
Tag: agentic AI
AI Agents Debut Atop Gartner 2025 Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech
How quickly does the AI market evolve? Consider that a year ago, Gartner didn’t even include AI agents on its Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Fast forward 12 months, and AI agents sit atop the hype cycle, along w Read more…
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…
AI ROI Hinges On Addressing New Challenges While Rectifying Old Ones
While some early adopters have reaped the rewards of AI, the majority of enterprises are struggling to see meaningful ROI from their investments in the technology. A recent Axios study revealed that, while 73 percent of Read more…
Why OpenAI’s New Open Weight Models Are a Big Deal
The smoke is still clearing from OpenAI’s big GPT-5 launch today, but the verdict is starting to come in on the company’s other big announcement this week: the launch of two new open weight models, gpt-oss-120b and g Read more…
McKinsey Dishes the Goods on Latest Tech Trends
What frontier technologies should businesses look to for competitive advantage in 2025? One place to look is the management and consulting firm McKinsey & Company, which recently published its fifth annual “Technol Read more…
Top 10 Big Data Technologies to Watch in the Second Half of 2025
With the tech industry currently in the midst of its mid-summer lull, now it’s the perfect time to take stock of where we’ve come this year and take a look at where big data tech might take us for the remainder of 20 Read more…
Promethium Wants to Make Self Service Data Work at AI Scale
AI keeps getting smarter, but most companies are still waiting on data. No matter how powerful the technology gets, it’s the fragmented and slow-moving data that continues to drag things down. Now, with AI agents start Read more…
Domo: We’re Much More Than a BI Tool
Companies on the hunt for a business intelligence or analytics tool may have Domo on their short list. But it would be a mistake to think that the American Fork, Utah-based company is only a BI tool vendor. In fact, the 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…
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…
HPE Moves Into Agentic AIOps with GreenLake Intelligence
HPE today launched GreenLake Intelligence, a new AI-powered framework designed to proactively monitor IT operations and autonomously take action to prevent problems before they arise. The company, which made the announce Read more…
AI Agents and The Trust Equation: When Does Real-Time Data Matter Most?
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves from offering suggestions to making autonomous decisions, organizations face a fundamental shift in their data requirements. This transition from exploratory AI to agentic AI—sys Read more…
WEKA Launches NeuralMesh to Serve Needs of Emerging AI Workloads
WEKA today pulled the cover off its latest product, NeuralMesh, which is a re-imagining of its distributed file system that’s designed to handle the expanding storage and serving needs--as well as the tighter latency a Read more…
Agentic AI Orchestration Layer Should be Independent, Dataiku CEO Says
We’re still early in the agentic AI game, but a few things are becoming clear: Customers will not tolerate lock in either at the data or AI level, and coordination of agents with unified governance will be necessary. F Read more…
Agentic AI Spurs Data Stack Updates at Snowflake Summit
How do you move, store, access, and track data in the age of AI? It sounds like a simple question, but it has complex implications for the companies that are actually doing it. This challenge was front and center at the Read more…
Starburst Brings AI Agents Into Data Platform
Starburst is adding agentic AI capabilities to its platform, including a pre-built agent for insight exploration as well as tools and tech for building custom agents. It also added a new data catalog, moved a number of p Read more…
Informatica Goes All-In on AI Agents for Data Management
Informatica made a series of agentic AI announcements today at its annual user conference today in Las Vegas, including the introduction of AI Agent Engineering, a new offering that will enable customers to build their o Read more…
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…
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…
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…