Apple contains all the things; AMD's new GPUs
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: dbt Labs' decision to go with a source-available license for its new Fusion product gets a vote of confidence from Snowflake, Windsurf faces a headwind, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Snowflake introduces new tools that promise to help companies find nuggets of insight in their corporate data, Thoma Bravo gears up for the coming wave of AI startup buyouts, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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.
Today on Product Saturday: SAP strikes a big partnership with Databricks, Glean introduces its agent builder, and the quote of the week.
Today on Product Saturday: Nvidia and Snowflake try to get more enterprises on the AI train by focusing on safety and costs, and the quote of the week.
This year marked a turning point for enterprise tech as spending recovered and the economy stabilized following years of rising interest rates and supply-chain disruption. While no one knows what lies ahead, here are five things we thought summed up a pivotal year.
Today: A look back at some of the most notable developments from the past year and the last Runtime Roundup of 2024.
Today: Snowflake rolls out new tools for building agents that work with corporate data, CDN companies deal with the effects of streaming saturation, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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.
The shared-responsibility model is groaning under the weight of the modern security environment. Snowflake's ongoing nightmare should be a wake-up call for any infrastructure or SaaS provider that they need to do more to protect their customers, because the old model is no longer working.