Event Store Changes Name to Kurrent, Raises $12M to Unify Streams and Databases
Event Store, a startup that aims to unify streaming data systems and databases, today announced today that it has changed its name to Kurrent to better reflect its goals. The company also announced $12 million in funding Read more…
AI Santa Delivers Holiday Cheer, One Token At a Time
Forget Shopping Mall Santa--in 2024, folks who crave a conversation with the big guy but who don’t want to travel outside the home can now chat with AI Santa, an interactive experience powered by cutting edge AI models Read more…
Hammerspace CEO David Flynn Joins the Big Data Debrief
Hammerspace CEO David Flynn recently joined the Big Data Debrief, where he discusses the limits of distributed file systems, the changes made to NFS, and the future of data virtualization. The AI boom is driving data Read more…
Beyond the Buzz: How Enterprises Can Leverage GenAI for Tangible Results
The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 set off a wave of hype over generative AI (GenAI) unlike anything seen in the technology sector since the introduction of the public Internet. Now, almost two years later, i Read more…
Spark-to-Starburst Engine Swap Speeds Big Driving Data for Arity
The IT team at Arity are cruising on the homestretch of a big project to load more than a trillion miles of driving data into a new database on Amazon S3. But if it wasn’t for a decision to switch out its engine from S Read more…
Elastic Rolls Out Major Upgrades for Faster and More Efficient Search
Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, has introduced several key enhancements to its platform with the release of Elastic 8.17. The release focuses on performance enhancements, expanded capabilities, and greater ope Read more…
The Biggest Security Announcements from AWS re:Invent 2024
If you’ve been keeping up with tech news, you’ve likely seen a surge of updates from AWS re:Invent 2024 - Amazon Web Services' (AWS) annual conference for the global cloud computing community. Among the many annou Read more…
Honeycomb Sees Sweet Reward in Unifying Dev, Ops
“DevOps” is so easy to say. But the simple phrase masks an uneasy tension between development and operations that can lead to poor communication and ultimately poor management of increasingly complex tech stacks. Add Read more…
Why You Don’t Need a Chief AI Officer, Now or Likely Ever. Here’s What to Do Instead
The Chief AI Officer--or CAIO--has emerged as one of the buzziest jobs in the business world as AI adoption accelerates. New CAIOs are typically tasked with the dual role of furthering business goals with AI while ensuri Read more…
Google’s Gemini 2.0 Paving the Way for the Agentic Era
Tech companies are in a relentless pursuit to integrate AI into every aspect of their offerings, from enhancing existing products to launching entirely new AI-powered solutions. The competition in this space is fierce, w Read more…
Nvidia Touts Lower ‘Time-to-First-Train’ with DGX Cloud on AWS
Customers have a lot of options when it comes to building their generative AI stacks to train, fine-tune, and run AI models. In some cases, the number of options may be overwhelming. To help simplify the decision-making Read more…
Data Management Will Be Key for AI Success in 2025, Studies Say
The AI boom hasn’t generated a prodigious number of real-world successes just yet, but it has succeeded in doing one thing: casting fresh light on the critical importance of high quality data and solid data management Read more…
Confluent Goes On Prem with Apache Flink Stream Processing
Organizations that want to take advantage of Apache Flink’s class-leading stream processing capabilities but don’t want to run the setup in the cloud were given another option today when Confluent announced the gener Read more…
NVIDIA’s Blackwell Showcases the Future of AI Is Water-Cooled – For Now
NVIDIA’s Blackwell processor is a game changer. It is also incredibly dense and it runs hot. Apparently, this heat doesn’t become a big problem until you have a whopping 72 of the processors in a rack, but if you get Read more…
BigID Expands Capabilities with New Features to Enhance Security and Compliance
BigID, a company specializing in data security, privacy, compliance, and AI-driven data management, has revealed several advancements focused on improving cloud security, enhancing compliance measures, and reinforcing da Read more…
Meet Hannes Mühleisen, a 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch
The emergence of DuckDB has been one of the most surprising developments in database world over the past couple of years. The “unapologetically single node” vectorized column store, which was developed by Hannes Müh Read more…
AWS Goes Big on AI with Project Rainier Super and Nova FMs
At AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled a series of transformative AI initiatives, including the development of one of the world's largest AI supercomputers in partnership with Anthropic, the introduction of Read more…
Alation Introduces Document Hubs for Unified Data Access and Governance
The way organizations manage and share data can make or break their ability to collaborate and make informed decisions. Inconsistent data definitions and fragmented documentation often create barriers between teams, limi Read more…
Amazon Taps Automated Reasoning to Safeguard Critical AI Systems
Amazon is implementing AI aggressively across its business in a bid to improve operational efficiency, delight customers, and ultimately make money. But adopting probabilistic systems that don’t always behave as expect Read more…
AWS Expands Sagemaker To Combine Data, Analytics, and AI Capabilities
AWS SageMaker has long served as the go-to platform for managing the entire lifecycle of machine learning (ML) and GenAI models. It offers tools to build, train, and deploy these models. The platform is also used to acce Read more…
AWS Bolsters GenAI Capabilities in SageMaker, Bedrock
AWS unveiled a slew of new updates to its AI tools during its re:Invent conference today, including enhancements to its SageMaker HyperPod AI model training environment, as well as to Bedrock, its environment for buildin Read more…
A Tale of Two Cities: Data Fabric and Data Mesh
In today’s data-driven world, organizations are increasingly focused on transforming their data into valuable products that can be easily accessed and consumed across the enterprise. By offering data products through i Read more…
AWS Takes On Google Spanner with Atomic Clock-Powered Distributed DBs
AWS today announced two new database services aimed at providing low-latency data processing that can support transactions anywhere on the globe. The new services, including the Postgres-flavored Aurora DSQL and DynamoDB Read more…
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