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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…

GoodData Unveils Major Update to Redefine the Landscape for BI Practitioners

In the realm of business intelligence (BI) and analytic platforms, artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a behind-the-scenes force for a while. However, the advent of GenAI has revolutionized the way organizations levera 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…

Redis Acquires Speedb, Expanding Its Data Platform Capabilities Beyond DRAM

In a strategic move to cater to the escalating demands of real-time and generative AI applications, Redis has announced the acquisition of data storage engine Speedb. This acquisition will boost Redis's capabilities in d Read more…

Zilliz Unveils Game-Changing Features for Vector Search

Vector databases have emerged to become an integral component of many AI applications. However, as AI applications continue to grow, vector databases are presented with more complicated use cases. This requires vector da 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…

AI Evolution: Challenges Persist Despite Growing Optimism

The majority of business leaders and technical analysts believe that AI is an essential tool for business sustainability. Nearly 3 in 4 decision-makers believe that not investing in AI puts their business at risk of fail Read more…

AI Software Vendors Move to Support Nvidia NIMs

Nvidia Inference Microservices (NIMs) are just a few days old, but AI software vendors are already moving to support the new deployment scheme to help their customers get generative AI applications off the ground. Nvi Read more…

Nvidia Introduces New Blackwell GPU for Trillion-Parameter AI Models

Nvidia’s latest and fastest GPU, code-named Blackwell, is here and will underpin the company’s AI plans this year. The chip offers performance improvements from its predecessors, including the red-hot H100 and A100 Read more…

Confluent Adds Flink, Iceberg to Hosted Kafka Service

Confluent today made a pair of big announcements at its Kafka Summit London event, including the general availability of Apache Flink and the addition of Apache Iceberg support in its Kafka-based cloud offering. The new Read more…

The Generative AI Future Is Now, Nvidia’s Huang Says

We are in the early days of a transformative shift in how business gets done thanks to the advent of generative AI, according to Nvidia CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang, who shared his vision for the future of computing to Read more…

DDN Cranks the Data Throughput with AI400X2 Turbo

DDN today launched a new version of its high-end storage solution for AI and high-performance computing, which Nvidia uses to power its massive Eos supercomputer. The AI400X2 Turbo features a 30% performance boost compar Read more…

Nvidia Looks to Accelerate GenAI Adoption with NIM

Today at the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia launched a new offering aimed at helping customers quickly deploy their generative AI applications in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Dubbed Nvidia Inference Microser Read more…

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Deliver Keynote at GTC 2024

Few companies have ever enjoyed the hot streak that NVIDIA is going through. With the booming GenAI market, NVIDIA shares have tripled in 2023, and continue to rise sharply this year. The meteoric rise of the “kingpin� Read more…

Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud Reveals Spending as the Top Challenge of Cloud Computing

The economic uncertainties have led many organizations to invest in transformation technology such as GenAI. Meanwhile, managing costs remains a top priority. This makes it challenging for organizations to balance betwee Read more…

How the FDAP Stack Gives InfluxDB 3.0 Real-Time Speed, Efficiency

The world of big data software is built on the shoulders of giants. One innovation begets another innovation, and before long, we’re running software that’s doing some amazing things. That in part explains the evolut Read more…

AWS Delivers ‘Lightning’ Fast LLM Checkpointing for PyTorch

AWS customers who are training large language models (LLMs) will be able to complete their model checkpoints up to 40% faster thanks to improvements AWS has made with its Amazon S3 PyTorch Lightning Connector. The compan Read more…

Highlights from the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Orlando, FL

Organizations around the globe are striving to harness the power of data and analytics strategies to optimize decision-making. However, they face some stiff challenges. The rise of GenAI has added to the complexity of th Read more…

EU Votes AI Act Into Law, with Enforcement Starting By End of 2024

European lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of the AI Act, the first major law regulating the use of artificial intelligence. The law is expected to go into effect by the end of the year. First proposed in 2018, th Read more…

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