Data Management News for the Week of March 22; Updates from Cloudera, Confluent, Veritas & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of March 22, 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 March 22, 2024

Alation Names Yvonne Wassenaar to Board of Directors

Wassenaar brings a wealth of experience in driving company transformations toward accelerated growth and successful IPOs and she specializes in unlocking new opportunities for organic and inorganic expansion.

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BigID Closes $60 Million Funding Round Led by Riverwood Capital

Building on its deep domain experience in the classification, compliance and contextualization of unstructured data, BigID recently introduced new data hygiene capabilities for the generative AI data pipeline from discovery through staging and enrichment, as well as new controls for detecting and tracking model access to sensitive data.

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Cloudera Partners with NVIDIA to Leverage AI-Powered Microservices

Cloudera will introduce multiple integrations with NVIDIA  microservices. Cloudera Machine Learning will integrate model and application serving powered by NVIDIA microservices to boost model inference performance across all workloads.

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Confluent Unveils Cloud for Apache Flink; Tableflow Tool

Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is available across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Backed by Confluent’s 99.99 percent uptime SLA, Confluent’s cloud-native service for Flink enables reliable, serverless stream processing. Confluent Tableflow easily transforms Apache Kafka® topics and the associated schemas to Apache Iceberg tables with a single click to better supply data lakes and data warehouses.

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Dell’s New Lakehouse is Powered by Starburst Analytics

This latest offering from Dell, a fully integrated data platform built on Dell hardware with a full-service software suite, helps modernize an organization’s data platform and operations. By utilizing Starburst’s query engine, data processes are streamlined.

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New Fivetran Report Finds Organizations are “Bullish” on AI Adoption

Conducted by independent market research specialist Vanson Bourne, the online survey polled 550 respondents across the U.S., U.K., Ireland, France and Germany from organizations with 500 or more employees. It found that nearly nine in ten organizations are using AI/ML methodologies to build models for autonomous decision-making, and 97 percent are investing in generative AI in the next 1-2 years.

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Matillion Unveils New Pushdown AI Platform

A new RAG (retrieval augmented generation) component enables users to load data into popular vector stores, including Pinecone, to add private structured and unstructured data to LLMs. This no-code data preparation for RAG and beyond is currently unique to Matillion.

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Redpanda Unveils Serverless Data Streaming Platform

With Redpanda Serverless, developers will be able to tap into the Redpanda streaming data ecosystem to build new real-time applications. Redpanda collaborates with leading companies in event-driven application design, stream processing, databases, and real-time analytics.

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Snowflake Partners with NVIDIA on Full-Stack AI Platform

Expanding on Snowflake and NVIDIA’s previously announced NVIDIA NeMo integration, Snowflake customers will soon be able to utilize NVIDIA NeMo Retriever directly on their proprietary data in the Data Cloud, all while maintaining data security, privacy, and governance seamlessly through Snowflake’s built-in capabilities.

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Voltron Data Enhances Theseus Query Engine

With this new release, Theseus has achieved a new level of performance and scale, completing the full TPC-H 100 terabyte scale factor on unsorted Parquet files directly from storage in less than an hour with only 5 terabytes of GPU memory.

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WEKA Unveils New NVIDIA-Certified Data Platform

The appliance integrates WEKA’s AI-native data platform software with class-leading storage hardware to provide a ready-to-use, purpose-built environment for AI applications. Customers can deploy the WEKApod Data Platform Appliance as part of their NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD solution.

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Does Target Really Know I’m Pregnant? New Episode of Information Risk with David Loshin Now Live

In this episode, David examines the reputation and potential regulatory risks businesses face when using predictive analysis and gets into the ethics of using customers’ data to improve marketing techniques. What is the value proposition for predictive analysis? How can companies better articulate their goals in a mutually beneficial way?

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Nicola Askham Publishes Data Governance Interview with Nicole Hartley

Nicole is a data governance professional with extensive experience spanning a number of years working on large projects. Her experience covers all aspects of data governance as well as the tools and technology to support governance processes and data quality.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Dr. Joe Perez Outlines Data Governance Internship Challenges

Throughout history, the failure to safeguard sensitive information has often led to catastrophic consequences. Safeguarding your company’s data from potential breaches requires a robust data governance framework that prioritizes security and privacy.

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Solutions Review Launches The Thought Leader Project

The Thought Leader Project is a single initiative that brings the full power of Solutions Review‘s authority, reach, and distribution to help technology vendors build brands, enhance their reputation, and ultimately, reach their target market.

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