, a complementary cloud assessment tool that simplifies the journey to the cloud. The new Catalyst features make it easier for organisations using VMware to model […]
Ascend Introduces Industry’s First Queryable Dataflows for Faster Pipeline Development
A new press release reports, “Ascend, provider of the world’s first Autonomous Dataflow Service, today released a technical preview of Queryable Dataflows, a new capability to accelerate end-to-end data development that brings the interactivity of data warehouses to the scale of data pipelines. For the first time, data engineers can directly query incremental stages of […]
NVIDIA and VMware to Accelerate Machine Learning, Data Science and AI Workloads
According to a new press release, “NVIDIA and VMware today announced their intent to deliver accelerated GPU services for VMware Cloud on AWS to power modern enterprise applications, including AI, machine learning and data analytics workflows. These services will enable customers to seamlessly migrate VMware vSphere-based applications and containers to the cloud, unchanged, where they […]
Huawei Launches the World’s Most Powerful AI Processor
A recent press release reports, “Huawei officially launched the world’s most powerful AI processor – the Ascend 910 – as well as an all-scenario AI computing framework, MindSpore… The Ascend 910 is a new AI processor that belongs to Huawei’s series of Ascend-Max chipsets. Huawei announced the processor’s planned specs at its 2018 flagship event, […]
Splunk to Acquire Cloud Monitoring Leader SignalFx
According to a recent press release, “Splunk Inc., delivering actions and outcomes from the world of data, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire SignalFx, a SaaS leader in real-time monitoring and metrics for cloud infrastructure, microservices and applications. Splunk is already a leader in ITOM and an AIOps pioneer and, upon close, will be […]
Rubrik Enters Data Governance, Disaster Recovery Markets with Andes 5.1 Release
A recent press release reports, “Rubrik, the Multi-Cloud Data Control™ company, today announced its Andes 5.1 release launching groundbreaking solutions for data classification, automated DR orchestration, and continuous data protection across Rubrik Cloud Data Management (RCDM) and Rubrik Polaris SaaS platform. By delivering a single solution to manage, govern, and orchestrate data across data centers […]
VMware Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Carbon Black
According to a recent press release, “VMware, Inc., a leading innovator in enterprise software, and Carbon Black, a leader in cloud-native endpoint protection, today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement by which VMware will acquire Carbon Black in an all cash transaction for $26 per share, representing an enterprise value of […]
Cerebras Systems Unveils the Industry’s First Trillion Transistor Chip
According to a recent press release, “Cerebras Systems, a startup dedicated to accelerating Artificial intelligence (AI) compute, today unveiled the largest chip ever built. Optimized for AI work, the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) is a single chip that contains more than 1.2 trillion transistors and is 46,225 square millimeters. The WSE is 56.7 times […]
Sisense Debuts Cloud-Native Architecture, Launches AI Exploration
A recent press release states, “Sisense, the world’s leading modern platform for analytics builders, unveiled its Q3 2019 product updates, including AI-driven innovations designed to empower users to answer questions they didn’t know they had, a multi-cloud architecture to deploy analytics at scale, and critical features to empower data engineers, product developers, business analysts, and […]
Syncsort Acquires SQData
According to a recent press release, “Syncsort, the global leader in Big Iron to Big Data software, today announced it has acquired SQData, an Addison, Texas-based provider of enterprise-class data integration technology. The acquired products and expertise will advance Syncsort’s ability, through its Syncsort Connect portfolio, to help customers unlock the full value of critical […]