OpenAI acquires Rockset to enhance data capabilities
Monday, July 15, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
OpenAI has acquired Rockset, a company that specializes in real-time analytics databases, for almost $200 million. The acquisition has drawn attention and various reactions from influencers on the social media platform "X", revealing the Social Media Analytics Platform of GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
OpenAI acquires Rockset, the real-ti...
Apple shifts position on AI and aquires Darwin AI
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Apple Inc. is strategically advancing its position in the artificial intelligence (AI) domain, signifying a pivotal shift in the company's approach to integrating AI into its core operations and product ecosystem. The recent innovations and acquisitions underscore the Cupertino-based tech giant’s focus on bringing AI to its offerings while prioritizing user pr...
40 percent more companies discussing the metaverse
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Companies worldwide are continuing to talk about the metaverse, according to GlobalData, which found that 40% more companies mentioned 'Metaverse' in their company filings documents quarter-on-quarter. The data and analytics company's 'Company Filing Analytics' database reveals that mentions crossed the 500 mark in Q1 2022, on par with Q4 2...
Cisco invests in Dremio to provide better data analytics
Thursday, August 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
Dremio is a new Data-as-a-Service Platform company, created by veterans of open source and big data technologies, and the creators of Apache Arrow. They just announced that Cisco Investments will be investing into the company, extending Dremio's Series B financing to $30 million. The company previously closed their Series B round in January 2018, led by Norwest...
Actian says to be outperforming Amazon Redshift
Monday, March 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
Actian has announced that Actian Vector analytics database running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) outperforms Amazon Redshift "by as much as 12x" in an industry benchmark conducted by McKnight Consulting Group (MCG) Global Services. In a separate MCG benchmark report, Actian Vector performs "up to nearly 10x faster" than Microsoft SQL Server.In February 2018, MCG conducte...
Expert advice: Tips to help developers cope
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 by Richard Harris
According to a forbes report, being a software developer has it’s perks. From a $168,000 a year average media salary, to being able to have your hand in crafting the Instagrams of tomorrow. But the task of creating flawless code and engineering ideas, comes with challenges.It’s good to share war stories to help each other navigate the waters, so we recently had the chan...
Indatabase machine learning coming in Vertica 9
Thursday, September 21, 2017 by Richard Harris
Micro Focus has announced a major release of its Vertica Analytics Platform. Vertica 9 introduces an extended list of in-database Machine Learning capabilities - including new algorithms, model replication, data preparation functions, and continuous end-to-end workflow - to simplify the production and deployment of machine learning models. In addition, Vertica 9 will be...
Orasi Software Expands Big Data Analytics Services
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Orasi Software has announced that it has added HPE IDOL and HPE Vertica, two of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE’s) Big Data Platform solutions, to its product lineup. Orasi will utilize these solutions to help companies to deploy and effectively use the HPE big data analytics products.“The HPE Big Data Platform components deliver speed and scale and the broadest...
