Author » Ali Azhar
Databricks Is Making a Long-Term Play to Fix AI’s Biggest Constraint
At this week’s Databricks Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, the company announced two closely linked initiatives: a $100 million investment in global data and AI education, and the launch of Databricks Free Edition, a Read more…
Databricks One Reimagines How Enterprises Work with Data and AI
For all the progress in data infrastructure, most enterprises are still struggling with the last mile: enabling business users to work directly with data and AI without relying on technical teams. In his keynote at Read more…
Sigma Pushes Analytics Forward With Support for Semantic Views and Unstructured Data
For all the advances in analytics, two problems continue to plague data teams: misaligned or inconsistent metrics across tools and the inaccessibility of unstructured data. These two issues not only slow down decision-ma Read more…
DuckLake Makes a Splash in the Lakehouse Stack – But Can It Break Through?
DuckDB, the creators of the embedded analytics engine of the same name, have stirred the data world with a bold rethink of lakehouse architecture. The company has unveiled DuckLake, a new open table format designed to si Read more…
Inside Kumo’s Plan to Scale Predictive AI Across Business Data
As enterprise GenAI adoption continues to surge, another equally transformative, but often less visible shift is happening - the rise of predictable AI built on structured data. While much of the recent innovation has fo Read more…
In Conversation With LandingAI CEO Dan Maloney: Visual AI, Agentic Reasoning, and What’s Ahead
LandingAI, the visual AI company founded by Andrew Ng, recently made two major product developments: a partnership with Snowflake Cortex AI to bring real-time visual inspection to automotive manufacturers and upgrades to Read more…
ClickHouse Secures $350 Million to Build the Data Backbone for the AI Era
ClickHouse, known for its high-performance columnar database technology, has secured $350 million in Series C funding to address the growing demand for real-time and scalable analytics in the AI era. In a market whe Read more…
Hex Raises $70M to Power Its Ambition for a Virtuous Cycle of Data Work
Hex, an AI-driven data science and analytics startup, has secured $70 million in a Series C funding round. In a data space crowded with dashboards, notebooks, and business intelligence (BI) tools, Hex is betting the futu Read more…
Can You Really Trust Your Data? Ataccama Thinks You Should
With data spread across more systems than ever, and regulations tightening, organizations are under pressure to understand how their data moves - and whether it can be trusted. Recognizing the critical need for enhanced Read more…
Confluent Unifies Batch and Stream to Power Agentic AI at Scale
Data streaming platform Confluent has introduced new improvements to Confluent Cloud, its fully managed service built on Apache Kafka. A key upgrade is the introduction of Snapshot queries that allow users to query both Read more…
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