Today, the media, with rare exceptions, often shifts its attention between the latest visible "shiny object" in the observable universe and the most dramatic recent tragedy. In doing so, it frequently neglects important stories that genuinely deserve sustained coverage or fails to bring attention to matters of greater significance.
Posted April 17, 2025
The rise of "data mesh" as a buzz phrase in the data management world has generated significant interest, but is it the right approach for your organization? While data mesh has its proponents, many organizations may find it exacerbates the challenges it aims to solve rather than eliminating them.
Posted April 17, 2025
InfluxData, creator of the leading time series database, announced the general availability of InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, the latest products developed on its redesigned InfluxDB 3 engine.
Posted April 16, 2025
What does it take to deliver superior data services and capabilities in today's enterprises? With the rise of AI and machine learning (ML)—and their data-heavy workloads—data managers are actively seeking greater scalability and adaptability in their environments.
Posted April 16, 2025
The demand for data centers is on the uptick, being driven by the increased growth of digital services from cloud computing, AI, and 5G to apps on smartphones, laptops, and desktops. To keep up with this surge, approximately 4,750 data centers are now actively under construction across the U.S.
Posted April 15, 2025
Quantum Corporation is releasing Quantum GO Refresh for the DXi T-Series, a program that provides flexible payment options and hardware refreshes to help customers protect and quickly recover mission-critical data and IT infrastructure.
Posted March 20, 2025
ScaleOut Software is adding generative AI and machine-learning (ML) powered enhancements to its ScaleOut Digital Twins cloud service and on-premises hosting platform with the release of Version 4. This latest release introduces generative AI integration through OpenAI's large language model, significantly expanding the ability of digital twins to analyze data, detect anomalies, and provide real-time insights when monitoring complex live systems.
Posted March 20, 2025
Debates about when and where to apply AI systems often boil down to a singular point. Namely, what is the nature of the work in question? It is a simple query, devilishly so, one that data and AI governance programs are well served to consider. It's a larger conversation that got me thinking about the work that is unsung, if not entirely overlooked, in traditional governance frameworks.
Posted March 20, 2025
When it comes to areas of importance for operating businesses in the technology field, you'd be hard-pressed to find an area more important than the digital marketing team. I say that because the digital marketing team is constantly tasked with answering some of the most difficult questions, often without access to accurate and trustworthy data.
Posted March 19, 2025
Organizations today rely heavily on data to inform their decision-making processes at every level. However, the increasing complexity of data ecosystems poses a challenge: The data we rely on may not always tell the whole truth.
Posted March 18, 2025
Lambda, the AI Developer Cloud, announced it has raised $480 million in Series D funding, bringing the total equity capital raised to date to $863 million and enabling the company to power the next wave of AI-driven innovation to deliver tangible value across industries.
Posted February 20, 2025
Picture this: You're a U.S. manufacturer who just finished adapting to the European Data Act, breathing a sigh of relief. Not so fast. Enter NIS2 (Network and Information Systems Directive 2), Europe's latest regulatory powerhouse that's about to reshape the cybersecurity landscape for manufacturers worldwide.
Posted February 20, 2025
NVISIONx, a leader in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), is introducing Nx+RexAI, a new solution designed to tackle the challenges of data governance, regulatory compliance, and data security.
Posted February 19, 2025
Delinea, a pioneering provider of solutions for securing human and non-human identities through centralized authorization, is introducing new capabilities on its leading cloud-native platform, including credential and password support for workforce and business users, intelligent identity lifecycle management, and behavioral analytics spanning all identity types.
Posted February 18, 2025
Since the early days of hardware and software, major vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, SAP, and others have leveraged vendor lock-in as a strategic approach to gain customer advantage. This tactic shifts the balance of power to vendors, enabling them to expand and retain their business base.
Posted January 16, 2025
The interest surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has never been higher, but AI agents are the next wave of innovation enterprises need to prepare for. An AI agent is a fully automated program with complex reasoning capabilities and memory that uses an LLM to solve problems, creates its own plan to do so, and executes that plan.
Posted January 15, 2025
dbt Labs, a pioneer in analytics engineering, is acquiring SDF Labs, the team of former Meta and Microsoft engineering leaders behind SDF, a next-generation data transformation technology—enabling dbt Labs to integrate SDF's powerful multi-dialect, dbt-native SQL comprehension capabilities into dbt.
Posted January 14, 2025
The months and years ahead promise to be an interesting time in the data analytics space.AI and machine learning are already making their mark, elevating analytics—and its front-end sibling, business intelligence. End users are seeing their capabilities expand in new directions, with an ability to ask questions they did not even consider with earlier technology iterations. Industry leaders are tracking a range of developments that are defining analytics and BI in the year ahead.
Posted January 13, 2025
I once wrote an article titled "Do Your Metrics Matter?" It was inspired by the joy of sitting in an airplane, at the gate, going nowhere fast for close to 2 hours. All the while the airline app was proclaiming an on-time departure. Having ample time to discuss this perceived error with the crew, I learned that the closed aircraft door equaled departure. Departed, it turned out, was not an indication of a flight in motion but a process gone awry (a circumstance that may persist to this day, for what it's worth).
Posted December 19, 2024
In today's competitive business environment, empowering your teams with data-driven decision-making is essential. However, amid an organization's vast sea of data, the process of effectively navigating through this abundance of information is daunting. In fact, the likelihood of human error while sorting through such data volumes for key insights is virtually guaranteed, further complicating the already daunting task at hand.
Posted December 18, 2024
Back in July, CrowdStrike pushed out a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor that caused worldwide outages on Microsoft operating systems. Users experienced the BlueScreen of Death (BSOD) error, which caused their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly. The effects were immediately wide reaching: Doctors weren't able to diagnose patients, airports abruptly paused travel, and there were also disruptions to emergency services and responses. Government services, banks, and other businesses had to shut down.
Posted December 17, 2024
Lenses.io, a data streaming innovation leader, is rebranding to reflect a focus on augmenting the capabilities of engineers to connect applications and AI with real-time data. According to the company, with a reputation for building trusted developer solutions, the rebrand underscores the company's mission to empower developers with an operating solution that boosts productivity and fosters innovation.
Posted November 21, 2024
Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers advanced data storage technology and services, is expanding its AI solutions with the new Pure Storage GenAI Pod, a full-stack solution providing turnkey designs built on the Pure Storage platform.
Posted November 21, 2024
Apiiro, the leading application security posture management (ASPM) platform, today introduced Code-to-Runtime, a new, innovative capability using Apiiro's deep code analysis (DCA) technology to map software architecture and trace all types of software components.
Posted November 21, 2024
SQL Server databases often contain precious data such as customer information, financial records, and account passwords—assets that are often both essential to the business and subject to compliance regulations. Today, that data is more at risk than ever because readily available AI tools can help less-technical cybercriminals plan and execute attacks. Indeed, the latest version of ChatGPT can be misused to get recommendations about effective tools and technologies to employ in cyberattacks and even examples of how to use them.
Posted November 21, 2024
Imagine SmartTech Manufacturing Inc., a thriving, U.S.-based company known for its cutting-edge industrial robots equipped with remote monitoring and predictive analytics capabilities. For years, it has dominated the European market, prides itself on proprietary software, and safeguards its data analytics.
Posted November 21, 2024
Leading cloud ERP provider, Acumatica, is introducing the Professional Services Edition of its cloud ERP platform, built to enable small and midsized professional services firms to increase efficiency and accelerate growth.
Posted October 17, 2024
It has been a whirlwind time for data managers and their enterprises, and the innovations that are reshaping data operations aren't showing any signs of slowing down soon. AI and advanced analytics are changing the game, of course, as are a myriad of technologies now available to help manage and extract business value from the data flowing through organizations. Here is what industry experts tell BDQ they now see emerging and what we can expect in the months and years to come.
Posted October 17, 2024
The career paths of IT professionals—whether they start out as administrators, creatives, or executives—are as varied as snowflakes in a blizzard. Along the way, many of us are fortunate enough to meet mentors who guide us and help us grow into better professionals.
Posted October 16, 2024
Generative AI (GenAI) is having an Agile moment or two, but this is not a positive development. One aspect of this moment in time is the continued hyping of GenAI's unlimited agility—wherein GenAI is trumpeted as something akin to an analytic Swiss Army knife. The analogy is not only problematic, but it is actively harmful.
Posted October 16, 2024
As companies measure the health and performance of their IT/cloud/application infrastructure and various data-in-motion streams such as metrics, events, logs, and traces, the number of monitoring tools grows, resulting in a complicated and overloaded observability stack. Kishore Gopalakrishna, co-founder and CEO at StarTree, believes unified observability platforms can solve these pain points by providing the flexibility, data autonomy, and extensibility offered by a disaggregated model.
Posted October 15, 2024
Gearset, a leader in Salesforce DevOps solutions, is acquiring Clayton, a cutting-edge code analysis platform designed specifically for Salesforce. The strategic acquisition is Gearset's first, following years of rapid growth fueled by a $55 million growth investment from Silversmith Capital Partners.
Posted September 18, 2024
CIQ is releasing an all-in-one solution for proactive infrastructure oversight called Ledger Pro—built to help organizations track critical changes, ensure compliance, and save time and money on system management.
Posted September 17, 2024
The concept of risk is more complex than it is typically perceived. When Mark Zuckerberg said that "the biggest risk is not taking any risk," he was referring to the age-old risk versus innovation dynamic. Innovation certainly requires some level of risk, but is it possible that minimizing risk can actually lead to more risk?
Posted September 16, 2024
With more and more use cases for AI and all its branches taking shape, big data is surging in relevance as the backbone of these projects—prompting DBAs, IT, data scientists, and more to take a closer look at the information being fed into their forecasts and models. To support organizations in navigating through new challenges and a rapidly evolving big data ecosystem, Big Data Quarterly presents 2024's "Big Data 75," a list of companies driving innovation and expanding what is possible in terms of collecting, storing, and extracting value from data.
Posted September 12, 2024
KDNuggets, a community site for data professionals, ranked "We Don't Need Data Scientists, We Need Data Engineers," by Mihail Eric, a venture capitalist, researcher, and educator, as its top story of 2021. This sentiment holds even more true today, especially with the unending rush to leverage both generative and predictive AI within enterprise operations. Without the right kind of data, AI is dead in the water.
Posted August 15, 2024
In an era marked by rapid urbanization and technological advancement, the concept of smart cities has captured the imagination of urban planners, technologists, and policymakers worldwide for over a decade. As cities grapple with the challenges of accommodating growing populations, managing resources efficiently, and improving quality of life, a new paradigm is emerging that promises to revolutionize urban living: the cognitive city. At the heart of this transformation lies the game-changing potential of generative AI, poised to unlock the true potential of smart cities and usher in a new age of urban intelligence.
Posted August 15, 2024
Adaptive Shield, a leader in SaaS Security, is offering its breakthrough Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) platform for SaaS environments, enabling enterprises to proactively cover the breadth of attack vectors within the SaaS ecosystem.
Posted August 15, 2024
Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions, is releasing its new Scenario Simulation and Intelligence suite—enabling companies to simulate thousands of possible scenarios against their resilience plans and strategies to identify points of weakness at scale.
Posted August 14, 2024
CTERA, a leader in hybrid cloud data management, announced it has raised $80 million in primary and secondary funding that will enable the company to double down on hybrid cloud and expand into data intelligence.
Posted July 18, 2024
In our last article, we discussed several great companies of Western civilization and why a poignant few of them, that were building game-changing technology, disappeared. Metaphorically they can be envisioned as having been buried in the proverbial Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse, never to be seen again.
Posted July 17, 2024
As a product manager, I have worked closely with data engineering teams and witnessed the fantastic ways to transform raw web data into insights, products, data models, and more. Data cleaning consistently stands out as a vital component of this transformation.
Posted July 16, 2024
Data migrations can be a big undertaking for almost any organization. That's why it's so important that organizations set themselves up for long-term success. This means being able to ensure they'll enable their desired outcomes—such as compliance, data accuracy, and performance—for the long haul.
Posted June 27, 2024
AI is only accelerating its adoption among global corporate enterprises, thus CEOs and business leaders are positioned at the confluence of innovation and ethics as it relates to implementing AI projects in their businesses. While technical prowess and business potential are usually the focus of conversations around AI, the ethical considerations are sometimes overlooked, especially those that aren't immediately obvious.
Posted June 18, 2024
Most times, if asked, I will rattle off, without hesitation, a list of ways AI is being applied along with all the ways it can go wrong. You may also get bit of a diatribe about why speaking of AI in the royal sense (i.e., "the AI") is always a bad idea. It's practically a (bad) party trick. Yet recently, when asked to characterize the primary ethical issues in AI, I had a perfect moment of mental blankness. It was an uncomfortable and instructive moment on many fronts.
Posted June 12, 2024
Data breaches and cyberattacks are only getting more sophisticated at an alarmingly fast pace. In 2024 so far alone, there have been approximately 875,603,100 known records breached in 1,819 publicly disclosed incidents, as reported by It Governance. Since most attacks focus on identity, theft of credentials, or human error, Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport, believes security must be a company's philosophy from Day One.
Posted June 06, 2024
AI has become pervasive across enterprises, and the drive is now on to push this potentially powerful intelligence out to the edge and network, where it can deliver insight and operational performance in real time. These days, no discussion of edge and IoT is complete without weighing the implications of AI. "If people think AI will stop at data centers, they have an unfortunate blind spot, because AI is likely to be deployed in some form at the edge," said Kevin Brown, SVP at Schneider Electric. "In my opinion, it will bring with it a host of new challenges regarding data privacy concerns, an increasing demand for power, and an infrastructure that will be even more broadly distributed. Undoubtedly, we need to get ahead of these challenges."
Posted June 05, 2024
Amazon's Just Walk Out technology seemed like the epitome of futuristic shopping when it debuted at Amazon Fresh stores. I, like many, was thrilled about the potential of advanced AI transforming the shopping experience. The idea of simply grabbing items and leaving without the hassle of a traditional checkout process was a game changer. I believed that the technology arm behind these stores, Amazon Web Services (AWS), was at the forefront of AI innovation. However, the recent revelations about the true nature of this technology have left me, and many others, feeling disappointed and misled.
Posted May 16, 2024
Anomalo, the complete data quality platform company, is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud, along with making its platform available on Google Cloud Marketplace. Anomalo provides organizations with a way to monitor the quality of the data stored or managed in Google Cloud's BigQuery, AlloyDB, and Dataplex without writing code, configuring rules, or setting thresholds.
Posted May 15, 2024
Digital Equipment Corporation, known as DEC; Peoplesoft; Sun; and now VMware all have something dark in common. At one point, they were all great American companies leading the path toward innovation in the Six Cities of Silicon Valley. They were magnificent leaders in computing innovation, each at different stages of the evolution of Silicon Valley-based technology.
Posted April 18, 2024