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Kinetica and 451 Research Host Webinar Revealing Power of Scalable, GPU-Accelerated, In-Memory Database Analytics

Kinetica, provider of the fastest, in-memory database accelerated by GPUs, today announced it will host a live webinar with 451 Research about harnessing the power of real-time, streaming data sets with GPUs, distributed in-memory processing, and advanced in-database analytics. The webinar is titled, “How GPU-accelerated modern database technologies are shaping the future of data and analytics,” and will be held on Thursday, March 9th at 10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST. Featured speakers will include Kinetica’s VP of Products, Manan Goel and 451 Research’s Senior Analyst, Data Platforms and Analytics, James Curtis. To register, please visit https://www.kinetica.com/events/gpus-shaping-future-of-data/ Fast, accurate, and actionable information is the lifeblood of business. Enterprises need to quickly turn raw data into actionable information and make it available to the right people at the right time for business success. Despite data’s promise, most enterprises struggle to harness the value due to performance, cost, and resource challenges. Newer solutions such as GPUs, distributed in-memory processing, and advanced in-database analytics have emerged to help enterprises capture, […]

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Kinetica Unveils Accelerator Solutions for Installing and Deploying Applications on its GPU Database

Combined software and services offering jump-starts the scale, cost savings and simplicity of real-time analysis on streaming data Kinetica, provider of the fastest, in-memory database accelerated by GPUs, today announced the immediate availability of Install Accelerator and Application Accelerator programs, two new software and services offerings designed to help customers quickly ingest, explore and visualize streaming data sets, including for Internet of Things (IoT) use cases, by leveraging the power of GPUs. “GPUs process many computations much more efficiently and quickly than CPUs, making it ideal technology to handle streaming data sets, especially when location and time dimensions matter,” said Mike Perez, vice president of services, Kinetica. “The combination of GPU-accelerated analytics and integrated visualization, featuring full geospatial object type support, makes Kinetica the ideal solution for real-time data analysis. Our new Accelerator programs help customers translate business requirements into best practices for integrating Kinetica into their environment, designing solutions and implementing new use cases on Kinetica.” The goal of the Kinetica Install Accelerator is to install, configure […]

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Air Force’s Digital Directorate Awards Kinetica a Contract with $100M Ceiling to Provide a Streaming Data Warehouse to Fuse and Enrich Sensor Data in Real Time

Kinetica, the streaming data warehouse that combines historical and streaming data analysis with powerful location intelligence and AI, announced a five-year contract with the Air Force to deliver a streaming data warehouse for the NORAD and USNORTHCOM Pathfinder program that will tie independent systems together across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains, creating a fused operational picture. This contract transitions and expands on capabilities demonstrated during a one-year prototyping effort with NORAD and USNORTHCOM and DIU, the Department of Defense organization that exclusively works with commercial companies to solve national security challenges. The Kinetica Streaming Data Warehouse ingests, analyzes, and visualizes massive data sets with trillions of rows in order to model possible outcomes and assess risk. By broadening and deepening data analysis capabilities, The Kinetica Streaming Data Warehouse enhances situational awareness–key to anticipating an adversary. “One leap forward to improve all domain awareness, information dominance and decision superiority, in coordination with the Defense Innovation Unit, is the NORAD and U.S. NORTHCOM Pathfinder program. We […]

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Kinetica’s Newest Release of the Fastest GPU-Accelerated Database Turbo Charges Geospatial Processing and Visualizations for Real-time Analytics

Kinetica today announced at Tableau Conference 2017 the availability of innovations to the industry’s fastest GPU-accelerated database that deliver new geospatial capabilities and enterprise-grade features for better performance and user experience, as well as improved efficiency and utilization to drive real-time, location-based analytics and analytic processing. “Kinetica’s GPU-accelerated database delivers at least 100x faster performance at 1/10th the hardware,” said Amit Vij, CEO and co-founder, Kinetica. “Those gains propel rapid innovation in data and analytics, AI, and visualizations for compute-intensive, real-time applications such as location-based analytics, customer experience, risk and fraud, supply chain and IoT.” “Enterprises have spent the last decade deploying systems to store and manage massive data sets,” said 451 Research’s Senior Analyst, Data Platforms and Analytics, James Curtis. “Now these enterprises are looking to extract business value from those data sets at real-time speeds and at an affordable price point, which is precisely where Kinetica’s latest GPU database release takes aim.” RS Energy Group (RSEG), the leading provider of energy intelligence and investment research, provides […]

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Barghest Building Performance (BBP) Selects Kinetica Active Analytics Powered by NVIDIA GPUs to Harness the Power of Building Sensor Data

Barghest Building Performance (BBP), a Singapore-based energy efficiency technology provider, announced it has selected the Kinetica Active Analytics Platform and Kinetica Cloud to accelerate the data analytics behind its building energy optimization offerings. Kinetica will produce visuals of streaming and historical datasets once considered too large and cumbersome to process in real-time. Accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs, Kinetica Active Analytics will provide dynamic insights in the moment, allowing BBP team members and customers to make data-based decisions regarding energy usage, maintenance, and comfort. “BBP is building one of the strongest IoT product portfolios in Singapore, offering customers a full range of systems and digital solutions that make buildings smarter and more efficient,” said Stuart Fisher, President, APJ at Kinetica. “Kinetica is excited to be working with BBP to build smart analytical applications that transform the environments where people live and work.” BBP provides energy optimization to companies in the hospitality, industrial, office, and retail sectors in South East Asia, India, and China, and is committed to delivering innovative technology […]

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Caesars Entertainment to Speak about Performing Super-Charged Tableau Queries with Kinetica’s GPU-Accelerated Database at Tableau Conference

Kinetica, provider of the world’s fastest GPU-accelerated analytics database, today announced that Caesars Entertainment Corporation will present a session at Tableau Conference 2017 about how it harnessed the power of GPU-accelerated computing to enable 24x faster on load and 3.5x faster on query reporting on Tableau with Kinetica’s in-memory, GPU-enabled database. Additionally, Kinetica will present at Bay Area GPU-Accelerated Computing Meetup in October. Details of upcoming presentations include: Tableau Conference 2017 This is where people gather to learn, collaborate and network, building a lasting community with the power to make a difference. Attendees will feel inspired from the first moment, and build momentum as they discover new tools, techniques and curiosity. When: Tuesday, October 10 at 3:30 pm Where: Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV What: SVP, Chief Analytics Officer Gene Lee of Caesars Entertainment Corporation will present a session titled, “Playing to Win – Turbocharged Tableau with a GPU Database.” Tableau query performance shifts into an entirely new gear when taking advantage of the massively parallel […]

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Kinetica to Speak at Upcoming GPU Technology Conference and SC16

Kinetica, provider of the fastest, in-memory database accelerated by GPUs, today announced its executives will speak about accelerated analytics, simplifying streaming analytics and GPU databases at leading industry events at GPU Technology Conference and SC16. Details about Kinetica’s participation include: GPU Technology Conference Presented by NVIDIA, the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is the world’s most important event series for GPU developers. Experience two days of hands-on AI training, industry insights, and direct access to NVIDIA experts-all in one place. When Wednesday, October 26 at 3:00 PM ET Where The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Rotunda Theater What Geoff Lunsford, senior director, sales at Kinetica will participate with NVIDIA’s Jim McHugh, vice president and general manager, titled DCS16161 “Thor’s Hammer.” In this session, big data and analytics will be discussed, specifically how AI and Deep Learning are unleashing new business models and transforming everyday experiences and services including fraud detection, product recommendations, insurance pricing, athletic performance, and weather prediction to more advanced capabilities in agriculture, medicine, and […]

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Kinetica Releases Confluent Certified Connector for Apache Kafka

Kinetica, provider of the fastest, in-memory analytics database accelerated by GPUs, today announced it joined the Confluent Partner Program and completed development and certification of its Apache Kafka™ Connector. The connector is available for immediate delivery. Kinetica’s Kafka Connector lets customers read and write data directly between Kafka and Kinetica, allowing organizations to ingest real-time data streams from Apache Kafka and provide a means for analysis and immediate action on incoming data. “Confluent lets companies easily access data as real-time streams with enterprise-grade capabilities and make it available throughout the organization,” said Chris Prendergast, VP of business development and alliances at Kinetica. “With the Certified Kinetica Connector, applications can more easily leverage Kinetica’s GPU-accelerated database with Kafka for streaming data, allowing organizations to drive more business value from data in motion and at rest.” The Kinetica Connector can be deployed into any Confluent cluster from the Control Center GUI or command line using the Kafka Connect RESTful API. The Kafka Connect API ensures fault tolerant integration between the […]

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COVID-19 Real-Time Crisis Management Platform Coordinates Data-Driven Emergency Response

Kinetica and Disaster Tech announced the release of the COVID-19 Real-time Crisis Management Platform to aggregate and track data relevant to COVID-19 emergency response today. The platform is able to combine current data, such as hospital capacity and diversion status, locations of alternative medical sites, state-wide declarations, testing kit quantities, and protective equipment availability at a local level, for example. The platform functionality is the direct result of a survey of emergency managers and emergency responders across disciplines, and blends data from 30 different government, public health, and private sector sources. “Emergency responders do not have days or hours to mine through hundreds of data sources in a crisis,” said Roger Coleman, President & Chief Strategy Officer at Disaster Tech. “They need real-time data in one place to make important decisions quickly, whether identifying sites for triage centers or determining how many test kits to send out.” Disaster Tech is a public benefit corporation that builds technology to analyze, visualize, and communicate risk, on a mission to accelerate […]

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Kinetica Named a Top Five Vendor to Watch in Second Annual Datanami Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Kinetica, provider of the world’s fastest GPU-accelerated relational database, has been recognized in the second annual Datanami Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented during the Strata Data Conference. Kinetica was awarded Editors’ Choice: Top 5 Vendors to Watch. The list of winners was revealed on the Datanami website, located at www.datanami.com. “The rising use of GPUs in the datacenter is one of the latest technology trends opening new possibilities for machine learning, deep learning, data visualization, or simply performing faster database queries to accelerate business intelligence,” said Amit Vij, CEO and co-founder, Kinetica. “We are honored that Datanami editors recognized Kinetica as a Vendor to Watch for providing real-time decision support and full enterprise visibility with our enterprise-grade GPU-accelerated database.” The Datanami Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are determined through a nomination and voting process with input from the global Big Data community, as well as selections from the Datanami editors, to highlight key trends, shine a spotlight on technological breakthroughs, and capture a critical cross section of the state of the […]

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Earth Challenge 2020 Releases Native Insect and Food Security Citizen Science Applications Built on Kinetica in Support of National Insect Week

Marking National Insect Week, Earth Challenge 2020, a global citizen science partnership between the Earth Day Network, the Wilson Center, and the US State Department, announced two new applications supported by Kinetica, intended to address food security and insect populations. “One part of building capacity for citizen science is supporting research through new technology, while the second part is facilitating action,” said Dr. Anne Bowser, Director of Innovation at the Wilson Center. “Our intention is that the Wilson Center, State Department, and Earth Day Network’s Earth Challenge 2020 tools will ultimately be used by the global research and policy communities to understand and help solve challenges in any research domain.” To begin to explore research areas like the threat of monocultures to global food production, Earth Challenge 2020’s citizen scientists will use the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis’ (IIASA) Picture Pile app to label pictures of different crops. These labeled images will add value to global data sets collected by the European Space Agency by […]

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Earth Day Network Launches Global Citizen Science Effort Enabled by Kinetica

On today’s 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Kinetica announced their participation in Earth Challenge 2020, an initiative to empower millions of citizen scientists to take direct action locally and contribute to significant scientific data globally, whether that’s identifying plastic pollutants, documenting fluctuations in air quality, or coming together as a community to collect environmental data that can ultimately effect global change in myriad ways. Earth Challenge 2020 will roll out six different data science programs over the course of 2020, and is slated to become the world’s largest coordinated citizen science campaign. The Kinetica Active Analytics Platform undergirds all six environmental research initiatives to equip people globally to collect data on plastic pollution, air quality, food security, insect populations, water quality, and climate change. The resulting database of over one billion data points will be publicly available as open data for researchers to use. The first two initiatives focus on air quality and plastic pollution, the latter using citizen beach clean up data to identify plastic pollution by […]

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Kinetica Recognized by ESG with Delta-V Award for Accelerating Industry Innovation with GPU-enabled Database

Kinetica, provider of the fastest, in-memory database accelerated by GPUs, today announced its recognition by ESG in its Delta-V Awards as one of the top twenty companies that accelerated innovation in big data and analytics in 2016. “Kinetica is honored to be recognized by ESG as a significant industry contributor in big data and analytics,” said Amit Vij, CEO and co-founder, Kinetica. “Kinetica leverages the power of GPUs for unprecedented performance to ingest, explore and visualize streaming data, particularly for use cases where time and location matter. ESG’s recognition is further validation of our proven enterprise scale.” According to ESG’s Senior Analyst Nik Rouda, “A database built from the ground up using GPUs to address the proliferation of large, complex and streaming data is just what Kinetica has delivered. Speed and scale are the name of the game, but often database benchmark promises look good on paper and then are nowhere to be seen in the real world. Kinetica is a database that delivers real time for real.” […]

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Kinetica to Showcase GPU-Accelerated Analytics Database; Reveal Insights on How to Harness Streaming and Real-Time Data at Spring Shows

Kinetica today announced it will showcase the latest advances in its GPU-accelerated analytics database and discuss how to leverage streams and fast data for real-time insights at industry conferences, roadshows and meetups during April and May, including AI and Deep Learning for Financial Services, GPU Technology Conference, Kafka Summit, Nimbix Developer Summit, SQL NYC, and a series of Kinetica/IBM Executive Breakfasts. Join Kinetica at these industry events: AI and Deep Learning for Financial Services Kinetica joins partners Microsoft, NVIDIA and Numerix to share how GPUs are being used for deep learning in financial services. From algorithmic investing and hedge fund research, to risk management and predictive markets, GPUs are democratizing AI and making advanced analytics more accessible to line-of-business users. This session will cover the capabilities of Microsoft Azure and how Kinetica makes it possible to run AI and BI workloads on a single platform. When: April 20, 2017 Where: Microsoft Office, 11 Times Square, New York, NY. Register here. What: At 3:00-5:00 PM, Kinetica Principal Systems […]

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Fuzzy Logix and Kinetica to Provide Enhanced GPU-Accelerated In-Database Analytics

NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference – Fuzzy Logix, Inc., provider of high performance, in-database analytics, and Kinetica, provider of the fastest GPU-accelerated database, today announced a partnership to offer a joint solution that will allow customers of both companies to leverage high performing advanced analytics with acceleration of 100-500x on 1/10th the hardware over CPU-only based solutions. The joint solution will initially be targeted at the most time-sensitive and compute-heavy applications in financial services, retail, and healthcare, where speed and scale are critical for real-time data insights and competitive advantage. By combining technologies, Kinetica’s in-database analytics capabilities will be extended by hundreds of additional GPU-accelerated and highly-parallelized, machine learning and predictive analytics algorithms from Fuzzy Logix. At the same time, those analytic functions will now also be able to take full advantage of Kinetica’s distributed GPU pipeline via its User Defined Functions (UDFs). “Leveraging GPUs for analytical workloads is on the rise, particularly among financial services, life sciences and retail organizations that often deal in extremely large data volumes […]

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Generative AI Solution for Real-Time Inferencing Powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise

Kinetica, the leader in real-time GPU-accelerated analytics, today announced at NVIDIA GTC a generative AI solution for enterprise customers that showcases the next step in the evolution of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Generative AI applications utilize RAG to access and integrate up-to-date information from external knowledge bases, ensuring responses go beyond a large language model’s (LLM) original training data. However, the prevalent methods of enriching context (through vector similarity searches) are inadequate for quantitative data, as they are designed primarily to understand textual content. Moreover, most (if not all) solutions face a significant amount of lag due to reindexing requirements before new data is available for a similarity search. As a result, these solutions cannot effectively support use cases that need to interface with real-time operational data. Kinetica’s solution — powered by the NVIDIA NeMo, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, and NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure — addresses all of these concerns. It is founded on two critical components: low-latency vector search (leveraging NVIDIA RAPIDS RAFT technology) […]

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Kinetica Brings GPU Acceleration with SQL to Tableau

Kinetica, provider of the fastest GPU-accelerated database, today announced the availability of native integration with Tableau allowing users to simultaneously ingest, explore, analyze, and visualize data within milliseconds to make critical decisions and find efficiencies, lower cost, generate new revenue, and improve customer experience. “We are excited for Kinetica to join our partner program,” said Todd Talkington, Director Tech Partners at Tableau. “GPUs are designed around thousands of small, efficient cores that are well suited to performing repeated similar instructions in parallel. This makes them well-suited for compute-intensive analytics workloads on large data sets.” “Tableau users will experience productivity improvements and deeper, advanced analytics on more sophisticated workloads as they incorporate an in-memory analytics database leveraging GPU-acceleration for lightning fast query performance,” said Chris Prendergast, VP of Business Development and Alliances, Kinetica. “Together, Tableau and Kinetica democratize data science by making advanced algorithms available to business users.” Tableau combined with Kinetica helps businesses: Bring AI and BI Together. Kinetica’s open architecture features a User-Defined Functions (UDFs) framework to […]

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Independent Research Finds Traditional Analytical Platforms Struggle to Quickly Deliver Data Insight

Forrester studied 105 data analytics decision-makers across the US, and the challenges they face with increasingly complex and massive data sets, and solutions they are exploring.