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HPE GreenLake gets hybrid block/file storage and expanded data protection
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today introduced a hybrid file and block storage offering that it will make available on-premises with as-a-service pricing, and also announced new disaster and backup recovery data services with uptime guarantees. The new file and block offerings are based on the HPE Alletra Storage platform the company introduced two years ago ...
Databricks aims at manufacturers with its newest vertical lakehouse
Databricks Inc. today is adding another vertical industry lakehouse targeting the manufacturing industry. The Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing unifies data and artificial intelligence technology in a high-speed analytics engine that has already been adopted by DuPont de Nemours Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC, Royal Dutch Shell plc, and Tata Steel Ltd. This vertical ...
Glean adds generative AI interface to enterprise search engine
Glean Technologies Inc., the developer of a search engine that enterprises can use to index their own content, today announced the addition of generative artificial intelligence and other AI-grounded technologies to its core service. The company says it’s using generative machine learning models to understand and synthesize content to provide more precise answers to natural ...
Oracle gives developers free access to forthcoming database release
Oracle Corp. is making the next version of its flagship database management system available free to developers under a new program announced today. Oracle Database 23c Free—Developer Release is available for download as a Docker container image, Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine, or Linux RPM installation file without requiring a user account or login. A Windows ...
MariaDB adds auto-scaling and serverless analytics to its cloud database-as-a-service
MariaDB plc today announced the immediate availability of a new release of its SkySQL cloud database-as-a-service with features that help organizations better manage their cloud costs. Most significant is that SkySQL now enables autoscaling, which allocates resources according to demand to scale both up and down as needed and thereby protect customers from overpaying for unneeded capacity. ...
Intel unleashes business-focused vPro platform based on 13th Gen Core processors
Still stinging from the competitive beating it took last year from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp. today is rolling out a new version of its business-focused vPro personal computer hardware platform today with an emphasis on security, energy efficiency and performance. Intel said it has built dozens of security capabilities into the silicon ...
Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave gets embedded machine learning capabilities
Building on its growing momentum in the market for hybrid transactional/analytical database management systems, Oracle Corp. today added machine learning capabilities, new automation features and improved performance on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud to its MySQL HeatWave product. Introduced in late 2020, HeatWave is an in-memory analytic accelerator that scales to thousands of cores, ...
Oracle aims to sustain Java’s 27-year franchise with version 20 rollout
Oracle Corp. today announced the availability of Java 20, the latest version of the popular programming language and development platform. The latest version of the 27-year-old language includes thousands of performance, stability and security improvements and features seven enhancement proposals to the Java Development Kit that are aimed at increasing developer productivity and enhancing performance, ...
Oracle simplifies Kubernetes deployment and operations in its cloud
Oracle Corp. today introduced new features in its cloud-based Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes that it says can improve the reliability and efficiency of large-scale environments using the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers while also simplifying operations and reducing costs. The enhancements are aimed at companies that want to build and run cloud-native applications on ...
Boomi’s new CEO plans to outmaneuver larger rivals
The past two years have been a wild ride for data integration vendor Boomi Inc. Acquired by Dell Technologies Inc. in 2010, it was sold to private equity firms Francisco Partners Management LLC and TPG Inc. two years ago as Dell sought to pay down debt. Late last year Chief Executive David Meredith stepped down ...