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Can Cerabyte Crack the $1-Per-Petabyte Barrier with Ceramic Storage?
A German startup named Cerabyte is hoping to solve the burgeoning market for secondary and archival data storage with a novel approach that uses lasers to etch bits onto glass with a ceramic coating. The “grey ceramic� Read more…
DataOps.Live: The Data Product Assembly Line for Snowflake
When it comes to building great data products, all the key ingredients are available in the cloud--big data, massive compute, and sophisticated analytics and AI tools. What’s missing is an easy way to turn all those in 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…
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…
KNIME Works to Lower Barriers to Big Data Analytics
Big data analytics can be complicated--there’s just no way around that simple fact. But it shouldn’t be more complicated than it needs to be. With recent updates to its data analytics offerings--including a revamped Read more…
News In Brief
Cloudian Partners with Lenovo for EPYC All-Flash ‘HyperStore’
Cloudian and Lenovo today announced they’re teaming up to deliver a new HyperStore cluster designed to run big data, AI, and HPC workloads. Each HyperStore cluster will be composed of six Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 V3 Read more…
Databricks Sees Compound Systems as Cure to AI Ailments
Databricks today unveiled a series of enhancements to its Mosaic AI stack that is aimed at addressing some of the challenges that customers face building GenAI systems, including accuracy, toxicity, latency, and cost. At Read more…
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…
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…
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…
This Just In
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 8, 2024 — Vultr, the world’s largest privately held cloud computing platform, has announced the launch of its industry cloud solution, which delivers industry-vertical, cutting-edge cloud computing solutions that meet specific industry needs and regulatory requirements across the retail, manufacturing, healthcare, media, telecommunications, and finance sectors. Read more…
REDLANDS, Calif., July 15, 2024 — At its 44th annual User Conference, Esri announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to integrate spatial analytics technology with Fabric, Microsoft’s unified analytics SaaS platform. Read more…
SAN MATEO, Calif. – June 12, 2024 – Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, today announced the addition of the S3 interface to its Global Data Platform, advancing the orchestration of existing data sets to available compute resources. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, 2024 — Domino Data Lab, provider of the leading Enterprise AI platform trusted by the largest AI-driven companies, today announced the launch of a new Statistical Computing Environment (SCE) Coalition to overcome clinical research silos and accelerate approval of new lifesaving therapies, and introduced new platform capabilities for life sciences customers. Read more…
LAWRENCE, Kan., May 28, 2024 — A new $11.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will establish a multidisciplinary biomedical center at the University of Kansas (KU) to research big data’s potential to improve women’s health. Read more…