Data Management News for the Week of May 31; Updates from Dremio, Fivetran, Qumulo & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of May 31, 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 31, 2024

Amazon Announces General Availability of Connect Data Lake

Amazon Connect analytics data lake helps you to unify disparate data sources, including customer contact records and agent activity, into a single location. By having your data in a centralized location, you now have access to analyze contact center performance and gain insights while reducing the costs associated with implementing complex data pipelines.

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Dremio Integrates Apache Iceberg REST

The Iceberg REST Catalog Specification is the agreed upon foundation for metadata accessibility across Iceberg catalogs. With this new capability, Dremio is able to seamlessly read from, and write to, any REST-compatible Iceberg catalog, and provide customers with the open, flexible ecosystem needed for enterprise interoperability at scale.

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New Fivetran/MIT Survey Looks at Data Governance and AI

The study found that C-suite leaders consider data integration, secure access to all data sources and the ability to share and combine data from every type of data source, including SaaS applications, legacy databases and custom applications, critical investment areas for leveraging AI and generative AI technologies.

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Qumulo Joins Ultra Ethernet Consortium

These technologies enhance the performance and operations of Qumulo’s Scale Anywhere Data Management platform from the edge to the data center to the public cloud delivering valuable operational benefits to data center, network, and storage operators.

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Redpanda Acquires Benthos

The acquisition completes Redpanda as a unified, end-to-end streaming data platform built close to the hardware to be more performant, simpler to deploy and easier to operate, with greater enterprise reliability versus the combination of Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect.

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Tonic.ai Unveils Unstructured Data Lakehouse for LLMs

Leveraging its expertise in data management and realistic synthesis, Tonic.ai has developed a solution to tame and protect siloed, messy, and complex unstructured data into AI-ready formats ahead of embedding, fine-tuning, or vector database ingestion.

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Zendata Secures $2 Million in Seed Funding for AI Governance and Data Privacy

Founded by industry veterans Narayana Pappu and Pedro Pinango, Zendata’s no-code platform provides comprehensive insights and control over data usage, enabling businesses to make informed decisions and remain compliant with evolving data privacy and AI governance regulations.

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New Episode of Information Risk with SR Expert @ Insight Jam David Loshin

On this episode of Information Risk, David Loshin enlightens us on the intricacies of customer due diligence and the risks related with poor practices. He and Doug discuss real-world enforcement actions by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency against banks in Ohio and Connecticut and explore the broader implications of these issues within the financial system.

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What Are Good KPIS for Data? by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Nicola Askham

In my many years of working in data governance, this question comes up quite a lot…Can you provide examples of standard Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) for data? So in today’s blog, I’m going to share my thoughts on this question.

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