Data Management News for the Week of June 21: Updates from Actian, Astronomer, Reltio & More
Executive Summary by Tim King, Executive Editor at Solutions Review
Notable data management news for the week of June 21, 2024, has been curated by Tim King. This roundup includes vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, and talent acquisition.
Actian Unveils Zen 16.0 Database for Edge Computing
Zen 16.0 offers a small footprint with fast read and write access and automatic administration suited for resource-constrained environments. It’s designed to support high-performance intelligent applications with minimal administration.
Astronomer Names New SVP of R&D
Astronomer has appointed Christopher Lefelhocz as the new Senior Vice President of Research and Development. Lefelhocz brings extensive expertise in scaling engineering teams and driving innovation.
Datadog Releases Data Jobs Monitoring Product
This new product helps data platform teams and engineers detect issues in Spark and Databricks jobs, remediate failures, and optimize compute resources to reduce costs.
Fauna Announces Open Beta of Fauna Schema
Fauna Schema blends the structure of traditional relational databases with the flexibility of modern document models, aiming to boost development speed and reliability.
Infoworks AI Launch
Infoworks has launched Infoworks AI, aimed at tackling the significant issue of data preparation for AI and analytics, which consumes up to 80% of data professionals’ time.
OpenAI Acquires Rockset
OpenAI has acquired Rockset, known for its vector search technology that enhances AI-powered applications like recommendation engines and voice assistants. Rockset will now support OpenAI’s ChatGPT infrastructure.
Precisely Expands AWS Partnership
Precisely’s AWS Mainframe Modernization Application Testing ensures functional equivalence between source mainframe applications and modernized targets, leveraging real-time CDC capabilities for data comparison.
Reltio Releases Latest Version of Connected Data Platform
The new release features velocity packs, enhanced data resiliency, cross-regional disaster recovery, and expanded AI and machine learning capabilities.
Expert Insights Section
Keep an eye out for upcoming events, new thought leadership, and key resources to gain forward-thinking analysis and stay on trend in the enterprise tech community.
SR Thought Leader Eric Herzog offers crucial considerations for buying enterprise storage in 2024, emphasizing performance, reliability, cost-effectiveness, capacity, and usability.
Sanjay Poonen on Insight Jam Podcast
Cohesity CEO Sanjay Poonen discusses cybersecurity challenges and the impact of AI on the workforce.
AI Governance Framework Discussion
Experts emphasize the necessity of a robust AI governance framework to ensure transparency, ethical use, accountability, compliance, and risk management.
Source: Data Management News for the Week of June 21; Updates from Actian, Astronomer, Reltio & More.
