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Alex Woodie is the managing editor of Datanami

Beyond the Hype: 10 Core Principles for AI Success

The paradigm shift ushered in by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in today's business and technological landscapes is nothing short of revolutionary. AI's potential to transform traditional business models, optimize operatio Read more…

Batch Processing and Stream Processing: A Complementary Union for Modern Data Engineering

In the fast-evolving world of data engineering, two methods of  data analysis have emerged as the dominant, yet competing, approaches: batch processing and stream processing. Batch processing, a long-established mode Read more…

Sam A.’s Wild Weekend

The surprise news Friday afternoon that Sam Altman was being fired from his job as CEO of OpenAI was just the start of a wild weekend for Altman and the future of one of the most promising AI startups in the world. It Read more…

Rockset Primes Database for Massive Vector Serving

Rockset today unveiled new vector database capabilities, such as the addition of approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search and native support for LlamaIndx and LangChain, that it says will help companies efficiently scal Read more…

Microsoft Rolls Out Host of New AI Features at Ignite 2023

From new copilots and AI development tools, to vector search and AI chips, artificial intelligence featured prominently in Microsoft’s annual Ignite developers conference held this week. It also unveiled some data news Read more…

Databricks: We’re a Data Intelligence Platform Now

Five years ago, Databricks debuted the world’s first data lakehouse, which combined the beneficial aspects of data lakes and data warehouses. Thanks to the rise of AI, the nature of data platforms is changing, which ne Read more…

How Hybrid AI Will Enable Far Greater AI Use

I’m writing this from the Qualcomm Summit in Hawaii. Typically, I’d be whining that I’m spending more time inside freezing in the air conditioning than outside enjoying Hawaii. But this year was unusually interesti Read more…

Aerospike Unifies Storage Format, Delivers DBaaS

Aerospike today announced that version 7.0 of its NoSQL database will introduce a unified storage format for data stored on SSDs drives and in memory, setting the stage for multi-record transaction support in the next re Read more…

Will Mass Adoption of GenAI Lift Traditional AI?

Nearly a year after the launch of ChatGPT, companies now are falling over themselves in a rush to adopt generative AI to gain a new competitive advantage or prevent competitors from doing the same. But what about traditi Read more…

Matillion Looks to Unlock Data for AI

The rise of generative AI has put renewed focus on the importance of data. Without data that’s high in quality and up-to-date, an AI model simply will not generate output that’s as good as a model that has data with Read more…

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