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.

SambaNova Unveils New AI Chip, the SN40L, Powering its Full Stack AI Platform

SambaNova Systems, makers of the purpose-built, full stack AI platform, announced a revolutionary new chip, the SN40L. The SN40L will power SambaNova’s full stack large language model (LLM) platform, the SambaNova Suite, with its revolutionary new design: on the inside it offers both dense and sparse compute, and includes both large and fast memory, making it a truly “intelligent chip.”

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.

Kinetica Launches Native Large Language Model for Language-to-SQL on Enterprise Data  

Kinetica, the speed layer for generative AI and real-time analytics, announced a native Large Language Model (LLM) combined with Kinetica’s innovative architecture that allows users to perform ad-hoc data analysis on real-time, structured data at speed using natural language. Unlike with public LLMs, no external API call is required and data never leaves the customer’s environment.

Cash Treasury Trading in the Age of AI

In this contributed article, Shankar Narayanan, Head of Trading Research, Quantitative Brokers, discusses how In the era of artificial intelligence, cash treasury trading presents a unique opportunity to integrate new technologies, enhance trading methodologies and meet the growing demands of a rapidly evolving market. 

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.

Regulate the Use Cases—Not AI Itself

In this contributed article, CF Su, VP of ML, Hyperscience, agrees that regulation is needed, but as opposed to sweeping oversight, he supports regulating specific uses of AI, such as licensing the business applications of AI models rather than requiring licenses for creating them. This targeted, tactical government oversight will close the trust gap between the public and AI, which is his #1 concern currently facing the technology’s adoption.

Secret to Building Killer ChatGPT Biz Apps is Traditional AI 

In this contributed article, Gaetan Castelein, VP of Marketing at Tecton gives focus to Predictive AI vs. Generative AI and points out that AI is still in its infancy as a business application. It’s important to remember that no matter what transpires between generative AI and predictive AI, there is no road forward without making available to both models the highest-quality data.