We use addresses every day – typing them into navigation apps, filling out online forms, printing them on envelopes. Addresses seem pretty straightforward, and we don’t often worry about getting them 100% right. After all, whoever receives the address can figure out the details they need to provide the goods or services we want, right? […]
“The future is already here,” science fiction writer William Gibson once said. “It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” One person who’s looking to bring data storage into the future and make it widely distributed is David Flynn, who is the CEO and founder of Hammerspace as well as a BigDATAwire Person to Watch for 2025. […]
Financial Services Industry Award: Barclays Barclays has won the Data Intelligence Financial Services Industry Award, which recognizes organizations that leverage Databricks to drive transformative change within their industry. Barclays, the global diversified bank, won for its adoption of a scalable and unified data platform that supports global trade analytics, complex data warehousing use cases and […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the finance sector in ways we could not have dreamed of a few short years ago. What once was a world of drudge work by manually entering data, strict rules, and decision-making on instinct is now becoming quicker, smarter, and increasingly data-oriented. From catching fraud in real-time for banks to […]
At AWS re:Invent 2024, we introduced a no code zero-ETL integration between Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, simplifying how organizations handle data analytics and AI workflows. This integration alleviates the traditional challenges of building and maintaining complex extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines for transforming NoSQL data into analytics-ready formats, which previously required significant […]
POST/CON, LOS ANGELES – June 4, 2025 — Postman, API collaboration platform maker, today announced Agent Mode, anAI-native assistant designed to deliver productivity gains across the API lifecycle. Available within the Postman platform, Agent Mode understands developer intent and executes real tasks – designing, testing, documenting, and monitoring APIs – based on simple natural language […]
Brave is a Chromium-based browser that blocks ads, fingerprinting, and ad-trackers by default, and is one of my favorite browsers overall. Why we like it: Brave has millions of users worldwide. The company removed Google code from its Chromium version to improve user privacy, including some account integration, background sync, and inline extensions. Brave also has several […]
Pacific Phoenixes 2025: A Journey of Transformation and Community On May 16th 2025, we celebrated the conclusion of the Pacific Phoenixes 2025 returnship program—a 10-week journey that transformed 25 professionals re-entering or pivoting into the data field into a thriving community of future data leaders. Program Impact by the Numbers 805,793 XP points accumulated on […]
Today, businesses have many different business processes that span a variety of areas and tasks. As these processes grow bigger and more diverse, their complexity will eventually develop. Regularly monitoring business processes is vital in maintaining operational efficiency. Business process monitoring on an ongoing basis allows businesses to assess performance, identify problems early, and make […]
Data analytics plays a major role in improving social media ad strategies, especially on LinkedIn. Instead of guessing which posts might work, marketers can track numbers like clicks, impressions, and conversions to see what’s actually performing. When you understand what content people respond to, you can make better decisions for the next round of ads. […]