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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…
GenAI Doesn’t Need Bigger LLMs. It Needs Better Data
An exorbitant amount of time and energy is being spent developing and talking about the technology that goes into large language models. While the tech is indeed impressive, businesses that are building generative AI app Read more…
DuckDB Walks to the Beat of Its Own Analytics Drum
One of the most popular new databases at the moment is DuckDB. With millions of downloads per month and two startups created around it, the open source column store has achieved feathery heights usually reserved for bigg Read more…
Couchbase Bolsters GenAI Development with Vector Search, RAG
The latest release of the Couchbase database adds support for vector search, integration with Llamaindex and LangChain, and support for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) techniques, all of which are designed to help c Read more…
Does Big Data Still Need Stacks?
The IT industry loves its stacks. First there was the LAMP stack, then the Hadoop stack became popular. Over the past five years, something called the Modern Data Stack has taken hold in our collective data psyche, and n Read more…
News In Brief
Data Fabric Firm Denodo Raises $336 Million
Data virtualization company Denodo bucked the overall tech investment slowdown today with news of a massive $336 million Series B round by a private equity firm. Denodo Technologies traces its roots back to 1999, when Read more…
Google Cloud Rolls Out Data Clean Rooms
Google Cloud today unveiled a preview of data clean rooms in BigQuery that will enable companies to share sensitive data while protecting security and privacy. Data clean rooms have proliferated in recent years as com Read more…
Striim Bolsters Cloud Data Integration to Google
Two months after enhancing real-time data connections to Snowflake and Databricks, streaming data integration provider Striim today unveiled an improved, more secure connection to Google Cloud with the launch of Striim C Read more…
Redis Delivers First Big Release Under New CEO Trollope
Redis today unleashed a torrent of new functionality in the database, including vector search, native triggers, and a built-in change data capture capability, among others. The features reflect priorities that new CEO Ro Read more…
This Just In
Cranbury, N.J., April 13, 2023 — Slingshot, the digital workplace from software company Infragistics, today announces a solution to enable everyday business users to easily see what data their organization possesses, access and analyze it the moment they need it, and use it to guide informed business decisions. Read more…
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb. 13, 2023 — Datanami, the leading publication covering big data, analytics, and AI news, today unveiled its BigDATAwire People to Watch for 2023. This feature highlights key community members who are poised to drive the industry forward in the coming year. Read more…
Feb. 3, 2023 — When Vern Paxson was a graduate student in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab) Network Research Group in the 1990s, the term “cybersecurity” was not well known. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16, 2022 — Freshpaint, a Y Combinator-backed company that enables businesses to capture and activate customer data across hundreds of integrations like Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Iterable, Braze, Snowflake, and more without relying heavily on engineering, announced $14.5 million in financing, with a $9.5M Series A led by Intel Capital and an additional $5 million in debt. Read more…