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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Q, the Most Capable Generative AI-Powered Assistant for Accelerating Software Development and Leveraging Companies’ Internal Data

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Q, the most capable generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data.

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  • Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of Amazon Q, the most capable generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data.
  • Today, AWS is also introducing Amazon Q Apps, a new and powerful capability that lets employees build generative AI apps from their company’s data.
  • By integrating Amazon Q’s generative AI capabilities with solutions that developers know, use, and trust, developers can update and create software faster.
  • "Amazon Q Business provided our team insights into the areas of most critical need, accelerating the effectiveness of our technical debt assessment by 25%.

Snowflake Launches Arctic: The Most Open, Enterprise-Grade Large Language Model

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the Data Cloud company, today announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market.

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  • Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the Data Cloud company, today announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market.
  • The Snowflake Arctic LLM is a part of the Snowflake Arctic model family, a family of models built by Snowflake that also include the best practical text-embedding models for retrieval use cases.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240424761970/en/
    Snowflake Arctic adds truly open large language model with unmatched intelligence and efficiency to the Snowflake Arctic model family (Graphic: Business Wire)
    “This is a watershed moment for Snowflake, with our AI research team innovating at the forefront of AI,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO, Snowflake.
  • Now with the launch of Arctic, Snowflake is delivering a powerful, truly open model with an Apache 2.0 license that permits ungated personal, research, and commercial use.

AWS and NVIDIA Extend Collaboration to Advance Generative AI Innovation

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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“Our collaboration with AWS is accelerating new generative AI capabilities and providing customers with unprecedented computing power to push the boundaries of what's possible."

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  • “Our collaboration with AWS is accelerating new generative AI capabilities and providing customers with unprecedented computing power to push the boundaries of what's possible."
  • Announced at AWS re:Invent 2023, Project Ceiba is a collaboration between NVIDIA and AWS to build one of the world’s fastest AI supercomputers.
  • NVIDIA research and development teams will use Ceiba to advance AI for LLMs, graphics (image/video/3D generation) and simulation, digital biology, robotics, self-driving cars, NVIDIA Earth-2 climate prediction, and more to help NVIDIA propel future generative AI innovation.
  • AWS and NVIDIA have joined forces to offer high-performance, low-cost inference for generative AI with Amazon SageMaker integration with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices, available with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.

Lumino Announces Pre-Seed Round

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumino, an AI infrastructure startup, announced that it has raised a $2.8 million Pre-Seed financing round.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumino, an AI infrastructure startup, announced that it has raised a $2.8 million Pre-Seed financing round.
  • Lumino was founded by Eshan Chordia and Yogesh Darji in July 2023 to fight all of these problems.
  • Lumino is building an integrated hardware and software compute protocol for AI workloads.
  • Customers can start training their AI models in minutes with the Lumino SDK, and they see AI compute costs decrease by up to 80% as compared to traditional cloud providers.

Konica Minolta Healthcare to Showcase Exa Platform in the Cloud with AWS HealthImaging at HIMSS 2024 Meeting

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Monday, March 11, 2024
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WAYNE, N.J., March 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. announced today the new integration of the Exa® Platform with AWS HealthImaging (AHI).

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  • WAYNE, N.J., March 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc. announced today the new integration of the Exa® Platform with AWS HealthImaging (AHI).
  • Konica Minolta will offer integration with AHI through the Exa Platform, using Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and introducing its use of Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings from AWS.
  • Exa Platform customers can have Konica Minolta Healthcare manage production workflows with the option to own their data in their own AHI data store.
  • “Konica Minolta is thrilled to announce the integration of the Exa Platform with AWS HealthImaging in the cloud,” says Kevin Chlopecki, Chief Operating Officer, Konica Minolta Healthcare.

Lightning AI Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Offer Enterprises Optimized Performance for Building and Deploying AI Products

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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“Collaborating with AWS allows Lightning AI to offer our customers highly customized cloud computing and storage options,” said William Falcon, creator of PyTorch Lightning and the CEO and founder of Lightning AI. “With affordable, enterprise-grade speed and performance -- at scale -- we believe we have one of the world’s best end-to-end platforms for building and deploying AI products.”

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  • Lightning AI , the creator of PyTorch Lightning and Lightning Studios, announced today it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS).
  • By collaborating with AWS, Lightning AI is able to offer a powerful, enterprise-grade, cloud-based platform for building and deploying AI products.
  • “Collaborating with AWS allows Lightning AI to offer our customers highly customized cloud computing and storage options,” said William Falcon, creator of PyTorch Lightning and the CEO and founder of Lightning AI.
  • “With affordable, enterprise-grade speed and performance -- at scale -- we believe we have one of the world’s best end-to-end platforms for building and deploying AI products.”
    For more information on Lightning AI, please visit www.lightning.ai .

Varonis Expands DSPM Capabilities With Deeper Azure and AWS Support

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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NEW YORK, Dec. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Varonis Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNS), a leader in data security, today announced expanded capabilities for cloud databases and object storage in AWS and Azure. This release accelerates customers’ data security posture management (DSPM) initiatives with deeper risk visibility, advanced threat detection, and automated remediation for multi-cloud environments.

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  • NEW YORK, Dec. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Varonis Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNS), a leader in data security, today announced expanded capabilities for cloud databases and object storage in AWS and Azure.
  • This release accelerates customers’ data security posture management (DSPM) initiatives with deeper risk visibility, advanced threat detection, and automated remediation for multi-cloud environments.
  • Varonis’ cloud-native platform gives customers holistic data security across their entire data estate: SaaS apps, email, hybrid file storage, databases, and beyond.
  • Varonis is available on the Azure Marketplace and AWS Marketplace , the online markets for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure and AWS.

Redpanda Cloud Adds Support for AWS Graviton to Improve Data Streaming Cost-Efficiency up to 50%

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Monday, November 27, 2023
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LAS VEGAS, Nev., Nov. 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Streaming data pioneer Redpanda announced today at AWS re:Invent 2023 a number of advanced new capabilities for Redpanda Cloud, the company’s powerful and easy-to-use streaming data service.

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  • LAS VEGAS, Nev., Nov. 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Streaming data pioneer Redpanda announced today at AWS re:Invent 2023 a number of advanced new capabilities for Redpanda Cloud, the company’s powerful and easy-to-use streaming data service.
  • The latest Redpanda Cloud update also brings a managed Apache Iceberg connector for easier data lake integration, and a simple user interface for schema registry management.
  • Redpanda’s industry-first Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment option solves the challenges of data sovereignty in the cloud.
  • These efficiencies extend cost-savings previously available with Redpanda BYOC and unlock a broad range of new streaming data use cases in the cloud.

fifty-five Joins the Amazon Web Services Partner Network (APN) To Ensure Effective and Scalable Data-Driven Business Transformation

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Monday, November 27, 2023
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The APN is a global community of AWS Partners that leverage programs, expertise, and resources to build, market, and sell customer offerings.

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  • The APN is a global community of AWS Partners that leverage programs, expertise, and resources to build, market, and sell customer offerings.
  • As part of this partnership, fifty-five will be able to deploy trusted machine learning and AI solutions to improve its clients' performance and competitiveness.
  • "AWS provides the wide range of cloud services our customers need to put data and innovation at the heart of their projects.
  • We are very proud to have won an award at the recent Gen AI Partners Demo Showdown ("Account Manager/Sales AWS").

Testament to its customer-centric approach Zesty Concludes 2023 With a Near Perfect Customer Satisfaction Score

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Thursday, December 21, 2023
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zesty, a pioneer of automated cloud cost optimization, today announced a nearly perfect CSAT (Customer Satisfaction Score), earning 4.9 out of 5 stars as 2023 concludes. These results are consistent with anecdotal reports of Zesty's customer experience providing accurate, and effective interactions that deliver fast resolutions to queries.

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  • TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zesty , a pioneer of automated cloud cost optimization, today announced a nearly perfect CSAT (Customer Satisfaction Score), earning 4.9 out of 5 stars as 2023 concludes.
  • These results are consistent with anecdotal reports of Zesty's customer experience providing accurate, and effective interactions that deliver fast resolutions to queries.
  • The CSAT questionnaire included questions addressing both the quality of customer care "How would you rate your most recent support interaction?
  • "At Zesty, our primary objective has always been to streamline cloud cost optimization by enhancing customer experience," said Ben Larboni, Zesty's Director of Customer Success.