AWS tries a telco tack; Teradata's new vector
Today on Product Saturday: AWS spruces up its Outposts server gear for wireless carriers, Teradata jumps on the vector database train, and the quote of the week.
Today: Pinecone's second-generation serverless infrastructure for its managed vector database gets an upgrade, Microsoft's data-center buildout hits a snag, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Companies working with vector databases have to balance performance, cost, and speed as they try to get apps into production. Pinecone's new update promises to thread that needle.
Today: how Pinecone hopes to carve out space for the standalone vector database amid an industry stampede into the sector, Satya Nadella does Davos, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Welcome to Runtime! Today: why vector databases are so hot right now, Microsoft open-sources an interesting application development platform, and the latest enterprise moves.
Behind every breakthrough in enterprise technology over the past few decades you'll find a database. This year, as engineering managers and CIOs are being asked to articulate a generative AI strategy in the middle of a hype cycle for the ages, the vector database is having its coming-out party.