In this week’s real-time analytics news: Accenture and NVIDIA expand an existing partnership to help businesses scale AI adoption.
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Accenture and NVIDIA announced an expanded partnership, including Accenture’s formation of a new NVIDIA Business Group, to help the world’s enterprises rapidly scale their AI adoption. The new group will help clients lay the foundation for agentic AI functionality using Accenture’s AI Refinery, which uses the full NVIDIA AI stack (including NVIDIA AI Foundry, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, and NVIDIA Omniverse) to advance areas such as process reinvention, AI-powered simulation, and sovereign AI.
Accenture AI Refinery will be available on all public and private cloud platforms and will integrate with other Accenture Business Groups to accelerate AI across the SaaS and Cloud AI ecosystem.
IBM announced that NVIDIA H100s Tensor Core GPU instances are now globally available on IBM Cloud. With such general availability, businesses will have access to a powerful platform for AI applications, including large language model (LLM) training. This new GPU joins IBM Cloud’s existing lineup of accelerated computing offerings to leverage during every stage of an enterprise’s AI implementation.
Other real-time analytics news in brief
Anaconda announced the general release of AI Navigator, a free desktop application that brings the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) directly to users’ desktops. Users can now interact with locally running LLMs without sending any private information off of their Windows or Mac devices to external cloud services and infrastructure providers. Additionally, the solution provides access to a curated selection of over 200 AI models tailored for a variety of tasks and device capabilities.
Dataiku announced the launch of its LLM Guard Services suite. The suite includes three solutions: Cost Guard, Safe Guard, and the newest addition, Quality Guard. These components are integrated within the Dataiku LLM Mesh. Additionally, LLM Guard Services provides a scalable no-code framework to foster greater transparency, inclusive collaboration, and trust in GenAI projects between teams across companies.
DataPelago unveiled a Universal Data Processing Engine to accelerate any engine, including open source, on any hardware, using any data type. DataPelago’s engine enables organizations to extract value from data for their GenAI and analytics workloads. The Universal Data Processing Engine is available as an end-to-end solution or integrated with Substrait-based open-source frameworks to turbocharge Spark and Trino with accelerated computing. The company is launching from stealth with $47 million in funding.
EXL announced the strengthening of its partnership with Databricks. Under the agreement, EXL will build a team of Databricks-certified talent and deploy new data management and generative AI (GenAI) solutions into the Databricks ecosystem, speeding the development of cutting-edge data management solutions for EXL clients.
MongoDB announced the general availability of MongoDB 8.0. The new version provides performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, and additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities. MongoDB 8.0 is now generally available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure through MongoDB Atlas, on MongoDB Enterprise Advanced for on-premises and hybrid deployments, and as a free download with MongoDB Community Edition.
MOSTLY AI launched a synthetic text functionality, expanding the power and potential of synthetic data to train AI models. With this new functionality, enterprises can unlock the vast amount of proprietary text collected, such as emails, customer support transcripts, and chatbot conversations, without compromising privacy to train and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) for faster innovation and better decision-making.
Moveworks announced the launch of Agentic Automation, an automation engine designed specifically for building complex agentic AI automations. The solution provides developers with a powerful tool that translates ambiguous natural language prompts into precise system commands. This enables the creation of AI agents that can interpret human language and execute automations on the user’s behalf — without needing external integration platforms.
NetApp announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with Google Cloud with the integration of unified data storage and intelligent services into the Google Distributed Cloud architecture. This integration empowers organizations, especially in the public sector and regulated industries, to leverage AI-ready infrastructure while maintaining high standards for security and strict regulatory compliance.
The OpenStack community released 2024.2 Dalmatian, the 30th version of the widely deployed open-source cloud infrastructure software. Around 500 contributors from organizations including Red Hat, Cleura, Mirantis, Walmart, BBC R&D, Blizzard Entertainment, and NVIDIA built Dalmatian, delivering support for AI workloads, enhanced security, and improved user experiences. OpenStack is currently experiencing a significant surge in adoption, attributed largely to the software’s popularity as a VMware alternative and its suitability for supporting artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and other HPC workloads.
Perforce Software announced the Hadoop Service Bundle, a new professional services and support offering from OpenLogic by Perforce. This new solution offers enterprises a way to reduce Big Data management costs by deploying an open-source software-based Big Data stack and storing their data on-premises, in a public cloud, or a hybrid environment instead of in Cloudera’s Hadoop-based, public cloud platform.
Sonar announced two new product capabilities for today’s AI-driven software development ecosystem. Sonar AI Code Assurance and Sonar AI CodeFix improve the quality of code produced by generative AI and enhance Sonar’s offering with AI to deliver a better developer experience, respectively. Both capabilities deepen Sonar’s commitment to the delivery of high-quality, secure code and increasing developer productivity.
SQream announced the launch of its native connector, which brings its cloud data solution, SQream Blue, to the Snowflake environment. The launch of the Snowflake connector from SQream enables users to unlock huge cost-performance savings by offloading data loads to SQream Blue without exporting data or migrating information from existing Snowflake workflows.
VAST Data announced VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA, a solution to securely ingest, process, and retrieve all enterprise data (files, objects, tables, and streams) in real time. As the first application workflow to run on the VAST Data Platform, VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA accelerates business insights by capturing, embedding, and retrieving real-time data flows, making enterprise data instantly usable for AI-driven decision making.
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