AI Chip Startup MatX Raises $500 Million to Compete With Nvidia
AI chip startup MatX, founded by two former Google semiconductor engineers, announced a funding round exceeding $500 million to accelerate development of GPUs that challenge Nvidia’s market dominance. The round was led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, with participation from Marvell, NFDG, Spark Capital, and Stripe co‑founders Patrick and John Collison. MatX’s valuation now sits at several billion dollars, underscoring investor confidence in alternative AI hardware. The capital will fund tape‑out, manufacturing, and ecosystem building.
Dominion Reports Marginal Increase in Data Center Pipeline
Dominion Energy announced that its contracted data‑center capacity now exceeds 48 GW, a three‑percent increase since September. The utility lifted its five‑year capital‑investment outlook by 30% to $65 billion, with over 90% earmarked for Virginia to meet accelerating data‑center load. A new...
ArisGlobal Launches XDI
ArisGlobal unveiled XDI, a Data Intelligence Cortex that federates fragmented life‑science data without centralizing it. The platform delivers continuous, explainable, decision‑grade intelligence across domains such as pharmacovigilance, benefit‑risk, and regulatory operations. XDI promises up to 80% reduction in compliance effort...
Scalo Partners With Databricks to Speed up Data & AI Innovation for Enterprises
Scalo announced an expanded partnership with Databricks, joining its Consulting and Service Integration Partner Program to bolster its Data & AI practice. The collaboration enables enterprise clients to centralize data on a lakehouse foundation, streamline data flows, and deploy AI...
AtNorth Announces Plans for 300MW Data Center Campus
Nordic data‑center operator atNorth announced a 300 MW campus in Sollefteå, Sweden, to be built on a 50‑hectare plot at Hamre Industrial Park and targeted for H1 2028. The facility will feature direct liquid cooling and support rack densities up to 1 MW,...
From Days to Minutes: How Omnisend Embedded AI Into the Data Lifecycle
Omnisend embedded large language models into its DataOps pipeline, using the Cursor AI editor to auto‑generate SQL, YAML and documentation, shrinking model‑building cycles from hours to minutes. A second LLM, Gemini Code Assist, acts as an automated reviewer, cutting review...
Human Verification Tools Help Make Smarter Data-Driven Decisions
Human verification tools are emerging as essential safeguards for data‑driven enterprises, confirming that online interactions stem from real individuals rather than bots or synthetic identities. Modern solutions combine biometrics, AI, and privacy‑focused designs to validate personhood at scale, reducing fraudulent...
Qdrant 1.17 Supercharges Vector Search with a Variety of Updates
Qdrant has launched version 1.17.0, introducing a Relevance Feedback Query that refines vector‑search results using lightweight model feedback. The release also adds latency‑reduction features such as configurable fan‑out thresholds, an update queue for up to one million pending writes, and an indexed‑only...
BMC Expands Collaboration with AWS to Accelerate Intelligent Automation
BMC announced a five‑year strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services, designating AWS as the preferred cloud for its Control‑M SaaS platform. The partnership integrates BMC’s intelligent automation and generative AI advisor Jett with AWS’s scale, performance, and security. Joint customers...
How to Future-Proof Your AI Stack with Data Governance
MarTech outlines a framework for B2B firms to future‑proof AI deployments through robust data governance and consent management. It stresses tagging consent metadata at capture, using centralized policy tools with decentralized enforcement, and establishing a cross‑functional governance council. The guide...
Vodafone Turns Its Network Into a Europe-Wide “Virtual Weather Station”
Vodafone’s Network‑as‑a‑Sensor (NWaaS) program is now operating pan‑European, using thousands of microwave backhaul links to turn the carrier’s infrastructure into a distributed weather‑monitoring platform. The service can infer rain, fog, humidity and, with added mast‑mounted sensors, air‑quality data, delivering near‑real‑time...
Pulselight Platform Now Available to NHS via £10bn Fortrus Framework
Pulselight has become an authorised partner on the £10 bn Fortrus Digital Enablement Framework, giving NHS trusts a fast, compliant route to acquire its advanced data‑analytics platform. The framework, created by the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, streamlines procurement...
Data for Breakfast Canberra
Snowflake is hosting "Data for Breakfast Canberra" on 17 March 2026, aimed at Australian Public Service (APS) data and AI professionals. The event will feature a Snowflake keynote on secure, AI‑ready data collaboration, public‑sector case studies, and deep‑dive sessions on agents and...
Sri Lanka Launches CROPIX DPI to Bridge Gaps in Agriculture
Sri Lanka has launched CROPIX DPI, a national digital platform that consolidates fragmented agricultural data into a single, mobile‑accessible system. The platform integrates the crop registry, yield forecasts and climate analytics, enabling automated data exchange among farmers, officials and policymakers....
Data-First Telecom Management: From Blind Spot to Value Driver
Enterprises are still paying for legacy telecom services that are unused, creating hidden cost leaks. A data‑first approach—digitizing invoices, consolidating contracts, and applying AI/ML analytics—provides clear visibility into service usage and pricing. Companies that adopt this model can shift telecom...
Ruohang Feng: Is Oracle-Compatible PostgreSQL Actually Useful?
A Fortune 500 auto firm needed to migrate from a 15‑year‑old EDB PostgreSQL 9.1 instance, but the application code was lost and only a JAR containing Oracle‑compatible SQL (e.g., bare SYSDATE) remained. Because PostgreSQL cannot add new keywords through extensions, the...
Top 5 Synthetic Data Generation Products to Watch in 2026
Synthetic data generation has moved from niche to core enterprise AI, with Gartner predicting three‑quarters of businesses will use generative AI for synthetic customer data by 2026. K2view remains the benchmark for large‑scale, end‑to‑end synthetic data workflows, while Mostly AI,...
Hubert 'Depesz' Lubaczewski: Per-Worker, and Global, IO Bandwidth in Explain Plans
Jeremy Schneider added per‑worker I/O bandwidth metrics to explain.depesz.com’s EXPLAIN output. The change displays both average per‑worker speed and total exclusive bandwidth, clarifying why summed I/O time can exceed wall‑clock time in parallel scans. In the example, 39 GB read in...
Melbourne Airport Deploys Veovo Intelligent Airport Platform to Enhance CX and Operational Efficiency
Melbourne Airport has rolled out the Veovo Intelligent Airport Platform, a web‑based system that unifies flight, resource and operational data into a single source of truth. The platform leverages management‑by‑exception alerts and continuous integration to improve real‑time coordination among operations...
Canadian Utility Hydro-Québec Proposes Electricity Tariff for Data Centers
Hydro‑Québec has filed a proposal to charge large data centers 13 CAD cents per kilowatt‑hour, roughly twice the existing high‑power rate. The tariff would apply to facilities over 5 MW and take effect in the second half of 2026, with a five‑year...
Accelerating Data Center Construction with Sustainability in Mind
AI adoption is driving a 160% surge in data‑center power demand by 2030, prompting developers to seek faster, greener construction methods. Prefabricated concrete emerges as a solution, shaving 2‑4 months off build schedules and delivering 30‑40% faster overall completion. The...
Cost Control for Kubernetes: Monitor, Right-Size, Govern
Christian Dussol, engineering manager at a financial firm, warns that Kubernetes deployments can generate surprising cloud bills when resources are over‑provisioned. Moving a production cluster to Azure revealed hidden costs in storage, networking, and telemetry, highlighting that Kubernetes itself does...
Liquibase Secure 5.1 Closes Gap in Data Platform Security, Compliance, and AI Readiness
Liquibase announced Secure 5.1, extending its modeled change‑control framework to Snowflake’s control plane. The release treats Snowflake access, sharing, and cost‑control changes as first‑class, auditable objects, enabling policy enforcement, drift detection and automated rollback. Secure 5.1 also adds support for Databricks, MongoDB,...
Why the Era of Relying on Dozens of “Purpose-Built” Databases Is Finally Coming to an End
Enterprises are shifting from fragmented, purpose‑built databases to unified operational data platforms that prioritize memory‑first architectures and AI‑ready features. The new platforms deliver sub‑millisecond response times, reduce infrastructure complexity, and cut total cost of ownership by up to 60%. By...
How AI Contextual Governance Enables Business Adaptation
Artificial intelligence has moved from experimental labs into the operational core of enterprises, demanding a shift from static to dynamic oversight. Traditional governance models, built for predictable software, cannot keep pace with AI systems that learn and evolve. Contextual governance...
Scaling a Financial Reconciliation Pipeline With Serverless
The team built an event‑driven reconciliation pipeline on AWS using Step Functions, Lambda, and DynamoDB. At low volumes it performed well, but processing million‑transaction daily batches exposed two bottlenecks: Lambda’s 15‑minute timeout and hot DynamoDB partition keys. They resolved these...
How Moody's Can Be an AI-Enabler, but Remain Resilient to AI Disruption Itself. CEO Robert Fauber Lays Out the Data
Moody’s CEO Robert Fauber argues that a massive, proprietary data estate is the cornerstone of AI adoption for regulated financial institutions. The firm is unifying its data, models, ratings and research into a trusted context layer that makes raw information...
The Rise of Context-Aware Platforms in Cloud-Native Engineering
Cloud‑native engineering’s reliance on decoupled containers and Kubernetes has delivered scale but fractured operational context, creating a “Crisis of the Broken Context.” Vendors now advocate a shift from pure automation to context‑aware platforms that can reason about code, infrastructure, and...
QBO Cloud and MinIO Collaborate to Deliver Enterprise-Grade Object Storage for Modern AI and Analytics Workloads.
QBO Cloud announced a partnership with MinIO to bundle MinIO’s AIStor object storage with its bare‑metal cloud platform. The joint solution delivers S3‑compatible, high‑performance storage optimized for AI and analytics workloads. Customers can deploy the unified data platform on‑prem, edge...
Urban Vs. Rural: Why Data Centers Are Built Where They Are
Data center development in the United States is moving beyond the traditional urban corridors of Northern Virginia, Silicon Valley, and Chicago. Expanding power capacity, new long‑haul fiber routes, and aggressive state incentives are making rural states such as Pennsylvania, Louisiana,...
Old Mutual’s Dhesen Ramsamy to Present at ITWeb AI Summit 2026
Old Mutual’s Group Chief Technology and Data Officer Dhesen Ramsamy will speak at the ITWeb AI Summit 2026 on April 22. He will argue that robust data governance and sovereignty are prerequisites for trustworthy, high‑performing AI. Ramsamy highlights South Africa’s...
DHS Awards Palantir up to $1B to Deploy AI and Data Analytics Platforms
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has signed a five‑year blanket purchase agreement with Palantir Technologies worth up to $1 billion. The deal lets agencies such as Customs and Border Protection, ICE, FEMA and CISA tap Palantir’s Gotham and Foundry platforms...
The Space Data Layer – Building an Interoperable Internet in Space
The satellite sector is shifting from launch‑centric hardware to data‑centric services, introducing a "space data layer" that fuses edge computing, AI, and optical links in orbit. This layer aims to turn raw sensor streams into sub‑second, actionable insights, effectively extending...
Radim Marek: Inside PostgreSQL's 8KB Page
PostgreSQL stores all data in fixed 8 KB pages, the atomic unit of I/O. The article explains why the 8 KB size persisted for decades, how the page header, line pointers, and tuple data are organized, and demonstrates inspection using the pageinspect...
AWS SageMaker HyperPod: Distributed Training for Foundation Models at Scale
Amazon Web Services introduced SageMaker HyperPod, a managed, persistent GPU‑cluster service built for training foundation models at massive scale. HyperPod automates node recovery, uses Elastic Fabric Adapter for ultra‑low‑latency interconnect, and integrates with SageMaker Distributed, PyTorch FSDP, and DeepSpeed. The...
Komprise Accelerates Agentic AI With Serverless Compute for Unstructured Data
Komprise unveiled KAPPA, a serverless compute service that lets enterprises enrich metadata for unstructured data with just a few lines of Python code. The offering automates scaling and execution across petabyte‑scale datasets, eliminating the need for traditional ETL pipelines. KAPPA...
How AI Is Forcing Storage Back Into the Enterprise Conversation
Early enterprise AI projects allocated most budgets to compute, treating storage as a leftover expense. As AI moves from experimentation to production, organizations discover that data readiness and storage performance, especially for retrieval‑augmented generation and inference, are the real constraints....
Accenture Wins Competition-Free £54m From Post Office
The UK Post Office has awarded Accenture a £54 million, competition‑free contract to manage its back‑office IT services from April 2026 through June 2029. The deal covers finance, ERP, HR, process automation and application modernisation across more than 11,500 branches, but excludes the...
Mastering Serverless Data Pipelines: AWS Step Functions Best Practices for 2026
AWS Step Functions has become the backbone of serverless data pipelines, offering two workflow models—Standard for long‑running, exactly‑once jobs and Express for high‑frequency, short‑lived tasks. The article outlines best‑practice patterns such as the Claim Check for large payloads, using intrinsic...
ThoughtSpot Launches Agentic Data Prep to Transform How Teams Profile, Mash Up, and Secure Data for AI Workloads
ThoughtSpot unveiled the next‑generation Analyst Studio, adding SpotCache, a native spreadsheet interface, and an agentic data‑prep engine. SpotCache lets users cache data snapshots for unlimited queries at fixed cloud costs, while the spreadsheet UI brings Excel‑style flexibility under enterprise governance....
StorONE Arrays Adopt External Flash JBODs in Flash Program
StorONE introduced a 9x ROI on Flash program that pairs its S1 disk‑drive array with external SSD JBODs, creating an automatic two‑tier system that places hot data on flash and warm or cold data on HDDs. The solution leverages the...
Kong and Solace Partner to Unify API and Real-Time Data and Event Streaming
Kong Inc. and real‑time data specialist Solace have joined Kong’s Premium Technology Partner Program to deliver a unified, governed data fabric. The partnership merges Kong’s API and AI gateway capabilities with Solace’s high‑performance event streaming, enabling a single control plane...
AI Turns Weather Data Into Sales
Retailers have long known weather drives sales, but few have turned forecasts into actionable insight. New AI platforms now ingest long‑range weather data and feed it directly into ecommerce functions such as demand planning, pricing, personalization, fulfillment and ad activation....
Google's Air Gapped Cloud Gets "Public-Like" Networking
Google Cloud has unveiled a new networking layer that gives its air‑gapped, confidential computing environments public‑like connectivity. The feature leverages zero‑trust VPC Service Controls to keep workloads isolated while allowing them to communicate with external services as if they were...
The 'Last-Mile' Data Problem Is Stalling Enterprise Agentic AI — 'Golden Pipelines' Aim to Fix It
Enterprise AI is hitting a ‘last‑mile’ data bottleneck as messy operational data hampers model inference. Empromptu’s ‘golden pipelines’ embed automated ingestion, cleaning, labeling and governance directly into the AI application workflow, shrinking data‑preparation cycles from weeks to under an hour....
How This Cybersecurity Firm’s Graph Database Investment Is Paying Off
Darktrace, fresh from its $5.3 billion Thoma Bravo acquisition, migrated its security platform to Amazon Neptune, a managed graph database, to map threats across complex cloud environments in real time. The shift enables multi‑hop relationship queries that relational databases struggle with at...
UAE Data Centers: Powering the Middle East’s AI and Cloud Revolution
The United Arab Emirates is rapidly emerging as a pivotal data‑center hub for the Middle East and Africa, with live capacity surpassing 376 MW in 2025. Hyperscale players such as Microsoft, G42, and OpenAI are expanding AI‑focused facilities, targeting an additional...
Dave Page: Building Ask Ellie: A RAG Chatbot Powered by pgEdge
pgEdge introduced Ask Ellie, an AI‑powered documentation chatbot built directly on PostgreSQL using the company’s open‑source extensions. The system follows a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern: Docloader ingests docs, Vectorizer creates vector embeddings, and the RAG Server retrieves relevant chunks and...
Asylum: Courts Service and Home Office Hope to Join up Disconnected Data Systems by Spring
Senior officials from the Home Office and Ministry of Justice told MPs that the new Atlas immigration case‑working platform is now live and that work to link it with justice‑system databases will be completed by spring. The current data silos...
Google Teams Up with CTC Global for Grid Intelligence
Google Cloud and Alphabet’s moonshot project Tapestry have deepened their partnership with CTC Global to launch GridVista, an observability platform that embeds optical‑fiber sensors in transmission conductors. The system delivers real‑time strain, temperature and vibration data, feeding it into Google...