Data Management News for the Week of November 10; Updates from AWS, Monte Carlo, Satori & More

Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy data management news items for the week of November 10, 2023.

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 November 10, 2023

AWS Aurora MySQL zero-ETL Now Integrates with Amazon Redshift

To help you focus on creating value from data instead of preparing data for analysis, we announced Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift at AWS re:Invent 2022 and in public preview for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition in June 2023.

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BigID Data Intelligence is Now Available on Google Cloud

The partnership between BigID and Google Cloud enables them to automatically discover sensitive data across global accounts and ephemeral resources on Google Cloud. Organizations can find and inventory sensitive data across  Google Cloud services, including Google Drive, Cloud Storage, Gmail, BigQuery, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Spanner, Datastore, and Cloud SQL.

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Capterra: US Enterprises Set to Increase Software Spending in ’24, But Regret is Common

Over half (56 percent) of businesses with regretful software purchases describe the financial impact of their decision as “significant” or “monumental.” Beyond the financial burden, these businesses also experience other consequences—both internally and externally. In fact, 41 percent of U.S. businesses say their bad software purchase made them less competitive, and 38 percent say it led to productivity loss.

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CData Unveils New Connect Cloud GPT-Powered AI Generator

The AI Generator is underpinned by the intricate machinery of the GPT model. By employing Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms, GPT deciphers user inquiries, while the ML backbone interprets context and translates these queries into SQL commands that gracefully navigate through varied data sources.

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Decodable Joins Confluent Connect Partner Program

When companies join the program, they become a part of the largest data streaming network, making it easier for their customers to use data streams and drive consumption for their services. New members to the CwC partner program in Q4 include Amazon Athena, Bicycle, Datorios, Decodable, Gathr, Onibex, Pinecone, RisingWave, Timeplus, Upsolver, Weaviate and Zilliz.

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Deloitte Releases 2023 Technology Fast 500

Now in its 29th year, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 honors the most innovative and fastest-growing companies across North America. The program recognizes the passion and dedication it takes to be an industry disrupter across the technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, fintech, and energy tech sectors.

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EDB Announces Portfolio Release for PostgreSQL 16.1

As one of the leading contributors to Postgres, EDB addresses these demands by meeting strict data protection requirements and ensuring sensitive data is adequately protected with flexible cryptographic support for PGE and EPAS.

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Flip AI Launches with $6.5 Million Series A Round

Flip automates incident resolution processes, reducing the effort to minutes for enterprise development teams. Flip’s core tenet is the notion of serving as an intelligence layer across all observability and infrastructure data sources and rationalizing through any modality of data, no matter where and how it is stored.

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Google Cloud Adds Solana Integration to BigQuery Data Warehouse

BigQuery is Google Cloud’s serverless data warehouse with built-in machine learning, artificial intelligence and business intelligence — enabling users to query vast datasets. Anyone from developers to enterprises and individual users can query data from Solana to answer complex questions regarding transactions.

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Google Cloud Announces New Collaboration with Bloomberg on Data Management & Analytics

With access to Bloomberg’s extensive experience managing, modeling, and delivering vast quantities of complex content, mutual customers can now receive their Bloomberg Data License (DL) data fully modeled and combined directly in BigQuery.

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IBM Launches New Enterprise AI Venture Fund

It is launching a $500 million venture fund that will invest “in a range of AI companies – from early-stage to hyper-growth startups – focused on accelerating generative AI technology and research for the enterprise.”

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New Immuta Survey Says Data Governance and Security are Priorities Ahead of GenAI

The findings indicate that adoption and use of AI tools is high across organizations, however many are concerned about the impacts AI will have on their larger data security strategy. Only half of the respondents say their organization’s data security strategy is keeping up with AI’s rate of evolution.

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Medidata Unveils New Experiences for Clinical Data Workflows

Built on an interoperable, open, and scalable data architecture, these new solutions develop a more complete view of patients with inclusion of data from an ecosystem of third-party sources, such as Electronic Health Records (EHR), lab, and sensor data, among others, that power actionable data insights to improve trial outcomes.

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Melissa Earns FedRAMP Authorization

Melissa has long served public sector agencies with global address verification tools and services deployed on-premises or via web services or secure FTP processing. The company’s FedRAMP-authorized status paves the way for more state and federal agencies to access data tools easily and confidently via secure cloud deployment.

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Mezmo Drops New Data Profiling Pipelines for Kubernetes

Mezmo Responsive Pipelines can be configured to respond to changes based on specific conditions, such as during an incident when capturing more data is critical or during data drift in source systems.

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MongoDB Collabs with AWS on CodeWhisperer Optimization; Launches Atlas for Retail

While Amazon CodeWhisperer already provided support for building applications on MongoDB, developers can now get enhanced suggestions that reflect best practices, allowing developers to ideate more quickly, rapidly prototype new features, and accelerate application development.

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AWS Cloud Now Supports AWS Graviton Processors

Arm-based AWS Graviton processors leverage AWS’s extensive expertise in systems design and cloud infrastructure to deliver the best price performance over comparable x86-based instances for a variety of workloads running in Amazon EC2.

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Stardog Unveils New LLM-Powered Platform Called Voicebox

Voicebox provides a conversational interface to connect data consumers to all of an organization’s data without stripping away its business context. This announcement comes on the heels of Accenture Ventures recent strategic investment in Stardog, driven by projected growth in the generative AI market.

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Timescale Announces Launch of Dynamic PostgreSQL

The news comes after Timescale’s recent introduction of usage-based storage to their time-series cloud product. The feature removed the need for customers to calculate and predict their storage allocation and ensured they only pay for what they store—saving existing customers an average of 35 percent storage cost in the first month.

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Qumulo Announces Latest Version of Azure Native Product

ANQ offers cloud-native file storage services at 80 percent less expensive than comparable services, including the cloud vendors, according to Qumulo. Customers don’t have to worry about raw vs. usable capacity, either. ANQ presents a familiar pay-as-you-go model in its pricing structure, where economics improve as data volume grows.

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Ververica Enhances Stream Data Processing & Analytics Tool

Ververica Cloud leverages VERA (Ververica Runtime Assembly), tech that achieves data processing speeds up to 2x faster than open-source Apache Flink, according to the vendor. The platform facilitates automated resource scaling as well to contend with the challenges of over-provisioning.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends and predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Launches New Insight Jam Community for Enterprise Technology Professionals

We are excited to bring an entirely new distribution channel to Insight Jam, and provide our readers with guidance, best practices, and advice on top-of-mind topics in enterprise technology, our community of experts a loudspeaker from which to share their insights, and our PR and vendor partners the ability to measure their impact on the community.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Monte Carlo & Salesforce for Exclusive GenAI Event on November 30

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Monte Carlo (and their partner Salesforce) for an informative webinar show. While GenAI has its fair share of hype, data leaders are being tasked by executives with investing in AI across the business. But how can we ensure that these technologies are actually useful and impactful?

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Solutions Review’s William Jepma Compiles Definitive Guide on the White House’s New EO on AI, Through Quotes

As you can expect, there was a lot of discussion around the Executive Order, what it might mean for AI regulation, and how it will affect the trends involved in governing, developing, and using AI in enterprises across industries. See key commentary from industry experts who shared their thoughts on the EO and how it will change AI’s role in business.

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