Anirban Ghoshal
Senior Writer
Anirban Ghoshal is a senior writer, covering enterprise software for CIO and databases and cloud infrastructure for InfoWorld.
CockroachDB now supports Microsoft Azure, multiregion deployments
With the addition of support for Microsoft Azure, CockroachDB will now support all three major public cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, the company said.
Developer-focused portal Stack Overflow lays off 10% of staff
The job cuts are a result of the company’s renewed focus on profitability due to macroeconomic concerns, according to CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar.
How is Creatio integrating ChatGPT into its Atlas low-code platform?
The integration of the ChatGPT connector into Creatio’s offerings will allow developers to build applications faster and help in customer-centric use cases such as providing assistance in writing emails and supporting customer support...
Google’s Duet AI to take on Amazon CodeWhisperer, GitHub Copilot
The new generative AI engine aims to help developers code, and offers assistance to administrators, cloud operators, data engineers, and security professionals for daily tasks.
Google’s Vertex AI machine learning platform gets generative AI tools
The new updates to Google Cloud’s machine learning service will help the company square up against rivals such as Microsoft, AWS and IBM.
IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx
The generative AI platform comes with a suite of tools for tuning large language models, a data store built on lakehouse architecture, and an AI governance toolkit.
Informatica integrates ClaireGPT, AI copilot to augment its IDMC offering
IDMC is a suite that sits on top of enterprise databases and manages data from various data sources by ingesting, cataloging, and applying data governance rules.
Databricks doubles down in India with staff hires, new R&D hub
The company, which has a global workforce of 5,000 people, will increase its staff count in India by 50%, a top executive said.
DataStax’s new LunaML to support Kaskada deployment
Kaskada, acquired by DataStax in January, offers an open-source based unified events processing engine aimed at helping enterprises build real-time machine learning applications.
ServiceNow, Hugging Face's free StarCoder LLM takes on Copilot, CodeWhisperer
The free large language model, which was jointly developed by the two companies under the BigCode Project, was trained on licensed source code covering over 80 programming languages.
Databricks acquires AI-centric Okera to aid data governance in LLMs
Databricks intends to integrate Okera’s capabilities with its own data governance layer inside its lakehouse offering, dubbed Unity Catalog.
How Oracle is taking on AWS, Snowflake with Autonomous Data Warehouse updates
The updates include a 75% cut in storage pricing, a new low-code Data Studio, and adoption of Databricks’ open source Delta Sharing protocol and Apache Iceberg.
Kinetica taps ChatGPT for natural language SQL database queries
Natural language queries made to the database are routed through ChatGPT's API to produce a SQL query syntax that can be run to generate results, Kinetica says.
Mendix aims to add generative AI to its low-code platform by year-end
The company has been trying out GPT-based features for its low-code platform, planning to add capabilities to streamline app development and offer guidance on best practices.
EnterpriseDB to offer new Oracle to Postgres migration service
The new migration service will ensure faster migration while providing a “zero risk” guarantee that allows enterprises to not pay for the entire cost of migration if expectations are not met, the company said.
Google’s Bard AI to take on GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer
Google’s generative AI offering is now capable of helping developers write and debug code in 20 programming languages including Python and Typescript, the company said.
Why generative AI will turbocharge low-code and no-code development
The evolution of generative AI models will further lower barriers to using low-code and no-code development tools, and potentially lead to the birth of a whole new class of intelligent developer technology.
After job cuts, MariaDB faces uncertain financial future
In addition to laying off 26 staffers out of its 340-strong workforce in February, the company warns that revenue won't be enough to support operations for the next 12 months, and is looking for financing.
IBM acquires SaaS-based PrestoDB provider Ahana
IBM’s will join the Presto Foundation and aid in the development of PrestoDB.