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Orchestrate all the ThingsData management in 2024. Featuring Peter Corless, Director of Product Marketing at StarTree, and Alex Merced, Developer Advocate at DremioFor many organizations today, data management comes down to handing over their data to one of the "Big 5" data vendors: Amazon, Microsoft Azure and Google, plus Snowflake and Databricks.
But analysts David Vellante and George Gilbert believe that the needs of modern data applications coupled with the evolution of open storage management may lead to the emergence of a "sixth data platform".
The sixth data platform hypothesis is that open data formats may enable interoperability, leading the transition away from vertically integrated vendor-controlled platforms towards independent management of data storage and permissions.
It's a...2024-01-1153 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsSalesforce's AI Economist research wants to explore the equilibrium between equality and productivity. Featuring Stephan Zheng, Salesforce Lead Research Scientist, Senior Manager, AI Economist TeamEconomic theory is known to be constrained by a number of inefficiencies in its modeling. Salesforce researchers claim AI can help address that, leading to more robust economic policies.
Article published on ZDNet2022-07-1331 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsTrends in data and AI: Cloud, platforms, models and Pegacorns. Featuring Gradient Flow Founder Ben LoricaAs Ben Lorica will readily admit, at the risk of dating himself, he belongs to the first generation of data scientists. In addition to having served as Chief Data Scientist for the likes of Databricks and O'Reilly, Lorica advises and works with a number of venture capitals, startups and enterprises, conducts surveys, and chairs some of the top data and AI events in the world. That gives him a unique vantage point to identify developments in this space.
Having worked in academia teaching applied mathematics and statistics for years, at some point Lorica realized that he wanted...2022-07-111h 02
Orchestrate all the ThingsGood enough weather prediction at scale as a big data, internet of things and data science problem. Featuring DTN CTO Lars EweWhat's a good enough weather prediction? That's a question most people probably don't give much thought to, as the answer seems obvious -- an accurate one. But then again, most people are not CTOs at DTN.
Lars Ewe is, and his answer may be different than most people's. With 180 meteorologists on staff providing weather predictions worldwide, DTN is the largest weather company you've probably never heard of.
Weather forecast, too, is all about data and models these days. But balancing accuracy and viability is a fine act, especially at global scale and when the stakes are...2022-06-3035 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsGreen software is a thing, and this is why you should care about it. Featuring Green Software Foundation Standards Working Group lead Abhishek GuptaEverything counts in large amounts. You don't have to be Google, or to build large AI models, to benefit from writing efficient code. But how do you measure that?
It's complicated, but that does not mean that people are not trying. That's what Abhishek Gupta and the Green Software Foundation (GSF) are relentlessly working on.
Article published on VentureBeat2022-06-2442 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsGraphs to trees: data, metrics, analytics and regulation for sustainability. Featuring Neural Alpha CEO / Founder James PhareWhat does sustainability actually mean for organizations? Can it be measured, and if yes, how? Obvious questions with less than obvious answers, even for sustainability and ESG professionals like James Phare.
Phare shares his experience and assessment of sustainability and its relationship with the ESG space, its current state and trajectory, and how data and analytics can help.2022-06-2347 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsYou.com is taking on Google with AI, apps, privacy, and personalization. Featuring CEO / Founder Richard SocherAward-winning AI research - check. Startup and enterprise experience - check. Venture capital and Mark Benioff backing - check. Is that enough for Richard Socher's you.com to take on Google?
Here is why and how he aims to do that.
Article published on ZDNet2022-06-2059 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsDecision intelligence wants to automate decision making - but how far can you take this? Featuring Aera Technology Founder / CTO Shariq MansoorDecision intelligence is one of those terms that sound vaguely familiar, even if you've never come across it before. Like many category-defining terms, it can mean different things to different people. This is a feature category-defining terms either have by design, or acquire through extensive use.
In October 2021, Gartner identified DI as a 2022 Top Trend. A number of vendors have identified with that category, and Aera Technology is among them, claiming to have been doing DI before it was called DI.
Today, Aera is announcing new capabilities for its Aera Decision Cloud at the Gartner...2022-06-0639 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsManaging disaster and disruption with AI, one tree at a time. Featuring AiDash co-founder and CEO Abhishek SinghIt sounds like a contradiction in terms, but disaster and disruption management is a thing. Disaster and disruption is precisely what ensues when catastrophic natural events occur, and unfortunately, the trajectory the world is on seems to be exacerbating the issue. In 2021 alone, the US experienced 15+ weather/climate disaster events with damages exceeding $1 billion.
Previously, we have explored various aspects of the ways data science and machine learning intertwine with natural events - from weather prediction, to the impact of climate change on extreme phenomena and measuring the impact of disaster relief. AiDash, however, is aiming at someth...2022-05-2626 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsCould machine learning and operations research lift each other up? Featuring Funartech CEO / Founder Nikolaj van OmmeIs deep learning really going to be able to do everything? Opinions on the potential of this opinion to prove true vary. Geoffrey Hinton, awarded for pioneering deep learning, is not entirely unbiased in so opining. However others, including Hinton's deep learning collaborator Yoshua Bengio, are looking to infuse deep learning with elements of a domain still under the radar: operations research.
Machine learning and its deep learning variety are practically household names by now. There is lots of hype around deep learning, as well as a growing number of applications. However, as applications of deep learning...2022-05-2544 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsAlation announces Open Data Quality Initiative as part of its data intelligence strategy. Featuring CEO / Co-founder Satyen SanganiData quality is part of data intelligence. It's a topic that lot of people are concerned about, and it makes engagement and adoption around data intelligence solutions better. With many data quality solutions with different approaches available in the market, customers need to be able to choose the one that works best for them.
Plus, if you are someone like Alation, a vendor whose core business is not data quality -- if you can't beat them, join them. As Alation CEO and co-founder Satyen Sangani shared, that was the thinking behind today's announcement of the Alation Open D...2022-05-2428 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsWayve is working with Microsoft to tackle end-to-end deep learning-based autonomous driving. Featuring Wayve CEO / Co-founder Alex KendallCirca 2017, there was a lot of hype around autonomous driving. If one were to take that at face value, it would mean that by now autonomous driving would have been a reality already. Apparently that's not the case, and Alex Kendall claims to have known that all along. Still, that did not stop him from setting out then, and he's still working on it today.
Kendall is the co-founder and CEO of Wayve, a company founded in 2017 to tackle the challenge of autonomous driving based on a deep learning approach. Today, Wayve announced a partnership with Microsoft...2022-05-1845 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsViable secures $5M funding to go to market with AI-powered customer feedback analytics. Featuring CEO / Co-founder Dan EricksonThere is an implicit assumption in most analytics solutions: the data being analyzed, and the insights derived, are almost exclusively quantitative. That is, they refer to numerical data, such as number of customers, sales, and the like.
But when it comes to customer feedback, perhaps the most important data is qualitative: text contained in sources such as feedback forms and surveys, tickets, chat and email messages. The problem with that data is that, while valuable, they require domain experts and a lot of time to read through and classify. Or at least, that was the case up u...2022-05-1233 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsThe EU AI Act: What you need to know, How to improve it. Featuring Mozilla Foundation Executive Director Mark Surman and Senior Policy Researcher Maximilian GahntzAfter data privacy and GDPR, the EU wants to leave its mark on AI by regulating it with the EU AI Act.
Here's what it is, what it means for the world at large, when it's expected to take effect, how it will work in practice, as well as Mozilla's recommendations for improving it, and ways for everyone be involved in the process.
Article published on ZDNet2022-05-1227 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsStreaming graph analytics: From cybersecurity to the world with open source Quine and thatDot. Featuring thatDot CEO / Founder Ryan WrightWhat do you get when you combine two of the most up-and-coming paradigms in data processing - streaming and graphs? A potential game-changer, and this is the bet first DARPA and now CrowdStrike Falcon Fund have taken on thatDot and its open source framework Quine.
The CrowdStrike Falcon Fund is an investment vehicle managed by CrowdStrike, in partnership with Accel, that makes cross-stage private investments within cybersecurity and adjacent markets.
DARPA is also known to have an interest in cybersecurity, and this is what motivated the decision to fund the development of a framework recently...2022-04-2729 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsSageMaker Serverless Inference illustrates Amazon’s philosophy for ML workloads. Featuring Bratin Saha, AWS VP of Machine LearningAmazon just unveiled Serverless Inference, a new option for SageMaker, its fully managed machine learning (ML) service. The goal for Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference is to serve use cases with intermittent or infrequent traffic patterns, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) and making the service easier to use.
We connected with Bratin Saha, AWS VP of Machine Learning, to discuss where Amazon SageMaker Serverless fits into the big picture of Amazon’s machine learning offering and how it affects ease of use and TCO, as well as Amazon’s philosophy and process in developing its machine learning portf...2022-04-2124 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsAverting the food crisis and restoring environmental balance with data-driven regenerative agriculture. Featuring Continuum Ag Founder Mitchell HoraModern agriculture was broken long before pandemics, wars, supply chain disruptions and fertilizer shortages. Regenerative agriculture can fix that, and data can help.
What could a multi-national corporation like Unilever and an environmental leader and activist like Vandana Shiva possibly have in common?
Shiva has a history of actively opposing the commodification and appropriation of natural resources for the benefit of corporate interests. Unilever is at the heart of the international corporate web.
Shiva, a prolific author, just published her latest book: "Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture: Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate...2022-04-2031 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsGraph data science is moving one step closer to the mainstream: Neo4j releases v2.0 of its eponymous product. Featuring Senior Director of Product Management for Data Science Alicia FrameWhether you're genuinely interested in getting insights and solving problems using data, or just attracted by what has been called “the most promising career” by LinkedIn and the “best job in America” by Glassdoor, chances are you're familiar with data science. But what about graph data science?
As we've elaborated previously, graphs are a universal data structure with manifestations that span a wide spectrum: from analytics to databases, and from knowledge management to data science, machine learning and even hardware.
Graph data science is when you want to answer questions, not just with your data, but with...2022-04-1234 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsEvaluating the streaming data ecosystem: StreamNative releases benchmark comparing Apache Pulsar to Apache Kafka. Featuring Chief Architect & Head of Cloud Engineering Addison HighamProcessing data in real-time is on the rise. The streaming analytics market (which depending on definitions, may just be one segment of the streaming data market) is projected to grow from $15.4 billion in 2021 to $50.1 billion in 2026, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 26.5% during the forecast period as per Markets and Markets.
A multitude of streaming data alternatives, each with its own focus and approach, has emerged in the last few years. One of those alternatives is Apache Pulsar. In 2021, Pulsar ranked as a Top 5 Apache Software Foundation project and surpassed Apache Kafka in monthly active...2022-04-0730 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsTrullion is applying AI to create financial workflows in accounting. Featuring Cofounder / CEO Isaac HellerThere's no business like powering business. That may seem like a paradox, and most of us don't really think of accounting as a separate line of business. In that sense, it's a secret hiding in plain sight: accounting is big business, in and of itself.
The global accounting services market is expected to reach $735.94 billion in 2025, and digital transformation has targeted it for impact. The size of the accounting software market is projected to reach $22,9 billion by 2027.
This includes names from Microsoft, Oracle and SAP to Intuit and Xero, plus many others. Yet, there's something...2022-03-2628 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsTrustworthy AI: How to ensure trust and ethics in AI. Featuring Beena Ammanath, Executive Director of the Global Deloitte AI InstituteA pragmatic and direct approach to ethics and trust in artificial intelligence (AI) — who would not want that? This is how Beena Ammanath describes her new book "Trustworthy AI.”
Ammanath is the executive director of the Global Deloitte AI Institute and is well-qualified to write a book on trustworthy AI. She has had stints at GE, HPE and Bank of America in roles such as vice president of data science and innovation, and CTO of artificial intelligence as well as lead of data and analytics.
Ammanath said part of her motivation to write the book was her...2022-03-2328 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsLexmark wants to lead by example in IoT, unveils Optra Edge platform. Featuring Vishal Gupta, Lexmark SVP of connected technology / CITOArguably, two of the most iconic examples of digital transformation are Kodak and Amazon. Kodak failed to keep with the times, leading to the demise of a once dominant commercial empire. Amazon, however, had the foresight to not just “stay in its lane,” but step out and shape the world’s digital infrastructure with AWS.
Now, Lexmark, is taking note of Kodak’s failure and Amazon’s success and piloting into its own. Moving beyond printers, supplies and accessories — which is how Lexmark first made a name for itself — the company’s current motto seems to be “Print, secure and ma...2022-03-2335 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsThe next 10 years in AI: From bits to things, from big data in the lab to expert knowledge in the field. Featuring Landing AI Founder Andrew NgDid you ever feel you've had enough of your current line of work, and wanted to shift gears? If you have, you're definitely not alone.
Besides the Great Resignation, however, there are also less radical approaches, like the one Andrew Ng is taking.
Ng is among the most prominent figures in AI. Founder of deeplearning.ai, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. He was also Chief Scientist at Baidu Inc., and Founder & Lead for the Google Brain Project.
Yet, his current priority has shifted -- from bits to...2022-03-2138 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsRunning AI workloads is coming to a virtual machine near you, powered by GPUs and Kubernetes. Featuring Run:AI CEO / Co-Founder Omri GellerRun:AI offers a virtualization layer for AI, aiming to facilitate AI infrastructure. It's seeing good traction, and just raised a $75M Series C funding round.
Here's how the evolution of the AI landscape has shaped its growth.
Article published on ZDNet2022-03-1548 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsFaros AI raises $16M to shine a light on developer productivity and the value of software, launches free open source platform. Featuring CEO / Co-founder Vitaly GordonWhat if what you think you know about developer productivity and the value of software is off the mark, and that is hurting the quality of your software, the operation of your organization, as well as your bottomline?
Article published on ZDNet2022-03-0242 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsThe rise of first-mile observability: Calyptia wants to enable enterprises to log all the things. Featuring co-founders Anurag Gupta & Eduardo SilvaCloud-native is the name of the game for application development. The creators of the Fluent Bit and Fluentd popular open-source projects for cloud-native observability are launching an offering aimed at the enterprise.
Article published on ZDNet2022-03-0127 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsThe Ring Zero of real-time data processing: Redpanda scores $50M Series B funding to grow its streaming platform. Featuring CEO / Founder Alex GallegoMaintaining compatibility with the de-facto market standard, while reimplementing and extending it. It's easier said than done, but that's what Redpanda is doing, and it seems to be working.
Article published on ZDNet2022-02-2324 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsFrom machine learning observability to responsible AI: Aporia raises $25 million in Series A funding to go the distance. Featuring CEO / Co-Founder Liran HasonIs there a line connecting machine learning observability to explainability, leading to responsible AI? Aporia, an observability platform for machine learning, thinks so.2022-02-2333 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsReducing cloud waste by optimizing Kubernetes with machine learning. Featuring StormForge CEO / Founder Matt ProvoApplications are proliferating, cloud complexity is exploding, and Kubernetes is prevailing as the foundation for application deployment in the cloud. That sounds like an optimization task ripe for machine learning, and StormForge is doing just that.
Article published on ZDNet2022-02-2330 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsH2O.ai introduces Hydrogen Torch to bring the grandmasters of AI for image, video and natural language processing to the enterprise. Featuring CEO / Founder Sri AmbatiH2O is an open-source based AI powerhouse with a grand vision. The latest addition to its product line wants to bring the AI capabilities of the web giants to the rest of the world, says CEO and Founder Sri Ambati.
Article published on ZDNet2022-02-211h 02
Orchestrate all the ThingsData is going to the cloud in real-time, and ScyllaDB 5.0 is going with the data. Featuring ScyllaDB CEO / Co-founder Dor LaorScyllaDB started out as with the aim of becoming a drop-in replacement for Cassandra. It's growing to become more than that.
Article published on ZDNet2022-02-1851 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsBringing Deep Learning to your hardware of choice, one DeciNet at a time. Featuring Deci CEO / Co-founder Yonatan GeifmanTraining deep learning models is costly and hard, but not as much as deploying and running them in production. Deci wants to help address that..
Article published on ZDNet2022-02-1642 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsRendered.ai unveils Platform as a Service for creating synthetic data to train AI models. Featuring CEO / Founder Nathan KundtzAs more organizations are turning to synthetic data to feed their data-hungry machine learning algorithms, Rendered.ai wants to help.
Article published on ZDNet2022-02-0341 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsThe State of AI Ethics in 2022: From principles to tools via regulation. Featuring Montreal AI Ethics Institute Founder / Principal Researcher Abhishek GuptaWhat do we talk about, when we talk about AI Ethics? Just like AI itself, definitions for AI ethics seem to abound.
From algorithmic and dataset bias, to the use of AI in asymmetrical / unlawful ways, to privacy and environmental impact.
All of that, and more, could potentially fall under the AI Ethics umbrella.
We try to navigate this domain, and lay out some concrete definitions and actions that could help move the domain forward2022-01-3155 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsThe state of the crypto industry today: a multitude of blockchains, with smart contracts, DeFi and DAOs on the rise. Featuring Nansen CEO / Co-Founder Alex SvanevikA new comprehensive report is out, using data science and analytics to slice and dice the crypto industry. Add to that insights from the report's authors, and you have the state of the crypto industry today.
Article published on ZDNet2022-01-2732 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsMinIO, the de facto open source standard for multi-cloud storage, becomes a unicorn after a $103 Million Series B round funding. Featuring Founder AB Periasamy, CMO Jonathan SymondsMinIO took an early bet in the cloud, and in Amazon's S3 becoming the de facto standard for application storage needs. The bet is paying off.
Article published on ZDNet2022-01-2632 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsAPI3, the first-party blockchain oracle, is releasing beacon data feeds with Amberdata. Featuring API3 co-founder Heikki VänttinenIn theory, Web3 is all about decentralization. In practice, it can be very centralized.
API3 is a bold effort to achieve decentralization in connecting Web3 applications to the outside world.
Article published on ZDNet2022-01-1930 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsTaking the world by simulation: The rise of synthetic data in AI. Featuring Datagen CTO & Co-founder Gil ElbazWould you trust AI that has been trained on synthetic data, as opposed to real world data? You may not know it, but you are probably already doing it, and it's fine, according to the findings of a newly released survey.
Piece published on VentureBeat.2021-12-2143 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsOctoML announces the latest release of its platform, exemplifies growth in MLOps. Featuring CEO & Co-founder Luis CezeOctoML is announcing the latest release of its platform to automate deployment of production-ready models across the broadest array of clouds, hardware devices and machine learning acceleration engines.
Article published on ZDNet2021-12-1629 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsEdge Impulse wants to bring machine learning at the edge to everyone, announces $34M Series B funding. Featuring co-founder / CTO Jan Jongboom55.000 projects, 30.000 developers, $54M funding, and customers including the likes of NASA, in a bit over 2 years. Edge Impulse is riding the wave of machine learning at the edge.
Article published on ZDNet2021-12-0933 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsSpeedb is a drop-in replacement for RocksDB that wants to take the embedded key-value store world by storm. Featuring CEO & Co-founder Adi GelvanRocksDB is the secret sauce underlying many data management systems. Speedb is a drop-in replacement for RocksDB that offers a significant boost in performance and now powers Redis on Flash.
Article published on ZDNet2021-11-1838 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsSambaNova is enabling disruption in the enterprise with AI language models, computer vision, recommendations, and graphs. Featuring CEO Rodrigo LiangSambaNova just added another offering under its umbrella of AI-as-a-service portfolio for enterprises: GPT language models.
As the company continues to execute on its vision, we caught up with CEO Rodrigo Liang to look both at the big picture and under the hood.
Article published on ZDNet2021-11-1530 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsAnother globally distributed cloud native SQL database unicorn: Yugabyte raises $188M Series C funding at $1.3B valuation. Featuring CEO Bill Cook, Co-founder Karthik RanganathanA number of successive funding rounds have given Yugabyte unicorn status, while positioning the company to aim for a big piece of a growing pie in the shape-shifting database market
Article published on ZDNet2021-10-2832 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsCloud, microservices, and data mess? Graph, ontology, and application fabric to the rescue by EnterpriseWeb. Featuring CEO & Founder Dave DuggalKnowledge graphs are probably the best technology we have for data integration. But what about application integration? Knowledge graphs can help there, too, argues EnterpriseWeb
Article published on ZDNet2021-10-271h 00
Orchestrate all the ThingsIOTA is bringing smart contracts with zero fees, Ethereum interoperability and compatibility for next generation distributed applications. Featuring IOTA Foundation co-founder and CEO Dominik SchienerIOTA is unveiling its smart contracts, with a clear onboarding path and many interesting features for developers.
We discuss this release, as well as progress made since moving to the new network and other new features in the works with IOTA Foundation co-founder and CEO Dominik Schiener.
Article published on ZDNet2021-10-2143 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsThe State of AI Report, 2021. Featuring AI Investors Nathan Benaich and Ian HogarthIt's this time of year again: reports on the state of AI for 2021 are out.
In what is becoming a valued yearly tradition, we caught up with AI investors and authors of the State of AI report, Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth, to discuss the 2021 release.
Some of the topics we covered are lessons learned from operationalizing AI and MLOps, new concepts and datasets, language models, AI ethics, and AI-powered biotech and pharma.
Article published on ZDNet2021-10-1442 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsOpen-source backend as a service Appwrite gets $10M seed funding to commercialize traction. Featuring CEO / Founder Eldad FuxAppwrite, an open source platform that offers a slew of features to developers, aims to capitalize on its grass-roots popularity.
Article published on ZDNet2021-09-2822 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsAn AI-powered revenue operating system for aviation and beyond: FLYR Labs Lands $150 Million in Series C Funding. Featuring CEO / Founder Alex MansA multi-trillion dollar business in crisis, upending incumbents, unfettered ambition, and pragmatic deep learning. FLYR's story has it all.
Article published on ZDNet2021-09-2228 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsMachine learning at the edge: A hardware and software ecosystem. Featuring Alif Semiconductors Sr. Marketing Manager Henrik Flodell, Arm Director of Ecosystem and Developer Relations Machine Learning Philip Lewer, Neuton CTO Blair NewmanBeing able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge bears the promise of unlocking a multi-billion dollar market.
For that to happen, hardware and software must work in tandem. Arm's partner ecosystem exemplifies this, with hardware and software vendors like Alif and Neuton working together.
Article published on ZDNet2021-09-2155 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsDeepMind wants to reconcile Deep Learning and classical computer science algorithms with Neural Algorithmic Reasoning. Featuring DeepMind's Petar Veličković and Charles Blundell, MILA's Andreea DeacWill Deep Learning really be able to do everything? We don't really know.
But if it's going to, it will have to assimilate how classical computer science algorithms work. This is what DeepMind is working on, and its success is important to the eventual uptake of neural networks in wider commercial applications.
This work goes by the name of Neural Algorithmic Reasoning. Join us as we discuss roots and first principles, the defining characteristics, similarities and differences of algorithms and Deep Learning models with the people who came up with this.
We also co...2021-09-1058 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsThe State of MLOps in 2021. Featuring New Relic Lead Researcher Ori Cohen and Monte Carlo Co-Founder Lior GavishMLOps is the art and science of bringing machine learning to production, and it means many things to many people. The State of MLOps is an effort to define and monitor this market
Article published on ZDNet2021-09-0238 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsApollo GraphQL announces $130 Million Series D Funding, wants to define its own category. Featuring CEO & Founder Geoff SchmidtGraphQL is a specification that came at just the right time to address an age-old issue in software engineering: service integration. Apollo's implementation is seeing lots of traction, and it just got more gas in the tank for its grand vision that goes well beyond integration.
Article published on ZDNet2021-08-1747 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsMLGUI: Building user interfaces for machine learning applications. Featuring KPMG Germany Senior Data Engineer Philip VolletMachine learning is eating the world, and spilling over to established disciplines in software, too. After MLOps, is the world ready to welcome MLGUI?
Philip Vollet is somewhat of a celebrity, all things considered. Miley Cyrus or Lebron James he is not, at least not yet, but if data science lives up to the hype, who knows.
As the senior data engineer with KPMG Germany, Vollet leads a small team of machine learning and data engineers building the integration layer for internal company data, with access standardization for internal and external stakeholders. Outside of KPMG...2021-07-1930 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsOpen source growth and venture capital investment: data, databases, challenges and opportunities. Featuring Runa Capital Principal Konstantin VinogradovOpen source software used to be poorly understood by commercial forces, and it's often approached in a biased way. A new generation of investment funds goes to show that things are changing.
Open source software is a lot of things to a lot of people. For some people -- engineers, mostly -- it's a way to work on their passion, be involved in a community, and give something back to the world. For others -- business people, mostly -- it's a way to grow projects organically, and sell software without actually investing too much in sales.
2021-07-0736 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsMore than words: Shedding light on the data terminology mess. Featuring Soda Founders Maarten Masschelein and Tom BaeyensIt's a data terminology mess out there. Let's try and untangle it, because there's more to words than lingo.
Hopefully technology investment decisions in your organization are made based on more than hype. But as technology is evolving faster than ever, it's hard to keep up with all the terminology that describes it. Some people see terminology as an obfuscation layer meant to glorify the ones who come up with it, hype products, and make people who throw terms around appear smart.
There may be some truth in this, but that does not mean terminology...2021-06-2252 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsThe biggest investment in database history, the biggest social network ever, and other graph stories from Neo4j. Featuring CEO and Co-founder Emil EifremA $325 million Series F funding round, bringing Neo4j's valuation to over $2 billion. A social network of 3 billion people, distributed across 1000 servers. The latter is a demo, the former is not. But both are real signs that the graph market and Neo4j are getting seriously big.
If you're into the market and investment side of things, how does a Series F funding round as part of a $325 million investment led by Eurazeo and GV (formerly Google Ventures), bringing Neo4j's valuation to over $2 billion sound? Pretty impressive, probably.
If you're into the technology and...2021-06-1725 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsMachine learning at the edge: TinyML is getting big. Featuring Qualcomm Senior Director Evgeni Gousev, Neuton CTO Blair Newman and Google Staff Research Engineer Pete WardenBeing able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge is the key to unlocking a multi-billion dollar market. TinyML is the art and science of producing machine learning models frugal enough to work at the edge, and it's seeing rapid growth.
Edge computing is booming. Although the definition of what constitutes edge computing is a bit fuzzy, the idea is simple. It's about taking compute out of the data center, and bringing it as close to where the action is as possible.
Whether it's stand-alone IoT sensors, devices of all kinds, drones, or autonomous...2021-06-071h 05
Orchestrate all the ThingsGraphs as a foundational technology stack: analytics, AI, and hardware. Featuring Neo4j CEO and Founder Emil Eifrem, Graph Data Science Director Alicia FrameGraphs are everywhere. That has been the motto of graph afficionados for years, and now it seems that the world is waking up to this.
How would you feel if you saw demand for your favorite topic, which also happens to be your line of business, grow 1000% in two-years time? Vindicated, overjoyed, and a bit overstretched in trying to keep up with demand, probably.
Although Emil Eifrem never used those exact words when we discussed the past, present and future of graphs, that's a reasonable projection to make. Eifrem is the CEO and co-founder of...2021-05-281h 03
Orchestrate all the ThingsSuperconductive scores $21M Series A funding to sustain growth of its Great Expectations open source framework for data quality. Featuring CEO and co-founder Abe GongEnsuring data quality is essential for analytics, data science and machine learning. Superconductive's Great Expectations open source framework wants to do for data quality what test-driven development did for software quality
Technical debt is a well-known concept in software development. It's what happens when unclear or forgotten assumptions are buried inside a complex, interconnected codebase, and it leads to poor software quality. The same thing also applies to data pipelines, it's called pipeline debt, and it's time we did something about it.
That's the gist of what motivated Abe Gong and James Campbell to start...2021-05-2029 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsOtterTune sets out to auto tune all the databases. Featuring CEO and co-founder Andy PavloTuning databases is key to application performance and stability, but it's a hard job. Auto-tuning helps, but it was reserved for the Oracles and Microsofts of the world till now. OtterTune wants to democratize this capability
Databases are the substrate on which most applications run. Although different applications have different needs served by different databases, they all have one thing in common: they are complex systems that need continuous fine tuning to work optimally.
Databases come with a plethora of parameters that can be tuned by "turning knobs". Traditionally, this has been the job of...2021-05-1231 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsAI chip startup NeuReality introduces its NR1-P object-oriented hardware architecture. Featuring CEO and co-founder Moshe TanachNeuReality targets deep learning inference workloads on the edge, aiming to reduce CAPEX and OPEX for infrastructure owners
The AI chip space is booming, with innovation coming from a slew of startups in addition to the usual suspects. You may never have heard of NeuReality before, but it seems likely you'll be hearing more about it after today.
NeuReality is a startup founded in Israel in 2019. Today it has announced NR1-P, which it dubs a novel AI-centric inference platform. That's a bold claim for a previously unknown, and a very short time to arrive...2021-05-0532 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsOpen source software economics and community health analytics: Enter CHAOSS. Featuring CHAOSS Project co-founder Georg LinkTrying to capture the value open source software generates can be a bit chaotic. The CHAOSS project may lend a helping hand.
By now, the tension between commercial interests and open source projects is well known.
Trying to balance building a sustainable business and a community around open source software, in a cloud-first world is not the easiest thing in the world.
In the latest episodes of a long-winding saga, two more commercial open source vendors, Elastic and Grafana, changed their licenses.
Their rationale was clearly communicated as trying to protect t...2021-05-0346 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsThis is where you sign up for an open-source AI stack for the future. Featuring AI Infrastructure Alliance Lead Dan JeffriesOpen-source stacks enabled software to eat the world. Some of the most innovative companies in the world are working on building an open-source stack for AI.
Dan Jeffries was there when the LAMP stack enabled software to eat the world. Perhaps you don’t know, or remember, what the LAMP stack is, but it's actually pretty important.
LAMP is an acronym made out of the initials of key open-source technologies used in software development - Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. These technologies were hotly debated back in the day. Today, they are so successful that th...2021-04-2729 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsChainlink 2.0 brings off-chain compute to blockchain oracles, promotes adoption of hybrid smart contracts. Featuring co-founder Sergey NazarovA new whitepaper just released by leading blockchain oracle service Chainlink lays the foundation for new capabilities for application and smart contract developers.
Chainlink provides an oracle service, enabling smart contracts to interoperate with the world. Today, Chainlink released a whitepaper outlining what they dub Chainlink 2.0. We connected with Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov to discuss what this means.
Article published on ZDNet2021-04-1532 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsWeaviate, an open-source search engine powered by machine learning, vectors, graphs, and GraphQL. Featuring co-founder Bob van LuijtGoogle uses machine learning and graphs to deliver search results. Most search engines do not. Weaviate wants to change that.
Bob van Luijt's career in technology started at age 15, building web sites to help people sell toothbrushes online. Not many 15 year-olds do that today, and fewer still did it then. Apparently that gave van Luijt enough of a head start to arrive at the confluence of technology trends today.
Van Luijt went on to study arts, but ended up working full time in technology anyway. In 2015, when Google introduced its RankBrain Algorithm, the quality of...2021-04-071h 00
Orchestrate all the ThingsDatabases, graphs, and GraphQL - past, present, and future. Featuring Manish Jain, Dgraph CTO and founder, and Josh McKenzie, Apollo VP of Software EngineeringGraphQL was never conceived as a query language for databases. Yet, it's increasingly being used for this purpose. Here's why, and how.
Manish Jain and Josh McKenzie are both engineer rock stars who wear many hats. They also have something else in common: they are both avid GraphQL users and builders, despite getting there from different start points.
Article published on ZDNet2021-03-3054 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsData, analytics, machine learning, and AI in healthcare in 2021. Featuring Gradient Flow Principal Ben Lorica and John Snow Labs CTO David TalbyWhat do you get when you juxtapose two of the hottest domains today - AI and healthcare? A peek into the future, potentially.
In 2020, few things went well and saw growth. Artificial intelligence was one of them, and healthcare was another one. Artificial intelligence remained on a steady course of growth and further exploration -- perhaps because of the Covid-19 crisis. Healthcare was a big area for AI investment.
Today, the results of a new survey focusing precisely on the adoption of AI in healthcare are being unveiled. We caught up with 2 of its architects...2021-03-2940 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsIOTA still wants to build a better blockchain, and get it right this time. Featuring IOTA Foundation Co-Founder and CEO Dominik SchienerIn 2014, IOTA set out to offer an alternative to the key issues with blockchain: Scalability and transaction fees. Somewhere along the way, things went wrong. Not everything is lost, however, and IOTA is looking to regain momentum.
IOTA's main premise, namely solving the issues around blockchain by introducing a different data structure, remains. IOTA, like blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, is a distributed ledger. Unlike those, however, the data structure it uses is a directed acyclic graph, called the Tangle.
We discuss with IOTA Foundation Co-founder and CEO, Dominik Schiener, on what IOTA got...2021-03-2353 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsOctoML scores $28M to go to market with open source Apache TVM, a de facto standard for MLOps. Backstage chat with CEO Luis CezeMachine learning operations, or MLOps, is the art and science of taking machine learning models from the data science lab to production.
It's been a hot topic for the last couple of years, and for good reason. Going from innovation to scalability and repeatability are the hallmarks of generating business value, and MLOps represents precisely that for machine learning.
Apache TVM has become a de facto standard in MLOps, and OctoML is the company gearing its commercialization and scale up.
As OctoML secured a $28 million Series B funding round, we caught up with i...2021-03-1732 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsCutting edge Katana Graph scores $28.5 Million Series A Led by Intel Capital. Backstage chat with CEO Keshav PingaliAnother day, another funding round in the graph market
Katana Graph, a high-performance scale-out graph processing, AI and analytics company, announced a $28.5 million Series A financing round led by Intel Capital.
We discuss with Keshav Pingali, Katana Graph CEO and co-founder, on the company's background, technology, and prospects
Article published on ZDNet2021-02-2430 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsUp and to the right: TigerGraph scores $105 million Series C funding, the Graph market is growing. Featuring TigerGraph CEO Yu Xu, COO Todd BlaschkaThe largest funding round to date in the graph market is good news not just for TigerGraph, but for the market at large.
We review TigerGraph's progress and the market landscape with TigerGraph CEO Yu Xu and COO Todd Blaschka
Article published on ZDNet2021-02-1749 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsAI chips in the real world: interoperability, constraints, cost, energy efficiency, models. Featuring Determined AI CEO / Founder, Evan SparksAs it turns out, the answer to the question of how to make the best of AI hardware may not be solely, or even primarily, related to hardware
Today's episode features Determined AI CEO and Founder, Evan Sparks. Sparks is a PhD veteran of Berkeley's AmpLab with a long track record of accurate predictions in the chip market.
We talk about an interoperability layer for disparate hardware stacks, ONNX and TVM -- two ways to solve similar problems, AI constraints and energy efficiency, and Infusing knowledge in models
Article published on ZDNet2021-02-0331 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsPinecone, a serverless vector database for machine learning, leaves stealth with $10M funding. Backstage chat with CEO Edo LibertyVectors are foundational for machine learning applications. Pinecone, a specialized cloud database for vectors, has secured significant investment from the people who brought Snowflake to the world. Could this be the next big thing?
Article published on ZDNet2021-01-2730 min
Orchestrate all the Things2021 technology trend review, part 2: AI, Knowledge Graphs, and the COVID-19 effectAI chips, MLOps, and ethics. Knowledge, and Graphs. COVID-19 as a mixed bag for technological progress and adoption
Article published on ZDNet2021-01-2605 min
Orchestrate all the Things2021 Technology trend review, part 1: Blockchain, Cloud, Open SourceBlockchain's DeFi-ning moment. Cloud, Kubernetes, and GraphQL. Open source is winning, open source creators are losing. A reality check on key technological drivers for the new decade.
Article published on ZDNet2021-01-1207 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsRebooting AI: The journey toward robust artificial intelligence. Deep learning, knowledge graphs, and the future of AI. Featuring scientist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur Gary MarcusGary Marcus is one of the more prominent, and controversial, figures in AI
In this in-depth conversation, we cover everything from his background and early work in cognitive psychology as a way to understand the human mind, to his critique on Deep Learning, a holistic proposal for robust AI, the role of background knowledge, and knowledge graphs in particular, and the future of AI2021-01-0446 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsLightning-Fast Python for 100x Faster Performance from Saturn Cloud, now available on Snowflake. Featuring Saturn Cloud CEO / Founder Sebastian MettiPython, the most popular language for data science and machine learning, gets a huge boost from Dask, an open source framework for running it in a distributed way on top of GPUs.
Saturn Cloud, a startup offering Dask as service, is now a Snowflake partner, making Dask available to the masses.
We discuss all about Dask and Saturn Cloud with co-founder Sebastian Metti.
Article published on ZDNet2020-12-1635 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsTrailblaizing end-to-end AI application development for the edge: Blaize releases AI Studio. Featuring Blaize CEO Dinakar Munagala and VP R&D Dmitry ZakharchenkoYou might not know it by reading this news, but Blaize is an AI chip company. Blaize is now boldly going where none of its ilk has gone before, releasing a software development product. And that's not the only reason AI Studio is interesting.
We discuss with Blaize CEO Dinakar Munagala and VP R&D Dmitry Zakharchenko to explore AI Studio, its potential and philosophy, and where it fits in Blaize's strategy.
Article published on ZDNet2020-12-1640 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsStargate, a GraphQL for databases from DataStax. First stop - Cassandra. Featuring Ed Anuff, DataStax CPOA flexible API is key to database accessibility and developer friendliness today. Apache Cassandra was lacking in that department, and DataStax is trying to address this with the release of a new API layer called Stargate.
A discussion with Ed Anuff, formerly of Apogee and Google Cloud, and currently DataStax Chief Product Officer, on the rationale behind Stargate, its architecture and operation, how it compares to GraphQL, and a roadmap for the future.
Article published on ZDNet2020-12-0935 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsFluree, the graph database with blockchain inside, goes open source. Featuring Brian Platz, Fluree co-founder and co-CEOFluree is a hitherto under the radar graph database that uses blockchain to support data lineage and verification.
Learn all about Fluree, its origins and milestones, use cases, data integration and integrity, open source, and more
Featuring Brian Platz, Fluree co-founder and co-CEO.
Article published on ZDNet2020-10-201h 01
Orchestrate all the ThingsThe state of AI in 2020: democratization, industrialization, and the way to artificial general intelligence. Featuring AI investors Nathan Benaich and Ian HogarthFrom fit for purpose development to pie in the sky research, this is what AI looks like in 2020.
A discussion on all things AI, with authors of the State of AI 2020 Report, Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth.
Benaich and Hogarth work on the intersection of industry, research, investment and policy, with extensive background and various currently held positions such as venture capital investor and researcher. This gives them a unique vantage point on all things AI.
Their report, which is published for the 3rd year in a row, is their way of sharing...2020-10-0145 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsHybrid AI through data, space, time, and industrial applications: Beyond Limits scores $113M Series C to scale up. Featuring CEO / Founder AJ AbdallatBeyond Limits is an industrial and enterprise-grade AI technology company active in energy, utilities, and healthcare, which just announced a milestone Series C funding round of $133 million, led by Group 42 and BP.
The company's approach to applications of AI in industrial settings originates from NASA Jet Propulsion Labs. It's a hybrid approach, combining data-driven machine learning, with knowledge-based symbolic AI, plus the elements of spatial and temporal cognition.
We discuss business, technology, applications, and the future of AI with CEO and Founder AJ Abdallat
Article published on ZDNet2020-09-2329 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsA troubleshooting platform for free: Netdata scores $14.2M funding to extend its open-source application monitoring platform. Featuring CEO / Founder Costas TsaousisNetdata, the company behind the eponymous open-source, distributed, real-time, performance, and health monitoring solution for systems and applications, has announced it completed a new round of financing of 14,2 million dollars.
We take the opportunity to dive in the Netdata story with CEO and Founder Costas Tsaousis: what they do and why, their open source approach and distributed architecture, and their position in the overall observability ecosystem.
Article published on ZDNet2020-09-2331 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsGraph, machine learning, hype and beyond: ArangoDB open source multi model database releases version 3.7. Featuring CEO Claudius Weinberger, Head of Engineering/ML Jörg SchadΤhis episode is all about multi-model and graph databases.
A sui generis, multi-model open source database, designed from the ground up to be distributed. ArangoDB keeps up with the times and uses graph, and machine learning, as the entry points for its offering.
ArangoDB CEO and co-founder Claudius Weinberger, and ArangoDB Head of Engineering and Machine Learning Jörg Schad discuss multi-model, machine learning, hype, and the database market in general.
Article published on ZDNet2020-08-2739 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsOpen source observability marches on: New Relic and Grafana Labs partnership brings benefits to developers. Featuring Grafana CEO Raj Dutt, New Relic CPO Bill StaplesThe perfect observability storm with open source leading the way, and a partnership that makes sense.
Open source is eating the world, and observability is no exception. New Relic and Grafana Labs just announced a partnership, and we discuss the specifics as well as the broader open source and observability landscape with Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt and New Relic Chief Product Officer Bill Staples.
We cover everything from the rationale of the partnership, what it brings for users and how the integration was done, to open source, de facto and de jure standards for...2020-08-1032 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsGarbage in, garbage out: data science, meet evidence-based medicine. Featuring Critica CMO David ScalesDid you ever wonder how data is used in the medical industry? The picture that emerges leaves a lot to be desired.
In the early 90s,the evidence-based medicine movement tried to make medicine more data-driven. Three decades later, we have more data, but not enough context, or transparency.
Today's episode features David Scales, Chief Medical Officer at Critica, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Scales specialized in internal medicine, and also has a PhD in sociology, with a particular interest in the sociology of science.
The conversation...2020-07-181h 02
The Connected Data PodcastThe Years of the Graph: The Future of the Future is here | George AnadiotisWhat is graph all about, and why should you care? Graphs come in many shapes and forms, and can be used for different applications: Graph Analytics, Graph AI, Knowledge Graphs, and Graph Databases.
Up until the beginning of the 2010s, the world was mostly running on spreadsheets and relational databases. To a large extent, it still does. But the NoSQL wave of databases has largely succeeded in instilling the “best tool for the job” mindset.
After relational, key-value, document, and columnar, the latest link in this evolutionary proliferation of data structures is graph. Graph analytics, Grap...2020-07-0829 min
The Connected Data PodcastA 2020 Semantic Web vision for the real world | Panel DiscussionDavid Amerland, George Anadiotis, Panos Alexopoulos, and Teodora Petkova, have a few things in common. Besides being successful professionals, each in their own way, they also share a passion not many people share: the Semantic Web. As the Semantic Web is turning 20, they come together to talk about the passion.
The first rule of the Semantic Web in the 2020's is, you don't talk about the Semantic Web. Most people don't. For most people, the Semantic Web is something they may be vaguely familiar with, and perhaps something that has been tried, and failed. Truth is, you...2020-07-0158 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsSingle point of control, database security as a service: jSonar gets $50 million funding from Goldman Sachs. Featuring CEO / Founder Ron BennatanjSonar offers a security layer that sits on top of databases. Let's face it: database security is not the most appealing topic for most people. Bennatan is very aware of it.
That, however, has not stopped him and the jSonar team from carving out a spot for themselves. And it has not stopped Goldman Sachs from investing 50 million dollars in jSonar either.
Let's hear why, and what makes jSonar special.
Article published on ZDNet in June 20202020-06-2637 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsData Lakehouse, meet fast queries and visualization: Databricks unveils Delta Engine, acquires Redash. Featuring Databricks CEO / Co-Founder Ali GhodsiData warehouses alone don't cut it. Data lakes alone don't cut it either. So whether you call it data lakehouse or by any other name, you need the best of both worlds, says Databricks.
A new query engine and a visualization layer are the next pieces in Databricks' puzzle. We connected with Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, to discuss their latest news: the announcement of a new query engine called Delta Engine, and the acquisition of Redash, an open source visualization product.
Our discussion started with the background on data lakehouses, which is...2020-06-2431 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsCompute to data: Using blockchain to decentralize data science and AI with the Ocean Protocol. Featuring Ocean Protocol Foundation Founder Trent McConaghyThe conflict between access to data and data sovereignty is key to understanding how AI works, and moving it forward.
The Ocean Protocol Foundation wants to help resolve that conflict, by introducing a way of letting AI work with data without giving up control.
The goal is to decentralize data science and AI using blockchain, and the latest milestone called Compute-to-Data brings this one step closer
We connected with Trent McConaghy, Ocean Protocol Foundation Founder, to discuss how it all works.
Article published on ZDNet in June 20202020-06-1949 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsStreamlit wants to revolutionize building machine learning and data science applications, scores $21 million Series A funding. Featuring Streamlit CEO/ Founder Adrien TreuilleStreamlit is an open source framework that wants to revolutionize building machine learning and data science applications, and just secured a $21 million Series A funding to try and do this.
Streamlit wants to be for data science what business intelligence tools have been for databases: a quick way to get results, without bothering much with the details.
In today's episode, we welcome Streamlit CEO and Founder, Adrien Treuille.
We discuss what makes Streamlit special, how it works, and where data-driven applications at large are going next.
Article published on ZDNet in...2020-06-1642 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsAnother globally distributed cloud native SQL database on the rise: Yugabyte Raises $30 million in Series B Funding. Backstage chat with CEO and FoundersYour good old on-premise SQL database is in terminal decline. A pure-play open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL, with support for Apache Cassandra and GraphQL interfaces, is what you need.
Or at least, this is what the Yugabyte crew thinks. The company, founded by Facebook data infrastructure veterans, announced that it has raised $30 million in an oversubscribed Series B round to double down on community and team growth. This is a crowded market, but big enough to be a non-zero-sum game.
We connected with Yugabyte founders Kannan Muthukkaruppan and Karthik Ranganathan, and newly recruited CEO Bill Cook, previously...2020-06-0931 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsScientific fact-checking using AI language models: COVID-19 research and beyond. Featuring Allen Institute for AI Researcher David WaddenFact or fiction? That's not always an easy question to answer. Incomplete knowledge, context and bias typically come into play. In the nascent domain of scientific fact checking, things are complicated.
If you think fact-checking is hard, which it is, then what would you say about verifying scientific claims, on COVID-19 no less? Hint: it's also hard -- different in some ways, similar in some others.
Fact or Fiction: Verifying Scientific Claims is the title of a research paper published on pre-print server Arxiv by a team of researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial In...2020-06-0728 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsAI chips in 2020: Nvidia and the challengers. ZDNet ArticleNow that the dust from Nvidia's unveiling of its new Ampere AI chip has settled, let's take a look at the AI chip market behind the scenes and away from the spotlight.
Few people, Nvidia's competitors included, would dispute the fact that Nvidia is calling the shots in the AI chip game today. The announcement of the new Ampere AI chip in Nvidia's main event, GTC, stole the spotlight.
Let's put the new architecture into perspective by comparing against the competition in terms of performance, economics, and software.
Article published on ZDNet in May...2020-06-0407 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsGoodData and Visa: A common data-driven future? Featuring GoodData CEO and Founder Roman StanekFrom user, to partner and investor. That's not a very common scenario for software vendors, especially if the user-cum-partner-investor is someone like Visa.
GoodData is evolving more than its relationship with select users.
In this backstage chat, GoodData CEO and Founder Roman Stanek and George Anadiotis discuss the ins and outs of the deal, the data landscape, the way data are used to shape directions for organizations big and small, and what's next for GoodData.
Article published on ZDNet, May 20202020-06-0130 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsOpen source observability, meet data transformation: Grafana 7.0 promises to connect, unify, and visualize all your data. Featuring Grafana Labs CEO and Founder Raj DuttGrafana Labs, makers of popular open-source observability platform Grafana, announced the general availability of Grafana 7.0.
This comes only a few months after Grafana Labs scored $24 million in Series A funding to double down on open-source strategy and build what it dubs the world's first open and composable observability platform.
In this backstage chat, CEO and Founder Raj Dutt and George Anadiotis connected to discuss Grafana 7.0, and the road forward.
Article published on ZDNet, May 2020.2020-05-2925 min
Orchestrate all the ThingsKnowledge graph evolution: Platforms that speak your language. ZDNet ArticleKnowledge graphs are among the most important technologies for the 2020s.
Here is how they are evolving, with vendors and standard bodies listening, and platforms becoming fluent in many query languages.
Article published on ZDNet, January 2020.2020-05-0612 min
The Connected Data PodcastFacilitating COVID-19 research with Graph Analytics and Knowledge GraphsScientists, health researchers and policymakers are using all the tools they can get their hands on to try and beat the current global pandemic.
Germany’s National Centre for Diabetes Research (DZD) is one of the organizations turning to Artificial Intelligence, advanced visualisation techniques and other tools to aid the search for a vaccine and effective treatments.
Graph technology is key in this effort. DZD is integrating data from various sources and linking them in a dedicated COVID-19 Knowledge Graph to help researchers and scientists quickly and efficiently find their way through the more than 40,000 pub...2020-04-2752 min
The Connected Data PodcastGraph Databases Will Rule the World in the 2020s. But Why, and How? | Panel DiscussionSome of us may have been saying that for years, but now the Gartners of the world are picking up on it too. So, the oracles have spoken:
“The application of graph processing and graph DBMSs will grow at 100 percent annually through 2022 to continuously accelerate data preparation and enable more complex and adaptive data science”.
That all sounds great, in theory. In practice, however, things are messy. If you’re out to shop for a graph database, you will soon realize that there are no universally supported standards, performance evaluation is a dark art, and the ve...2020-03-2425 min