Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of September 6, 2024. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines…
Customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Salesforce’s AI research team has come out with a new large language model and two new open source products that will help developers and enterprises to not only build agents but automate actions taken by them. The new large language model (LLM), dubbed XGen-Sales, is itself based on a…
Data hyperaggregation collects, integrates, and processes large volumes of data from multiple sources. This method can pull data from cloud platforms and on-premises systems to create a unified and comprehensive data set. The goal is to enhance data visibility, thus improving decision-making, analytics, and operational efficiency. As organizations push the boundaries of digital transformation, understanding…
InfluxData, the creator of InfluxDB, announced a series of updates to the InfluxDB 3.0 product suite including new deployment options and observability capabilities. A time series database efficiently handles time-stamped data, making it essential for real-time monitoring and performance optimization of systems, servers, and sensors across various industries. InfluxDB has emerged as one of the…
… and your data warehouse / data lake / data lakehouse. A few months ago, I talked about how nearly all of our analytics architectures are stuck in the 1990s. Maybe an executive at your company read that article, and now you have a mandate to “modernize analytics.” Let’s say that they even understand that just…
InfluxData is releasing an updated version of the databases it markets under the name InfluxDB 3.0, it said Wednesday. The updates to InfluxDB 3.0 are aimed at easing development of applications based on time-series data, and include improved Ingest performance, real-time querying, and superior data compression through native object storage to power high-cardinality. The new…
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a deceptively simple idea started to take hold within the development community: Software, given its immense potential as an engine of change, should be made free and open to everyone. Unsurprisingly, this idea—most commonly associated today with the open source software movement—was initially met…
Couchbase says the new column store that it officially launched today on AWS will streamline analytics on “dormant” JSON data residing in its NoSQL database. The company also launched vector search capabilities in the mobile version of its database and the new free tier in the cloud. Couchbase historically sought to split the difference between…
Cloud portability once seemed like a groundbreaking advancement in the digital infrastructure landscape. Initial expectations were high with the launch of Amazon S3 in 2006 and similar services. Providers promised the ability to migrate workloads across different service providers seamlessly. Oh, what a lovely world it would be. The services suggested a future where enterprises…
For the past decade, Kubernetes has been the dominant force in cloud-native computing and in enterprise software generally, as cloud providers and their customers have turned toward running their applications and services in clusters of containers instead of in tiers of virtual machines. And yet, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s 2023 annual survey (conducted from…
