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Confluent Adds Flink, Iceberg to Hosted Kafka Service
Confluent today made a pair of big announcements at its Kafka Summit London event, including the general availability of Apache Flink and the addition of Apache Iceberg support in its Kafka-based cloud offering. The new Read more…
How the FDAP Stack Gives InfluxDB 3.0 Real-Time Speed, Efficiency
The world of big data software is built on the shoulders of giants. One innovation begets another innovation, and before long, we’re running software that’s doing some amazing things. That in part explains the evolut Read more…
AWS Delivers ‘Lightning’ Fast LLM Checkpointing for PyTorch
AWS customers who are training large language models (LLMs) will be able to complete their model checkpoints up to 40% faster thanks to improvements AWS has made with its Amazon S3 PyTorch Lightning Connector. The compan Read more…
Data At More Than Half Of Companies Will Not Be AI-Ready By The End of 2024
The latest string of evolutions in generative AI has companies everywhere excited about the potential of the technology. Business leaders in every industry are giving in to the FOMO, and racing to check “implement AI� Read more…
GenAI Doesn’t Need Bigger LLMs. It Needs Better Data
An exorbitant amount of time and energy is being spent developing and talking about the technology that goes into large language models. While the tech is indeed impressive, businesses that are building generative AI app Read more…
News In Brief
Multi-Database Shops Now the Norm, Redgate Says
The number of organizations adopting multiple databases went up by 17 percentage points over the past three years, increasing the complexity of data management and testing organizations’ capability to acquire the requi Read more…
EnterpriseDB Bullish on Postgres’ 2024 Potential
As the commercial entity most responsible for the development of Postgres, EnterpriseDB had a lot to be proud of in 2023. Adoption of the open source database continued to grow, which resulted in it being named the datab Read more…
AWS Cancels Serverless Postgres Service That Scales to Zero
AWS has notified customers of its Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 service that it will cease supporting the offering at the end of 2024. Replacing v1 in the Aurora Serverless range, which supports Postgres and MySQL database Read more…
2024 GenAI Predictions: Part One
Something unexpected happened in 2023: the world learned about generative AI for the first time. Now that the GenAI cat is out of the bag, companies are in a race to monetize it without succumbing to its negative aspects Read more…
Data Culture ‘Half Baked,’ Forrester Says
Many employees don’t know where data is stored, how to access it, or what they’re allowed to do with it, according to a new Forrester report that casts doubt on the idea that large numbers of businesses are ready to Read more…
This Just In
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 14, 2024 —Yugabyte, the distributed PostgreSQL database company for cloud native applications, today announced that it successfully achieved PCI DSS compliance, becoming a PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider for the fully-managed DBaaS offering of YugabyteDB. Read more…
MUNICH, German, March 14, 2024 — Mindfuel, a data product management company, announces the closing of a €3.75m seed funding round led by Project A Ventures. Read more…
CHICAGO, Ill. –March 12, 2024–Ocient, the leading data analytics software solutions company, today announced that it has closed $49.4 million in funding. This latest raise is an extension of Ocient’s Series B financing, previously led by Greycroft and OCA Ventures, and includes new venture investors Buoyant Ventures, Levy Family Partners, Riverwalk Capital, and Wolf Capital Management, as well as all prior major investors. Read more…
NEW YORK CITY, New York, March 12, 2024 — BigID, the category-leading data security and compliance vendor for the cloud and hybrid cloud, announced a pioneering patent for a technology that dramatically enhances the process of data cleansing, curation, and cataloging for AI – Read more…