OpenAI and Google Clash in the Evolution of AI-Powered Search
GenAI continues to be a major disruptive force, reshaping how businesses innovate, make decisions, and engage with customers. Search engines are no exception to this wave of transformation. According to Gartner, sea Read more…
Timescale Expands PostgreSQL Capabilities with pgai Vectorizer
In the world of AI applications, managing vector embeddings has become a complex and error-prone task, especially as systems scale from prototype to production. Developers have to keep vector embeddings synchronized with Read more…
Big Data Career Notes for October 2024
It’s that time of month again--time for Big Data Career Notes, a monthly feature where we keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new Read more…
Nvidia Debuts Enterprise Reference Architectures to Build AI Factories
The advent of generative AI has supersized the appetite for GPUs and other forms of accelerated computing. To help companies scale up their accelerated compute investments in a predictable manner, GPU giant Nvidia and se Read more…
OSI Open AI Definition Stops Short of Requiring Open Data
The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements around openness for training data lea Read more…
MotherDuck Launches Beta Extension to Enhance PostgreSQL with DuckDB Analytics
MotherDuck, known for its innovative cloud data platform that focuses on simplifying data management and analysis, has announced the beta release of pg_duckdb - a PostgreSQL extension that integrates DuckDB's analytics Read more…
Ataccama Introduces AI Agent For Enhanced Data Management
Ataccama has launched its new Ataccama ONE AI Agent designed to advance autonomous AI capabilities in data handling and support decision-making processes across various applications. Ataccama ONE AI Agent is part of Read more…
Peering Into the Unstructured Data Abyss
There’s something lurking in your file systems and object stores. It’s called unstructured data, and it’s growing into a massive blob that threatens to eat up storage costs, violate security and privacy regulations Read more…
IBM Unveils New Open Source Granite Models to Enhance AI Capabilities
IBM is expanding its enterprise AI business with the launch of the third generation of Granite large language models (LLMs) aimed at providing autonomy and flexibility to its users. The new Granite 3.0 models represent t Read more…
AI Has a Data Problem, Appen Report Says
AI may be a priority at American companies, but the difficulty in managing data and obtaining high quality data to train AI models is becoming a bigger hurdle to achieving AI aspirations, according to Appen’s State of Read more…
Nurturing Data Sovereignty in a World Powered by Technology
In today’s world, where data is the engine driving everything from innovation to economic growth, there’s a topic that’s quickly gaining significance: data sovereignty. It’s a term that’s thrown around a lot, u Read more…
Reltio Gooses Entity Resolution with AI
With the latest update to its data unification and management software, Reltio is employing one-shot learning techniques using large language models (LLMs) to resolve identities of objects in organizations' data, which w Read more…
Denodo Brings Data Management to Academia, the Cloud
Data management is hard, and it’s not getting easier, thanks to the continued tsunami of big data (a data-nami, as it were). One company that’s aiming to help with the continued digital onslaught is data virtualizati Read more…
All Jobs Are Becoming Tech Jobs: Pearson’s Latest Report
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and automation evolve, the way we work is changing faster than ever. Traditional jobs are being redefined, and our growing dependence on technology is altering how we tackle t Read more…
Cribl CEO Clint Sharp Discusses the Data Observability Deluge
Telemetry data, including logs, metrics, and traces, is straining enterprises' resources as it grows into the exabyte territory. One company with a novel solution to the problem is Cribl, whose CEO and Co-founder, Clint Read more…
Cloudera Partners with Snowflake to Optimize Data Integration and Analytics
Cloudera, a hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, has announced an integration with Snowflake, an AI-powered cloud data platform, aimed at providing enterprises with an open and unified hybrid data lakehouse. A Read more…
Meet Vast Data CEO Renen Hallak, a 2024 BigDATAwire Person to Watch
The rise of AI has highlighted the need for a new generation of storage solutions that combine compute, software, and services. One of the company's developing such a system is VAST Data, which has quickly established it Read more…
Weighing Your Data Security Options for GenAI
No computer can be made completely secure unless it’s buried under six feet of concrete. However, with enough forethought into developing a layered security architecture, data can be secured enough for Fortune 500 ente Read more…