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Snowflake Gives Cloud Customers What They Need and Want at Summit 2024
AI is like candy these days, enticing enterprises with the promise of amazing things to come. But AI doesn’t work without a good solid data foundation. Snowflake seems to understand this, which is why the company is sp Read more…
Matillion Bringing AI to Data Pipelines
Data engineers historically have toiled away in the virtual basement, doing the dirty work of spinning raw data into something usable by data scientists and analysts. The advent of generative AI is changing the nature of Read more…
StarTree Finds Apache Pinot the Right Vintage for IT Observability
Apache Pinot grew popular among companies like Uber for its capability to serve SQL queries to thousands of external users with sub-second latency. Now the commercial open-source vendor backing Pinot, StarTree, announced Read more…
DataRobot ‘Guard Models’ Keep GenAI on the Straight and Narrow
Businesses are eager to deploy generative AI applications, but fears over toxic content, leaks of sensitive data, and hallucinations are giving them pause. One potential solution is to deploy “guard models” alongside Read more…
Bringing Data and ML to Value-Based Pricing
Companies across many industries historically have used a cost-based approach to setting prices for goods and services. But many are starting to explore an entirely different approach called value-based pricing. When com Read more…
News In Brief
GenAI Hype Bubble Refuses to Pop
Intense interest in ChatGPT spurred a Gold Rush mentality around generative AI in 2023, as tech execs and business owners scrambled to cash in on the new technology. As ridiculous as the hype has gotten, it’s showing n Read more…
Databricks: We’re a Data Intelligence Platform Now
Five years ago, Databricks debuted the world’s first data lakehouse, which combined the beneficial aspects of data lakes and data warehouses. Thanks to the rise of AI, the nature of data platforms is changing, which ne Read more…
Aerospike Unifies Storage Format, Delivers DBaaS
Aerospike today announced that version 7.0 of its NoSQL database will introduce a unified storage format for data stored on SSDs drives and in memory, setting the stage for multi-record transaction support in the next re Read more…
Matillion Looks to Unlock Data for AI
The rise of generative AI has put renewed focus on the importance of data. Without data that’s high in quality and up-to-date, an AI model simply will not generate output that’s as good as a model that has data with Read more…
OpenAI Opens the GenAI Spigot Even Wider at DevDay
OpenAI unveiled a slew of new products and services at its DevDay event yesterday, including a customizable version of GPT called GPTs, an update to GPT-4 called Turbo, a new UI for ChatGPT, a “copyright shield” for Read more…
This Just In
NEW YORK, Aug., 1, 2024 — EXL, a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions company, has announced an initiative to develop and deploy production-grade AI applications in insurance, healthcare, banking, financial services, media and retail using the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform, which includes accelerated computing, networking and software. Read more…
SYDNEY, July 30, 2024 — At least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025, due to poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs or unclear business value, according to Gartner, Inc. Read more…
OAKLAND, Calif., July 18, 2024 — Fivetran, a global leader in data movement, announced that Saks, a premier luxury e-commerce platform, has deployed Fivetran as its data integration standard. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, July 16, 2024 — Census, a leading data activation and Reverse ETL platform, today announced iconic streetwear retailer PacSun is live on Census Embedded in the SoundCommerce Data Platform. Read more…
REDLANDS, Calif., July 15, 2024 — At its 44th annual User Conference, Esri announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to integrate spatial analytics technology with Fabric, Microsoft’s unified analytics SaaS platform. Read more…