Data Management News for the Week of October 13; Updates from Alation, Manta, Starburst & More

Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy data management news items for the week of October 13, 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

October 13, 2023

Acceldata Nabs $10 Million in Series C Funding

New investor Prosperty7 Ventures was the sole contributor to the tranche, according to Acceldata co-founder and CEO Rohit Choudhary, which will be put toward go-to-market efforts, mergers and acquisitions, R&D (particularly in Canada, where Acceldata recently opened offices) and geographic expansion.

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Alation Drops New ALLIE AI for Data Stewards

Alation is taking its data governance game up a notch and into the world of generative AI. As part of the new offering, Alation is training a large language model (LLM) on a customers’ own private data set to help with both frontend and backend data governance tasks.

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New Ascend.io Survey Reveals Automation Key for Data Teams

Data teams now use five tools on average in their data stack, and over two-thirds (68 percent) plan to maintain or increase this number in the next year. Despite this trend, data teams report stagnation in their overall capacity. Virtually all data professionals surveyed (95 percent) report being at or above their work capacity for the fourth year in a row.

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Immuta Extends its Partnership with Starburst for Data Mesh

With Immuta’s powerful data security capabilities, Starburst users can now access data from across their respective domains while still upholding tight data security controls. Immuta’s data access policies are enforced in real-time, ensuring that customers can swiftly access valuable data while adhering to business and regulatory policies.

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Manta Announces the Launch of Manta SaaS

Customers can now choose between an on-premises Manta experience to the new Manta SaaS if preferred, deploying the same robust platform in a fully hosted cloud environment. Manta SaaS also provides greater flexibility, enabling a wider range of businesses to take advantage of Manta’s automated lineage solution where it fits best with their own use cases and requirements, reducing customers’ total costs of ownership.

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pgEdge Announced the Availability of Distributed PostgreSQL Database

pgEdge Platform packages pgEdge Distributed PostgreSQL as downloadable software that can be self-hosted and self-managed in either on-premises environments and/or in the cloud with major providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

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Revefi Announces dbt Builder Plan for its Data Operations Cloud

Revefi’s dbt Builder plan starts at a low price point of $9.99 per month for dbt users. Additionally, Revefi announced deep integration of dbt into its Standard and Enterprise Revefi Data Operations Cloud plans. The company will launch these two new Revefi offerings at the dbt Labs’ Coalesce 2023 event, which takes place next week.

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TDengine Drops Suite of New IoT Connectors

The release of the OPC and MQTT connectors, in addition to the PI Connector released last year, enhances TDengine’s ability to work with industrial data and is representative of TDengine’s renewed focus on the industrial sector. Enterprises can consolidate data across multiple sites into a high-performance time-series database optimized for industrial workloads in only a few minutes.

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Virtualitics Announces New Partnership with Databricks

As a Databricks Technology Partner, Virtualitics will enable Databricks customers to unlock the full potential of their data with AI-powered exploration and gain valuable insights to drive business success.

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Expert Insights Section

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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 Acronis for Exclusive Spotlight Webinar on October 24

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading backup and cyber protection vendor Acronis. This session will examine the current cyberthreat landscape, delve into how GenAI tools like ChatGPT are being used by criminals to improve the scale and efficacy of ransomware and other cyber-attacks, and feature an expert panel discussion on how healthcare cybersecurity and IT operations teams can defend their uptime and critical data through a combination of cyber defense and recovery tactics.

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