MariaDB adds vector search in Gen AI DB push
The open-source MariaDB database now has a vector search capability, allowing customers' businesses to access a single, complete database supporting transactional, analytical, semi-structured, and now artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
The...
Cirrus Data extends block data moves with Red Hat integration
Block data mobility specialist Cirrus Data Solutions has forged a Red Hat integration that should help users improve the migration of workloads. Its Cirrus Migrate Cloud is now working...
AI data companies dominate new unicorn list from BestBrokers
Companies built around AI data systems dominate entrants to the latest unicorn list compiled by broking comparison site BestBrokers, with Databricks and WEKA mentioned.
Unicorns are defined as privately owned...
Informatica deepens Databricks dealings
Data integration and management supplier Informatica has strengthened the integration of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) with Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform, including support for AI Functions.
Databricks supplies an...
VAST enters 2025 with consolidated EBox and GCP support
Analysis: Having erected a substantial AI-focused stack of software components in 2024, announced a partnership with Cisco, and delivered software upgrades, how is VAST Data positioned at the start...
Can synthetic data help scale AI’s data wall?
COMMISSIONED: As with any emerging technology, implementing generative AI large language models (LLMs) isn’t easy and it’s totally fair to look side-eyed at anyone who suggests otherwise.From issues identifying...
Cloudian becomes a Hammerspace GDP storage citizen
Object storage supplier Cloudian is partnering unstructured data orchestrator Hammerspace by making its HyperStore object storage a repository used by Hammerspace’s Global Data Platform’s parallel NFS-based file system.
The Global...
Scaling RAG with RAGOps and agents
COMMISSIONED: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the gold standard for helping businesses refine their large language model (LLM) results with corporate data. Whereas LLMs are typically trained with public...
Storage stack layers and players going into 2025
Analysis: Right now, the two dominant storage demand and development drivers are cyber-resilience and security on the one hand, and AI training and inference on the other.
The IT storage picture...
Komprise grabs top unstructured data management spot
Research house Coldago has evaluated 17 unstructured data management suppliers and placed Komprise at the top of the tree.
Coldago publishes various Research Map reports which score suppliers and products...
Databricks collects $10 billion in latest funding round
Databricks has attracted a $10 billion investment in a tenth funding round to pay for early investor and staff stock sales and allied taxes, new acquisitions, international go-to-market expansion...
Databricks edges toward $9.5 billion investment
Databricks is reportedly close to finalizing a $9.5 billion - or greater - funding round.
The 11-year-old biz, which supplies a platform that combines data lakes and data warehouses, has...