Forrester is delighted to begin accepting nominations for the Data & AI Impact Award. This prestigious award recognizes enterprise data and AI initiatives that drive effective decision-making for business outcomes. As AI emerges from experimentation to production-ready enterprise systems that transform organizations, the role of data and technology to deliver on the AI promise has […]
ClickHouse Secures $350 Million to Build the Data Backbone for the AI Era
Shutterstock ClickHouse, known for its high-performance columnar database technology, has secured $350 million in Series C funding to address the growing demand for real-time and scalable analytics in the AI era. In a market where traditional databases are buckling under AI-native workloads, the new funding could be exactly what ClickHouse needs to capitalize on its […]
5 key lessons from implementing AI/BI Genie for self-service marketing insights
Introduction Marketing teams frequently encounter challenges in accessing their data, often depending on technical teams to translate that data into actionable insights. To bridge this gap, our Databricks Marketing team adopted AI/BI Genie – an LLM-powered, no-code experience that allows marketers to ask natural language questions and receive reliable, governed answers directly from their data. […]
Index Recovery Prioritization in Elasticsearch and OpenSearch
Learn how to optimize Elasticsearch and OpenSearch recovery with index recovery prioritization. Speed up critical index restoration and improve cluster availability after restarts. When an Elasticsearch or OpenSearch cluster restarts—whether due to maintenance, a rolling upgrade, or unexpected downtime—it must recover its indices. But not all data is equal, and some indices are more important […]
Introducing ScoutDB: the World’s First Agentic Mongo GUI
Why build a Mongo GUI? I’ve been annoyed by manually writing queries for nearly a decade, at both startups and large companies like Facebook. When I began programming in 2017, MongoDB became my database of choice due its ease of use and developer-centric community. Working alongside my friend and colleague Daniel (now cofounder) on side […]
How Airties achieved scalability and cost-efficiency by moving from Kafka to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
This post was cowritten with Steven Aerts and Reza Radmehr from Airties. Airties is a wireless networking company that provides AI-driven solutions for enhancing home connectivity. Founded in 2004, Airties specializes in developing software and hardware for wireless home networking, including Wi-Fi mesh systems, extenders, and routers. The flagship software as a service (SaaS) product, […]
Report: NVIDIA and AMD Devising Export Rules-Compliant Chips for China AI Market
One of the biggest stories this week in the HPC-AI world involves — surprise! — NVIDIA. Actually, make that two or three of the biggest stories. One is NVIDIA’s stellar quarterly earnings announcement in the face of concerns in recent months about disruption of chip exports of GPUs to China. The company shrugged off what […]
AI could erase half of entry-level white collar jobs in 5 years, CEO warns
Bloomberg/Getty Images Just one week after Anthropic released its most advanced AI models to date, Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned in an interview with Axios about the future of jobs in an AI-centric world. The replacement AI could be responsible for eliminating half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — while […]
AI Helps Businesses Develop Better Marketing Strategies
AI is changing how marketers plan and share content across platforms. A growing number of teams now depend on it to keep up with constant demand for fresh material. Of those already using it, 93% say it helps them get content out the door faster. It do save time, even if the end product sometimes […]
IBM’s New MFA Offering is a Step in the Right Direction – But Only Part of the Picture
Key Takeaways MFA is essential for protecting against modern cyber threats. IBM’s new built-in support for IBM i systems signals just how important it has become. Precisely Assure MFA offers broader, more flexible protection across interfaces, users, and access points – making it the enterprise-ready choice for securing IBM i environments. Evaluate your MFA strategy […]