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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…

Dataiku Launches GenAI Real-Time Cost Monitoring Solution

The transformative power of GenAI is undeniable and this is evident in the unprecedented hype it has created. However, organizations have to be mindful of the associated costs of harnessing the power of large language mo Read more…

Data At More Than Half Of Companies Will Not Be AI-Ready By The End of 2024

The latest string of evolutions in generative AI has companies everywhere excited about the potential of the technology. Business leaders in every industry are giving in to the FOMO, and racing to check “implement AI� Read more…

Grafana Lab’s Second Annual Observability Survey Offers Insights Into the Evolving Observability Market

Observability has become an integral part of an organization's ability to gain a deep understanding of its internal systems and to derive actionable insights to improve the performance and resilience of its systems in to Read more…

Stonebraker Seeks to Invert the Computing Paradigm with DBOS

In the current tech paradigm, databases run on top of operating systems. But what if that stack was inverted, with an operating system running on top of the database? That’s the idea behind database guru Mike Stonebrak Read more…

SAP Announces Major Upgrades in Data and Analytics

SAP, one of the world's premier enterprise software provider, has announced several innovations in data and analytics to empower organizations to harness the full power of their data. The enhancements include the add Read more…

How HP Was Able to Leapfrog Other PC/Workstation OEMs to Launch its AI Solution

This month, HP stunned the market with the most powerful line of AI-enabled PCs and workstations yet to be created, catching the other OEMs, which have been more tentative and less complete, by surprise. I was at the lau Read more…

Apache Arrow Announces DataFusion Comet

Apache Arrow, a software development platform for building high-performance applications, has announced the donation of the Comet project.   Comet is an Apache Spark plugin that uses Apache Arrow Datafusion to impro Read more…

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