Today: Monday's big AWS outage illustrates yet again why us-east-1 is the biggest problem in cloud computing, further evidence that bitcoin mining is so very 2019 these days, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today on Product Saturday: Anthropic may have found a way to deliver on the promise of agents, Oracle puts up a lakehouse, and the quote of the week.
Today: F5's disclosure that hackers had "long term" access to its systems is just the latest sign that the federal government is focused on the wrong problems, Salesforce does damage control on behalf of its CEO, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today on Product Saturday: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's new company introduces its first product, DeepSeek drops another low-cost model on the market, and the quote of the week.
Today on Product Saturday: Apple introduces a new way to build containers on Macs, AMD renews its pursuit of Nvidia's GPU lead, and the quote of the week.
Today: Databricks floats a new portmanteau for the ever-evolving world of data infrastructure, a widespread Google Cloud outage takes down sites around the world, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Ahead of this year's Snowflake/Databricks annual events, a look at the push to unify Delta Lake and Iceberg, Salesforce snaps up Informatica, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Last year at the Databricks Data & AI Summit Ghodsi pledged to bring Delta Lake and Iceberg together in a "USB-C format" for data. The communities behind both formats have made progress toward that goal, but the last mile is tricky, and new tools could let end users worry about other problems.
Companies around the world have rushed to deploy generative AI applications over the last year, and the security considerations for genAI apps are somewhat different than traditional software. Nine members of our Roundtable discussed how to move quickly but securely with generative AI.
Today on Product Saturday: SAP strikes a big partnership with Databricks, Glean introduces its agent builder, and the quote of the week.
Today: Salesforce continues its agentic AI push, Databricks secures one of the biggest funding rounds in tech history, and the rest of this week's enterprise funding.
Today: Google makes a flurry of year-end AI announcements, IBM brings fiber optics inside the data center, and the quote of the week.
Today: AMD takes on both Nvidia and Intel, Sierra unveils its first voice AI agent for contact centers, and the quote of the week.
Today: Lost in last months' discussions of open data formats was Hudi, but its tech will enable true format compatibility, Stack Overflow's annual developer survey, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
Now that open data formats are here to stay, unifying them to remove incompatibilities will be a challenge. Delta Lake and Iceberg get all the attention, but tech developed by the creators of Hudi could make it happen.
