Tag: big data
Meet David Flynn, a 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch
“The future is already here,” science fiction writer William Gibson once said. “It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” One person who’s looking to bring data storage into the future and make it widely distrib Read more…
Row Zero Provides Excel-Like Experience for Billion-Row Data Sets
What do you do when your data set exceeds Microsoft Excel’s limit of 1 million rows? You could shell out thousands for analytics tools or even a big data warehouse, but you’ll probably still find yourself exporting C Read more…
It’s Snowflake Vs. Databricks in Dueling Big Data Conferences
Snowflake and Databricks have emerged as the two data warehousing behemoths of the cloud era, slugging away at each other to attract customers and their big data workloads. Perhaps it’s not a coincidence, then, that th Read more…
Big Data Smackdown: Data Management Vs. Data Governance
In the world of big data, there are two terms you’ll hear more than any other: data management and data governance. While they are related, the two terms have different meanings, and it’s important to understand the Read more…
Hammerspace Raises $100M as the Big Data Poles Flip
The capability to virtually combine far-flung data silos into a single global namespace and access it at HPC-class speed has enabled Hammerspace customers to solve tough data problems. It also has caught the attention of Read more…
The Active Data Architecture Era Is Here, Dresner Says
Companies today are trying to do more with their data than ever before. However, companies’ existing data architectures aren’t necessarily constructed in a manner that’s conducive to getting it all done. According Read more…
Thriving in the Second Wave of Big Data Modernization
The idea of managing data at tremendous scale is hardly new. Most businesses embraced the concept of “big data” and associated technologies (like data lakes) at least a decade ago. However, the adoption of modern AI Read more…
Krishna Subramanian, Komprise Co-Founder, Stops By the Big Data Debrief
Unstructured data--including pictures, videos, audio, sensor data, text, and HTML pages--accounts for upwards of 90% of the data generated today, and its share is growing. But managing all those bits is no easy task. One Read more…
What Leonardo DaVinci Teaches Us About Data Management
Spending time in Florence, Italy, you see brilliant Renaissance art everywhere. A favorite of my family was Leonardo DaVinci, as he was not only a brilliant painter and sculptor, but also an innovative scientist and e Read more…
Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration
GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still u Read more…
What’s the Hold Up On GenAI?
When generative AI landed on the scene two years ago, it was clear the impact would be sizable. However, the path to GenAI adoption has not been without its challenges. From budgeting and tools to finding an ROI, organiz Read more…
Real-Time Analytics to Conquer the AdTech Data Deluge
AdTech platforms are swimming in data. Managing it isn't cheap. Traditional in-memory databases that offer millisecond latency are great for real-time bidding, but they become insanely expensive when you scale up to bill Read more…
The Top 2025 Generative AI Predictions: Part 1
Generative AI is kind of a big deal these days (perhaps you’ve heard about it). Not surprisingly, lots of people have lots of opinions about where GenAI is today and where it’s headed. As a public service for our rea Read more…
2025 Big Data Management Predictions
The GenAI revolution has raised expectations for what enterprises can do with data. But it has also exposed some serious shortcomings in how enterprises manage data. That’s the backdrop against which we will dig into t Read more…
Spark-to-Starburst Engine Swap Speeds Big Driving Data for Arity
The IT team at Arity are cruising on the homestretch of a big project to load more than a trillion miles of driving data into a new database on Amazon S3. But if it wasn’t for a decision to switch out its engine from S Read more…
The Data and AI Agenda: Key Conferences in December 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, December offers more than just holiday festivities—it’s packed with pivotal events that highlight the advancements shaping technology, business, and innovation. While AWS re:Invent takes cen Read more…
Tips on Building a Winning Data and AI Strategy from JPMC
With $274 billion in revenue last year and $3.3 trillion in assets under management, JPMorgan Chase has more resources than most to devote to building a winning data and AI strategy. But as James Massa, JPMorgan Chase’ Read more…
Dremio Goes Hybrid with Nessie-Based Metadata Catalog
Dremio today announced that the metadata catalog at the heart of its Apache Iceberg-based data lakehouse now supports other popular metadata catalog services, including Snowflake’s Apache Polaris-based catalog and Data Read more…
Can Big Data Analytics Bring Sanity Back to College Athletic Recruiting?
College athletic recruiting is the Wild West these days. From NIL money and the (wide) opening of the transfer portal, to conference realignment and now the end of the national letters of intent program, the process of m Read more…
Still Too Much Duct Tape in Data Transformation, dbt Labs’ Handy Says
While real progress has been made in streamlining some aspects of big data analytics workflows, there is still too much duct tape keeping it all together, according to Tristan Handy, the founder and CEO of dbt Labs, whic Read more…
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