Alex Woodie

Top 10 Big Data Technologies to Watch in the Second Half of 2025 With the tech industry currently in the midst of its mid-summer lull, now it’s the perfect time to take stock of where we’ve come this year and

My latest at BigDATAwire: Top 10 #bigdata technologies to watch in 2H25 www.bigdatawire.com/2025/07/21/t... #bigdata #tech #watching

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One of These Is Not Like the Other Perusing some recent AI headlines, HPCwire noticed the following four newsworthy items. AWS, Microsoft Slow Down Data Center Deployments according to a Wells Fargo research as reported by several webs...

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Not sure what this video is all about but I'm reposting anyway...

YouTube video by Franchesca Ramsey If I don’t know what a word means I look it up #chatgpt #google

As one who has written words their whole career, I salute this song

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I wonder how much more it cost them to run yellow on this page...

There’s No Place Like Vegas for Dorothy, Google When Dorothy Gale was picked up by a twister from her family’s Kansas farm 86 years ago, she was taken to a magical place called Oz. It turns out,

Will the Wizard of Oz at Sphere remake be the start of a new cinematic genre or an interesting one-off?

Reporter’s Notebook: AI Hype and Glory at Nvidia GTC 2025 Today marks the end of Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025, a weeklong event in San Jose, California that be remembered for a long time, if not

Reporter’s Notebook: AI Hype and Glory at Nvidia GTC 2025

The show is now over, leaving us nothing but the memories.

Can You Afford to Run Agentic AI in the Cloud? The emergence of agentic AI is putting fresh pressure on the infrastructure layer. If Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is correct in his assumptions, demand for

Can You Afford to Run Agentic AI in the Cloud?

Yes or no answers, only please...

Good to see the Yankees in the middle of the pack. But dang, SD Padres gotta win one some day, right? LFGSD etc...

Nvidia Preps for 100x Surge in Inference Workloads, Thanks to Reasoning AI Agents The emergence of agentic AI powered by reasoning models will have a transformative effect on the computer industry, not just on how we write and run

My latest for BigDATAwire: Agentic AI, powered by reasoning models, poised to drive inference workloads by 100x, necessitating new approach to data center design, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says.

There. Now you don't even have to read the story. (Just kidding -- you must read this story. Ha!)

Totally worth it when Jensen starts crowd surfing...

Image is actually to scale #GTC25

VAST Fleshes Out Data Platform for Enterprise RAG Use Cases VAST Data is quietly assembling a single unified platform capable of handling a range of HPC, advanced analytics, and big data use cases. Today it

VAST Data bolsters data platform with new triggers, vector, and fine-grained access control to chase #RAG AI apps www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/12/v... @vastdata.bsky.social #GenAI

Data Warehousing for the (AI) Win Has the data warehouse lost its luster? Have dashboards fallen out of fashion? They have and they are, according to Eldad Farkash, the CEO and co-founder

Bye-bye, dashboards. Hello, LLM-driven SQL analysis #GenAI #bigdata @firebolthq.bsky.social

Your Next Big Job in Tech: AI Engineer The AI revolution is shaking up the tech world in ways both big and small. In addition to rewiring the data stack, AI is also changing the jobs that

Your Next Big Job in Tech: AI Engineer www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/06/y...

Gartner Giveth Guidance on Data & Analytics, And We Taketh Gartner arguably is the most respected IT analyst firm on the planet, so when its analysts and VPs share what they’re thinking, as they did during the

Gartner gave some advice on D&A at the Data & Analytics Summit 2025. www.bigdatawire.com/2025/03/05/g...

#HPC, #AI, and #quantumcomputong professionals and future-professionals, join us for a free in-person event in Austin on March 11 for the latest updates on Google's HPC, AI, and QC efforts! sites.google.com/view/advance...

The AI Firm Turning 1M Real-Time Data Sources Into Actionable Intelligence Keeping up with events in today’s highly connected world is no easy task. From breaking news and extreme weather to the latest TikTok craze and zero-day

Q: Who is Dataminr?
A: An AI firm that uses multi-modal fusion on a real-time pipeline of 1M+ data sources (43TB per day) to generate actionable intelligence about real-world events for its subscribers, including DoD, 1,500 news orgs, and 2/3s of the Fortune 50
www.bigdatawire.com/2025/02/27/t...

How Sawmills Plans to Cut Big Observability Data Down to Size Observability data is supposed to help companies identify and solve IT issues, but the data has grown so large and complex that it’s become a problem in

The average company spends $1.95 million on #observability data, per IDC.

#Sawmills says it can cut that spending by 50% to 80%. #bigdata #events #logs #traces

Krishna Subramanian, Komprise Co-Founder, Stops By the Big Data Debrief Unstructured data--including pictures, videos, audio, sensor data, text, and HTML pages--accounts for upwards of 90% of the data generated today, and its

Krishna Subramanian, Komprise Co-Founder, Stops By the Big Data Debrief www.bigdatawire.com/2025/02/24/k...

When Will Large Vision Models Have Their ChatGPT Moment? The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 was a watershed moment in natural language processing (NLP), as it showcased the startling effectiveness of the

Large vision models (LVMs) based on the Transformer Architecture are here -- and they're doing quite well, thank you... #computervision #BigDATAwire #SymphonyAI

Ververica CEO Alex Walden Joins the Big Data Debrief Ververica CEO Alex Walden knows a thing or two about streaming data. As the head of the leading commercial outfit behind Apache Flink, Walden has a

What is #ApacheFlink and why should you care?

Watch my video interview of #Ververica CEO Alex Walden to learn more about Flink and its growing role in stream data processing.

#BigDATADebrief #BigDATAwire
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Graphing Biodiversity to Improve Drug Discovery Most pharmaceuticals are naturally occurring, either directly or indirectly. Yet when it comes to cataloging all of proteins and enzymes that have evolved

My first Bluesky post is about my latest #BigDATAwire story, which is about Basecamp Research's massive #Neo4j graph database used for drug discovery www.bigdatawire.com/2025/02/18/g...