Data Management News for the Week of April 5; Updates from Aerospike, CData Software, Coalesce & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of April 5, 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 April 5, 2024

Aerospike Raises $109 Million in Venture Capital Funding

The company plans to use the new funding to accelerate its innovations around AI, which are mostly focused on its graph and vector capabilities. Iyer told me that Aerospike is specifically looking at combining those two capabilities.

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Amazon DataZone Now Integrates with AWS Glue Data Quality & More

Many organizations already use AWS Glue Data Quality to define and enforce data quality rules on their data, validate data against predefined rules, track data quality metrics, and monitor data quality over time using artificial intelligence (AI). Other organizations monitor the quality of their data through third-party solutions.

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CData Software Acquires Data Virtuality

CData is the only data management vendor to bring a bi-modal integration stack to market. Now, Data Virtuality expands CData’s ability to support organizations with an enterprise-grade data virtualization platform that solves for organization-wide access to live data.

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Coalesce Secures $50 Million in Series B Funding

Coalesce ensures that quality data is primed for business intelligence and advanced analytics use cases. Its unique approach to data transformation helps data teams accelerate data pipeline development and improve data collaboration.

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DataStax Acquires Langflow

Langflow makes it 100x easier and faster for any developer—experienced or new—to build Generative AI applications using Python-based composable building blocks and pre-built components, which can be combined in numerous ways.

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Informatica Launches in Saudia Arabia

The investment includes establishing a new Point of Delivery (PoD) in Riyadh, and reflects a commitment to support local, scalable, cloud-first data management services. The move further strengthens Informatica’s presence in the Middle East, following the launch of its first regional PoD in Abu Dhabi, UAE, in 2023.

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Informatica Partners with Carahsoft on Public Sector Cloud Data Management

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Carahsoft is a privately held company with an extensive network of more than 3,000 reseller partners, system integrators, and manufacturers that offers IT solutions to the U.S. and Canadian government markets.

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Prophecy Announces New Prophecy University

Prophecy University will also be hosting workshops led by instructors to provide additional hands-on experiences starting with a workshop on Building low-code Spark data pipelines. Their goal is to offer excellent education and support to help data practitioners make the most of their Spark or Databricks platform.

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Reltio Unveils AI-Powered Customer 360 Data Product

While MDM is about mastering and having the most accurate version of all types of data, the new Reltio Customer 360 Data Product is specifically focused on providing organizations with a unified view of customers.

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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.

Friday Jam Session @ Mini Jam LIVE: Expert Panel to Discuss AI and Data Engineering: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly on April 5

Featuring an exclusive panel with Keebo CEO and Co-Founder Barzan Mozafari and Tredence Inc. Vice President of Data Engineering Arnab Sen, a one-two punch of Insight Jam Community experts Robert Eve and Philip Russom, Ph.D. discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of data engineering in the AI era with an eye on the Snowflake ecosystem both vendor leaders are a part of.

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Now On-Demand: Mini Jam LIVE Expert Panel Discuss How AI is Re-Shaping Cloud Data Management on April 4

With the Chief Data Officer role in mind, a panel of experts from Solutions Review’s Insight Jam Community discusses the state of AI in cloud data management, challenges and opportunities, AI’s impact on cloud data management strategies, and future directions – where we ask our panelists to provide their best forward-thinking advice for organizations at each stage of the innovation cycle.

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Is Data Governance a Service or an Enabler? SR Expert @ Insight Jam Nicola Askham Answers

In the realm of data management, the debate over whether data governance is primarily a service or an enabler has sparked discussions and diverse opinions. So I decided to, conduct a poll on LinkedIn, seeking insights from the Data Governance community to understand their perspective on this question.

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Using AI to Save Money on Snowflake: A Recommended Guide by Keebo

The problem is that Snowflake’s advice on “optimizing costs” is tough for many of their
customers to follow, and there should be an easier way to save money on Snowflake. In this article, Snowflake’s advice for reducing costs, and problems with Snowflake’s optimization methodology are examined.

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