Weekly Real-Time Analytics & AI Insights – January 17

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IBM announced IBM Sovereign Core, which is AI-ready, sovereign-enabled software for enterprises, governments, and service providers. The solution is purpose-built software to build, deploy, and manage cloud-native and AI workloads under an organization’s own authority, within chosen jurisdictions, built on Red Hat’s open-source foundation. Unlike approaches that layer sovereignty controls onto existing architectures, Sovereign Core makes sovereignty an inherent property of the software itself. Using it, organizations can gain:

• Customer-operated control plane: organizations maintain direct operational authority over software operations, deployment decisions, and system configurations without intermediation from a vendor not in the region.
• In-boundary identity and keys: all authentication, authorization, encryption keys, and access management remain within jurisdiction boundaries under customer control.
• Ongoing compliance enablement and generated evidence of continuous compliance: comprehensive operational data, system telemetry, and audit trails are generated, stored, and managed within the sovereign boundary, including automated identity.
• Governed AI inference: AI model deployment and hosting, local GPU clusters, local inference execution, and agent operations occur under local governance with traceability and oversight, without exporting data to external providers.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the availability of Apache Geode 2.0, which is a distributed, in-memory data management platform that provides low-latency, scalable, and fault-tolerant data access for high-performance applications. It is widely used to power real-time systems that require consistent data access across clustered and geographically distributed environments.

Key highlights of Geode 2.0 include:

• Major framework upgrades: Spring Framework 6, Spring Security 6, and Spring Shell 3
• Updated integrations: Apache HttpComponents 5, Apache Lucene 9, Eclipse Jetty 12, and Apache Tomcat 10+.
• Modern runtime compatibility: Supports current servlet containers and modern security and HTTP standards.
• Improved management experience: Fully modernized command-line and management tooling
• Significant security enhancements: Fixes numerous critical, high-, and medium-severity vulnerabilities.
• Enterprise readiness: Stronger overall security posture to support continued enterprise deployments.

Real-time analytics news in brief

Cast AI introduced OMNI Compute, a unified compute control plane that automatically discovers available resources across cloud providers and regions and transparently extends existing Kubernetes clusters to consume them. The solution connects external capacity, including GPUs, as native compute, allowing workloads to run on the most appropriate resources, locally or across clouds, without code changes, reconfiguration, or operational changes. It enables organizations to run any workloads, starting with AI inference, without cloud lock-in, while maintaining control over where they execute, to meet compliance and regulatory requirements.

Commvault announced Commvault Cloud Unified Data Vault, a cloud-native service that extends Commvault’s air-gapped protection and resilience capabilities to data written using the S3 protocol. The solution brings S3-based applications and AI data under a unified, policy-driven protection framework for enterprise-grade resilience. By providing a secure, Commvault-managed S3-compatible endpoint, Unified Data Vault allows organizations to apply policy-driven, immutable protection to modern and custom workloads, including emerging AI workloads, without installing agents or building new data management silos.

CyCognito announced MCP Server Exposure Management, a new service that helps organizations discover externally reachable Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, bringing them into asset inventory and exposure management workflows. The solution addresses a growing problem in that many MCP servers are outside traditional visibility and security controls, resulting in external exposure risks that most organizations are not currently aware of. By discovering externally reachable MCP servers, CyCognito brings this emerging class of AI-related infrastructure into the same inventory and workflows used for other externally reachable services.

Google announced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard for agentic commerce that works across the entire shopping journey, from discovery and buying to post-purchase support. UCP establishes a common language for agents and systems to operate together across consumer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers. So instead of requiring unique connections for every individual agent, UCP enables all agents to interact easily. UCP is built to work across verticals and is compatible with existing industry protocols like Agent2Agent (A2A), Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), and Model Context Protocol (MCP).

R Systems announced that it has launched GCC Copilot, an AI-assisted service designed to help mid-market and large enterprises launch, scale, and optimize Global Capability Centers (GCCs) with speed and AI-powered intelligence. The low-risk, agile, and AI-infused roadmap helps build and scale high-impact GCCs that can help enterprises meet their innovation goals with the right skillsets and experience. The solution is built on R Systems’ deep expertise in engineering, AI, and cloud modernization. The service delivers an outcome-driven GCC setup with product expertise, automation-first strategies, assisted runbooks, and seamless scalability.

Sisense introduced what it calls a new generation of analytics that interprets data and acts on it. Powered by its Sisense Managed LLM, a foundational layer that simplifies AI deployment, platform innovations like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and Sisense Intelligence assistant allow users to build, scale, and explore data faster while seamlessly integrating Sisense into the applications and workflows they already use.

Partnerships, collaborations, and more

Rimes announced three strategic partnerships with PANTA, BMLL, and Ortec Finance. These new relationships expand the range of specialized analytics, data, and operational capabilities available to Rimes clients, including faster onboarding, more integrated workflows, and improved data-driven decisions across the investment lifecycle.

Each partner brings capabilities that are aligned with growing client demand for greater transparency, interoperability, and more. They include:

• PANTA enhances index blending and analytics capabilities, supporting clients who require sophisticated index intelligence across large index data sets and complex weighting schemes.
• BMLL provides access to high-quality historical order book data, enabling a better understanding of liquidity dynamics, deeper market-microstructure analysis, model validation, and predictive research.
• Ortec Finance extends Rimes’ ability to support performance and attribution use cases, including two-way data connectivity between Rimes and Ortec Finance’s PEARL proprietary software for a consolidated portfolio view.

Algolia announced a collaboration with Microsoft to provide retailers and brands with greater influence, accuracy, and visibility in AI-driven shopping experiences. The collaboration integrates Algolia’s real-time enriched product attributes (product data, inventory availability, and product pricing) into Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Bing Shopping, and Microsoft Edge, helping retailers ensure their products appear correctly and competitively across emerging AI discovery surfaces. Through the collaboration, Algolia customers gain greater influence over how their products are represented across Microsoft digital sites.

Amplitude announced that it has acquired InfiniGrow, an AI marketing analytics company. The acquisition reinforces Amplitude’s focus on making analytics actionable and helping marketers move faster, make smarter decisions, and drive business outcomes from a single platform. To that end, the InfiniGrow team will help Amplitude evolve analytics from reporting on what already happened into actionable insights that help teams measure, forecast, and optimize the impact of marketing on revenue.

Delinea announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire StrongDM. The two will combine Delinea’s strength in enterprise privileged access management (PAM) with StrongDM’s just-in-time (JIT) runtime authorization capabilities and developer-first access model to form a new class of identity security platform designed for continuous, always-on environments. Specifically, StrongDM’s JIT runtime authorization will extend the Delinea Platform powered by Iris AI to deliver a single, integrated policy, governance, and audit layer that enforces least privilege at the moment of action.

Densify announced it has rebranded itself as Kubex. The move reflects the company’s evolution into a platform for end-to-end Kubernetes, GPU, and AI resource optimization. This rebrand follows the company’s most recent announcement of Kubex AI, which allows anyone to access expert-level analytics and direct the optimization of complex, highly scaled Kubernetes and AI infrastructure through agentic and embedded chat-based interactions.

SymphonyAI announced eight new industrial AI applications purpose-built for the unique operational demands of CPG & Food and Beverage manufacturers. The new suite of apps that combine SymphonyAI’s deep industrial ontology with the secure, scalable architecture of Microsoft Azure. The apps are engineered to meet the needs of high-speed production lines, thermal variability, CIP/SIP complexity, micro-stoppages, drift conditions, and robotics. Developed using IRIS Forge, the applications integrate Microsoft Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Edge Runtime, and more to address the highest-value bottlenecks in beverage, brewing, canning, and processing operations.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) accepted an invitation to join the Southeastern Quantum Collaborative (SQC), created by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). The collaborative aims to leverage the region’s unique defense infrastructure, missile defense expertise, and strong base of prime contractors to accelerate the transition of quantum information science and technology into field-ready capabilities. Founding members of the SQC include IBM, Davidson Technologies, and Alabama A&M University. Additional organizations, including Oak Ridge Associated Universities, IonQ, and Leidos, have committed to join as inaugural members.

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