
AI Making Data Analyst Job More Strategic, Alteryx Says
AI isn’t replacing the position of the data analyst, as some had feared, but it is making the data analyst’s job more strategic, according to new research from Alteryx. Instead of being looked upon as mere data mu Read more…
Confluent and Databricks Join Forces to Bridge AI’s Data Gap
Enterprise data is scattered across various platforms in different formats across diverse data streams and repositories. This complexity makes it challenging to connect operational and analytical systems, which often rem Read more…
Redgate’s Report Suggests a Year of Consolidation in Database Management
With data volume and complexity continuing to rise rapidly, businesses are striving to achieve greater efficiency by reevaluating their database strategies. Instead of expanding their data stacks, many businesses are pri Read more…
Snowflake Unleashes AI Agents to Unlock Enterprise Data
Snowflake today announced the public preview of Cortex Agents, a new class of AI agents that can perform a range of business tasks using structured and unstructured data. The company also announced that, thanks to Anthro Read more…
Microsoft Open Sources Code Behind PostgreSQL-Based MongoDB Clone
Microsoft quietly last month unveiled DocumentDB, an open source NoSQL database that’s designed to be compatible with MongoDB. The project makes public the PostgreSQL-based technology behind the vCore-based Azure Cosmo Read more…
Three Ways Data Products Empower Internal Users
Many companies want to give their employees access to data, but are overwhelmed by the size and complexity of the data, as well as security and privacy risks inherent with opening it up. One powerful way that companies a Read more…
Memgraph Bolsters AI Development with GraphRAG Support
The best GenAI applications combine the freshest, most pertinent customer data with top language models, but getting that data into the model’s context window isn’t easy. That’s where the new GraphRAG capability an Read more…
DataRobot Expands AI Capabilities with Agnostiq Acquisition
In a move to accelerate the development of agentic AI applications and make it easier to manage compute resources, DataRobot today announced the acquisition of Agnostiq - a Toronto-based software startup that specializes Read more…
Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration
GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still u Read more…
Databricks Acquires AI-Driven BladeBridge to Simplify Data Migrations
Databricks has expanded its portfolio with the acquisition of BladeBridge, a startup specializing in enterprise data warehouse migration solutions. The acquisition aims to enable businesses to easily transition from over Read more…
Three Data Challenges Leaders Need To Overcome to Successfully Implement AI
Advancement in enterprise AI’s early years has largely been defined by experimentation, with businesses testing various models and seeing rapid improvements. However, as the top LLMs’ capabilities converge, AI agents Read more…
Data-Centric World: Insights from Object Management Group’s Latest Journal
Data isn’t just an asset or a resource for an organization, it's a dynamic force that fuels innovation, shapes decision-making, and improves operational efficiency. However, all this potential comes with new challenges Read more…
Data Security and Access Obstacles Grow, But There Is Hope, Immuta Finds
Privacy and compliance concerns are hurting organizations’ ability to provide timely access to data for their internal users, putting initiatives at risk. That’s the topline conclusion from Immuta and its 2025 State Read more…
Aerospike Delivers Full Support for ACID Transactions
Aerospike has always been a fast database, capable of reading and writing huge amounts of data with very tight latencies. With today’s launch of Aerospike version 8, the NoSQL database company has completed its journey Read more…
AI Agent Claims 80% Reduction in Time to Complete Data Tasks
A new AI agent developed by West Monroe can reduce the time it takes to complete manual data tasks, such as conversion and migration, by up to 80%, the company claims. Intellio Hopper, as the tool is called, is a gene Read more…
What Are Reasoning Models and Why You Should Care
The meteoric rise of DeepSeek R-1 has put the spotlight on an emerging type of AI model called a reasoning model. As generative AI applications move beyond conversational interfaces, reasoning models are likely to grow i Read more…
Ververica CEO Alex Walden Joins the Big Data Debrief
Ververica CEO Alex Walden knows a thing or two about streaming data. As the head of the leading commercial outfit behind Apache Flink, Walden has a front-row seat to witness the impact that stream data processing can hav Read more…
LOTUS Promises Fast Semantic Processing on LLMs
Researchers at Stanford University and UC Berkeley recently announced the version 1.0 release of LOTUS, an open source query engine designed to make LLM-powered data processing fast, easy, and declarative. The project’ Read more…