Data Management News for the Week of January 13; Updates from Chronosphere, DataStax, Ocient & More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy data management news items for the week of January 13, 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 January 13, 2023

Chronosphere Raises $115 Million in Series C Funding for Observability Platform

New investors include GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Geodesic Capital, bringing Chronosphere’s total funding to $343 million, and increasing the company’s valuation to $1.6 billion.

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data.world Partners with Databricks on Data Analysis Processes

The market is converging on a set of advanced capabilities resulting in a complex landscape ready to launch into the next wave of disruption. This Magic Quadrant will help data and analytics leaders make the right cloud DBMS choices in a complex and fast-evolving market.

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DataStax is Set to Acquire Machine Learning Company Kaskada

The market is converging on a set of advanced capabilities resulting in a complex landscape ready to launch into the next wave of disruption. This Magic Quadrant will help data and analytics leaders make the right cloud DBMS choices in a complex and fast-evolving market.

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Denodo Secures AWS Data and Analytics ISV Competency Status

Attaining this status differentiates Denodo as an AWS Partner that has successfully demonstrated deep expertise in data integration, management, and delivery of distributed data for business intelligence and advanced analytics for enterprise and medium-sized companies using AWS services.

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DiffusionData Drops Version 6.9 of Real-Time Data Streaming Solution

Diffusion 6.9 features remote server reverse connection, which rectifies the platform’s previous inability to circumvent security protocols for inbound connection to back-end (primary) servers.

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Gartner Releases 2022 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems

The market is converging on a set of advanced capabilities resulting in a complex landscape ready to launch into the next wave of disruption. This Magic Quadrant will help data and analytics leaders make the right cloud DBMS choices in a complex and fast-evolving market.

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Kensu Partners with Snowflake for Real-Time Data Observability

The solution is one of the first of its kind for data teams and allows users to lower maintenance costs, mitigate data-related risks, and improve scalability. The Kensu Community Edition is now also powered by Snowflake’s single, integrated platform, enabling more users to seamlessly deploy Kensu’s agent-based approach to deliver real-time, contextual data observations with a free, unlimited-time developer environment.

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Komprise Announces Komprise Hypertransfer Elastic Data Migration

Metaplane was founded by Kevin Hu, who holds a PhD in data visualization and machine learning from MIT, and Peter Casinelli and Guru Mahendran, who were founding engineers on the HubSpot CRM. Together, the team has published widely-reviewed papers in data and built several tools for data teams before their current mission of enabling organizations to trust their data.

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Metaplane Raises More Than $8 Million in Venture Capital for Data Observability

Komprise Hypertransfer optimizes cloud data migration performance by minimizing the WAN roundtrips using dedicated channels to send data, mitigating the SMB protocol issues.

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Ocient Unveils Latest Version of its Hyperscale Data Warehouse

Adding 17 new functions to ingest and analyze complex geospatial data sets at a scale with high speed, Ocient remains most in the industry to process greater volumes and higher complexities of spatiotemporal data.

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Ocient Releases Joint Paper on Reducing ETL Costs with Intelligent Business Strategies’ Mike Ferguson

As more data becomes available through digital transformation, new data sources, and data marketplaces, companies in almost every industry will likely see major growth in data volumes over the next few years. Download the Intelligent Business Strategies’ White Paper to learn more.

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Snowflake Signs Agreement to Acquire Time-Series Forecasting Company Myst

Myst offers an AI platform that provides data science teams with a workflow to build, deploy and maintain highly accurate forecasting models on time series data quickly. These data points consist of successive measurements made from the same source — stock price movement over the years, for instance.

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Snowplow Announces its Acquisition of Poplin Data and More

The acquisition of the data-specialist consulting firm, which helps organizations achieve a competitive advantage through deployment of sophisticated data-led strategies, has supported customers within the Snowplow ecosystem for six years.

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Solutions Review Does Final Update to the Web’s Most Authoritative List of 2023 Data Management Predictions

As part of Solutions Review’s third-annual #BIInsightJam, we called for the industry’s best and brightest to share their data management predictions for 2023. The experts featured here represent the top data management providers with experience in this niche.

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The One Azure Data Engineer Expert Certification to Rule Them All

Our editors review all of the best data engineering courses and certifications each year to bring our audience the top picks for their use case. That’s why it’s in this spirit that Solutions Review editors bring you this recommendation to consider Udacity’s Azure data engineer expert certification if you’re looking to grow your skills this year.

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