Alation and Immuta in Data Access Hookup
Sometimes you compete, and sometimes you cooperate. In the case of Alation and Immuta, the two companies today are celebrating a new partnership that will see them cooperating to help customers benefit from their respect Read more…
Career Notes for August 2025
It’s that time of month again–time for Big Data Career Notes, a monthly feature where we keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, ne Read more…
AI Hype Cycle: Gartner Charts the Rise of Agents, ModelOps, Synthetic Data, and AI Engineering
Gartner says the average company spent around $1.9 million on GenAI last year, yet fewer than 30% of AI leaders think their CEOs are satisfied with the results. That gap between spending and satisfaction is concerning. Read more…
Why OpenLight Thinks Photonics Is the Key to AI’s Critical Bottleneck
GenAI is exposing a critical flaw in modern computing. While GPU performance continues to grow, the systems built to support these chips are struggling to keep pace. The key challenge now is data transfer. Shuttling huge Read more…
A Unified Data Stack for Data Analytics? Definite Says ‘Yes’
Companies that are tired of the hassle of assembling their own data analytics stacks may want to check out Definite, a Delaware-based startup that just raised $10 million to build a shrink-wrapped, cloud-based, AI-ready Read more…
AI ROI Hinges On Addressing New Challenges While Rectifying Old Ones
While some early adopters have reaped the rewards of AI, the majority of enterprises are struggling to see meaningful ROI from their investments in the technology. A recent Axios study revealed that, while 73 percent of Read more…
Adapting Your Search Engine to ‘AI Armageddon’ and ‘Zero Click’ Journeys
AI is upending all sorts of traditions, including how people get information and how they shop. Thanks to AI-powered search engines, users no longer need to visit websites to get news or product information. That change Read more…
VAST Tackles AI’s Data Bottleneck with SyncEngine Launch
AI might be the engine behind today’s biggest breakthroughs, but we know that without the right data in the right place, that engine stalls. Most organizations are sitting on massive volumes of data buried in legacy fi Read more…
Confluent Embeds AI Agents Into the Data Stream to Enable Real-Time Agentic AI
Why are so many enterprise AI agents still stuck in pilot mode? Companies have invested heavily in building intelligent systems, but most never make it past the testing phase. The problem is not usually the models themse Read more…
Meet 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Clint Sharp
The observability data deluge has gotten so bad that the volume of observability data generated is often bigger than the structured data organizations want to keep. Instead of draining your bank account to store all this Read more…
AtScale Likes Its Odds in Race to Build Universal Semantic Layer
Semantic layers are suddenly a hot commodity thanks to their capability to make private business data make sense to AI models. Databricks and Snowflake are both building their own semantic layers, but if broad industry s Read more…
A 60% Accuracy Leap? Alation Ties AI to Your Data Context
Natural language access to enterprise data is no longer enough. Business teams need answers they can trust, but too often, responses from AI assistants are inconsistent, misleading, or stripped of context. That’s becau Read more…
Databricks Now Worth $100B. Will It Reach $1T?
Databricks won’t be going public anytime soon, if its latest funding round announced yesterday is any indication. But the lack of an IPO doesn’t appear to matter to the company’s skyrocketing growth. In fact, the c Read more…
Why Your New AI Tools (and the Companies Making Them) Are Failing You
The initial euphoria surrounding generative AI is officially over. It has been replaced by a simmering, and in many cases boiling, frustration from the very users these platforms are meant to serve. The recent rollout of Read more…
The Rise of Vibe Coding and What It Means for Developer Creativity
Spend enough time writing code and you start to develop a sixth sense, not just for logic or syntax, but for rhythm. There’s a creative cadence to software development that, when you're in it, feels a lot like flow. Th Read more…
Anaconda Report Links AI Slowdown to Gaps in Data Governance
The push to scale AI across the enterprise is running into an old but familiar problem: governance. As organizations experiment with increasingly complex model pipelines, the risks tied to oversight gaps are starting to Read more…
How Much Docker Should a Data Scientist Know?
The best answers are obviously “some”, “depends”, or begin with “Well…”. Let’s do a deeper dive and attempt to understand where and how Docker is being shoehorned (read shoved) into a data scientist’s d Read more…
From Logs to Dashboards: Grafana Assistant Adds AI Across the Workflow
Grafana Labs, the open observability platform, says it wants to make monitoring systems easier for everyone, not just experts. This week, the company launched a public preview of Grafana Assistant, a new AI tool built in Read more…
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