Measuring Decision Confidence in Business Intelligence and Analytics

Your Dashboards Don’t Have a Data Problem. They Have a Trust Problem. Why the most valuable analytics KPI isn’t dashboard adoption—it’s Decision Confidence. Every organization wants to be data-driven. The playbook usually looks the same: collect more data, build more dashboards, define more KPIs, and measure report usage. It makes perfect sense on paper: when … Read more

Governed reports with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Amazon Quick Desktop brings governed, AI-assisted reporting to the files your team already manages on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP), cutting weekly report preparation from hours to minutes. Today, producing those reports takes hours of manual effort each week. Teams re-read the same documents, reformat metrics, and copy summaries into Slack. Leaders … Read more

Benchmarking RocksDB’s Three Amplification Factors

If you’ve read anything about RocksDB, LevelDB, Cassandra, or any other LSM-tree database, you’ve met the three amplification factors: Space amplification — bytes on disk ÷ bytes of live data Read amplification — I/O operations per logical read Write amplification — bytes written to disk ÷ bytes your application handed over They’re always presented the same way: three … Read more

Why Enterprise AI Pilots Keep Failing

MIT researchers looked at corporate AI pilots and found that 95 percent fail to deliver measurable results — compared to a 25 percent failure rate for ordinary IT projects. [ 1 ] BCG found that 74 percent of companies see no value at all from their AI spending. [ 2 ] S&P Global watched the … Read more

Ethereum’s Next Challenge Is Connecting Public Infrastructure to the Real Economy

Promises, damn promises, and leverage The blockchain industry was founded on a handful of ambitious promises: censorship resistance, ownership, independence, and open access. Someone born when the Bitcoin whitepaper was published would be in high school today. Looking back after nearly two decades, it’s worth asking a difficult question: have we actually delivered on those … Read more

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition

OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the “best of both worlds” with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems … Read more