In this week’s real-time analytics news: Get them while they’re young. A number of organizations have teamed up to impart AI skills to high school students.
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The EY organization and Microsoft announced the launch of the AI Skills Passport (AISP), which assists students aged 16 and older in learning about artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and how to work with and apply them to various industries and careers. The free online learning program is accessible on web and mobile platforms, and participants can take the 10-hour course at their own pace to learn about key topics such as the fundamentals of AI, ethical considerations, and its applications across business, sustainability, and technology careers. By completing the course, participants will receive an EY and Microsoft certificate of completion to strengthen their resumes and gain access to additional learning and employment resources.
Code.org and Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched Exploring Generative AI, a cutting-edge curriculum for grades 8-12 that teaches students how AI works, how to create with it, and the societal considerations and ethical implications of an AI-driven world. With this curriculum, Code.org ushers in a new era of education to prepare students for the transformative impact of AI. By providing students with the opportunity to explore and create AI, Code.org aims to empower students with the skills needed to thrive in a digitally driven world.
Other real-time analytics news in brief
Aerospike has unveiled Database 8, a major upgrade of its flagship multi-model distributed database. Version 8 adds distributed ACID transactions to support large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. Building on its enterprise-grade operations and best-in-class efficiency, Aerospike 8 is the first real-time distributed database to guarantee strict serializability of ACID transactions with industry-leading performance and efficiency at a fraction of the cost of other systems.
Alluxio announced the latest enhancements in Alluxio Enterprise AI. Version 3.5 showcases the platform’s capability to accelerate AI model training and streamline operations with features such as a new Cache Only Write Mode, advanced cache management, and enhanced Python SDK integrations. These updates empower organizations to train models faster, handle massive datasets more efficiently, and streamline the complexity of AI infrastructure operations.
Altair announced new upgrades to Altair HPCWorks, its high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud platform. New tools and capabilities expand cloud scaling for Altair and third-party workload managers, integrate advanced monitoring and reporting, and beyond – including enhanced artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled job scheduling and visualization with support for GPUs, Kubernetes, and machine learning workflows.
DataChat announced it is now available on Snowflake Marketplace. As a Snowflake Native App, DataChat will enable joint customers to ask questions about their data in plain English and receive near-instant insights to guide their critical business decisions. This news builds on other recent efforts. In recent months, DataChat has released several product updates, including expanded collaboration features. DataChat’s agentic framework-powered new collaboration tools now allow teams to work together in real time on the same dataset without the risk of overwriting each other’s work.
GridGain announced GridGain for AI, which enables organizations to use GridGain as a low-latency data store for real-time AI workloads. GridGain for AI can simplify the path from AI experimentation to delivery and execution, so businesses can confidently accelerate their AI deployments knowing that GridGain will ensure the performance, scale, and access controls they need to reliably process their data.
Hitachi Vantara announced a new co-engineered solution with Cisco designed for Red Hat OpenShift. The Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure joint solution combines Cisco’s compute and networking systems with Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) arrays using Red Hat OpenShift container management tools. The integrated infrastructure solution helps enterprises gain a competitive edge by increasing agility and resilience while reducing energy consumption with AI-powered data orchestration.
Hydrolix has shipped a new Apache Spark connector. The connector enables Databricks users to apply the analytical power of Databricks to the entire scope of their event data rather than data sets limited by sampling, aggregation, and shorter retention windows; tactics typically used to control data storage costs. This allows Databricks to economically store full-fidelity event data, such as logs, in Hydrolix and rapidly extract information from both real-time and historical data, thereby gaining valuable new business insights.
Lightning AI announced the launch of Lightning AI Hub, a platform for deploying enterprise AI applications via no-code APIs that scale automatically with zero setup. Unlike traditional AI solutions that require weeks of integration, the AI Hub delivers fully operational, industry-specific AI instantly, without the complexity of building AI systems from scratch – to help enterprises move beyond the POC stage of AI. Additionally, Lightning makes available DeepSeek-R1 for private enterprise deployments with AI Hub. Lightning can run DeepSeek-R1 entirely within private VPCs on AWS and Google Cloud, ensuring all data stays on-premises.
Moveworks announced the addition of Quick GPT to its agentic AI Assistant, a solution that empowers employees across the company to find answers, automate tasks, and boost productivity. Quick GPT is a new feature that drives greater employee efficiency by giving users a safe way to harness the power of LLMs without compromising enterprise security and requirements. The solution unlocks a variety of productivity use cases for teams across the organization, all inside the AI Assistant they already use today.
New Relic announced an observability solution for monitoring DeepSeek. Customers can now use New Relic AI monitoring to gain broad visibility across the AI stack for applications built with DeepSeek, all with a simplified setup and enhanced data security. Together, New Relic integrated with DeepSeek can help customers adopt AI faster and achieve quicker ROI. New Relic supports DeepSeek and DeepSeek on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry.
NVIDIA and its storage ecosystem are extending the NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking platform to the data storage fabric, bringing higher performance and faster time to AI. Because Spectrum-X adaptive routing is able to mitigate flow collisions and increase effective bandwidth, the storage performance is much higher than RoCE v2, the Ethernet networking protocol used by a majority of data centers for AI compute and storage fabrics. That increased bandwidth translates to faster completion of the storage-dependent steps of AI workflows, leading to faster job completion times (in the case of training) and lower inter-token latency (in the case of inference).
Percona announced the availability of Percona Support for Valkey—a comprehensive, responsive, and flexible service offering that promises to maintain reliable, optimized Valkey deployments whether on-premises, hybrid, or in the cloud. For organizations not yet using the database management system, Percona has also introduced comprehensive Valkey Migration services to help make the switch from Redis OSS to Valkey as seamless, secure, and non-disruptive as possible.
Qumulo announced the Cloud Data Fabric – a global file system managing all enterprise data with a coherent cache at the edge, enabling instantaneous access and concurrent global collaboration. The Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric consists of a data core (a high-performance distributed file and object data storage cluster that runs on most systems, vendors, or public cloud infrastructures) and the data edge (a coherent caching system connecting in parallel to all elements of the data core). With these features, the solution offers a unified global file system that spans data centers and clouds, enabling efficient accelerated computing and extending the reach of data unbound by protocol or transport limitations.
Rafay Systems published a Reference Architecture with NVIDIA, providing a detailed blueprint for the fastest path to AI development environments with completion in days, not years. The architecture offers a comprehensive framework for delivering GPU infrastructure as a service that addresses enterprise requirements like multi-tenancy, cost management, and security. Additionally, the reference architecture provides a blueprint for both NVIDIA Cloud Partners and enterprises to deliver GPU infrastructure with the same ease as traditional cloud services. Think “AWS-like experience,” but for on-premises GPU infrastructure.
RelationalAI announced the general availability of its relational knowledge graph Snowflake Native App with Snowpark Container Services on Azure. The general availability on Azure means RelationalAI’s Snowflake Native App is now ready to support production use of compound AI workloads in Snowflake supported all Azure commercial regions (in addition to already supported AWS regions). The RelationalAI’s Snowflake Native App is now supported in all Azure commercial regions that support Snowflake Snowpark Container Services.
TileDB to launch TileDB Carrara, a major platform release aimed at transforming how organizations across industries handle complex data to accelerate breakthrough discoveries. TileDB uses multi-dimensional arrays instead of traditional tabular structures to model all data types. Additionally, Carrara provides teams with features that support the analysis of common and frontier data types, collaboration across teams, and secure sharing of data and insights. With this release, the company is also introducing unit-based pricing that makes it easy for organizations to get started in analyzing all of their data to solve big problems.
Zoho expanded the scope of its AI-powered assistant Zia with the announcement of Zia Agents, Agent Studio, and Agent Marketplace. Together, these solutions empower enterprises to access, build, and distribute intelligent, autonomous digital agents across their organizations. Beginning today, Zoho and ManageEngine will be previewing pre-built, task-specific Zia Agents, which will deploy across Zoho Corporation’s combined portfolio of 100+ products in the coming weeks.
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