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Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud Reveals Spending as the Top Challenge of Cloud Computing

The economic uncertainties have led many organizations to invest in transformation technology such as GenAI. Meanwhile, managing costs remains a top priority. This makes it challenging for organizations to balance betwee Read more…

Reducing Cloud Waste a Top Priority in 2024, FinOps Foundation Says

The increasing cost of cloud computing, particularly when it comes to storing data to feed AI algorithms, is a growing concern among companies, particularly larger ones, according to a new report by the FinOps Foundation Read more…

It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s 2024 Cloud Predictions

For many, the cloud is already the defacto platform for storing and processing big data. In 2024, industry experts predict cloud computing will grow and evolve into something different as the data gets bigger and analyti 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…

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…

Unlocking the Transformative Potential of Cloud Economics: Navigating Challenges and Maximizing Value

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, businesses across the U.S. are increasingly realizing the immense opportunities offered by cloud-based economic models. In fact, U.S. cloud spending is approaching a $100 bil Read more…

Waste Not, Want Not

Cloud spend is at an all-time high. The latest forecast from Gartner backs that up with predictions that end-user spending worldwide on public cloud services will grow almost 21 percent this year to exceed $591 billion� Read more…

Meet 2023 Datanami Person to Watch David Nalley

Two megatrends in big data today involve open source software and the cloud. One person at the intersection of these two trends is David Nalley, who’s the head of open source strategy and marketing at AWS and president Read more…

Anyscale Takes On LLM Challenges with Aviary

Anyscale has announced a new open source project called Aviary focused on developing applications with open source large language models. With all the new open source LLMs to choose from, it may be difficult to decide Read more…

Data Fabric Maturation Means More Shrinkwrap, Fewer Consultants

Data fabrics today are primarily something that you or your consultant builds, not something that you can buy. But as data fabric solutions mature, the need to manually stitch various data management tools together will Read more…

Exasol Eyes Second Half of 2023 for Two Big Developments

In-memory analytics database developer Exasol has quietly made a name for itself among data warehouse users that need massive concurrency and sub-second response times for their SQL analytics operations. Now the German c Read more…

Stormy Skies Ahead? Report Finds 20% of Businesses Intend to Move Workloads From Cloud to On-Prem

Is there an economic storm brewing in the public cloud sector? IT asset management firm Device42 thinks the skies could be darkening. The company has released the results of its Cloud Adoption Survey that found 20% of bu Read more…

10 Items to Consider for Data Privacy Day

In case your calendar isn’t showing Data Privacy Day occurring this Saturday, January 28, consider this your warning. Acknowledging the importance of data privacy is one thing, but taking the steps to ferret out the po Read more…

Two Cancer-Fighting Startups Gain a Foothold in AWS

The cloud is a natural place for startups that have large computing and data storage needs but also have uncertain futures. For two startups aiming to stop cancer, including Lyell Immunopharma and Hurone AI, the public c Read more…

Data in the Age of Stagflation: How Enterprises Can Do More with Less

Global data growth is exploding, accelerated by the growing number of people communicating, working, learning, and entertaining themselves from home and in distributed work environments. Let’s take a look at some numbe Read more…

MinIO and PwC Announce Joint Business Relationship

MinIO has announced a joint business relationship with PwC Canada to build, co-sell, and co-market cloud-based AI and ML solutions to Canadian enterprises across various industries. MinIO is known for its Kubernetes-n Read more…

ScyllaDB Announces Latest Release of Its NoSQL Database

ScyllaDB has announced ScyllaDB V, the latest release of its NoSQL database that includes new features for its DBaaS, Scylla Cloud, as well as Scylla Enterprise and Scylla Open Source. ScyllaDB says today's new releas Read more…

Meet Datanami 2022 Person to Watch Adam Selipsky

When former Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy left to take the top job at the parent company, it opened up a spot for Adam Selipsky to take over the world's biggest cloud platform. The timing was fortuitious for Seli Read more…

As Cloud Coverage Expands, Salaries Also Rise

The march to the cloud continued in 2021, as hyperscalers opened more data centers and customers ran more workloads in the cloud. As the cloud becomes the defacto standard platform for transactional and analytical worklo Read more…

Ahana Launches ‘Forever Free’ Presto Service, Series A Top-Off

Ahana today announced a free version of its hosted Presto service that can run on a six-node EC2 cluster indefinitely. It also added another $7.2 million to its previously announced Series A round, giving the startup mor Read more…

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