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Wells Fargo Turns Data Overload Into Business Opportunities With Elastic Observability

Data plays a key role in enabling enterprises to make informed business decisions, however, it can also create challenges such as data sprawl. This happens when an organization's data grows rapidly and becomes dispersed Read more…

Salesforce Report Highlights Importance of Data in the AI Revolution

Data has long been vital to the success of business initiatives. However, with the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence (AI) data has become even more important. Salesforce, a leading cloud-based CRM platform, in col Read more…

GenAI Adoption, By the Numbers

As the freight train that is generative AI continues barreling down the track to an uncertain destination, we thought it would be good to take some time to stop and ponder where we’re currently at in terms of GenAI ado Read more…

Understanding the Fundamentals of PostgreSQL® Architecture

PostgreSQL®, a robust enterprise-grade open source relational database management system, has steadily evolved over three decades, gaining global popularity. This blog delves into PostgreSQL's architecture, detailing Read more…

The Age of Data Productivity is Here

Black Swan events like extreme weather, financial crises, pandemics, or war used to be an anomaly. Today, these events occur at a surprisingly regular cadence, and such life-altering disruptions can induce extreme stress Read more…

Data Integration and Observability Provider Crux Nabs $50m in Funding

Crux, a cloud-based provider of data integration and observability tools that claims to have more than 250 data connectors, today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series B round of venture capital. The San Franc Read more…

Five Common AI/ML Project Mistakes

Companies of all sizes and across all verticals continue to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for myriad reasons. They’re eager to leverage AI for big data analytics to identify business tr Read more…

Data Meshes Set to Spread in 2022

Faced with an ongoing data generation explosion that refuses to quit, organizations are coming to grips with the realization that data silos will be a fixture in their IT estates for the foreseeable future. One design pa Read more…

5 Steps to Data-Based Decisions

Organizations in virtually every industry are now awash in more data than they know what to do with. But how can they take all of that information and use it to arrive at new insights that help to improve operations and Read more…

Beyond Dashboards: The Importance of Storytelling with Data

Becoming a data-driven organization is more than just being able to measure the world and assigning figures to the phenomena we absorb. To truly benefit from the great progress we have made in data collection, storage, a Read more…

Data Integrity a Major Concern, Precisely Says

Companies are facing considerable headwinds when it comes to their analytics and AI strategies, particularly when it comes to the data, according to Precisely’s new report, titled “Data Integrity Trends: Chief Data O Read more…

Alation Adds $110M to Its Catalog

Alation, the company that put the data catalog on the map, today announced the completion of a Series D round of funding worth $110 million. The influx of cash coincides with a $1.2 billion valuation, and gives the unico Read more…

Aerospike Turbocharges Spark ML Training with Pushdown Processing

Companies that need to access a lot of data in a hurry, such as retraining a machine learning model in Spark, have traditionally had to move that data from the edge to a central repository, such as a cloud data lake. But Read more…

COVID Data Report Card: Mixed Results for Public Health

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the importance of “following the data” has been emphasized repeatedly, and for good reason: It provides the best chances for us to minimize the harm caused by COVID-19. However, w Read more…

How to Build Trust With Your Users and Provide Clear Value for Their Data

In the digital age, data has become its own commodity. Customers are more than familiar with mandatory fields asking for their email, home address, and phone number. The problem, however, is that they're increasingly con Read more…

Why Object Storage Is the Answer to AI’s Biggest Challenge

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored just how critical it is to be able to quickly analyze and interpret data — and the invaluable role that artificial intelligence and machine learning play in savvy decision-making. Read more…

Peering Into the Crystal Ball of Advanced Analytics

The world of advanced analytics was evolving quickly at the end of 2020. And according to our panel of experts who volunteered predictions on the topic, the accelerated pace of change in advanced data analytics will cont Read more…

Diversity in Data Analytics

Throughout the course of 2020 Altair has been running a series of panel discussions about data science and advanced analytics. We have been joined by leading data analysts from renowned companies such as Goldman Sachs, Read more…

Three Privacy Enhancing Techniques That Can Bolster the COVID-19 Response

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us two things: The critical importance of healthcare data in fighting the spread of the disease, and our documented inability to harness it in a timely manner. And while it’s true that s Read more…

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