With its plan to make its Polaris data catalog open source, Snowflake hopes the new offering will be seen as vendor-neutral, boosting its attractiveness when compared to Databricks’ Unity Catalog.

Today, Databricks kicked off its annual Data and AI summit with a long-awaited move: the open sourcing of its three-year-old Unity Catalog platform that provides customers a unified solution for their ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Fivetran announced yesterday the release of an API designed to propel ...

Banks and Financial institutions are modernizing their data platforms and associated tool-sets to serve the fast needs of data practitioners, including data scientists, data analysts, business ...

If you have been around the IT industry for as long as I have, you have seen technologies and ideas come and go—and sometimes even come back again. This is surely the case with the “new” products that ...

My last Forbes Council post in 2022 focused on exploring and defining a data product. As we enter 2023, we already see more organizations now building data products. Concomitant to the rise of data ...

Privately-held Informatica is announcing closing of a deal for acquiring Compact Solutions, a provider of a metadata lineage tool that will eventually plug into the company's Enterprise Data Catalog ...

This article covers a recent announcement from the 2022 OCP Summit about a standard for a hardware root of trust for edge and data center System on Chips (SoCs). It also talks about Hammerspace’s ...

Last year, hackers broke into AT&T’s customer database, as documented in a report by the Mozilla Foundation, grabbing the phone records of almost all current and former customers—73 million in total. ...