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As the vendor moves from its startup to growth phase, John Morris, who has significant experience leading companies as they mature, is taking over to guide its evolution.
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Oracle Exadata update boosts performance to meet AI needs
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Confluent platform update targets performance, simplicity
The vendor's latest release replaces its coordinating technology to make its tools easier to use and updates its Control Center for more efficient streaming data workloads.
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Customers pleased with Snowflake plans for AI
Features including a multimodal data ingestion and integration service that enables access to unstructured data demonstrate the vendor's move toward enabling app development.
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Confluent platform update targets performance, simplicity
The vendor's latest release replaces its coordinating technology to make its tools easier to use and updates its Control Center for more efficient streaming data workloads.
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New Actian features target data discoverability, reliability
Automatically embedded data governance, data product registration on a data marketplace platform and a natural language interface aim to make trusted data easier to discover.
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Teradata extends AI development to on-premises environments
For enterprises concerned about cloud cost control and data sovereignty, the longtime vendor's new platform enables users to build advanced AI tools in their own systems.
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