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7 U.S. tech policies to watch in 2025
The Trump administration is already enacting new tech policies, seeking to establish the U.S. as a global leader in AI development and innovation while reducing red tape on Big Tech.
By Madeleine Streets • March 6, 2025 -
What is data cleansing (data cleaning, data scrubbing)?
Data cleansing, also referred to as data cleaning or data scrubbing, is the process of fixing incorrect, incomplete, duplicate or otherwise erroneous data in a data set.
By Stephen Bigelow, Craig Stedman • March 6, 2025 -
What is the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)?
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is a European Union regulation designed to enhance cybersecurity and ensure functional continuity of the financial sector, employing rigorous information and communications technology (ICT) standards across all EU financial entities.
By Andy Patrizio • March 5, 2025 -
Qdrant update adds security measures for AI development
The vector database specialist's update includes features that enable secure AI development such as role-based access control and an API for managing cloud deployments.
By Eric Avidon • March 4, 2025 -
GPT-4.5 explained: Everything you need to know
GPT-4.5, OpenAI's latest model, enhances natural conversation and emotional intelligence. It supports content generation, multilingual proficiency and more.
By Sean Kerner • March 4, 2025 -
Alation unveils AI agents plus SDK for agentic development
The data catalog vendor's new agents for documentation and data quality monitoring represent innovation among metadata management vendors and could force competitors to respond.
By Eric Avidon • March 3, 2025 -
Teradata unveils vector store to fuel AI development
The longtime data management and analytics vendor's new feature will enable developers to discover the relevant data needed to train business-specific generative AI applications.
By Eric Avidon • March 3, 2025 -
Opinion
AI’s appetite for data is changing data requirements
AI relies on high-quality real-time data. Companies that fail to modernize their data strategies risk falling behind, while those that adapt unlock AI's competitive advantage.
By Stephen Catanzano • Feb. 27, 2025 -
Snowflake adds OpenAI models with Microsoft integration
In a move that adds more model choices for AI developers, models including GPT-4o are now natively available in Cortex AI alongside models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral and others.
By Eric Avidon • Feb. 26, 2025 -
Google boosts AlloyDB with added vector search capabilities
New features address the accuracy and performance of the in-database vector searches that discover relevant data for feeding and training AI models and applications.
By Eric Avidon • Feb. 26, 2025 -
IBM to buy open source data platform and AI vendor DataStax
The tech giant looks to the Astra DB creator to strengthen its Watsonx family of AI products.
By Shaun Sutner • Feb. 25, 2025 -
Reltio adds real-time data delivery to fuel fast decisions
The vendor's new Lightspeed Data Delivery Network can be used to feed customer recommendation engines and other applications that need data instantaneously to fuel actions.
By Eric Avidon • Feb. 25, 2025 -
Couchbase integrates with Nvidia NIM to aid AI development
By joining its Capella AI Model Services environment for AI development with Nvidia's microservices suite, the database vendor aims to make building and managing AI apps easier.
By Eric Avidon • Feb. 24, 2025 -
Cube semantic layer eases data access from Power BI, Excel
New integrations aim to better enable Microsoft users to directly access data in cloud data warehouses, which has been problematic given how different query languages interact.
By Eric Avidon • Feb. 20, 2025 -
Google Gemini 2.0 explained: Everything you need to know
Google Gemini 2.0, announced in December 2024, will enhance generative AI with multimodal capabilities and agentic AI features, integrating across Google services.
By Sean Kerner • Feb. 18, 2025 -
Confluent, Databricks partner to simplify AI development
With a new integration, joint customers can more easily access real-time streaming data to develop, deploy and maintain trusted AI models and applications.
By Eric Avidon • Feb. 13, 2025 -
Snowflake’s new Cortex Agents enables agentic AI development
The vendor's new managed service, now in preview, provides developers with an API for combining structured and unstructured data with LLMs to create agentic applications.
By Eric Avidon • Feb. 12, 2025 -
Ataccama adds data lineage to foster trust in AI, analytics
Given that the absence of trusted data hinders AI development, the vendor's new capabilities further its effort to provide users with the tools to ensure data can be trusted.
By Eric Avidon • Feb. 12, 2025 -
Opinion // Omdia Analysts' Perspectives
Turning data into a strategic advantage
To transform data from a burden into an advantage, improve data management strategies, break down data silos, invest in analytics capabilities and build a data-driven culture.
By Stephen Catanzano • Feb. 10, 2025 -
Databricks’ acquisition of BladeBridge boosts data migration
The data and AI vendor's latest purchase adds AI-powered ETL capabilities aimed at making it easier for new customers to transport data from competing data storage platforms.
By Eric Avidon • Feb. 6, 2025 -
Latest Aerospike database update prioritizes performance
The vendor's latest platform update addresses performance at scale by adding multi-object ACID transactions to better support the needs of online transaction processing.
By Eric Avidon • Feb. 5, 2025 -
Pinecone provides Assistant for generative AI development
The vector database specialist is expanding beyond managing data with a suite of APIs and other tools that enable users to tap into their data to create chatbots and agents.
By Eric Avidon • Jan. 23, 2025 -
TigerGraph launches Savanna to aid AI development
The latest evolution of the graph database specialist's platform aims to meet developers' data discovery and performance requirements as they build AI applications.
By Eric Avidon • Jan. 21, 2025 -
Snowflake takes aim at lowering GenAI development costs
By integrating its recently developed SwiftKV capabilities with LLMs, the vendor aims to make models more efficient so that customers pay less as they develop generative AI tools.
By Eric Avidon • Jan. 16, 2025 -
DBT Labs acquires SDF Labs to boost data transformation
By adding SQL comprehension capabilities, users will be able to validate code as it's written, speeding the transformation process and potentially improving data quality.
By Eric Avidon • Jan. 15, 2025