
LinkedIn Introduces Northguard, Its Replacement for Kafka
Facing scalability limitations with Apache Kafka for log file management, LinkedIn developed a new publish-and-subscribe (pub/sub) system that didn’t face the same limitations. The replacement pub/sub system that Linke Read more…
Confluent Says ‘Au Revoir’ to Zookeeper with Launch of Confluent Platform 8.0
Since the first instances of Apache Kafka walked the earth many moons ago, they have been tied to a core piece of underlying technology that was critical for distributed operations: Apache Zookeeper. With today’s launc Read more…
HPE Moves Into Agentic AIOps with GreenLake Intelligence
HPE today launched GreenLake Intelligence, a new AI-powered framework designed to proactively monitor IT operations and autonomously take action to prevent problems before they arise. The company, which made the announce Read more…
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Trillion Parameter Consortium and TPC25 But Were Afraid to Ask
Since its inception, many questions about the Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) have been asked. Rapid changes in AI technology and the emergence of large language models (LLM) have created many opportunities for intel Read more…
AI Agents and The Trust Equation: When Does Real-Time Data Matter Most?
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves from offering suggestions to making autonomous decisions, organizations face a fundamental shift in their data requirements. This transition from exploratory AI to agentic AI—sys Read more…
Ocient Finds Big Data Success with Mix of New Tech, Proven Approaches
Solving big data problems often requires developing new computing approaches and new technologies. But sometimes, the newer technologies and techniques create additional problems that didn’t previously exist. One upcom Read more…
Couchbase to Be Acquired by Haveli in $1.5 Billion Deal
Enterprise tech teams face a familiar dilemma. They need to simplify their data stacks without giving up speed, flexibility, or scalability. Many tools focus on solving a single part of the problem but leave gaps when sy Read more…
Meet 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Rajesh Gupta
The University of California, San Diego, has long been at the forefront of high performance computing (HPC), thanks to the San Diego Supercomputer Center. With the creation of a new school dubbed the School of Computing, Read more…
Pure Storage Unveils Enterprise Data Cloud to Unify Storage and Data Management
At this year’s Accelerate event in Las Vegas, Pure Storage laid out an ambitious direction for enterprise infrastructure. The company is building on its reputation for high-performance storage with a broader focus on u Read more…
Bad Vibes: Access to AI Training Data Sparks Legal Questions
As “vibe coding” goes mainstream, AI companies are rushing to build the biggest and most authoritative tech knowledge bases to train the next generation of AI copilots. But how will AI companies obtain these curated Read more…
Diskover Targets the Blind Spot in Enterprise Data Strategies
It’s not that enterprises don’t have enough data; it’s that they don’t know what they have. Years of accumulating digital debris, such as emails, videos, system logs, scanned documents, and presentations, have le Read more…
WEKA Launches NeuralMesh to Serve Needs of Emerging AI Workloads
WEKA today pulled the cover off its latest product, NeuralMesh, which is a re-imagining of its distributed file system that’s designed to handle the expanding storage and serving needs--as well as the tighter latency a Read more…
Four Steps for Turning Data Clutter into Competitive Power: Your Sovereign AI and Data Blueprint
Remember the rise of the Internet of the 1990s or the mobile revolution of the 2000s? During those earlier waves of digital innovation, data was an emerging resource. The Web was relatively small—by 1998, there were on Read more…
Zero-Click Microsoft Copilot Vuln Underscores Emerging AI Security Risks
A critical security vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot that could have allowed attackers to easily access private data serves as a potent demonstration of the real security risks of generative AI. The good news is that w Read more…
Databricks Takes Top Spot in Gartner DSML Platform Report
In the market for a new data science-machine learning (DSML) platform? The folks over at Gartner have put together a document that ranks the top DSML platform providers in the business. Databricks took home the number on Read more…
Agentic AI Orchestration Layer Should be Independent, Dataiku CEO Says
We’re still early in the agentic AI game, but a few things are becoming clear: Customers will not tolerate lock in either at the data or AI level, and coordination of agents with unified governance will be necessary. F Read more…
Sumo Logic’s Survey Finds AI and Automation Driving the Future of Security Systems
Over the past decade, SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) has been a foundational tool in enterprise cybersecurity. Designed to collect logs from across the IT stack, flag anomalies, and support investigatio Read more…
Databricks Invests in Core Data Engineering, Operations
AI might be driving the bus when it comes to IT investments. But as companies struggle with their AI rollouts, they’re realizing that issues with the data are what’s holding them back. That’s what’s leading Datab Read more…
Databricks Is Making a Long-Term Play to Fix AI’s Biggest Constraint
At this week’s Databricks Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, the company announced two closely linked initiatives: a $100 million investment in global data and AI education, and the launch of Databricks Free Edition, a Read more…
Databricks One Reimagines How Enterprises Work with Data and AI
For all the progress in data infrastructure, most enterprises are still struggling with the last mile: enabling business users to work directly with data and AI without relying on technical teams. In his keynote at Read more…
Databricks Wants to Take the Pain Out of Building, Deploying AI Agents with Bricks
Databricks today launched Agent Bricks, a new offering aimed at helping customers AI agent systems up and running quickly, with the cost, safety, and efficiency they demand. Many companies are investing large resource Read more…
‘The Relational Model Always Wins,’ RelationalAI CEO Says
The tech industry has a voracious appetite for the Next Big Thing. But sometimes, it’s the older thing that ends up being the right tool for a new job. That’s the argument being made by RelationalAI founder and CEO M Read more…
Stream Processing at the Edge: Why Embracing Failure is the Winning Strategy
As a former network and storage systems administrator, it’s been amazing to watch the cloud abstract away the complexity of infrastructure. Managed services today allow enterprises to scale systems without needing to g Read more…