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Reporter’s Notebook: AI Hype and Glory at Nvidia GTC 2025

Today marks the end of Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025, a weeklong event in San Jose, California that be remembered for a long time, if not for the content of the presentations than for the sheer spectacle Read more…

NVIDIA Pushes Boundaries of Apache Spark With RAPIDS and Project Aether

Apache Spark is one of the most widely used tools in the big data space. It excels at processing massive datasets for predictive modeling, fraud detection, and real-time analytics. As the demand for processing and unders Read more…

The Rise of Intelligent Machines: Nvidia Accelerates Physical AI Progress

The boundaries between artificial intelligence and the physical world are dissolving. AI systems are becoming increasingly adept at perceiving, interacting, analyzing, and responding to their physical environments.  Read more…

Confluent GAs Tableflow, Adds Flink Native Inference in Bengalaru

Confluent today announced the general availability of Tableflow, the Apache Iceberg-based functionality that it first revealed a year ago. The company also used its conference this week in Bengaluru, India as the platfor Read more…

Nvidia Cranks Up the DGX Performance with Blackwell Ultra

At its GTC event in San Jose today, Nvidia unveiled updates to its AI infrastructure portfolio, including its next-generation datacenter GPU, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra. Expanding on the Blackwell architecture introd Read more…

HPE Preps for the AI Era with Updated Data Fabric, Storage, and Compute Offerings

Enterprises need a whole lot of data to power their AI applications. That includes structured and unstructured data, block and file data, streaming and static data, and data in the cloud and on the edge. To help keep all Read more…

DDN Leans on Better Software for Enterprise AI Success

DDN ostensibly is known for building big, fast storage hardware that’s capable of keeping the world’s largest supercomputers fed with data. But as the race to build enterprise AI applications heats up, the company is Read more…

Groups Step Up to Rescue At-Risk Public Data

Public data is the lifeblood of open research and scientific inquiry. But the possibility of losing public datasets--including academic, government, and scientific data generated as part of research--is now spurring seve Read more…

NVIDIA GTC 2025: What to Expect From the Ultimate AI Event?

All eyes are on NVIDIA this week as the chip manufacturer gears up for its biggest event of the year - the GPU Technical Conference (GTC). Starting this Monday in San Jose, CA, the week-long conference is highly anticipa Read more…

Clickhouse Acquires HyperDX To Advance Open-Source Observability

ClickHouse, known for its high-speed analytical database, has acquired HyperDX, an open-source observability platform built on its technology. The acquisition integrates HyperDX’s UI and session replay capabilities wit Read more…

The New AI Economy: Trading Training Costs for Inference Ingenuity

A massive shift is underway as the artificial intelligence industry pivots from obsessing over large pre-training investments to a new frontier: optimizing inference. This shift is transforming the economics of AI, pavin Read more…

ScaleOut Enhances Digital Twin Intelligence With Generative AI and ML

As organizations juggle the complexity of real-time systems, they’re under increasing pressure to stay ahead by identifying issues and responding to them before they can disrupt operations.  However, traditional mo Read more…

ServiceNow Nabs LLM-Powered Chatbot Pioneer Moveworks for $2.85B

Long before ChatGPT ignited the generative AI revolution, a company called Moveworks was busy using a promising new family of language models to help solve tough technological problems in customer service. All that work Read more…

VAST Fleshes Out Data Platform for Enterprise RAG Use Cases

VAST Data is quietly assembling a single unified platform capable of handling a range of HPC, advanced analytics, and big data use cases. Today it unveiled a major update to its VAST Data Platform engine aimed at enablin Read more…

FlashBlade//EXA Moves Data at 10+ TB/sec, Pure Storage Says

Pure Storage today unveiled FlashBlade//EXA, a new all-flash storage array designed to meet the demanding needs of AI factories and multi-modal AI training. FlashBlade//EXA separates the metadata layer from the data path Read more…

Data Warehousing for the (AI) Win

Has the data warehouse lost its luster? Have dashboards fallen out of fashion? They have and they are, according to Eldad Farkash, the CEO and co-founder of Firebolt. What’s driving sales of the humble data warehouse t Read more…

CoreWeave Aims to Expand AI Capabilities with Weights & Biases Acquisition

CoreWeave, a cloud-based AI infrastructure company offering GPU cloud services to simplify AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, has deepened its foothold in the AI development space by reaching an agreement to acquire Read more…

Correcting an AI Overreaction On DeepSeek, and Emphasizing the Importance of Quality

A few weeks back, DeepSeek, China’s new high profile generative AI platform, hit the news with a substantial alleged reduction in training and hardware cost. This had a major adverse impact on NVIDIA’s valuation and Read more…

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