Data Management News for the Week of June 21; Updates from Actian, Astronomer, Reltio & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of June 21, 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 June 21, 2024

Actian Unveils Zen 16.0 Database for Edge Computing

Zen 16.0 delivers the small footprint with fast read and write access and automatic administration that resource-constrained environments require. Zen16.0 addresses the need to support high-performance intelligent applications with minimal administration, particularly for frequent data update use cases like sensor data collection to monitor patient well-being or asset management tracking using RFID scanners.

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Astronomer Names New SVP of R&D

Astronomer also announced the appointment of Christopher Lefelhocz as Senior Vice President of Research and Development. Lefelhocz brings a wealth of experience in scaling engineering teams and driving innovation in the DevSecOps and data infrastructure space.

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Datadog Releases Data Jobs Monitoring Product

Data Jobs Monitoring is a new product that helps data platform teams and data engineers detect problematic Spark and Databricks jobs anywhere in their data pipelines, remediate failed and long-running-jobs faster, and optimize overprovisioned compute resources to reduce costs.

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Fauna Announces Open Beta of Fauna Schema

Fauna Schema now uniquely delivers the structure, enforcement, and reliability of schema of traditional relational databases, with the flexibility of a modern document model – reinforcing Fauna’s investment in delivering a true document-relational database that increases development velocity and decreases risk.

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Infoworks Announces the Launch of Infoworks AI

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, the demand for skilled data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists has skyrocketed. Yet these professionals spend up to 80% of their time on the laborious task of preparing data sets for analytics and AI use cases. These bottlenecks hamper the scalability and innovation of AI and analytics initiatives, which are essential for driving business value.

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OpenAI Acquires Rockset

A technology Rockset offers called vector search has benefited from increased adoption as more applications use artificial intelligence to power recommendation engines, voice assistants, chatbots, and detect anomalies. Rockset said it will become a part of OpenAI and power the retrieval infrastructure of the ChatGPT maker’s products.

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Precisely Expands AWS Partnership

AWS Mainframe Modernization Application Testing validates functional equivalence between the source mainframe application and the target modernized application. After running a test scenario on a mainframe, Application Testing uses Precisely Connect’s real-time CDC capabilities to capture the data output from a mainframe application and automatically compared it to the data output from the application run on AWS.

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Reltio Releases Latest Version of Connected Data Platform

Reltio’s feature-rich release includes new velocity packs, additional audience-segmentation capabilities for Customer 360 Data Product, premium business continuity service featuring cross-regional disaster recovery and enhanced data resiliency, and expanded generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities.

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SR Thought Leader Eric Herzog Offers 5 Key Considerations for Buying Enterprise Storage in 2024

Enterprise storage is fundamental to maintaining a strong data infrastructure. While storage has evolved over the years, the basic characteristics remain the same – performance, reliability, cost-effectiveness, flexibility, capacity, flexibility, and usability. The rule of thumb in enterprise storage is: faster, cheaper, easier and bigger capacity in a smaller footprint.

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New Episode of the Insight Jam Podcast with Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen

In this episode of The Insight Jam Podcast, Doug Atkinson chats with Sanjay Poonen, CEO of ‪Cohesity. They discuss the key priorities at Cohesity, the challenges of cybersecurity, and the evolving landscape shaped by AI. Sanjay shares his experiences, the importance of cybersecurity hygiene, and his views on the AI revolution’s impact on the workforce.

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Insight Jam Panel of Experts Discuss the Essential Components of an AI Governance Framework

Our expert panel discusses the importance of establishing a robust AI governance framework within a company. They emphasize that data governance should be the foundation, ensuring transparency, ethical use, accountability, compliance, and risk management.

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