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Managed PostgreSQL service provider Tembo raises $14M
Tembo Data Systems Inc., operator of a PostgreSQL managed service, today said it closed a $14 million Series A funding round that brings its total financing to $20.5 million. The company says it’s developer-focused, meaning it wants to simplify the task of installing and managing PostgreSQL as well as the more than 200 extensions in ...
Innatera books $21M in funding for its ultra-low-power AI chips
Netherlands-based microprocessor maker Innatera Nanosystems B.V. said it closed an oversubscribed $21 million Series A funding round, which included a $16 million investment the company announced in March and an additional $5 million from new investors. The company’s Spiking Neural Processor T1, unveiled in January, is an energy-efficient artificial intelligence chip for sensor-edge applications. It ...
SingleStore adds Iceberg support and speedier vector search
SingleStore Inc., developer of a real-time database platform that performs both transactional and analytical operations in the same engine, today announced native integration with the Apache Iceberg open-source table format and advanced search and scaling capabilities. Apache Iceberg is rapidly emerging as one of the most popular formats for storing diverse datasets. It provides transactional ...
Open lakehouse provider Onehouse lands $35M funding round
Managed data lakehouse company Onehouse Inc. said today it has raised $35 million in a Series B funding, bringing its total funding to date to $68 million. It also launched two new products to increase lakehouse performance and reduce cloud storage and processing costs. The company sells a data lakehouse as a managed service based ...
Oracle HeatWave database gets host of generative AI features
Continuing its Swiss Army knife strategy with its managed MySQL database service called Heatwave, Oracle Corp. today is endowing the product with generative artificial intelligence capabilities. They include in-database large language models, automated in-database vector store, scale-out vector processing, the ability to query in natural language, and tools that enable customers to build their own ...
No-code developer Creatio achieves unicorn status with $200M investment
No-code platform developer Creatio Inc. today said it has raised $200 million in a funding round that values the company at $1.2 billion, bringing the total amount raised by the Boston-based firm to $268 million. Creatio’s platform is principally used to automate workflows in customer relationship management scenarios. Founded in 2015, it employs 700 people ...
VMware simplifies product portfolio around Cloud Foundation and vSphere Foundation
Vowing to simplify management of a collection of point products, Broadcom Inc. today announced updates to its VMware Cloud Foundation private cloud platform that integrate networking, storage and management functions more tightly. The company also announced a new release of the vSphere hypervisor aimed at customers that want basic virtualization technology. Cloud Foundation combines computing, networking, ...
EchoMark says it has the definitive answer to data exfiltration
EchoMark Inc., a Seattle startup focused on protecting private information, is launching a software-as-a-service offering that uses forensic watermarking to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of internal communications. SecureView protects against information leaks caused by such hard-to-track elements as email attachments, downloads, image captures and untraceable emails, the company says. It allows for the trusted sharing and ...
Oracle Autonomous Database is now an Azure service
Oracle Corp. is tightening its partnership with Microsoft Corp. with today’s announcement that Oracle’s Autonomous Database is now generally available on the Oracle Database@Azure comingled cloud service. The Oracle Autonomous Database is a fully automated and managed database-as-a-service. Initially available as a private offer in the Azure East U.S. region with deployment to 14 other regions to ...
Pure Storage adds AI features to improve performance and detect attacks
Pure Storage Inc. is playing its artificial intelligence hand this week with a clutch of announcements aimed at simplifying AI training and inferencing as well as applying machine learning to help customers better unravel storage conundrums. The new Evergreen//One offering for AI is billed as the first purpose-built AI storage as-a-service. It provides guaranteed storage ...