🎯Today's Big Data Pulse
Updated 17m agoWhat's happening: Liquibase launches Secure 5.1 to tighten data platform security and AI readiness
Liquibase introduced Secure 5.1, extending its change‑control framework to Snowflake’s control plane and treating access, sharing, and cost‑control changes as auditable objects. The update adds policy enforcement, drift detection, automated rollback, and support for platforms such as Databricks, MongoDB, Couchbase, AWS Keyspaces, and DataStax Enterprise.
Also developing:
- •Enterprises gravitate toward unified operational data platforms, abandoning fragmented databases
- •Reliance Jio unveils $110 billion AI build plan to dominate Indian market
- •Nvidia close to finalizing $30 billion investment in OpenAI
News•Feb 6, 2026
Shinya Kato: Reducing Row Count Estimation Errors in PostgreSQL
The article outlines four progressive techniques for cutting row‑count estimation errors in PostgreSQL. It begins with per‑table autovacuum tuning to keep statistics fresh, then moves to raising column‑level statistics targets for finer sampling. Next, it introduces extended statistics to model cross‑column correlations, and finally suggests pg_hint_plan hints as a last‑ditch fix. The author emphasizes a systematic diagnostic flow from EXPLAIN ANALYZE to targeted statistics adjustments.
By Planet PostgreSQL (aggregator)
Social•Feb 6, 2026
ETL: The Backbone of Modern Data Workflows
📊 The ETL Data Pipeline From raw sources (databases, APIs, files) → clean & transform (cleaning, joining, aggregating) → load into warehouse/analytics for BI, reports & ML. E → T → L: the backbone of modern data workflows.🚀
By Big Data | Data Science | ML (bigdataspecialist)
News•Feb 6, 2026
New MIT Framework Uses Search to Handle LLM Errors in AI Agents
MIT CSAIL and Asari AI introduced EnCompass, a Python framework that adds systematic search and backtracking to AI agents using large language models. Developers annotate "branchpoints" where LLM outputs may vary, then the runtime explores execution paths with strategies such...
By EnterpriseAI (AIwire)
News•Feb 6, 2026
How Database Professionals Sent a Million Emails a Day From SQL Server
SQL Server Central’s engineers built a custom email‑queue using plain SQL Server tables and a lightweight .NET sender to replace an expensive third‑party service. By inserting newsletters and user addresses into an EmailNewsletter table, they processed batches of 500 rows,...
By SQLServerCentral
News•Feb 5, 2026
VAST Data Plans Funding Round so Early Stock Holders Can Get Cash
VAST Data is closing a $1 billion financing round that values the AI‑focused storage vendor at roughly $30 billion. The bulk of the cash will come from a secondary sale where existing shareholders dump 5‑6 shares for each new issue, generating $700‑$850 million...
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 5, 2026
AI Infrastructure Financing Enters a New Era: What Execs Need to Know
AI infrastructure financing is rapidly evolving as traditional bank lending can’t keep pace with the capital intensity of AI‑ready data centers. Lenders are stepping back because power‑delivery risk and SPV structures clash with cash‑flow lending models. GPUs now face six‑to‑nine‑month...
By Data Center Knowledge
News•Feb 5, 2026
Cohesity Deepens Google Cloud Integration
Cohesity has integrated Google Cloud Threat Intelligence directly into the Cohesity Data Cloud UI and added Google Private Scanning for secure, privacy‑preserving malware detonation. The enhancement gives customers real‑time visibility into indicators of compromise and streamlines threat analysis without leaving...
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 5, 2026
Spotify’s Page Match Syncs Your Audiobooks and Your Physical Ones
Spotify introduced Page Match, a computer‑vision feature that lets users point their phone camera at a physical book or ebook page to jump to the corresponding spot in an audiobook. The tool works both forward—matching text to audio—and in reverse,...
By The Verge
News•Feb 5, 2026
MinIO Plugs Apache Iceberg Tables Directly Into AIStor
MinIO has made its AIStor Tables feature generally available, embedding the full Apache Iceberg V3 Catalog REST API directly into its object storage platform. The integration lets enterprises treat Iceberg tables as first‑class citizens, unifying structured and unstructured data for...
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 5, 2026
Sundar Pichai on What “Keeps Him up at Night” After Alphabet’s $403 Billion Year
Alphabet posted a record $403 billion revenue, yet CEO Sundar Pichai disclosed lingering worries. Google Cloud continues to bleed cash despite accelerating top‑line growth and a newly announced $70 billion hyperscaler run‑rate. The company is betting on larger enterprise contracts and AI‑driven services...
By The Stack (TheStack.technology)
News•Feb 5, 2026
DDN Appoints Vice Chairman Amid Enterprise AI Expansion
Data Direct Networks (DDN) has named former Cisco and Groq executive Mohsen Moazami as vice chairman, a move seen as positioning the high‑performance computing firm for a public offering. The appointment follows a $300 million Blackstone investment and a strategic shift...
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 5, 2026
Cloudera Chief AI Architect on Building Human-First AI
Manasi Vartak, former founder of Verta, joined Cloudera as chief AI architect after her startup’s 2024 acquisition. Verta’s platform slashed enterprise AI time‑to‑market by more than tenfold while delivering audit‑ready model governance for Fortune 500 firms. At Cloudera, Vartak champions human‑first...
By TechMonitor (sitewide)
Podcast•Feb 5, 2026•55 min
Airbnb’s Open-Source GraphQL Framework with Adam Miskiewicz
In this episode, Adam Miskiewicz, Principal Software Engineer at Airbnb, explains how the company built Viaduct, an open‑source data‑oriented service mesh and GraphQL platform that unifies a central schema across millions of microservices. He details the architectural principles—centralized schema, consistent...
By Software Engineering Daily – Data (category)
News•Feb 5, 2026
Cyberhaven Introduces Unified AI and Data Security Platform
Cyberhaven launched a unified AI‑driven Data Security Posture Management platform that integrates DSPM, DLP, insider risk management and AI security across endpoints, SaaS, cloud and on‑prem environments. The solution leverages comprehensive data lineage and agentic AI to provide continuous visibility,...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 5, 2026
DWP Rejigs Operating Model for Data Transformation by 2030
The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) unveiled a seven‑year data strategy (2023‑2030) that pivots to a federated hub‑and‑spoke operating model for data management and governance. The plan targets a 20% cost reduction over five years, modernises legacy systems,...
By Computer Weekly – Latest IT news
Social•Feb 5, 2026
Deep Data Science and Startup Can't Coexist Full‑Time
Let me explain to y’all saying can’t i do both the $370k full time data science role at Anthropic & my startup. As someone who has analyzed 2.5billion daily active youtube user data, data science is intense You cannot do deep...
By Omozara
News•Feb 4, 2026
Cerebras Systems Raises $1 Billion Series H
Cerebras Systems closed a $1 billion Series H financing round, valuing the company at roughly $23 billion post‑money. The round was led by Tiger Global and included investors such as Benchmark, Fidelity, AMD and Coatue. Proceeds will accelerate production of the Wafer Scale...
By EnterpriseAI (AIwire)
News•Feb 4, 2026
TUM Unveils EU’s 1st 7nm AI Chip with Local Processing and RISC-V Architecture
Technical University of Munich unveiled the EU’s first 7‑nanometer AI chip, a neuromorphic processor built on an open‑source RISC‑V architecture. Designed by Prof. Hussam Amrouch, the chip processes data locally, promising higher privacy and security than cloud‑centric solutions. Production will shift...
By EnterpriseAI (AIwire)
News•Feb 4, 2026
Cluster API Update Makes Managing Kubernetes Environments Simpler
The Cluster API project released version 1.12.0, adding in‑place machine updates and chained upgrade capabilities for Kubernetes clusters. The update introduces declarative update extensions that let teams modify existing nodes without recreating them, leveraging only create and delete primitives. Fabrizio Pandini...
By Container Journal (sitewide)
News•Feb 4, 2026
NATO Disbands Discrete CIO Office - Puts New Man in Charge of Digital Transformation
NATO has effectively dissolved its standalone Chief Information Officer (CIO) Office, integrating its functions into the broader Cyber and Digital Transformation (CDT) division. The restructuring places digital transformation under a single command, with a newly appointed senior official overseeing both...
By The Stack (TheStack.technology)
News•Feb 4, 2026
NV5 GeoAgent Offers Autonomous Geospatial Intelligence
NV5 unveiled GeoAgent, an agentic AI platform that automates geospatial intelligence through natural‑language interaction. The solution acts as an operational layer over existing tools, orchestrating data discovery, multimodal analytics, and mission‑ready outputs without requiring specialist expertise. By shifting from tool‑driven...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 4, 2026
Pentaho Enhances Flagship Data Integration Suite, Introducing Version 11
Pentaho announced the release of Data Integration and Business Analytics Version 11, a major platform upgrade aimed at simplifying data workflows and supporting AI initiatives. The update introduces a browser‑based Pipeline Designer, Project Profile for organizing ETL assets, and a new...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 4, 2026
Passing the Torch: Building a Workforce for the Next Generation of Data Centers
The data‑center industry faces a looming talent shortage as up to half of its engineers could retire within the next two years, creating a critical experience gap. Rapid growth in AI‑driven workloads and ultra‑high‑density designs intensifies the need for skilled...
By Data Center Knowledge
News•Feb 4, 2026
Oracle Releases New Agentic Platform for the Banking and Finance Space
Oracle Financial Services unveiled an enterprise‑class, AI‑infused platform designed for banks and finance firms. The suite bundles pre‑built AI agents, design tools, and decisioning frameworks that deliver conversational, hyper‑personalized experiences across digital and branch channels. Oracle emphasizes a "human‑in‑the‑loop" model...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 4, 2026
Oracle Life Sciences AI Data Platform Unites Data and Agentic Intelligence to Accelerate Medical Breakthroughs
Oracle introduced the Oracle Life Sciences AI Data Platform, a generative AI‑enabled solution that consolidates diverse life‑science datasets and applies agentic AI to accelerate research, clinical trials, and commercialization. The platform offers out‑of‑the‑box AI agents and tools for label expansion,...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
Blog•Feb 4, 2026
5 Open Source Image Editing AI Models
A new KDnuggets article spotlights five open‑source AI models that enable text‑driven image editing, ranging from Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 [klein] 9B to Alibaba Cloud's Qwen‑Image‑Edit‑2511 and newer adapters like FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo. The models deliver real‑time generation, multi‑reference editing, bilingual support,...
By KDnuggets
News•Feb 4, 2026
MariaDB Discusses Database Scale and Active:active and Active:passive Architectures
MariaDB’s chief product officer Vikas Mathur explained the trade‑offs between active‑passive and active‑active database architectures. Active‑passive relies on a primary server with idle standby replicas, offering low complexity but higher cost and unused capacity. Active‑active runs multiple nodes handling reads...
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 4, 2026
Robins Tharakan: The "Skip Scan" You Already Had Before V18
PostgreSQL 18 introduces a native skip‑scan operator for multicolumn B‑tree indexes, allowing the planner to jump between distinct leading‑key values instead of scanning the entire index. Earlier releases could already perform a full‑index scan when the index was smaller than...
By Planet PostgreSQL (aggregator)
News•Feb 4, 2026
AI Anomaly Detection for Warehouse Security: Smarter Protection Beyond Cameras
AI anomaly detection is reshaping warehouse security by using machine‑learning models to learn normal movement, access and handling patterns and flagging deviations in real time. The technology fuses video, IoT sensors, RFID and WMS data, delivering precise alerts while cutting...
By Datafloq
News•Feb 3, 2026
Hitachi Vantara May Be up for Sale
Hitachi Ltd. is exploring a sale of its Hitachi Vantara data‑storage unit for up to ¥200 billion ($1.3 billion). The move follows a strategic pivot toward higher‑margin businesses such as energy transmission and digital SaaS services. Hitachi Vantara generated roughly ¥300 billion in...
By Blocks & Files
Blog•Feb 3, 2026
The Lakehouse Architecture | Multimodal Data, Delta Lake, and Data Engineering with R. Tyler Croy
The article introduces the lakehouse architecture as a unified platform that combines the scalability of data lakes with the performance of data warehouses. It highlights how Delta Lake brings ACID transaction support and schema enforcement to open‑source storage, enabling reliable...
By Confessions of a Data Guy
News•Feb 3, 2026
Samsung Shipping Fast and Small PCIe Gen5 Bus 4TB Mini-Gumstick Drive
Samsung has begun shipping a 4 TB PM9E1 M.2 2242 SSD that targets space‑constrained AI workstations such as Nvidia DGX Spark. The drive uses Samsung’s 236‑layer Gen 8 V‑NAND, dual‑sided DRAM, and a 5 nm Presto controller, delivering up to 2 million random read IOPS, 2.64 million...
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 3, 2026
Western Digital Blows Hard Disk Drive Future Wide Open
Western Digital announced qualification of a 40 TB UltraSMR hard‑disk drive and unveiled a roadmap that could reach 100 TB using heat‑assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) by 2027. The company introduced High‑Bandwidth Drive (HBD) technology that initially doubles I/O throughput, with plans for...
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 3, 2026
Gartner: AI and Datacentre Spending Ramps Up
Gartner projects global IT spending to rise 10.8% to $6.2 trillion by 2026, with datacentre equipment spending surging 32% and software up nearly 15%. AI investment will total $2.52 trillion, a 44% year‑over‑year jump, driven largely by hyperscale cloud providers expanding AI‑optimized...
By Computer Weekly – Latest IT news
News•Feb 3, 2026
Umair Shahid: PostgreSQL Materialized Views: When Caching Your Query Results Makes Sense (And When It Doesn’t)
PostgreSQL materialized views create a physical snapshot of expensive query results, allowing fast, indexed reads while shifting computation to scheduled refreshes. The article demonstrates turning a 28‑second revenue aggregation into a 180‑millisecond lookup by building, indexing, and refreshing a materialized...
By Planet PostgreSQL (aggregator)
News•Feb 3, 2026
How Data Analytics Is Transforming Performance Appraisal in Modern HRM
Data analytics is reshaping HR performance appraisals in India, moving them from memory‑based, annual snapshots to continuous, evidence‑driven processes. By aggregating goal achievement, peer feedback, and productivity metrics, companies now generate real‑time dashboards that capture an employee’s full performance journey....
By Datafloq
News•Feb 3, 2026
Designing Reliable Data Pipelines in Cloud-Native Environments
Designing reliable data pipelines in cloud‑native environments begins with clear expectations and ownership before any code is written. Teams must assume upstream volatility, embrace failure as a design premise, and build idempotent, replay‑friendly workflows that limit blast radius. Robust observability—beyond...
By Container Journal (sitewide)
News•Feb 3, 2026
Why Should the Construction Industry Use ERP Software?
Construction firms are facing larger projects, tighter schedules, and heightened client expectations, exposing the limits of spreadsheets and paper-based processes. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software consolidates field data, finance, procurement, and project management into a single platform, enabling real‑time visibility...
By Datafloq
News•Feb 3, 2026
Databricks Lakebase Is Now Generally Available, Delivering Reliability, Performance, and Governance
Databricks announced the general availability of Lakebase on AWS, a serverless Postgres‑compatible operational database built on its lakehouse platform. The service separates compute from storage, offering automatic scaling, zero‑copy branching, and point‑in‑time recovery for production workloads. Lakebase integrates with Unity...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 3, 2026
CIQ Creates Startup Program to Offer High-Performance AI Infrastructure for Early-Stage Innovators
CIQ announced the CIQ Startup Program, giving early‑stage, VC‑backed startups six months of free access to its high‑performance AI infrastructure and up to an 80% discount for the following two years. The offering includes Rocky Linux AI with pre‑integrated frameworks,...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
Podcast•Feb 3, 2026•1h 6m
#290: Always Be Learning
In this episode, Tim Wilson, Val Kroll, and Spotify product manager/data scientist Mårten Schultzberg discuss the limits of focusing solely on win rates in experimentation and introduce a broader "learning rate" metric that captures wins, regressions (avoiding bad outcomes), and neutral...
By Digital Analytics Power Hour
News•Feb 2, 2026
Rocket Software Announces Intent to Acquire Vertica Analytics Database Solution From OpenText?
Rocket Software announced a definitive agreement to acquire the Vertica analytics database from OpenText. Vertica, known for high‑performance, cloud‑ready analytics and AI/ML capabilities, will join Rocket’s portfolio of modernization tools. The cash‑funded deal is slated to close in mid‑2026, pending...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 2, 2026
Commvault Pitches Geo Shield for Sovereign Data Protection
Commvault has launched Geo Shield, a sovereign‑data protection suite that lets enterprises dictate where data resides, who controls access, and who holds encryption keys. The offering spans four deployment models—from local hyperscaler SaaS to private sovereign clouds—supporting both BYOK and HYOK...
By Blocks & Files
Podcast•Feb 2, 2026•30 min
From “This May Never Work” To WarpStream with Richie Artoul | Ep. 17
In this episode, Tim Berglund chats with data infrastructure veteran Richie Artoul about his unconventional path—from running a LAN gaming café to building log storage at Datadog and now leading WarpStream at Confluent. Richie shares the technical and cultural challenges...
By Streaming Audio (Kafka / Confluent)
News•Feb 2, 2026
Storage News Ticker – February 2
The February 2 storage news ticker packed a series of vendor recognitions, product launches and strategic moves across data quality, protection, AI and memory markets. Ataccama earned the top Forrester strategy score, while Coldago’s 2025 map highlighted Cohesity, Commvault, Rubrik and...
By Blocks & Files
Social•Feb 2, 2026
Apply Sports AI Tactics: Real‑Time, Personalized, Scenario‑Driven Business
4 practical AI lessons from sport. Sport is one of the best stress tests for AI, because decisions are fast, public, and high stakes. Here are 4 AI lessons every executive can steal from elite sport 👇 4) Fan Engagement At Scale...
By Bernard Marr
Social•Feb 2, 2026
Match AI Capabilities to Tasks, Not Just Benchmarks
Choosing The Right AI In 2026 Is No Longer About Choosing The Right Model In 2026, choosing the right #AI comes down to matching #capability profiles to specific tasks, risk levels and business outcomes, rather than chasing benchmark winners. This #framework helps...
By Bernard Marr
Blog•Feb 1, 2026
Converting Floats to Strings Quickly
Converting binary floating‑point numbers to decimal strings is a core step in JSON, CSV, and logging pipelines. Recent research benchmarks modern algorithms—Dragonbox, Schubfach, and Ryū—showing they are roughly ten times faster than the original Dragon4 from 1990. The study finds...
By Daniel Lemire’s blog
News•Jan 31, 2026
The ROI Paradox: Why Small-Scale AI Architecture Outperforms Large Corporate Programs
An empirical analysis of 200 B2B AI projects from 2022‑2025 reveals a “Budget Paradox”: deployments under $20,000 achieve a median ROI of 159.8%, while larger, monolithic programs frequently fail to break even within two years. The study, validated by Harvard...
By Datafloq
Blog•Jan 30, 2026
Data Engineering Career Path: From Circuits to Pipelines
The article maps a data‑engineering career trajectory that begins with hardware‑oriented roles and ends in building scalable data pipelines. It highlights how circuit‑design thinking translates into logical data modeling, while emphasizing the need to acquire SQL, Python, and cloud‑native tools....
By Confessions of a Data Guy