Data Management News for the Week of May 24; Updates from DataStax, Informatica, Teradata & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of May 24, 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 24, 2024
Alation Expands in Japan with New NTT Data Partnership
Alation centralizes metadata from disparate sources into a single platform that facilitates the discovery, description, governance, and management of data assets and products, including BI reports and AI models.
Casper Labs Announces New Prove AI Governance Solution
Prove AI will offer the most advanced solution for maintaining and sharing audit logs of AI data in a secure and tamper-proof manner. Additionally, it introduces AI version control, along with multi-party access controls and advanced auditing functionality and for AI training datasets.
Cribl Launches Technology Alliance Partner Program
With hundreds of existing integrations being used by customers today, the Cribl TAP provides new integrations with the world’s most widely used technology providers, expanded partner support, and increased choice for customers to select the data management tools that best fit their needs.
DataStax Unveils Astra Vectorize with OpenAI and Azure Integrated
Astra Vectorize is an addition to the Astra Data API that will allow users to provide raw, unstructured data—like a piece of text or an image—as a part of an insert, update, or vector search operation, and the vector embedding for that data will be automatically generated by Astra DB.
data.world Unveils AI Context Engine
With the AI Context Engine, a team member can ask their data complex questions like: “How does our organization define ‘current retention rate,’ and how have these rates changed over the last five years?”
Datometry is Now Available on Snowflake
With Datometry Hyper-Q, enterprises have a unique way to accelerate their transformation and become AI-ready in a fraction of the time of conventional approaches. Instead of altering the application code, Hyper-Q makes existing applications work directly with Snowflake.
Denodo Hones in on Energy and Utilities Data Management
The Denodo Platform facilitates this by providing real-time access to data across myriad distributed energy resources, while enabling the establishment of a unified semantic layer over all data sources, to deliver data when it is needed, in the language required by each data consumer.
EDB Unveils Postgress AI
The launch of EDB Postgres AI also comes with a new corporate identity aimed at the belief that Postgres can solve the AI generation’s most complex data challenges. In this new era, Postgres and EDB will enable customers to break data silos and launch new AI initiatives across any cloud, anywhere with the confidence of enterprise-grade security, compliance and availability.
Hydrolix Raises $35 Million in Series B Funding for Streaming Data Lake
Hydrolix offers a streaming data lake built to power log-intensive applications. Hydrolix software combines real-time stream processing, low-latency indexed search, decoupled storage and high-density compression.
Informatica Releases AI Product Innovations at Annual World Conference
System-level information or metadata continues to be siloed within application and department-level repositories. With CLAIRE GPT, Informatica uses an organization’s metadata system of record to incorporate information about the enterprise data assets to allow users to talk to their data.
Kalray Unveils Ngenea Data Acceleration for AI
Ngenea for AI is the companion to two Ngenea editions for Media & Entertainment and HPC customers, respectively. The new Ngenea for AI empowers AI innovators to speed up their ingest performance and access their unstructured data from a unified, global name space.
Komprise Unveils New Smart Data Workflow Manager
Two major issues related to AI success are efficiently discovering and feeding the right data to an AI platform and enriching data sets for AI. Both processes are highly manual, laborious tasks that are error-prone and require meticulous data governance.
Pinecone Launches New Serverless Offering
Pinecone serverless has been battle-tested with rapid adoption over the course of four months in Public Preview mode. More than 20,000 organizations have used it to date. Large, critical workloads with billions of vectors are also running with select customers.
Qlik Finds Orgs Struggling to Make Use of GenAI on Unstructured Data
The “Unstructured Data and GenAI Survey,” executed in April 2024 by Enterprise Technology Research (ETR) on behalf of Qlik, surveyed 200 enterprise technology decision makers across multiple industries.
Redgate Finds Nearly 9 in 10 Utilizing Cloud Databases
A surprising 88 percent of organizations now host their databases partly or mostly in the cloud, and over half (55 percent) are actively using AI in database management or considering doing so.
Safe Software Expands Partner Ecosystem
Companies that are looking to leverage FME, Safe’s flagship product, fall within the Technology Alliance category. These partners embrace the company’s technology and community, supporting new pathways for users.
Teradata AI Unlimited for Microsoft Fabric is Now Available
Teradata AI Unlimited already makes it easy for users to adopt because of its low commitment (e.g., pay-as-you-go) and on-demand user experience. Teradata AI Unlimited workload in Microsoft Fabric reduces user-adoption friction even more as it eliminates the configuration steps an engine requires and instead provides the software on demand when the user is ready to engage.
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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.
Continuent Founder and CEO Eero Teerikorpi Outlines the Primacy of Open-Source Databases
Not that they never went out of fashion, but their primary interest was in the non-SQL and other new technologies for a while. However, for the core transactional data processing needs, using MySQL and PostgreSQL has held and increased their role.
data.world CEO and Co-founder Brett Hurt Compares Different AI Approaches for Different Data Types
AI has the potential to revolutionize how we manage and interpret data. However, different types of data—structured, unstructured, and semi-structured—pose unique challenges in scaling AI programs. Not all data was created equally – here’s how to approach AI across different data types.
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