Big Data Heads to the Moon
For most people in IT, “the edge†conjures images of small computers housed in retail outlets, hospitals, or maybe an oil rig. But the word takes on an entirely new meaning for Lonestar Data Holdings, which today too Read more…
The Future of AI Agents is Event-Driven
AI agents are set to transform enterprise operations with autonomous problem-solving, adaptive workflows, and scalability. But the real challenge isn’t building better models. Agents need access to data, tools, and Read more…
Excessive Cloud Spending In the Spotlight
Are you spending too much in the cloud? Many business leaders feel they are overpaying as they move their data and apps into the cloud. According to a pair of studies released this week, excessive data egress fees are pa Read more…
IBM to Buy DataStax for Database, GenAI Capabilities
IBM today announced its intent to acquire DataStax, the longtime backer of the Apache Cassandra database that has recently broadened its reach into streaming data and generative AI. IBM cited DataStax’s capability to m Read more…
Krishna Subramanian, Komprise Co-Founder, Stops By the Big Data Debrief
Unstructured data--including pictures, videos, audio, sensor data, text, and HTML pages--accounts for upwards of 90% of the data generated today, and its share is growing. But managing all those bits is no easy task. One Read more…
How Sawmills Plans to Cut Big Observability Data Down to Size
Observability data is supposed to help companies identify and solve IT issues, but the data has grown so large and complex that it’s become a problem in its own right. The latest vendor with a plan to slash observabili Read more…
CDOAs Are Struggling To Measure Data, Analytics, And AI Impact: Gartner Report
In our data-driven world, organizations strive to leverage data effectively, but the executives tasked with proving its value are struggling to achieve their core objectives. Nearly one-third (30%) of Chief Data and Anal Read more…
Semantic Layers Gain Momentum as AtScale and Cube Expand Integrations
As enterprises continue to embrace cloud-based analytics, the need for robust semantic layers is becoming increasingly evident. It helps organizations with data access, ensures consistency across BI tools, and enforces s Read more…
When Will Large Vision Models Have Their ChatGPT Moment?
The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 was a watershed moment in natural language processing (NLP), as it showcased the startling effectiveness of the transformer architecture for understanding and generating textual dat Read more…
DDN Gooses AI Storage Pipelines with Infinia 2.0
AI’s insatiable demand for data has exposed a growing problem: storage infrastructure isn’t keeping up. From training foundation models to running real-time inference, AI workloads require high-throughput, low-latenc Read more…
VAST Data Expands Platform With Block Storage And Real-Time Event Streaming
VAST Data, a company specializing in high-performance data platforms for AI and large-scale data processing, has made a couple of significant announcements related to unifying real-time data processing and storage. Th Read more…
Demystifying AI: What Every Business Leader Needs to Know
Artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining life as we know it. From virtual agents that can predict consumer needs and preferences to offering hyper-personalized recommendations that adapt in real-time, everyone is tal Read more…
EDB Says It Tops Oracle, Other Databases in Benchmarks
EDB Postgres AI, the latest PostgreSQL-based database from EnterpriseDB (EDB), outperformed four other databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL, on a pair of benchmark tests that span SQL and NoSQL wor Read more…
Will GenAI Modernize Data Engineering?
Generative AI is being asked to do many things, from replacing call center workers to enhancing developer productivity. There’s also an intriguing possibility that it will supercharge data engineering, if a new survey Read more…
AI Making Data Analyst Job More Strategic, Alteryx Says
AI isn’t replacing the position of the data analyst, as some had feared, but it is making the data analyst’s job more strategic, according to new research from Alteryx. Instead of being looked upon as mere data mu Read more…
Graphing Biodiversity to Improve Drug Discovery
Most pharmaceuticals are naturally occurring, either directly or indirectly. Yet when it comes to cataloging all of proteins and enzymes that have evolved on Earth over the past 4 billion years, human knowledge barely sc Read more…
Sumo Logs a Stand with Dynamic Observability
The concept of dynamic observability has emerged to exploit the full breadth combined observability data, including logs, metrics, and traces. Observability tool provider Sumo Logic has also embraced the concept, but wit Read more…
Confluent and Databricks Join Forces to Bridge AI’s Data Gap
Enterprise data is scattered across various platforms in different formats across diverse data streams and repositories. This complexity makes it challenging to connect operational and analytical systems, which often rem Read more…
Redgate’s Report Suggests a Year of Consolidation in Database Management
With data volume and complexity continuing to rise rapidly, businesses are striving to achieve greater efficiency by reevaluating their database strategies. Instead of expanding their data stacks, many businesses are pri Read more…
Snowflake Unleashes AI Agents to Unlock Enterprise Data
Snowflake today announced the public preview of Cortex Agents, a new class of AI agents that can perform a range of business tasks using structured and unstructured data. The company also announced that, thanks to Anthro Read more…
What Leonardo DaVinci Teaches Us About Data Management
Spending time in Florence, Italy, you see brilliant Renaissance art everywhere. Â A favorite of my family was Leonardo DaVinci, as he was not only a brilliant painter and sculptor, but also an innovative scientist and e Read more…
Microsoft Open Sources Code Behind PostgreSQL-Based MongoDB Clone
Microsoft quietly last month unveiled DocumentDB, an open source NoSQL database that’s designed to be compatible with MongoDB. The project makes public the PostgreSQL-based technology behind the vCore-based Azure Cosmo Read more…
Three Ways Data Products Empower Internal Users
Many companies want to give their employees access to data, but are overwhelmed by the size and complexity of the data, as well as security and privacy risks inherent with opening it up. One powerful way that companies a Read more…
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