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Six Ways to Bolster Your Data and AI Team In a Down Economy
With persistent inflation threatening to tip the economy into a recession, many companies have taken up defensive positions. While it doesn’t signal the end of big data analytics and AI projects, it may be a sign that Read more…
SAS Innovate Conference Showcases Investments, Partnerships, and Benchmarks
The SAS Innovate conference drew a global crowd this week in Orlando. The analytics pioneer unveiled new R&D investment plans, new and continued partnerships and integrations, and a benchmarking study that explored t 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…
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…
Database Futures with a Cockroach Labs Co-Founder
Databases have evolved considerably over the past decade, but there’s still quite a bit more that databases can do, according to Cockroach Labs Co-Founder and CTO Peter Mattis, who sees serverless and multi-cloud capab Read more…
Cloud Databases Are Maturing Rapidly, Gartner Says
The mad dash to the cloud continues, but now we’re entering a maturation phase that’s bringing more advanced capabilities for both analytical and transactional workloads in the cloud, Gartner analysts wrote in their Read more…
Fluentd Rides Wave of Roll-Your-Own Observability
Companies that want to collect gobs of observability data but process the data in multiple places while keeping it free from analytic tool vendor’s proprietary formats may be interested in Fluentd, an open source data Read more…
The Drawbacks of ChatGPT for Production Conversational AI Systems
With its detailed and human-like written responses, ChatGPT has caught the world’s attention and spawned a meaningful discussion about how people should interact with this form of AI. ChatGPT is an upgrade in many ways Read more…
Are Databases Becoming Just Query Engines for Big Object Stores?
Object storage is winning the battle for big data storage in such a convincing fashion that database makers are beginning to cede data storage to object storage vendors and concentrating instead on optimizing their SQL q Read more…
Fivetran Benchmarks Five Cloud Data Warehouses
ETL software maker Fivetran this week released results of a benchmark test it ran comparing the cost and performance of five cloud data warehouses, including BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, Snowflake, and Synapse. The bi Read more…
This Just In
SAN FRANCISCO, May 25, 2023 — Habu, a global innovator in data clean room software, has announced a collaboration with Microsoft Azure to integrate its Data Clean Room applications with Azure confidential computing enabling businesses to unlock insights from sensitive data without sacrificing security, privacy, or performance. 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…
NEW YORK, April 20, 2023 — Bloomberg announced today that clients who use Microsoft Azure can seamlessly access both real-time trading data and reference, pricing, regulatory and point in time historical datasets via a private connection in the Azure Virtual Network (VNet), allowing secure and reliable data access to power high priority apps in the cloud. Read more…
SEATTLE, April 18, 2023 — Qumulo today announced Azure Native Qumulo Scalable File Service is now generally available from the Microsoft Azure portal. Companies can provision the service on demand to power file-based workloads in the cloud that require high performance and low latency such as: Read more…
NEW YORK and LONDON, April 4, 2023 — KX today announced the general availability of one of the industry’s first Data Timehouse platforms, kdb Insights Enterprise on Microsoft Azure. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 2023 — Instabase, a leader in applied AI for the enterprise, has announced the availability of its platform in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Read more…
REDMOND, Wash., March 15, 2022 — Today, Microsoft Corp. announced advancements in cloud technologies for healthcare and life sciences with the general availability of Azure Health Data Services and updates to Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Read more…
SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 22, 2020 — dotData, focused on delivering full-cycle data science automation and operationalization for the enterprise, today announced that dotData Enterprise is now commercially available on Microsoft Azure and accessible through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Read more…
ATLANTA, GA , Sept. 21 — NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), a software and services leader for the retail, restaurant and banking industries, today announced a collaboration with Microsoft to power NCR Digital Connected Services (DCS). Read more…
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 4, 2020—NetApp announced the availability of Azure NetApp Files in the government region data centers on Microsoft Azure. This expansion of Azure NetApp Files, one of the only Azure native, high-performance file storage services, offers the TCO, performance, management, and confidence demanded by critical applications for federal, Department of Defense, and state and local agencies that have strict government security and regulatory compliance requirements. Read more…