Holographic Tape Inches Closer to Mass Market Ahead of Silica, Ceramic Media - 200TB WORM Tech Set to Debut in...
HoloMem, a UK startup, successfully ran its holographic tape system alongside traditional LTO drives inside a live LTO library, proving plug‑and‑play compatibility with existing data‑center hardware. The polymer‑ribbon cartridges are sized like standard LTO tapes and can store up to 200 TB in a write‑once‑read‑many (WORM) format, targeting archival workloads with 50‑year longevity claims. The trial demonstrated that holographic storage can be added without modifying robotic arms or software layers, moving the technology from concept toward commercial readiness. Mass production is slated for 2027, positioning it ahead of silica and ceramic alternatives.
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[In-Depth Guide] The Complete CTGAN + SDV Pipeline for High-Fidelity Synthetic Data
The article walks through a production‑grade synthetic data pipeline that combines CTGAN with the SDV ecosystem, starting from raw mixed‑type tables and ending with model serialization. It demonstrates how to attach metadata, enforce numeric and categorical constraints, and perform conditional...
Akron Children's Uses Epic and Real-Time Analytics to Reduce Waste Anesthesia Gases
Akron Children’s Hospital leveraged its Epic EHR and real‑time analytics to dramatically cut waste anesthesia gases, a source of 5‑10% of its greenhouse‑gas emissions. By introducing low‑flow reminders in Epic and on anesthesia machines, the team achieved an initial 5%...
Unlocking Your Retail Insights with LLMs
Best Buy is leveraging large language models to clean and enrich messy retail data, turning unstructured customer signals into actionable insights. The article stresses that LLM adoption must start with a clear business case rather than hype, especially for tasks like...
Project Seeks to Bring Data Analytics to ‘Analogue’ Football Policing
The Police Digital Service (PDS) has signed a six‑month, £600,000 contract with data‑analytics specialist Bays Consulting to pilot data‑driven planning for football match policing. The initiative seeks to replace traditional analogue risk‑assessment matrices with crowd‑modelling and predictive analytics, aiming for...
From Probabilistic to Proven: The Deterministic Turn in Audience Data Strategy
TV advertising is shifting from probabilistic to deterministic audience data. Recent studies show IP‑based identity links to the correct household only 13% of the time, undermining reach and measurement. Deterministic signals such as authenticated ISP or publisher subscriber data can...
Cloudera Enables Faster, Accurate AI and Analytics with Unified Data Access Capabilities
Cloudera announced that its AI Inference and Data Warehouse with Trino are now available for on‑premises deployment. The AI Inference service leverages NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs, Dynamo‑Triton server and NIM micro‑services to run LLMs, computer‑vision and other models inside customer data...
UK Customers Aren't as Worried About Sovereignty as EU, Cisco Exec Says
Cisco’s EMEA president Gordon Thomson told The Stack that British companies are less preoccupied with data‑sovereignty than their European counterparts. He noted that infrastructure autonomy has become a board‑level fear across the region, while AI localisation requirements are muddying the...
Amazon’s Send to Alexa Plus Makes the Kindle Scribe Feel More Like a Productivity Device
Amazon introduced Send to Alexa Plus, a new feature for Kindle Scribe and Scribe Colorsoft that lets users push handwritten notes or PDFs to Alexa’s AI assistant. Alexa can summarize content, generate to‑do lists, calendar events, reminders, and even draft...
AI PoC to Production: A Practical Guide to Scaling Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise
Enterprises often excel at AI proofs‑of‑concept but stumble when scaling to production, where reliability, governance, and measurable ROI are mandatory. The guide outlines a seven‑step framework—starting with early success criteria, strengthening data pipelines, building cloud‑native infrastructure, adopting MLOps, enforcing governance,...
Xinnor's Alternative Software RAID Filer for AI
Software RAID vendor Xinnor unveiled xiNAS, an all‑flash NAS filer built on its xiRAID stack, XFS, and NFS over RDMA, targeting AI, HPC and data‑intensive workloads. In a Supermicro validation, a single node achieved up to 74.5 GB/s sequential read and...
India at the Digital Turning Point: How Virtual Twins, AI and Data Are Rewiring Industry
The final India Leadership Talks episode highlighted how virtual‑twin technology and model‑based engineering are moving from promise to practice across manufacturing, infrastructure and life sciences. Leaders from Godrej, KPMG and IndianOil Adani Ventures described a shift from basic digitalisation to...
Does Your TV Track You Even Through the HDMI Port? Short Answer: Yes
Smart TVs can monitor content played on HDMI‑connected devices using two methods: HDMI‑CEC metadata and Automatic Content Recognition (ACR). ACR takes pixel‑level snapshots to fingerprint shows, movies, or games, while CEC logs device IDs and usage duration. The article outlines...
Mayo Clinic Platform Standardizes Cancer Data to Speed Up Trials
Mayo Clinic Platform’s Orchestrate tool has added new capabilities that deliver standardized, research‑ready cancer data. The upgrade leverages the OMOP Oncology common data model to transform unstructured inputs such as pathology reports and imaging into consistent tumor characteristics, biomarkers, and...
Data Pipeline Design Playbook 2026
The 2026 Data Pipeline Design Playbook positions pipeline architecture as the decisive factor separating data‑driven firms from laggards. It outlines seven modern frameworks—including the kappa shift, ELT over ETL, medallion data lakes, microservice pipelines, and lambda balancing—to achieve real‑time consistency,...
Get the Rundown on Data Engineering Trends for 2026 with Informatica, lakeFS, and Aerospike
Data engineering in 2026 is shifting from batch warehouses to real‑time, cloud‑native ecosystems that feed AI and generative models. Leaders like Informatica, lakeFS and Aerospike stress that active data, automated governance, and AI‑driven predictive scaling are essential to avoid bottlenecks....
Sponsored: Factory-First: How Modular Construction Becomes the only Scalable Path for the Next Era of Data Centers
The data‑center sector is racing to deliver gigawatt‑scale campuses amid soaring AI demand, tight labor markets, and long equipment lead times. Traditional on‑site construction cannot keep pace, prompting a shift toward factory‑first modular building. By standardizing designs and producing electrical,...
China’s Top Chipmaker Warns Rushed AI Capacity Could Sit Idle
China’s leading semiconductor manufacturer SMIC warned that a rush to purchase AI chips is prompting companies to build a decade’s worth of data‑center capacity in just one or two years. CEO Zhao Haijun said the rapid build‑out is outpacing clear...
ESMA’s Digital and Data Strategies Support Supervision of EU Financial Markets
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched a new Digital Strategy for 2026‑2028 and refreshed its Data Strategy covering 2023‑2028. Both roadmaps aim to accelerate digital transformation, simplify supervisory reporting and harness data‑driven insights across the European System...
Teradata Tops Expectations on Public Cloud Momentum and Its Stock Surges
Teradata reported fourth‑quarter earnings of $0.74 per share, well above the $0.54 consensus, and revenue of $421 million, a 3% year‑over‑year increase. Recurring revenue now represents 87% of total sales, while public‑cloud annual recurring revenue jumped 15% to $701 million. The company...
Jack Ma-Backed Ant Bets on AI Health in $69 Billion Sector Race
Ant Group, the Jack Ma‑backed fintech giant, is shifting its growth engine from digital payments to artificial‑intelligence‑powered health care. After a stalled IPO five years ago, the company has become one of China’s largest investors in medical AI, funding platforms...
How to Design Complex Deep Learning Tensor Pipelines Using Einops with Vision, Attention, and Multimodal Examples
The MarkTechPost tutorial showcases how Einops can express complex tensor transformations for deep‑learning pipelines with concise, readable syntax. It walks through real‑world patterns such as vision patchification, multi‑head attention, and multimodal token packing, demonstrating each operation using rearrange, reduce, repeat,...
AI Can Predict Your Future Salary Based on Your Photo, Boffins Claim
Researchers applied an AI model to LinkedIn photos of over 96,000 MBA graduates, extracting Big Five personality traits and showing they predict program rank, initial compensation, salary trajectory, and job transitions. The algorithm builds on a 2020 study that has...
Best Tools for Test Data Management to Accelerate QA Teams in 2026
Test Data Management (TDM) tools are becoming essential for QA and DevOps teams as CI/CD pipelines demand rapid, compliant data provisioning. In 2026, vendors such as K2view, Delphix, Datprof, IBM Optim, Informatica, and Broadcom lead the market, each emphasizing self‑service,...
Wesco International Pushes Digital Overhaul Amid Q4 Sales Growth
Wesco International closed 2025 with record $23.5 billion in sales, an 8% increase year‑over‑year, and a 10% jump in Q4 revenue. The distributor invested more than $35 million in a unified data lake and AI‑driven tools to replace legacy systems across its...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
Palantir CEO Alex Karp released a nearly hour‑long prerecorded video to address employee concerns about the company's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The discussion avoided detailed product disclosures, instead offering staff the option to sign nondisclosure agreements for...
NIST Awards Over $3M to Small Businesses Advancing AI, Biotech, Semiconductors, Quantum and More
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $3.19 million in Phase II SBIR grants to eight small businesses across seven states. The funding supports research in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, semiconductor, quantum and other advanced technologies, with each award ranging...
OVHcloud Reveals Bare Metal 2026 Generation of Dedicated Servers
European cloud provider OVHcloud unveiled its Bare Metal 2026 generation of dedicated servers, featuring AMD Ryzen and EPYC Zen 5 processors across four product lines. The Scale 2026 model scales to 384 cores, 3 TB DDR5 memory and up to 98 TB NVMe storage, while...
Hawaii-Based Cloud Provider Servpac Expands Data Center
Servpac, a Hawaii‑based cloud and colocation provider, broke ground on a $13 million expansion at Mililani Technology Park that will double the IT capacity of its MTP Data Center. The project adds a 5‑acre, 150,000 sq ft site and aims to increase cabinet...
Precisely StreetPro Discover Makes Street Data AI-Ready
Precisely introduced StreetPro Discover, a dataset that converts complex street attributes into human‑readable text for large language models. The offering replaces cryptic codes with clear, searchable descriptions, enabling plain‑language queries across delivery, risk, and urban‑planning use cases. By delivering "Agentic‑Ready"...
A Pattern for Intelligent Ticket Routing in ITSM
The article presents an architecture that replaces manual ticket dispatch with a machine‑learning core and a real‑time workload scheduler. Historical ticket data is vectorized with TF‑IDF and classified via Logistic Regression to predict the best resolver. Availability is verified through...
Datadog Initiates Feature Flags to Help Engineering Teams Add New Functionality Quickly and Reliably
Datadog has launched a generally‑available Feature Flags service that tightly couples feature management with its observability platform. The new product links each flag to real‑time APM and RUM telemetry, enabling instant visibility into performance and reliability impacts. Automated canary rollouts,...
See $250 Billion Issuance From Hyperscalers in 2026: Robson
BNP Paribas’s US credit strategist Meghan Robson projects hyperscalers will issue roughly $250 billion of debt in 2026, driven by a 16% jump in AI‑related capex and a shift toward more asset‑heavy business models. She warns that continued issuance will likely widen...
Octopus-Inspired Hydrogel Reveals Hidden Image when Exposed to Temperature Changes or Solvents
Researchers have created an octopus‑inspired hydrogel that acts as a programmable canvas, embedding data directly into its polymer structure during 3‑D printing. When the gel is heated or exposed to a solvent with a different polarity, it swells and alters...
Robo.ai, DaBoss.AI Form J.V to Launch Distributed Embodied AI Data Platform
Robo.ai Inc. and DaBoss.AI Inc. have signed a definitive joint‑venture agreement to create a distributed embodied‑intelligence data platform headquartered in the UAE. The venture will tackle data scale, acquisition cost and compliance challenges by deploying a dual‑engine methodology that blends...
Alibaba Open-Sources Zvec: An Embedded Vector Database Bringing SQLite-Like Simplicity and High-Performance On-Device RAG to Edge Applications
Alibaba Tongyi Lab unveiled Zvec, an open‑source, in‑process vector database designed for edge and on‑device retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) workloads. Marketed as the “SQLite of vector databases,” it runs as a library inside the host application, eliminating the need for external...
Arbol and Pollen Systems Partner on Parametric Product for Agricultural & Climate Challenges
Arbol and Pollen Systems, backed by Esri and Omniris, have launched a parametric insurance product that fuses AI‑driven risk models with real‑time satellite, drone and field data. The solution leverages Esri’s GIS platform to deliver location‑aware insights throughout the policy...
Mariia Miakisheva: “The First Thing that Breaks Is the Assumption that the Data Is Already Comparable”
Mariia Miakisheva highlights that multi‑rail payment data is rarely comparable out‑of‑the‑box, creating a major obstacle for real‑time liquidity visibility. She advocates building a standardized, governance‑first finance data layer that captures, maps, and reconciles every cash movement to the management P&L....
Starcloud to Launch AWS Outposts Hardware in Space, Aims to Deploy Fleet of 88,000 Satellites
Starcloud announced it will be the first to launch Amazon Web Services Outposts hardware on a satellite scheduled for October 2026. The company also filed an FCC proposal for an ambitious 88,000‑satellite constellation designed to train and run AI models...
AI Firm Multiverse Said to Hit €1.5 Billion Value With New Funds
Spanish AI software firm Multiverse Computing is negotiating a €500 million financing round. The capital raise would lift its post‑money valuation above €1.5 billion. Sources said the round is slated to close in the first half of 2026 and will introduce new...
Nebius Targets Data Center Development in Birmingham, Alabama
Nebius, a Nasdaq‑listed cloud provider spun out of Yandex, filed for an 80‑acre data‑center project called BHM01 in Birmingham, Alabama, targeting 300 MW of capacity. The development will replace the former Regions Lakeshore Operations Center after the company acquired three Oxmoor...
Similarweb Launches AI Studio: Enterprise Intelligence That Puts Expert Market Research at Every Employee’s Fingertips
Similarweb introduced AI Studio, an AI‑powered enterprise intelligence platform built on its massive digital data repository. The solution offers conversational chat, automated deep‑research reports, and AI‑generated dashboards, allowing any employee to retrieve market insights instantly without specialized training. Beta testing...
How a New Terahertz Antenna Could Unlock One-Terabit 6G Speeds
Researchers from Singapore, France, and the United States unveiled a compact terahertz antenna that leverages topological photonics. The silicon‑based chip, patterned with two sizes of triangular holes, creates a conical beam and achieves roughly 75 % spatial coverage—about 30 times better...
Matia Raises $21M to Help Enterprises Consolidate Their Data Management Operations
Matia announced a $21 million Series A round, led by Red Dot Capital, bringing its total funding above $31 million. The startup offers a unified DataOps platform on AWS that merges ETL, reverse‑ETL, observability and catalog functions into a single interface. It can...
Nebius Agrees to Buy AI Agent Search Company Tavily for $275 Million
Nebius Group NV, the cloud‑computing spin‑off from Yandex, announced a $275 million acquisition of Tavily, a specialist in AI‑agent search technology. Tavily’s software equips autonomous agents with real‑time data retrieval for tasks such as software development and financial trading. The deal...
Most Engagement Data Is Compromised and That’s a Major Security Problem
Most digital engagement metrics are being polluted by bots, synthetic traffic, and identity spoofing, turning them from reliable signals into attack surfaces. Datavault AI is addressing this by building a verification‑first platform that authenticates human actions at the point of...
Simplyblock Provides Postgres Git-Style Branching
Simplyblock has launched Vela, a self‑hostable platform that provides instant, Git‑style branching for PostgreSQL databases without copying data. The solution leverages copy‑on‑write on local NVMe storage and deep Kubernetes integration to deliver high‑performance, low‑latency environments. Vela targets AI workloads that...
Simplyblock Provides Postgres Git-Style Branching
Simplyblock unveiled Vela, a platform that delivers instant PostgreSQL branches using copy‑on‑write technology on its high‑performance block storage. The solution eliminates traditional snapshot‑restore cycles, offering developers rapid, cost‑effective cloning without data duplication. Vela is cloud‑agnostic, Kubernetes‑native, and supports NVMe/TCP and...
Former Sugar Refinery Near Caen, France, Could Become AI Data Center
A former 33‑hectare sugar refinery near Caen is slated for acquisition by Brown Fields, which plans to transform the derelict site into an AI data center. The project, estimated at €15‑€20 million, benefits from an existing 220 kV power line and a...
Ark Data Centres' Campus Extension Approved by Local Authorities in Wiltshire, UK
Ark Data Centres received conditional approval to build an 18‑meter‑tall, 27,350 sqm data centre on Westwell Roads in Corsham, Wiltshire, after an 18‑month planning saga. The new facility will be the seventh Ark campus at the Spring Park site, joining five existing...