Alex Woodie

6 days ago | bigdatawire.com | Alex Woodie

When Anthropic unveiled Model Context Protocol (MCP) last fall, it didn’t make a whole lot of headlines. Nearly six months later, the new protocol is the talk of the town as one data infrastructure vendor after another announces support for the protocol, which was designed to simplify the integration of AI models, data sources, and AI tools. The core idea behind MCP is fairly simple, according to Anthropic.

1 week ago | bigdatawire.com | Alex Woodie

Organizations adopting OpenSearch for big data search, analytics, and AI will see a 9.5x performance increase compared to a prior release of the product, the group behind the open source project say, including a 9.3x boost in the performance of vector database workloads thanks to an experimental new GPU-powered indexing mechanism. OpenSearch is an open source search and analytics engine whose creation was spearheaded by AWS and which currently is managed by the OpenSearch Software Foundation.

1 week ago | bigdatawire.com | Alex Woodie

Your organization is probably collecting more data than ever, eager to be ready for an AI-driven future. But instead of powering transformative initiatives, the data itself often becomes a bottleneck. Massive datasets can lead to spiraling costs, slower innovation, and growing compliance risks—challenges that are particularly dangerous when agility is critical. Despite heavy investments in cloud platforms and AI, many enterprises become trapped.

1 week ago | bigdatawire.com | Alex Woodie

Businesses are making big bets on generative AI this year, according to a new survey on the nascent technology from AWS. While the investments are sizable, non-trivial challenges remain that have the potential to hamstring wider GenAI adoption, the company found. GenAI rollouts are moving quickly, according to AWS’ new study, which is titled “AWS Study: Generative AI Adoption Index” and involved 3,739 IT decision makers across organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia.

1 week ago | bigdatawire.com | Alex Woodie

Zhamak Dehghani turned the world of data management on its head six years ago when she created the concept of the data mesh. We recently caught up with Dehghani on the Big Data Debrief to discuss whether the core ideas behind data mesh have changed since 2019, as well as to talk about the launch of her startup’s first product, Nextdata OS.