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VMware entices telcos with expanded 5G and Open RAN portfolio
VMware Inc. today is expanding its line of products for communications service providers and unveiling a service management and orchestration framework that follows the O-RAN Alliance’s guidelines for simplifying and automating radio access networks and their applications. A radio access network or RAN is the radio element of a cellular network that connect wireless devices ...
SPECIAL REPORT: REIMAGINING TELECOM
An open standard threatens to disrupt the cloistered world of wireless networking
Suppose you’re a major supplier of fertilizer to the agriculture market and you have ambitions of digitally transforming your business. Your idea is to place thousands of sensors in 10-foot-by-10-foot blocks across the fields your customers farm. The sensors will continually report on soil and atmospheric conditions, enabling customers to adjust their fertilizer allocations to ...
Amplitude CEO says firm is well-positioned to navigate lean times
Behavior-tracking software firm Amplitude Inc. couldn’t escape the gravitational forces that have pulled down the entire information technology industry in its most recent quarter, but Chief Executive Spenser Skates said the company’s cost-sensitive culture and strong financial management equip it well for the long term. “We’re obviously expressing caution as we go into 2023, particularly because ...
Fauna adds observability features to its serverless cloud database
Fauna Inc., the developer of a distributed document-relational database that it delivers via a cloud application program interface, today announced the general availability of a logging capability with an initial focus on query performance and insights. The feature is intended to provide customers with increased visibility into the factors that influence the performance and cost of ...
Dynatrace broadly expands tools for cloud observability analysis
Infrastructure observability vendor Dynatrace Inc. today is enhancing the Grail data analytics platform to support metrics, distributed traces and multicloud topology and dependencies in addition to the log and business event support that was included in the product’s launch in October. The company vendor said the additions expand Grail’s ability to store, process and analyze ...
Data provider Knoema launches new brand and analytics platforms for retail and CPG companies
Knoema, a data provider subsidiary of Eldridge Industries LLC, is teaming up with its Seek Data analytics consultancy on a new brand called Seek Inc. and introducing two new products under the Seek brand that provide preconfigured analytics and access to experts initially in the retail and consumer packaged goods markets. Seek Insights is described ...
Report: Data lakehouses are on track to make most warehouses obsolete
Data lakehouses, a new kind of data store that combines the flexibility of data lakes with the structure and performance of data warehouses, are on track to co-opt data warehouses although they will not supplant data lakes or purpose-built data marts, predicts Tony Baer, a longtime database analyst and founder of the research firm dbInsight. ...
Informatica CEO Amit Walia says its pivot is complete: ‘Full cloud ahead’
Continuing a theme that has become commonplace during 10 months of uproar in technology markets, Informatica Corp.’s fourth-quarter earnings release on Wednesday contained some good news and some bad news. On the plus side, 42% growth in the company’s cloud annual recurring revenues exceeded the estimates of 35% to 40% growth the company issued the ...
How ChatGPT will – and won’t – change the face of business
ChatGPT has been hailed as everything from the future of search to the end of term papers, but it’s far from a sentient being. While OpenAI LLC’s chatbot is a wonder at explaining the infield fly rule in Shakespearean English, detractors have noted that its answers can be overly simplistic, confusing or just plain wrong. ...
Starburst adds a data catalog, high-speed indexing and Python support to its distributed query engine
Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial distribution of the Trino distributed SQL query engine, used its third annual Datanova conference today to announce updates that it says significantly speed the performance of its engine while reducing barriers to the ability of users to find data. The company also announced a private preview of a ...