A graph database company mined 150,000 Reddit posts to forecast plot outcomes for a TV show's final season. The technical choices it made along the way reveal why throwing unstructured data at AI and expecting magic to come out the other side is a fantasy.
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Busie's experience building a charter transportation platform from scratch on Confluent's streaming infrastructure demonstrates what becomes possible when organizations adopt data products principles without legacy constraints—offering a reference point for enterprises
Why the shift from 'system of record' to 'system of context' matters for enterprise AI success
Confluent is positioning itself as the "context layer for enterprise AI" with new capabilities that aim to solve the problem plaguing generative AI investments—lack of fresh, trustworthy data—by unifying real-time streaming, batch processing, and AI workflows into a single platform.
Confluent reported Q3 2025 subscription revenue growth of 19% to $286 million and cloud revenue growth of 24% to $161 million, with expanding margins and accelerating customer adoption metrics positioning the data streaming vendor for its annual Current event in New Orleans this week.
Ecolab scientist Dolly Batra explains how the rush to high-density data centers is also driving a costly problem in coolant degradation. More systemic monitoring and maintenance can help.
Enterprises sit at a crossroads where data privacy, governance, and innovation collide. Ramprakash Ramamoorthy of Zoho explores why the success of generative AI depends less on model size and more on how securely and intelligently proprietary data is used.
The continued growth of AI is bumping up against twin problems of electrical supply and enterprise demand. Collaboration on electrical digital twins could help widen both bottlenecks.
Does President Trump's AI offer to the UK hide potentially huge environmental costs? Evidence suggests maybe not
THG Ingenuity reduced data center power costs by 80% and eliminated its storage engineering team by deploying Pure Storage's all-flash platform across 15 global data centers, managing seven petabytes of data while improving sustainability and achieving 90% fraud reduction for e-commerce customers.
At Team ’25 Europe, Atlassian’s AI narrative is focused on the quiet architecture of trust – layering governance, citation, and identity controls beneath tools that respect how people already work.
Michael Dell and his senior exec team make the case for Dell's 41 year track record in hardware finding its time in an AI age.
SolarWinds CTO Krishna Sai explains how workload complexity and tool sprawl have left enterprise leaders unable to trace performance commitments back to their technology infrastructure - and why frameworks like AI by design may offer a path forward.
