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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of January 17, 2025.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n For early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review<\/em>, join Insight Jam<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.<\/p>\n A new data liquidity survey conducted by Hanover Research and sponsored by Boomi measures how well an organization can get the right data to the right place at the right time. The survey\u2019s 750 respondents revealed several key findings about the importance of data integration to data liquidity.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The company pitches\u00a0dbt Cloud as a kind of \u201cdata control plane\u201d that\u2019s designed to assist with every stage of the analytics development lifecycle. It\u2019s compatible with various data warehouse platforms, including Snowflake, Databricks, and Google BigQuery.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Without repeating workflows, the software connects information across data sets to form insights that could not have been discovered using natural language search within individual documents. Clients gain speed to knowledge, plus the ability to analyze up to 500,000 documents per hour.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n This executive team change comes at a time of accelerated growth at Hydrolix. With revenue growing 8x from Q4 of 2023 to Q4 of 2024, Hydrolix grew its customer roster from 39 to 389, or an order of magnitude increase.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Informatica\u2019s Native SQL ELT supports Databricks AI Functions through no-code data\u00a0pipelines, opening Databricks GenAI capabilities to no-code users. Databricks\u2019 AI Functions enable customers to use GenAI capabilities,\u00a0including sentiment analysis, similarity matching, summary generation, translation and grammar correction on customer data directly from SQL.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n With this release, MariaDB customers have a single, complete database solution that supports a full range of transactional, analytical, semi-structured and now, artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The MariaDB database has been downloaded over a billion times and is used extensively across both small and large organizations across the globe.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The startup is the creator of what is believed to be the\u00a0first copilot for Databricks, using generative AI to\u00a0simplify and streamline the preparation of raw business data for AI applications and analytics workloads. Prophecy\u2019s copilot makes corporate data, both structured and unstructured, easily accessible to users no matter where it\u2019s located, be it in the cloud or in on-premises servers.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n The acquisition combines Upsolver\u2019s real-time ingestion to Iceberg and adaptive optimization with Qlik\u2019s end-to-end data platform, enabling organizations to access data faster, optimize their data estate, reduce costs, and unlock AI-driven insights.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Focused exclusively on virtualization workloads, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine provides a tailored option for deploying, managing, and scaling virtual machines (VMs), removing features unrelated to VM management. This ensures organizations can maximize the value of OpenShift Virtualization while aligning with their specific infrastructure needs.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Founded by Dr. Muckai Girish, Dr. Vyas Sekar, Dr. Giulia Fanti and Mr. Nathan Haugo, Rockfish Data is revolutionizing how enterprises and public sector organizations overcome data silos that severely limit the efficacy of AI\/ML and analytics workflows today.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Built on a high-performance Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) architecture, it handles vast data volumes without increasing overheads. In addition, its low-code, universal mapping design reduces the configuration and management efforts of technical teams, enabling faster and more efficient deployment of Snowflake integrations.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n Fueled by Snowflake\u2019s $20 million investment, the One Million Minds + One Platform program will provide Snowflake-delivered training and certification courses to students and workers in high-growth and emerging markets around the world.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n In collaboration with\u00a0Skillify<\/a>,\u00a0Solutions Review<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Insight Jam<\/em><\/strong><\/a> co-developed this survey to help facilitate the shift from reactive measures to proactive strategies. The\u00a0Survey for Tech Professionals<\/em>\u00a0aims to explore the areas that will shape the future of tech work, including the evolving role of soft skills, the impact of AI on your job, and strategies for navigating uncertainty while maintaining the drive for innovation.<\/p>\n Read on for more<\/a><\/p>\n They discuss how AI has become integral to daily workflows, making it a prime target for attacks, while also examining various security measures and protective strategies. They also address concerns about cloud security and the importance of responsible AI implementation with proper recovery and resilience measures.<\/p>\n Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Join us LIVE on Thursday, January 30th, for an exclusive Solution Spotlight event: “NIS2 Directive and How Secureworks Can Help.” Learn how their company can your business with NIS2 compliance. Live product demo and Q&A included!<\/p>\n Register free on LinkedIn Live<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Much like the evolution of AI necessitated AI governance, quantum computing demands its own variation on a governance framework \u2014 what we can call \u201cQ Governance.\u201d This column explores why the time to start thinking about Q Governance is now and how the\u00a0Non-Invasive Data Governance\u00a0(NIDG) approach can serve as a foundation.\u00a0It\u2019s all in the data.<\/p>\n Read on Solutions Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n This post explores the challenges organizations face in designing data, metadata, and AI strategies based on my experiences delivering workshops at various international conferences last year. If you\u2019re interested in addressing these challenges, I invite you to join a free<\/em> Masterclass: Aligning Data and AI Strategies<\/a> on January 23rd.<\/p>\nTop Data Management News for the Week Ending January 17<\/strong>, 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Boomi and Hanover Research Find Firms Prioritizing ‘Data Liquidity’<\/strong><\/h4>\n
dbt Labs Acquires SDF Labs<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Epiq Unveils AI Discovery Assistant<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Hydrolix Names Todd Persen as New CTO<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Informatica Extends Partnership with Databricks<\/strong><\/h4>\n
MariaDB Announces Enterprise Platform 2025<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Prophecy Raises $47 Million in Series B Extension Funding<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Qlik Acquires Upsolver<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Red Hat Launches OpenShift Virtualization Engine<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Rockfish Data Nabs Seed Round Funding<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Semarchy Launches MDM Platform on Snowflake<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Snowflake Launches ‘One Million Minds’ & $20 Million Toward AI Upskilling<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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<\/a>Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam<\/em>, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. 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.<\/p>\nFuture of Work: Take the 2025 Skiilify Survey of Tech Professionals Now<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Insight Jam Recap: How Will AI Shape the Future of Data Governance and Compliance?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
January 30: Solutions Review Set to Host Secureworks Panel of Experts on the NIS2 Directive<\/strong><\/h4>\n
NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Bob Seiner: Too Soon for Q Governance?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
NEW by SR Expert @ Insight Jam Irina Steenbeek: Challenges with Defining and Aligning (Meta)Data & AI Strategies<\/strong><\/h4>\n