Building custom generative AI (GenAI) technology solutions is the best way to gain a competitive edge by leveraging GenAI tools and services tailored to your business. On the other hand, building GenAI models from scratch is a costly and complicated endeavor – which is why many businesses instead settle for a genAI strategy wherein they […]
Generative AI Is Accelerating Data Pipeline Management
Data pipelines are like insurance. You only know they exist when something goes wrong. ETL processes are constantly toiling away behind the scenes, doing heavy lifting to connect the sources of data from the real world with the warehouses and lakes that make the data useful. Products like DBT and AirTran demonstrate the repeatability and […]
Data Backup Essentials: Zero Trust Strategies for System Administrators
Time is always of the essence in the case of system administration and IT operations teams. They address the countless issues coming in from other departments: “My network is acting funky, and I’m about to go on a meeting with an important client,” “I accidentally deleted every important email I have ever received from the […]
Mind the Gap: Start Modernizing Analytics by Reorienting Your Enterprise Analytics Team
… and your data warehouse / data lake / data lakehouse. A few months ago, I talked about how nearly all of our analytics architectures are stuck in the 1990s. Maybe an executive at your company read that article, and now you have a mandate to “modernize analytics.” Let’s say that they even understand that just […]
The Data Governance Wake-Up Call From the OpenAI Breach
Shockwaves reverberated throughout the political and tech ecosystems this summer when OpenAI – the creator of ChatGPT – admitted it had been breached. The breach, which involved an outsider gaining access to internal messaging systems, left many worried that a national adversary could do the same and potentially weaponize generative AI technologies. National security aside, the […]
The Secret to RAG Optimization: Expert Human Intervention
As the use of generative AI (GenAI) grows exponentially, developers have turned their attention to improving the technology. According to EMARKETER, nearly 117 million people in the U.S. are expected to use GenAI in 2025, a 1,400% increase over just 7.8 million users in 2022. More demand means more scrutiny and increased demand for higher-quality products, and […]
Book of the Month: Insights from “Humanizing Data Strategy”
Welcome to our new series, “Book of the Month.” In this series, we will explore new books in the data management space, highlighting how thought leaders are driving innovation and shaping the future. This month, we’re grabbing a cup of coffee, settling into our favorite reading nook, and diving into “Humanizing Data Strategy: Leading Data […]
How to Win the War Against Bad Master Data
Master data lays the foundation for your supplier and customer relationships. It identifies who you are doing business with, how you will do business with them, and how you will pay them or vice versa – not to mention it can prevent fraud, fines, and errors. However, teams often fail to reap the full benefits […]
How Cloud Technology Can Transform Product Management in a Complex Market
In the rapidly evolving and increasingly complex product development landscape, it is essential that product teams prioritize the adoption of tools that can help streamline development management. Cloud-based solutions can offer a way for product teams to better navigate challenges posed by these complexities, helping them to optimize workflows and better meet the demands of […]
Scaling Out to Keep Data Out of the Lost and Found
How much data would you be comfortable with losing? In the world of high-performance computing (HPC), the simple answer should be none. Given that HPC systems involve massive amounts of data, any loss – whether big or small – can have a catastrophic impact on customer and shareholder relationships, finances, complex simulations, and organizational reputation. Any system lacking in […]