TOP 10 insideBIGDATA Articles for August 2023

In this continuing regular feature, we give all our valued readers a monthly heads-up for the top 10 most viewed articles appearing on insideBIGDATA. Over the past several months, we’ve heard from many of our followers that this feature will enable them to catch up with important news and features flowing across our many channels.

insideBIGDATA Latest News – 9/21/2023

In this regular column, we’ll bring you all the latest industry news centered around our main topics of focus: big data, data science, machine learning, AI, and deep learning. Our industry is constantly accelerating with new products and services being announced everyday. Fortunately, we’re in close touch with vendors from this vast ecosystem, so we’re in a unique position to inform you about all that’s new and exciting. Our massive industry database is growing all the time so stay tuned for the latest news items describing technology that may make you and your organization more competitive.

Intel Innovation 2023 Highlights

Tuesday morning (Sept. 19, 2023), Intel kicked off its third annual developer event, Intel Innovation 2023, virtually and in San Jose, California. During the Day 1 keynote, “Developing the Future of the Siliconomy,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, and a variety of customers, unveiled an array of technologies and applications that bring artificial intelligence everywhere and make it more accessible across all workloads.

26 Years Since its Inception, Postgres is Just Getting Started 

In this contributed article, Charly Batista, PostgreSQL Tech Lead at Percona, explores why Postgres is on the rise and why Postgres’ brand of open source is good for business.
One of the most widely used database management systems in the world, Postgres still lags quite substantially behind the likes of MySQL and Oracle in total adoption.

How Enterprises Can Rise Above Data Gravity for a Better Life in the Cloud

In this contributed article, Jim Liddle, Chief Innovation Officer at Nasuni, describes how having file data stored in the cloud and workloads on-premises can result in serious performance issues because remote access and data consolidation don’t play well together. In fact, the combination can create “data gravity” that complicates and slows the movement of data, worsened by the latency that often accompanies remote access. The resulting lack of speed and flexibility presents significant issues when decisions must be made in seconds in order to prevent potential loss or generate revenue to the tune of millions of dollars.

Heard on the Street – 9/18/2023

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

DDN Storage Solutions Deliver 700% Gains in AI and Machine Learning for Image Segmentation and Natural Language Processing

DDN®, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, announced impressive performance results of its AI storage platform for the inaugural AI storage benchmarks released this week by MLCommons Association. The MLPerfTM Storage v0.5 benchmark results confirm DDN storage solutions as the gold standard for AI and machine learning applications.

KX Announces KDB.AI Cloud: The Free, Smarter Vector Database for AI

KX, a pioneer in vector and time-series data management, has announced the general availability of KDB.AI Cloud, a vector database for real-time contextual AI. Quick and easy to set up and use, this free, cloud-based version of KDB.AI, the leading vector database , has been designed with a commitment to provide a superior developer experience.

Navigating Data Lake Challenges: Governance, Security, and GDPR Compliance

In this contributed article, Coral Trivedi, Product Manager at Fivetran, discusses how enterprises can get the most value from a data lake. The article discusses automation, security, pipelines and GSPR compliance issues.

Why Car Storage Depends on the Right Workload Analysis

In this sponsored post, Russell Ruben, director of automotive and emerging segment market, Western Digital, believes that as vehicle innovation continues over the next few years, driven by advances in sensors, 5G, AI, machine and deep learning and big data analytics, so must storage. Storage technology needs to keep up with the rapid pace of development as it becomes increasingly critical to support more and more demanding applications with mixed usages than ever before.