Keeping pace
with news and developments in the real-time analytics market can be a daunting
task. We want to help by providing a summary of some of the items our staff
came across each week. Here is a short list of some news from this week:
Deloitte announced the
launch of the Deloitte AI Institute, a center that focuses on artificial
intelligence (AI) research, eminence and applied innovation across industries.
The Institute will bring together the brightest minds in the field of AI to
apply cutting-edge research to help address a wide spectrum of relevant AI use
cases. The Institute’s network will consist of top industry thought leaders and
academic luminaries; start-ups; research and development groups; entrepreneurs;
investors; and innovators. This network of specialists and research, combined
with Deloitte’s depth of applied AI knowledge and understanding of pain points
across industries and sectors — whether it is
identifying use cases, understanding industry specific ecosystems, scaling
from AI proof-of-concepts or securing AI systems — can help
organizations transform quickly with AI.
IBM’s
Center for Open-Source Data and AI Technologies (CODAIT)
is releasing COVID
notebooks, a toolkit that helps developers
and data scientists answer important questions about the pandemic. The
solution takes care of tasks, including obtaining
authoritative data on the current status of the outbreak, cleaning up
the most serious data-quality problems, collating the data into a format
amenable to easy analysis with tools like Pandas and Scikit-Learn,
and building an initial set of example reports and graphs. Taking care of
these tasks frees developers and data scientists to focus
on advanced analysis and modeling tasks instead of worrying about
things like data formats and data cleaning. The repository
uses developer-friendly Jupyter notebooks to cover each of these
initial data analysis steps. To simplify the process of updating
your results with the latest data, IBM as created data processing
pipelines using the Elyra Notebook Pipelines Visual Editor and KubeFlow Pipelines.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced
five new return-to-work solutions that will help organizations accelerate
business recovery and reopening plans in the wake of COVID-19. The new
solutions, which will assist in controlling the spread of the virus and
enabling business continuity, will be implemented and managed through HPE Pointnext
Technology Services. These new solutions include social distance tracing
and tracking, touchless entry, fever detection, augmented reality and visual
remote guidance, and workplace alerts and information sharing. These solutions
will scale for businesses of all sizes using secure, high-performing HPE
servers for the edge, Aruba AI-powered network infrastructure, and technologies
from HPE’s rich ecosystem of partners.
Salesforce and Siemens announced a strategic
partnership to develop a new workplace technology suite that will support
businesses globally to safely reopen and deliver the future experience for
physical workplaces. The partnership will combine Salesforce’s Work.com,
powered by Customer 360, and Siemens’ Smart Infrastructure solutions, including
Comfy and Enlighted, to orchestrate the processes, people and things that are
essential to creating safe, connected workplaces for the future. Key solutions
include a ‘touchless office’ with mobile employee boarding passes for building
and elevator entry, and a safe occupancy management system, which allows
employees to reserve conference rooms and desks through Comfy’s app that sends
real-time alerts as thresholds are reached.
Databricksannounced
the availability of Delta Engine and the acquisition of Redash. These new
capabilities make it faster and easier for data teams to use its Unified Data
Analytics platform for data science, machine learning, and a broad range of
data analytics use cases. Delta Engine is a high-performance query engine on
cloud data lakes and Redash is an open source dashboarding and visualization
service for data scientists and analysts to do data
exploration. Organizations can now build curated data lakes that include
structured and semi-structured data and run all their analytics on high
quality, fresh data in the cloud. Databricks acquired Redash to provide
easy-to-use dashboarding and visualization capabilities on these curated data
lakes. With Redash, data scientists and SQL analysts can eliminate the
complexity of moving data into other systems for analysis.
Red Hat, Inc. announced key
enhancements to the Ansible Automation portfolio, including the latest version
of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and new Red Hat
Certified Ansible Content Collections available on Automation Hub. The
latest release of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helps organizations
expand automation to new domains while increasing productivity and cross-team
collaboration. As a component of the latest platform release, new Ansible
Content Collections developed, tested, and supported by Red Hat enable
organizations to get the most up-to-date automation content.
IBM announced the release of IBM
Blockchain Platform version 2.5, which improves on IBM Blockchain
Platform version 2 in a number of ways. These include
supporting the latest open source innovation with The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 and delivers new integrations with Red Hat technologies. It boosts
security, usability, flexibility, and development speed with support for
Hyperledger Fabric 2.0, Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces, Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 and
Ansible Content Collections.
Aiven, a technology
company combining open source technologies with cloud infrastructure, announced
the release of Kafka MirrorMaker 2 as a stand-alone service, enabling
enterprises to access the Apache Kafka ecosystem more easily. MirrorMaker 2.0
itself comes with a number of improvements, including the ability to maintain
offset mappings between clusters, critical for disaster recovery — one of the
top use cases for MirrorMaker. With Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, and now
MirrorMaker 2 as a service, Aiven customers can specialize their workloads,
reducing dependency while increasing resilience. MirrorMaker 2 helps
enterprises ensure data continuity by allowing them to easily replicate data
among Kafka clusters. Aiven’s multi-cloud platform further enhances this by
allowing the replication of data across cloud providers.
VMware, Inc. introduced a new
integrated feature in VMware
vSphere 7 that will enable enterprises to deliver elastic
infrastructure on-demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning
(ML) applications. This new feature—VMware vSphere Bitfusion—is developed out
of VMware’s 2019 acquisition of Bitfusion, a pioneer in the virtualization of hardware
accelerator resources including graphics processing unit (GPU) technology. The
combination of Bitfusion and VMware vSphere will help organizations achieve
cost savings, enable resource sharing out of the box, and deliver the right
hardware accelerator resource, like a GPU, to the right workload at the right
time.
Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc., provider of data science and digital transformation services, announced a partnership with Dataiku. The partnership brings together one of powerful toolkits for data preparation and ML models deployment, deep skills in business and technology strategy, and many years of experience in implementing data science and machine learning programs for Fortune 1000 clients. Dataiku’s platform capabilities complemented by Grid Dynamics’ expertise in state-of-the-art machine learning technology and large-scale digital transformation programs enable businesses to quickly deliver even the most challenging AI/ML programs and seamlessly integrate AI/ML features into marketing, revenue management, and supply chain operations.
The Unified Communication Framework (UCF),
a collaboration of industry, laboratories, and academia to create production-grade
communication frameworks and open standards for data-centric and
high-performance applications, announced the formation of the Open Smart
Network Application Programming Interface (OpenSNAPI)
project. Through collaboration between industry, laboratories, and academia
within the UCF consortium, the goal of OpenSNAPI is to define and create a
standard application programming interface (API) for accessing the compute
engines on the network – specifically on a smart network adapter.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Infinite Computer Solutions,
provider of products and platforms for digital transformation, announced a
strategic collaboration to promote the widespread adoption of smart cities
solutions and deliver Internet of Things as a Service (IoTaaS) for plug and
play deployment. The collaboration creates an end-to-end, fully managed solution
that facilitates digital transformation for smart connected spaces across
government, healthcare, construction, entertainment, transportation,
manufacturing, retail, and logistics. The IoTaaS offering connects companies in
the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program using Infinite’s intelligent
engagement platform – ZyterSmartSpaces – to enable a streamlined, full
suite of offerings that address the complexities around developing secure,
smart, connected spaces across vertical industries, worldwide.
IBM and SAP
SE announced their partnership’s next evolution, with plans to
develop several new offerings designed to create a more predictable journey for
businesses to become data-driven intelligent enterprises. The next evolution of
the IBM and SAP partnership aims to help drive faster business transformation
time to value, accelerate industry innovation through industry-specific data
value offerings, turbocharge customer and employee experiences and provide
ultimate flexibility and choice to run their workloads in hybrid cloud
environments.
inContext.ai, a developer of
healthcare-centric information extraction software and AI-powered clinical
applications, announced an award of $225K in National Science Foundation (NSF)
funding. The inContext.ai platform improves physicians’ interactions with
complex and counter-intuitive software by augmenting and assisting the
physician’s workflow, decreasing the possibility of medical errors and
compromised care while reducing the frustrations that lead to physician
burnout.
DIAWAY, the big-data storage and
networking integrator, announced a strategic partnership with Excelero and the launch of a new
product, DIAWAY KEILA powered by Excelero NVMesh. It is a full-fledged, 100%
software-defined storage solution built for high-performance computing
workloads including both AI/ML/deep learning and data warehouses and
containers.
Lynx Analytics announced the
open source release of its Complete Graph Data Science Platform, LynxKite 4.0.
The platform helps businesses democratize the adoption of Graph AI. Up until
today, building Graph AI solutions has been a highly technical process that
involved numerous skills, tools and coding efforts. This has created a high
barrier to entry and slow adoption of Graph Analytics. LynxKite removes these
obstacles and makes Graph AI more accessible to enterprises and citizen data
scientists.
DataRobot unveiled an
expanded partnership with Snowflake,
the cloud data platform, which includes an integration with Snowflake Partner
Connect. Building on DataRobot’s existing
integration with Snowflake, the new inclusion in Partner Connect will
accelerate time-to-value for joint customers. DataRobot also announced it
achieved Elite status as part of the new Snowflake Partner Network. DataRobot’s
addition to Snowflake
Partner Connect enhances the integration of the offerings by making it
easy for Snowflake users to trial DataRobot in conjunction with their Snowflake
data. With a seamless connection to Snowflake, customers can leverage all the
benefits of the cloud data platform. Snowflake eliminates the manual work of
traditional data solutions and empowers users with a powerful single,
integrated platform for near real-time data insights that advance their
businesses forward.
RapidMiner, a data science platform
enabling people of all skill levels to rapidly create and operate artificial
intelligence (AI) solutions, announced the latest release of its platform,
RapidMiner 9.7. This update prioritizes the team element for successful data
science initiatives, continuing to put people at the center of the enterprise
AI journey by empowering users of varying backgrounds and abilities. As part of
this release, RapidMiner Server has dramatically evolved to keep pace with both
changing times and changing technology. Now known as the RapidMiner AI Hub, it is
built to connect AI to people, processes, systems and value in order to tear
down silos and make enterprise AI successful, wide-spread and sustainable. The
RapidMiner AI Hub allows people with different tooling preferences and
skillsets to collaborate on AI projects within any organization. Creating a
shared infrastructure such as this improves costs, agility, data access, transparency,
security, and compliance.
Intel and the National Science Foundation (NSF)
announced award recipients of joint funding for research into the development
of future wireless systems. The Machine
Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS) program is the
latest in a series of joint efforts between the two partners to support
research that accelerates innovation with the focus of enabling ultra-dense
wireless systems and architectures that meet the throughput, latency and
reliability requirements of future applications. In parallel, the program will
target research on distributed machine learning computations over wireless edge
networks, to enable a broad range of new applications.
If your
company has real-time analytics news, send your announcements to ssalamone@rtinsights.com.
In case you missed it, here are our most recent previous
weekly real-time analytics news roundups:
