Data Modeling Articles
SUSE, a global leader in innovative, open and secure enterprise-grade solutions, is acquiring the full stack observability platform StackState, enabling SUSE to accelerate cloud-native observability for the enterprise by integrating the platform into Rancher Prime, its premium container management service.
Posted July 25, 2024
Data engineering experts joined DBTA's webinar, The Future of Data Engineering: AI, Automation, and the Cloud, to examine key technologies and best practices that are playing significant roles in how data engineering can best manifest in the enterprise.
Posted July 25, 2024
Eventually the day comes when an existing data mart or warehouse needs to be re-examined. Maybe new workloads are desired, new business models arise, a new platform is considered, or new supporting tools in the environment are wanted. Especially when a new platform is part of the equation, many in charge think first of "lift and shift" as the approach. Taking as much existing data and processes as possible and keeping them virtually unchanged as things are moved onto new foundations is almost always the cost-saving approach—for the immediate short term.
Posted July 24, 2024
Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, is announcing that it will host Meta's Llama 3.1—a collection of multilingual open source large language models (LLMs)—in Snowflake Cortex AI, the solution providing instant access to industry-leading LLMs. With Snowflake's AI research team having optimized Llama 3.1 405B for both inference and fine-tuning, this offering pairs Meta's powerful, open source LLM with Snowflake's inference system stack for real-time, high-throughput inference.
Posted July 23, 2024
Iterative, the company dedicated to streamlining the workflow of AI engineers and creator of widely-used open-source projects in MLOps, is announcing the upcoming release of Data Chain, the new open source tool designed to empower organizations to derive greater value from unstructured data. With the ability to process and evaluate unstructured data, Data Chain positions a variety of enterprises to successfully implement AI with open source data curation and pre-processing capabilities.
Posted July 23, 2024
Infragistics, a leading global provider of tools and solutions to accelerate design and development, is introducing an array of new features in App Builder, the essential cloud-based WYSIWYG drag and drop low-code software tool. Known for its flexibility and efficiency, React is growing in popularity within the development community. With this added feature, App Builder now provides users the ability to generate production ready code across every major web framework, Infragistics said.
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
Deloitte and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are collaborating on a multi-year strategic agreement to help clients around the world scale their generative Artificial Intelligence, data and analytics, and quantum computing capabilities by using AWS services.
Posted July 16, 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
To help shed light on the ways organizations can overcome these continuing obstacles, experts joined DBTA's webinar, Achieving Unified Analytics: Next-Generation Data Platforms, to examine the latest and greatest solutions that promise to effectively modernize and unify enterprise analytics.
Posted July 12, 2024
SAP platforms, used by 99 of the Fortune 100 companies and with over 280 million cloud subscribers worldwide, are among the most reliable business applications. As SAP administrators, your role in maintaining the security of these platforms is crucial. However, the platform's popularity makes it a prime target for hackers to exploit Structured Query Language (SQL) injections and directory traversal vulnerabilities, which are only two specific risks in a much larger group.
Posted July 11, 2024
While AI has been the talk of science fiction-aficionados and tech-enthusiasts for many years, it wasn't until the tail-end of 2022 that AI entered the mainstream conversation with generative AI and the popularity of ChatGPT technologies. To help readers gain a greater understanding about this complex area of information technology, the solutions available, and their role in handling real-world challenges, DBTA and Big Data Quarterly present the list of Awesome Companies in AI.
Posted July 10, 2024
VAST Data, the AI data platform company, is announcing that the VAST Data Platform—the platform delivering scalable performance, radically simple data management, and enhanced productivity—has recently been certified as a high-performance storage solution for NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partners.
Posted July 09, 2024
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is releasing the latest update of the MicroStrategy ONE platform, enabling enterprises to layer contextual, bite-sized AI insights into any application within a no-code environment. According to the company, this capability builds on HyperIntelligence, a long-time feature within MicroStrategy ONE that pioneered contextual BI.
Posted July 02, 2024
IBM is unveiling a major upgrade to Db2 Warehouse on IBM Cloud, introducing several new capabilities that make Db2 Warehouse even more performant, capable, and cost-effective. The next generation of Db2 Warehouse introduces support for Db2 column-organized tables in Cloud Object Storage. Db2 Warehouse on IBM Cloud customers can now store massive datasets on a resilient, highly scalable storage tier, costing up to 34x less.
Posted July 01, 2024
DevOps is now the most prevalent software development methodology in use. Since 2009, it has spread beyond development teams into other functional areas. One of the earlier DevOps extensions was into DevTestOps, which emphasized continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle. This was followed several years later by the emergence of QAOps, which built on that model with a focus on improved quality assurance (QA). At first glance, these terms refer to the same methodology. But when you dig deeper, QAOps represents a significant departure from the purpose and process of DevOps. Let's explore.
Posted July 01, 2024
Teradata is debuting the availability of Teradata VantageCloud Lake on Google Cloud, merging the powers of Teradata and Google Cloud—with additional new enhancements—to deliver trusted AI at scale. This announcement seamlessly integrates key Teradata components with an array of Google Cloud AI technologies and models, offering a modern data platform designed to support and scale a variety of AI types—from predictive AI to generative AI (GenAI).
Posted June 27, 2024
Daytona, an open source development environment manager, announced that it has secured $5 million in a seed funding round to spearhead its mission of democratizing development for developers globally. The seed round was led by Upfront Ventures with participation from existing investor 500 EE, enabling Daytona to accelerate the expansion of streamlined development environments to developers worldwide. The company will further use the funds for product development and hiring for new marketing, sales, and engineering roles.
Posted June 26, 2024
Microsoft-backed OpenAI is acquiring search and database analytics startup Rockset to improve infrastructure for its enterprise products. "Rockset's infrastructure empowers companies to transform their data into actionable intelligence. We're excited to bring these benefits to our customers by integrating Rockset's foundation into OpenAI products," said Brad Lightcap, OpenAI COO.
Posted June 26, 2024
In today's tumultuous computing landscape, the DBMS (database management system) remains core and central to the IT infrastructure. And, as such, it is central to the applications used by modern organizations to conduct business and service their customers. So, it stands to reason that a core competency for a DBA is to be able to keep their organization's databases up and operational. This requires resilience.
Posted June 26, 2024
Airbyte, creator of the leading open-source data movement infrastructure, is releasing its Snowflake Cortex destination, a new data connector for Snowflake users who are interested in building generative AI (GenAI) capabilities directly within their existing Snowflake accounts.
Posted June 19, 2024
Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, is adding the S3 interface to its Global Data Platform, advancing the orchestration of existing data sets to available compute resources. With this announcement, Hammerspace continues to offer organizations new, advantageous ways to manage and leverage data, according to the company.
Posted June 17, 2024
Never before has the business spotlight been on database managers and professionals as it is at this time. Every business leader now wants a data-driven organization, as they recognize this is the key to competitive differentiation. Data monetization is seen as a vast new revenue source. AI—both operational and generative—relies on effective data management and quality. The ongoing transition to digital business demands real-time delivery of insights to end users and applications.
Posted June 13, 2024
Two surveys show that many executives are skeptical they can move forward with AI demands, which include the right data, at the right time. AI is a high priority, and is in production at most sites, but supplying trustworthy data is still a challenge at the back end.
Posted June 13, 2024
Data modeling has always had a push-me/pull-you relationship in the IT world. The idea of complete logical and physical data models, insightful definitions, coherent data flow diagrams, and other related informational caches is always desirable. However, far too often, the expectation is that these activities take virtually no time to create. When the expenditure of resources goes beyond a certain level, the activities are jettisoned or otherwise given the short shrift. Actually, getting code in place is viewed as the only evidence of true progress.
Posted June 13, 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
Timescale, the Postgres cloud database company, is debuting two new open source extensions—pgvectorscale and pgai—which extend the strengths of PostgreSQL to AI development use cases, such as building retrieval augmented generation (RAG), search, and AI agent applications. Enabling enterprises to benefit from the familiarity of PostgreSQL while still achieving the sort of performance that a specialized vector database provides, Timescale's latest extensions aim to make PostgreSQL better for AI development.
Posted June 11, 2024
Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking, is introducing a new round of innovations to its AI-Native Networking Platform, delivering exceptional value and cost savings to enterprises requiring secure branch connections.
Posted June 11, 2024
To gain insight on the adoption and maturity of data management technologies and practices, DBTA and Radiant Advisors surveyed more than 250 IT leaders and professionals at organizations across North America to identify the key perceptions, priorities, challenges, and technology plans underlying modernization efforts today.
Posted June 11, 2024
SqlDBM, a leading collaborative, cloud-based data modeling platform for the enterprise, is unveiling Tx, a transformational workflow solution that empowers teams to facilitate both relational and transformational modeling in one platform. Allowing users to quickly and collaboratively develop and automate modular analytics code, Tx closes the relational/transformational data gap by centralizing these workflows in a single solution.
Posted June 10, 2024
DBI Software, a provider of performance monitoring, tuning, and trending tools for IBM Db2 LUW and SQL Server databases, is releasing version 10 of the DBI Web Performance Suite.
Posted June 07, 2024
Galileo, a provider developing generative AI for the enterprise, is releasing Galileo Luna, a suite of Evaluation Foundation Models (EFMs) designed to transform how generative AI evaluations are conducted. According to the company, this novel approach is faster, more cost-effective, and more accurate than existing evaluation methods such as askGPT and human "vibe checks." With Galileo Luna, enterprises can bring trustworthy AI solutions to market faster and at production scale.
Posted June 07, 2024
Guiding enterprises through the thicket of the latest database technologies and strategies, experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, New Database Technologies and Strategies for the AI Era, to offer their expertise on the market's best solutions for supporting AI projects.
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
A first and important step in being successful at almost any job or task is understanding oneself. This is true for engineers, modelers, or even architects. Do you know how to perform your tasks? Are you faster or slower than others doing the same tasks? Do you have more or less errors in your output than others? It seems that a rising number of people are so uncomfortable with competing that they may even avoid asking these kinds of questions of themselves; but this is not about competition, it is about understanding oneself, it is about being responsible, it is about holding oneself accountable.
Posted June 05, 2024
Zilliz is introducing Milvus Lite, a lightweight vector database that runs locally within the Python application, making it a compact and efficient solution ideal for environments with limited computing resources such as laptops, Jupyter Notebooks, and mobile or edge devices. Based on the open-source Milvus vector database, Milvus Lite reuses the core components for vector indexing and query parsing while removing elements designed for high scalability in distributed systems.
Posted May 31, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is introducing dbt Cloud enhancements designed to help businesses turn data into a competitive advantage as companies' data volumes explode and the need for trustworthy, high-quality data increases. "Accurate and timely data is crucial, which is why we've delivered a standardized way to quickly build reliable, holistic, and high-quality data pipelines at scale," said Luis Maldonado, VP of product at dbt Labs. "These new features take this even further, significantly improving data workflows and AI workloads, all while empowering more users with powerful business insights."
Posted May 30, 2024
JFrog Ltd, the Liquid Software company and creator of the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform, is announcing a new partnership with GitHub, the world's leading AI-powered developer platform. Born from this partnership is a best of breed, integrated platform solution that merges every developer "Ops"—from DevOps to DevSecOps, MLOps, and GenAI-powered apps—within a single interface.
Posted May 29, 2024
Parasoft, a global leader in software testing and quality solutions, is introducing several advancements in software testing technology, equipping teams with automated AI-enhanced API test generation, microservices code coverage collection, and web accessibility testing.
Posted May 28, 2024
To discuss the ways GenAI can be augmented for true success, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, and David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube, joined DBTA's webinar, Delivering on the promise of AI: Increasing Accuracy with a Semantic Layer, offering the ways that a semantic layer—or a consistent convention of understanding and definition that data adheres to—can position GenAI and large language models (LLM) to live up to their technological intent.
Posted May 24, 2024
Syncari, a leader in data unification and automation, is launching its Autonomous Data Management platform, offering distributed 360-degree data, centralized governance, and democratized access that is essential for powering transformative digital and AI technologies. According to the company, the platform enables enterprises to automate processes seamlessly across all data domains, using a unified master data model, ensuring robust data consistency and transactional lineage.
Posted May 22, 2024