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2025 Observability Predictions and Observations

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with observability data, thanks to the ongoing data explosion, the GenAI application mandate, and hybrid, containerized deployments. But retreat is not an option, even in Read more…

Hitachi Vantara Urges Businesses to Invest in Data Infrastructure to Unlock AI Potential

The explosive growth of GenAI has unlocked vast amounts of untapped data within enterprises, presenting both opportunities and challenges for IT leaders. While large language models (LLMs) promise transformative potentia Read more…

Financial Services Struggle to Align Data with AI Goals

In a data-driven world, financial services organizations are racing to harness the transformative power of AI. However, this journey is not without challenges. We know AI has a data problem. Without the right data in the Read more…

Meet Josh Patterson, a 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch

We live in a world of big data and big compute. But what about big query engines? One of the startups developing software to keep up with big data and big compute is Voltron Data, which is headed by Josh Patterson. Pa Read more…

Nodepay Secures $7M to Advance Decentralized AI

The decentralized AI space is rapidly evolving, with innovative platforms finding new ways to optimize resources and enhance machine learning (ML) capabilities. Nodepay is one such platform. It allows users to contri Read more…

Big Data Career Notes for December 2024

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…

Want to Build a Data-Driven Business? Start with Good Governance

The exchange of mass amounts of data is critical for the majority of business processes today, enabling innovative customer experiences at scale. But quickly getting pristinely-clean, high-quality data where it needs to Read more…

MinIO Survey Highlights Object Storage as Foundation for AI and Advanced Analytics Workloads

The data storage landscape is undergoing a transformational change. AI is changing how systems need to handle both large amounts of data and the speed at which that data can be processed. Where enterprise organizations o Read more…

2025 Big Data Management Predictions

The GenAI revolution has raised expectations for what enterprises can do with data. But it has also exposed some serious shortcomings in how enterprises manage data. That’s the backdrop against which we will dig into t Read more…

AI and Collaboration at the Forefront in Domo’s Latest Report

The pace with which data is created, analyzed, and shared continues to accelerate. The relentless flow of data contributes to a growing torrent of information, shaping how individuals and businesses engage with the world Read more…

Why the Future of Retail is AI Everywhere

Forward-thinking retailers are already harnessing artificial intelligence to help them sustain and grow their margins in the face of economic uncertainty, environmental pressures and geopolitical instability. Nevertheles Read more…

Sahara AI’s New Platform Rewards Users for Building AI Training Data

As AI applications become more advanced, the demand for specialized data grows. Simple tasks like tagging images or classifying text have given way to more advanced needs, such as understanding sentiment and aligning mul Read more…

2025 Data Analytics Predictions

It is that time of year again--time for predictions! We start off the 2025 bonanza of forecasts, estimates, and prognostications with a topic that’s near and dear to our hearts here at BigDATAwire: data analytics. T Read more…

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…

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