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The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…
MinIO Pivots to AI with Launch of AIStor
MinIO is one of the most popular open-source S3-compatible object storage systems in the world. Thanks to its combination of performance and simplicity, it’s been adopted to store data for a wide range of applications. Read more…
The Future of GenAI: How GraphRAG Enhances LLM Accuracy and Powers Better Decision-Making
We’ve all heard the expression that data is the lifeblood of modern organizations, but it’s really an enterprise’s ability to understand its data that is invaluable. Knowledge graphs give enterprises a deep underst Read more…
Meet Vinoth Chandar, a 2024 Person to Watch
Big data lakehouses are spreading, thanks to their capability to mix the data stability and correctness of a traditional warehouse with the flexibility and scalability of a data lake. One of the technologists who was key Read more…
How GenAI Will Impact Jobs In the Real World
There’s been a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) about the potential for generative AI to take people’s jobs. The capability of large language models (LLMs) to answer questions and handle digital tasks when p Read more…
News In Brief
Solix Hosting Data and AI Conference at UCSD
We’re just a day away from SolixEmpower 2024, a conference that will bring hundreds of Solix cusotmers, leading academic researchers, and business leaders together to discuss the latest developments in cloud data manag Read more…
WEKA Keeps GPUs Fed with Speedy New Appliances
GPUs have an insatiable desire for data, and keeping those processors fed can be a challenge. That’s one of the big reasons that WEKA launched a new line of data storage appliances last week that can move data at up to Read more…
Reltio Gooses Entity Resolution with AI
With the latest update to its data unification and management software, Reltio is employing one-shot learning techniques using large language models (LLMs) to resolve identities of objects in organizations' data, which w Read more…
Still Too Much Duct Tape in Data Transformation, dbt Labs’ Handy Says
While real progress has been made in streamlining some aspects of big data analytics workflows, there is still too much duct tape keeping it all together, according to Tristan Handy, the founder and CEO of dbt Labs, whic Read more…
This Just In
NEW YORK and STOCKHOLM, Nov. 27, 2024 — Quartr, a leading provider of data and tools for qualitative research, has announced a partnership with Perplexity, the San Francisco-based company behind the world’s leading AI search engine. Read more…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 4, 2024 – Aerospike Inc. (“Aerospike”), the real-time database, announced that Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace, sustained performance of its in-house Aerospike database platform at a rate of 95 million transactions per second (TPS) supporting its annual flagship, The Big Billion Days (TBBD). Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2024 — New Relic has unveiled the New Relic Intelligent Observability Platform, transforming observability from ensuring uptime and reliability into a key driver of business growth and developer velocity for enterprises worldwide. Read more…
Oct. 22, 2024 — In science, data is essential. Scientific methods rely on accurate, well-documented data to draw conclusions, test hypotheses, build models, and explain the natural world. Data isn’t just a byproduct of research; Read more…
ATLANTA, Oct. 18, 2024 — Liquid Web, a leader in managed hosting and scalable cloud solutions for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has announced the launch of its new GPU hosting solution, offering affordable reserved and hourly pricing. Read more…