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Neo4j, the graph database and analytics company, has announced new native integrations with Google Cloud that speed up generative AI (gen AI) application development and deployment. The results address complexity and hallucinations when building and deploying successful gen AI applications requiring real-time, contextually rich data and accurate, explainable results. Knowledge graphs support gen AI. They capture relationships between entities, ground LLMs in facts, and enable LLMs to reason, infer, and retrieve relevant information accurately and effectively. According to Gartner’s November 2023 report AI Design Patterns for Knowledge Graphs and Generative AI, “data and analytics leaders must leverage the power of large language models (LLMs) with the robustness of knowledge graphs for fault-tolerant AI applications.” Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is the technique by which LLMs access external datasets. Combining knowledge graphs with RAG , known as GraphRAG, ensures that...

By Eric Wong, Head of Asia Pacific, Expereo Source: Expereo. 2024 has begun in earnest, and despite facing economic uncertainty, the Asia Pacific region is displaying a strong sense of optimism among businesses. This optimism stems from a rapidly growing digital economy and an unprecedented infrastructure expansion across key economies like India, China, and Southeast Asia. In this context, organisations are increasingly focusing on technology investment as a strategic move. To them, it is not just about gaining a competitive edge but also about building resilience against future market volatilities and disruptions. In fact, Forrester is predicting that the Asia Pacific region will lead the way with 5.7% in technology spend growth globally in 2024*. In our conversations with customers and partners over the past year, we are seeing organisations homing in on pivotal areas such as investing in connectivity as the backbone of economic growth, as well as investing in digital infrastructu...

Appear and Skyline Communications have introduced newly-developed and integrated features designed to streamline live event production workflows. Key highlights of the joint development include:  - Developing a new off-the-shelf HTML application, based on Skyline’s new dataminer.mediaOps solution, and integrating with Appear’s X Platform, providing a central view of all connections including a geographic overview depicting connections and key metrics such as bandwidth between locations.  - Software router panels, offering an intuitive interface for ad-hoc event connections. Similar to using a serial digital input (SDI) router, users can easily connect Appear sources with destinations using protocols such as SRT and JPEG-XS .  - Featured scheduling functionality allowing operators to plan connections and reserve required bandwidth ahead of time. Skyline Communications' DataMiner acts as an orchestrator, keeping track of resource utilisation and preventing overbooking. “Our...

Qwilt has become the world’s largest federated edge cloud with over 1,000 points of presence (PoPs ) embedded within the last mile of Internet service providers (ISPs) around the globe. The native content delivery service of Qwilt’s edge cloud is now the world’s largest network deployment that is compliant with the Streaming Video Technology Alliance’s (SVTA's) Open Caching specifications, the company said. Through SVTA-compliant open APIs, content publishers can quickly join Qwilt’s global network.  Qwilt has outperformed all other content delivery networks (CDNs) across measures such as buffering time and time-to-first frame (TTFF), the company added.  “From live and on demand video to gaming and software downloads, our edge cloud is ideal for today’s content streaming and application delivery workloads,” said Alon Maor, CEO at Qwilt.  “Together with our content and service providers partners, we are committed to expanding our all-edge network, which provides the globa...

MediaKind, a global media technology company, together with industry-leading technology partners Qvest and Qibb, have delivered a technology-driven solution for Television New Zealand (TVNZ) that sets new standards across the streaming industry. TVNZ+ ’s new sports streaming service, enriched by the integration of MediaKind’s streaming technology, Qvest’s expertise in systems integration, and Qibb’s cloud-native orchestration software solutions, enables the broadcaster to seamlessly scale complete workflows for multiple sports events in parallel with minimal user intervention. This launch follows TVNZ's acquisition of a number of major sporting events rights, resulting in the creation of a fully cloud-based over-the-top (OTT) livestreaming platform.  MediaKind provided TVNZ with Aquila Cloud, a cloud-agnostic streaming solution recognised for its ease of deployment within its existing AWS account. This choice enabled TVNZ to focus its investments on infrastructure and streaming...

The demand for flexible, cost-effective, and efficient live content production solutions has never been greater, according to Telestream. Traditional production methods rely on heavy physical infrastructure, which leads to relatively inflexible operations and high costs. The shift towards remote work and decentralised production has emphasised the need for tools that can handle a diverse range of media formats and enable real-time quality control (QC) and collaboration from any location, the company said. Telestream is set to address these challenges head-on with the introduction of Live Capture as a Service, GLIM as a Service , and the enhanced Live Play 2.0 at the upcoming NAB Show in the US. Source: Telestream. A screen capture of Live Capture as a Service in action. Telestream's Live Capture as a Service leverages cloud technology to offer unmatched flexibility and cost efficiency, enabling media companies to dynamically scale operations and reduce overhead. “ Live Captu...

Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation provider, has found that companies are fraught with uncontrolled and wasteful cloud spend, and cost remediation tactics are introduced too late or without a full picture of the environment. An independent study* conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Boomi in December 2023 discovered that 87% of APAC companies exceeded their set cloud budgets over the past two years, with 69% of these companies foreseeing their cloud budgets to exceed this fiscal year. Although the study shows APAC business leaders prioritising cloud cost monitoring and optimisation (CCMO) tactics earlier in the cloud development process (62%), most companies lack proactive strategies at the earlier architecture level, Boomi said. Just 5% of APAC decision makers report their cloud cost remediation strategies are as proactive as possible, and only four in 10 say they contain costs at the solution architecture stage. While APAC organisations are aware th...