Tag: api
Modern Data Co. Seeks to Build the Last Mile to Data
Organizations are drowning in data, yet they’re struggling to convert that data into actionable intelligence. Building that last mile of connectivity between raw data and useful information is the goal of a young firm Read more…
Cube Secures $25M to Advance Its Semantic Layer Platform
Cube, a San Francisco-based startup has raised $25 million in its latest funding round as it aims to enhance its semantic layer platform, which enables efficient data querying, transformation, and visualization. The Read more…
Cutting Through the GenAI Noise
The launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 ignited an explosion of interest in generative AI technology, as well as a hefty dose of hype and uncertainty. For businesses starting to plot their GenAI strategies, cutting through th Read more…
You Can Now Get Priority Access to ChatGPT for $20 a Month
Since it was released in late November, ChatGPT has become the latest Internet sensation, generating well-written articles, songs, and term papers. More than 100 million people have flocked to try out the free service, w Read more…
Serverless Evolved: The Power of Stateful Applications in Four Simple Business Benefits
"We predict that serverless computing will grow to dominate the future of cloud computing." —Berkeley CS Department Serverless has gained popularity, mostly in the adoption of Function as a Service (FaaS). These state Read more…
Composable Analytics: Where Headless BI Meets Your Data in the Cloud
Application development has gone composable. It’s generally agreed that huge monolithic applications should be broken up into smaller, individual services and accessed via Web services and APIs. But what about data ana Read more…
Oh Snap! Data Integration Firm the Latest Unicorn
Following a Series H round of funding totaling $165 million led by Sixth Street, data and application integration vendor SnapLogic is now worth over $1 billion, the company announced today. Since it was founded in 200 Read more…
VMware Seeks to Liberate Memory Bottlenecks with Project Capitola
At its VMworld 2021 event this week, VMware introduced Project Capitola, a new company-led effort to use its vSphere software to virtualize application access to various types of memory, from DRAM to PMEM to NVMe. The go Read more…
Hands-Off: Manual Data Integration Tasks Plummeting, Gartner Says
While the need to integrate data has never been greater, the addition of machine learning and other forms of automation is driving a large reduction in the amount of manual data management tasks that human workers are re Read more…
Apollo CEO Bullish on GraphQL’s Potential in the Enterprise
With $130 million in new venture funding and a valuation in excess of $1.5 billion, Geoff Schmidt, the CEO and co-founder of GraphQL-backer Apollo, has a lot to be excited about. But the way Schmidt sees it, Apollo is ju Read more…
Future Proofing Data Pipelines
Data pipelines are critical structures for moving data from its source to a destination. For decades, companies have used data pipelines to move information, such as from transactional with analytic systems. However, as Read more…
Hitching a Ride to the Edge with Akamai
The edge, according to marketers, is a magical place where nearly anything is possible. But for Akamai Technologies, the $18-billion company that put content delivery networks (CDNs) on the map during the dot-com boom, t Read more…
Knowi Aims to ‘Elevate’ Answers Within Slack
Business intelligence software company Knowi today launched Elevate, a new offering that’s designed to help non-technical users ask questions of data through the company’s unified analytics platform. The software use Read more…
Cloudian Pins Container Hopes on K8s Operator
Object storage systems like Amazon S3 are currently winning the big data storage battle, thanks to low costs and infinite capacities. But getting object stores to work with containerized applications isn’t always strai Read more…
Apache Flink Gets More Stateful
An updated application programming interface for building and orchestrating stateful applications, so-called because such programs retain client data from one session to the next, is also the first event-driven database Read more…
MongoDB Embraces GraphQL with Document Database
If GraphQL is the data-access API of the future, then MongoDB wants to be a part of it. That much is evident from today’s announcement that the popular document-style NoSQL database is now serving queries formatted usi Read more…
Amazon Uses ML to Transcribe Medical Speech
Medical applications are emerging as an attractive market for AI developers pitching machine learning solutions that also meet strict regulatory requirements for protecting patient privacy. This week, for example, Nvi Read more…
Apache Spark Is Great, But It’s Not Perfect
Apache Spark is one of the most widely used tools in the big data space, and will continue to be a critical piece of the technology puzzle for data scientists and data engineers for the foreseeable future. With that said Read more…
Will GraphQL Become a Standard for the New Data Economy?
Don't look now but a new language called GraphQL is emerging that could radically simplify how developers use APIs to get data into applications, and potentially provide a graph-like alternative to procedural REST. The c Read more…