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Public Interest Tech Research Vs. Corporate Studies

IT vendors tell us that their “independent” research studies show how user trends are being shaped, but are public studies more valuable?

ByAdrian Bridgwater,

Senior Contributor

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Semi Sales And Capital Spending Higher Driving Hot Chips Interest

Semi sales & capital spending is up from last year. Continuing this trend may depend upon networking and interconnect technologies from the 2025 Hot Chips Conference.

ByThomas Coughlin,

Contributor

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Credit Card Companies Bank On Developers For Agentic Acceptance

As credit card companies start to roll out agentic AI services, a developer-first approach to embedding these mechanics is the prudent way forward.

ByAdrian Bridgwater,

Senior Contributor

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UCIe, Marvell Memory And Rapidus 2nm Fab At The Hot Chips Conference

Hot Chips showed UCIe chiplet interconnects, Marvell’s custom SRAM and HBM developments and Rapidus details on their 2nm semiconductor fab.

ByThomas Coughlin,

Contributor

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How To Avoid Data Lake Crocodiles

Data lakes are a way for organizations to store lots of (mostly) unstructured information, but their centralized mass brings an additional responsibility for control.

ByAdrian Bridgwater,

Senior Contributor

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A Prosocial AI Index: Measuring What Matters For People And Planet

The need for a prosocial AI index is urgent. AI systems increasingly cause positive and irreversibly harmful outcomes. We need a standard to assess these capabilities. 

ByCornelia C. Walther,

Contributor

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Zeitenwende Is Here: NATO To Reach 2% Goal

New data released by NATO Thursday exemplifies how profoundly the realities of foreign relations have changed over the course of the past three years.

ByKatharina Buchholz,

Contributor

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How Would An AI Recession Impact AI Commercialization?

An AI recession will lead to far more focused use of AI in ways that will enhance value for businesses and increase the effectiveness of employees. 

ByThomas Coughlin,

Contributor

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When Financial Software Doesn’t Pay

One would hope that financial software would be the most cost-efficient element of IT, it’s often a case of the pennies not looking after the pounds quite as they should.

ByAdrian Bridgwater,

Senior Contributor

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OpenSearch Looks To Deeper Hybrid Analytics

OpenSearch open source search and analytics technology is known for its capabilities in website search, but also in real-time application monitoring and log analytics. 

ByAdrian Bridgwater,

Senior Contributor

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Small Is Beautiful, Nano Software Updates Are A Big Deal

Nano updates are precise, minimalistic software changes that reduce risk, but also maintain agility and may help reduce technical debt.

ByAdrian Bridgwater,

Senior Contributor

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What Is Your Health Record Worth? The Unseen Economics Behind Your Medical Data

Real world data that harnesses deidentified health records is a multi-billion-dollar industry. But what is the value of a medical record?

BySeth Joseph,

Contributor

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Cold Data At FMS And Magnetic Tape Data Recovery

The 2025 FMS Conference included sessions and exhibitors working on colder storage. Channel Science developed a magnetic tape reader for recovering data from old tapes.

ByThomas Coughlin,

Contributor

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Ataccama Eyes Data Quality Cracks In AI Infrastructure Desert

Ataccama is a data quality company powered by data lineage, governance and observability functions that seeks to underpin AI information infrastructure.

ByAdrian Bridgwater,

Senior Contributor

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High-Capacity SSDs Will Enable AI Workloads But Also Drive HDD Demand

FMS 2025 shows growth of high-capacity SSDs, up to 1PB as well as high-capacity HDDs to support the growth of AI workflows.

ByThomas Coughlin,

Contributor

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Why Politicizing Economic Data Is Bad For Business

Political interference in economic data threatens the business foundation that companies depend on for planning, forecasting, and investment decisions.

ByBrent Dykes,

Contributor

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U.S. Tariff Rate Soars To Levels Last Seen In The 1940s

The average U.S. tariff rate is estimated to rise to 11.4% in 2025 in the light of much of the Trump administration’s reciprocal tariffs reinstated since this week.

ByKatharina Buchholz,

Contributor

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Sandisk And SK Hynix Agreement Enables Fast NAND Flash To DRAM In HBM Packages

Sandisk and SK hynix announced that they would work together to create standards for high bandwidth NAND flash, HBF modules.

ByThomas Coughlin,

Contributor

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C2Q 2025 HDD Industry Growth Projected For 2025

HDD unit shipments, exabyte shipments and revenue were up signicantly in C1Q 2025 versus C1Q 2025.  HDD companies projected 2025 industry growth.

ByThomas Coughlin,

Contributor

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The Inference Difference: Why Clunky Data Engineering Unhinges AI

Firms can’t benefit from agentic AI without the inference process being able to draw on fluid, well-governed and permissioned data supply.

ByAdrian Bridgwater,

Senior Contributor