Altair Bolsters Analytics Offering with Cambridge Semantics Buy
Altair Engineering will soon fortify its end-to-end data science offering with the acquisition of Cambridge Semantics and its semantic graph database. Terms of the deal, which was announced yesterday, were not disclosed. Read more…
Bridging Intent with Action: The Ethical Journey of AI Democratization
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undergoing a profound transformation, presenting immense opportunities for businesses of all sizes. Generative AI has replaced traditional ML and AI as the hot topic in boardrooms. However Read more…
Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache Paimon
With the introduction of Apache Paimon by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), users can now process data in both batch and streaming modes. Paimon has been under incubation status for a year and has now graduated from Read more…
Starfish Helps Tame the Wild West of Massive Unstructured Data
“What data do you have? And can I access it?” Those may seem like simple questions for any data-driven enterprise. But when you have billions of files spread across petabytes of storage on a parallel file system, the Read more…
Intel Announces Hala Point – World’s Largest Neuromorphic System for Sustainable AI
As we find ourselves on the brink of a technological revolution, the need for efficient and sustainable computing solutions has never been more critical. A computer system that can mimic the way humans process and s Read more…
Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage
Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…
Unlocking the Full Potential of Generative AI for Enterprise Analytics
Steve Jobs once compared the electric motor to the democratization of new technologies. When the electric motor was first invented, it could only be manufactured on a large-scale in a factory. They had great applications Read more…
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…
Onum Secures $28 Million To Help Businesses Derive Greater Value From Their Data at Lower Costs
Onum, a data observability platform, has raised $28 million in Series A funding to accelerate its ambitious hiring plans, allow it to continue developing its products, and fuel its expansion into new territories. Th Read more…
ELT Automation: 8 Reasons to Make the Switch
Extraction, loading, and transformation (ELT) processes have been in existence for almost 30 years. It has been a programming skill set mandatory for those responsible for the creation of analytical environments and thei 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…
Grafana Labs Unveils Open Source Project Updates at the Annual GrafanaCON
Grafana Labs, best known for its open-source visualization dashboards, unveiled several product updates at its annual conference - GrafanaCon. This year’s event was held in Amsterdam and was the first in-person Grafana 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…
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…
IBM Patents a Faster Method to Train LLMs for Enterprises
Deep learning AI models, such as GenAI chatbots, possess an insatiable appetite for data. These models need data for training purposes so they can be effective for real-world scenarios. It can be challenging, in term Read more…
Operational Data Warehouse: Power Real-Time Business Processes
Have you ever tried driving real-time updates to customer-facing applications? Or optimized a conversion funnel using streaming data? If so, you’ve probably suffered the pain of pushing your data warehouse past its l 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…
DataStax Acquires Langflow to Accelerate GenAI App Development
Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed what is possible with software. We are experiencing a shift in how developers build software, and how people use it. The new programming stacks are based on the foundations of Read more…