Data Management News for the Week of November 22; Updates from Denodo, Informatica, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of November 22, 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 22, 2024

Anomalo Can Now ID Biz-Specific Data Quality Issues in Unstructured Data for AI

This announcement comes as Anomalo sees record enterprise demand for its data quality product as Generative AI surges. In the last year, Anomalo has more than doubled its customers in the Fortune 500. Anomalo has also deepened its partnerships with Databricks, Snowflake and Google and received the prestigious Emerging Partner of the Year award from Databricks who also made a strategic investment in the company.

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Baffle Announces New Vector Database Protection

For organizations using vector databases to store text and associated embeddings containing sensitive data for use by their GenAI application, they can now run vector database operations, like similarity searches, while remaining compliant with security and privacy requirements.

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BigID Launches New Privacy Modules

The new BigID privacy modules add to BigID’s industry leadership in delivering AI powered data subject access and deletion rights. With the new modules, BigID delivers a complete suite of privacy operations modules that break with traditional process and people tools to deliver a fully automated privacy suite that adapts to changes in underlying data and data subject identities with AI enhanced process automation.

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CData Launches Free Connect Spreadsheets Product

Available now for free, Connect Spreadsheets enables users to access and work with data from over 250 sources directly within Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, making data management simpler, faster, and more efficient.

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Cleo Partners with IndSoft

This partnership will provide organizations with a combination of Cleo Integration Cloud technology and IndSoft’s expert managed services team, so customers can seamlessly integrate and conduct business with leading businesses across the globe.

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Cockroach Labs Releases Database Product Version 24.3

With the release of CockroachDB 24.3, the company continues to make important strides by improving resilience and performance, while adding enterprise capabilities like support of Microsoft’s Active Directory and database triggers. They’re also making it easier to get started with new free trial options for those interested in either cloud or self-hosted deployments.

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DataOps.live Nabs SOC 2 Type II Compliance

The SOC 2 Type II certification is a more thorough and stringent auditing standard that evaluates whether controls are designed and functioning as intended over a specified period of time. The resulting report is designed to demonstrate that a business’s security and confidentiality controls meet or exceed the requirements established by the AICPA.

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Denodo Boasts Advanced AI Features and Enhanced Lakehouse Performance with New Update

Denodo Platform 9 brought intelligent data delivery to data management, with AI-driven support for natural-language queries and support for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), so organizations can gain trusted, insightful results from their generative AI (GenAI) applications.

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Graphwise Adds ‘Talk-to-Your-Graph’ Capability to GraphDB 10.8

This lets non-technical users derive real-time insights and retrieve and explore complex, multi-faceted data using natural language. GraphDB 10.8 also enables the deployment of seamless, high-availability clusters across multiple regions, ensuring zero downtime and data consistency without compromising performance.

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Informatica Announces New Azure AI and Analytic Features

As enterprises increasingly turn to Azure OpenAI Service LLMs and GenAI applications, Informatica’s new suite of Microsoft-specific Gen AI solutions simplifies the creation of enterprise-grade GenAI applications and Microsoft Copilot experiences. Informatica’s Gen AI Blueprint for Azure OpenAI Service empower customers.

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OpenText Releases Cloud Editions 24.4 at OpenText World 2024

Seamless data flow across an organization’s cloud ecosystem is essential for data accessibility, informed decision-making, and operational continuity. OpenText Cloud Editions 24.4 provides the ideal foundation, supporting secure and efficient data movement across platforms while maintaining compliance and mitigating risk in complex multi-cloud setups.

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Redis Unveils Azure Managed Offering

Azure Managed Redis, now available in public preview, gives users up to 99.999 percent availability with multi-region Active-Active capabilities, allowing for down to sub-millisecond local latency globally, and is the most cost-efficient Redis service available on Azure. Azure Managed Redis was announced at Microsoft Ignite in Chicago and highlighted in the keynote.

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Snowflake Set to Acquire Datavolo

With this acquisition, Snowflake will deepen its service in the ‘bronze layer’ of the data lifecycle and will deliver a simple way for data engineering teams to integrate all of their enterprise systems with Snowflake’s unified platform, where they can then unlock data for AI and ML, apps and analytics, and leverage the scale, performance, and built-in governance of the AI Data Cloud. Together, Datavolo and Snowflake will both simplify data engineering workloads and deliver unmatched data interoperability and extensibility – a building block for effective enterprise AI.

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StarTree Unveils New Cloud Capabilities

StarTree has unveiled a set of new innovations designed to equip organizations to efficiently handle evolving data structures, enhance query performance, and streamline user access management, ensuring faster and more reliable real-time analytics at scale.

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Teradata AI Unlimited is Now Available for Preview on Microsoft Fabric

With AI Unlimited now in public preview, users can trial Teradata AI Unlimited from the Fabric Workload Hub, apply analytic functions without any impact to their production Teradata ecosystem, use open data formats in OneLake, and leverage open table format architectures for maximum interoperability with other tools.

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Expert Insights Section

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On-Demand: Solutions Review Hosts Impetus, Deluxe, and Forrester Research for Exclusive Expert Roundtable on Unlocking the Power of Enterprise GenAI

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 Digital Analyst (John Santaferraro) Featuring John K. Thompson: Preparing for the AI Agent Revolution

They discuss how AI agents are poised to overtake generative AI as the next major technological advancement, with predictions that organizations will soon have more AI agents than employees. The conversation covers different types of AI agents, the challenges of governance and regulation, and the importance of AI literacy among executives and employees.

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