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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…

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…

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