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.

2024 – the Year Ahead in AI

In this contributed article, Anupam Datta, Chief Scientist and President of TruEra, highlights 2024 – the year ahead in AI in terms of flourishing innovation, riding up the maturity curve, and bringing AI into the real world.

Book Review: A Hands-on Introduction to Machine Learning

I was pleased to receive a review copy of this new title from Cambridge University Press, “A Hands-on Introduction to Machine Learning.” The hardcover book is very attractive, well-produced and solid! It will weigh down your backpack for sure. As a university instructor myself, I immediately appreciated author and University of Washington professor Chirag Shah’s pedagogical approach.

The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q1 2024

The team here at insideBIGDATA is deeply entrenched in keeping the pulse of the big data ecosystem of companies from around the globe. We’re in close contact with the movers and shakers making waves in the technology areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. Our in-box is filled each day with new announcements, commentaries, and insights about what’s driving the success of our industry so we’re in a unique position to publish our quarterly IMPACT 50 List.

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.

Heard on the Street – 1/17/2024

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.

2024 Trends in Data Technologies: Foundation Models and Confidential Computing

In this contributed article, editorial consultant Jelani Harper suggests that perhaps the single greatest force shaping—if not reshaping—the contemporary data sphere is the pervasive presence of foundation models. Manifest most acutely in deployments of generative Artificial Intelligence, these models are impacting everything from external customer interactions to internal employee interfaces with data systems.  

Decoding the Next Big Thing in AI: The Inevitable Race for AGI and Ethical Responsibility

In this contributed article, Jason Yip, Director of Data and AI at Tredence Inc., believes that while companies big and small are busy figuring out the meaning of generative AI, governments in the world are also working very hard to see how they can govern the technology before it goes out of control. Looking at 2024, the war will accelerate to create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This article looks at what’s gone wrong in the past, and what to expect in the future.

Generative AI Report – 1/11/2024

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.

Heard on the Street – 1/10/2024

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.