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03 Jun

Business intelligence startup Sigma closes $200M round at $1.5B valuation – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIBusiness intelligence startup Sigma closes $200M round at $1.5B valuation, Maria Deutscher, SiliconANGLE

Sigma Computing Inc., the developer of a business intelligence platform designed to analyze information in cloud data warehouses, today announced that it has raised $200 million from investors. Spark Capital and Avenir Growth Capital led the Series D round. They were joined by a half-dozen other backers, including Snowflake Ventures. The investor group’s capital infusion values Sigma at $1.5 billion, 60% more than what it was worth following its previous funding round in 2021. “Sigma is proving that there is deep market demand for driving greater productivity and monetization as a result of the cloud data transition,” said Chief Executive…

03 Jun

An overview of Alteryx’s SparkED analytics program – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIFostering data science mentorship in the next-gen analytics workforce, SiliconANGLE, Victor Dabrinze

The enterprise is a fast-moving landscape. Companies often bemoan skill gaps and talent shortages but don’t actively engage in grassroots mentorship and skill impartation through academia. Bucking that trend is Alteryx Inc. Its SparkED Analytics Education Program exists to solve two key problems: shaping careers through analytics and mitigating the skills shortage in the data realm. “The SparkED Education Program really is at the center of solving that, connecting learners with customers,” said Jason Belland (pictured, left), vice president of the Global SparkED Education Program at Alteryx. “Today we’re working with over 1,200 universities across 55 countries. We’ve worked with almost…

03 Jun

Fender analytics: Revolutionizing music industry insights – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIFender's AI revolution: Transforming music with analytics and cloud technology, Sead Fadilpasic, SiliconANGLE

Fender Musical Instruments Corp. is undergoing a transformation focused on artificial intelligence, the cloud and customer satisfaction. The company’s analytics are revolutionizing the way musicians and businesses approach music with powerful insights, according to Cliff Kim (pictured, right), vice president of strategy, growth and analytics at Fender. Fender Musical’s Cliff Kim and Alteryx’s Paula Hansen talk with theCUBE about Fender analytics. “We are big fans of Alteryx … everything came to fruition where we are all going through this transformation together,” Kim said. “It’s centered around AI, centered around the cloud, centered around all of these pieces that we’re trying to…

03 Jun

The Big-Tech Clean Energy Crunch Is Here

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Big Tech’s appetite for energy is just about visible from the east coast of Scotland. Some 12 miles out to sea sits a wind farm, where each of the 60 giant turbines has blades roughly the length of an American football field. The utility companies behind the Moray West project had promised the site would be capable of generating enough electricity to power 1.3 million homes once completed. That was before Amazon stepped in.In January, Amazon announced it had struck a deal to claim more than half the site’s 880 megawatts of output, part of its ongoing attempt to slake…

03 Jun

Intelligent data infrastructure: NetApp transforms data management – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIBrian Njuguna, SiliconANGLE, Unleashing the power of intelligent data infrastructure: NetApp's vision to revolutionize enterprise data management

With artificial intelligence and data-driven decision-making taking center stage in the enterprise world, the need for an intelligent data infrastructure has become more pronounced to meet these growing demands. As a result, NetApp Inc. is making the intelligent data infrastructure a reality through its Unified Data Storage, which incorporates AI principles and offers a single operating environment. This enables the management of any data type regardless of whether its structured or unstructured, according to Gabie Boko (pictured), chief marketing officer of NetApp. “We’re redefining unified to be more than just a protocol, but to be how you are integrated,” she…

03 Jun

Hiring Kit: Prompt Engineer | TechRepublic

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The application of artificial intelligence to business and organizational operations, particularly generative AI, is predicted to be one of the fastest growing areas of worldwide job growth for the next decade at least. Successfully fitting established AI technology such as language models into the everyday functions of a business organization requires technical expertise, experience and an innate ability to look ahead. The overall success of integrating a language model into a business environment depends on well-written prompts that avoid off-topic, inconsistent or offensive output. Creating these well-written prompts is the domain of the prompt engineer, who pushes the limits of…

03 Jun

Enhancing user experience with Alteryx: Capitalize Analytics’ approach – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIEnhancing user experience: Capitalize Analytics' strategic use of Alteryx, Sead Fadilpasic, SiliconANGLE

Capitalize Analytics Alteryx integration is transforming how businesses leverage data to enhance user experience and operational efficiency. Capitalize Analytics uses Alteryx Inc.’s products to enhance user experience and benefit from functionalities, implementing it multiple times and constantly thinking about IT perspective enhancements, Eric Soden (pictured, left), managing partner at Capitalize Consulting LLC explained. Eric Soden and Shawn Mock of Capitalize Consulting talk to theCUBE about the Alteryx user experience. “There’s no software out there that’s perfect. There’s always things that you wish it did, the enhancements that you wish were there,” Soden said. “I come from an IT background. So,…

03 Jun

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03 Jun

Pinecone launches serverless edition of its vector database on AWS – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIMike Wheatley, Pinecone launches serverless edition of its vector database on AWS, SiliconANGLE

Vector database startup Pinecone Systems Inc. said today the serverless version of its platform is launching in general availability on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform after a successful beta testing phase. Pinecone is the creator of an advanced vector database that can dynamically store, transform and index billions of high-dimensional data points, enabling it to respond rapidly and accurately to queries such as nearest-neighbor search. The company launched the original, server-based version of its vector database back in 2021, saying that it was aimed at artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. The main purpose, it said at the…

03 Jun

Hydrolix raises $35M to expand streaming data lake operations and partner network – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIDuncan Riley, Hydrolix raises $35M to expand streaming data lake operations and partner network, SiliconANGLE

Streaming data lake platform startup Hydrolix Inc. today announced that it has raised $35 million in new funding to fuel product development, expand sales operations and implement a partner program. Founded in 2018, Hydolix offers a streaming data lake platform designed to transform the economics of log data. A streaming data lake platform is a data management architecture that allows for the storage, processing and analysis of data in real-time as it flows into the system, without needing to store it first in a database. Hydrolix’s platform offers a combination of stream processing, decoupled storage, high-density compression and indexed search to…