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Anaconda Report Links AI Slowdown to Gaps in Data Governance

The push to scale AI across the enterprise is running into an old but familiar problem: governance. As organizations experiment with increasingly complex model pipelines, the risks tied to oversight gaps are starting to Read more…

From Logs to Dashboards: Grafana Assistant Adds AI Across the Workflow

Grafana Labs, the open observability platform, says it wants to make monitoring systems easier for everyone, not just experts. This week, the company launched a public preview of Grafana Assistant, a new AI tool built in Read more…

How Aerospike Is Helping AI Do More With Less Data Infrastructure

The margin for inefficiency in AI infrastructure is shrinking fast. With each new application, data systems are expected to do more with less. Developers often end up writing clunky workarounds just to get databases to r Read more…

Tackling Observability Data Challenges with Honeycomb’s CEO Christine Yen

Honeycomb’s CEO Christine Yen joins the Big Data Debrief to talk about the challenges of observability data and how Honeycomb’s approach is unique in the space. Christine Yen and her Honeycomb co-founder, Charity Read more…

GigaOm Rates the Object Stores

Thanks to their infinite scalability, object stores are the software medium of choice for today’s big data and AI projects. But how do the various object stores compare? GigaOm shed some light on the question with its Read more…

This Big Data Lesson Applies to AI

There’s no shortage of hype when it comes to AI. We’re constantly bombarded with warnings that AI is about to change things forever, and that if we don’t implement AI now, we risk becoming failures. In many ways, t Read more…

Beyond Words: Battle for Semantic Layer Supremacy Heats Up

When it comes to using AI to accelerate BI, practitioners are finding out that semantics really matters. In fact, when you’re using AI to generate SQL to query a database table, knowing exactly what data a particular t Read more…

Can $156M Help Observe Redefine Observability for the AI Era?

The gold rush for AI has created an invisible side effect: an explosion of telemetry data that threatens to overwhelm the very systems built to keep applications running smoothly. Every new service and model generates mo Read more…

Meet Prukalpa Sankar, a 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch

Atlan emerged seemingly out of nowhere to become one of the preeminent providers of data catalog solutions. But the path to success for Atlan did not arrive spontaneously, and was the result of hard work and experience o Read more…

Oracle Launches Exadata Service for AI, Compliance, and Location-Critical Workloads

Running mission-critical applications across multiple regions is rarely straightforward. Data must be kept close to end users to avoid latency, synchronized across locations to maintain uptime, and stored in jurisdiction Read more…

Why OpenAI’s New Open Weight Models Are a Big Deal

The smoke is still clearing from OpenAI’s big GPT-5 launch today, but the verdict is starting to come in on the company’s other big announcement this week: the launch of two new open weight models, gpt-oss-120b and g Read more…

Google Pushes AI Agents Into Everyday Data Tasks

The shift toward agentic AI has been gaining momentum across the enterprise world. AI agents are no longer just research demos or product experiments; they're beginning to take on real operational roles. From orchestrati Read more…

EU’s AI Act Enters New Enforcement Phase

The European Union’s AI Act hit another stage of enforcement over the weekend that will impact how companies can build and implement AI systems that impact or are used by European residents. It’s been one year sin Read more…

AI Is Changing the Cybersecurity Game in Ways Both Big and Small

The world of cybersecurity is extremely dynamic and changes on a weekly basis. With that said, the advent of generative and agentic AI is accelerating the already manic pace of change in the cybersecurity landscape, and Read more…

BigDATAwire Exclusive Interview: DataPelago CEO on Launching the Spark Accelerator

Apache Spark remains one of the most widely used engines for large-scale data processing, but it was built in an era when cloud infrastructure was mostly CPU-bound. Today’s cloud environments look very different.  Read more…

Cloudera Nabs Czech Firm Taikun for Hybrid Cloud Tech

Cloudera bolstered its hybrid cloud and multi-cloud chops today with the acquisition of Taikun, a Czech Republic-based developer of software for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters from a single pane of glass. Kube Read more…

TPC25 Provides Glimpse at Future of AI-Powered Science

How will AI impact science? Nobody knows the full answer to that question, but last week’s Trillion Parameter Consortium conference, dubbed TPC25, provided tantalizing hints at what’s to come. What could one scien Read more…

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