With Agentic AI and Open Lakehouse, Qlik Charts a New Course for Enterprise Data
Data analytics company Qlik unveiled two major product innovations at Qlik Connect 2025 in Orlando, FL. The company launched Qlik Open Lakehouse, a fully managed Apache Iceberg solution embedded into Qlik Talend Cloud. I Read more…
Meet 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Dipti Borkar
Dipti Borkar is a big data veteran who has been there and done that. From stints at NoSQL database companies like Couchbase and MarkLogic to data platforms like Alluxio and Ahana, Borkar has accumulated valuable experien Read more…
Risk and Reward in Data Management
If you can’t justify spending large sums of time and money to implement a top-notch data management system, you might not only be hurting your business’ potential to utilize AI for a competitive advantage, but you mi Read more…
Alteryx One Debuts as a Centralized Platform for Scalable AI and Analytics
Alteryx has introduced a unified platform, named Alteryx One, that combines the company’s AI-powered analytics and data preparation capabilities into a single centralized portal. The company claims that the new platfor Read more…
Databricks Nabs Neon to Solve AI Database Bottleneck
Databricks today announced its intent to buy Neon, a database startup founded by Nikita Shamgunov that develops a serverless and infinitely scalable version of the open source Postgres database. Databricks, which is repo Read more…
Informatica Goes All-In on AI Agents for Data Management
Informatica made a series of agentic AI announcements today at its annual user conference today in Las Vegas, including the introduction of AI Agent Engineering, a new offering that will enable customers to build their o Read more…
The Data Hat Trick: Three Winning Plays for AI-Ready Data
If you’ve ever watched a hockey game, you know that a hat trick—scoring three goals in a single game—is a major feat. It requires precision, teamwork, and a deep understanding of the game. When it comes to artifici Read more…
Anaconda Simplifies Open Source Python Stack with AI Platform Launch
Anaconda today unveiled the AI Platform, a new flagship offering that provides a standardized user experience that should be easier to administer. The company also tripled the number of Python libraries in the stack, and Read more…
SuperAnnotate and the Quest for Superior AI Training Data
If data is the source of AI, then it follows that the best data creates the best AI. But where does one find ultra high-quality data? According to the folks at SuperAnnotate, that type of data does not exist naturally. I Read more…
BigID Deepens Its AI-Driven Capabilities for Enterprise Privacy and Compliance
As data privacy faces relentless scrutiny, companies are racing to modernize their compliance strategies and adopt technologies that can manage risk at scale. A critical priority is establishing automated mechanisms for Read more…
Neo4j Promises ‘No More ETL’ with Aura Graph Analytics
Neo4j this week launched Aura Graph Analytics, a new offering designed to lower the barrier to using powerful graph algorithms. Neo4j says Aura Graph Analytics is a serverless service that brings 65 graph algorithms to b Read more…
SAS Rolls Out AI Agents, Digital Twins, and Industry Models at Innovate 2025
At its SAS Innovate 2025 conference in Orlando, SAS rolled out a series of updates aimed at helping businesses make better decisions with AI. The announcements touched on a broad set of topics, from digital twins and qua Read more…
Colossus AI Hits 200,000 GPUs as Musk Ramps Up AI Ambitions
Elon Musk's Colossus AI infrastructure, said to be one of the most powerful AI computing clusters in the world, has just reached full operational capacity. Designed to push the boundaries of AI, this massive computing sy Read more…
Vendors Rush to Adopt MCP, the USB-C Cord for AI Integration
When Anthropic unveiled Model Context Protocol (MCP) last fall, it didn’t make a whole lot of headlines. Nearly six months later, the new protocol is the talk of the town as one data infrastructure vendor after another Read more…
Open Source AI Gets a Boost as IBM Hands Over Key Projects to Linux Foundation
The open AI movement gains momentum with IBM’s latest contribution. The Linux Foundation has welcomed three new AI projects contributed by Big Blue into its LF AI & Data Foundation: Docling, BeeAI, and the Data Pre Read more…
Ambari Hadoop Cluster Manager is Back on the Elephant
The term "Hadoop Cluster" can have many meanings. In the most simple sense, it can refer to the core components: HDFS (Hadoop Distributed FileSystem), YARN (Resource scheduler), Tez, and batch MapReduce (MapReduce proces Read more…
OpenSearch Gets Parallel Performance Boost Thanks to GPUs
Organizations adopting OpenSearch for big data search, analytics, and AI will see a 9.5x performance increase compared to a prior release of the product, the group behind the open source project say, including a 9.3x boo Read more…
How to Build a Lean AI Strategy with Data
Your organization is probably collecting more data than ever, eager to be ready for an AI-driven future. But instead of powering transformative initiatives, the data itself often becomes a bottleneck. Massive datasets ca Read more…
These Are the Top Challenges to GenAI Adoption According to AWS
Businesses are making big bets on generative AI this year, according to a new survey on the nascent technology from AWS. While the investments are sizable, non-trivial challenges remain that have the potential to hamstri Read more…
Data Mesh Creator Zhamak Dehghani Joins the Big Data Debrief
Zhamak Dehghani turned the world of data management on its head six years ago when she created the concept of the data mesh. We recently caught up with Dehghani on the Big Data Debrief to discuss whether the core ideas b Read more…
Do You Own Your Data? Third-Party Doctrine Says No
Your data is yours, right? It seems like a simple question, but thanks to a little-known loophole in federal law, US regulators are can access your private data without a warrant as long as it’s being stored by a third Read more…
Databricks and KPMG Invest in LlamaIndex to Unlock Scalable Enterprise AI
Databricks and KPMG have made minority equity investments in LlamaIndex, a platform for agentic document workflows. These investments aim to accelerate the development and adoption of LlamaIndex’s flagship products, in Read more…
Inside the Chargeback System That Made Harvard’s Storage Sustainable
Like many research institutions, Harvard University struggled to manage the rapidly growing storage environment backing its HPC clusters. The university had little visibility into which research projects were consuming s Read more…
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