Data Management News for the Week of December 8; Updates from Dremio, Informatica, Monte Carlo & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of December 8, 2023.
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 December 8, 2023
Alation Release New State of Data Culture Research
The Alation report highlights the importance of developing a data culture to drive business success. It outlines four key pillars that organizations must develop to mature their data culture: data leadership, data search and discovery, data literacy, and data governance.
Astronomer Adds New Enterprise Support & Security Features
Airflow integrates with major data platforms and cloud provider systems including Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud. LaNeve noted that while the open-source project is fairly straightforward to use for a single team, it becomes increasingly complex to manage at an enterprise scale.
Ataccama Announces the Launch & Availability of New ONE AI Platform
ONE AI is the AI engine that powers all automation across the extensive capabilities of the Ataccama ONE platform. It is built for CDOs and Heads of Data Quality, Master Data Management, and Data Governance who are at the forefront of embracing AI tech for data management, and who want to work with the most innovative and flexible platform on the market.
Bigeye Secures Strategic Investment from Alteryx Ventures
With this investment by Alteryx, Inc. through its Alteryx Ventures arm, Bigeye intends to further strengthen enterprise adoption, expand its technology, and deepen its partner ecosystem. Alteryx’s investment in Bigeye highlights the shared perspective that strong enterprise governance is important when deploying analytics at scale.
CloudFabrix Launches Data Fabric for Observability at Cisco Live 2023
CloudFabrix’s Data Fabric for Observability further enhances the Cisco Observability Platform’s “mean time to insights (MTTI) and remediations” exponentially by automating the creation of these entity models based on the data discovery, contextualization and modernization both at design time and run time.
Dataddo Adds ‘Data Quality Firewall’ to Integration Platform
The Firewall is the first of its kind to be fully embedded in an ETL platform at the pipeline level. Built on top of Dataddo’s proprietary integration technology, it performs checks on null values, zero values, and anomalies, and can be configured individually for each column, enabling granular quality control.
DataCebo Launches with Synthetic Data Vault Technology
With SDV Enterprise, developers can easily build, deploy and manage sophisticated generative AI models for enterprise-grade applications when real data is limited or unavailable. SDV Enterprise’s models create higher quality synthetic data that is statistically similar to original data.
Dremio Cloud is Now on Microsoft Azure
Dremio Cloud for Azure, built on Apache Arrow’s columnar foundation, offers organizations rapid and scalable query performance for analytical workloads. Dremio’s native columnar cloud cache (C3) provides unparalleled throughput and rapid response times on Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS).
Analyst House Gartner, Inc. Releases 2023 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools
Gartner states, “The data integration tools market is thriving due to upcoming requirements for data fabric architectures, data product delivery, and the need for integrated data to support GenAI. Data and analytics leaders should use this research to evaluate suitable vendors to meet their data integration needs.”
Informatica Launches New Databricks Integrations, Superpipe for Snowflake
The integration gives joint customers a solution for onboarding data from 300+ data sources and preparing data for consumption with an extensive library of out-of-the-box, no-code, proven, repeatable data transformation capabilities. Also, customers can bi-directionally integrate data to and from the Snowflake Data Cloud with other key enterprise data applications and databases such as Oracle and SAP.
Kinetica Announces New SQL-GPT for Telecom
Kinetica’s origins as a real-time GPU database, purpose-built for spatial and time-series workloads, is well suited for the demands of the telecommunications industry. Telcos rely heavily on spatial and time-series data to optimize network performance, track coverage, and ensure reliability.
Mine Nabs $30 Million in Series B Funding for Enterprise Data Privacy & Governance
With this investment, the company will scale its B2B enterprise-grade product, MineOS. MineOS distinguishes itself with its intuitive, no-code experience, seamlessly integrated with advanced AI technology. This integration not only sets a new industry benchmark in automation and accuracy but also revolutionizes the data discovery process.
MongoDB Announces Atlas Vector Search (and Nodes)
MongoDB Atlas Vector Search simplifies bringing generative AI and semantic search capabilities into real-time applications for highly engaging and customized end-user experiences using an organization’s operational data. MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes provide dedicated infrastructure for applications that use generative AI and relevance-based search to scale workloads independent of the database and manage high-throughput use cases.
New Relic Names Ashwan Willy as CEO
Willy is a proven leader and innovator who brings more than 25 years of experience in go-to-market, engineering, product management, and global strategy and planning. He most recently served as CEO of Proofpoint, a leading cybersecurity and compliance company.
Securiti Partners with Databricks
This new partnership will enhance the way enterprises manage their data and AI across all data systems, addressing the growing need for contextual data intelligence and a data command center that consolidates governance, security, privacy, and compliance.
SingleStore Set to Launch as Native App in Snowflake
By leveraging the Snowflake Data Cloud, SingleStore is joining Snowflake in making the complex easy by helping organizations store and query vector data alongside other types of data. Customers will be able to build enterprise generative AI applications using RAG on vector embeddings stored in SingleStore.
SQream Secures SOC-2 Type II Compliance for Data Prep Lakehouse
The platform was found to comply with the rigorous compliance standards and restrictions put in place by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), demonstrating the company’s ongoing dedication to maintaining the security, confidentiality, availability, and privacy of its systems for its customers.
Unravel Data Partners with Databricks on Lakehouse Observability
With this new partnership, Unravel and Databricks will collaborate on Go-To-Market (GTM) efforts to enable Databricks customers to leverage Unravel’s purpose-built AI for the Lakehouse for real-time, continuous insights and recommendations to speed time to value of data and AI products and ensure optimal ROI.
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