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Although Teradata has almost a half-century of on-prem data warehousing experience, it's a cloud-first business today and is bringing its considerable experience to help its customers modernise. Teradata CEO Steve McMillan spoke to iTWire about growth, AI, and the changing nature of data.

As modern applications become more complex, observability becomes increasingly important. LogicMonitor has already been using AI in its hybrid observability tools to help separate signal from noise, and has taken it even further with GenAI infusion.

Generative AI is bringing vast business benefits from summarising documents, to helping with customer service, even aiding organisations in asking questions of complex systems in simple plain language. However, you might not be using the right tools for the job. MongoDB field CTO Rick Houlihan experimented and found vast performance gains when using a document database over a relational one.

Insurance and finance giant Suncorp is reaping big rewards. from smart tech investments, its FY2024 results show.

COMPANY NEWS: Extreme Networks, announced it has formed a co-innovation alliance with the Intel Connectivity Analytics Program to enhance native AI capabilities within its Extreme AI Expert solution, currently in technology preview within Extreme Labs. This collaboration aims to help customers optimise network performance, detect security threats, personalise end-user experiences and reduce operational costs by leveraging network data, unique device data from PCs through the innovative Intel Connectivity Analytics SDK and generative AI (genAI) to make networks smarter, faster and more resilient.

GUEST OPINION: Although the term generative AI (genAI) has been around since the 1960s, it’s only over the past year that the application has truly taken hold in the mainstream consciousness. From business use to our personal lives, there are countless benefits that genAI can bring.

Academic technology solutions provider Turnitin unveiled its new AI paraphrasing detection feature, integrated within Turnitin’s AI writing capabilities.

GUEST OPINION: Artificial Intelligence (AI) usage has surged forward relentlessly in the last two years – with its remarkable ability to identify patterns and generate new content. As a result, generative AI (genAI) has emerged as a formidable disruptor within the cybersecurity sector.

GUEST OPINION: Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically generative AI (genAI), continues to be a game changer as companies continue to accelerate their AI adoption, with Australia's projected AI spending set to reach $6.4 billion by 2026.

Sixty-six percent of organisations plan to harness generative AI (genAI) within the next 12 months to enhance security measures and align IT objectives with broader business goals, according to a new study by exposure management company Tenable.

COMPANY NEWS: UiPath (NYSE: PATH) a leading enterprise automation and AI software company today announced several new features in its platform which infuse GenAI deeply into the UiPath Business Automation Platfor to help businesses achieve greater outcomes with AI and automation.

GUEST OPINION: The current business landscape is witnessing an increased deployment of Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) – enabled tools like Microsoft Copilot to reimagine business models in the name of innovation. Unfortunately, this has directly contributed to an alarming spike in cyberattack frequency, severity and diversity. In line with this, recent research suggests that 75% of cybersecurity professionals have seen an increase in AI-powered cyberattacks over the past year, with 85% attributing it to threat actors weaponising AI.

COMPANY NEWS: DataStax, the AI platform company, today announced major updates to its generative AI development platform that help make retrieval augmented generation (RAG) powered application development 100x faster. DataStax will demo its newly released updates at the RAG++ event in San Francisco with partners including LangChain, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Unstructured, among others.

COMPANY NEWS:  The report shows the already widespread use of GenAI by security teams and how it is improving their efficiency and helping to bridge the skills gap

COMPANY NEWS: Neo4j knowledge graphs, graph algorithms, and ML tools are fully integrated within Snowflake - with zero ETL & requiring no specialist graph expertise

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in hybrid attack detection, investigation, and response, today announced an expansion of the Vectra AI Platform to protect enterprises from new threat vectors introduced by the rapid adoption of Generative AI (genAI) tools. The Vectra AI Platform’s patented Attack Signal Intelligence uses behaviour-based AI to defend against cyber attackers abusing genAI – empowering security operations centre (SOC) teams to fight genAI attacks with AI.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Generative AI (GenAI) and AI will significantly transform industries in the future, according to 81% of Australian and New Zealand respondents to new research.

About 11% of the smartphones sold during calendar year 2024 will be capable of using GenAI, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says. adding that this estimate was higher than an earlier one made in December 2023. The figure was predicted to rise to 43% by 2027.

AI security analyst radically transforms threat investigations and response with simple, one-click hunting, suggested queries, and auto-generated reports, empowering security teams to deliver new levels of defence, savings, and efficiencies

COMPANY NEWS: DataStax, the generative AI data company, today announced a milestone in its journey to simplify enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for developers by integrating with Microsoft Semantic Kernel. Companies often have hundreds of existing applications that they want to bring into the AI world.