Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending December 20

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NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 family of open models, data, and libraries designed to power transparent, efficient, and specialized agentic AI development. The Nemotron 3 models (dubbed Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes) introduce a hybrid latent mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture that helps developers build and deploy reliable multi-agent systems at scale.

NVIDIA Nemotron supports NVIDIA’s broader sovereign AI efforts, supporting organizations adopting open, transparent, and efficient models that allow them to build AI systems aligned to their own data, regulations, and values.

Early adopters, including Accenture, Cadence, CrowdStrike, Cursor, Deloitte, EY, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Palantir, Perplexity, ServiceNow, Siemens, Synopsys, and Zoom, are integrating models from the Nemotron family to power AI workflows across manufacturing, cybersecurity, software development, media, communications, and other industries.

In other NVIDIA news, the company announced that it has acquired SchedMD, a developer and maintainer of Slurm, the open-source workload management system. NVIDIA will continue to develop and distribute Slurm as open-source, vendor-neutral software, widely available to the broader HPC and AI community. 

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Alteryx announced the general availability of Alteryx Copilot and new GenAI-powered tools in the Alteryx One platform. Alteryx’s new capabilities help data and business analysts work more efficiently by automating routine tasks and bringing advanced large language models (LLMs) directly into analytics workflows. This integrated set of capabilities offers a new approach to help take GenAI-driven business processes from pilot phase into full production faster and with greater success.

Concentric AI announced that it has expanded the Private Scan Manager functionality in its Semantic Intelligence data security governance platform. Customers now have the ability to deploy Semantic Intelligence within their own private Microsoft Azure cloud. With Concentric AI’s Private Scan Manager for Azure, organizations can now meet compliance standards while also benefiting from the advanced categorization, remediation, and comprehensive GenAI data security capabilities of the company’s data security governance solution.

DuploCloud announced the launch of AI DevOps Engineers, which are AI assistants that execute real DevOps work. Unlike traditional AI assistants that only make recommendations, DuploCloud’s AI DevOps Engineers provision, troubleshoot, and optimize infrastructure safely within guardrails, amplifying the output of human teams without adding headcount. DuploCloud’s platform integrates directly with AWS, Azure, and GCP to automate infrastructure provisioning, security, and compliance. 

EnterpriseDB (EDB) announced new investments in petabyte-scale analytics, expanding EDB Postgres AI (EDB PG AI) for WarehousePG with real-time streaming and enhanced observability to give enterprises greater control over warehouse data, costs, and deployment strategies. EDB PG AI for WarehousePG offers deploy-anywhere flexibility, predictable economics that avoid consumption-based pricing, and a single Postgres platform that unifies analytics and AI.

InfluxData announced the release of InfluxDB 3.8, available on both its Core and Enterprise products. InfluxDB 3.8 introduces Linux service management across InfluxData’s deb and rpm packages, so InfluxDB installs and runs like a standard Linux service without manual setup. For teams running InfluxDB on Kubernetes,3.8 introduces an official Helm chart for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise.The new release also includes processing engine refinements to write buffering and query handling for sparse datasets.

Kamiwaza AI announced the release of Kamiwaza v0.8.0, expanding its enterprise-scale AI orchestration platform with support for NVIDIA DGX Spark. The solution enables users to pool resources across devices seamlessly, making it easier to deploy high-performance AI workloads securely and efficiently, all without moving data, while leveraging NVIDIA’s hardware. Additionally, Kamiwaza v0.8.0 aligns orchestration, scheduling, and deployment around modern accelerated systems, starting with DGX Spark, while keeping data in place. 

Kurrent released KurrentDB 26, adding native Kafka Source Connector, Relational Sink, and Custom Indices capabilities that reduce custom code requirements for event-driven architectures. The release enables operators to ingest events directly from Kafka, automatically synchronize read models in PostgreSQL and SQL Server, and reorganize events by custom properties without touching application code.

Nutanix announced new capabilities in its Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution designed to give organizations greater flexibility to deploy and govern their infrastructure across distributed environments running traditional, modern, and AI applications, including fully disconnected environments, with cloud providers that offer sovereign services, or across a combination of both, without sacrificing unified management or operational simplicity.

Percona announced the launch of Percona Packages, a suite of structured consulting and support offerings for enterprise IT and DBA teams. The initial offerings include Quickstart, Performance Optimization, and AI Readiness. The solutions are designed to solve critical database challenges quickly and predictably.

pgEdge announced the beta release of pgEdge Agentic AI Toolkit for Postgres, an enterprise-grade Postgres-based infrastructure for developers building Agentic AI applications in environments with strict requirements for high availability, security, data sovereignty, and/or global deployment. The solution includes a full-featured MCP Server that works with all standard versions of Postgres, opening up both new and existing Postgres databases for use with AI application builders and code generators such as Claude Code, Replit, and Cursor.

Squirro announced the general availability of its latest Long-Term Support (LTS) platform update. Squirro Release 3.14.4 introduces a number of powerful new capabilities designed to close the gap between structured enterprise knowledge and ad-hoc user workflows. The centerpiece of the latest release is a vastly enhanced chat experience. Additionally, the update includes direct file uploads, multimodal image reasoning, and an enterprise-grade prompt library.

Partnerships, collaborations, and more

Cohesity announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud, focusing on delivering new, integrated solutions for artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and data protection. Building on an existing set of product integrations, the latest offerings from Cohesity can help increase cyber resilience and aim to ensure that sensitive information remains secure, compliant, and sovereign while also unlocking data-driven business transformation through enterprise AI deployments.

Commvault announced a partnership with Pinecone to bring advanced cyber resilience capabilities to joint customers, helping enterprises protect and rapidly recover vector retrieval workloads that power retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other AI use cases. Together, Commvault provides an additional layer of resilience on top of Pinecone’s natively backed-up vector storage.

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech and Oxigen Data Center announced a new strategic collaboration to jointly explore how multimodal quantum computers can be integrated into commercial data centers, laying the foundations for the next generation of hybrid quantum infrastructure. The two organizations will work together to understand and define the mutual requirements for integrating two highly advanced and interdependent systems.

Red Hat announced it has acquired Chatterbox Labs, a company that specializes in model-agnostic AI safety and generative AI (gen AI) guardrails. The acquisition adds critical security for AI capabilities to the Red Hat AI portfolio, strengthening the company’s efforts to deliver a comprehensive, open-source enterprise AI platform built for the hybrid cloud.

TileDB announced the launch of TileDB Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform, as a Snowflake Connected App for Healthcare and Life Sciences. This integration enables organizations to unify complex scientific and multimodal data, including genomics, proteomics, medical imaging, and documents, that live in both TileDB and Snowflake, providing a unified view and streamlined connection process across their entire data landscape.

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