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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…
Public Cloud Horse Race Heating Up: Gartner
Gartner predicts that worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will grow to $591.8 billion in 2023, a 20.7% growth from 2022. The public cloud horse race has several cloud services companies jockeying for pos Read more…
This Just In
TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 30, 2023 — Octopai, a global pioneering force in metadata management and enterprise-grade data lineage solutions, is pleased to announce its recent achievement of Microsoft‘s Co-Sell Incentivized status. Read more…
AUSTIN, Texas and REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 15, 2023 — Oracle and Microsoft have announced Oracle Database@Azure, which gives customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and deployed in Microsoft Azure datacenters. Read more…
July 19, 2023 — Microsoft today introduced the preview of Microsoft Azure Boost, one of Azure’s latest infrastructure innovations. Azure Boost is a new system that offloads virtualization processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS, such as networking, storage, and host management, onto purpose-built hardware and software. Read more…
NEW YORK, July 13, 2023 — Pinecone, the vector database company providing long-term memory for AI, today announced it will be available on Microsoft Azure. Read more…
SAN DIEGO, July 11, 2023 — Teradata today announced it will offer Teradata VantageCloud Lake on Microsoft Azure, opening up new markets, new capabilities, and new use cases. Read more…
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…