The AI fatigue that defined the late 2023 and 2024 business cycles was, in hindsight, a necessary correction. During that period, many organizations found themselves trapped in what industry observers called “pilot purgatory.” Millions were poured into experimental generative AI pilots, comprised mostly of chatbots designed to summarize meetings or draft internal emails. While these…
MariaDB, the company behind the open-source fork of MySQL, is planning to acquire in-memory computing middleware provider GridGain to bolster its platform for high-performance data and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The database provider is planning to infuse its relational database with the California-headquartered startup’s in-memory technology, which it says will enable its database offerings to…
Enterprises are under intense pressure to deliver AI outcomes that are visible, measurable, and repeatable without blowing up their cloud budgets. That’s why neoclouds have arrived at exactly the right moment. By neoclouds, I’m referring to GPU-centric, purpose-built cloud services that focus primarily on AI training and inference rather than on the sprawling catalog of general-purpose services…
In the era of support apps and chatbots, telephony continues to hold strong as the backbone of customer communication, and voice AI is entering the call center scene to further streamline customer interaction. However, this means developers are suddenly being confronted with a whole new set of challenges, foremost among them the difficulty of bridging the…
One of the most poweful collaborations between AI and tech giants, Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard for connecting AI agents. We need standards like MCP to orchestrate communication between AI agents, AI assistants, LLMs, and other resources. Such standards are also critical for developing more complex agentic workflows. The MCP protocol enables two…
The Ruby language has been around since 1995 and still gets regular releases. But the language has dropped to 30th place in this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity, with Python cited as a reason for Ruby’s drop. Ruby was the Tiobe language of the year in 2006, having displayed the highest growth rate in…
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MariaDB is set to acquire GridGain Systems with the aim to deliver sub-millisecond data performance for agentic AI workloads. GridGain is the company behind the in-memory computing platform and developer of the open source project Apache Ignite. The deal comes at a time when technology vendors are rethinking the foundations of the modern data stack…
