Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

Cohesity offers a cloud data management platform for securing and managing enterprise data. The platform eliminates data silos, providing users access to data stored in data centers, edge sites, and public cloud environments. It also incorporates zero-trust features, such as encryption and role-based access control, along with ML- and AI-powered threat detection and recommendations to protect data. The platform also provides backup and recovery for traditional and modern data sources and ensures business continuity with automated failover and failback orchestration for mission-critical workloads.Cohesity offers its platform as a managed service—either through Cohesity directly or via one of its partners—or as a self-managed platform on private or public cloud platforms. The platform caters to enterprises in multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, retail, utilities, and media. The company operates through a usage-based SaaS model.In February 2024, Cohesity <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26517">announced</a> plans to acquire the data protection arm of Veritas, which specializes in multi-cloud and on-premises data security, for USD 3 billion. The deal was expected to close by the end of 2024, subject to regulatory approval. The merged companies will reportedly operate as a single entity under the Cohesity name, with the combined company expected to exceed USD 7 billion in value, with USD 1.6 billion in revenues, including USD 1.3 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and a 27% profit margin.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, Cohesity served over 4,300 customers, including five of the Fortune 10 companies and seven of the top 20 US banks. Its notable customers include Nasdaq, AutoNation, California Department of Finance, Nationwide, Siemens, and Cisco.Cohesity has formed multiple partnerships with other technology companies to enhance its platform and offer new solutions. It teamed up with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/74939">Infosys</a> to provide a data-resiliency-as-a-service solution as part of Infosys Cobalt and with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/341503">Hewlett Packard Enterprises</a> to improve the security and management of enterprise data.

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 Alation is incorporated in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search &amp; discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation.
 
 
 Alation&rsquo;s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces,
 
 
 Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management.
 
 
 Alation was established on December 12, 2012 by Aaron Kalb, Satyen Sangani, Venky Ganti, and Feng Niu in Redwood City, California.
 
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DataRobot specializes in AI and machine learning, with a focus on automating various AI and data science tasks. The company's primary offering includes an AI platform designed to enhance business processes and decision-making. DataRobot has reportedly developed over 3.74 billion AI models as at November 2023 with product development involving 3.8 million person-hours of engineering work​​.The company's products are centered around automated machine learning and predictive data analytics. DataRobot holds numerous patents in predictive data analytics; strategic acquisitions such as Zepl and Algorithmia have expanded its capabilities​​​​.DataRobot made several acquisitions to expand its business, including Boston Consulting Group’s SOURCE AI technology (June 2020); Zepl, a cloud data science and analytics platform (May 2021); and Algorithmia, an MLOps platform designed for complex, high-volume model production (July 2021).&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsDataRobot's customer base spans multiple industries, including consulting, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications, among others. As of November 2023, the company claimed to serve significant portions of prominent industry groups, including 40% of the Fortune 50 and leading institutions in banking, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications, such as Freddie Mac, CVS, Valley Bank, and Flexiti.DataRobot's partnerships include collaborations with cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, to expand its platform’s AI capabilities and market reach. In addition, the company recently expanded its partnership with SBI Holdings in May 2023​​​​​​. Other technology partners and integrations as of November 2023 include SAP, Intel, Palantir, and Tableau.

SingleStore provides a distributed SQL database for operational applications and analytics systems.&nbsp;The company’s flagship product, SingleStore Helios, is a cloud database-as-a-service that provides elastic scalability and high performance for both transactional and analytical workloads.&nbsp;The platform's capabilities include data ingestion and query processing, catering to a range of data types such as structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. SingleStore's system is designed to support real-time analytics, serving SaaS builders, data leaders, and digital disruptors in optimizing their data analytics processes. The company also offers a version of its platform called&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25938">SingleStore Pro Max</a> that incorporates on-demand compute for GPUs and CPUs, faster data ingestion and egress through updated change data capture (CDC) capabilities.The company also offers features such as SingleStore Kai, an API which offers real-time data warehousing, hybrid search combining vector and full-text capabilities, and a compute service for AI applications and ML workflows, as well as data integration tools with native change data capture (change data capture (CDC)) and extract, transform, and load (extract, transform, and load (ETL)) functionalities.In October 2024, SingleStore&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34396">acquired BryteFlow,</a> a data integration platform, to integrate BryteFlow's capabilities into its core product to create a feature called "SingleConnect." This allows its clients to operationalize and ingest data from their CRM and ERP systems at scale for real-time data insights as well as GenAI use cases.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, SingleStore serves Fortune 500 companies including Comcast, Cisco, Akamai Technologies, Fiverr, Goldman Sachs, Sony, Siemens, and Hulu.SingleStore has partnered with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud and also has technology partnerships with Dell, Red Hat, Intel, HP Enterprise, and Looker as of September 2024.

Empowering Tomorrow's Innovations with Generative AI Infrastructure

Generative AI Infrastructure

Lightmatter is a photonic computing startup that offers a full stack of photonics-enabled hardware and software solutions that claims to simultaneously reduce power consumption and increase performance.&nbsp;&nbsp;The company offers the following three products:Passage: This is a wafer-scale, programmable photonic interconnect device that enables arrays of heterogeneous chips to communicate and share data using photonics. This allows computer chips to share data with high bandwidth and extremely low latency that can be scaled up at low cost. It is claimed that Lightmatter has scaled up to supercomputing scales and provides more than 100x more bandwidth than existing chip-to-chip interconnect solutions.&nbsp;Envise: A general-purpose machine-learning accelerator that combines photonics and transistor-based systems. Envise is offered as a server blade form factor that offers up to 6.4 TB per second optical data interconnect for scaling up, one terabyte of DDR4 DRAM, and three terabytes of solid-state memory.&nbsp;Idiom: A software that allows developers to interface with standard deep-learning frameworks and AI model formats, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, or ONNX, to automate and optimize the deployment of models&nbsp; on Lightmatter hardware. The software features ML libraries, graph compilers, and debugging and profiling tools to fix and optimize model performance.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The uniqueness of Lightmatter’s chips is that they typically use optical flow to solve computational processes like matrix-vector products and use an array of microscopic optical waveguides to let light pass through them to perform logic operations. This form of optimal computing can increase the power of the chip by using more than one color at once while reducing costs by not requiring expensive fiber-to-chip attachments. As a result, the firm claims its solutions are 5x more energy efficient and 200x more bandwidth, which reduces operating costs.Its pilot products are in the beta phase, and Lightmatter plans to begin mass production in 2024.&nbsp;

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 Mythic is a developer of AI processor chips that combine hardware and software capabilities, facilitating faster memory access for Edge AI inferencing.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 Mythic&rsquo;s key products include its Mythic Analog Matrix Processor M1076 AMP and M1108 Processor.
 
 
 Mythic&rsquo;s proprietary Mythic Analog Matrix Processor M1076 AMP leverages the Mythic Analog Compute Engine (Mythic ACE) to provide GPU-level computational power with significantly lower power consumption. This enables edge devices to efficiently run complex AI applications at higher resolutions and faster frame rates, leading to improved inference results.&nbsp;
 
 
 Its M1108 Processor is designed to deploy Edge AI in a broad spectrum of applications, encompassing smart residences, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), and video monitoring.
 
 
 The company's technology is distinguished by its analog compute-in-memory (CIM) architecture, which stores neural networks entirely on-chip, providing a more compact, power-efficient, and cost-efficient solution compared to traditional digital solutions. This technology allows Mythic to deliver high-performance AI processing, comparable to a desktop GPU, across a range of devices from low-cost drones to immersive AR headsets.
 
 
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 Mythic's products offer solutions across various uses and industries such as smarter cities and spaces, intelligent machines and robots, smart homes, AR/VR and metaverse, and drones and aerospace.&nbsp;
 
 
 Lockheed Martin is one of its largest customers.&nbsp;
 
 
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DataRobot provides an enterprise AI platform that can automate the building, deployment, and monitoring of advanced AI applications. Its unified AI platform offers developers the capability to build, govern, and operate models without extensive coding, accelerating model development and making machine learning more accessible.&nbsp;The platform offers several features, including training models with automatic performance evaluation, enhancing model interpretability and explainability, facilitating comprehension of predictions, deploying models to diverse targets such as cloud services, on-premises servers, and Edge devices, and governance and compliance features, encompassing access controls, audit logs, and version control to ensure alignment of machine-learning projects with organizational policies and regulatory standards. Moreover, the company provides consulting services through its AI professionals and service collaborators to assist clients in devising strategies and executing AI initiatives across various applications.In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35904">November 2024</a>, the company launched an Enterprise AI suite to develop and deliver customizable GenAI applications and agents. DataRobot introduced its real-time intervention functionality for GenAI solutions in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29077">May 2024</a>, to detect and prevent unexpected AI behaviors. The service is available on-premise, in the cloud, and hybrid.In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23738">November 2023</a>, DataRobot introduced various updates, including LLM cost and performance monitoring, a multi-provider comparison playground, GenAI accelerators for faster GenAI deployment tasks, and a unified AI registry to enhance governance and collaboration across generative and predictive AI assets.DataRobot has made several acquisitions to expand its business, including Boston Consulting Group’s SOURCE AI technology (June 2020), Zepl, a cloud data science and analytics platform (May 2021), and Algorithmia, an MLOps platform designed for complex, high-volume model production (July 2021).&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsDataRobot provides services to 40% of the Fortune 50 companies, including Kroger, Nationwide, Lenovo, and PNC.DataRobot has formed several significant partnerships,&nbsp;including a product partnership with Teradata&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31593">(July 2024)</a> to integrate Teradata VantageCloud and ClearScape Analytics with DataRobot's AI platform, strategic partnership with SAP to integrate core SAP software with DataRobot's advanced machine-learning capabilities (March 2023). The firm has also partnered with leading tech firms, including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, to integrate its solutions and expand the use cases of its GenAI solutions.

A new generation of building blocks for emerging tech

Next-gen Semiconductors

Mythic is an AI processor company that has developed innovative analog compute-in-memory technology for edge AI applications. The company's Analog Matrix Processor (AMP) utilizes flash memory to store neural network weights and perform computations directly in memory, eliminating the need for constant data movement between memory and processors. This approach allows Mythic's chips to deliver high performance at very low power consumption, making them suitable for edge devices with strict power and size constraints.
Mythic's flagship product, the M1076 AMP chip, can deliver up to 35 trillion operations per second (TOPS) while consuming only 3-4 watts of power. The company claims this represents a 10x improvement in power efficiency compared to digital solutions. Mythic's technology enables running complex AI models like YOLOv5 for object detection on full HD video at low latency, suitable for applications in computer vision, robotics, drones, augmented reality, and more.
In addition to single-chip solutions, Mythic offers multi-chip configurations on PCIe cards for more demanding applications. Their MP10304 Quad-AMP PCIe card combines four M1076 chips to deliver up to 100 TOPS at 25 watts. Mythic provides a full software stack to optimize and deploy neural network models on their hardware.

Ayar Labs is a Silicon Valley-based company developing optical interconnect solutions for chip-to-chip communications. The company's core technology replaces traditional copper-based electrical interconnects with silicon photonics-based optical I/O, enabling significantly higher bandwidth, lower latency, and reduced power consumption in data transfer between chips. Ayar Labs' flagship products include the TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet and the SuperNova light source. The TeraPHY chiplet integrates alongside host processors to convert electrical signals to optical, allowing data transmission via fiber optics. As of March 2024, Ayar Labs demonstrated a 16 Tbps bi-directional bandwidth solution, capable of driving 256 optical carriers - a level of performance crucial for AI workloads. The company's technology aims to address bandwidth bottlenecks in various applications, including artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, data centers, and telecommunications. Ayar Labs utilizes a chiplet architecture, designed to be packaged with compute tiles from other chipmakers using open standards like Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCI-express). The company's optical I/O technology is manufactured by GlobalFoundries using its GF Fotonix platform.
Key customers and partnerships
Ayar Labs has secured strategic partnerships with several industry leaders. The company is collaborating with NVIDIA to develop next-generation AI infrastructure based on optical I/O technology. This partnership aims to address the increasing bandwidth demands of AI and machine learning workloads. Ayar Labs is also working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to enhance future versions of HPE's Slingshot interconnect switching systems. The collaboration focuses on developing high-performance networking solutions and novel disaggregated system architectures. Additionally, Ayar Labs has partnered with Corning Incorporated to create an optical leadership solution by coupling Ayar Labs' TeraPHY optical I/O chiplets with Corning's glass waveguide module. Ericsson is also involved in this AI-driven solution as part of their technology exploration for future mobile systems. Furthermore, Ayar Labs is working with Teramount to showcase a concept for the next-generation TeraVERSE detachable connector, designed to meet the infrastructure demands of next-generation AI.

Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

SingleStore is a company that provides a distributed SQL database platform for real-time analytics and operational applications.SingleStore’s platform combines the scalability of NoSQL with the querying capabilities of SQL. It enables organizations to ingest, process, and analyze large volumes of data in real-time, making it ideal for applications that require fast and accurate data processing. SingleStore solves the problem of handling massive amounts of data and delivering real-time insights for use cases such as real-time analytics, operational analytics, and high-velocity transactional applications.SingleStore's competitive advantage is its ability to handle analytical and transactional workloads in a single platform. It allows businesses to consolidate their data infrastructure, simplifying management and reducing operational costs.SingleStore operates with a sales model that includes direct sales and partnerships with technology and solution providers. It offers different pricing and licensing options tailored to the needs of its customers, including subscription-based models.Key customers and partnershipsSingleStore serves some of the largest tech and non-tech enterprises across various industries, including Comcast, Cisco, Akamai Technologies, Fiverr, Goldman Sachs, Sony, Siemens, Hulu.SingleStore partners with all major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud) and has technology partnerships with Dell, Red Hat, Intel, HP Enterprise, and Looker.Funding and financialsAs of June 2023, SingleStore’s latest fundraising was in October 2022 from a USD 30 million Series F round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Prosperity7 Ventures. The funds were slated to fuel SingleStore’s growth and various strategic initiatives.

Platform9 is an open-distributed cloud company that offers solutions for managing hybrid clouds, Kubernetes, and more. Platform9 offers several products and solutions, including Managed Kubernetes, Managed OpenStack, and Managed Bare Metal.Managed Kubernetes allows businesses to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure, while Managed OpenStack offers a simplified way to deploy and manage private clouds. Managed Bare Metal enables businesses to run Kubernetes, OpenStack, and other workloads on dedicated hardware with bare-metal performance.Platform9 claims to deliver a seamless Kubernetes experience across any infrastructure. Platform9's SaaS-managed Kubernetes solution offers a single view to manage Kubernetes clusters running on any cloud or on-premises infrastructure, including bare metal servers, vSphere, and public clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure, providing customers with a unified Kubernetes experience. In addition, Platform9 offers automated security patching, on-demand upgrades, self-healing clusters, multi-version support, and audit logging.Platform9 has a subscription-based sales model. It offers its services on a pay-as-you-go basis, with pricing based on the number of managed nodes or instances, with optional add-ons for additional features and support.Key customers and partnershipsPlatform9 targets enterprise customers who run and manage Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies on distributed cloud services, whether on-premises or in the public cloud. Its customers typically include large organizations with complex IT environments, such as financial services, healthcare, technology, and retail companies.As of mid-2022, Platform9 catered to more than 60 enterprise clients and powered 40,000 nodes across private, public, and edge clouds.Platform9 has partnerships with various cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Additionally, in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32723">August 2024</a>, Platform9 partnered with Fairwinds, a managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider, to tackle issues related to Kubernetes over-provisioning and cost management costs in public cloud deployments.

Artificial intelligence is identifying and testing new therapies faster than ever.

AI Drug Discovery

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 Flywheel operates a cloud-based medical research data management and collaboration platform which captures and curates clinical data from multiple sources such as imaging, electronic health records (EHRs), digital pathology and omics, to enable further processing and accelerate the drug discovery and development process. Flywheel's cloud platform automates tasks such as handling data and allows scientists to focus on new discoveries. It also offers tools for analyzing and visualizing data and can work with other AI and machine-learning platforms.
 
 
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 The company&rsquo;s services are targeted at companies in life sciences, clinical research, imaging research, and AI health development markets. Research institutions such as Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Boston Children&rsquo;s Hospital, and Swiss pharma giant Roche and its member company Genentech (
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 The company raised USD 54 million In a Series D funding round in June 2023 led by Novalis LifeSciences and NVentures. The proceeds were earmarked to expand its reach into new markets and geographies, especially Europe. 
 
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Now anyone can become a software developer.

No-code Software

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 Unqork offers a patented cloud-based application platform that allows enterprises to build complex software applications in a visual environment without coding. The company specializes in financial services and insurance industries in an end-to-end digitalization and fulfillment platform. It aims to eliminate paper processing bottlenecks (such as policy issuance, servicing, and account opening).&nbsp;
 
 
 Unqork allows corporations to create forms for products such as insurance policies, annuities, retirement, bank accounts, asset management accounts, mortgages, and loans. The platform is capable of data collection through forms and analysis/processing based on user-defined rules. Unqork also uses technologies like machine learning and optical character recognition to extract handwritten and typed data. It also manages the infrastructure, security, scalability, hosting, and maintenance of user applications.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company has a global operational presence with offices in New York and London. It expanded its presence in Japan in February 2022 by adding to its sales and marketing teams to focus on growth in the region.
 
 
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 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Unqork has also entered into solution partnerships with leading consultancy firms such as KPMG, EY, Deloitte, and CAPCO to jointly offer solutions.&nbsp; It also announced the availability of its platform on the AWS Marketplace in January 2022, enabling it to tap into a large network of over 310,000 global customers. It also expanded to Azure marketplace in March 2023, and Google marketplace in August 2023.
 
 
 Unqork partnered with Avo Automation, an intelligent no-code process discovery and test automation solutions provider, in 
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 , to accelerate the software delivery and growth for both companies. In March 2023, the company partnered with Rhino.ai, an AI-driven software migration platform,&nbsp; to launch a new software migration solution. Users can automatically extract workflows, schemas, data, and APIs, from legacy environments and platforms and migrate them onto Unqork&rsquo;s platform.
 
 
 The company went on to collaborate with Quantiphi, a digital engineering company, in August 2023, to launch an AI-powered underwriting platform (AiUP). The solution would combine technology from Dociphi, Quantiphi's intelligent document processing platform, Unqork&rsquo;s no-code platform, and Google Cloud's services and infrastructure to enable users to digitize and automate the insurance underwriting process.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company has a global customer base ranging from companies in the US to the Asia-Pacific region as well as Europe. This includes large global enterprises like&nbsp; John Hancock, Goldman Sachs, CareerWise, SMBC, and Liberty Mutual.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 
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Generating, collecting, and analyzing enterprise data will never be the same.

Edge Computing

Mythic specializes in developing innovative AI processors that leverage analog computing to enhance performance and efficiency.Mythic offers a unified hardware and software processor chip which enables edge artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing, by allowing AI systems to sift through their memory faster. The company launched its “Mythic Analog Matrix Processor” (Mythic AMP) in November 2020. The AMP looks to reduce the cost and complexity of deploying AI solutions, by enabling devices to analyze data and make decisions in real time without using data centers or the cloud. Accordingly, the chips can be used in a range of applications, including smart homes, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), drones, video surveillance, smart city, and factory automation.Mythic has developed the “M1076” AMP chip, which can deliver up to 25 TOPS of AI compute, and can also scale from the edge to server applications for multiple industries including smart cities, industrial applications, enterprise applications, and consumer devices.Furthermore, as per the company, the chips can deliver the AI compute performance of a desktop graphics processing unit (GPU), by consuming only a tenth of the power. It attributes this efficiency to its chips relying on analog currents and flash memory to perform their inference calculations.Its next product is the next-generation M2000 series product, which builds on the M1076 Analog Matrix Processor. The M2000 series is aimed at bringing even more efficiency and performance to edge AI applications in various fields such as defense, enterprises, industrial environments, smart cities, smart homes, and beyond.As a processor which is built for AI inferencing, it faces competition from a range of technologies including, system on chips (SoCs), tensor processing units (TPUs), GPUs, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).Funding and financialsIn February 2023, Mythic<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16992"> raised USD 13 million</a> in new funding from Atreides Management, DCVC, Lux Capital, Catapult Ventures, and Hermann Hauser to bring its M2000 series chip to market. During the same period, Mythic also appointed its co-founder and previous CTO, Dave Fick, as the new CEO.

New technology allows individuals and organizations to become carbon intelligent

Carbon Management Software

Greenly is a French carbon management startup particularly focused on SME customers. The company provides automated carbon accounting, AI-powered analytics, and a recommendation engine to reduce CO2 emissions. Greenly’s API uses businesses’ reporting process to get more granular data, which is then used to generate a carbon report according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol standards. In October 2023, Greenly launched its <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22998">Climate Rating System</a> that assesses company performance in areas such as greenhouse gas emissions, climate strategy, and environmental initiatives to generate a Climate Score.Key customers and partnershipsThe company has integrated its mobile application for tracking carbon footprint in banking transactions into banks such as BNP Paribas, Tink, and Pixipay. In March 2023, Greenly partnered with <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230321006017/en/MetricStream-Partners-with-Greenly-to-Enable-Customers-to-Accelerate-ESG-and-Sustainability-Program">MetricStream</a> to include carbon accounting in the latter’s ESG disclosure reports. In October 2023, the company joined with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22818">Carbonfuture</a> to provide durable carbon removal credits to its customers. On the heels of this partnership, Greenly became a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23043">Xero App Partner</a> to integrate carbon accounting for Xero subscribers. As of February 2024, Greenly products were used by over 1500 companies, and the company had tracked more than 28 million tons of CO2 emissions.&nbsp;

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

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 Dragos offers cybersecurity solutions for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Operational Technology (OT) which allows enterprises to obtain full visibility of their ICS/OT assets, analyze network traffic data, and several other factors to identify malicious behavior across the ICS/OT network. Dragos had a headcount of 362 and operates in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East, as of October 2021. The company intends to increase its sales through the channel from 20% to 50% within two years, by partnering with global players including PwC, Atos, Deloitte, and Optiv.
 
 
 Dragos recorded over 100% YoY growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR) for the period ending September 2021 and intends to go public in the long term. The company also saw around 124 electric utility companies partnering with it following the 100-day plan announced by the Biden Administration in April 2021, which is aimed at protecting the US power grid.
 
 
 In June 2021, Dragos partnered with Garland Technology, a network monitoring company providing test access points (TAP) and packet broker solutions to obtain visibility into enterprise networks, including critical infrastructure applications. Output from Garland Technology&rsquo;s TAP and other network visibility solutions will be fed into Dragos&rsquo; ICS/OT cybersecurity platform amplifying its visibility and detection capabilities.
 
 
 In October 2021, the company raised USD 200 million in a Series D funding round co-led by Koch Disruptive Technologies and BlackRock, at a valuation of USD 1.7 billion. The company expects to use the funds to fuel global expansion; penetrate new markets such as electric, oil and gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, water, and manufacturing; train employees; support events, education, and networking opportunities; and expand its Neighborhood Keeper program, in collaboration with the US Department of Energy.
 
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Threat Prevention Toolchain

Synack is a cybersecurity company that provides on-demand security testing through its premier platform. The company's core offering combines software with a global community of vetted security researchers, known as the Synack Red Team, to deliver continuous penetration testing and vulnerability management services. Synack's platform enables organizations to launch tests rapidly, often within days, to identify and address critical vulnerabilities before adversaries can exploit them. The company's approach goes beyond traditional bug bounty programs by offering controlled, on-demand access to its community of ethical hackers.
Synack's platform incorporates various features to enhance security testing. It includes asset discovery to maintain current inventories of web, host, and FQDN assets. The platform provides actionable insights on testing status, vulnerabilities, and other security risks. It combines automated and human-led vulnerability discovery with both point-in-time and continuous penetration testing options. Additionally, Synack offers remediation guidance and patch verification to aid in vulnerability mitigation. The platform generates real-time and customizable reports tailored for security teams, CISOs, and auditors.
In January 2022, Synack implemented VMware Horizon on Google Cloud VMware Engine to enhance its LaunchPoint platform, which is used for penetration testing projects. This implementation allowed Synack to maintain stricter control over its researchers' activities and provide clients with increased confidence in policy enforcement. The use of VMware technologies, including vCenter, vSAN, and NSX, has improved Synack's ability to manage virtual environments, scale operations, and ensure network security and isolation between client engagements.
Key customers and partnerships
Synack's client base includes global banks, federal agencies, and Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. As of June 2022, the company reported protecting more than USD 6 trillion in Fortune 500 and Global 2000 revenue. Synack has also worked with the US Department of Defense, securing classified assets.
In January 2022, Synack partnered with Google Cloud, leveraging Google Cloud VMware Engine to enhance its security testing platform. This collaboration allowed Synack to improve its network segmentation capabilities and adopt Google's high-security model and best practices.

Foundation Models

Aleph Alpha is a German technology company known for its collection of autoregressive (causal, decoder-only) transformer large language models (LLMs) under the Luminous series. The Luminous series includes three primary models:1.Luminous-Base, the smallest model in the Luminous family with 13 billion parameters (15 billion with multimodality) prioritizes tasks such as classification and labeling, and supports multimodal input capabilities to handle prompts consisting of a combination of images and text.2.Luminous-Extended, with 30 billion parameters (42 billion with multi-modality), excels in tasks such as information extraction and language simplification. It also supports multimodal input capabilities (images and text).3.Luminous-Supreme, with 70 billion parameters, excels in all natural language tasks and is particularly well-suited for creative text generation and tasks requiring deep text understanding.The Luminous models have been trained on a dataset that includes web crawls, books, political and legal sources, Wikipedia, news articles, and other specialized datasets. It was also trained on five of the most commonly spoken European languages: English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.Aleph Alpha provides access to these models through its API and playground and offers options for on-premise installations or AI-as-a-service. It prioritizes ethical use and transparency and offers explainability features for understanding model outputs. Additionally, Aleph Alpha claims to emphasize environmental responsibility by powering its data center with 100% renewable energy.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32936">In August 2024,</a> the company launched Pharia-1-LLM-7 billion-control and Pharia-1-LLM-7 billion-control-aligned, LLMs to provide concise, length-controlled responses in European languages.Key customers and partnershipsAs of August 2023, the platform served 10,000 customers across both business and government.In June 2022, the company partnered with Graphcore, which specializes in AI hardware and software, to jointly advance the research, development, and deployment of advanced multimodal AI models by leveraging Graphcore's hardware acceleration and Aleph Alpha's Luminous AI model for various applications across industries. In August 2023, Aleph Alpha partnered with Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (Ipai), an initiative focused on strengthening Germany's position in AI, to enhance AI development, promote ethical AI research and application, and establish a platform for applied AI in Europe to strengthen digital sovereignty and competitiveness.

In this new era where C02 emissions management has gone mainstream, Greenly allows companies to become frontrunners of the energy transition, building in-house capacity to track and reduce their emissions, more precisely and more simply. In stark contrast to one-shot consulting services, Greenly offers the first comprehensive carbon accounting & management platform, allowing companies to track and reduce their GHG emissions and set a course for Net Zero.  Greenly combines technology and expertise to deliver simple and reliable GHG protocol compliant carbon disclosure reports, Net Zero strategies in line with SBTi. We help procurement departments implement sustainable purchasing policies, score and engage their suppliers on their Net Zero strategy, and decarbonize their supply chain.  Greenly's unique product offering is to offer an industry-specific approach to tracking emissions, rolling-out activity based tracking apps for key verticals: freight, electricity, cloud, inventory management, financed emissions, etc... Learn more on www.greenly.earth

Aleph Alpha transforms human-machine interactions. The company researches, develops, and operationalizes AI-based technology for the public and private sectors. Its generative AI solutions enable enterprises and governmental organizations to build intelligent products.

Flywheel is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher's workflow.  They empower research momentum by focusing on data and medical image capture, content management, scientific computation, and collaboration.  With reproducible research in mind, they combine open-source methods from top universities, a modern web user interface, and an extensible compute engine based on containerization technology. The result is a software platform to accelerate discovery and help researchers do science, not IT. Flywheel accelerates new scientific discoveries in life-science, biotech, and academic imaging research through cloud-scale collaboration. As a result, imaging researchers are able to avoid innovation bottlenecks, and accelerate discovery by doing more science, and less IT.

Lightmatter uses light to create photonic compute chips specialized for AI. Untethered from the limits of Moore’s Law and Dennard Scaling, they’ve rewritten the rules of processor performance scaling by combining electronics, photonics, and new algorithms to create a next-generation computing platform purpose-built for artificial intelligence. Lightmatter is building the engines that will power discoveries, drive progress, and reduce our impact on the planet.

WEKA is the AI-native data platform company that is setting the standard for AI infrastructure with the industry’s only cloud and hardware-agnostic software solution for performance-intensive applications. The WEKA® Data Platform delivers unprecedented performance at scale, transforming stagnant data silos into dynamic data pipelines that help enterprise AI, ML, and GPU workloads run faster and more efficiently and providing seamless data access on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, and in hybrid and multicloud environments. WEKA helps hundreds of the world’s leading enterprises and preeminent research organizations overcome complex data challenges to reach discoveries, insights, and outcomes faster – including 11 of the Fortune 50.

Alation is incorporated in enterprise data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, and digital transformation.  Alation’s initial offering dominates the data catalog market. Thanks to its powerful Behavioral Analysis Engine, inbuilt collaboration capabilities, and open interfaces, Alation combines machine learning with human insight to successfully tackle even the most demanding challenges in data and metadata management. Alation was established on December 12, 2012 by Aaron Kalb, Satyen Sangani, Venky Ganti, and Feng Niu in Redwood City, California.

SingleStore is a provider of a database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications. It provides global enterprises with an intelligent database that works on any cloud on-premises or as a service runs transactions and analytics at the same time and lets clients promote their business through analytics and combine semi-structured data into a consolidated big data platform.

Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects. The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnect bandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities. The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade.

Dragos is an industrial cybersecurity company on a mission to safeguard civilization by protecting the world’s critical infrastructure.

VFunction develops an innovative product for businesses to modernize applications and accelerate transformation of existing Java applications to cloud-native architecture. The product enables companies to easily and effectively stay ahead of the curve. The company's team brings unique expertise to change clients’ ability to modernize core business applications.

Mythic is a diverse group of individuals focused on developing cutting-edge analog matrix processors based on our unique analog compute-in-memory. Their products are the M1076 Analog Matrix Processor, MP10304 Quad-AMP PCIe Card, and MM1076 M.2 M Key Card. They offer AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device.

DataRobot delivers AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises. DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform democratizes data science with end-to-end automation for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models.

Unqork is a no-code enterprise application platform that helps companies build, deploy, and manage complex applications. Its platform allows users to manage complex applications without writing a single line of code and streamlines the product sales process to improve customer experience that enables large companies to build complex custom software faster with higher quality and lower costs than conventional approaches. It offers solutions for insurance, financial services, and state and local government sectors. The company was founded by Gary Hoberman in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

StackRox helps enterprises secure their containers and Kubernetes environments at scale. StackRox delivers a Kubernetes-native container security platform that enables security and DevOps teams to enforce their security and compliance policies across the entire container life cycle, from build to deploy to runtime. The StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform integrates with existing DevOps and security tools, enabling teams to quickly operationalize container and Kubernetes security. StackRox customers span cloud-native companies, Global 2000 enterprises, and government agencies. StackRox is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Synack is a crowdsourced security platform that protects organizations with unparalleled ethical hacker talent and proprietary scanning technology. Their solutions are application security, bug bounty, cloud security, industries, m and a and due diligence, penetration testing, public sector, vulnerability management, and bridging the talent gap.

Cohesity is a data management technology company that provides hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, file services, and analytics. With the Cohesity Data Cloud, organizations can secure, manage, and recover data at an enterprise scale while gaining insights through AI capabilities.

OpsRamp enables IT to control the chaos of managing their hybrid IT operations and act as a service provider back to the business. Built in the cloud, the OpsRamp service-centric AIOps platform drives total visibility across hybrid infrastructures, offers complete multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring and management of business-critical services, and optimizes services through automation and integration with ITSM and DevOps tools. Now enterprise IT can deliver IT operations as a service and power a digital operations command center that’s built for the challenges of modern, hybrid infrastructure.

Pensando Systems is advancing distributed computing designed for the New Edge, powering software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage, and security services to transform existing architectures into secure, ultra-fast environments demanded by next-generation applications. The platform was developed in collaboration with the largest cloud, enterprise, storage, and telecommunications leaders and is supported by partnerships and investments with HPE, NetApp, Equinix, and multiple Fortune 500 customers.

Fast Forward is an accelerator for social tech nonprofits. Its three-month accelerator provides a philanthropic grant, intros to mentors, a curated curriculum, and a community.

PubNub is a secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy-to-use API that enables our customers to connect, scale, and manage real-time applications and IoT devices. With over 70 SDKs for every platform, 250ms worldwide data transfer times, and scalability for hundreds of millions of devices, PubNub’s unique infrastructure gives the ability to easily connect and operate real-time applications and IoT devices.  PubNub is headquartered in San Francisco.

Agile Stacks provides DevOps automation platform for cloud infrastructure and machine learning. It helps companies to accelerate software delivery and data science with composable, automated stacks.  Agile Stacks is reinventing how enterprises implement multi-cloud infrastructure-as-code. Its cloud-based service makes that job easier. Customers can accelerate software delivery and data science by deploying composable, automated full-function software infrastructure within minutes. The company was founded in 2016 and based in San Mateo, California.

The University of Houston Data Science Institute is a global company that offers data from the edge to the cloud. They host computer clusters, including opuntia, sabine, and carya. They conduct research about scientific computing, robotics, image analysis, and visualization.

The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS) is a new kind of operating system that spans all of the servers in a physical or cloud-based datacenter, and runs on top of any Linux distribution. Mesosphere's DC/OS makes executing and managing applications in a data center just like launching applications on a laptop by running them on Apache Mesos.

Platform9 is a open distributed cloud service, offering the power of the public cloud on infrastructure of customers’ choice, powered by Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.   Platform9 offers a way to go cloud-native. Platform9’s service powers 40K+ nodes across private, public, and edge clouds. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by leading investors. Platform 9 was established in 2013 by Sirish Raghuram in Mountain View, California.

Barefoot Networks is a team of visionaries, experienced technologists and engineers who have created a blueprint for designing and operating the world’s fastest and most programmable networks. Their goal is to make programming your network as simple as programming your CPU.

Linker is an innovative company focused on developing AI state-of-the-art software including AI platform, auto-labeling, and vision AI with real-time inference. Linker's machine learning technology delivers end-to-end AI continuous learning platform from cloud to edge that enables AI managed services for enterprises and mobile operators. Our goal is to together offer world class intelligent cloud and intelligent edge solutions for our customers to enable AI services efficiently. Currently there are ~8 employees in the Taipei office.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance how people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open, and intelligent technology solutions. HPE focuses primarily on enterprise-level solutions, including servers, storage, networking, software, and consulting services. They cater to various industries, offering technologies for data centers, cloud computing, edge computing, and other IT infrastructure needs. HPE has a long history in the technology sector and is known for its contributions to the development of computing and IT systems.

<div> Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is a global edge-to-cloud company that provides information technology products and services to businesses. HPE offers a range of products and services across several segments: <ul> <li> Compute: Servers and mission-critical systems </li> <li> Storage: Data storage and management solutions </li> <li> Intelligent Edge: Networking products and services </li> <li> High Performance Computing &amp; Artificial Intelligence: Supercomputers and AI solutions </li> <li> Financial Services: IT financing and investment solutions </li> <li> Software: Cloud, AI, and data management software </li> </ul> The company was formed in 2015 when Hewlett-Packard split into two separate entities - HP Inc. for personal computers and printers, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for enterprise hardware and services. HPE is headquartered in Spring, Texas and employs approximately 62,000 people worldwide. In fiscal year 2023, HPE reported revenue of USD 29.1 billion, a 2% increase from the previous year. The company has been focusing on expanding its edge-to-cloud portfolio and growing its as-a-service offerings through HPE GreenLake. In January 2024, HPE announced plans to acquire networking company Juniper Networks for approximately USD 14 billion, aiming to enhance its networking capabilities. </div>

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Companies that provide software to enable users to run their applications at the edge.

Companies that produce hardware and infrastructure such as routers and servers that are not embedded on devices.

Companies that provide software that facilitates analytics, cyber security, and IoT at the edge.

Companies that produce embeddable hardware, including microchips, that allow devices to transmit and process data.

Companies that provide software used in data centers to carry out operations effectively.

Companies that offer datacenter infrastructure to facilitate edge computing, including micro data centers deployable to more strategic locations.

Companies that provide platforms and technologies to protect enterprise data and infrastructure in the cloud from internal and external threats.

Companies that provide next-generation solutions for enterprises to protect endpoint devices such as computers, mobile devices, servers, and other connected enterprise devices.

Companies that provide solutions to protect industrial internet of things (IIoT) and operational technology (OT) devices.

Companies that provide AI-based tools to monitor an organization’s entire infrastructure to identify threats, provide tools for incident investigations, and help automate remediation tasks.

Companies that support businesses with AI-based cybersecurity platforms and human resources for 24/7 threat monitoring and response.

Companies that offer solutions for the protection of enterprise APIs and web applications against external threats such as scripting, bots, denial of service attacks, skimming, Personally Identifiable Information (PII) harvesting, etc.

Companies which provide solutions for enterprises to secure their cloud-native applications and workloads, across the entire development lifecycle.

Solutions to unify data from disparate sources by extracting, transforming, loading, and storing data in a usable form (such as in data warehouses) for further analysis.

Tools to monitor data for quality issues in real-time, as it moves throughout the data pipeline.

Providers of storage solutions that help accelerate data analytics. These include primary storage solutions, such as data warehouses and data lakes, and secondary storage solutions for non-mission-critical data.

Solutions that enable businesses to carry out data processing and create ML models on the underlying data for predictive analysis.

Tools for enterprises to visualize data in a graphical form and obtain insights on the same using AI and natural language processing.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for data infrastructure & analytics.

Vendors offering cloud-native infrastructure or provisioning, which is the first layer in the cloud-native landscape. It encompasses tools to create and harden the foundation of cloud-native apps.

Vendors offering execution environment (runtime) solutions. This encompasses everything a container needs to run in a cloud-native environment, including the code used to start a container.

Vendors offering solutions for application definition and development. This layer focuses on the tools that enable engineers to build cloud-native applications

Vendors offering orchestration and management solutions including tools to handle running and connecting cloud-native applications.

Vendors offering observability, including tools to understand a cloud system from its external outputs, measured by CPU time, memory, disk space, latency, errors, etc.

Vendors that bundle different tools from different layers together into a platform, solving a larger problem. These can include an orchestration tool, a container runtime, service discovery, networking, an API gateway, etc.

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 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has unveiled the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685, an innovative system designed for intricate Artificial Intelligence (AI) model training tasks. It is powered by the fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators. The system will be readily available for order and is anticipated to be generally accessible in the first quarter of 2025.
 The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 has been optimised for the deployment of high-performing, secure, and energy-efficient AI clusters. The system supports eight AMD Instinct MI325X or MI300X accelerators and two AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors. It also provides air and direct liquid cooling options. The system utilizes a compact 5U chassis designed with an eight-node-per-rack arrangement to maximize rack density. 
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 HPE has been focused on expanding its product features for the GenAI space. In <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/33402"> September 2024 </a> , the company introduced HPE Private Cloud AI to simplify AI deployment and partnered with NVIDIA in <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/30585"> June 2024 </a> to provide NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE, a portfolio of co-developed AI solutions.

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