Data Management News for the Week of April 19; Updates from Altair, Cribl, Rivos & More
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of April 19, 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 19, 2024
Altair Acquires Cambridge Semantics
Cambridge Semantics’ graph-powered data fabric technology accelerates the creation of comprehensive enterprise knowledge graphs, integrating the complex web of structured and unstructured enterprise data together into a single, simplified view.
Anvilogic Raises $45 Million for Security Data Lakes
The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from existing investors. Anvilogic plans to use the funding to expand its generative AI features and scale up its go-to-market efforts, with an eye on becoming a major player in the competitive Silicon Valley cybersecurity landscape.
Confluent Unveils Accelerate with Confluent Program
Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink enables users to build streaming data pipelines and Confluent integrates with leading vector database vendors to simplify and accelerate the development of critical generative AI initiatives. Confluent allows customers to experience Kafka and Flink as a unified, enterprise-grade platform to connect and process data in real time, wherever it is needed.
Cribl Announces the Launch of Cribl Lake
Cribl Lake’s unified management layer allows organizations to leverage low-cost object storage, either Cribl-managed or customer-owned, and automate provisioning, unify security and retention policy, and use open formats to eliminate vendor lock-in.
DataStax Announces Vercel & Astra DB Integration
Now Vercel developers can create Astra DB accounts and provision databases right from within the Vercel experience. Once the database is created and the Vercel project is selected, all of the necessary API keys are copied over to the project and stored securely in the project’s environment variables.
Hazelcast Updates Data Processing Platform for AI Workloads
The core architecture of the Hazelcast platform combines a fast data store with stream processing capabilities that are used for data analytics, business intelligence and increasingly for machine learning(ML) and AI workloads.
Immuta Launchess Domains Policy Enforcement Feature
Centralizing data access decisions across organizations often leads to bottlenecks, preventing timely policy authoring, editing, and access to data. With Domains, data owners define data controls with both broad reach and specific domain controls. This is done by mirroring structures such as business units, geographic regions, or functions.
Microsoft Offers its Vision of the Open Data Lake Ecosystem
With the maturation of cloud-native big data platforms and the exciting revolution in generative AI, the potential for data-driven decisions and operational optimizations has never been greater, raising the urgency of solving the longstanding problem of how to enable organizations to bring together estate-wide data for analytics.
Neon.tech Makes Serverless Postgres Platform Globally Available
The platform’s serverless capabilities enable developer teams to work more efficiently by sharing the same schema and data through branching, while the scale-to-zero feature ensures cost-effectiveness by allowing individual developers to run separate databases without incurring high costs.
Privacera Enhances AI Governance Solution
PAIG allows organizations to securely innovate with GenAI technologies by securing the entire AI application lifecycle, from discovering and securing sensitive fine-tuning data, RAG, and user interactions feeding into AI-powered models to model outputs and continuous monitoring of AI governance through comprehensive audit trails.
Redgate Launches Enterprise Version of Database Monitor
Redgate Monitor Enterprise offers the most comprehensive and advanced capabilities for monitoring large, complex estates, optimizing performance, and ensuring security, compliance and high availability with a single, all-in-one tool.
Rivos Raises $250 Million for Data Analytics & Gen AI
The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from existing investors. Anvilogic plans to use the funding to expand its generative AI features and scale up its go-to-market efforts, with an eye on becoming a major player in the competitive Silicon Valley cybersecurity landscape.
SAS Injects GenAI Into Viya Data Platform
Throughout 2024, SAS will continue delivering innovation by broadening its trustworthy GenAI footprint with the introduction of its own synthetic data generator – SAS Data Maker – and by offering industry-specific GenAI assistants.
Expert Insights Section
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Solutions Review Set to Host Databricks & ZoomInfo for Exclusive Roundtable May 29
With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Databricks and ZoomInfo to cover why bad data is the problem, how Databricks and ZoomInfo help companies build a unified data foundation that fixes the bad data problem, and how this foundation can be leveraged to easily scale and use data + AI for GenAI.
Jam Session Now On-Demand: AI and Data Engineering: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In our inaugural Jam Session, host Bob Eve leads a vibrant discussion about the crossroads of artificial intelligence and data engineering. He is joined by a panel of expert guests like former Gartner analyst Philip Russom, Keebo CEO Barzan Mozafari, and Tredence VP of Data Engineering Arnab Sen.
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Insight Jam Panel of Experts Navigate Ethics in AI
They highlight regional differences in ethical considerations, the need for businesses to take ethics seriously, and the importance of cross-functional teams and governance frameworks. The conversation emphasizes the necessity of addressing ethical gaps in AI systems and the cultural shift required to integrate ethics into core business practices.
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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Philip Russom, Ph.D. Offers a Sneak Peek at Informatica World 2024
They highlight regional differences in ethical considerations, the need for businesses to take ethics seriously, and the importance of cross-functional teams and governance frameworks. The conversation emphasizes the necessity of addressing ethical gaps in AI systems and the cultural shift required to integrate ethics into core business practices.
New Episode of Information Risk with David Loshin: Did I Deny My Insurance Claim?
The quality of data is never more important than when people’s well being is on the line. If you’ve had a claim denied or have ever just used health insurance, you’ll want to check out this deep dive into the inner workings of the insurance system.
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