Data Management News for the Week of February 2; Updates from Fivetran, Hitachi Vantara, Unravel Data & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of February 2, 2024.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant big data and data management news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy big data and data management news items.

Top Data Management News for the Week Ending February 2, 2024

Datometry Partners with Yellowbrick

By supporting Yellowbrick as a destination platform, enterprises can adopt Yellowbrick considerably faster. Existing Yellowbrick customers can increase usage by consolidating workloads from Oracle or Teradata systems to Yellowbrick.

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Dynatrace Adds Data Observability Tools for Analytics & Automation

Dynatrace Data Observability enables business analytics, data science, DevOps, SRE, security, and other teams to help ensure all data in the Dynatrace platform is high quality. This complements the platform’s existing data cleansing and enrichment capabilities provided by Dynatrace OneAgent.

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Fivetran Announces New dbt Cloud Orchestration Intrgration

​​With a fully automated data pipeline, data teams no longer need to run data integration and transformations independently. Downstream data workflows are now synchronized to automatically run upon completion of fresh data load, rather than a set schedule as had previously been the case.

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GigaOm Reveals Key Criteria for Evaluating Data Lake Solutions

Data lakehouses are platforms intended to combine the flexibility of data lakes with the governance, structural optimizations, and query processing technologies of data warehouses. This combination of data lake and data warehouse technologies is intended by its proponents to be the optimal blend for facilitating and managing data analytics.

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Hitachi Expands Partnership with Cisco on Hybrid Cloud Data Management

The joint offering, Hitachi EverFlex with Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud, is unique because it integrates automation solutions and predictive analytics to give organizations a future-proof portfolio for advanced infrastructure management, cost efficiency, and operational effectiveness.

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Informatica Releases CDO Insights 2024 Report

The report, which canvassed 600 enterprise Chief Data Officers and other data decision makers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific, provides insights into generative AI readiness, key technical and organizational roadblocks to implementation and top data and data management priorities and strategies for 2024.

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Microsoft VNet Data Gateway for Fabric and Power BI is Now Available

The VNET Data Gateway is a network security offering that lets you connect your Azure and other data services to Microsoft Fabric and the Power Platform. You can run Dataflow Gen2, Power BI Semantic Models, Power Platform Dataflows, and Power BI Paginated Reports on top of a VNET Data Gateway to ensure that no traffic is exposed to public endpoints.

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Prismatic Updates Low-Code Integration Designer

The platform has received significant traction among B2B SaaS teams of all sizes across a wide variety of industries, and Prismatic users report delivering integrations up to eight times faster than previously. Some teams use code and others use low-code to build integrations in Prismatic, and the company continually invests in both experiences.

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Salesforce’s MuleSoft Publishes Annual Connectivity Benchmark Report

MuleSoft’s annual Connectivity Benchmark Report surveyed 1,050 CIOs and IT decision makers around the world to understand these challenges and how organizations can use integration, automation, and APIs to build successful AI strategies.

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Reltio Names Ansh Kanwar EVP of Technology, Product, and Strategy & Deanne Branham CPO

In their expanded roles, Kanwar will lead the global Technology, Product Management, and Engineering organization and continue to shape the company’s growth strategy, and Branham will lead Reltio’s Customer Success, Professional Services, and Customer Engineering organization, and our Customer Experience strategy.

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Rimini Street Names Gertrude Van Horn New CIO

Van Horn is an accomplished and celebrated CIO with decades of global IT leadership experience in public and private companies across diverse industries, including financial services, manufacturing, and retail. Van Horn’s extensive technology expertise includes senior roles at American Express, JP Morgan, Jo-Ann Stores, Office Depot, Haggar Clothing Company, and Victoria’s Secret.

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Snowflake Drops Native Connector for Google Analytics

Developed using the Snowflake Native App Framework, the Snowflake Connector for Google Analytics enables robust security and reliability, removing procurement hurdles and allowing marketers to operate from a robust marketing data foundation that helps them drive meaningful, personalized and cost-efficient marketing campaigns.

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Yugabyte Releases CIS Benchmark

Publishing the CIS Benchmark for YugabyteDB underscores Yugabyte’s commitment to enabling our customers to define, implement, and follow a comprehensive security program using their high-performance distributed PostgreSQL database solution.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Launches The Thought Leader Project

The Thought Leader Project is a single initiative that brings the full power of Solutions Review‘s authority, reach, and distribution to help technology vendors build brands, enhance their reputation, and ultimately, reach their target market.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Databricks and Unravel Data for Exclusive Roundtable on February 14

With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Databricks and Unravel Data to delve into the relationship between AI products and efficient, production-ready data pipelines.

The speakers will explore how organizations are leveraging data observability and FinOps to augment data teams. Hear strategies from the experts to accelerate your data pipeline deployments to support GenAI innovation.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Seiner Reveals Ten Rules to Become a Data Steward

These rules advocate for a paradigm shift from traditional, hierarchical models to a more inclusive, flexible, and organic system. This transformative approach recognizes that effective data governance is not confined to specific titles or roles but is an inherent aspect of every individual’s interaction with data.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Irina Steenbeek is Hosting a Free Masterclass on Metadata Management on February 15

This Masterclass is for you if you are a data management executive, manager, or advanced professional and need to raise the data management maturity level in your company, increase the efficiency of data management practices, or get top management and business support for (meta)data-related initiatives.

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SR Editors Cap off Data Privacy Week with Definitive Roundup of Expert Quotes

Solutions Review editors sourced this definitive roundup of expert quotes on Data Privacy Week 2024 from Insight Jam, its new community of enterprise tech experts. Their perspectives shed light on the importance of proactive measures, the role of legislation, and the individual’s part in maintaining data privacy.

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SR Editors Release Annual Roundup of Expert Data Management Predictions for 2024

For our 5th annual Insight Jam LIVE! Solutions Review editors sourced this resource guide of data management predictions for 2024 from Insight Jam, its new community of enterprise tech experts.

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For consideration in future data management news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.