Author » Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie is the managing editor of BigDATAwire (formerly Datanami).
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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