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AI Never Clocks Out: How Smart Leaders Are Funding the 24/7 Customer Revolution
When DIRECTV sought to elevate its customer experience to the next level, it shifted its approach to AI adoption. Its leadership implemented a targeted AI solution for predictive routing, which delivered measurable resul Read more…
Adapting Your Search Engine to ‘AI Armageddon’ and ‘Zero Click’ Journeys
AI is upending all sorts of traditions, including how people get information and how they shop. Thanks to AI-powered search engines, users no longer need to visit websites to get news or product information. That change Read more…
Tackling Observability Data Challenges with Honeycomb’s CEO Christine Yen
Honeycomb’s CEO Christine Yen joins the Big Data Debrief to talk about the challenges of observability data and how Honeycomb’s approach is unique in the space. Christine Yen and her Honeycomb co-founder, Charity Read more…
This Big Data Lesson Applies to AI
There’s no shortage of hype when it comes to AI. We’re constantly bombarded with warnings that AI is about to change things forever, and that if we don’t implement AI now, we risk becoming failures. In many ways, t Read more…
Cloudflare Unveils Jetflow, Its Framework for Big Data Pipelines
When Cloudflare reached the limits of what its existing ELT tool could do, the company had a decision to make. It could try and find a an existing ELT tool that could handle its unique requirements, or it could build its Read more…
News In Brief
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…
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…
This Just In
Gartner recognizes Pecan as a Cool Vendor as company introduces an enterprise solution for supply chain leaders
NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 28, 2025 — Read more…
BOULDER, Colo. and MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 12, 2025 — Arcitecta today announced new enhancements to its Mediaflux data management platform, delivering an AI-ready data fabric that supports all forms of data and AI models and provides a built-in vector database within its high-performance XODB database. Read more…
DALLAS, July 15, 2025 — Data Axle today released The Connected Customer: Unlocking Relevance Through Unified Identity Intelligence, a guide built on insights from a recent survey of consumers and senior marketers across diverse sectors. Read more…
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…
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…