Alex Woodie is the managing editor of BigDATAwire (formerly Datanami).

So you want to implement generative AI? That’s great news! You can count yourself among the majority of IT decision makers who have also seen the potential of this transformative tech. While GenAI has ...

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Access to more information does not necessarily lead to better decision making, according to a new study from Oracle. Though 83% of those surveyed agree that access to more data should make decisions ...

In fact, storing data in Hadoop using those raw formats is terribly inefficient. Plus, those file formats cannot be stored in a parallel manner. Since you’re using Hadoop in the first place, it’s ...

Data scientists spend about 45% of their time on data preparation tasks, including loading and cleaning data, according to a survey of data scientists conducted by Anaconda. The company also analyzed ...

The data landscape experienced significant changes in 2023, presenting new opportunities (and potential challenges) for data engineering teams. I believe we will see the following this year in the ...

In this age of information, to say that the volume of data is exploding is a stark understatement. This big bang of big data is estimated to grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025, ...

We’ve entered a period of punctuated equilibrium in the evolution of big data over the past month, thanks to community congregating around open table formats and metadata catalogs for storing data and ...

With nearly half of the data and workloads in the cloud, managing cloud spending is the top challenge facing organizations, according to the latest report by Flexera, the company that specializes in ...

2024 marks the ninth year of Datanami’s – now BigDATAwire‘s – People to Watch Program, which recognizes the people who play leading roles in driving innovation in big data, advanced analytics, and AI.

The data we have now is huge. But size, it turns out, is a relative thing. And according to the IDC, the sum of the world’s data – the DataSphere — will grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to a ...