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Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending March 1

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In this week’s real-time analytics news: IBM debuted the next generation of its Granite large language model (LLM) family.

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IBM debuted the next generation of its Granite large language model (LLM) family, Granite 3.2. Highlights of the new offering include:

  • A new vision language model (VLM) for document understanding tasks that demonstrates performance that matches or exceeds that of significantly larger models on the essential enterprise benchmarks DocVQA, ChartQA, AI2D, and OCRBench1.
  • Chain of thought capabilities for enhanced reasoning in the 3.2 2B and 8B models, with the ability to switch reasoning on or off to help optimize efficiency. With this capability, the 8B model achieves double-digit improvements from its predecessor in instruction-following benchmarks like ArenaHard and Alpaca Eval without degradation of safety or performance elsewhere2.
  • Slimmed-down size options for Granite Guardian safety models that maintain the performance of previous Granite 3.1 Guardian models at a 30% reduction in size. The 3.2 models also introduce a new feature called verbalized confidence, which offers a more nuanced risk assessment that acknowledges ambiguity in safety monitoring.

In other IBM news, the company announced its intent to acquire DataStax. DataStax’s technology will enhance IBM’s watsonx portfolio of products, accelerating the use of generative AI, and helping companies unlock value from vast amounts of unstructured data.

Real-time analytics news in brief

Apple announced its largest-ever spend commitment, with plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years. This new pledge will support a wide range of initiatives that focus on artificial intelligence, silicon engineering, and skills development for students and workers across the country. As part of this package of U.S. investments, Apple and its partners will open a new advanced manufacturing facility in Houston to produce servers that support Apple Intelligence. Apple will also double its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, create an academy in Michigan to train the next generation of U.S. manufacturers and grow its research and development investments in the U.S. to support cutting-edge fields like silicon engineering.

Snowflake announced that it is deepening its investments in AI innovation by opening the Silicon Valley AI Hub, a home for developers, startups, and business leaders to learn, deepen relationships, and shape the future of AI. The nearly 30,000 square foot space plans to open in Summer 2025 and will feature a range of spaces designed for people across the AI ecosystem. Additionally, the space will offer enterprise executives a collaborative and flexible venue to define strategies and establish partnerships, AI engineers a space to experiment with new technologies and learn from each other, and early-stage startups, including those from venture capital firms Altimeter, Conviction, IVP, Redpoint, and Sequoia Capital.

Cisco announced plans for an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to provide AI technology solutions to enterprises. In particular, the expanded partnership aims to give organizations flexibility and choice as they look to meet the demand of AI workloads for high-performance, low-latency, highly power-efficient connectivity within – and between – data centers, clouds, and users. At the heart of the effort is the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform based on Cisco and NVIDIA silicon. This solution will form the foundation to run many enterprise AI workloads.

Acceldata announced the launch of Agentic Data Management (Agentic DM), an AI-first data management platform designed to help enterprises govern, optimize, and operationalize data for AI initiatives and beyond. The solution delivers several capabilities to address enterprise data management challenges. Acceldata Agentic DM is currently in private beta with several large enterprises. It launched with over 10 agents, including data quality, profiling, anomaly detection, data drift, cost, and query optimization.

Aviatrix announced the launch of the Aviatrix Kubernetes Firewall. The new solution is designed to tackle the pervasive security and application modernization challenges faced by enterprises operating Kubernetes at scale, particularly those in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The Aviatrix Kubernetes Firewall extends Aviatrix’s Cloud Firewall capabilities, delivering a comprehensive security and networking solution tailored for Kubernetes workloads across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and on-premises environments.

Cribl announced Cribl Lakehouse, an evolution within Cribl Lake that redefines how organizations store, manage, and analyze telemetry data at scale. Unlike traditional lakehouses built for structured enterprise data, Cribl Lakehouse is purpose-built for the dynamic and unpredictable nature of telemetry data. With Cribl Lakehouse, teams can store massive volumes of ever-changing telemetry data while enabling real-time, high-performance dashboards and analytics, all without requiring data engineering expertise.

GridGain, the original creator of Apache Ignite, announced it has contributed to the latest major release of Apache Ignite, version 3.0. These contributions reflect GridGain’s continued commitment to the open-source distributed database, caching, and computing platform. Apache Ignite 3.0 simplifies installation, improves configuration management, enhances API usability, and significantly boosts performance. New capabilities such as SQL transactions enable new use cases, and architectural improvements make deployments more resilient and efficient. For new users, Apache Ignite 3.0 provides an easier learning curve and streamlines first-time installation and configuration.

Imandra announced ImandraX, the latest major release of its flagship Imandra automated reasoning engine. ImandraX marks a significant advancement in AI-driven logical reasoning, introducing new reasoning algorithms and architectural features that enable seamless integration with AI agents. According to the company, ImandraX sets a new standard in AI-driven logical analysis with innovations in proof automation, counterexample generation, and decision procedures that improve both performance and reliability. ImandraX is now available to select partners, with broader availability planned in the coming months.

Infosys announced the launch of its open-source Responsible AI Toolkit, a key component of the Infosys Topaz Responsible AI Suite, designed to help enterprises innovate responsibly while addressing the challenges and risks associated with ethical AI adoption. The solution builds on the Infosys AI3S framework (Scan, Shield, and Steer), equipping enterprises with advanced defensive technical guardrails to detect and mitigate issues such as privacy breaches, security attacks, sensitive information leakages, biased output, harmful content, copyright infringement, hallucinations, malicious use, deepfakes, and more.

New Relic announced 20+ AI platform innovations and new ecosystem partnerships. As such, New Relic gives customers comprehensive intelligent recommendations by integrating Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) from its platform with customer-defined data and third-party sources so they can take immediate action. With respect to expanding its ecosystem by connecting its platform with best-of-breed solutions, New Relic delivers mission-critical insights and intelligent recommendations to the tools and platforms where customers already work.

In other New Relic news, the company announced platform innovations that give businesses the insights they need to optimize spending and ROI within data-rich tech stacks and multi-cloud environments. Innovations include Cloud Cost Intelligence and Pipeline Control.

Observo AI announced the general availability of Orion, an AI-powered assistant that transforms how organizations manage their data and derive insights from it. Orion is an on-demand AI data engineer, enabling teams to build, optimize, and manage data pipelines through natural language interactions, dramatically reducing the complexity and expertise traditionally required for these critical operations. Orion introduces several capabilities, including Natural Language pipeline creation, AI-powered optimization, interactive pipeline management, and intelligent data search.

Precisely announced advancements to the Precisely Data Integrity Suite, including AI-driven innovations, an enhanced Data Governance service, and expanded data integration capabilities. These advancements address key enterprise data challenges, such as improving data accessibility, enabling business-friendly governance, and automating manual processes. Together, they help organizations boost efficiency, maximize the ROI of their data investments, and make confident, data-driven decisions.

Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.18, the latest version of the industry’s leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 introduces new features and capabilities designed to streamline operations and security across IT environments and deliver greater consistency to all applications, from cloud-native and AI-enabled to virtualized and traditional. Specifically, the latest enhancements are designed to simplify the management of virtual machines and containers while providing organizations with a common infrastructure to bring their generative AI (gen AI) plans to life.

Reltio announced the launch of the Reltio Lightspeed Data Delivery Network, which powers real-time applications and personalized customer experiences with unified data. The solution is designed to empower global, cross-functional teams with unparalleled speed and reliability, enabling businesses to access critical data globally in under 50 milliseconds. The company also introduced new features to Reltio Data Cloud, further enhancing data security, scalability, and accessibility across the globe.

StarlingX, the open-source distributed cloud platform for IoT, 5G, O-RAN, and edge computing, is now available in its 10.0 release. StarlingX combines the Linux kernel, Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and more to create a full-featured cloud software stack that provides everything telecom carriers and enterprises need to deploy an edge cloud on a few servers or hundreds of them. New features and upgrades in the 10.0 release address and improve networking, security, and user experience issues.

Partnerships, collaborations, and more

Couchbase announced that its Capella AI Model Services have integrated NVIDIA NIM microservices to streamline the deployment of AI-powered applications, providing enterprises with a solution for privately running generative (GenAI) models. Capella AI Model Services, powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise, minimize latency by bringing AI closer to the data, combining GPU-accelerated performance and enterprise-grade security to empower organizations to seamlessly operate their AI workloads.

Dataminr and Esri announced an expanded strategic partnership aimed at driving innovation and enhancing customer value. The collaboration combines the strengths of Dataminr’s AI platform and Esri’s leading ArcGIS software to deliver solutions that allow customers to detect high-impact events in real time, analyze risks within a geospatial context, and make informed decisions with precision.

EyePop.ai announced a collaboration with Qualcomm AI Hub to make computer vision technology more accessible to developers, startups, and SMBs. The collaboration enables developers to effortlessly build and train AI-powered vision models through an intuitive cloud-based interface and deploy them seamlessly on Windows and edge devices—no machine learning expertise is required.

Hydrolix announced that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program. To that end, Hydrolix provides managed observability for AWS origin and edge services, which so far include AWS CloudFront, WAF, and Elemental. The service keeps all data hot for three second querying and scales based on business requirements without slowdowns or crashes. Deployment of Hydrolix takes less than twenty minutes.

MongoDB announced it has acquired Voyage AI, a pioneer in state-of-the-art embedding and reranking models that power next-generation AI applications. Integrating Voyage AI’s technology with MongoDB will enable organizations to easily build trustworthy, AI-powered applications by offering highly accurate and relevant information retrieval deeply integrated with operational data.

Redpanda announced a new Snowflake connector based on Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming, which is able to ingest data faster than Snowflake Connector for Kafka — one of the options available to move streaming data from Kafka into Snowflake. The new connector is now available within Redpanda Connect and from all major cloud providers: AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure.

Salesforce and Google announced a major expansion of their strategic partnership. The expanded partnership will empower Salesforce customers to build Agentforce agents using Google’s Gemini models and to deploy Salesforce on Google Cloud. This is an expansion of the existing partnership that allows customers to use data from Data Cloud and Google BigQuery bi-directionally via zero copy technology.

SnapLogic announced a strategic OEM partnership with Enate. Through this partnership, Enate customers can now access SnapLogic’s integration capabilities directly without the need to procure or manage a separate vendor. This makes it easier than ever for service providers to automate work, improve data flow, and run smoother, efficient operations.

If your company has real-time analytics news, send your announcements to ssalamone@rtinsights.com.

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About Salvatore Salamone

Salvatore Salamone is a physicist by training who has been writing about science and information technology for more than 30 years. During that time, he has been a senior or executive editor at many industry-leading publications including High Technology, Network World, Byte Magazine, Data Communications, LAN Times, InternetWeek, Bio-IT World, and Lightwave, The Journal of Fiber Optics. He also is the author of three business technology books.

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