Author » Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie is the managing editor of BigDATAwire (formerly Datanami).
Databricks Wants to Take the Pain Out of Building, Deploying AI Agents with Bricks
Databricks today launched Agent Bricks, a new offering aimed at helping customers AI agent systems up and running quickly, with the cost, safety, and efficiency they demand. Many companies are investing large resource Read more…
‘The Relational Model Always Wins,’ RelationalAI CEO Says
The tech industry has a voracious appetite for the Next Big Thing. But sometimes, it’s the older thing that ends up being the right tool for a new job. That’s the argument being made by RelationalAI founder and CEO M Read more…
Stream Processing at the Edge: Why Embracing Failure is the Winning Strategy
As a former network and storage systems administrator, it’s been amazing to watch the cloud abstract away the complexity of infrastructure. Managed services today allow enterprises to scale systems without needing to g Read more…
Change to Apache Iceberg Could Streamline Queries, Open Data
The folks behind the Apache Iceberg project are considering making an architectural change to the specification in the next version that would allow query engines to access metadata directly from the Iceberg catalog, the Read more…
Meet David Flynn, a 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch
“The future is already here,” science fiction writer William Gibson once said. “It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” One person who’s looking to bring data storage into the future and make it widely distrib Read more…
Agentic AI Spurs Data Stack Updates at Snowflake Summit
How do you move, store, access, and track data in the age of AI? It sounds like a simple question, but it has complex implications for the companies that are actually doing it. This challenge was front and center at the Read more…
Why Snowflake Bought Crunchy Data
Monday brought the first surprise from Snowflake Summit 25: the acquisition of Crunchy Data for a reported $250 million. Crunchy Data is an established South Carolina company that has been running and building upon the o Read more…
How to Capitalize on Software Defined Storage, Securely and Compliantly
Enterprise needs for data management have exploded in recent years both in scale and complexity. For example, major financial institutions handle millions of transactions per second across multiple data centers, hypersca Read more…
AI Agents To Drive Scientific Discovery Within a Year, Altman Predicts
At the current pace of AI development, AI agents will be able to drive scientific discovery and solve tough technical and engineering problems within a year, OpenAI CEO and Founder Sam Altman said at the Snowflake Summit Read more…
Snowflake Widens Analytics and AI Reach at Summit 25
Snowflake unleashed a torrent of news today at its annual user conference, ranging from a new adaptive compute capability and Openflow data integration to new analytic capabilities and AI enhancements, such as AI SQL and Read more…
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