Data Management News for the Week of September 29; Updates from Confluent, Denodo, Upsolver & More

Solutions Review editors curated this list of the most noteworthy data management news items for the week of September 29, 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 September 29, 2023

Atlan Launches New Tag Management Functionality

To solve this challenge for data teams, Atlan is launching Tag Management — a new way for data teams to manage data access across the modern data stack. Tags are important metadata that can be assigned to data assets to monitor sensitive data for compliance, discovery, and protection use cases.

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Cleo Unveils Enhanced Ecosystem Integration Platform Features

Cleo’s CIC 2023 platform is the company’s most powerful platform release to date and includes multiple enhancements and new functionality to support the design, operation, and management of these ecosystem integrations.

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Confluent Unveils New Data Streaming for AI Tools

Confluent is expanding partnerships with leading AI vector databases, including MongoDB, Pinecone, Rockset, Weaviate, and Zilliz. It is also demonstrating product innovations that incorporate the latest advances in AI into its platform, with capabilities like a generative AI-powered assistant that helps generate code and answer questions about the data streaming environment.

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Denodo Partners with Sentinel on Data Trust & Compliance

The offering enables organizations that manage large volumes of data across many different systems to identify all instances of where personally identifiable information (PII) resides without having to scour multitudes of records and/or files. Data Sentinel scans the contents of all these sources and assigns classifications to all instances of potentially sensitive information.

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Fujitsu Partners with Alation on Faster Decision-Making

According to the companies, combining Fujitsu’s end-to-end capabilities in advanced data analytics and Alation’s Data Intelligence Platform that makes it easy for more than 500 organizations to find, understand, and trust data, this partnership offers customers a streamlined approach to managing their data as a strategic asset.

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Nextdata Raises $12 Million in Seed Funding for Data Decentralization Solution

More than a thousand companies have signed up for early access to Nextdata OS, and pilots with Fortune 100 global enterprises are putting data mesh into action and demonstrating how Nextdata OS can empower business domains to own, share and connect high-quality data in a peer-to-peer fashion to accelerate data discovery and use. The funding will serve to expand the company’s diverse, remote-first team to take Nextdata OS from proof-of-concept to market.

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Revefi Raises $10.5 Million in Seed Funding for Data Quality Management Platform

Mayfield Managing Partner Navin Chaddha led the seed round. GTMfund, Neythri Futures Fund, ThoughtSpot co-founder and executive chairman Ajeet Singh, and 13 other strategic investors also participated. Their investments are a vote of confidence in the vision and track record of Revefi co-founders and leaders Sanjay Agrawal and Shashank Gupta.

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Timescale Announces the Launch of Vector Database

With Timescale Vector, which sits atop Timescale’s production-grade cloud PostgreSQL platform, developers can now leverage a single platform for managing relational data, vector embeddings, time-series data, analytics and event data that powers their next-generation AI applications.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Upsolver for Exclusive Spotlight Webinar on October 12

With the next Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading data movement tools provider Upsolver. The vendor will dive into the urgent need for application developers to deliver fresh, high-quality data to the warehouse or lake in a form ready for analytics and machine learning.

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