Alex Woodie is the managing editor of Datanami

Linux Foundation Promotes Open Source RAG with OPEA Launch

An offshoot of the Linux Foundation today announced the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), a new community project intended to drive open source innovation in data and AI. A particular focus of OPEA will be around d Read more…

Hyperion To Provide a Peek at Storage, File System Usage with Global Site Survey

Curious how the market for distributed file systems, interconnects, and high-end storage is playing out in 2024? Then you might be interested in the market analysis that Hyperion Research is planning on rolling out over Read more…

Vectara Spies RAG As Solution to LLM Fibs and Shannon Theorem Limitations

Large language models (LLMs) hallucinate. There’s just no way around that, thanks to how they're designed and fundamental limitations on data compression as expressed in the Shannon Information Theorem, says Vectara CE Read more…

Salesforce In Talks To Buy Informatica: Report

Informatica, one of the preeminent names in ETL, is considering a deal to be acquired by enterprise cloud software provider Salesforce, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal last week. If completed, the deal w Read more…

Collibra Launches AI Governance at Data Citizens Conference

The Collibra community descended upon Orlando, Florida, this week for the company’s annual Data Citizens conference. In addition to educational sessions and keynotes on the importance of data intelligence, attendees go Read more…

Starburst Debuts Icehouse, Its Managed Apache Iceberg Service

Today at its Data Universe event, Starburst launched Icehouse, a new managed lakehouse offering built upon the table format Apache Iceberg. Starburst says the combination of the Trino query engine and Iceberg tables will Read more…

Unlocking the Power of Social Media Data to Connect with E-Commerce Customers

When “The Social Dilemma” documentary came out in 2020, consumers called for a mass exodus from social media and the end of user data capture. While opening the public’s eyes to the inner workings of social media w Read more…

Google Cloud Bolsters AI Options At Next ’24

Google Cloud made a slew of announcements today at its annual user conference, Next, including new processor options for AI training, new GenAI capabilities in Vertex, an AI model for generating videos, new GenAI feature Read more…

Gretel Open Sources 100,000 Text-to-SQL Samples

Synthetic data generation company Gretel last week announced it has donated more than 100,000 examples of text-to-SQL conversions and parked them on Huggingface, providing enterprises with another free, open source resou Read more…

Data Quality Getting Worse, Report Says

For as long as “big data” has been a thing, data quality has been a big question mark. Working with data to make it suitable for analysis was the task that data professionals spent the bulk of their time doing 15 yea Read more…