Author » Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie is the managing editor of BigDATAwire (formerly Datanami).
Agentic AI Orchestration Layer Should be Independent, Dataiku CEO Says
We’re still early in the agentic AI game, but a few things are becoming clear: Customers will not tolerate lock in either at the data or AI level, and coordination of agents with unified governance will be necessary. F Read more…
Databricks Invests in Core Data Engineering, Operations
AI might be driving the bus when it comes to IT investments. But as companies struggle with their AI rollouts, they’re realizing that issues with the data are what’s holding them back. That’s what’s leading Datab Read more…
Databricks Wants to Take the Pain Out of Building, Deploying AI Agents with Bricks
Databricks today launched Agent Bricks, a new offering aimed at helping customers AI agent systems up and running quickly, with the cost, safety, and efficiency they demand. Many companies are investing large resource Read more…
‘The Relational Model Always Wins,’ RelationalAI CEO Says
The tech industry has a voracious appetite for the Next Big Thing. But sometimes, it’s the older thing that ends up being the right tool for a new job. That’s the argument being made by RelationalAI founder and CEO M Read more…
Stream Processing at the Edge: Why Embracing Failure is the Winning Strategy
As a former network and storage systems administrator, it’s been amazing to watch the cloud abstract away the complexity of infrastructure. Managed services today allow enterprises to scale systems without needing to g Read more…
Change to Apache Iceberg Could Streamline Queries, Open Data
The folks behind the Apache Iceberg project are considering making an architectural change to the specification in the next version that would allow query engines to access metadata directly from the Iceberg catalog, the Read more…
Meet David Flynn, a 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch
“The future is already here,” science fiction writer William Gibson once said. “It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” One person who’s looking to bring data storage into the future and make it widely distrib Read more…
Agentic AI Spurs Data Stack Updates at Snowflake Summit
How do you move, store, access, and track data in the age of AI? It sounds like a simple question, but it has complex implications for the companies that are actually doing it. This challenge was front and center at the Read more…
Why Snowflake Bought Crunchy Data
Monday brought the first surprise from Snowflake Summit 25: the acquisition of Crunchy Data for a reported $250 million. Crunchy Data is an established South Carolina company that has been running and building upon the o Read more…
How to Capitalize on Software Defined Storage, Securely and Compliantly
Enterprise needs for data management have exploded in recent years both in scale and complexity. For example, major financial institutions handle millions of transactions per second across multiple data centers, hypersca Read more…
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