Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending May 10 – RTInsights

11 May 2025
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In this week’s real-time analytics news: IBM announced a number of new technologies to scale enterprise AI.

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IBM announced a number of new hybrid technologies that break down the longstanding barriers to scaling enterprise AI, enabling businesses to build and deploy AI agents with their own enterprise data. Additionally, IBM is combining its hybrid technologies, agent capabilities, and deep industry expertise from IBM Consulting to help businesses operationalize AI.

The announcements this week include:

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A new watsonx.data will bring together an open data lakehouse with data fabric capabilities, like data lineage tracking and governance, to help clients unify, govern, and activate data across silos, formats, and clouds.
watsonx.data integration, which is a single-interface tool for orchestrating data across formats and pipelines
watsonx.data intelligence, which uses AI-powered technology to extract deep insights from unstructured data.
A new content-aware storage (CAS) capability is now available as a service on IBM Fusion, with support for IBM Storage Scale coming in 3Q.
IBM LinuxONE 5, its secure and performant Linux platform for data, applications, and trusted AI. The solution includes IBM’s state-of-the-art AI accelerators, advanced security offerings, and reductions in costs and power consumption.

IBM has also expanded its GPU, accelerator, and storage collaborations with AMD, CoreWeave, Intel, and NVIDIA to provide new solutions for compute-intensive workloads and AI-enhanced data.

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IBM Research launched ITBench, the first open-source benchmark suite built to evaluate AI agents in real-world IT environments. The new ITBench SaaS offering covers the complete workflow — from scenario deployment to agent evaluation and leaderboard updates, which includes 94 real-world problems that we call ‘scenarios’ across three key areas:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): focusing on availability and resiliency
Financial Operations (FinOps): focusing on enforcing cost efficiencies and optimizing return on investment
Compliance and Security Operations (CISO): focusing on ensuring compliance and security of IT implementations

FICO launched its FICO Marketplace, which is a digital hub designed to connect organizations with top-tier data and analytics providers. The new Marketplace offers easy access to data, artificial intelligence (AI) models, optimization tools, decision rulesets, and machine learning models, which deliver enterprise business outcomes from AI. With FICO Marketplace, FICO Platform users can unlock value from data faster, improve collaboration by leveraging decision agents across multiple use cases, and drive better customer experiences. Additionally, FICO Platform users can access a wide array of decision assets, including third-party data, AI models, analytic tools, decision strategies, and pre-built solutions.

BMC Helix announced the release of new and expanded AI agents to extend observability, discovery, and insights that prevent major incidents and optimize application performance. Additionally, the latest version of BMC Helix, 25.2, includes several flagship Agentic AI enhancements. These include BMC HelixGPT Agent Builder, which empowers IT and line-of-business service owners to create and deploy custom agents through a flexible, no-code configuration framework.

Cockroach Labs announced that its flagship product, CockroachDB, will support IBM LinuxONE and IBM Z systems. This strategic expansion to support the IBM s390x processor architecture brings CockroachDB’s elastic scalability to some of the industry’s most secure and reliable enterprise platforms. IBM customers can now deploy CockroachDB on IBM LinuxONE and Linux on IBM Z, complementing their existing investments with a modern data infrastructure built for hybrid cloud deployments and GenAI initiatives.

Dremio announced the launch of the Dremio MCP Server, a solution that brings AI-native data discovery and query capabilities to the lakehouse. By adopting the open Model Context Protocol (MCP), Dremio enables AI agents to dynamically explore datasets, generate queries, and retrieve governed data in real time. Through MCP, Dremio natively integrates with leading AI models like Claude, enabling agents to seamlessly discover and query data with contextual understanding.

Franz announced AllegroGraph v8.4. The solution offers an enhanced AI-powered Natural Language Query interface that drives Agentic AI solutions by enabling more intuitive, human-like interaction between users and intelligent systems. Specifically, AllegroGraph v8.4 has enhanced its Natural Language Query interface to allow users to ask questions in natural language and automatically converts them into SPARQL queries for precise Knowledge Graph interrogation. This AI-powered capability depends on the platform’s vector database, which contains query examples that help the system learn and improve over time.

JFrog announced a significant milestone, delivering a universal artifact management solution to natively support 40 unique package types, clients, and technologies. With this, Jfrog’s cloud-native artifact management is designed to enable organizations to ensure reliability, security, and performance across all DevOps pipelines. Additionally, the solution allows developers to seamlessly manage the most popular technologies, all from one secure and scalable platform, allowing organizations to accelerate their development cycles, ensure compliance, and unleash their teams’ creativity to focus on solving complex challenges.

Neo4j announced the launch of Neo4j Aura Graph Analytics, a new serverless offering that can be used seamlessly with any data source and with Zero ETL (extract, load, transfer). The solution is generally available now on a pay-as-you-use basis and works with all databases, such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL, all cloud data warehouses and data lake platforms, such as Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Microsoft OneLake, and on any cloud.

Nutanix announced its Cloud Native AOS solution, which extends Nutanix enterprise storage and advanced data services to hyperscaler Kubernetes services and cloud-native bare-metal environments, without requiring a hypervisor. The company also announced the general availability of the latest version of the Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) solution, adding deeper integration with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, including NVIDIA NIM microservices and the NVIDIA NeMo framework, to speed the deployment of Agentic AI applications in the enterprise.

OneTrust announced its Data Use Governance solution, which is a set of capabilities designed to close the gap between traditional data governance and the real-time compliance demands of AI. The solution enables accelerated data use, enforces policies in real time, and ensures purpose-based policy adherence. OneTrust’s newest innovation for Data Use Governance, Data Policy Enforcement, is available now in private preview. The capability enables data governance teams to automate data policy enforcement and keep up with the velocity at which AI-driven systems process and utilize data.

Partnerships, collaborations, and more

Datadog announced that it has acquired Eppo. Eppo will tightly integrate with Datadog’s existing Product Analytics suite. With its acquisition of Eppo, Datadog creates a full end-to-end product analytics solution on one platform.

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Datavault AI announced a partnership with Kove to launch a secure, tokenized data vending solution. The platform integrates Kove’s SDM Memory Tower 39i with Datavault’s Data Vault. The solution leverages Datavault’s AI stack: DataScore for asset appraisal, DataValue for real-time pricing, and Data Vault Bank for tokenized transactions via the patented Information Data Exchange.

IBM and Cerebras Systems have announced a collaboration to integrate Cerebras’ AI computing hardware with IBM’s watsonx platform. The goal is to help enterprises run generative AI models at scale while meeting requirements for trust, efficiency, and integration in complex environments.

NetApp announced the release of NetApp AIPod Mini with Intel, a joint solution designed to streamline enterprise adoption of AI inferencing. The collaboration addresses the unique challenges businesses face when deploying AI, such as cost and complexity, at the department and team level.

Nutanix and Pure Storage announced a partnership aimed at providing a deeply integrated solution that will allow customers to seamlessly deploy and manage virtual workloads. With this collaboration, the Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution, powered by the Nutanix AHV hypervisor along with Nutanix Flow virtual networking and security, will integrate with Pure Storage FlashArray over NVMe/TCP to deliver a customer experience designed for high-demand data workloads, including AI.

Penguin Solutions announced a new strategic agreement with CDW, making the full portfolio of Penguin Solutions’ AI infrastructure offerings available to CDW’s customer base. Penguin Solutions’ OriginAI factory infrastructure solution and its management software tools and services provide the foundation to design, build, deploy, and manage GPU clusters.

Qlik announced the acquisition of the Qloud Cover Migration technology from Stretch Qonnect. The automated solution, to be branded as the Qlik Analytics Migration Tool, eliminates the complexity of migrating from QlikView, Qlik Sense, and NPrinting to Qlik Cloud.

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