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…
AWS Expands Sagemaker To Combine Data, Analytics, and AI Capabilities
AWS SageMaker has long served as the go-to platform for managing the entire lifecycle of machine learning (ML) and GenAI models. It offers tools to build, train, and deploy these models. The platform is also used to acce Read more…
AWS Bolsters GenAI Capabilities in SageMaker, Bedrock
AWS unveiled a slew of new updates to its AI tools during its re:Invent conference today, including enhancements to its SageMaker HyperPod AI model training environment, as well as to Bedrock, its environment for buildin Read more…
A Tale of Two Cities: Data Fabric and Data Mesh
In today’s data-driven world, organizations are increasingly focused on transforming their data into valuable products that can be easily accessed and consumed across the enterprise. By offering data products through i Read more…
AWS Takes On Google Spanner with Atomic Clock-Powered Distributed DBs
AWS today announced two new database services aimed at providing low-latency data processing that can support transactions anywhere on the globe. The new services, including the Postgres-flavored Aurora DSQL and DynamoDB Read more…
AWS Unveils Hosted Apache Iceberg Service on S3, New Metadata Management Layer
AWS today unveiled a new S3 bucket type that’s optimized for storing data in Apache Iceberg, which has become the defacto standard for open table formats. AWS will not only automate the “undifferentiated heavy liftin Read more…
New AWS Service Lets Businesses Upload Data to Cloud From Secure Terminals
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is introducing a new feature that allows customers to schedule time slots at designated physical locations to connect their storage devices and upload data to AWS cloud. The AWS Data Transf Read more…
How Apache Iceberg Won the Open Table Wars
Apache Iceberg has recently emerged as the de facto open-table standard for large-scale datasets, with a thriving community and support from many of the leading data infrastructure vendors. But why did Iceberg emerge as Read more…
The Evolution of Time-Series Models: AI Leading a New Forecasting Era
We are now in an era where large foundation models (large-scale, general-purpose neural networks pre-trained in an unsupervised manner on large amounts of diverse data) are transforming fields like computer vision, natu Read more…
Pinecone Enhances Vector Database with AI Inference Capabilities
Creating AI applications that can handle large datasets has been a persistent challenge for developers. Traditional methods often require complex infrastructure and manual adjustments. This can slow down the development Read more…
Five Things to Look For at AWS re:Invent 2024
The turkey has been eaten and the discount TVs have been purchased, which signals that it’s time to partake of the next time-honored tradition in the holiday schedule: Attending AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. In 2023, Read more…
Big Data Career Notes for November 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…
The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…
Databricks to Raise $5B at $55B Valuation: Report
Databricks is reportedly seeking to raise at least $5 billion in an equity funding round at a valuation of $55 billion. The deal, reported by The Information, would allow employees to cash out a portion of their shares. Read more…
LLMs and GenAI: When To Use Them
Recent advancements in AI have brought forth a new generation of tools that can process and generate human-like content across multiple modalities. At the forefront of this revolution are Large Language Models (LLMs) and Read more…
Building Your GenAI Dream Team
So the decision has been made to upgrade your business using generative AI technology. Great! But now comes the hard part: Figuring out how to transform that aspiration into action, and it all starts with people. The Read more…
Anomalo Expands Data Quality Platform for Enhanced Unstructured Data Monitoring
The success of enterprise AI is closely tied to the quality and accuracy of the data it uses to train its models. This has been underscored by numerous reports that underscore the critical role of data quality. Histor Read more…
Overcoming the Financial Implications of Poor Data Quality
Approaches to data quality vary from company to company. Some organisations put a lot of effort into curating their data sets, ensuring there are validation rules and proper descriptions next to each attribute. Others co Read more…
Meet 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Chisoo Lyons
Women make up 15% to 22% of data science professionals, research from the Boston Consulting Group shows. One of the women who is hoping to increase that number is Chisoo Lyons, the executive director of Women in Data Sci Read more…
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