
Tag: data management
Thriving in the Second Wave of Big Data Modernization
The idea of managing data at tremendous scale is hardly new. Most businesses embraced the concept of “big data” and associated technologies (like data lakes) at least a decade ago. However, the adoption of modern AI Read more…
Alation Aims to Automate Data Management Drudgery with AI
Companies that struggle to effectively use modern data management tools such as data catalogs may be interested in new software unveiled by Alation today. The company unveiled an Agentic Platform that uses AI agents to a Read more…
Will GenAI Modernize Data Engineering?
Generative AI is being asked to do many things, from replacing call center workers to enhancing developer productivity. There’s also an intriguing possibility that it will supercharge data engineering, if a new survey Read more…
What Leonardo DaVinci Teaches Us About Data Management
Spending time in Florence, Italy, you see brilliant Renaissance art everywhere. A favorite of my family was Leonardo DaVinci, as he was not only a brilliant painter and sculptor, but also an innovative scientist and e Read more…
Three Data Challenges Leaders Need To Overcome to Successfully Implement AI
Advancement in enterprise AI’s early years has largely been defined by experimentation, with businesses testing various models and seeing rapid improvements. However, as the top LLMs’ capabilities converge, AI agents Read more…
Data Quality Got You Down? Thank GenAI
Chief data officers have a lot of challenges on their plates these days: data integration, security, privacy, compliance, cloud migrations, and IT staff and resources, to name a few. But a whopping 68% of CDOs in a recen Read more…
2025 Big Data Management Predictions
The GenAI revolution has raised expectations for what enterprises can do with data. But it has also exposed some serious shortcomings in how enterprises manage data. That’s the backdrop against which we will dig into t 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…
Quest’s New Report Highlights the Evolving Landscape of Data Intelligence
Organizations are increasingly leveraging data intelligence to enhance their data and analytics, according to an annual report released this week by Quest, a provider of cybersecurity, data performance, and database solu Read more…
Peering Into the Unstructured Data Abyss
There’s something lurking in your file systems and object stores. It’s called unstructured data, and it’s growing into a massive blob that threatens to eat up storage costs, violate security and privacy regulations Read more…
AI Has a Data Problem, Appen Report Says
AI may be a priority at American companies, but the difficulty in managing data and obtaining high quality data to train AI models is becoming a bigger hurdle to achieving AI aspirations, according to Appen’s State of Read more…
Denodo Brings Data Management to Academia, the Cloud
Data management is hard, and it’s not getting easier, thanks to the continued tsunami of big data (a data-nami, as it were). One company that’s aiming to help with the continued digital onslaught is data virtualizati Read more…
Data Governance Programs Expand, But Trust in Data Declines, Precisely Finds
As companies begin adopting AI, they’re taking a closer look at their data and ramping up data governance programs. That’s the good news. But upon closer inspection of their data, they’re finding that it’s not up Read more…
Coming To Grips with Unstructured Legal Data
The growth of unstructured data poses real challenges. Many organizations struggle to manage unstructured data like text, images, videos, and PDFs due to the sheer size of the data and their growth rate. For the folks at Read more…
It’s Still Early Days for Unstructured Data Management, Komprise Says
Amid the rush to adopt generative AI, companies are still in preparation mode and are focused on building out the proper infrastructure for AI and data management, Komprise concludes in a new study of unstructured data. Read more…
The Spark-to-Ray Migration That Will Save Amazon $100M+ Per Year
When Ray first emerged from the UC Berkeley RISELab back in 2017, it was positioned as a possible replacement for Apache Spark. But as Anyscale, the commercial outfit behind Ray, scaled up its own operations, the “Ray Read more…
Yes, Big Data Is Still a Thing (It Never Really Went Away)
A funny thing happened on the way to the AI promised land: People realized they need data. In fact, they realized they need large quantities of a wide variety of data, and that it would be better if it was fresh, trusted Read more…
It’s 10 pm. Do You Know Where Your Company’s Data Is?
In an ever expanding digital world, over 40% of companies still don’t have a grasp on their organization’s data footprint. Mastering data governance in today’s landscape is a pressing necessity; however, effective Read more…
Cribl Launches New Copilot To Accelerate Data Management Productivity
In the modern enterprise, data can exist in any number of different places, including cloud-based applications, edge locations, and on-premise services. The dispersion of data across the enterprise is a major challenge f Read more…
Breaking Down Silos, Building Up Insights: Implementing a Data Fabric
Data is the lifeblood of modern business, but for commercial-sized companies, managing and leveraging data can feel like navigating a maze. But what if there was a way to simplify the journey and unlock the full potentia Read more…