Data Management News for the Week of November 1; Updates from Alation, Modern Data Company, Quest Software & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of November 1, 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.

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Top Data Management News for the Week Ending November 1, 2024

Alation Launches ‘Anywhere for Google Chrome’

Enabling users to centralize access in a location where they already interact with applications such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Excel, and Google Sheets enables users to increase efficiency and productivity. It also means switching windows and data extraction is simpler and less error-prone.

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Ascendion Survey Says High-Quality Data Imperative for GenAI

Data engineers use the platform to create future-state data schemas, convert legacy processes, and migrate data with speed and transparency. This typically cuts the migration process in half while delivering up to 60 percent in cost savings due to reduced manual effort.

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DataStax Enhances Astra DB Extension for GitHub

As generative AI adoption accelerates, developers are seeking tools that not only enhance productivity but also simplify complex workflows, enabling them to keep pace with innovation. Which is why these new features into the GitHub Copilot Extension are so important.

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Dremio’s Unified Lakehouse Now Supports All Deployment Options

This allows customers to choose the best catalog for their needs, while using Dremio to deliver seamless analytics across all data. Databricks and Snowflake customers can choose the catalog that makes the most sense for their business, reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) and avoiding unnecessary infrastructure expenses.

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Immuta Launches New Data Marketplace

Complex ecosystem integrations further complicate the process of getting the right data to the right users in order to make an impact. Immuta is accelerating internal data sharing by empowering customers to create their own Data Marketplace, where data owners can safely share curated data products and users can search, find, and access the data they need.

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Matia Launches Data Operations Unification Platform

Matia is co-founded by brothers Benjamin Segal and Geva Segal, who both felt the pain of working with dispersed and unreliable data in previous roles; Benjamin as chief of staff and head of data at Pangaea, a $100M+ revenue CPG company, and Geva as a cybersecurity engineering leader at Synamedia, a global media company.

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The Modern Data Company Unveils New Data Product Hub

The Data Product Hub streamlines data consumption, serving the majority of data product use cases and enabling business users to leverage data products independently. The DataOS Hub democratizes access to trusted data and accelerates digital transformation across the enterprise.

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Quest Software Drops 2024 State of Data Intelligence Report

The 2024 State of Data Intelligence Report provides IT and business leaders in enterprise-level organizations with the guidance and benchmarking needed to inform their technology choices, work process and practices, and overall strategy for successfully executing data intelligence initiatives.

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Opsera Partners with Databricks

Opsera leverages its DevOps platform and integrations and builds AI agents and frameworks to revolutionize the software delivery management process with a unique approach to automating data orchestration.

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StreamNative Announces Ursa Engine

The Ursa Engine, built upon Apache Pulsar’s cloud-native architecture, is a 100% Kafka-compatible engine that is built on data lakehouses. It brings the power of real-time data streaming to data lakehouses and augments it to create a single, unified platform for greater flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

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Timescale Expands PostgreSQL AI Offerings

Timescale is dedicated to this mission, bringing cutting-edge technology to the PostgreSQL community, without needing specialized tooling or knowledge. Timescale did this first by extending PostgreSQL for real-time analytics, now, Timescale brings AI to PostgreSQL with the pgai suite and the launch of pgai Vectorizer – putting AI development in every developer’s hands.

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WEKA Unveils Two New Appliances

The WEKA Data Platform delivers scalable AI-native data infrastructure purpose-built for even the most demanding AI workloads, accelerating GPU utilization and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) data pipelines efficiently and sustainably while providing efficient write performance for AI model checkpointing. Its advanced cloud-native architecture enables ultimate deployment flexibility, seamless data portability, and robust hybrid cloud capability.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Impetus, Deluxe, and Forrester Research for Exclusive Expert Roundtable on Unlocking the Power of Enterprise GenAI, November 14

With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Impetus to bring you a discussion from experts from Forrester Research, Impetus, and Deluxe Corporation that will help you take a dive deep into the real-world success stories of enterprises that are leading the charge with GenAI while discussing current and future trends.

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NEW Episode of the Insight Jam Podcast Featuring Data Dynamics CEO Piyush Mehta

They discuss how AI has transformed data into a critical asset while exploring the challenges organizations face in managing, protecting, and leveraging their data effectively. Stick around for Piyush’s insights on future of work, the impact of AI on technology careers, and maintaining company culture in a hybrid work environment.

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NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst (John Santaferraro) Featuring Mike Ferguson

Ferguson emphasizes the need for organizations to focus on practical use cases identified by employees rather than getting caught up in technological hype, while also addressing concerns about scalability, cost, and compliance.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Eve: Analytics 2025: Ignore These Trends at Your Peril

With 2025 around the corner and AI’s disruptions continuing, Albert Einstein’s wise counsel above seems especially prescient for every technology leader today. And perhaps most relevant to leaders in the analytics domain. New thinking is required. New capabilities must be considered. New investments need to be made.

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