Why the Modern Data Stack is Broken and How to Fix It

In this contributed article, Stavros Papadopoulos, Founder and CEO, TileDB, discusses how we are quickly reaching a threshold where the vulnerabilities of the modern data stack are starting to outweigh its advantages. Here’s what we need to do next.

Kinetica Delivers Real-Time Vector Similarity Search

Kinetica, the real-time GPU-accelerated database for analytics and generative AI, unveiled at NVIDIA GTC its real-time vector similarity search engine that can ingest vector embeddings 5X faster than the previous market leader, based on the popular VectorDBBench benchmark.

DDN AI400X2 Turbo Appliance Accelerates Gen AI and Inference for Data Center and Cloud by 10x

DDN®, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, announced the latest addition to its powerful A3I® solutions, the DDN AI400X2 Turbo. 30% more powerful than the AI400X2, the previous industry performance leader, the AI400X2 Turbo boasts faster performance and expanded connectivity options.

Pure Storage Accelerates Enterprise AI Adoption to Meet Growing Demands with NVIDIA AI 

Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers advanced data storage technology and services, today announced new validated reference architectures for running generative AI use cases, including a new NVIDIA OVX-ready validated reference architecture. As a leader in AI, Pure Storage, in collaboration with NVIDIA, is arming global customers with a proven framework to manage the high-performance data and compute requirements they need to drive successful AI deployments. 

Embracing the Agile Data Platform: A Key to Business Survival Today

In this contributed article, Philip Miller, a Customer Success Manager, Senior, for Progress, discusses how embracing an agile data platform, which enables an organization to navigate the complex volume of data effectively, is crucial for survival in today’s data-driven business landscape. In today’s global marketplace, moving from a rigid data management to a dynamic platform allows organizations to extract meaningful insights quickly, which in turn fosters innovation and resilience.

Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI, machine learning and deep learning (AI/ML/DL) initiatives and the widespread rise of GPU computing both on-premises and in the cloud. This new category of storage architecture – Hyperscale NAS – is built on the tenants required for large language model (LLM) training and provides the speed to efficiently power GPU clusters of any size for GenAI, rendering and enterprise high-performance computing.

The Future of Computing: Harnessing Molecules for Sustainable Data Management

In this contributed article, Erfane Arwani, founder and CEO of Biomemory, discusses how molecular computing (using molecules rather than traditional silicon chips for computational tasks) could be a critical component in revolutionizing data storage, despite the exponential growth of AI.

Post-Postgres: What’s Driving a Great Migration from the Iconic Database

In this contributed article, Tanya Bragin, product lead at ClickHouse, offers a thesis premised on an industry-wide shift from OLTP databases like Postgres for everything and into OLTP for certain functions and OLAP for others.

Optimizing Performance and Cost Savings for Elastic on Pure Storage

[SPONSORED POST] Organizations can now confidently embrace Elastic, enhance their hot tier storage, and seamlessly manage historical data with cost-efficient capacity-optimized storage. Pure Storage not only meets the demands of the modern data landscape but also empowers organizations to simplify their Elastic architecture, reflecting the industry trend towards a more streamlined and efficient approach.

Big Data Industry Predictions for 2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s annual technology predictions round-up! The big data industry has significant inertia moving into 2024. In order to give our valued readers a pulse on important new trends leading into next year, we here at insideBIGDATA heard from all our friends across the vendor ecosystem to get their insights, reflections and predictions for what may be coming. We were very encouraged to hear such exciting perspectives.