Data Management News for the Week of April 12; Updates from Collibra, Dremio, Informatica & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of April 12, 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 12, 2024

Cognni Releases Data At-Rest Discovery and Classification

Data At-Rest Discovery and Classification is a zero-effort solution that leverages Cognni’s proprietary AI technology to autonomously scan, map, and classify data stored in databases, files, and cloud services.

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Collibra Releases New AI Governance Tool

Specifically designed for today’s data leaders, AI and risk teams, Collibra AI Governance provides full visibility and control, while ensuring the use of reliable data, across any tool, for every AI use case. Collibra also announced Collibra AI, a set of new generative AI features, which enables organizations to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to automate data quality and data governance functions.

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DataStax Expands Google Cloud Partnership

DataStax Astra DB integrations with Vertex AI Extensions and Vertex AI Search, as well as support for Vertex AI in RAGStack, provides JavaScript, Python, C#, and any other full stack developers to leverage their data seamlessly with ease-of-use into compelling generative AI and RAG applications, getting the most out of the Google Cloud AI ecosystem.

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Denodo and Google Partner on Data Virtualization and Gen AI

Powered by data virtualization, the Denodo Platform will work with Google Cloud to empower joint customers to drive innovative solutions by combining advanced logical data management capabilities with cutting-edge generative AI services while providing access to state-of-the-art large language models (LLM).

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Dremio Unveils New Ingestion Automation & Optimization

Apache Iceberg is gaining momentum as the standard table format for a new generation of data lakehouses, thanks to its support for ACID transactions and other features that bolster data correctness and usability in busy data analytics environments.

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HighByte Drops New Industrial DataOps Solution

These capabilities make source data significantly more accessible and easier to engineer. Advanced connection capabilities were also added to deliver usable data to target systems, including AWS IoT SiteWise buffered ingestion and new interoperability with Google BigQuery.

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Informatica Extends Partnership with Google Cloud

The MDM Extension for BigQuery can reduce the time to onboard high-quality customer master data—from weeks to minutes—enabling customers to rapidly develop and deploy their customer data platform and generative AI applications on Google Cloud to drive improved marketing strategies, accurate forecasting and deeper customer insights.

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Jetic Unveils Customized Integration Blocks

Jetlets can be built from scratch or by leveraging existing blocks within Jetic’s iPaaS editor, Jetic Studio. Companies can build an in-house marketplace of reusable Jetlets – made of low-level code – that enable citizen integrators to implement the most complex scenarios without worrying about the underlying complexity.

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MongoDB Extends Partnership with Google Cloud

The companies are also collaborating on new industry solutions for retail and manufacturing, with deeper product integrations and solutions to provide a seamless development environment for creating engaging shopping experiences and data-driven applications for smart factories.

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Neo4j Launches New GraphRAG Capabilities with Google Cloud

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is the technique by which LLMs access external datasets. Combining knowledge graphs with RAG, known as GraphRAG, ensures that GenAI outcomes are accurate, explainable, and transparent, including with real-time data.

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PeerDB Secures $3.6 Million in Seed Funding

PeerDB will use the funds to continue building its engineering team, propelling its go-to-market and client acquisition initiatives and supporting its growth. PeerDB revenue is doubling every two months.

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Snowflake Announces Public Preview of Snowflake Copilot

Copilot acts as an intelligent assistant that understands the context of your data, resulting in more accurate and relevant SQL code suggestions (based on internal testing) that can boost your productivity.

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SQream Launches In-Database Model Training

This expanded offering allows users to enjoy the numerous benefits of in-database model training, including minimized time to insight, faster ingestion, and preparation of large-scale datasets, enhanced model accuracy and precision—and ultimately—more valuable insights.

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Starburst Releases New, Managed Iceberg Service

Apache Iceberg is gaining momentum as the standard table format for a new generation of data lakehouses, thanks to its support for ACID transactions and other features that bolster data correctness and usability in busy data analytics environments.

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Teradata and Anaconda Announce Strategic Integration

This integration empowers enterprise users to work with Anaconda, provider of the world’s most popular platform for AI/ML and data science, and Teradata, the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI, to deliver breakthroughs today and in the future.

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Unravel Data Secures Google Cloud Ready Designation

With the Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery designation, BigQuery users have validation that Unravel has been proven through a rigorous validation process to work optimally with BigQuery, securely and at scale.

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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.

Insight Jam Panel of Experts Offer AI Strategies for Data Management Professionals

A lot of data professionals are stuck with 5-10 year old data management thinking. Our panel discusses some of the latest approaches to and important facets of data management , like the importance of impact measurement and how to avoid getting bogged down in perfectionism.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Susan Walsh Reveals Why it’s Important to Maintain Your Data

Updates and changes mean that before you know it, your once neat & tidy data sets will contain unclassified data, data that’s been incorrectly classified by your team or AI, typos, and cut & paste errors to name but a few.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Mark Diamond Offers Insight on Creating an AI Governance Program

While AI promises tremendous innovation and productivity gains, the emerging compliance challenges and risks can feel overwhelming: Seemingly every week, new AI regulations are announced, the copyright and IP issues are only beginning to be addressed by the court.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Seiner: Data Governance is Not Dead

Were the titles of the articles just “click bait” or do they have some merit? While the articles were interesting reads and made some relevant points, they also appeared to shy away from one important concept.

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