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Betamax blues: Hudi edging toward ‘also ran’ status in the data platform race

Paul Gillin — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:27:14 +0000

In announcing its Polaris Catalog last month, Snowflake Inc. Executive Vice President Christian Kleinerman said the product “extends Snowflake’s commitment to Apache Iceberg as the open standard of choice.” Statements like that raise the hackles of Apache Hudi adherents. They maintain their preferred open table format — whose name stands for Hadoop Upserts, Deletes and […]

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Decoding the chess moves of Snowflake and Databricks

Dave Vellante and George Gilbert — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:07:00 +0000

As customers try to “get artificial intelligence right,” the need to rationalize siloed data becomes increasingly important. Data practitioners could put all their data eggs into a single platform basket, but that’s proving impractical. As such, firms are moving to an open model where they maintain control of their data and can bring any compute […]

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Crystallizing Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024

Dave Vellante and George Gilbert — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 15:29:41 +0000

Snowflake Inc.’s Data Cloud Summit 2024 was a weeklong event that brought together more than 20,000 of Snowflake’s core enterprise customers, developers and ecosystem partners to San Francisco this past week. The event highlighted the expanding aspirations of the company as it evolves its Data Cloud into an AI Data Cloud and a platform for developing intelligent […]

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How some enterprises have licked the AI data problem

Paul Gillin — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:34:38 +0000

Thomson Reuters Corp. is betting big on generative artificial intelligence, and it has the data foundation in place to do so. The global provider of professional information for the legal, accounting, government and media industries announced last November that it plans to invest more than $100 million in generative AI and fold the technology into […]

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A sneak peek at Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024: Reframing the future of data platforms

Dave Vellante and George Gilbert — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:12:57 +0000

Snowflake Inc. is at a crossroads. The company, which defined the modern data platform, now faces fresh challenges on four fronts. Specifically, Snowflake must: 1) advance its data cloud vision; 2) transform into an artificial intelligence leader; 3) become a platform for data apps; and 4) address external market forces that pressure its core values […]

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TransUnion unites global operations on multicloud analytics and AI platform

Paul Gillin — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:25:24 +0000

In the process of completing 25 acquisitions and building a trove of information on more than 1 billion consumers across 30 countries over the past 56 years, TransUnion LLC had created a lot of data siloes. Now it’s attacking that problem with a massive data lake intended to support all of its analytics, application development […]

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Databricks lakehouse unifies data and intelligence stacks to support generative AI use cases

Mark Albertson — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:52:51 +0000

Databricks Inc. has emerged as platform tailored for the integration of data-driven artificial intelligence within a unified stack. The 11-year-old company has built its reputation by redefining the separation of storage from compute, a process that has positioned it to become a valuable resource for enterprises seeking to leverage generative AI. In Databricks’ version of […]

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How synthetic data powers AI innovation – and creates new risks

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:52:04 +0000

As artificial intelligence models continue to evolve at ever-increasing speed, the demand for training data and the ability to test capabilities grows alongside them. But in a world with equally growing demands for security and privacy, it’s not always possible to rely solely on real-world information – and sometimes authentic data is scarce or difficult […]

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Advancing data architecture for generative AI

Ramke Ramakrishnan — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 23:51:10 +0000

Generative artificial intelligence disrupted the enterprise in 2023 and is now a must-have consideration in 2024 plans. With this in mind, technical professionals must strive to enhance and modernize their data management platforms to support gen AI to achieve greater business outcomes. Gen AI relies on AI-ready data to function. However, because gen AI has […]

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AI hallucinations: The 3% problem no one can fix slows the AI juggernaut

Paul Gillin — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 23:50:07 +0000

Early this year Dagnachew Birru playfully asked ChatGPT how Mahatma Gandhi used Google LLC’s G Suite to organize resistance against British violence. To his surprise, the generative artificial intelligence bot obliged. Gandhi “created a Gmail account and used it to send emails and organize meetings,” it responded. “He also used Google Docs to share documents […]

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Unifying intelligence in the age of data apps

Dave Vellante with George Gilbert — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 21:07:17 +0000

We believe the future of intelligent data apps will enable virtually all organizations to operate a platform that orchestrates an ecosystem similar to that of Amazon.com Inc. By this we mean dynamically connecting and digitally representing an enterprise’s operations including its customers, partners, suppliers and even competitors. This vision includes the ability to rationalize top-down plans […]

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Predictions 2024: Deciphering gen AI’s effect on data, governance and skill gaps

Dave Vellante — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 17:05:42 +0000

With Sanjeev Mohan, Tony Baer, Carl Olofson, Dave Menninger and Doug Henschen In the words of famous people such as Nobel laureate Neils Bohr and baseball legend Yogi Berra, predictions are very difficult, especially if they’re about the future. In this special Breaking Analysis, we’re pleased to host our third annual data predictions power panel […]

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Data 2024 outlook: Data meets generative AI

Tony Baer — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 14:00:15 +0000

At the beginning of last year, who knew that generative artificial intelligence and ChatGPT would seize the moment? A year ago, we forecast that data, analytics and AI providers would finally get around to simplifying and rethinking the modern data stack, a topic that has been near and dear to us for a while. There […]

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Beyond separating compute and storage: Journey to the sixth data platform

Dave Vellante with George Gilbert — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 17:24:10 +0000

We believe today’s so-called modern data stack, as currently envisioned, will be challenged by emerging use cases and artificial intelligence-infused apps that begin to represent the real world, in real time, at massive data scale. To support these new applications, a change in underlying data and data center architectures will be necessary, particularly for exabyte-scale […]

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Uber for everyone: Bob Muglia on how the future of data apps will evolve

Dave Vellante with George Gilbert — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:13:30 +0000

In June, we put forth our scenario about “Uber for all.” We believe a new breed of intelligent data apps is emerging and we used Uber Technologies Inc. as an example where data about people, places and things is brought together in a data-coherent, realtime system. The premise is that increasingly, organizations are going to […]

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Uber’s real-time architecture represents the future of data apps: Meet the architects who built it

Dave Vellante with George Gilbert — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 18:27:36 +0000

Uber Technologies Inc. has one of the most amazing business models ever created. The company’s mission is underpinned by technology that helps people go anywhere and get anything — and the results have been stunning. In just over a decade, Uber has become a firm with more than $30 billion in annual revenue, an annual […]

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