Data Management News for the Week of May 17; Updates from Anomalo, DataStax, Rockset & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of May 17, 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 May 17, 2024
Anomalo is Now Available on Google Cloud
Anomalo monitors data in BigQuery and AlloyDB and integrates with Dataplex to help enterprises resolve data quality issues faster. Anomalo enables more analytics and AI use cases because customers have trust in their data powering these workloads.
DataStax New Announces Hyper-Converged Data Platform
Hyper-converged streaming (HCS), built with Apache Pulsar, is designed to provide data communications for a modern infrastructure. With native support of inline data processing and embedding, HCS brings vector data to the edge, allowing for faster response times and enabling event data for better contextual generative AI experiences.
Dremio Releases Definitive Guide to Apache Iceberg
By following the lessons in this book, you’ll be able to achieve interactive, batch, machine learning, and streaming analytics all without duplicating data into many different proprietary systems and formats.
Elastic Unveils Search AI Lake
With the expansive storage capacity of a data lake and the powerful search and AI relevance capabilities of Elasticsearch, Search AI Lake delivers low-latency query performance without sacrificing scalability, relevance, or affordability.
Exasol Finds AI Underinvestment Could Lead to Catastrophy
In partnership with Vanson Bourne, an independent research firm, Exasol surveyed 800 senior decision-makers as well as data scientists and analysts across the U.S., U.K., and Germany to assess enterprises’ data and analytics initiatives, including their top challenges and how they are planning to address those challenges in the short-term (within two years).
Rockset Announces Native Support for Hybrid Search
Forward-thinking enterprises are investing in powerful retrieval systems built for AI applications. With new hybrid search capabilities, Rockset accelerates the pace of building and iterating on AI applications, establishing a new standard for vector databases that rapidly adapts indexing, models and ranking.
Satori Joins AWS ISV Accelerate
Satori’s acceptance into the AWS ISV Accelerate Program enables the company to meet customer needs through collaboration with the AWS Sales organization. Close collaboration with the AWS Sales team enables Satori to provide better outcomes to AWS customers, as AWS ISV Accelerate Partners and the AWS team work together.
Snowflake Invests in Metaplane
Metaplane was founded to help save time and preserve trust for data teams. Their data observability platform proactively detects data quality issues before downstream users are impacted. This is accomplished with proprietary ML-based anomaly detection, end-to-end column-level lineage.
WEKA Secures $140 Million in Series # Funding
The funds will augment the company’s considerable cash reserves, giving it ample options for how it can scale its business rapidly to meet accelerating global demand for AI-native data infrastructure while expanding its investments in developing its data platform software and providing liquidity to WEKA employees.
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NEW Episode of Information Risk with David Loshin: Bad Data → Bad AI
On this episode of Information Risk, David Loshin gets into the perils of using AI and large language models (LLMs). when the data is faulty. Socioeconomic pillars like healthcare, real estate, and law are affected.
Solutions Review Set to Host Databricks & ZoomInfo for Exclusive Roundtable May 29
With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Databricks and ZoomInfo to cover why bad data is the problem, how Databricks and ZoomInfo help companies build a unified data foundation that fixes the bad data problem, and how this foundation can be leveraged to easily scale and use data + AI for GenAI.
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