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Big Data Career Notes for March 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…

Global Leaders to Gather for the Inaugural International Data Science and AI Leadership Summit in Paris

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the way industries operate and societies evolve, strong leadership has never been more crucial. Beyond developing advanced technologies, the real challenge lies in gui Read more…

Prophecy 4.0 Offers Fully Governed Self-Service Data Prep for Databricks SQL

In 2024, data integration company Prophecy unveiled its AI Copilot for Databricks, marking a significant step forward in data transformation. Leveraging the power of GenAI, the tool enabled business users and analysts to Read more…

Grafana’s Annual Report Uncovers Key Insights into the Future of Observability

The architecture of modern systems has reached a tipping point where observability is no longer optional, it's become existential. With advancements in Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry reshaping operational strategies, organ Read more…

New Benchmark for Real-Time Analytics Released by Timescale

Real-time analytics pushes the limits on data that distributed hardware and software can deliver. To adequately measure the relative performance of real-time analytics databases, Timescale today released a real-time anal Read more…

Tapping into the Unstructured Data Goldmine for Enterprise in 2025

Companies are overwhelmed by data. A majority of organizations (64%) manage at least one petabyte (PB) of data, while 41% surpassing that with at least 500 PBs of data, according to the AI & Information Management Re Read more…

Apache Pinot Co-Author Joins the Big Data Debrief

You might know LinkedIn as the place where Apache Kafka was created to standardize streaming data. But there are other compelling open source projects to come out of the company, including Apache Pinot, which was designe Read more…

Accelerating Agentic AI Productivity with Enterprise Frameworks

As the AI wave starts to crest, companies are looking for ways to help accelerate their AI projects before the wave washes over them. One of the ways companies can get ahead is by adopting tools and frameworks upon which Read more…

Defending Against AI-Powered Deepfakes

Thanks to AI’s nonstop improvement, it’s becoming difficult for humans to spot deepfakes in a reliable manner. This poses a serious problem for any form of authentication that relies on images of the trusted individu Read more…

Airbyte Expands Platform With Iceberg Support, Enterprise Connectors, and More

Organizations face the challenge of leveraging AI while maintaining control over sensitive information, such as strategic metrics or customer data.  Understandably, this challenge often leads to hesitation about shar Read more…

Reporter’s Notebook: AI Hype and Glory at Nvidia GTC 2025

Today marks the end of Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025, a weeklong event in San Jose, California that be remembered for a long time, if not for the content of the presentations than for the sheer spectacle Read more…

NVIDIA Pushes Boundaries of Apache Spark With RAPIDS and Project Aether

Apache Spark is one of the most widely used tools in the big data space. It excels at processing massive datasets for predictive modeling, fraud detection, and real-time analytics. As the demand for processing and unders Read more…

Can You Afford to Run Agentic AI in the Cloud?

The emergence of agentic AI is putting fresh pressure on the infrastructure layer. If Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is correct in his assumptions, demand for accelerated compute will increase by 100x as enterprises deploy AI a Read more…

Four Obstacles to Enterprise-Scale Generative AI

The road to enterprise-scale adoption of generative AI remains difficult as businesses scramble to harness its potential. Those who have moved forward with generative AI have realized a variety of business improvements. Read more…

The Rise of Intelligent Machines: Nvidia Accelerates Physical AI Progress

The boundaries between artificial intelligence and the physical world are dissolving. AI systems are becoming increasingly adept at perceiving, interacting, analyzing, and responding to their physical environments.  Read more…

Nvidia Preps for 100x Surge in Inference Workloads, Thanks to Reasoning AI Agents

The emergence of agentic AI powered by reasoning models will have a transformative effect on the computer industry, not just on how we write and run software, but how we build entire data centers, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Read more…

Confluent GAs Tableflow, Adds Flink Native Inference in Bengalaru

Confluent today announced the general availability of Tableflow, the Apache Iceberg-based functionality that it first revealed a year ago. The company also used its conference this week in Bengaluru, India as the platfor Read more…

Nvidia Touts Next Generation GPU Superchip and New Photonic Switches

Nvidia used its GTC conference today to introduce new GPU superchips, including the second generation of its current Grace Blackwell chip, as well as the next generation, dubbed the Vera Rubin. Jensen Huang, the company� Read more…

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