Anirban Ghoshal
Senior Writer
Anirban Ghoshal is a senior writer, covering enterprise software for CIO and databases and cloud infrastructure for InfoWorld.
Snowflake’s Government and Education Data Cloud focuses on security, data tools
The industry-specific data cloud is designed to help government entities meet security and compliance standards.
Microsoft offers Azure ML data import CLI, SDK for Snowflake, other databases
The new integration, which is in public preview, is designed to bring data into Azure’s ML service from data repositories outside the Azure platform.
Snowflake acquires Neeva to add generative AI-based search to Data Cloud
Neeva, which uses large language models to offer an AI-based search experience, is the latest company to be picked up in Snowflake's acquisition spree.
DataStax taps ThirdAI to bring generative AI to its database offerings
The partnership will see the Apache Cassandra-based database take advantage of ThirdAI’s Bolt technology to achieve better AI training performance on CPUs.
Microsoft updates Power Automate’s Cloud Flows with Copilot
Other updates include Action SDKs for Desktop Flows and Work Queues for managing bots.
Yugabyte adds multiregion Kubernetes support to YugabyteDB 2.18
The new updates include a new intelligent performance advisor that optimizes indexes, queries, and schema for the self-managed, database-as-a-service Yugabyte Anywhere.
Microsoft integrates Nvidia’s AI Enterprise Suite with Azure Machine Learning
The integration of Nvidia’s software suite will further help enterprises build, deploy, and manage applications based on large language models.
Why Microsoft is combining all its data analytics products into Fabric
The integration of its existing products such as Synapse and Power BI will help enterprises combine workloads while reducing IT integration overhead, complexity and costs.
GitHub owns up to service issues, multiple outages
Over the past four months, GitHub has experienced 16 disruptions in its services, blog posts from the company showed.
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.