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By Anirban Ghoshal Teradata is adding support for two open table formats, Apache Iceberg and Linux Foundation’s Delta Lake, to its multi-cloud analytics platform VantageCloud Lake and its AI and machine learning engine Unlimited AI. Typically, open table formats are architected to generate performance for data lakes using cloud-based object storage. The performance is achieved by creating a layer of abstraction atop a data lake via the use of columnar storage and metadata management that allows enterprises to manage and update data more efficiently. The fundamental advantage of using an open t...
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By Trond Myklebust The exponential growth of data, and in particular unstructured data, is a problem enterprises have been wrestling with for decades. IT organizations are in a constant battle between ensuring that data is accessible to users, one the one hand, and that the data is globally protected and in compliance with data governance policies, on the other. Added to this is the need to ensure that files are stored in the most cost-effective manner possible, on whichever storage is best at that point in time. The problem is there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all storage platform tha...
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By Matt Asay Depending on your politics, trickle-down economics never worked all that well in the United States under President Ronald Reagan. In open source software, however, it seems to be doing just fine. I’m not really talking about economic policies, of course, but rather about elite software engineering teams releasing code that ends up powering the not-so-elite mainstream. Take Lyft, for example, which released the popular Envoy project. Or Google, which gave the world Kubernetes (though, as I’ve argued, the goal wasn’t charitable niceties, but rather corporate strategy to outflank the...
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By Anirban Ghoshal Snowflake on Thursday said it was making its Data Clean Room application generally available for free in the Snowflake Marketplace. The application, which was built on Snowflake’s Native Application Framework, will allow customers to set up data clean rooms at no additional cost, the company said. Introduced in 2022, Snowflake’s Native Application Framework offers developers the ability to build and run applications inside the Snowflake Data Cloud platform, without the need to move data when building and running those applications. Data clean rooms, according to Snowflake, p...
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By Paul Krill Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database, an AI assistant that improves productivity in the Azure portal by offering natural language to SQL conversion, along with self-help for database administration. Microsoft announced the preview on March 21. To sign up for the preview, users can request access. Copilot in Azure SQL Database enables the Azure portal query editor to translate natural language queries to SQL, making database interactions more intuitive, Microsoft said. Plus, Azure Copilot integration adds Azure SQL Database skills into Microso...
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By Marc Prioleau The trend of open data is taking hold around the world and it will unleash untold innovation. McKinsey notes that open data, which is data that can be freely used and freely redistributed, could contribute $3 trillion annually to the global economy and has the potential to “unleash innovation and transform every sector of the economy.” The World Bank also recognizes “the huge potential of open data,” noting that private company use of open government data has “only begun to be exploited.” The European Union, which often leads in terms of embracing digital initiatives, has its ...
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By Anirban Ghoshal Data lakehouse provider Databricks said it is acquiring Boston-based Lilac AI to help enterprises explore and use their unstructured data for building generative AI-based applications. “Today, we are thrilled to announce that Lilac is joining Databricks. Lilac is a scalable, user-friendly tool for data scientists to search, cluster, and analyze any kind of text dataset with a focus on generative AI,” the company wrote in a blog post. Lilac AI, according to listings on its portal, offered a service named Garden that would allow enterprises to search, quantify, and edit data f...
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By David Linthicum Federated learning marks a milestone in enhancing collaborative model AI training. It is shifting the main approach to machine learning, moving away from the traditional centralized training methods towards more decentralized ones. Data is scattered, and we need to leverage it as training data where it exists. This paradigm is nothing new. I was playing around with it in the 1990s. What’s old is new again… again. Federated learning allows for the collaborative training of machine learning models across multiple devices or servers, harnessing their collective data without nee...
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By Manoj Chaudhary Large language models (LLMs) seem ideal for creating natural language interfaces, but the rise of ChatGPT and other similar tools has raised a question: Are LLMs right for optimizing business processes? In short, the answer is a resounding “yes.” Of course, the longer answer is more nuanced than that. The stand-alone utility or prowess of an LLM is relatively limited unless paired with other technologies. The true impact of AI lies in its ability to facilitate the acceleration of business processes through automation. Where AI meets business processesConsider streamlining th...
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By Anirban Ghoshal Data intelligence software provider Alation on Monday added a new feature, dubbed business lineage, to its Data Lineage product to help business users track data flow across enterprise systems. “Business lineage is an extension of Alation’s end-to-end data lineage, providing an abstraction layer to filter views of data flows and visualize relationships across technical, system, and business metadata,” the company said in a statement, adding that this visibility increases trust in data and accelerates time to insights for decision-making. Explaining further, the company said ...
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