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Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage

Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…

Linux Foundation Promotes Open Source RAG with OPEA Launch

An offshoot of the Linux Foundation today announced the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), a new community project intended to drive open source innovation in data and AI. A particular focus of OPEA will be around d Read more…

Hyperion To Provide a Peek at Storage, File System Usage with Global Site Survey

Curious how the market for distributed file systems, interconnects, and high-end storage is playing out in 2024? Then you might be interested in the market analysis that Hyperion Research is planning on rolling out over Read more…

Onum Secures $28 Million To Help Businesses Derive Greater Value From Their Data at Lower Costs

Onum, a data observability platform, has raised $28 million in Series A funding to accelerate its ambitious hiring plans, allow it to continue developing its products, and fuel its expansion into new territories.  Th Read more…

Grafana Labs Unveils Open Source Project Updates at the Annual GrafanaCON

Grafana Labs, best known for its open-source visualization dashboards, unveiled several product updates at its annual conference - GrafanaCon. This year’s event was held in Amsterdam and was the first in-person Grafana Read more…

Starburst Debuts Icehouse, Its Managed Apache Iceberg Service

Today at its Data Universe event, Starburst launched Icehouse, a new managed lakehouse offering built upon the table format Apache Iceberg. Starburst says the combination of the Trino query engine and Iceberg tables will Read more…

Unlocking the Power of Social Media Data to Connect with E-Commerce Customers

When “The Social Dilemma” documentary came out in 2020, consumers called for a mass exodus from social media and the end of user data capture. While opening the public’s eyes to the inner workings of social media w Read more…

Google Cloud Bolsters AI Options At Next ’24

Google Cloud made a slew of announcements across today at its annual user conference, Next, including new processor options for AI training, new GenAI capabilities in Vertex, an AI model for generating videos, new GenAI Read more…

Gretel Open Sources 100,000 Text-to-SQL Samples

Synthetic data generation company Gretel last week announced it has donated more than 100,000 examples of text-to-SQL conversions and parked them on Huggingface, providing enterprises with another free, open source resou Read more…

IBM Patents a Faster Method to Train LLMs for Enterprises

Deep learning AI models, such as GenAI chatbots, possess an insatiable appetite for data. These models need data for training purposes so they can be effective for real-world scenarios. It can be challenging, in term Read more…

Data Quality Getting Worse, Report Says

For as long as “big data” has been a thing, data quality has been a big question mark. Working with data to make it suitable for analysis was the task that data professionals spent the bulk of their time doing 15 yea Read more…

DataStax Acquires Langflow to Accelerate GenAI App Development

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed what is possible with software. We are experiencing a shift in how developers build software, and how people use it. The new programming stacks are based on the foundations of Read more…

Aerospike Nabs $109M to Grow Data Biz Turbocharged by AI

Aerospike is hoping to grow its business as fast as its customers are growing their data. And with today’s Series E round valued at $109 million, Aerospike has the capital to do just that, capturing more AI-linked work Read more…

Cloudflare Announces Major Updates for R2 Including Event Notifications and GCS Support

Cloudflare, a global connectivity cloud company, announced key updates for R2, the company’s S3-compatible object storage service. The expanded capabilities are part of Cloudflare's broader goal of continually improvin Read more…

Informatica and Carahsoft Forge Partnership to Bring Advanced Cloud Data Management to the Public Sector

Informatica and Carahsoft Technology recently announced a partnership to distribute Informatica’s products to the public sector. Carahsoft says it will distribute Informatica's enterprise cloud data management and i Read more…

What’s Holding Up the ROI for GenAI?

Businesses are investing hundreds of billions of dollars in generative AI with the hope that it will improve their operations. However, the majority of these companies have yet to see a return on their investment in larg Read more…

Why A Bad LLM Is Worse Than No LLM At All

Companies are sprinting to add large language models (LLMs) to their technology stacks thanks to the popularity of generative AI like ChatGPT and Bard. The hours of work saved from using generative AI apps have many eage Read more…

Big Data Career Notes: March 2024 Edition

In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…

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