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Vendors Rush to Adopt MCP, the USB-C Cord for AI Integration
When Anthropic unveiled Model Context Protocol (MCP) last fall, it didn’t make a whole lot of headlines. Nearly six months later, the new protocol is the talk of the town as one data infrastructure vendor after another Read more…
Ambari Hadoop Cluster Manager is Back on the Elephant
The term "Hadoop Cluster" can have many meanings. In the most simple sense, it can refer to the core components: HDFS (Hadoop Distributed FileSystem), YARN (Resource scheduler), Tez, and batch MapReduce (MapReduce proces Read more…
How to Build a Lean AI Strategy with Data
Your organization is probably collecting more data than ever, eager to be ready for an AI-driven future. But instead of powering transformative initiatives, the data itself often becomes a bottleneck. Massive datasets ca 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…
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…
News In Brief
OpenSearch Gets Parallel Performance Boost Thanks to GPUs
Organizations adopting OpenSearch for big data search, analytics, and AI will see a 9.5x performance increase compared to a prior release of the product, the group behind the open source project say, including a 9.3x boo 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…
New Benchmark for Real-Time Analytics Released by Timescale
Real-time analytics pushes the limits on data that distributed hardware and software can deliver. To adequately measure the relative performance of real-time analytics databases, Timescale today released a real-time anal Read more…
ServiceNow Nabs LLM-Powered Chatbot Pioneer Moveworks for $2.85B
Long before ChatGPT ignited the generative AI revolution, a company called Moveworks was busy using a promising new family of language models to help solve tough technological problems in customer service. All that work Read more…
Big Data Heads to the Moon
For most people in IT, “the edge” conjures images of small computers housed in retail outlets, hospitals, or maybe an oil rig. But the word takes on an entirely new meaning for Lonestar Data Holdings, which today too Read more…
This Just In
May 6, 2025 |
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2025 — Algolia today introduces an intuitive, AI-powered feature: Smart Groups. Smart Groups provides merchandisers and content managers greater control over how products and items are displayed across search results and category pages. Read more…
Apr 22, 2025 |
TORONTO, April 22, 2025 — Qlik, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics and artificial intelligence, is partnering with Alpha Auto Group (AAG), an part of Global Automotive Holdings (GAHL), a leading automotive dealership network operating across Canada, the U.S., the UK, and Europe. Read more…
Apr 10, 2025 |
TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 10, 2025 – COMPUTEX 2025, one of the world’s leading exhibitions for AIoT and startup innovation, will take place May 20–23 at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Halls 1 and 2. Read more…
Apr 8, 2025 |
CHICAGO, April 8, 2025 — NielsenIQ (NIQ), a leader in consumer intelligence, has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Gastrograph AI, a market leading discovery and inquiry platform for sensory insights. Read more…
Feb 4, 2025 |
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 4, 2025 — Since ChatGPT’s late-2022 launch, AI job postings in the United States “have ramped up dramatically, from 29,509 in Q4 2022 to 49,577 in Q4 2024, an uptick of 68 percent,” Read more…
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