Alex Woodie is the managing editor of Datanami

Big Data Career Notes: March 2024 Edition

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…

OpenTelemetry Is Too Complicated, VictoriaMetrics Says

To say the folks at VictoriaMetrics aren’t big fans of OpenTelemetry after implementing its metrics library would be putting it mildly. “OpenTelemetery is so complicated and bloated,” said Aliaksandr Valialkin, the Read more…

Rangers Redux: Can Texas Repeat with Data, Analytics, and AI?

Hope springs eternal on Opening Day. Every team starts with a perfect record and dreams of winning the World Series in six months. For the Texas Rangers, defending their championship will require the proper mix of hard w Read more…

MicroStrategy Fleshes Out AI-for-BI Strategy, Bets Big On Bitcoin

MicroStrategy this week unveiled a new customizable AI bot called Auto that lets business users interact with MicroStrategy’s data analytics offerings through natural language. But investors in the publicly traded Virg Read more…

Maximizing Your Data Migration Investment

Many organizations are migrating their data these days, but they aren’t always doing so in an efficient manner. This means they’re effectively leaving money on the table. Two key areas of consideration are data relev Read more…

Kinetica Elevates RAG with Fast Access to Real-Time Data

Kinetica got its start building a GPU-powered database to serve fast SQL queries and visualizations for US government and military clients. But with a pair of announcements at Nvidia’s GTC show last week, the company i Read more…

Virtualitics Helps Oncologists Answer Tough Flu Question

Do flu outbreaks correspond with a greater chance of dying for lung cancer patients? It may seem like a straightforward question at first, but once you dig into it, you realize it’s not so easy to answer. But thanks to Read more…

DataChat Delivers Data Exploration with a Dose of GenAI

What if you could tell the computer how you want to explore a data set, and the computer would automatically execute the analysis and deliver you the results? That’s the idea behind DataChat, a generative AI-based data Read more…

Faster Interconnects and Switches to Help Relieve Data Bottlenecks

Nvidia’s new Blackwell architecture may have stolen the show this week at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. But an emerging bottleneck at the network layer threatens to make bigger and brawnier pro Read more…

Data Observability in 2024: A Guide

In today's data-driven world, data observability is a critical concept for organizations aiming to effectively manage their data. Simply put, it means having the ability to constantly monitor and understand the status of Read more…