
Tag: big data
Enterprises Have Already Made Deep Investments in Data Infrastructure; With AI, They’ll Finally See a Return
The rise of generative AI has captured the imagination of tech enthusiasts and enterprise leaders alike. The promise–and risk–of AI is of a world transformed at a pace never seen before. Enterprises, both fledgling a Read more…
Why Samsara Picked Ray to Train AI Dashcams
When the engineers at Samsara began building their first smart dashcam several years ago, they found themselves using a series of different frameworks to collect data from the IoT devices, train the machine learning mode Read more…
Unlocking the Potential of AI and ML in Healthcare Today
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in healthcare has brought about remarkable advancements in patient care, diagnosis, and treatment. These cutting-edge technologies have revolution Read more…
It’s Back to the Database Future for Exasol CEO Tewes
When Joerg Tewes last worked in the database business, the world was just becoming aware of the possibilities of non-relational data models. Fast forward 20 years, and NoSQL databases are commonplace across all industrie Read more…
The Five Biggest Threats to Data Democratization
Data democratization is a top priority for many enterprises. When employees have easy access to data, they can make decisions quicker, collaborate better, and gain important insights. Companies around the world are comin Read more…
Databricks Make a CDC Play with Arcion Acquisition
The quicker you can access transactional data directly from the change log of a database, the quicker you can do analytics or AI on it. That’s the basic math behind Databricks’ announcement today that it intends to a Read more…
Tristan Handy’s Audacious Vision of the Future of Data Engineering
Tristan Handy is a lot of things: co-creator of dbt, founder and CEO of dbt Labs, and self-described “startup person.” But besides leading dbt Labs to a $4 billion valuation, he is one more thing: An audacious dreame Read more…
Immuta Expands Hooks Into Starburst for Better Data Mesh Governance
Starburst and Trino users will have an easier time hammering their distributed data governance policies into place thank to a deeper set of data mesh integrations between the open data analytics engines and Immuta, the d Read more…
Self-Service Data Not Quite a Reality Yet, Capital One Software Says
As the business world continues to transform, it's becoming pretty clear that self-service data is gearing up to be a game-changer for many companies. There's a growing push for organizations to have data at their finger Read more…
A Smarter Slice: Domino’s and MSFT in GenAI Hookup
Don’t look now, but your next pie could come with a tasty slice of generative AI. Microsoft and Domino’s Pizza yesterday unveiled a partnership that will see the new artificial intelligence technology incorporated Read more…
Using Streaming Data Applications to Power Decision-Making
How do businesses make timely decisions with efficiency? One approach uses streaming (real-time) data applications that collect, analyze, and offer insights about data as it is generated, as opposed to systems that store Read more…
Landing AI Seeks Speed and Simplicity for Computer Vision Apps
It may surprise you to learn that, despite the massive hype around large language models, investments in computer vision AI continue to be made. One of the companies accelerating development in this field is Andrew Ng’ Read more…
Are SSDs Required for Your Big Data Workflow? The Answer May Surprise You
Have you heard the buzz about the predicted death of hard disk drives (HDDs)? Some have gone all in on projections that the growth of SSD deployments will eliminate demand for HDDs within five years. Other industry analy Read more…
Databricks Versus Snowflake: Comparing Data Giants
Databricks and Snowflake have emerged as predominant providers of big data analytics platforms in the cloud. While there are some similarities between the two rivals, there are also important differences in their offerin Read more…
Google Cloud Rolls Out Data Clean Rooms
Google Cloud today unveiled a preview of data clean rooms in BigQuery that will enable companies to share sensitive data while protecting security and privacy. Data clean rooms have proliferated in recent years as com Read more…
Data Mesh 2.0: Realizing the Promise of Decentralization
It’s fair to say that "data mesh" is having a moment. Even a cursory search via Google News turns up dozens of related results, and there’s considerable variety in the mix. Sure, this happens with many new technol Read more…
Duet AI Goes Everywhere in Google’s Cloud
Google Cloud introduced several more uses for Duet AI, the AI interface unveiled earlier this year. Data engineers will be singing duets with integrations for BigQuery, AlloyDB, and Cloud Spanner, while data analysts wil Read more…
Virtualitics Takes Data Viz Tech from Stars to Wall Street
You can’t know what you can’t see. That sums up the approach to data by Virtualitics, which was spun out of Caltech to commercialize AI-powered data visualization technology originally developed for astronomy. With t Read more…
Navigating Data Access Management Strategies: Build Vs. Buy
In today's data-driven world, effectively managing access to a growing volume of cloud-based data is an ongoing challenge for most companies. With over 60% of all corporate data now stored in the cloud, it is a delicate Read more…