Analytics

Computational analysing of data and statistics

Databricks cements Arcion Labs deal, will absorb its data access tools

A $100M match made in analytics heaven, parties claim

AI + ML23 Oct 2023 |

VCs lay $52.5M golden egg for MotherDuck's serverless analytics platform

Database service vendor based on open source DuckDB fattens up to $400M valuation

Databases21 Sep 2023 |

Tabular's Iceberg vision goes from Netflix and chill to database thrill

Promise of neutral data layer between vendors' vested interests attracts $26M

Databases19 Sep 2023 |

Intel shows off 8-core, 528-thread processor with 1TB/s of co-packaged optics

Hot Chips 'Embarrassingly parallel' protoype baked for DARPA to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon at massive scale

Networks01 Sep 2023 | 16

Snowflake explains that Instacart's bills aren't melting – it's called 'optimization'

Everybody chill, we're still in the cart

Storage31 Aug 2023 | 3

MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes

Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3

SaaS20 Jul 2023 | 2

Meet the guy trying to drag HM Treasury's data strategy into the 21st century

Interview John Kelly is building approach around Microsoft, but there's room for flexibility

Databases19 Jul 2023 | 13

Teradata introduces LLMs to predictive analytics

But the outcome is far from certain

Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 4

Snowflake's finding NeMo to train custom AI models

Snowflake Summit Submerge an Nvidia LLM 20,000 leagues under the data lake

Databases27 Jun 2023 |

Microsoft Fabric promises to tear into the enterprise analytics patchwork

Meanwhile, users are left to figure out how to cut their cloth

Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 7

Google sued over 'interception' of abortion data on Planned Parenthood website

Plaintiff claims they didn't consent to analytics tracking

Personal Tech16 May 2023 | 16

Trino and dbt open source data tools snuggle closer with integrated SaaS

Managed offerings now work in tandem to crunch data where it resides

Databases28 Apr 2023 |

Ex-BigQuery exec and Motherduck CEO: For some users, the answer is to think small

Interview Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in big data of the past decade

Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 |

Leave your data where it is, we'll look at it there, says SAP

German software giant opens analytics up to external sources

Spotlight on Databases08 Mar 2023 |

Teradata chases hyperscaler, SI partnerships in cloud push

CEO Interview We're not just your grandmother's data warehouse, CEO tells El Reg

Spotlight on Databases01 Mar 2023 | 2

While wider tech industry is hurting, analytics companies fatten up

Sumo Logic attracts private equity investor while InfluxData and Onehouse raise VC cash

Databases10 Feb 2023 | 3

UK health department contracts 'critical friend' for £480m data platform

As IT spending drops below promised billions, there's always room for those offering the right kind of feedback

Offbeat10 Feb 2023 | 8

Microsoft teases how it'll make Sentinel a bit easier to monitor and audit

For those relying on this cloud-based security thing

Software10 Feb 2023 | 1

Apache Iceberg promises to change the economics of cloud-based data analytics

Feature Adopted by Snowflake, Google and Cloudera, we look at why the Netflix-developed table format is important

Databases03 Jan 2023 | 6

Tired: Data scientists. Wired: Data artists

Asking really good questions about what data can describe matters more than collecting more info

AI + ML08 Nov 2022 | 28

China outlines plan for National Integrated Government Affairs Big Data System

Three million datasets to be thoroughly integrated in the name of efficiency, e-government, and surveillance

Software31 Oct 2022 | 4

Structured data, unstructured data: It shouldn't matter, says Google

GCN Apache Spark comes to BigQuery while BigLake gets Iceberg support

Databases11 Oct 2022 | 2

Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst drowns data lakehouse concept

Interview Colorful data techie seeks to fend off rivals

Databases03 Oct 2022 | 6

Bank of England puts cloud analytics on todo list after seeing off market collapse

Data more essential than ever, says analytics chief as Liz Truss U-turns on tax, and world+dog remembers Bank's there to manage risk

Databases03 Oct 2022 | 24

SAS puts ML and analytics suite on Azure Marketplace

50-year-old software project provides a button the boss can click

Databases27 Sep 2022 |

Salesforce lets Genie out of the bottle

Integration tooling might work for those with multiple installs, but check the budget first – analyst

SaaS21 Sep 2022 | 1

Food security group, Linux Foundation working on crop data standard

'Sharing of agricultural data can help develop solutions to some of the food system's most pressing challenges'

Software15 Sep 2022 | 9

NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time

Questions remain over Palantir's influence after consultancy role for former NHS England director revealed

Databases15 Sep 2022 | 29

SmartNICs to make up 38% of network market by 2026

Dell'Oro sees traditional NICs being displaced for most hyperscale cloud infrastructure

Networks11 Aug 2022 | 5

Altair pays off $79m owed to SAS in software license spat, will sell rival product

Epic copyright saga rumbles on as US giant vows to keep fighting UK data analytics firm

Software28 Jun 2022 | 1

It's a crime to use Google Analytics, watchdog tells Italian website

Updated Because data flows into the United States, not because of that user interface

Networks24 Jun 2022 | 33

Cookie consent crumbles under fresh UK data law proposals

Campaigners fear erosion of rights as narrowing of law proposed as well as political control over independent watchdog

Security17 Jun 2022 | 121

Splunk dabbles in edgy hardware, lowers data ingestion

'Puck' hardware demoed with customers including Royal Dutch Shell to address big concern: cost

Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 3

MongoDB wants to grab work from other databases

Analysis Goal is to bring analytics to its transactional workloads but there are places where this might fall short

Databases13 Jun 2022 | 4

MongoDB announces columnstore indexing for its document database

Boost to in-database analytics should help replace some human decision-making, vendor claims

Databases07 Jun 2022 | 1

We've never even built datacenters using robots here on Earth

Opinion Interesting Moon experiment raises cool questions about disposal of hidden value

Networks30 May 2022 | 43

User-built low-code apps tipped to dominate analytics by 2025

Analysts also insist organizations need to get data ops for AI in gear or face 2-year delay

Software12 May 2022 | 15