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MongoDB launches AI-powered service to modernize legacy applications
MongoDB Inc. is expanding beyond its database roots and taking aim at one of the thorniest challenges facing many enterprise IT organizations: outdated legacy applications. At its MongoDB.local New York City event today, the company is announcing the MongoDB Application Modernization Platform, an artificial intelligence-powered approach to transforming decades-old applications into modern, scalable services. The platform ...
Oracle expands Fusion HCM with 13 new AI agents for HR automation
Oracle Corp. today announced a series of new agentic artificial intelligence extensions to its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management suite, bringing the number of agents in the application to more than 100. The new additions support internal mobility, performance management, learning and development, payroll and staffing processes. Oracle has been steadily adding agents — a type ...
Microsoft expands Fabric with LinkedIn-based graph engine, real-time maps
Microsoft Corp. today is expanding its Fabric data platform with the addition of native graph database and geospatial mapping capabilities, saying the enhancements enhance Fabric’s capacity to power artificial intelligence-driven, data-centric applications in large enterprises. Fabric is a cloud-based data and analytics platform designed to unify most aspects of the data lifecycle, from storage and ...
Luminary Cloud raises $72M to advance AI-driven physical product design
Luminary Cloud Inc., a startup that last year set out to disrupt the desktop-bound engineering software market with a cloud-native platform, today announced a $72 million funding round and alignment with a bigger idea of bringing artificial intelligence into the physical world. The San Mateo, California-based company said the Series B round will be used ...
Splunk exec says Cisco acquisition has ignited platform expansion
In the 18 months since Cisco Systems Inc. finalized its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk Inc., the combined firms have focused on weaving Splunk’s machine data analytics technology with Cisco’s networking product line. The resulting “Cisco Data Fabric” is the networking giant’s most ambitious effort to find its place in the artificial intelligence revolution. Although ...
ThoughtSpot users can now embed its analytics into their own customer-facing applications
Business intelligence firm ThoughtSpot Inc. today announced a fresh batch of features aimed at pushing analytics beyond dashboards and into customers’ applications and workflows. The rollout includes a new version of its Spotter agent, dubbed Spotter 3, and a set of enhancements to its embedded analytics product that enable customers to expose analytics in their ...
Exclusive: Together AI launches self-service GPU infrastructure
Together Computer Inc., a startup building a cloud service optimized for artificial intelligence model development and deployment, today announced the general availability of Instant Clusters, a service that automates the provisioning of clusters of graphics processing units. The company, which operates as Together AI, said its service allows customers to access GPU clusters, ranging from ...
Cisco endows Splunk with agentic AI for security and observability
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced new editions of its Splunk data platform that use agentic artificial intelligence to improve both security operations and observability across digital infrastructure. The updates include two new Splunk Enterprise Security editions — Essentials and Premier — built on Splunk Enterprise Security 8.2 and a suite of features within the Splunk ...
Cisco aims to turn machine data chaos into AI Intelligence with Data Fabric
Continuing its campaign to position itself as the control plan for the artificial intelligence era, Cisco Systems Inc. today is using its Splunk subsidiary’s .conf25 to unveil the Splunk-powered Cisco Data Fabric, a network architecture designed to unify stovepipes of fragmented machine data. Cisco also unveiled Splunk Federated Search for Snowflake. This integration enables users ...
Databricks discloses latest funding round and path toward profitability
Databricks Inc. today put some meat on the bones of its announcement three weeks ago that it had raised new funding that valued the company at more than $100 billion. The company said it is closing a Series K venture capital round of $1 billion, bringing its total funding to over $20 billion. Databricks said ...