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Life365 and Canary Speech Join Forces, Leveraging Patented Technology to Scale Healthcare Delivery

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Monday, April 1, 2024
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 1, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Life365, a leader in virtual care, remote patient monitoring (RPM), and patient engagement, and Canary Speech, a developer of vocal biomarker technology forging a new era of machine learning in healthcare, have partnered to scale new, proactive care technologies to large populations of patients cost-effectively, by leveraging the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare platform. Life365 and Canary Speech hold extensive patent portfolios that include core technology involving wearables and sensors and AI / voice biomarkers.

Key Points: 
  • Life365 and Canary Speech, both leaders in their respective fields of virtual care and vocal biomarker technology, have just announced a partnership to scale their proactive care technologies, leveraging the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare platform.
  • Life365 and Canary Speech hold extensive patent portfolios that include core technology involving wearables and sensors and AI / voice biomarkers .
  • Life365 and Canary Speech are participants in the Microsoft for Startups program, as well as integrated to the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare platform, which provides near instant access to their solution for thousands of healthcare providers.
  • Canary Speech became a Microsoft partner to utilize the tech giant's AI technology platform to enhance its machine-learning speech models for healthcare applications, which are now integrated directly into the Microsoft Teams platform.

NetActuate Completes Expansion in Johannesburg Data Center as Part of Strategic Footprint Upgrade

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Friday, March 29, 2024
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RALEIGH, N.C., March 29, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As part of a strategic upgrade to their global footprint, NetActuate engineers have just completed a major expansion in their Johannesburg data center. The expansion has increased Africa-based service capacity for virtual machines, bare metal, and high bandwidth connectivity. The anycast platform node in Johannesburg has also been upgraded to enable faster, automated management of network services.

Key Points: 
  • NetActuate engineers have announced completion of upgrades in their Johannesburg, South Africa data center.
  • RALEIGH, N.C., March 29, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As part of a strategic upgrade to their global footprint, NetActuate engineers have just completed a major expansion in their Johannesburg data center .
  • "More users are coming online in Africa every day, and demand across our Africa footprint is growing," said Mark Mahle, CEO of NetActuate.
  • NetActuate's Johannesburg data center is strategically located in Ekurhuleni, a major trade and industry hub.

Databricks Launches DBRX, A New Standard for Efficient Open Source Models

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced the launch of DBRX, a general purpose large language model (LLM) that outperforms all established open source models on standard benchmarks. DBRX democratizes the training and tuning of custom, high-performing LLMs for every enterprise so they no longer need to rely on a small handful of closed models. Available today, DBRX enables organizations around the world to cost-effectively build, train, and serve their own custom LLMs.

Key Points: 
  • "We're excited about DBRX for three key reasons: first, it beats open source models on state-of-the-art industry benchmarks.
  • Second, it beats GPT-3.5 on most benchmarks, which should accelerate the trend we're seeing across our customer base as organizations replace proprietary models with open source models.
  • DBRX sets a new standard for open source models, enabling customizable and transparent generative AI for all enterprises.
  • A recent survey from Andreessen Horowitz found that nearly 60 percent of AI leaders are interested in increasing open source usage or switching when fine-tuned open source models roughly match performance of closed source models.

Databricks Launches DBRX, A New Standard for Efficient Open Source Models

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced the launch of DBRX, a general purpose large language model (LLM) that outperforms all established open source models on standard benchmarks. DBRX democratizes the training and tuning of custom, high-performing LLMs for every enterprise so they no longer need to rely on a small handful of closed models. Available today, DBRX enables organizations around the world to cost-effectively build, train, and serve their own custom LLMs.

Key Points: 
  • "We're excited about DBRX for three key reasons: first, it beats open source models on state-of-the-art industry benchmarks.
  • Second, it beats GPT-3.5 on most benchmarks, which should accelerate the trend we're seeing across our customer base as organizations replace proprietary models with open source models.
  • DBRX sets a new standard for open source models, enabling customizable and transparent generative AI for all enterprises.
  • A recent survey from Andreessen Horowitz found that nearly 60 percent of AI leaders are interested in increasing open source usage or switching when fine-tuned open source models roughly match performance of closed source models.

Neo4j Announces Collaboration with Microsoft to Advance GenAI and Data Solutions

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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SAN MATEO, Calif., March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Neo4j®, a Graph Database and Analytics leader, announced a collaboration with Microsoft to deliver a unified data offering that addresses customers' critical data needs for Generative AI (GenAI). Specifically, the collaboration will see Neo4j's powerful graph capabilities natively integrated into Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to seamlessly combine structured and unstructured data, and enable customers to uncover hidden patterns and relationships within their data for better insights and decision-making, all as part of a comprehensive solution.

Key Points: 
  • Microsoft Fabric is an AI-powered analytics platform that enables everything from data movement to data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence.
  • Developers can implement Azure Data Factory to ingest data from OneLake into Neo4j , extract data from Synapse Data Warehouse using the Neo4j data warehouse connector , run Graph Data Science algorithms from Synapse Data Science Notebooks , and leverage Power BI to build interactive dashboards on Neo4j Knowledge Graphs .
  • For more information about Neo4j's collaboration with Microsoft, read our blog post or visit the Neo4j booth #307 at Microsoft FabCon , March 26-28.
  • "Our collaboration with Neo4j represents a significant step forward in delivering innovative data solutions that will enable businesses to unlock new opportunities and drive digital transformation in the GenAI era."

Neo4j Announces Collaboration with Microsoft to Advance GenAI and Data Solutions

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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SAN MATEO, Calif., March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Neo4j®, a Graph Database and Analytics leader, announced a collaboration with Microsoft to deliver a unified data offering that addresses customers' critical data needs for Generative AI (GenAI). Specifically, the collaboration will see Neo4j's powerful graph capabilities natively integrated into Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to seamlessly combine structured and unstructured data, and enable customers to uncover hidden patterns and relationships within their data for better insights and decision-making, all as part of a comprehensive solution.

Key Points: 
  • Microsoft Fabric is an AI-powered analytics platform that enables everything from data movement to data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence.
  • Developers can implement Azure Data Factory to ingest data from OneLake into Neo4j , extract data from Synapse Data Warehouse using the Neo4j data warehouse connector , run Graph Data Science algorithms from Synapse Data Science Notebooks , and leverage Power BI to build interactive dashboards on Neo4j Knowledge Graphs .
  • For more information about Neo4j's collaboration with Microsoft, read our blog post or visit the Neo4j booth #307 at Microsoft FabCon , March 26-28.
  • Today's announcement underscores how our partners, Microsoft and Neo4j, enable SaaS businesses like ScribeStar to provide powerful solutions to discover complex relationships within our data.

Bigeye Launches Bigeye Dependency Driven Monitoring to Ensure Reliable Analytics

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Monday, March 25, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Bigeye announces the availability of Bigeye Dependency Driven Monitoring .

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, March 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Bigeye announces the availability of Bigeye Dependency Driven Monitoring .
  • When compared with other data observability approaches, Bigeye Dependency Driven Monitoring provides:
    Faster time to value and improved trust for data consumers.
  • For data consumers, Bigeye will display data health updates directly in their analytics dashboard, providing instant insight into whether or not their analytics are reliable.
  • Bigeye Dependency Driven Monitoring is powered by Bigeye Lineage Plus, a complete data lineage technology built to handle the largest, most complex enterprise pipelines.

Nvidia CEO reiterates solid partnership with TSMC

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Friday, March 22, 2024
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Speaking to the press later, Huang said Nvidia will have a very strong demand for CoWoS, the advanced packaging services TSMC offers.

Key Points: 
  • Speaking to the press later, Huang said Nvidia will have a very strong demand for CoWoS, the advanced packaging services TSMC offers.
  • He said the company is embarking on a new journey and will work closely with TSMC.
  • A major reason for the shortages of Nvidia's AI chips is insufficient CoWoS support from TSMC.
  • Huang admitted that the way Nvidia is working for its partners and the AI industry is like the way TSMC is making chips for Nvidia.

Otterize Unveils Support for Microsoft Azure IAM, Google Cloud IAM, and Introduces Blast Radius & Compliance Mapping

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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In response to the escalating complexity of managing access controls within Kubernetes deployments, Otterize is introducing robust support for Microsoft Azure IAM, Google Cloud IAM, and blast radius & compliance mapping.

Key Points: 
  • In response to the escalating complexity of managing access controls within Kubernetes deployments, Otterize is introducing robust support for Microsoft Azure IAM, Google Cloud IAM, and blast radius & compliance mapping.
  • "Kubernetes deployments are booming, but managing access for them has become a tangled mess," said Ori Shoshan, CTO at Otterize.
  • Microsoft Azure IAM: Seamlessly manage just-in-time roles and policies for Microsoft Azure resources, enhancing visibility and control.
  • These additions complement Otterize's existing support for AWS IAM and cross-cloud AWS IAM, enabling workloads on Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud to specify their desired access to local cloud resources and AWS seamlessly within Kubernetes clusters.

Protocall Services is Featured by Microsoft

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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PORTLAND, Ore., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Protocall Services has been featured by Microsoft Corporation in a case study about its multistage migration to the Azure cloud. The migration to the cloud was a multi-year strategy with its Microsoft Azure provider, Atmosera, to accommodate Protocall's growth, while also ensuring high reliability and stringent security requirements.

Key Points: 
  • Microsoft case study shares Protocall's multistage cloud migration to improve reliability, security, and scalability of its IT infrastructure
    PORTLAND, Ore., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Protocall Services has been featured by Microsoft Corporation in a case study about its multistage migration to the Azure cloud.
  • MS case study features cloud migration to improve reliability, security, and scalability of Protocall IT infrastructure
    In 2016 Protocall saw an opportunity to serve more clients virtually or by phone through cloud migration instead of maintaining its on-premises infrastructure.
  • "We were historically a call center only," says Chris Kerns, Director of IT at Protocall.
  • In the new environment, Protocall maintains compliance with federal regulations for handling PHI, and aligns with its existing HITRUST certification.