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Big Data Career Notes: April 2024 Edition

In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…

Lenovo Survey: Most Global Tech Companies Unprepared for AI Use

Artificial intelligence (AI)  is the top priority of IT leaders around the globe, however, businesses are unprepared to make proper use of it, according to Lenovo’s third annual global CIO report. The Beijing-based Read more…

Snorkel Flow Update Offers Enhanced Enterprise Data Management Capabilities

Snorkel AI has announced a major update to its flagship data labeling, filtering, curation, and AI fine-tuning platform named Snorfel Flow. The latest update aims to address one of the most pressing challenges for compan Read more…

AtScale Announces Major Upgrade To Its Semantic Layer Platform

In today’s data-driven world, organizations are constantly seeking innovative solutions to extract maximum value from their data stack. However, with the rise of AI, organizations are dealing with increasingly complex Read more…

Salesforce-Informatica Deal Appears to Have Fallen Through

Talks between Salesforce and Informatica appear to have ended, and no acquisition is expected at this time, according to published reports. A union between Salesforce, the $34-billion enterprise cloud giant, and data Read more…

Snowflake Touts Speed, Efficiency of New ‘Arctic’ LLM

Snowflake today took the wraps off Arctic, a new large language model (LLM) that is available under an Apache 2.0 license. The company says Arctic’s unique mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, combined with its relat Read more…

The Top Five Data Labeling Firms According to Everest Group

The process of annotating and labeling data is critical for supervised learning tasks, such as training a large language model (LLM) and other types of machine learning models. However, the need for human cognition and i Read more…

The Best Strategy for AI Deployment

With AI failure historically reported to be around 85%, there is every reason to step back and consider that most approaches and most vendors supplying AI solutions aren’t working. This same kind of failure rate has be Read more…

EDB Puts Postgres in the Middle of Analytics Workflow with New Lakehouse Stack

EnterpriseDB next month is expected to formally launch a new lakehouse that puts Postgres at the center of analytics workflows, with an eye toward future AI workflows. Currently codenamed Project Beacon, EDB’s new data Read more…

GenAI Dominates SAS Innovate 2024

The SAS Innovate 2024 offered an opportunity for business leaders, technical users, and SAS partners to uncover deeper insights related to the latest technology trends and innovations in the industry. SAS is a global Read more…

Altair Bolsters Analytics Offering with Cambridge Semantics Buy

Altair Engineering will soon fortify its end-to-end data science offering with the acquisition of Cambridge Semantics and its semantic graph database. Terms of the deal, which was announced yesterday, were not disclosed. Read more…

Bridging Intent with Action: The Ethical Journey of AI Democratization

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undergoing a profound transformation, presenting immense opportunities for businesses of all sizes. Generative AI has replaced traditional ML and AI as the hot topic in boardrooms. However Read more…

Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache Paimon

With the introduction of Apache Paimon by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), users can now process data in both batch and streaming modes. Paimon has been under incubation status for a year and has now graduated from Read more…

Starfish Helps Tame the Wild West of Massive Unstructured Data

“What data do you have? And can I access it?” Those may seem like simple questions for any data-driven enterprise. But when you have billions of files spread across petabytes of storage on a parallel file system, the Read more…

Intel Announces Hala Point – World’s Largest Neuromorphic System for Sustainable AI

As we find ourselves on the brink of a technological revolution, the need for efficient and sustainable computing solutions has never been more critical.  A computer system that can mimic the way humans process and s Read more…

Spectra Logic Ups the Ante in Tape Storage

Spectra Logic has been busy. Last week, the data storage company unveiled Spectra LumOS library management software and expanded its enterprise tape storage solutions with two new additions: the TFinity Plus enterpris Read more…

Unlocking the Full Potential of Generative AI for Enterprise Analytics

Steve Jobs once compared the electric motor to the democratization of new technologies. When the electric motor was first invented, it could only be manufactured on a large-scale in a factory. They had great applications Read more…

Linux Foundation Promotes Open Source RAG with OPEA Launch

An offshoot of the Linux Foundation today announced the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), a new community project intended to drive open source innovation in data and AI. A particular focus of OPEA will be around d Read more…

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