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MHC Strengthens AI Efforts Through Progress Hybrid Data Pipeline

progress imageMHC’s NorthStar document automation platform serves more than 1,000 customers across various industries, including financial services, healthcare, government, manufacturing, retail and more. As such, those customers operate in varied ERP environments, both on-premises and in the cloud. When MHC undertook the development of a cloud-based solution, that posed a number of challenges.

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How Aerospike Is Helping AI Do More With Less Data Infrastructure

The margin for inefficiency in AI infrastructure is shrinking fast. With each new application, data systems are expected to do more with less. Developers often end up writing clunky workarounds just to get databases to r Read more…

GigaOm Rates the Object Stores

Thanks to their infinite scalability, object stores are the software medium of choice for today’s big data and AI projects. But how do the various object stores compare? GigaOm shed some light on the question with its Read more…

Beyond Words: Battle for Semantic Layer Supremacy Heats Up

When it comes to using AI to accelerate BI, practitioners are finding out that semantics really matters. In fact, when you’re using AI to generate SQL to query a database table, knowing exactly what data a particular t Read more…

Can $156M Help Observe Redefine Observability for the AI Era?

The gold rush for AI has created an invisible side effect: an explosion of telemetry data that threatens to overwhelm the very systems built to keep applications running smoothly. Every new service and model generates mo Read more…

Meet Prukalpa Sankar, a 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch

Atlan emerged seemingly out of nowhere to become one of the preeminent providers of data catalog solutions. But the path to success for Atlan did not arrive spontaneously, and was the result of hard work and experience o Read more…

Oracle Launches Exadata Service for AI, Compliance, and Location-Critical Workloads

Running mission-critical applications across multiple regions is rarely straightforward. Data must be kept close to end users to avoid latency, synchronized across locations to maintain uptime, and stored in jurisdiction Read more…

Why OpenAI’s New Open Weight Models Are a Big Deal

The smoke is still clearing from OpenAI’s big GPT-5 launch today, but the verdict is starting to come in on the company’s other big announcement this week: the launch of two new open weight models, gpt-oss-120b and g Read more…

Google Pushes AI Agents Into Everyday Data Tasks

The shift toward agentic AI has been gaining momentum across the enterprise world. AI agents are no longer just research demos or product experiments; they're beginning to take on real operational roles. From orchestrati Read more…

EU’s AI Act Enters New Enforcement Phase

The European Union’s AI Act hit another stage of enforcement over the weekend that will impact how companies can build and implement AI systems that impact or are used by European residents. It’s been one year sin Read more…

AI Is Changing the Cybersecurity Game in Ways Both Big and Small

The world of cybersecurity is extremely dynamic and changes on a weekly basis. With that said, the advent of generative and agentic AI is accelerating the already manic pace of change in the cybersecurity landscape, and Read more…

BigDATAwire Exclusive Interview: DataPelago CEO on Launching the Spark Accelerator

Apache Spark remains one of the most widely used engines for large-scale data processing, but it was built in an era when cloud infrastructure was mostly CPU-bound. Today’s cloud environments look very different.  Read more…

Cloudera Nabs Czech Firm Taikun for Hybrid Cloud Tech

Cloudera bolstered its hybrid cloud and multi-cloud chops today with the acquisition of Taikun, a Czech Republic-based developer of software for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters from a single pane of glass. Kube Read more…

TPC25 Provides Glimpse at Future of AI-Powered Science

How will AI impact science? Nobody knows the full answer to that question, but last week’s Trillion Parameter Consortium conference, dubbed TPC25, provided tantalizing hints at what’s to come. What could one scien Read more…

Our Shared AI Future: Industry, Academia, and Government Come Together at TPC25

Many of the advances in AI recently have come from the private sector, specifically the handful of giant tech firms with the resources and expertise to develop massive foundation models. While those advances have generat Read more…

McKinsey Dishes the Goods on Latest Tech Trends

What frontier technologies should businesses look to for competitive advantage in 2025? One place to look is the management and consulting firm McKinsey & Company, which recently published its fifth annual “Technol Read more…

Big Data Career Notes for July 2025

It’s that time of month again–time for Big Data Career Notes, a monthly feature where we keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, ne Read more…

Doing More With Your Existing Kafka

Apache Kafka has become the foundation for real-time data pipelines across industries. From processing financial transactions to tracking IoT sensor data, Kafka is a key building block of enterprise architecture. Despite Read more…

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