Orchestrate all the Things

Neo4j recently announced new product features in collaboration with Google, as well as a new Chief Product Officer coming from Google: Sudhir Hasbe. We caught up to discuss what the future holds for Neo4j as well as the broader graph database space. Article published on Orchestrate all the Things.

In an era of dried-up funding and Data Lakehouse vendor supremacy, Redpanda is going against the grain. The company just secured a $100 million Series C funding round to execute on an unconventional strategy. Redpanda Founder and CEO Alex Gallego explains how things work for the company. Article published on Orchestrate all the Things

The EU Parliament just voted to bring the EU AI Act regulation into effect. If GDPR is anything to go by, that's a big deal. Here's what and how it's likely to effect, its blind spots, what happens next, and how you can prepare for it based on what we know. Article published on Orchestrate all the Things

From a consumer-oriented application, Foursquare has evolved to a data and product provider for enterprises. The next steps in its evolution will be powered by the Foursquare Graph If the name Foursquare rings a bell, it means you were around in the 2010s. Your only resort to plausible deniability would be if you are a data professional - although that's not an either/or proposition. In the 2010s,...

On AI-generated content, writing, new, old, and broken media, platforms, models, audiences, and body parts. An update from the host on launching the Orchestrate All The Things Newsletter , and some insights on Technology, Data, Media, AI, Writing, and Content. A new type of podcast episode: AI-generated article narrations. Article published on Orchestrate All The Things.

Is incremental change a bad thing? The answer, as with most things in life, is "it depends". In the world of technology specifically, the balance between innovation and tried and true concepts and solutions seems to have tipped in favor of the former. Or at least, that's the impression reading the headlines gives. Good thing there's more to life than headlines. The ScyllaDB team is one of those wh...

The last couple of years have been an AI model arms race. The assumption is that the larger the model the better it will perform. But that may not always be the case. FAR AI Research Scientist Ian McKenzie is a key member of the team organizing the Inverse Scaling Challenge , an initiative set up to investigate scaling laws. We discuss: Large Language Models and how they are trained The scaling la...

Can technology, and real-time technology in particular, help companies achieve savings during economic hardship? Alok Pareek thinks it can. Pareek is the Co-founder and EVP of products of Striim, a vendor whose goal and motto is to "help companies make data useful the instant it’s born". Depending on which angle you look at it, you could say that Pareek is either biased or in the know. Either way,...

Retail is big business. But like many other sectors it's undergoing a transformation, largely affected by the shift of consumer behavior from physical to digital. Many retailers are looking to analytics and AI to help them cope with the challenges. Andrew Ng, among the most prominent figures in AI, is now turning his sights to doing precisely that with his new venture Netail Founded in 2022 as par...

Quantum computing could be a disruptive technology. It's founded on exotic-sounding physics and it bears the promise of solving certain classes of problems with unprecedented speed and efficiency. The problem, however, is that to this day there's been too much promise and not enough delivery. D-Wave is the company that pioneered quantum computing. In this exclusive interview, D-Wave CEO Alan Barat...

Graph database Neo4j has just released version 5, which promises better ease of use and performance through improvements in its query language and engine, as well as automated scale-out and convergence across deployments. We caught up with Jim Webber, Chief Scientist at Neo4j, to discuss Neo4j 5 as well as the bigger picture in the graph market. Article published on VentureBeat

AIOps is what you get when you combine big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection and causality determination. At least, that's how Gartner defines AIOps. Based on this definition, as well as coverage of vendors that have products they label with the AIOps moniker, you'd be inclined to think that AIOps is mostly about anomaly d...

Shining light on AI research and applications in a conversation with the curators of the most comprehensive report on all things AI. If you think AI is moving at a breakneck speed and it's almost impossible to keep up, you are not alone. Even if being on top of all things AI is part of your job, it's getting increasingly hard to do that. Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth know this all too well, yet s...

Economic theory is known to be constrained by a number of inefficiencies in its modeling. Salesforce researchers claim AI can help address that, leading to more robust economic policies. Article published on ZDNet

As Ben Lorica will readily admit, at the risk of dating himself, he belongs to the first generation of data scientists. In addition to having served as Chief Data Scientist for the likes of Databricks and O'Reilly, Lorica advises and works with a number of venture capitals, startups and enterprises, conducts surveys, and chairs some of the top data and AI events in the world. That gives him a uniq...

What's a good enough weather prediction? That's a question most people probably don't give much thought to, as the answer seems obvious -- an accurate one. But then again, most people are not CTOs at DTN. Lars Ewe is, and his answer may be different than most people's. With 180 meteorologists on staff providing weather predictions worldwide,  DTN ​ is the largest weather company you've probably ne...

Everything counts in large amounts. You don't have to be Google, or to build large AI models, to benefit from writing efficient code. But how do you measure that? It's complicated, but that does not mean that people are not trying. That's what Abhishek Gupta and the Green Software Foundation (GSF) are relentlessly working on. Article published on VentureBeat

What does sustainability actually mean for organizations? Can it be measured, and if yes, how? Obvious questions with less than obvious answers, even for sustainability and ESG professionals like James Phare. Phare shares his experience and assessment of sustainability and its relationship with the ESG space, its current state and trajectory, and how data and analytics can help.

Award-winning AI research - check. Startup and enterprise experience - check. Venture capital and Mark Benioff backing - check. Is that enough for Richard Socher's you.com to take on Google? Here is why and how he aims to do that. Article published on ZDNet

Decision intelligence is one of those terms that sound vaguely familiar, even if you've never come across it before. Like many category-defining terms, it can mean different things to different people. This is a feature category-defining terms either have by design, or acquire through extensive use. In October 2021, Gartner identified DI as a 2022 Top Trend . A number of vendors have identified wi...

It sounds like a contradiction in terms, but disaster and disruption management is a thing. Disaster and disruption is precisely what ensues when catastrophic natural events occur, and unfortunately, the trajectory the world is on seems to be exacerbating the issue. In 2021 alone, the US experienced  15+ weather/climate disaster events  with damages exceeding $1 billion. Previously, we have explor...

Is deep learning really going to be able to do everything? Opinions on the potential of this opinion to prove true vary. Geoffrey Hinton, awarded for pioneering deep learning, is not entirely unbiased in so opining. However others, including Hinton's deep learning collaborator Yoshua Bengio , are looking to infuse deep learning with elements of a domain still under the radar: operations research....

Data quality is part of data intelligence. It's a topic that lot of people are concerned about, and it makes engagement and adoption around data intelligence solutions better. With many data quality solutions with different approaches available in the market, customers need to be able to choose the one that works best for them. Plus, if you are someone like Alation, a vendor whose core business is...

Circa 2017, there was a lot of hype around autonomous driving. If one were to take that at face value, it would mean that by now autonomous driving would have been a reality already. Apparently that's not the case, and Alex Kendall claims to have known that all along. Still, that did not stop him from setting out then, and he's still working on it today. Kendall is the co-founder and CEO of Wayve...

There is an implicit assumption in most analytics solutions: the data being analyzed, and the insights derived, are almost exclusively quantitative. That is, they refer to numerical data, such as number of customers, sales, and the like.  But when it comes to customer feedback, perhaps the most important data is qualitative: text contained in sources such as feedback forms and surveys, tickets, ch...