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IBM Embraces Iceberg, Presto in New Watsonx Data Lakehouse
IBM yesterday unveiled watsonx.data, a new data lakehouse offering for cloud and on-prem that will use object storage and Apache Iceberg, an open data format. Big Blue launched two other offerings in the new watsonx fami Read more…
Amazon Bedrock: New Suite of Generative AI Tools Unveiled by AWS
AWS has entered the red-hot realm of generative AI with the introduction of a suite of generative AI development tools. The cornerstone of these is Amazon Bedrock, a tool for building generative AI applications using pre Read more…
Bringing Cloud Data Costs Under Control
It should come as no surprise that companies are struggling to contain the cost of storing and processing data in the cloud. With no upper limit on scalability, companies that were once data-starved can easily swing to b Read more…
Apache Druid Charms in Upper Echelons of OLAP Database Performance
Companies that find themselves unable to get answers out of traditional analytical databases quickly enough to satisfy their performance requirements may want to check out an emerging class of real-time analytical databa Read more…
Data Leaders Share Thoughts on World Backup Day
As far as holidays go, World Backup Day does not generate the excitement of Christmas or Halloween. There is no mascot, such as a “Backup Bunny” (sorry, Easter), nor any imbibing of adult beverages, as on St. Patrick Read more…
Considerations for Combating Data Gravity Challenges
Today’s increasingly competitive business landscape requires organizations to always be innovative in order to deliver premium experiences to their customers. For many businesses, this remains a significant hurdle. As Read more…
Hyperscale Analytics Growing Faster Than Expected, Ocient Says
After spending more than five years and close to a hundred million dollars to rewrite the innards of an analytics database around the superfast I/O of NVMe drives, Ocient enjoyed better-than-expected 2022 results, the co Read more…
Apache Pinot Uncorks Real-Time Data for Ad-Tech Firm
A year ago, customers of Sovrn’s affiliate marketing business could expect to wait 24 to 48 hours before getting access to new data describing online consumer behavior. That didn’t cut it, so the company looked to a Read more…
Fauna Boosts Observability with Logs
Fauna this week unveiled the addition of logs to its globally distributed database service, which should give customers greater observability into how their queries are performing and help reduce cloud costs. Fauna’ Read more…
Open Table Formats Square Off in Lakehouse Data Smackdown
If you’re constructing a data lakehouse today, you’ll need a table format to build on. But which open table format should you choose: Apache Iceberg, Databricks Delta Table, or Apache Hudi? A good place to start is i Read more…
This Just In
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 28, 2023 — LogicMonitor, a leading SaaS-based unified observability platform for hybrid IT infrastructure, announced it has expanded its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read more…
NEW YORK, July 27, 2023 — Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) at AWS Summit New York announced the expansion of its fully managed foundation model (FM) service Amazon Bedrock to include the addition of Cohere as an FM provider and the latest FMs from Anthropic and Stability AI, as well as a new capability for creating fully managed agents in just a few clicks—a game-changing feature for builders, with no expertise required. Read more…
July 27, 2023 — AWS users can now access the leading performance demonstrated in industry benchmarks of AI training and inference. The cloud giant officially switched on a new Amazon EC2 P5 instance powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. Read more…
BOSTON, July 20, 2023 — Syniti, a global leader in enterprise data management, announced that its Syniti Knowledge Platform (SKP) is now available in AWS Marketplace. AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read more…
SAN ANTONIO, June 20, 2023 — Rackspace Technology, a leading end-to-end, multicloud technology solutions company, today announced a new Cloud Modernization Survey commissioned by Rackspace Technology and supported by AWS. Read more…
NEW YORK and AUSTIN, Texas, June 2, 2023 — Accenture has acquired Nextira, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Partner that uses AWS to deliver cloud-native innovation, predictive analytics and immersive experiences for their clients. Read more…
SEATTLE, May 31, 2023 — Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon Security Lake, a service that automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from across their AWS environments, leading SaaS providers, on-premises environments, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake, so customers can act on security data faster and simplify security data management across hybrid and multicloud environments. Read more…
NEW YORK and LONDON, May 18, 2023 — KX, creator of kdb+, the industry’s trusted time series and analytics database, today announced a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make kdb Insights available as a fully managed service on Amazon FinSpace. Read more…
VANCOUVER, Wash., May 16, 2023 — dataPARC, innovators in industrial analytics and manufacturing decision support, today announced the release of its next-generation data historian platform, aimed at delivering federated plant operations data to engineering, technology, and operations teams. Read more…
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 11, 2023 — Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, built upon their years-long relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a new announcement designed to augment product integrations across data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), bolster go-to-market efforts and innovative vertical solutions, and accelerate cloud transformation efforts for its customers. Read more…