Redpanda’s “power to the data engineer” strategy lands a $100M Series C funding round
In an era of dried-up funding and Data Lakehouse vendor supremacy, Redpanda is going against the grain. The company just secured a $100 million Series C funding round to execute on an unconventional strategy. Redpanda Founder and CEO Alex Gallego shares how things work for the company. Back in early 2022, a $50 million Series […]
Read More →Return of the Graph: Geospatial Knowledge Graphs, Personal Knowledge Graphs, and Evolution. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 24, Spring 2023
New types of graphs, and a new era for the Year of the Graph Newsletter The Year of the Graph Newsletter, keeping track of all things Graph year over year, is back after a long hiatus. Read on to learn more about how the evolution of the newsletter follows the evolution of the domain and […]
Read More →Foursquare moves to the future with a Geospatial Knowledge Graph
From a consumer-oriented application, Foursquare has evolved to a data and product provider for enterprises. The next steps in its evolution will be powered by the Foursquare Graph. Welcome to Orchestrate all the Things, a newsletter with stories about Tech, Data, AI and Media and how they flow into each other shaping our lives. If […]
Read More →Scaling laws for AI Large Language Models and the inverse scaling hypothesis
What are the scaling laws for AI Large Language Models and the inverse scaling hypothesis? How is that related to the Dunning-Kruger effect? The last couple of years have been an AI model arms race involving a number of players from industry and research. Google, DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft, in collaboration with both OpenAI and Nvidia are […]
Read More →Striim brings cloud-modernization tool to AWS
Can real-time technology help companies save during economic hardship? Alok Pareek thinks it can. Pareek is the cofounder and executive VP of products at Striim, a vendor whose goal and motto is to, “help companies make data useful the instant it’s born”.
Read More →Andrew Ng’s Netail offers AI for retailers to ease change from physical to digital
Retail is big business. But like many other sectors it’s undergoing a transformation, largely affected by the shift of consumer behavior from physical to digital. Many retailers are looking to analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to help them cope with the challenges. Andrew Ng, among the most prominent figures in AI, is now turning his sights to doing precisely that with his new venture Netail.
Read More →Graph database market maintains momentum, new Neo4j 5 offers cloud and on-premises ease of use and parity
Graph platform Neo4j today announced the general availability of Neo4j 5, the latest version of its cloud-ready graph database. Neo4j is following up on its achievements in 2021, which include surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue, closing a $325M series F financing round at over $2B valuation, which it calls “the largest funding round in database history,” and launching a free tier of its fully managed cloud service.
Read More →Data intelligence platform Alation bucks economic trends, raises $123M
For Satyen Sangani, CEO and cofounder of leading data intelligence vendor Alation, data intelligence has many components: master data management, privacy data management, reference data management, data transformation, data quality, data observability and more.
Read More →Trends in data and AI: Ben Lorica on cloud, platforms, models and Pegacorns
As 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 […]
Read More →Red Hat and IBM team up to enhance AIops with an open-source project
AIops is what you get when you combine big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection and causality determination. At least, that’s how Gartner defines it.
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