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Data Management Will Be Key for AI Success in 2025, Studies Say

The AI boom hasn’t generated a prodigious number of real-world successes just yet, but it has succeeded in doing one thing: casting fresh light on the critical importance of high quality data and solid data management Read more…

BigID Expands Capabilities with New Features to Enhance Security and Compliance

BigID, a company specializing in data security, privacy, compliance, and AI-driven data management, has revealed several advancements focused on improving cloud security, enhancing compliance measures, and reinforcing da Read more…

Alation Introduces Document Hubs for Unified Data Access and Governance

The way organizations manage and share data can make or break their ability to collaborate and make informed decisions. Inconsistent data definitions and fragmented documentation often create barriers between teams, limi Read more…

Amazon Taps Automated Reasoning to Safeguard Critical AI Systems

Amazon is implementing AI aggressively across its business in a bid to improve operational efficiency, delight customers, and ultimately make money. But adopting probabilistic systems that don’t always behave as expect Read more…

AWS Expands Sagemaker To Combine Data, Analytics, and AI Capabilities

AWS SageMaker has long served as the go-to platform for managing the entire lifecycle of machine learning (ML) and GenAI models. It offers tools to build, train, and deploy these models. The platform is also used to acce Read more…

AWS Bolsters GenAI Capabilities in SageMaker, Bedrock

AWS unveiled a slew of new updates to its AI tools during its re:Invent conference today, including enhancements to its SageMaker HyperPod AI model training environment, as well as to Bedrock, its environment for buildin Read more…

AWS Takes On Google Spanner with Atomic Clock-Powered Distributed DBs

AWS today announced two new database services aimed at providing low-latency data processing that can support transactions anywhere on the globe. The new services, including the Postgres-flavored Aurora DSQL and DynamoDB Read more…

New AWS Service Lets Businesses Upload Data to Cloud From Secure Terminals

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is introducing a new feature that allows customers to schedule time slots at designated physical locations to connect their storage devices and upload data to AWS cloud.  The AWS Data Transf Read more…

How Apache Iceberg Won the Open Table Wars

Apache Iceberg has recently emerged as the de facto open-table standard for large-scale datasets, with a thriving community and support from many of the leading data infrastructure vendors. But why did Iceberg emerge as Read more…

The Evolution of Time-Series Models: AI Leading a New Forecasting Era

We are now in an era where large foundation models (large-scale, general-purpose neural networks pre-trained in an unsupervised manner on large amounts of diverse data) are transforming fields like computer vision, natu Read more…

Pinecone Enhances Vector Database with AI Inference Capabilities

Creating AI applications that can handle large datasets has been a persistent challenge for developers. Traditional methods often require complex infrastructure and manual adjustments. This can slow down the development Read more…

Five Things to Look For at AWS re:Invent 2024

The turkey has been eaten and the discount TVs have been purchased, which signals that it’s time to partake of the next time-honored tradition in the holiday schedule: Attending AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. In 2023, Read more…

Big Data Career Notes for November 2024

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…

The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…

Databricks to Raise $5B at $55B Valuation: Report

Databricks is reportedly seeking to raise at least $5 billion in an equity funding round at a valuation of $55 billion. The deal, reported by The Information, would allow employees to cash out a portion of their shares. Read more…

LLMs and GenAI: When To Use Them

Recent advancements in AI have brought forth a new generation of tools that can process and generate human-like content across multiple modalities. At the forefront of this revolution are Large Language Models (LLMs) and Read more…

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