In this contributed article, Prasad Venkatachar, Sr Director – Products & Solutions at Pliops, discusses how modern data-intensive applications that include E-commerce, Social Networking, Messaging, and online gaming services heavily depend on Key-Value stores. All these business-critical applications demand state-of-the-art data storage and processing infrastructure to serve the data at high throughput with low latency and highly fault-tolerant and yet cost-effective. To achieve this blend of high performance and cost effectiveness, we must fundamentally reimagine how data is stored and processed at scale and speed. This article will cover how organizations can accomplish these design objectives and architect state-of-the-art data storage and processing infrastructure.
Rethinking How Data is Stored and Processed Brings Scale and Speed to Modern Data-Intensive Applications
Four Ways SMBs Can Harness the Power of Data, Without a Data Scientist
In this contributed article, Robyn Meyer, Vice President, Solutions at Transportation Insight, delves into the challenges faced by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in leveraging data effectively and offers practical strategies to overcome these hurdles.
Heard on the Street – 11/27/2023
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.
Finding a Purple Swan with Predictive Analytics
In this contributed article, Vijay Veerra, Principal Consultant of Business Solutions and Research with Altimetrik, discusses the power of predictive analytics in identifying “purple swans” and their potential impact on businesses. Purple swan refers to a rare yet foreseeable event that offers unparalleled rewards. This article explores how companies can use predictive analytics to spot these events on the horizon, set their course accordingly, and sail toward a promising future.
insideBIGDATA AI News Briefs – 11/22/2023
Welcome insideBIGDATA AI News Briefs, our timely new feature bringing you the latest industry insights and perspectives surrounding the field of AI including deep learning, large language models, generative AI, and transformers. We’re working tirelessly to dig up the most timely and curious tidbits underlying the day’s most popular technologies. We know this field is advancing rapidly and we want to bring you a regular resource to keep you informed and state-of-the-art.
Generative AI Report – 11/21/2023
Welcome to the Generative AI Report round-up feature here on insideBIGDATA with a special focus on all the new applications and integrations tied to generative AI technologies. We’ve been receiving so many cool news items relating to applications and deployments centered on large language models (LLMs), we thought it would be a timely service for readers to start a new channel along these lines. The combination of a LLM, fine tuned on proprietary data equals an AI application, and this is what these innovative companies are creating. The field of AI is accelerating at such fast rate, we want to help our loyal global audience keep pace.
Starting Your Advanced Analytics Journey: Three Areas to Focus On
In this contributed article, Amish Amin, executive director, security and analytics, Comcast, discusses the importance of advanced analytics when it comes to cutting through the massive amounts of data within a single organization. In large organizations today, the amount of data that needs to be sifted through continues to grow in volume. In fact, the global datasphere is expected to
more than double between 2022 and 2025. Not only is there an incredible amount of information, but there aren’t enough people to properly analyze it all. In his piece, Amish explains that by applying advanced analytics, organizations can drive valuable insights, cut through the noise and, ultimately, increase efficiency. He also outlines three areas to consider when it comes to an advanced analytics initiative and four best practices.
The Future-Proofed Datacenter: DDC Delivers 85kW Air-Cooled Density for AI and HPC Workloads
[SPONSORED POST] At DDC, the global leader in scalable datacenter-to-edge solutions, we are taking an innovative approach to building new and retrofitting legacy datacenters. Today, our patented cabinet technology can be deployed in nearly any environment or facility and supports one of the highest-density, air-cooled thermal loads—85kW per cabinet—on the market. In a recent deployment with TierPoint, a US-based colocation provider, we are supporting a 26,000 sq ft facility augmentation outside of Allentown, PA.
Heard on the Street – 11/15/2023
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.
“Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 11/14/2023
Above the Trend Line: your industry rumor central is a recurring feature of insideBIGDATA. In this column, we present a variety of short time-critical news items grouped by category such as M&A activity, people movements, funding news, financial results, industry alignments, customer wins, rumors and general scuttlebutt floating around the big data, data science and machine learning industries including behind-the-scenes anecdotes and curious buzz.
