Author » Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie is the managing editor of Datanami
Keeping Data Private and Secure with Agentic AI
When it comes to data privacy and AI, companies are in a tough spot. On the one hand, businesses are eager to take advantage of technological advances in AI, including the development of autonomous AI agents. But on the Read more…
Big Data Career Notes for January 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 Lessons Learned from DeepSeek’s Meteoric Rise
The AI world is still buzzing from last week’s debut of DeepSeek’s reasoning model, which demonstrates category-leading performance at a bargain-basement price. While the details of the Chinese AI developers’ appro Read more…
What’s the Hold Up On GenAI?
When generative AI landed on the scene two years ago, it was clear the impact would be sizable. However, the path to GenAI adoption has not been without its challenges. From budgeting and tools to finding an ROI, organiz Read more…
Data Quality Got You Down? Thank GenAI
Chief data officers have a lot of challenges on their plates these days: data integration, security, privacy, compliance, cloud migrations, and IT staff and resources, to name a few. But a whopping 68% of CDOs in a recen Read more…
PuppyGraph Brings Graph Analytics to the Lakehouse
A startup called PuppyGraph is turning heads in the big data world with a novel concept: Marrying the data storage efficiency of the data lakehouse with the analytic capabilities of a graph database. The result is a dist Read more…
Real-Time Analytics to Conquer the AdTech Data Deluge
AdTech platforms are swimming in data. Managing it isn't cheap. Traditional in-memory databases that offer millisecond latency are great for real-time bidding, but they become insanely expensive when you scale up to bill Read more…
Solidigm Celebrates World’s Largest SSD with ‘122 Day’
Solidigm recently shipped a new solid-state drive (SSD) featuring 122.88TB of storage capacity, the world's largest SSD, with enough storage to pack 4PB of data into a 1U rack. In honor of that massive feat of data, the Read more…
Collibra Bolsters Position in Fast-Moving AI Governance Field
As the market for AI governance begins to heat up and take shape, vendors have started to jostle for position. One of those vendors is Collibra, which is eager to build on its success in data governance and stake out a c Read more…
Plotly Bolsters Popular Python Data Viz Tool with GenAI
Plotly Dash is a Python-based data application framework and visualization tool that’s widely used by data scientists who prefer a code-first experience. To help lower the barrier to entry, the company behind Plotly Da Read more…
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