Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending May 3 – RTInsights

3 May 2025
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In this week’s real-time analytics news: Oracle teams with NVIDIA to support next-gen reasoning models and AI agents.

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Oracle has stood up and optimized its first wave of liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks in its data centers. Thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now being deployed and ready for customer use on NVIDIA DGX Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to develop and run next-generation reasoning models and AI agents.

Oracle’s GB200 deployment includes high-speed NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking to enable scalable, low-latency performance, as well as a full stack of software and database integrations from NVIDIA and OCI.

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Akamai Technologies announced Firewall for AI, a new solution that provides multilayered protection for AI applications against unauthorized queries, adversarial inputs, and large-scale data-scraping attempts. To further protect customer AI deployments and empower secure AI adoption, Akamai also announced API LLM Discovery, an enhancement to the Akamai API Security platform that automatically discovers GenAI and LLM API endpoints, categorizes them, and continuously updates security policies to prevent unauthorized access and abuse.

Acceldata announced Adaptive AI Anomaly Detection, a cornerstone capability of its xLake Reasoning Engine that automatically identifies hidden, multi-dimensional data anomalies before they disrupt business operations. The solution identifies one-dimensional errors and pinpoints hidden anomalies across multiple data dimensions, reducing manual analysis that previously took weeks to minutes.

Akka announced new deployment options as well as new solutions to tackle the issues with deploying large-scale agentic AI systems. Akka now gives enterprises the freedom to deploy their Akka applications on the infrastructure of their choice. Additionally, enterprises have the option to self-host their application or deploy and automate operations across multiple regions on the Akka Platform.

Amperity announced the launch of its Identity Resolution Agent, a solution designed to help data teams rapidly unify fragmented customer data and build the AI-ready foundation enterprises need to drive growth. The Identity Resolution Agent gives data teams a fast, intuitive way to prepare accurate, AI-ready customer data. It streamlines the entire identity workflow, making it easier than ever to deploy identity strategies and unlock business value.

Bedrock Security announced its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. The MCP Server, to be released during Q2 2025, will enable a secure, standardized gateway between AI agents and enterprise data, auditing model interactions and allowing for the safe adoption of open agentic AI standards. It seamlessly integrates deep contextual knowledge of data, risk, and usage from the Bedrock Platform’s metadata lake directly into enterprise workflows and emerging agentic AI systems.

BigID announced the launch of AI Data Lineage, a new solution that provides organizations with visibility into how AI models access, process, and utilize data. The solution offers AI transparency and governance, empowering enterprises to mitigate risks and ensure compliance with evolving regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and emerging AI-specific mandates.

CData announced the launch of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. CData MCP Servers (in Beta) enables AI tools like Claude to securely connect with dozens of enterprise data sources, including popular CRMs, ERPs, accounting solutions, collaboration platforms, traditional on-premises, and cloud data stores. The company plans to expand access to CData’s entire catalog of 350+ sources.

Denodo announced the launch of Denodo Platform 9.2, adding new intuitive functionality to Denodo Platform 9.1. The new solution makes access more intuitive with a more user-friendly interface. Additionally, Denodo Platform 9.2’s GenAI features extend the capabilities of Denodo Platform 9.1, which brought the AI-powered Denodo Assistant and Denodo AI SDK to streamline the development of GenAI applications.

Postman announced integrated support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) directly in its API platform. With this release, organizations can now create and send MCP requests using the familiar Postman API client and generate MCP servers from a network of 100,000 APIs. Whether calling a tool, composing a prompt, exploring a server’s available resources, or looking to build a server, it all works seamlessly inside Postman.

Quobyte announced Quobyte 4, the next generation of its platform designed to accelerate AI training and scale out workloads across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Quobyte 4 provides the storage foundation needed to meet the demands of massive datasets, extreme performance, and agile infrastructure. Major new features in the new version include support for ARM architectures, integration with cloud object storage, and complete end-to-end observability.

StarTree announced two new AI-native innovations to its real-time data platform for enterprise workloads: Model Context Protocol (MCP) support and vector embedding model hosting. These capabilities enable StarTree to power agent-facing applications, real-time Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and conversational querying at the speed, freshness, and scale enterprise AI systems demand.

WitnessAI announced the release of WitnessAI 2.0. The solution is designed to address ongoing compliance challenges of AI in regulated environments, offering a platform that will evolve with AI regulations as they emerge. The new version offers five key updates for organizations looking to remain compliant with regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) while adopting enterprise AI tools.

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Writer released its newest and most advanced foundation model, Palmyra X5. The adaptive reasoning model features a 1 million token context window. Additionally, Writer and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced today the availability of Palmyra X5 in Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that offers developers access to high-performing models from leading AI companies through a single API.

Partnerships, collaborations, and more

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) and the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium announced a new collaboration to enhance scale-up interconnect performance in AI clusters and High-Performance Computing (HPC). Together, OCP and UALink aim to integrate UALink’s scale-up AI interconnect technology into OCP Community-delivered AI clusters, providing the high-bandwidth, low-latency, low-power connectivity required for high-performance AI training and inference.

Adastra Group announced it has become an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data Foundation partner, based on powering successful generative AI deployments with a robust data foundation. Adastra’s approach to generative AI implementation meets organizations where they are on their data journey and is designed to ensure alignment with business objectives, validate technological choices, and establish a scalable, high-performance data foundation for AI.

DDN partnered with Nebius to deliver advanced performance, scalability, and efficiency for enterprise AI workloads. By integrating DDN Infinia and EXAScaler into its AI cloud, Nebius offers enterprises an end-to-end, high-performance solution tailored to the demands of next-generation AI.

Fivetran announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Census. With this acquisition, Fivetran offers a fully managed platform that enables enterprises to move governed, automated, and real-time data across their entire stack, from source systems to data platforms and now back into the business applications that drive decision-making.

GigaIO announced the next phase of its strategic partnership with d-Matrix to deliver an expansive inference solution for enterprises deploying AI at scale. Integrating d-Matrix’s Corsair inference platform into GigaIO’s SuperNODE architecture reduces the complexity and performance bottlenecks traditionally associated with large-scale AI inference deployment.

KPMG announced it acquired the technology and intellectual property of Metaphor and its enterprise data mesh platform. The technology integrates with many of the platforms used by KPMG’s clients, making it a catalyst for greater value from existing investments. This is particularly important for organizations that prioritize maximizing the return on their technology investments.

Nisum and AAIC announced they have joined to help make AI adoption fast and secure for enterprise teams drowning in complexity. One of the first joint projects is OpsPilot, an agentic AI-powered production engineer designed for IT teams overwhelmed by alerts. Beyond IT, the partnership delivers AI that gets legacy systems into the modern cloud stack quickly with Nisum’s existing AI toolkit.

Pythian Services announced the acquisition of Oracle data and analytics consultancy Rittman Mead. The acquisition enhances Pythian’s Oracle footprint, expands its geographic market presence in the United Kingdom and Europe, and strengthens the company’s Oracle Database@Google Cloud capabilities.

Radware and SUSE announced a strategic partnership offering enterprises a full-stack, cloud-native Kubernetes solution designed to achieve low latency, high availability, and regulatory-compliant outcomes. The collaboration brings together Radware’s Kubernetes Web Application and API Protection (KWAAP) with SUSE Rancher Prime and SUSE Security. The combination creates a modular, open, and certified solution for securing distributed workloads at scale, from core data centers to the edge.

Treasure Data announced that it has successfully achieved the Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery designation. With this integration, Treasure Data can extract data from Google Cloud’s BigQuery, transform it using SQL or Python, and load it into Treasure Data for advanced analytics. Data from Treasure Data can also be synced back into BigQuery or other tools to activate data across various platforms.

Vectra AI announced an expanded partnership with CrowdStrike. Together, the companies have launched a joint offering combining Vectra AI Platform’s network detection and response (NDR) with endpoint protection powered by the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform. Additionally, Vectra AI announced that it has expanded its AI agent portfolio to include four AI agents to enhance security team efficiency, helping organizations reduce time spent on alert triage.

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In other Vectra AI news, the company announcedadvancements in its portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The AI agents increase security teams’ productivity and workflow efficiencies, allowing analysts to detect, investigate, and respond to the most urgent and critical threats on the modern network.

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