The new release has its first dedicated streaming backends for Apache Flink and RisingWave, offering different engines for batch and now stream execution, unified with a single API for Python data frames.

“Finally developers can write code once and use it across local, batch, CPU, GPU and now real-time query engines. Ibis is leading the charge to break down the barriers between batch and stream processing execution engines. This is a big step toward a modular and composable data ecosystem across all paradigms,” said Josh Patterson, co-founder and CEO of Voltron Data.

Ibis is an independently governed open source project backed by Voltron Data and contributors across data platforms including Google, Starburst Data and RisingWave.

“As the Ibis API improves and adds new functionality like ML preprocessing, every backend it supports improves with it. Users can learn a single familiar dataframe API without being locked into any backend. The open source community can add Ibis ecosystem integrations to make working with data in Python better on any data platform Ibis supports,” said Zhenzhong “Z” Xu, vice president of engineering at Voltron Data.

With today’s release, users can run Ibis on 20 different query engines — ranging from DuckDB for smaller queries to BigQuery, Spark, Theseus and others for big distributed preprocessing/ETL jobs. With no code change, they can also run on two streaming engines – Apache Flink and RisingWave.

“Together, Lenovo and NVIDIA are driving a new era of Hybrid AI for businesses, designing the next generation of technology that delivers an AI-powered future now and unlocks the power of their data anywhere it is created. Lenovo’s expanded engineering and time to market partnership with NVIDIA simplifies the path to generative AI for all and helps customers anywhere rapidly use cutting-edge AI to transform their business”, said Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group.

The offerings were described by Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang at the annual global Lenovo Tech World keynote held in Austin, Texas, where they discussed businesses’ need for end-to-end solutions that bring together accelerated systems, AI software and expert services to quickly build and run custom AI models using their own data.

“With generative AI driving the greatest technology transformation of our time, enterprises are seeking solutions that give them the flexibility to develop and deploy workloads across their workstations, data centers and clouds. NVIDIA and Lenovo are providing a comprehensive portfolio of hybrid AI systems that businesses can rely on to power generative AI from virtually anywhere”, said Bob Pette, Vice President of Enterprise Platforms at NVIDIA.

Supported by the new Lenovo AI Professional Services Practice, the solutions enable enterprises to use a hybrid cloud approach – building their custom AI models using NVIDIA AI Foundations cloud service and then running them with on-prem Lenovo systems powered by NVIDIA’s latest hardware and software designed for generative AI.

You probably all remember when the tech giant dropped them in Windows 8, saying they posed a security risk. But according to speculation in a Windows Central report, Microsoft is working on bringing back the core functionality of the plug-ins in Windows 7.

Windows 11 features a Widgets panel that users can enable to display news, weather, sports scores, and third-party widgets.

According to Windows Central, Microsoft is considering adding an option to Windows 11’s Widgets feature to attach widgets to the desktop. This will allow users to pin their favorite widgets to the desktop so that they appear permanently on it/ According to the report, widgets attached in this way can be placed anywhere on the desktop.

According to Windows Central, Microsoft hopes that the new option to attach widgets improves engagement with widgets.

The company has not yet confirmed the feature, nor has it been introduced in any of the currently available versions of Insider. The change may improve the visibility of Widgets, given that the information is displayed on the desktop, eliminating the need to activate the Widgets panel. Gadgets were especially popular in Windows 7 and displayed hardware information, music player controls, photos, etc. directly on the desktop.

Widgets are a controversial feature in Windows 11. Some users like it, while others have no use for it. The icon can be easily removed from the Windows 11 taskbar. The change has not yet been confirmed by Microsoft.

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Builder.ai empowers enterprises, small businesses and entrepreneurs to build, run and scale their software using reusable lego-like features, a vetted network of developers and a state of the art software assembly line running in the cloud so they don’t require technical expertise and any lines of code.

While COVID-19 took its toll on businesses and resulted in countless closures worldwide, it also drove over a third of businesses to increase the use of digital technology to adapt and stay competitive. Meanwhile, Forrester predicts that 75 percent of application development will use low-code platforms by the end of 2021. It’s also projected that the global low-code development platform market will generate $187 billion in revenue by 2030. This growth will be driven by an increasing demand for business digitization, less dependency on information technology professionals and stringent government norms. Combined, these factors played a key role in Builder.ai’s business growth over the last year.

“Given the uncertainty brought on by the pandemic, I want Builder.ai to be a platform that serves as a sign of hope for small businesses looking to keep their customers engaged, and for entrepreneurs ambitiously driven to launch new business ideas – they are the new developers,” said Sachin Dev Duggal, CEO and Co-Founder of Builder.ai.

 

“Businesses in certain industries, such as retail, fashion, travel and hospitality, have been hit especially hard and we want to be their partner as they adopt a digital-first mindset to stay competitive. With our order-to-create style platform and its ability to drastically reduce the cost and effort typically required to build software, we want to give businesses, small and large, a fighting chance at survival and long-term growth. Our customers’ growth is our growth. With that in mind, we will continue to push our platform to drive digital adoption for small businesses.”

Key milestones achieved by Builder.ai in 2020 include:

• Launch of Studio Rapid in October 2020: Studio Rapid takes a clean design-centric approach to no-code allowing customers to build-to-create their apps in under a day. Businesses can customize their app in the same way as they would create a PowerPoint slide by moving elements, such as images, icons, languages and text. The platform is centered around its zero-day strategy, whereby an app can be tested, optimized and deployed within a day.

• New Customers Signed: Builder.ai’s customer base has grown by over 2.5 times in the last 12 months. Additionally, the company has expanded its enterprise client footprint to include several world renowned brands, such as Pepsi, the US Air Force, Xander Group and the Indian Army.

• Industry Awards Recognition: In June, Builder.ai won the ‘Hottest AI Startup’ award at the Europas 2020. This was days after the company bagged the title of ‘Best COVID-19 Innovation for Recovery’ at the CogX Innovation Awards 2020 for its Studio Store product, which is reimagining the ownership of custom apps and making the development process more efficient than traditionally clunky SaaS platforms.

• Employee Growth: Hiring top talent was a major priority for the business in 2020 with the addition of over 130 new team members during the pandemic spread across the United Kingdom, United States, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The company aims to head into 2021 with the same people-focused vigor.

As the company moves forward with its 2021 business strategy and plans, CEO Sachin Dev Duggal has tapped two prominent executives to join the C-suite.

• Appointment of Chief Operating Officer: Joseph Norena joins the company as its first-ever Chief Operating Officer. With over 20 years of experience in operational management, Norena most recently held the position of Managing Director for HSBC in London and New York. Prior to that, he was the Head of the Trading Execution Desk at Bridgewater Associates. Adding to his industry leadership experience, Norena has also been an industry advisor with Armstrong Wolfe and a Board Advisor to a healthcare AI startup. It is also the reconnection of a long-standing working relationship between Sachin and Joseph during their shared time at Deutsche Bank.

• Appointment of Chief Financial Officer: Most recently, Andres Elizondo has been brought on as the company’s first Chief Financial Officer. He has over 15 years of experience as a Chief Financial Officer, Non-Executive Director and Board Advisor in the technology sector, particularly with SaaS companies. Throughout his career, he has successfully led the finance functions within global organizations, including guiding companies from privately owned to publicly traded companies (i.e. 2020 IPO of RXT). For the last 10 years, Elizondo held various senior-level finance roles at Rackspace Technology, culminating with his most recent role as EMEA CFO where he was responsible for more than $600 million in annual revenue operation across multiple markets.Over the next 12-24 months, the company will invest heavily into further developing more AI capabilities, building and launching new products, empowering businesses to be successful and nurturing talent.

Builder.ai is a global brand with its headquarters in London, supported by offices in New Delhi, Singapore, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Dubai.