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Open Source AI Gets a Boost as IBM Hands Over Key Projects to Linux Foundation

The open AI movement gains momentum with IBM’s latest contribution. The Linux Foundation has welcomed three new AI projects contributed by Big Blue into its LF AI & Data Foundation: Docling, BeeAI, and the Data Pre Read more…

OpenSearch Gets Parallel Performance Boost Thanks to GPUs

Organizations adopting OpenSearch for big data search, analytics, and AI will see a 9.5x performance increase compared to a prior release of the product, the group behind the open source project say, including a 9.3x boo Read more…

These Are the Top Challenges to GenAI Adoption According to AWS

Businesses are making big bets on generative AI this year, according to a new survey on the nascent technology from AWS. While the investments are sizable, non-trivial challenges remain that have the potential to hamstri Read more…

Do You Own Your Data? Third-Party Doctrine Says No

Your data is yours, right? It seems like a simple question, but thanks to a little-known loophole in federal law, US regulators are can access your private data without a warrant as long as it’s being stored by a third Read more…

Databricks and KPMG Invest in LlamaIndex to Unlock Scalable Enterprise AI

Databricks and KPMG have made minority equity investments in LlamaIndex, a platform for agentic document workflows. These investments aim to accelerate the development and adoption of LlamaIndex’s flagship products, in Read more…

Inside the Chargeback System That Made Harvard’s Storage Sustainable

Like many research institutions, Harvard University struggled to manage the rapidly growing storage environment backing its HPC clusters. The university had little visibility into which research projects were consuming s Read more…

Big Data Smackdown: Data Management Vs. Data Governance

In the world of big data, there are two terms you’ll hear more than any other: data management and data governance. While they are related, the two terms have different meanings, and it’s important to understand the Read more…

Fivetran Aims to Close Data Movement Loop with Census Acquisition

In its goal to create a fully managed end-to-end data movement platform,  data integration company Fivetran has acquired Census, a startup specializing in Reverse extract, transform, and load (ETL), data activation, and Read more…

An Overture to Open Maps

The world of cartography has come a long way from the days when explorers charted new worlds with pen and paper. Today’s digital maps feed a huge amount of geographical data to people, delivered at incredible resolutio Read more…

StarTree Unveils New AI-Native Features to Boost Real-Time Analytics

Big data startup StarTree unveiled new enhancements to its platform on Wednesday, designed to improve AI-driven decision-making for enterprises. The company has launched AI-native features, including Model Context Pro Read more…

Acceldata Bolsters Anomaly Detection in Data Observability Tool

Acceldata this week unveiled a major update to its data observability platform that it claims can automatically detect hard-to-spot anomalies hidden in customers’ data. The update to the xLake Reasoning Engine comes as Read more…

Are We Putting the Agentic Cart Before the LLM Horse?

Agentic AI has been cast as the next big wave of technological innovation that will fundamentally transform how work gets done. Powered by a new class of increasingly accurate and reliable reasoning models, AI agents wil Read more…

Big Data Career Notes April 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…

AI Today and Tomorrow Series #4: Frontier Apps and Bizops

Welcome to the fourth entry in this series on AI. The first one introduced the series, the second discussed artificial general intelligence, and the third reported HPC users’ expectations and concerns about the HPC-AI Read more…

Slash Your Cloud Bill with Deloitte’s Three Stages of FinOps

As public cloud spending approaches the $1 trillion mark in 2025, there’s little doubt that the cloud remains very popular among customers. However, as cloud providers’ revenue and customers’ cloud bills continue t Read more…

Dataminr Bets Big on Agentic AI for the Future of Real-Time Data Intelligence

Dataminr, a real-time AI-powered event detection platform, has introduced Dataminr Intel Agents, an autonomous AI capability designed to provide contextual analysis of emerging events, threats, and risks. As part of the Read more…

Snowflake Report Finds Early GenAI Adopters Ahead of the Curve

GenAI has progressed at an astonishing pace over the last two and a half years. It began with a surge of exploration and hype in late 2022, followed by a wave of early adoption as tools like ChatGPT and enterprise copilo Read more…

Three Ways AI Can Weaken Your Cybersecurity

Even before generative AI arrived on the scene, companies struggled to adequately secure their data, applications, and networks. In the never-ending cat-and-mouse game between the good guys and the bad guys, the bad guys Read more…

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