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Wales Online
2 days ago
- Business
- Wales Online
Welsh market named one of the best in the UK
Welsh market named one of the best in the UK A farmers' market in Cardiff, a farm in the Vale of Glamorgan and a cheese company in Ceredigion are flying the Welsh flag as this year's finalists for the BOOM awards Riverside Farmers Market began in 1998 and has since grown from strength to strength (Image: Jen Abell ) Three Welsh businesses have been named among the best in the UK for organic produce. Cardiff Farmers Market, the Slade Farm Organics farm in the Vale of Glamorgan and Caws Teifi in Ceredigion are flying the Welsh flag as this year's finalists for the BOOM awards, which stands for 'Best of Organic Market'. The awards are organised by Soil Association and are the only organic awards in the UK. They aim to celebrate excellence in organic produce, as well as recognise quality and success in the organic sector. From superstar gigs to cosy pubs, find out What's On in Wales by signing up to our newsletter here . Cardiff Farmers Market in Cardiff and Slade Farm Organics in the Vale of Glamorgan have been shortlisted in the same category - 'Organic in Communities', alongside horticulture workshop organisation Northern Lily in Failsworth, Greater Manchester. Meanwhile, Caws Teifi which is based in Llandysul has been confirmed as a finalist to the 'Milk, Cream and Butter' category with their raw organic salted butter, and in the 'Cheese' category with its organic halloumi. Cardiff Farmers' Market began with their first market in Riverside in 1998. Since then, their markets have grown with the Riverside market still popular as ever and can be found every Sunday morning opposite the Principality Stadium, while the Roath market opens every Saturday morning at the Mackintosh Sports Club, and the Rhiwbina market open every Friday morning at Ye olde Butcher's Arms. Slade Farm Organic is based in St Brides Major in the Vale of Glamorgan. Visitors can enjoy their farm shop, which sells organic vegetable bags, organic meat boxes and much more, and even a farm visit, which can including for farm walks and lambing events. Caws Teifi is a business based on a family farm in Llandysul, Ceredigion. In 1981, its co-founders, John, Patrice and Paula moved from their native of Holland to Wales and had aspirations of setting up a centre for learning organic farming and self-sufficiency. According to its website, they are the longest established artisan cheesemaker in Wales, having started creating the produce in 1982. The winners of the BOOM awards will be revealed in July as part of a special ceremony in Bristol. Article continues below After finding out they had become finalists in the BOOM awards' shortlist, Carol Adams, the general manager of Cardiff Farmers Market said: "We're absolutely thrilled to be named a finalist. "This reflects the dedication of our local growers, market team, and partners working together to make organic food more accessible for people across Cardiff."
Business News Wales
2 days ago
- Business
- Business News Wales
Cardiff's Farmers Markets Shortlisted for UK's Organic Market
Cardiff's Farmers Markets Shortlisted for UK's Organic Market Cardiff Farmers Markets are finalists at the BOOM (Best of Organic Market) Awards 2025 – the only organic awards in the UK, celebrating excellence in organic and recognising quality and success in the organic sector. With their original Riverside Market launching in 1998, Cardiff Farmers Markets have grown to become some of the best-known farmers' markets in the U.K. They are widely recognised as key food attractions in the Welsh capital for local residents and visitors alike, with the success of the original Riverside Market enabling them to branch out into a weekly Saturday market in Roath, and a weekly Friday market in Rhiwbina. Now up against the best that the organic market has to offer, the markets faced a rigorous judging process by a professional panel of industry experts. The BOOM Awards, run by leading organic certifier Soil Association Certification in partnership with headline sponsor Ocado, honour the brands, organisations and people behind the UK's organic industry. 'We're absolutely thrilled to be named a finalist,' said Carol Adams, General Manager of Cardiff Farmers Markets. 'This reflects the dedication of our local growers, market team, and partners working together to make organic food more accessible for people across Cardiff.' Over the last year, as part of the UK-wide Bridging the Gap scheme, Cardiff Farmers Markets launched The Planet Card – a collaboration between Cardiff Farmers Markets, Food Cardiff, local organic growers, and community members. Bridging the Gap is coordinated by the food and farming charity Sustain, which is testing scalable solutions to food inequality. The Planet Card holds a value of up to £11 per week – enabling holders to switch their normal weekly shop for fruit and vegetables to organically produced versions, without being left out of pocket. Shoppers are able to use the card at a choice of organic fruit and vegetable stalls at the Roath or Riverside markets, every weekend. The initiative is helping to ensure that high-quality, sustainable and organic fruit & veg is within reach for more people, and is contributing to a fairer, more resilient local food system in Cardiff. Cardiff University is also supporting the project through research and evaluation, to better understand its impact and contribute to policy change. Soil Association Certification Commercial and Marketing Director, Georgia Phillips said: 'Demand is growing for organic as more people are looking for products that are better for them and the environment, so we are delighted to see Cardiff Farmers Markets named as a finalist.' The finalists are being announced at a time when the UK's organic market has shown exceptional growth (significantly outperforming non-organic), growing 7.3% in 2024. Total sales of £3.7bn are double what they were just 10 years ago (2014 – £1.86bn), according to Soil Association Certification's 2025 Organic Market Report. The BOOM Award winners will be announced at the BOOM Awards ceremony on Thursday, 10th July 2025 at Paintworks, Bristol (home of the Soil Association). You can view the full list of BOOM Awards finalists at:
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Datadog AI Research Lab Launches First-Ever Observability Foundation Model
Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) unveiled on May 21 the first releases from its newly established Datadog AI Research division. The company introduced an open-source foundation model called Toto and an observability benchmark named BOOM. This launch coincides with the company's advancement toward FedRAMP High authorization to serve mission-critical federal workloads. A closeup of a laboratory technician monitoring a computer for the Cloudbreak platform. Toto is the first open-source foundation model designed explicitly for observability. It is trained exclusively on Datadog's internal telemetry metrics. The model achieves 'state-of-the-art performance' compared to existing time series foundation models (TSFM), enabling instant anomaly detection and capacity planning without per-series tuning. This capability becomes critical when monitoring billions of ephemeral time series that characterize modern cloud environments. Alongside Toto, Datadog introduced BOOM, the largest public benchmark for observability metrics. It provides 350 million observations across 2,807 real-world multivariate series. The benchmark captures the unique challenges of production telemetry, including scale, sparsity, spikes, and cold-start issues. The AI research initiative supports the company's broader expansion into government markets. Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) announced it has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High authorization. This authorization allows the company to serve federal agencies with stringent security requirements. Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) is a cloud monitoring and security company. It provides observability and analytics for IT infrastructure, applications, and security. Its platform includes infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, cloud security, and incident management. While we acknowledge the potential of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than DDOG and that has 100x upside potential, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock. READ NEXT: 20 Best AI Stocks To Buy Now and 30 Best Stocks to Buy Now According to Billionaires. Disclosure: None.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Datadog AI Research Lab Launches First-Ever Observability Foundation Model
Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) unveiled on May 21 the first releases from its newly established Datadog AI Research division. The company introduced an open-source foundation model called Toto and an observability benchmark named BOOM. This launch coincides with the company's advancement toward FedRAMP High authorization to serve mission-critical federal workloads. A closeup of a laboratory technician monitoring a computer for the Cloudbreak platform. Toto is the first open-source foundation model designed explicitly for observability. It is trained exclusively on Datadog's internal telemetry metrics. The model achieves 'state-of-the-art performance' compared to existing time series foundation models (TSFM), enabling instant anomaly detection and capacity planning without per-series tuning. This capability becomes critical when monitoring billions of ephemeral time series that characterize modern cloud environments. Alongside Toto, Datadog introduced BOOM, the largest public benchmark for observability metrics. It provides 350 million observations across 2,807 real-world multivariate series. The benchmark captures the unique challenges of production telemetry, including scale, sparsity, spikes, and cold-start issues. The AI research initiative supports the company's broader expansion into government markets. Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) announced it has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High authorization. This authorization allows the company to serve federal agencies with stringent security requirements. Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) is a cloud monitoring and security company. It provides observability and analytics for IT infrastructure, applications, and security. Its platform includes infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, cloud security, and incident management. While we acknowledge the potential of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than DDOG and that has 100x upside potential, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock. READ NEXT: 20 Best AI Stocks To Buy Now and 30 Best Stocks to Buy Now According to Billionaires. Disclosure: None. Sign in to access your portfolio
Scoop
22-05-2025
- Business
- Scoop
Datadog AI Research Launches New Open-Weights AI Foundation Model And Observability Benchmark
Press Release – Datadog The initial releases from Datadog AI Research are Toto and BOOM. Toto is the first open-source foundation model focused on observability. Time series foundation models (TSFMs) are to time series what LLMs are to language. Toto—an open-weights, zero-shot, time series foundation model—and BOOM, the largest public benchmark of observability metrics, are the first launches from Datadog AI Research Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDOG), the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, today unveiled the first two launches from Datadog AI Research, which is tackling cutting-edge research challenges that are firmly rooted in real-world problems within cloud observability and security. Datadog AI Research is actively contributing to the broader research community by publishing findings and open-sourcing model artifacts. The initial releases from Datadog AI Research are Toto and BOOM. Toto is the first open-source foundation model focused on observability. Time series foundation models (TSFMs) are to time series what LLMs are to language. A type of AI model trained on massive datasets that can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks, foundation models learn general patterns and can be fine-tuned for various applications. Toto is an open-weights model that is trained with observability data sourced exclusively from Datadog's own internal telemetry metrics, which achieves state-of-the-art performance by a wide margin compared to all other existing TSFMs. Its zero-shot forecasting will enable instant anomaly detection and capacity planning with no per-series tuning, which is critical when monitoring billions of ephemeral time series. While existing TSFMs struggle with telemetry data, Toto heightens performance—not only for observability data but for time series forecasting more broadly—and is freely available. BOOM introduces a time series benchmark that focuses specifically on observability metrics, which contain their own challenging and unique characteristics compared to other typical time series. It instantly becomes the largest public benchmark of observability metrics, providing 350 million observations across 2,807 real-world multivariate series to capture the scale, sparsity, spikes and cold-start issues unique to production telemetry. BOOM is an actively maintained resource for the community and will allow researchers to advance their forecasting models. 'Today marks the launch of our first open-source foundation model and we expect to continuously release AI projects through Datadog AI Research,' said Ameet Talwalkar, Chief Scientist at Datadog. 'The lab offers an exciting opportunity to develop research ideas and build prototypes that will contribute to the community. We will also collaborate with applied AI teams to build tools that will solve customer problems and transform how engineers work.' Collaboration between Datadog AI Research and Datadog's product and engineering teams will help translate research advances, like Toto and BOOM, into tangible benefits for Datadog customers. Toto and BOOM are immediately downloadable under a permissive license and Datadog invites the research and the OSS communities to push observability forecasting forward with these open-source projects. To learn more about Datadog AI Research, please visit: About Datadog Datadog is the observability and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, user experience monitoring, cloud security and many other capabilities to provide unified, real-time observability and security for our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organisations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics. Forward-Looking Statements This press release may include certain 'forward-looking statements' within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended including statements on the benefits of new products and features. These forward-looking statements reflect our current views about our plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects, which are based on the information currently available to us and on assumptions we have made. Actual results may differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements and are subject to a variety of assumptions, uncertainties, risks and factors that are beyond our control, including those risks detailed under the caption 'Risk Factors' and elsewhere in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including the Quarterly Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 2025, as well as future filings and reports by us. Except as required by law, we undertake no duty or obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events, changes in expectations or otherwise.
