Data Management News for the Week of September 20; Updates from Alcion, DataOps.Live, Veeam & More
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Tim King
, Executive Editor at Solutions Review - Data Management News,
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of September 20, 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 September 20, 2024
Alcion Announces Acquisition by Veeam
Alcion sells backup solutions for Microsoft 365 to provide cyber resilience against ransomware, malware and other cyberattacks. The cyber resilience provider appointed Alcion co-founder Niraj Tolia as its chief technology officer. Tolia will help lead Veeam’s product strategy for its new Data Cloud product.
Confluent Invests in System Integrators to Meet Data Streaming Demand
RSIs serve as crucial partners in helping customers make the transition to real-time data architectures. This investment from Confluent will enable both Onibex and Psyncopate to scale their real-time data practices, accelerate development of high-value use cases, and drive customer success.
Cube Extends Support for Google Ecosystem
With this add-on users can access data from any Cube Cloud supported data source and perform multidimensional analysis with pivot table functionality. Cube Cloud for Sheets expands data source connectivity in Google Sheets beyond its default capabilities of BigQuery and Looker.
Dataminr Expands ReGenAI for Hyperlocal Events
Early adopters reported up to a 15 percent weekly productivity gain in their daily job routine, saving hours of monitoring and analysis during ongoing events. ReGenAI provides first-of-its-kind live information briefs for hyperlocal incidents, as well as national and global events, ensuring immediate actionability for corporate security teams and their specific risk footprint.
DataOps.live Unveils New AIOps Features on Snowflake & AWS
Centered around Snowflake Cortex and AWS Bedrock, these latest AIOps capabilities enable data engineers, data product owners, and data scientists to easily and quickly build and operationalize AI-driven data products with unparalleled consistency, scalability, and governance.
Datorios Drops New Lineage Analyzer for Apache Flink
As businesses increase dependence on data-driven real-time automation and AI, and use Apache Flink to create those systems, the insights provided by Lineage Analyzer for Apache Flink are critically important to ensuring accuracy and availability. It accelerates development, troubleshooting, and optimization by Apache Flink developers and operators.
DeltaStream Raises $15 Million in Series A Funding
Event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka have become essential in today’s data-driven industries, with many sectors adopting real-time data streaming. As AI advances, real-time data is becoming even more critical for applications.
Firebolt Brings Low Latency Analytics with New CDW Release
Firebolt is designed to meet the high demands of modern data workloads. Recognizing the need for a modern solution, Firebolt has reimagined how data should be stored, processed, and utilized, offering unmatched efficiency and low latency analytics. This engineering update marks a significant milestone in Firebolt’s mission to transform data warehousing.
Fivetran Unveils New Hybrid Deployment
Enterprises with sensitive data or in regulated industries often struggle to build data-driven practices. Seamless data access is critical for boosting efficiency, enabling AI-powered analytics and producing reliable data products. Centralizing data can lead to complex, costly systems that burden engineering teams.
HCLSoftware Acquires Metadata Management Vendor Zeenea
The acquisition of Zeenea enables Actian, a division of HCLSoftware, to offer a unified data intelligence and governance solution that empowers customers to seamlessly discover, govern, and maximize the value of their data assets. It also further extends Actian’s presence, workforce, and customer base in Europe.
LSE Group Announcs DataScope Warehouse
DataScope Warehouse provides customers with cloud-based access to LSEG’s comprehensive fixed income and equity data records. The solution supports Structured Query Language (SQL), enabling users to explore and query the Pricing and Reference database.
NetApp Extends Cloud-Based Data Services Partnership with AWS
NetApp and AWS have worked together for over a decade to jointly accelerate innovation for thousands of customers worldwide. In that time, NetApp has achieved more than a dozen AWS competencies, including the Manufacturing and Industrial Software, Financial Services Technology, and Cloud Operations Software competencies.
Opendatasoft Joins Databricks Partner Program
As a validated Databricks Technical Partner, Opendatasoft has developed an integration connector to enable its customers to seamlessly access and reuse data assets on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform through their data portals.
Panzura Releases New Symphony Data Services Platform
Panzura Symphony offers comprehensive vendor-certified data operations under a single pane of glass with support for various file system deployments and protocols, and on-premises, private, public, and hybrid cloud object storage including major providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage.
Precisely and Drexel University Drop Joint Data Integrity Survey
The 2025 Outlook: Data Integrity Trends and Insights report, published in partnership between Precisely and Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business, is available now –and it’s filled with actionable, strategic insights from over 550 leading data and analytics professionals.
Qlik AI-Driven Data Integration Now Listed in AWS Marketplace for US Government
Through its collaboration with AWS, Qlik supports AI adoption by improving data utilization and streamlining compliance for federal agencies. With Qlik now available in AWS ICMP, agencies can more efficiently manage, analyze, and apply their data to make better decisions.
Salesforce Releases New Data Cloud Innovations to Power Autonomous AI Agents
Building on Data Cloud’s promise to be open and extensible, organizations can bring their own data using additional pre-built Data Cloud connectors for apps like Square, Stripe, Meta, Splunk, and more. Data Cloud strengthens policy-based governance to better control how sensitive data is shared with Agentforce Agents.
SingleStore Partners with Snowflake
To make this possible, SingleStore has also developed a bi-directional Iceberg integration to share data with Snowflake, allowing Snowflake users to safely deploy a SingleStore cluster within their Snowflake accounts without having to move or copy data outside of the Snowflake governance boundary. Additionally, customers will be able to use Snowflake credits to pay for the compute to run their SingleStore workloads on the Snowflake platform.
Striim Previews Striim 5.0
Striim 5.0 addresses these demands with premier Change Data Capture (CDC) technology, seamless enterprise connectivity, and cutting-edge AI/ML capabilities. This latest release brings powerful enhancements in real-time data processing, real-time AI, and data security, empowering businesses to drive efficiency, innovate faster, and safeguard their data.
SurrealDB Enhances Security and Data Management Features
This latest release represents a major leap forward in database technology, with SurrealDB 2.0 specifically engineered to empower developers to build complex real-time applications faster, more cost-effectively, and at scale—across teams, data volumes, and diverse use cases.
Uniphore Releases New X-Stream Solution
Housed as an essential layer in Uniphore’s X-Platform, X-Stream will help enterprises get one step closer to AI sovereignty. It is the latest in a series of product announcements from the company focused on helping enterprises leverage their own data from various sources such as content management, CRM, data warehouses and business applications to fuel their digital transformation.
Yugabyte Announces Architecture Enhancements to Database Offering
These new capabilities — collectively called enhanced Postgres compatibility — enable a broader range of Postgres apps to run on YugabyteDB, making it the perfect database for companies building cloud-native applications and modernizing existing applications to a cloud-native RDBMS.
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, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.
Mini Jam LIVE is Back! Expert Panel – AI in Data Lifecycle Management: Automating Risk, Compliance & Security
Join us on September 26th at 10:00 AM EST for our Q3 “Mini Jam” event! Programming begins at 10 a.m. Eastern with an expert panel discussion on “AI in Data Lifecycle Management: Automating Risk, Compliance & Security” – moderated by Contoural CEO Mark Diamond and featuring Dave Cameron, David Loshin, Eric Kavanagh, William McKnight, and Yves Mulkers.
NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Seiner: Is Data Governance Just Government for Data?
While it’s true that having a solid data infrastructure is essential, it’s only a means to an end, not the end itself. And this platform-first mentality is not only problematic, but it also poses a serious threat to the long-term viability of data teams themselves. Harsh as it may sound.
NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Nicola Askham: What is Data Lineage?
In its simplest form, Data Lineage can be thought of as a diagram that shows you how data flows through an organisation from the first point that it comes in at. For example, imagine a customer placing an order on a website. That’s where the data journey begins. Then it might travel through various systems like order processing and inventory management, before landing in an organisation’s data warehouse for reporting.
NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Samir Sharma: Are Data Trams Building Platforms at the Expense of Strategy?
While it’s true that having a solid data infrastructure is essential, it’s only a means to an end, not the end itself. And this platform-first mentality is not only problematic, but it also poses a serious threat to the long-term viability of data teams themselves. Harsh as it may sound.
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Tim King
Executive Editor
Tim is Solutions Review's Executive Editor and leads coverage on data management and analytics. A 2017 and 2018 Most Influential Business Journalist and 2021 "Who's Who" in Data Management, Tim is a recognized industry thought leader and changemaker. Story? Reach him via email at tking@solutionsreview dot com.
