
Tag: big data
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…
Apache Sedona: Putting the ‘Where’ In Big Data
Technologists have built distributed systems designed to process a variety of data types for many use cases. We have key-value stores, relational databases, document databases, graph databases, and even time-series datab 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…
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…
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…