Data Management News for the Week of December 13; Updates from Acceldata, Airbyte, Cloudera & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of December 13, 2024 – special 6th annual Insight Jam LIVE!: Strategies for AI Impact edition.

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.

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Top Data Management News for the Week Ending December 13, 2024

Acceldata Adds AI Reconciliation to Data Observability Offering

Acceldata’s platform provides insights into data quality, pipeline performance and infrastructure efficiency to support more reliable and efficient data operations. Functions include data discovery, monitoring, processing optimization and quality management.

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Aerospike Drops the Latest Version of Vector Search

Aerospike’s underlying storage system also provides a range of configurations to meet customers’ needs in real time, including in-memory for small indexes or hybrid memory for vast indexes that reduces costs significantly. This unique storage flexibility eliminates data duplication across systems, management, compliance and other complexities.

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Airbyte Adds Connectors for Oracle Databases and Workday

The connectors are built and maintained by Airbyte to provide enhanced capabilities and support for critical enterprise systems, making it possible to move data in minutes to data warehouses, lakes, or (vector) databases. The Oracle connector also supports Change Data Capture (CDC) – a process that identifies and tracks changes to a database and delivers only those changes, for greater efficiency and significant time savings.

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Algolia Releases New Data Transformations Tool

Algolia Data Transformations is purpose-built for search specialists and developers tasked with managing data pipelines. With a library of pre-built helper functions that work as step-by-step instructions to take advantage of the flexibility to create custom transformations. This tool simplifies even the most complex data preparation tasks, optimizing data for more precise search outcomes and seamless discovery experiences.

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Ataccama Releases Data Trust Report 2025

Mike McKee, Chief Executive Officer, Ataccama, said, “Do not ignore the critical role your data plays in delivering on the promise of AI. Businesses that don’t leverage AI with data they can trust will fail. The winners have already established data trust to support AI-powered initiatives to improve customer experience, product innovation, and sales and marketing performance.”

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Cloudera Announces RAG Studio Preview

Dataiku Stories bridges the gap between static slide presentations, which are easy to create and share but often showcase outdated or untrusted data, and enterprise dashboards, which can be complex to build and maintain but access governed data. Now, with simple prompts, users of Dataiku Stories can discover and share powerful decision-making insights based on the latest, most trusted company information without sacrificing speed or accuracy – all within the Dataiku Universal AI Platform.

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Cognizant Partners with Zscaler

Under the expanded partnership, Cognizant and Zscaler will offer coordinated solutions and services designed to reduce overall security complexity, maximize security posture, and deliver comprehensive, cost-effective outcomes rapidly and at scale.

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Confluent Announces New Platform for Apache Flink

Apache Flink has emerged as the de facto stream processing solution for enterprises with its incredible performance, robust state management, and the flexibility to handle complex, real-time analytics at scale. However, teams often struggle to self-manage Flink because it requires configuring, operating, scaling, and securing a complex distributed system. For organizations with on-premises workloads, there’s a need for a solution that provides the flexibility and benefits of cloud-native technologies within private infrastructures.

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EDB Enhances Postgres AI

The EDB Postgres AI platform’s hybrid infrastructure allows organizations to modernize data strategies, control costs, and meet the demands of traditional and AI-driven workloads alike. With simplified database deployment, management, observability, and automation, EDB provides a comprehensive solution purpose-built for transactional, analytical, and AI applications anywhere, any environment.

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Graphiant Unveils New Data Assurance Service

The company identifies two primary drivers necessitating data assurance. First, the amount of data being generated at the network edges is increasing, particularly due to AI technologies. Additionally, businesses are increasingly interconnected with partner networks, and the workforce is becoming more distributed.

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Hitachi Vantara Finds Data Quality & Management Major Hurdles to AI Success

The company commissioned the global survey of 1,200 C-level executives and IT decision-makers across 15 countries, including 250 from the United States and Canada. The survey found that most businesses were focused on security risks at the expense of data quality, sustainability and infrastructure management.

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NetApp Releases 2024 Data Complexity Report

Two-thirds of companies worldwide report that their data is either fully or mostly optimized for AI—meaning their data is accessible, accurate, and well-documented for AI-use cases. However, despite this progress, 2025 will still demand investment in AI and data management.

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Precisely Data Integration is Now Available on Google Cloud

With Precisely data replication available on Google Cloud Marketplace, Google Cloud users enjoy a more efficient purchasing process, utilizing Google Cloud committed spend to gain access to Precisely, simplifying the procurement process. The ability to streamline access to solutions is critical as organizations strive to break down data silos and improve access to data from legacy systems to the cloud.

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New Quest Software Updates Aimed to Hasten PostgreSQL Adoption

With the new updates, customers can streamline migrations to PostgreSQL and then optimize its performance and availability. Combined, the two updates help enterprises embrace modern database confidentiality while minimizing risk and costs.

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SkySQL Raises Seed Funding for Database Conversational AI

SkySQL is now introducing a duo of AI products, including something it’s calling “semantic agents” that serve insights on operational data. So, SkySQL customers can effectively build and embed their own AI agents into their apps, allowing their users to ask natural language questions of their data stored in SkySQL.

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Telmai Enhances AI Data Quality Platform

Telmai introduces automation for detecting and preventing sensitive data exposure in AI workloads, addressing a critical need for enterprises operating in regulated environments. Through AI-powered pattern recognition, organizations can automatically identify and protect PII data, such as credit card numbers and social security details, across their AI training datasets, ensuring compliance while accelerating development cycles.

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TetraScience Partners with Snowflake

By combining TetraScience’s expertise in scientific data and workflows with the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, organizations gain seamless access to scientific data and the agility to develop advanced analytics and AI-driven use cases. Scientific teams can collaborate on data effortlessly across groups and geographical boundaries, leveraging the security and privacy safeguards of Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.

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The 6th annual Insight Jam LIVE! opened with a compelling focus on Data Management and Analytics, laying the groundwork for effective AI strategies. This day features an exceptional lineup of thought leaders and experts sharing actionable insights through keynotes and panels designed to address the most pressing challenges and opportunities in the data-driven enterprise.

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Final Day of the 6th Annual Insight Jam LIVE!: Strategies for AI Impact, December 10-13

The 6th Annual Insight Jam LIVE! is the original celebration of enterprise tech and a 4-day virtual event dedicated to equipping builders, implementers, and experts with actionable strategies for maximizing AI’s impact across the enterprise.

Centered on the theme Strategies for AI Impact, the event features more than 25 Expert Keynotes and Roundtable panels with participation from over 100 executives and thought leaders.

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Solutions Review Editors Release Annual Curation of Data Management Predictions by Network of Experts

As enterprises gear up for 2025, the importance of effective data management has never been more critical. With the exponential growth of data, the increasing complexity of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and the expanding role of artificial intelligence, organizations face a pivotal moment in managing their most valuable asset.

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December 19: Solutions Review is Set to Host Neudesic, Microsoft, Databricks & Solutions Review Thought Leader Wayne Eckerson for an Exclusive Roundtable on Scaling Your AI with an Intelligent Data Platform

With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Neudesic, Microsoft, Databricks, and Eckerson Group to hear from experts at Databricks, Microsoft, and Neudesic as they share practical learnings and best practices to ensure successful AI outcomes. 

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Friday Jam On-Demand Featuring Solutions Review Thought Leader Robert Eve: To Succeed in 2025, Data Engineers Need to Become More Lazy!

When asked how he addresses difficult and complex challenges, Microsoft founder Bill Gates replied, “I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” Gates’ advice seems counterintuitive regarding the difficult and complex challenges data engineers will face in 2025. That is until you consider recent advancements in AI-enabled data engineering tools.

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NEW by Solutions Review Thought Leader Nicola Askham: How the Grinch (Didn’t) Steal Data Governance This Christmas

The Grinch wasn’t your typical villain. In fact, most companies have one – a challenging stakeholder who actively resists change and works to derail Data Governance initiatives. Instead of stealing gifts, this Grinch thrived on creating obstacles, sowing doubt, and attempting to prove that the organization had never needed Data Governance before and certainly didn’t need it now.

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