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Dataset Providers Alliance Releases Extensive Position Paper on AI Data Licensing

The Dataset Providers Alliance (DPA), a coalition of leading companies in AI data licensing, has released a comprehensive position paper on the ethical use of AI datasets. This document establishes the DPA's views on Read more…

InfluxData Enhances InfluxDB 3.0 with Performance Upgrades and Self-Managed Option

InfluxData, the creator of InfluxDB, announced a series of updates to the InfluxDB 3.0 product suite including new deployment options and observability capabilities.  A time series database efficiently handles time-s Read more…

Neo4j Simplifies Graph Database in the Cloud

Neo4j today took the wraps off several major improvements to its cloud-based graph database, dubbed Neo4j AuraDB, including a new GenAI-infused console, an interactive dashboard builder, a new Business Critical tier that Read more…

Couchbase Launches Column Store to Activate Dormant JSON Data

Couchbase says the new column store that it officially launched today on AWS will streamline analytics on “dormant” JSON data residing in its NoSQL database. The company also launched vector search capabilities in th Read more…

Big Data Career Notes for August 2024

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…

GenAI Adoption By the Numbers

Generative AI is all the rage, as companies of all stripes rush to adopt it to gain a competitive advantage. But how many of them have actually deployed their GenAI apps, or gained a return on their investment? What are Read more…

Dremio Unveils New Features to Enhance Apache Iceberg Data Lakehouse Performance

Dremio, a data lakehouse company based in Santa Clara, CA, has announced a significant advancement in data lake analytics. The company claims that the new features and advances to the platform can dramatically accelerate Read more…

NSF-Funded Data Fabric Takes Flight

The data fabric has emerged as an enterprise data management pattern for companies that struggle to provide large teams of users with access to well-managed, integrated, and secured data. Now scientists working at univer Read more…

pgEdge Raises $10M to Advance Distributed PostgreSQL Platform

pgEdge, a Virginia-based company specializing in distributed database solutions based on PostgreSQL, announced $10 million in new funding. The investment will be used to expand the company's operations and further develo Read more…

Focus on the Fundamentals for GenAI Success

Humans are prone to look for quick and easy solutions to life’s problems. The tendency toward thriftiness probably is programmed into our DNA. But when it comes to succeeding at generative AI, there are no silver bulle Read more…

AI Regulation in California Moves Forward

A new bill that has advanced to the California Senate Assembly floor represents both a significant step forward in AI governance as well as a risk to the technology’s innovative growth. Officially called California Se Read more…

Pinecone Expands Serverless Vector DBs In the Cloud

Running a vector database in the cloud will be easier now that Pinecone is offering its vector database as a serverless offerings in Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, to go along with an existing serverless product for A Read more…

Reining in Cloud Wastage By Stopping Over-Provisioning

Companies will waste $135 billion worth of cloud resources in 2024, or about 30% of the worldwide public cloud spending of $675 billion, according to Gartner. That’s the bad news. The good news is that an array of FinO Read more…

Grafana Labs Raises $270M, Boosting Valuation to Over $6B

Grafana Labs, one of the leading providers of open-source and enterprise software for monitoring, observability, and data visualization, has announced the successful completion of a primary and secondary transaction tota Read more…

Generative AI: Can Your Cloud Infrastructure Take You to the Candy Castle?

According to Gartner’s recent Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence 2024, investment in AI has hit a new high, thanks to a global focus on generative AI (GenAI). Yet Gartner also found that to date it has not produced Read more…

Coming To Grips with Unstructured Legal Data

The growth of unstructured data poses real challenges. Many organizations struggle to manage unstructured data like text, images, videos, and PDFs due to the sheer size of the data and their growth rate. For the folks at Read more…

Wyoming DOT Uses GIS to Reduce Truck Blow-Overs

Wyoming faces significant challenges with weather conditions on its interstate highways, particularly due to its location in the Rocky Mountains region. The state's three major interstates regularly endure severe weather Read more…

Vectors: Coming to a Database Near You

As customers come to grips with the requirements of building and running generative AI applications, they’re finding there’s one important ingredient that makes it all work: a vector database. That’s the number one Read more…

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