In this week’s real-time analytics news: Deloitte, working with NVIDIA and Oracle, announced the launch of AI Factory as a Service.
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Deloitte announced the launch of AI Factory as a Service, a scalable, one-stop shop suite of Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities built on the NVIDIA AI platform, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints, accelerated computing, and leveraging Oracle’s enterprise AI technology. By providing AI software and custom use cases, AI Factory as a Service can offer faster time to market with workload management and monitoring tools built in to help optimize workforces amid the AI talent shortage.
To bring GenAI to market quickly, NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure are deployable across OCI Supercluster and OCI Compute, resulting in ultra-low latency, real-time large language model (LLM) interference, and high-performance storage. More than just optimized infrastructure, AI Factory as a Service includes data and model governance, meaning organizations can modernize with confidence, knowing deployments are strengthened by Deloitte’s Trustworthy AI framework.
Oracle CloudWorld conference news
Oracle announced new HeatWave capabilities, including innovations to help organizations more easily and securely take advantage of generative AI both in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Additional new capabilities help customers quickly and securely implement lakehouse and machine learning applications for a wider variety of use cases, as well as help improve the performance and manageability of transactional applications.
Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of Oracle Database@AWS, a new offering that allows customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. Oracle Database@AWS will provide customers with a unified experience between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS, offering simplified database administration, billing, and unified customer support.
Oracle and Google Cloud announced the general availability of Oracle Database@Google Cloud in four Google Cloud regions across the United States and Europe. Customers will now be able to run Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous Database, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Google Cloud datacenters across U.S. East (Ashburn), U.S. West (Salt Lake City), U.K. South (London), and Germany Central (Frankfurt), expanding to many more regions in the coming months across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.
Informatica announced the availability of a new blueprint for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI (GenAI) to support the deployment and scaling of enterprise-grade GenAI applications. The AI blueprint enables business and technical users to have conversational experiences with any large language model (LLM). The integration of Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform with OCI Generative AI and Oracle Database 23ai empowers organizations to establish a trusted data and metadata foundation to power the deployment and scaling of enterprise-grade GenAI applications.
Other real-time analytics news in brief
Alation announced a partnership with Salesforce to deliver trusted, governed data across the enterprise. Alation provides a bidirectional integration that seamlessly delivers data governance and end-to-end lineage within Salesforce Data Cloud, enabling organizations to harness the power of metadata for faster, more confident decision-making while maximizing the impact of their AI initiatives.
Amplitude released a simplified platform experience. With a host of new capabilities and a revamped user experience, Amplitude Made Easy removes the heavy lifting so teams can get started, get insights, and get value faster. Now, customers can set up the Amplitude platform with one line of code and immediately capture user actions in their app or website. Teams can also leverage out-of-the-box insights and an AI-powered query engine to get the answers, best practices, templates, and information they need without having to build or analyze anything.
Astronomer, the company behind Astro, a data orchestration and observability platform powered by Apache Airflow, announced the private preview of Astro Observe. Astro Observe allows any team using Airflow to now have access to an actionable view of the data supply chain and extends Astronomer beyond data orchestration into a platform for data operations.
bitHuman introduced instant prompt-to-AI agent technology called ImagineX. The platform transforms simple prompts into fully realized, lively agents for any role—in only one minute. The agents are interactive, emotionally responsive, and can immediately converse on any topic in a natural, friendly, and realistic manner. In addition, bitHuman is introducing its community of 1000 different AI agents, representing hundreds of use cases ranging from business, self-help, travel, and food to any topic you can imagine.
Cloudera announced several new Accelerators for ML Projects (AMPs) designed to reduce time-to-value for enterprise AI use cases. AMPs are end-to-end machine learning (ML) based projects that can be deployed with a single click directly from the Cloudera platform. The latest AMPs and updates include Fine-Tuning Studio, RAG with Knowledge Graph, PromptBrew, and chat with your documents.
Kong Inc. announced the launch of the latest version of Kong Konnect, the API platform for the AI era. Kong Konnect is an enterprise-grade unified platform that enables companies to securely build, run, and govern API and GenAI applications. Key new features of Kong Konnect include Konnect Service Catalog, Konnect dedicated cloud gateways on AWS and now Azure, Kong Gateway 3.8, AI Gateway 3.8, Kong Insomnia 10, Kong serverless gateways, advanced API and AI analytics, and more.
Lenovo announced a new suite of services and solutions designed to fast-track AI transformation by making private AI accessible to every business. Paving the way to “Smarter AI for All,” the new services go beyond the cloud and bring on-demand AI to the customer, helping any business use its on-prem proprietary data to build, scale, and evolve generative AI. With the new solutions, businesses can build, scale, and evolve private AI faster with GPU resources on demand, AI-driven systems management, and advanced liquid cooling services.
New Relic announced its support for RISE with SAP to help enterprises accelerate and future-proof cloud transformation. In close partnership with SAP, New Relic offers an observability solution—New Relic Monitoring for SAP Solutions—that unifies monitoring across the entire SAP landscape. With a built-in agentless SAP integration, New Relic provides one-step observability and out-of-the-box functionality, simplifying deployment.
Normalyze announced it has been selected for the second cohort of the AWS Generative AI Accelerator. Accelerator participants get access to AWS credits, mentorship, and learning resources to further their use of AI and machine learning (ML) technologies and grow their businesses. By leveraging AWS services, Normalyze aims to accelerate the development of its AI-powered tools, ensuring that businesses can quickly and accurately identify valuable or sensitive data and mitigate risks in real time, thereby enhancing their overall data security posture.
Privacera announced the open-sourcing of their Privacera AI Governance (PAIG) solution. PAIG Open-Source Software (PAIG OSS) is an open-source framework empowering developers to build Generative AI (GenAI) applications while adhering to the highest standards of ethics, privacy, and security. To that end, PAIG Open-Source provides guardrails for GenAI applications, allowing developers to focus on innovation without sacrificing security.
Qlik announced new enhancements to its AutoML capabilities. These updates make it easier for analytics teams to build and deploy high-performing machine learning models, providing native analytics to explain predictions in real time. With full integration into Qlik Cloud, these features enable businesses to move from reactive to proactive decision-making, helping them anticipate trends, address challenges, and optimize outcomes with greater confidence.
Redpanda announced that new AI integrations are available within Redpanda Connect. It now offers more than 100 cloud-based managed connectors and stream processors, including connectors for AI services like OpenAI, Vertex AI, and AWS Bedrock, a Sovereign AI connector for Ollama, and connectors for vector databases like Pinecone and Qdrant. Redpanda Connect also now offers GPU clusters on GCP for high-performance AI workloads. The new AI connectors are available on all major cloud providers: AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure.
Reltio launched the Reltio Data Pipeline for Databricks, a prebuilt solution connecting Reltio with Databricks. Users of the solution will no longer have to spend time and money creating their own custom integrations between the two products. The Reltio Data Pipeline for Databricks pushes real-time, insight-ready data from Reltio’s offerings—Reltio Customer 360 Data Product, Reltio Multidomain Master Data Management (MDM) and Reltio Entity Resolution—to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
Salesforce announced Industries AI, a set of foundational, prebuilt, and customizable AI capabilities that tackle industry-specific needs and challenges to help customers start delivering value quickly. Industries AI is now embedded in each of Salesforce’s 15 industry clouds so customers can deploy ready-to-use AI to help automate time-consuming tasks like matching the right patients to clinical trials, providing proactive maintenance alerts for vehicles and industrial machinery, streamlining inventory management, and improving services for citizens and program beneficiaries.
VIAVI Solutions introduced the VIAVI Automation Management and Orchestration System (VAMOS), an intelligent automation platform that incorporates AI/ML capabilities to enable wireless and cloud service providers and network equipment manufacturers to reduce operational expenses and accelerate time-to-market. VAMOS’s customizable workspaces and configurations streamline the testing process across organizations and lab locations. Shared tool testbeds and individual sandboxes accommodate multiple test needs, while the platform’s analytics and reporting help maximize test resource utilization and boost test accuracy.
Vultr announced a partnership with GPU-accelerated analytics platform provider HEAVY.AI. Integrating Vultr’s global NVIDIA GPU cloud infrastructure into its operations, HEAVY.AI can interactively query and visualize massive datasets, enabling faster, more efficient decision-making for customers across diverse sectors. The NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip joins NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and Vultr Bare Metal instances to form a powerful trio that drives faster insights via HEAVY.AI’s platform.
Zoho Corporation launched a new version of Zoho Analytics —Zoho’s self-service BI and analytics platform. Among more than 100 other enhancements, Zoho Analytics has developed new AI and ML capabilities, enabling diagnostic insights, predictive analysis, and automated report and dashboard generation. Additional advancements to Zoho Analytics include a custom ML model-building studio, seamless integration with OpenAI, and third-party BI platform extensions.
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