Data Management News for the Week of February 7; Updates from GridGain, Immuta, Percona & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of February 7, 2025.

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 February 7, 2025

Aerospike Announces the Launch of Aerospike 8

Now, businesses can achieve the most stringent level of guarantees, eliminating inconsistencies that can lead to costly errors while benefitting from real-time performance. Since Aerospike requires a fraction of the hardware resources of other databases, enterprises benefit from both substantial operational cost savings and the opportunity to embrace new environmental sustainability goals.

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Alluxio Releases Enterprise AI 3.5

Version 3.5 showcases the platform’s capability to accelerate AI model training and streamline operations with features such as a new Cache Only Write Mode, advanced cache management, and enhanced Python SDK integrations. These updates empower organizations to train models faster, handle massive datasets more efficiently, and streamline the complexity of AI infrastructure operations.

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Firebolt Names Hemanth Vedagarbha as President

In this role, Vedagarbha will oversee all go-to-market (GTM) and customer-facing functions—including Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Business Development, Field Engineering, Technical Support, Revenue Operations, and Partnerships & Ecosystems—as the company continues to rapidly scale its global market presence.

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GridGain Announces New GridGain for AI

GridGain for AI can simplify the path from AI experimentation to delivery and execution, so businesses can confidently accelerate their AI deployments knowing that GridGain will ensure the performance, scale, and access controls they need to reliably process their data.

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Hitachi Vantara & Cisco Announce New Converged Solution

The Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure joint solution combines Cisco’s compute and networking systems with Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) arrays using Red Hat OpenShift container management tools. The integrated infrastructure solution helps enterprises gain a competitive edge by increasing agility and resilience while reducing energy consumption with AI-powered data orchestration.

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Hydrolix Announces New Spark Connector

Now, Databricks users can economically store full-fidelity event data, such as logs, in Hydrolix and rapidly extract information from both real-time and historical data, thereby gaining valuable new business insights.

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Immuta Publishes 2025 State of Data Security Report

The 2025 State of Data Security Report, commissioned by Immuta and conducted by customer voice platform UserEvidence, surveyed more than 700 data leaders and professionals from enterprise organizations across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

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Melissa Unveils Active Data Quality  Feature

Melissa Alert Service allows businesses to upload customer records, such as addresses and property data, into Melissa Vault, a secure cloud-based system. The Melissa Alert Service system continuously monitors these records against Melissa’s current data updates and automatically sends alerts when changes are detected. Whether it’s a change of address, updated property details, such as ownership transfers, the service empowers businesses to act on accurate data immediately.

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MongoDB Partners with Lombard Odier on Core Banking & GenAI

In collaboration with MongoDB, Lombard Odier has accelerated the modernization of its systems and applications with generative AI, reducing technical complexity and accelerating the bank’s innovation journey.

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Percona Announces Support for Open-Source Redis Alternative

For organizations not yet using the database management system, Percona has also introduced comprehensive Valkey Migration services, to help make the switch from Redis OSS to Valkey as seamless, secure, and non-disruptive as possible.

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Qumulo Announces Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric

The Qumulo Cloud Data Fabric consists of a data core—a high-performance distributed file and object data storage cluster that runs on most systems, vendors, or public cloud infrastructures—and the data edge—a coherent caching system connecting in parallel to all elements of the data core.

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RelationalAI Announces Snowflake Native App on Azure

Organizations are using RelationalAI and Snowflake to combat fraud, reason over complex relationships and develop knowledge graphs for agentic AI applications with 10x reduction in application code metrics.

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SoftServe Releases Results from State of Data Management in 2025 Study

Responses indicate a lack of knowledge in data management is coupled with an internal disconnect and noticeable divide between the C-suite, VPs, and senior management, putting entire organizations at odds when it comes to how data is used, acquired, and funded.

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TileDB Announces Carrara Database

Carrara unlocks new capabilities for managing frontier data, which are novel, multi-dimensional, and yield highly valuable insights. These sophisticated data structures are essential for breakthrough discoveries — from high-precision earthquake prediction systems that integrate seismic, geodetic, and geochemical data, to cancer treatment systems that integrate genomic, molecular, and immunological data.

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NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring William McKnight: Enterprise Enablement in the Age of AI

They discuss the importance of maintaining solid data architecture while embracing AI innovation, the evolution from BI to AI capabilities, and how organizations can prepare for the rise of AI agents. McKnight emphasizes the need for strong leadership, clear ROI focus, and thoughtful architecture choices in successful AI implementations.

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