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…
Snowflake Now Runs Apache Spark Directly
Snowflake today announced the public preview of Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark, a new offering that allows customers to run their existing Apache Spark code directly on the Snowflake cloud. The move brings Snowflake c Read more…
AI Skills Are in High Demand, But AI Education Is Not Keeping Up
Millions of workers in the U.S. say they want to reskill in AI. Nearly 47 million white-collar professionals plan to start learning within the next six months, driven by the sense that AI will reshape their jobs, whether Read more…
What Collibra Gains from Deasy Labs in the Race to Govern AI Data
Unstructured data makes up over 90% of the enterprise data estate, yet most of it goes untapped. It sits in PDFs, contracts, emails, and meeting transcripts, locked away in formats that traditional data tools can't eas Read more…
Many Big AI Models Fail to Pass Benchmark for Human Flourishing, New Gloo Study Reports
Artificial Intelligence is a $279 billion industry, with tech companies pouring more and more capital into it every day. The fledgling technology now plays a near omnipresent role in our lives, with DemandSage reporting Read more…
MCP Roundup: Why Database Providers Are Rebuilding Around Context
The shift from experimental AI prototypes to real-world, integrated systems is exposing a critical gap in enterprise data infrastructure: context. As businesses aim to deploy AI agents that act autonomously and intellige Read more…
Why Supply Chain Resilience Starts with a Common Data Language
U.S.-China tariffs may be on pause, but the pressure on supply chains isn’t going anywhere. For supply chain and procurement professionals, the result is continued uncertainty. Teams are having to reexamine sourcing st Read more…
How AI Is Impacting the Job Market for College Grads
If you’re a recent college graduate, the number of jobs available to you may be lower than you would have expected just a few years ago, thanks to adoption of AI technologies. On the other hand, we’re seeing an incre Read more…
TPC25 Preview: Inside the Conference Shaping Frontier AI for Science
When the Trillion Parameter Consortium holds its 2025 all‑hands conference and exhibition, TPC25, in San Jose on July 28–31, computational scientists, system architects, policy leaders, and AI stakeholders from Read more…
State of DNA Storage Discussed in New Whitepaper
The DNA Storage Alliance, which is part of the SNIA community, last month released a technical whitepaper detailing the progress so far in creating DNA storage, when we might see commercial DNA storage offerings, and the Read more…
Apache Sedona: Putting the ‘Where’ In Big Data
Technologists have built distributed systems designed to process a variety of data types for many use cases. We have key-value stores, relational databases, document databases, graph databases, and even time-series datab Read more…
Top 10 Big Data Technologies to Watch in the Second Half of 2025
With the tech industry currently in the midst of its mid-summer lull, now it’s the perfect time to take stock of where we’ve come this year and take a look at where big data tech might take us for the remainder of 20 Read more…
Collate Focuses on Metadata Readiness with $10M Series A Funding
Collate, the startup behind the open source project OpenMetadata, has raised $10 million in Series A funding to tackle a growing challenge in enterprise data: managing metadata across an increasingly complex stack. Read more…
Promethium Wants to Make Self Service Data Work at AI Scale
AI keeps getting smarter, but most companies are still waiting on data. No matter how powerful the technology gets, it’s the fragmented and slow-moving data that continues to drag things down. Now, with AI agents start Read more…
Domo: We’re Much More Than a BI Tool
Companies on the hunt for a business intelligence or analytics tool may have Domo on their short list. But it would be a mistake to think that the American Fork, Utah-based company is only a BI tool vendor. In fact, the Read more…
TigerData Unveils Tiger Lake to Bridge the Gap Between Postgres and Lakehouse
TigerData today introduced Tiger Lake, an architecture it calls “the missing layer between Postgres and the lakehouse for the age of agents.” The release is part of the company’s effort to make it easier for develo Read more…
AWS Launches S3 Vectors
AWS this week launched Amazon S3 Vectors, a new type of bucket that enables customers to store and query a large number of vector embeddings directly within S3. AWS says the new cloud offering delivers sub-second query r Read more…
Industry Reflects on AI Appreciation Day
Happy AI Appreciation Day! While it may not warrant a regular entry on your yearly calendar, the rapid adoption of AI is something to take note of. This year, the event marks a good time to take note of how far we’ve c Read more…
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