Alex Woodie

The advent of generative AI has supersized the appetite for GPUs and other forms of accelerated computing. To help companies scale up their accelerated compute investments in a predictable manner, GPU giant Nvidia and several server partners have borrowed a page from the world of high performance computing (HPC) and unveiled the Enterprise Reference Architectures (ERA).

Dremio today announced that the metadata catalog at the heart of its Apache Iceberg-based data lakehouse now supports other popular metadata catalog services, including Snowflake's Apache Polaris-based catalog and Databricks Unity Catalog. The lakehouse provider says the move in its Project Nessie-based metadata catalog will bolster architectural flexibility in the cloud, on-prem, and everywhere in between.

When it comes to data analytics, machines should be doing the heavy lifting. More and more businesses rely on data analytics to make smarter, more informed business decisions and to stay on top of industry changes amid competitive markets. As a result, data scientists are pushed into extracting, processing, cleaning, and analyzing data from multiple sources on a daily basis for multiple purposes within an organization.

Organizations who are looking for a better way to manage and analyze their observability data may be interested in the latest update from Kloudfuse, which added several new data types and analytic/AI capabilities to its cloud data lake platform.

The big data revolution exposed the inadequacy of older technologies and paved the way for newer technologies. One of those technologies is Alluxio, which was developed by Haoyuan “HY” Li, one of the BigDATAwire People to Watch for 2024.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) in September awarded Duality Technologies a contract worth up to $6 million to develop a framework for enabling healthcare organizations to share highly sensitive patient data. If successful, the project will enable smaller healthcare organizations to securely access sensitive health data to conduct research into rare diseases, including those that have a disparate impact on racial minorities.

Organizations are drowning in data, yet they're struggling to convert that data into actionable intelligence. Building that last mile of connectivity between raw data and useful information is the goal of a young firm called the Modern Data Company.

Snowflake made a blizzard of announcements today at its Build 2024 user conference, including a new generative AI-powered capability in Snowflake Cortex AI, dubbed Snowflake Intelligence, that allows customers to build agentic AI apps based on conversations and other interactions they have with their data. Other announcements include the general availability of a slew of previously announced offerings, like its notebook, internal marketplace, and open catalog offerings, among others.

Adoption of Code for i continues to soar among IBM i developers, as they shift from heavy, expensive integrated development environments (IDEs) to lighter, open-source options. With the latest Technology Refreshes (TRs) for IBM i, IBM is making the VS Code plug-in even more useful for RPG and COBOL developers.

MinIO is one of the most popular open-source S3-compatible object storage systems in the world. Thanks to its combination of performance and simplicity, it's been adopted to store data for a wide range of applications. But with the rapid emergence of generative AI, the MinIO company recognized there exists an opportunity to deliver an AI-centered object store, and the result of that recognition is today's MinIO launch of AIStore.