
With $20M in Seed Funding, Datafy Advances Autonomous Cloud Storage Optimization
As cloud storage costs quietly drain enterprise budgets, most solutions still require too much effort and cost for too little return. Misaligned capacity and rigid scaling policies are just some of the issues that inflat Read more…
Meet Andy Konwinski, a 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch
Feeling pretty good about your contributions to big data? Then you should probably get to know Andy Konwinski, whose resume in the space is unparalleled and who is one of BigDATAwire's People to Watch for 2025. We rec Read more…
Scaling the Knowledge Graph Behind Wikipedia
As the fifth most popular website on the Internet, keeping Wikipedia running smoothly is no small feat. The free encyclopedia hosts more than 65 million articles in 340 different languages, and serves 1.5 billion unique Read more…
Ryft Raises $8M to Help Companies Manage Their Own Data Without Relying on Vendors
Over the past decade, companies like Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft, and Google have made it easier for enterprises to store, process, and analyze data at scale. Their platforms offer powerful capabilities out of the b Read more…
How To Keep AI From Making Your Employees Stupid
Where I live in Bend, Oregon, the biggest challenge often used to be deciding which hiking trail to conquer. These days, a new, more existential question is emerging from the digital ether: For all its dazzling brillianc Read more…
IBM Targets AI Inference with New Power11 Lineup
IBM today rolled out its Power11 line of servers, the first new generation of IBM Power servers since 2021. The new servers offer an incremental performance boost over older Power servers. But perhaps more importantly, t Read more…
Graphwise Bolsters GenAI App Development with GraphDB Update
Graph databases are emerging as a key piece of the data stack for developing and running generative AI applications. To that end, Graphwise today took the wraps off a new version of its GraphDB database that will help cu Read more…
Rethinking AI-Ready Data with Semantic Layers
The narrative that "data modeling is dead" has gained momentum in recent years. The rise of AI, especially large language models (LLMs), seems to demand wide, denormalized datasets that are fast to produce and easy to in Read more…
Study Reveals Two Human Factors Behind Big Data Success
As data infrastructure becomes more accessible, small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are steadily catching up to larger firms in big data and analytics capabilities. However, performance outcomes remain uneven. Some or Read more…
Denodo Digs Into Answering the ‘Why’ with DeepQuery
Denodo today unveiled DeepQuery, a new generative AI capability that is now available within its data platform as a private preview. According to Denodo, its new DeepQuery capability leverages the latest in GenAI reasoni Read more…
Diliko Delivers Agentic AI to Teams Without Enterprise Budgets
While much of the attention around GenAI focuses on tools that generate content or automate tasks, some of the more difficult challenges tend to happen behind the scenes. For many organizations, especially those that ope Read more…
AI Is Making Us Dumber, MIT Researchers Find
It’s been theorized that using AI tools like ChatGPT to help with writing tasks will lead to lower brain activity. Now researchers at the MIT Media Lab have discovered strong evidence of that in a newly published study Read more…
AI Doesn’t Have To Be That Hard, Fivetran CEO Says
Complexity seems to be part and parcel of the AI game these days. New technologies demand new tools and new platforms, with a host of new skills to bring it all together. New business models are springing up around AI, w Read more…
Iceberg Ahead! The Backbone of Modern Data Lakes
In recent years, the data landscape has undergone a significant transformation. Data Lakes, once a niche solution for massive data storage, have become a popular choice for enterprises seeking scalability, cost-efficienc Read more…
Cloudflare Now Blocks Data Scrapers by Default
Organizations that are concerned about big AI companies scraping their websites for training data may be interested to learn that Cloudflare, which handles 20% of Internet traffic, now blocks all data scraping by default Read more…
Big Data Career Notes for June 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…
Lucidworks Report Breaks Down What It Takes to Win with GenAI
Only 15% of companies are effectively using GenAI today, and they’re seeing up to 2x higher performance in key metrics like conversion and engagement compared to peers still relying on older tools. At the same time, 44 Read more…
DeltaStream Dreams: Bringing Batch, Streaming, and Real-Time Together
Companies have long dreamed of a single data platform that can handle their real-time and batch data and workloads, without some clunky interface in between. However, unless your name is Uber or Netflix, you probably don Read more…
AI Makes Workers More Productive, PwC Finds
If you’re wondering whether or not to invest in AI at your company, here’s a new data point to consider: The more money a company invests in AI, the higher the revenue growth per worker. That’s according to a new r Read more…
With $17M in Funding, DataBahn Pushes AI Agents to Reinvent the Enterprise Data Pipeline
The world is creating more data than enterprises can realistically manage. In 2024, global data creation is expected to hit 149 zettabytes. By 2028, that number is projected to nearly triple, reaching more than 394 zetta Read more…
Are Data Engineers Sleepwalking Towards AI Catastrophe?
Since the earliest days of big data, data engineers have been the unsung heroes doing the dirty work of moving, transforming, and prepping data so highly paid data scientists and machine learning engineers can do their t Read more…
As Security Teams Drown in Data, LakeVilla Offers a Lifeline
“Security teams shouldn’t have to choose between overspending for speed or losing access to what they store.” That’s how Abstract Security’s COO Chris Camacho put it, and he’s not wrong. As data piles up and Read more…
LinkedIn Introduces Northguard, Its Replacement for Kafka
Facing scalability limitations with Apache Kafka for log file management, LinkedIn developed a new publish-and-subscribe (pub/sub) system that didn’t face the same limitations. The replacement pub/sub system that Linke Read more…