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AI Training Gets a Boost with NetApp StorageGRID Update
Keeping AI models fed with data has become a challenge as the size of data and the size of models both get bigger. One company hoping to keep customers on the right side of this colossal curve is NetApp, which yesterday Read more…
The AI Beatings Will Continue Until Data Improves
The struggle for AI success has been making news lately. The latest blow was the MIT Media Lab research that found a 95% failure rate for AI pilot projects. There are a lot of factors at play here, but one of the biggest 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…
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…
Meet 2025 BigDATAwire Person to Watch Clint Sharp
The observability data deluge has gotten so bad that the volume of observability data generated is often bigger than the structured data organizations want to keep. Instead of draining your bank account to store all this Read more…
News In Brief
Voltron Positions Data Flow as the Next Frontier in AI Performance
At enterprise scale, GPUs rarely stumble because they’ve run out of raw compute power. The slowdown comes when the data can’t keep pace. Once workloads stretch into the tens or hundreds of terabytes, the real drag sh Read more…
Fivetran Acquires Tobiko to Bring Order to Enterprise Data Chaos
When Fivetran acquired Census earlier this year, it marked a turning point in the company’s evolution. Known primarily for its automated data pipelines, Fivetran extended into reverse ETL, enabling companies to send wa Read more…
MIT Report Flags 95% GenAI Failure Rate, But Critics Say It Oversimplifies
MIT’s State of AI in Business 2025 has gone viral, and it’s not hard to see why. The report opens with a bold headline that more than $30 billion has been spent on GenAI, yet 95% of enterprise pilots still fail to ma Read more…
AI Hype Cycle: Gartner Charts the Rise of Agents, ModelOps, Synthetic Data, and AI Engineering
Gartner says the average company spent around $1.9 million on GenAI last year, yet fewer than 30% of AI leaders think their CEOs are satisfied with the results. That gap between spending and satisfaction is concerning. Read more…
Confluent Embeds AI Agents Into the Data Stream to Enable Real-Time Agentic AI
Why are so many enterprise AI agents still stuck in pilot mode? Companies have invested heavily in building intelligent systems, but most never make it past the testing phase. The problem is not usually the models themse Read more…
This Just In
BEAVERTON, Ore., May 5, 2025 — Datavault AI Inc., a leader in AI-driven data valuation and monetization, today announced a partnership with Kove, a high-performance computing innovator, to launch a secure, tokenized data vending solution. Read more…
MCLEAN, Va., May 5, 2025–Booz Allen Hamilton today announced it was selected by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to deliver high-quality commercial geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) data and analytics. Selected as a vendor for both the Luno A and Luno B commercial data indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts, Booz Allen will deliver outcome-oriented and scalable data science and analytics built upon advanced commercial technology to meet unclassified challenges at speed and scale. Read more…
PUNE, India, May 5, 2025 — The global Database Management System (DBMS) market was valued at USD $85.48 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow to $225.17 billion by 2032, expanding at a CAGR of 11.41% from 2024 to 2032, SNS Insider announced today. Read more…
NEW YORK, N.Y., May 5, 2025 –Datadog Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today announced it has acquired Eppo, a feature flagging and experimentation platform, which will tightly integrate with Datadog’s existing Product Analytics suite. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 14, 2025 — Patronus AI today announced the launch of the industry’s first Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge (MLLM-as-a-Judge), a groundbreaking evaluation capability that enables developers to score and optimize multimodal AI systems for image-to-text applications. Read more…