Data Management News for the Week of August 2; Updates from Cloudera, Informatica, Snowflake & More

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

Astronomer Releases Update to Astro Platform

A core focus of the latest release is simplifying your data estate and eliminating the challenges of managing fragmented workflows. Managing dbt and Airflow separately often leads to complexity and fragmentation, which can slow down workflows and increase the chances of errors.

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ClickHouse Acquires PeerDB

PeerDB’s technology significantly reduces the time it takes to connect data in transactional databases like Postgres with analytical databases like ClickHouse, boosting developer productivity and time-to-value when building real-time data-driven applications.

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Cloudera Finds Outdated Infrastructure, More Hindering Enterprise AI Use

A key finding of the survey is that all AI efforts are ultimately tied back to trustworthy data. While 94 percent of respondents said that they trust their data, 55 percent also said they would rather get a root canal than try to access all of their company’s data.

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Devo Drops Data Orchestration and SOC Workflow Enhancements

With the launch of Devo’s new data orchestration and data analytics cloud, organizations aren’t forced to omit data sources because it’s too expensive. Devo’s SOC workflow enhancements also enable analysts to easily act on that data with AI-driven automation for precise threat detection and incident response.

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Hazelcast Introduces Vector Search

The introduction of vector search in Hazelcast Platform enables enterprises to deploy a high-performance pipeline to query structured and unstructured data. It offers the flexibility to generate vector data structures and embeddings from text plot summaries, delivering new efficiencies for data scientists to provide data insights.

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MinIO Unveils New DataPod for Exascale AI Data Infrastructure

In addition to MinIO DataPod, MinIO is announcing its recognition on the InfraRed 100, which honors 100 transformative companies in cloud infrastructure, and its receipt of an AI Breakthrough Award as the best overall AI-based analytics company. These industry honors highlight the growing impact and adoption of MinIO object storage for AI.

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Monte Carlo Launches Trusted Data for AI Advisory Council

Through a collaboration with the TDAI Advisory Council, the vendor hopes to uncover and distribute best practices and industry leadership that will lay the foundation for organizations to safely and reliably succeed in the AI-driven future.

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SingleStore Unveils New Accelerator AI Program

SingleStore’s goal for the accelerator program is to help startup communities develop cutting-edge AI technologies through the best and most responsible use of data. Eligible startups will be able to apply for SingleStore credits to help build, grow and scale their missions.

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Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog is Now Open-Source

Polaris Catalog implements Apache Iceberg’s REST catalog specification, which means it already enables interoperability with Apache Doris, Flink, Spark, Daft, DuckDB, Presto, Snowflake, Starburst, Trino, Upsolver, and more.

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Tamr Launches AI-Native Data Management Platform

Tamr’s proven data-centric AI solves the challenge of discovering, enriching, and maintaining enterprise-wide golden records at scale. As businesses increasingly rely on AI and machine learning to drive innovation, the importance of high-quality, real-time data has never been greater.

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Tray.io is Now Tray.ai

Tray.ai delivers a composable AI integration platform on which teams build quickly using AI-augmented development, infuse AI into business processes in a flexible way, and control how and when AI is applied in a safe manner.

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Weaviate Releases New Developer Workbench of Tools

The company said it was inspired to launch its own suite of tools by the vibrant community of developers that has come to rely on its open-source database to store billions of essential “vectors” for AI models.

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Workato Releases New Data Orchestration Capabilities

Workato addresses these challenges by empowering data teams to orchestrate end-to-end data pipelines, from ingestion and transformation to observability and activation, all from a single pane of glass. Workato’s Data Orchestration product unifies the entire pipeline process, ensuring data reliability, accelerating insights, and improving transparency, collaboration, and cost management.

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NEW Episode of Information Risk with David Loshin: A (Not So) Secret Identity

David Loshin explores real-world examples of data matching errors, including a case in India where algorithmic errors led to the denial of food benefits. Learn more about the challenges of maintaining data privacy while achieving accurate record linkage and the potential role of AI in improving these processes.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Informatica for the Spotlight in August: How to Build AI-Powered Data Pipelines and Put Them Into Action

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Informatica, a leader in data management and integration, to provide viewers with this unique webinar. Hear from industry experts like Siddharth Mishra and Abhilash Reddy to learn how to effortlessly prepare quality data and deliver it so it’s timely and relevant for GenAI.

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