Kinetica: AI is a ‘killer app’ for data analytics
Kinetica has integrated its streaming real-time analytics data warehouse with ChatGPT so customers can ask conversational queries of their proprietary data and receive answers in seconds. Amit Vij, Kinetica...
ChatGPT hype snags database startup $100M
Vector embeddings and ChatGPT are the key to database startup Pinecone unlocking a $100 million funding round.
Pinecone says it provides long-term memory for AI, meaning a vector database that...
Single sales rep inflated WANdisco numbers
WANdisco has confirmed that one senior sales rep entered $14.9 million in fictitious orders in 2022, dwarfing the $9.7 million brought in by the rest of the sales team.
The...
Storage news ticker – April 27
The Active Archive Alliance has announced its 2023 State of the Industry Report: Effective Data Management Through Active Archives. It's not yet available on the alliance's website but we...
BMC buys virtual tape library biz Model9
BMC has bought Model9, the Israeli mainframe VTL and data export startup, for an undisclosed price.
Houston-based BMC started out in 1980 as a mainframe software company and developed into...
SingleStore embraces ChatGPT
SingleStore is demoing ChatGPT as a way of looking for data in its unified real-time transactional and analytic database, SingleStoreDB.
The company is running a webinar on April 25 to...
Hey Presto! IBM buys VC-backed SaaS player Ahana
IBM said yesterday it was interested in mergers and acquisitions but we didn’t expect it to move this fast - it has just bought Ahana, which supplies the Presto...
WANdisco probed by UK financial watchdog
WANdisco is the subject of a UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigation into regulatory statements it made earlier this year that potentially misled investors by over-egging the sales pipeline.
The...
IBM looks to M&As after pancake-flat Q1
IBM revenues grew just 0.4 percent year-on-year in Q1 2023, held back by its Infrastructure business unit but with storage hardware a bright spot. It sees M&A possibilities ahead...
Storage news ticker – April 19
The Acronis Cyber Foundation Program announced the completion of new school construction in Sierra Leone and Guatemala, in partnership with GoDaddy. The Barbara Junior Secondary School in Sierra Leone...
Equalum talks up its ETL, change data capture-fed, real-time data streamer
Israeli startup Equalum, an ETL company, talked about its tech at a recent IT Press Tour, explaining how it captures database and other changes in realtime and pushes them...
Storage news ticker – April 14
Managed infrastructure solutions provider 11:11 Systems announced GA of the fully-managed 11:11 Managed SteelDome in partnership with SteelDome Cyber. This provides secure, scalable and cost-efficient storage of customers’ unstructured,...