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The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…

Modern Data Co. Seeks to Build the Last Mile to Data

Organizations are drowning in data, yet they’re struggling to convert that data into actionable intelligence. Building that last mile of connectivity between raw data and useful information is the goal of a young firm Read more…

Astronomer’s High Hopes for New DataOps Platform

Astronomer last month rolled out a new observability product called Astro Observe that’s aimed at giving customers the full picture of how their data is flowing using Apache Airflow, the open source data orchestration Read more…

How GenAI Will Impact Jobs In the Real World

There’s been a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about the potential for generative AI to take people’s jobs. The capability of large language models (LLMs) to answer questions and handle digital tasks when p Read more…

Confluent Adds Flink, Iceberg to Hosted Kafka Service

Confluent today made a pair of big announcements at its Kafka Summit London event, including the general availability of Apache Flink and the addition of Apache Iceberg support in its Kafka-based cloud offering. The new Read more…

News In Brief

Oracle Bolsters Big Data, Analytics, and AI at CloudWorld

Oracle unleashed a torrent of new analytic and AI capabilities this week at its Oracle CloudWorld conference in Las Vegas. The fun kicked off yesterday with an expansion of capabilities in AWS and Google Cloud, updates t Read more…

GenAI a Top Driver of Data Modernization in the Cloud, Hakkoda Says

One of the top reasons that companies are modernizing their data estates and moving to a centralized cloud data platform is to enable generative AI capabilities, Hakkoda says in its new study, titled “Generative AI Sta Read more…

Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage

Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…

Nvidia Introduces New Blackwell GPU for Trillion-Parameter AI Models

Nvidia’s latest and fastest GPU, code-named Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company’s AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from its predecessors, including the red-hot H100 and A100 Read more…

Nyriad Makes GPU-Powered Storage Array Available as a Service

Organizations that need to write a large amount of data to disk in a short amount of time will be pleased to hear they can now get a subscription to one of Nyriad’s UltraIO storage arrays, which are block storage devic Read more…

This Just In

Monterey Data Conference Explores Role of AI Foundation Models in Future of Science

Oct 22, 2024 |

Oct. 22, 2024 — In science, data is essential. Scientific methods rely on accurate, well-documented data to draw conclusions, test hypotheses, build models, and explain the natural world. Data isn’t just a byproduct of research; Read more…

Liquid Web Introduces Flexible GPU Hosting with NVIDIA-Powered Servers

Oct 18, 2024 |

ATLANTA, Oct. 18, 2024 — Liquid Web, a leader in managed hosting and scalable cloud solutions for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has announced the launch of its new GPU hosting solution, offering affordable reserved and hourly pricing. Read more…

Vultr Announces Launch of Industry Cloud to Accelerate AI Innovation Across Verticals

Aug 8, 2024 |

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 8, 2024 — Vultr, the world’s largest privately held cloud computing platform, has announced the launch of its industry cloud solution, which delivers industry-vertical, cutting-edge cloud computing solutions that meet specific industry needs and regulatory requirements across the retail, manufacturing, healthcare, media, telecommunications, and finance sectors. Read more…

Gartner Predicts 30% of Generative AI Projects Will Be Abandoned After Proof of Concept By End of 2025

Jul 30, 2024 |

SYDNEY, July 30, 2024 — At least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025, due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs or unclear business value, according to Gartner, Inc. Read more…

NIST Announces Funding Opportunity for AI-Focused Manufacturing USA Institute

Jul 22, 2024 |

GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 22, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced an open competition for a new Manufacturing USA institute focused on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to increase the resilience of U.S. Read more…

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