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• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  Nutanix boosts data management services in the cloud

  Nutanix is aiming to make it easier to manage, deploy and protect data and databases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a series of product updates.

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  Kafka streaming data gets governance from Confluent

  Apache Kafka event streaming from Confluent helps online grocery provider Instacart deliver milk to customers when they need it, by helping to power real-time inventory updates.

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  StreamNative raises $23M for Apache Pulsar data streaming

  Leading vendor behind the open source event streaming project raised new funds to help build out a cloud platform for event data and message streaming.

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Snowflake aims at financial services with data cloud

  Snowflake launches its new Data Cloud offering as it continues to expand the range of applications and capabilities for its customers, including Western Union and Capital One.

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Alation boosts platform with new data governance application

  The new Alation service provides a series of capabilities to improve governance, including a centralized dashboard and data steward workbench for managing workflow.

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• September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21

  Materialize brings streaming SQL database to the cloud

  To date, streaming database startup Materialize has not had a managed cloud service -- but that's changing, with a preview of the company's cloud DBaaS platform.

• September 09, 2021 09 Sep'21

  How VMware's CDO views data management

  The chief data officer of the virtualization vendor details her views on the increasing challenges of dealing with growing volumes of data and the critical importance of data governance.

• August 31, 2021 31 Aug'21

  Databricks raises $1.6B more to boost data lakehouse

  Investors are super confident in the growth potential for cloud data management and analytics as the impact of the Snowflake IPO continues to ripple through the industry.

• August 31, 2021 31 Aug'21

  Apache Drill improves big data SQL query engine

  Open source SQL query engine gets new release that will expand the number of data sources that can be queried, including Elasticsearch, Splunk and Apache Cassandra.

• August 27, 2021 27 Aug'21

  Rockset advances real-time streaming data SQL queries

  Rockset previews new features in its cloud database platform to help organizations more easily use real-time data to support data analytics and business intelligence.

• August 25, 2021 25 Aug'21

  Cribl brings in $200M to advance data lake observability

  Cribl looks to grow its LogStream platform capabilities with new funding that will help the vendor grow operations and advance its data lake visibility technology.

• August 20, 2021 20 Aug'21

  With Amazon MemoryDB, AWS takes aim at Redis in the cloud

  The tech giant is offering its users a new managed Redis-compatible in-memory database platform that will compete against services from Redis, Google and Microsoft.

• August 19, 2021 19 Aug'21

  Hitachi Vantara expands Lumada DataOps suite

  Hitachi Vantara integrated its data management technologies into a new product suite intended to help organizations with data operations. Data governance is coming next.

• August 17, 2021 17 Aug'21

  Apollo GraphQL raises $130M to enable graph layer

  The CEO and co-founder of a graph layer vendor provides insight into the growing need for the graph layer as a data technology to help connect the front end to the back end.

• August 17, 2021 17 Aug'21

  Confluent builds out Kafka event streaming platform

  Confluent aims to make it easier for users to query data in motion coming from Apache Kafka, with the ksqlDB pull query capability in its cloud platform update.

• August 17, 2021 17 Aug'21

  Monte Carlo raises $60M to advance data observability

  Vendor Monte Carlo brought in new funding as it builds out new capabilities to bring more data trust and visibility to both data warehouses and data lakes.

• August 16, 2021 16 Aug'21

  MongoDB CTO's view of data challenges

  The database vendor CTO discusses cloud migration, organizational structure and collaboration, go-to-market challenges organizations face, and the value of a chief data officer.

• August 11, 2021 11 Aug'21

  Talend updates data fabric with more collaboration

  With its summer 2021 update, data integration vendor Talend boosted its data sharing and integration features to help business users share trusted data sources.

• August 10, 2021 10 Aug'21

  Kyligence 4.5 adds Clickhouse to Intelligent Data Cloud

  The open source Clickhouse OLAP database joins the Apache Kylin analytical data warehouse in a new update that provides a platform for different types of data queries.

• August 10, 2021 10 Aug'21

  Oracle puts MySQL HeatWave on Autopilot

  Oracle updated its MySQL database cloud service with new capabilities designed to automate and optimize database operations and query execution.

• August 06, 2021 06 Aug'21

  Why City Furniture embraced data virtualization

  With data coming from on-premises and cloud sources and spanning legacy systems, databases and even flat files, City Furniture faced problems bringing all its data together.

• August 04, 2021 04 Aug'21

  Varada scales cloud data platform with new release

  Varada realized it needed more flexibility to help its users scale its data lake query platform, so it added elasticity capabilities to help meet that demand.

• August 03, 2021 03 Aug'21

  Ahana raises $20M for Presto cloud data lake query tech

  Ahana looks to grow the market for its open source-based cloud data query engine as the volume of stored data that organizations want to analyze continues to expand.

• July 30, 2021 30 Jul'21

  Couchbase NoSQL database adds relational capabilities

  With its latest update, Couchbase introduced features that bring the equivalent of tables and schema to its database to reduce friction for those moving from a relational database.

• July 28, 2021 28 Jul'21

  Trifacta moves beyond data wrangling to DataOps

  'Data wrangling' is a term that Trifacta assigns to data preparation, but there is more than that to the concept as part of the vendor's Data Engineering Cloud platform.

• July 27, 2021 27 Jul'21

  Apache Cassandra 4.0 advances open source database

  Among the new features in the open source Cassandra database update are virtual tables that help operators improve performance and optimize operations.

• July 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  Couchbase IPO brings NoSQL database to the stock market

  Couchbase makes a move into the public markets with a Nasdaq listing as it continues to develop its NoSQL database technology that runs on premises and in the cloud.

• July 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  Observable expands enterprise data visualization platform

  Observable expanded its platform for larger organizations to collaborate on data projects that make information more intuitive to understand and use.

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  Monte Carlo Incident IQ looks to improve data observability

  Various problems can cause data pipelines to break or contain inaccurate information. Monte Carlo aims to help its users figure out the root cause and fix it.

• July 14, 2021 14 Jul'21

  Hazelcast Platform integrates data grid and event streaming

  Hazelcast's new technology will provide a unified SQL query engine on a single cluster that will allow users to query both real-time data and data at rest.

• July 14, 2021 14 Jul'21

  Informatica brings data governance and data catalog to cloud

  Informatica moves more of its on-premises capabilities into the cloud as it aims to provide an integrated data platform for multiple use cases, including analytics and AI.

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  MongoDB 5.0 expands open source document database operations

  At the MongoDB.live 2021 virtual conference, the vendor unveiled its next-generation database platform with more time-series data support and live re-sharding capabilities.

• July 09, 2021 09 Jul'21

  Rockset adds MySQL connector to real-time indexing database

  Rockset made a set of connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL generally available. The tools enable real-time data indexing for analytics on transactional data.

• July 08, 2021 08 Jul'21

  Silk advances cloud data migration with $55M funding round

  Silk has developed a virtualized data system that abstracts cloud resources, helping organizations port their on-premises databases to the cloud.

• July 07, 2021 07 Jul'21

  Meltano spins out from GitLab to advance DataOps platform

  Douwe Maan, founder and CEO of Meltano, outlines the new data startup's approach as it raises seed funding to advance an open source ELT system.

• June 25, 2021 25 Jun'21

  Fivetran looks to Teleport Data for database replication

  Fivetran is expanding its data integration capabilities with data validation technology that takes a different approach than change data capture for database replication.

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Firebolt raises $127M to fuel cloud data warehouse efforts

  Firebolt looks to grow in the cloud data warehouse market with a proprietary file format and a focus on enabling developers to build data-driven apps on top of cloud data lakes.

• June 24, 2021 24 Jun'21

  Confluent goes IPO as Kafka event streaming goes mainstream

  The lead commercial vendor behind the open source Apache Kafka event streaming platform goes public as the market opportunity for data in motion grows.

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  SingleStore updates unified database platform

  The database vendor formerly known as MemSQL is out with a major update that adds new storage and multicolumn key support functionality to its unified database platform.

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  PlanetScale CEO discusses $30M funding for cloud database

  The CEO and co-founder of PlanetScale, Jiten Vaidya, outlines the challenges and opportunities for his firm's open source distributed SQL cloud database.

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Neo4j raises $325M in funding to advance graph database

  Emil Eifrem, CEO and co-founder of Neo4j, discusses how the graph database vendor is seeing growing demand for its technology, with applications for data science and supply chain.

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Healthcare device maker boosts production with data quality

  One of the world's biggest ventilator manufacturers ramped up production during the pandemic by improving its own data health to better understand and optimize operations.

• June 10, 2021 10 Jun'21

  Quest updates Erwin Data Modeling and Data Intelligence

  Quest is looking to build out what it calls a data empowerment platform with the help of data modeling and other technology from its recently acquired Erwin business unit.

• June 10, 2021 10 Jun'21

  Prefect raises $32M for dataflow automation technology

  Data startup Prefect is looking to grow its open source project and commercial business to help organizations manage automated data pipeline requirements.

• June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  Snowflake expands cloud data warehouse platform to Snowpark

  Snowflake customer Instacart, the online grocery giant, uses the Snowpark cloud data warehouse to list all its services in a data catalog to improve the user experience.

• June 04, 2021 04 Jun'21

  Dremio accelerates data lake operations with Dart Initiative

  The cloud data lake engine platform vendor looks to accelerate queries with its Dart Initiative, which uses a query cache plan to optimize SQL queries against data lakes.

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Q&A: Inside data catalog vendor Alation's $110M in funding

  Alation co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani shares why his company is raising money, where the technology is headed, and challenges facing data intelligence and data catalog technology.

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Cribl aims to ease data observability with LogStream update

  LogStream 3.0 brings new configuration capabilities to Cribl's pipeline technology that can help organizations optimize log and metrics data.

• June 01, 2021 01 Jun'21

  After sluggish revenues, Cloudera goes private in $5.3B deal

  Big data vendor Cloudera is looking to expand its SaaS capabilities by exiting the public markets and acquiring startups Cazena and Datacoral to bring new self-service features.

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Google Datastream advances change data capture in the cloud

  At Google's Data Cloud Summit, a new service released in preview to enable users to capture data from other sources to bring into Google's cloud data and analytics services.

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Databricks opens up data lakes for data sharing

  At its virtual Data + AI Summit, the AI vendor detailed new capabilities to make information stored in cloud data lakes more accessible and secure.

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Microsoft builds distributed ledger for Azure SQL database

  The tech giant debuted new database services, including more security for Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL, and a distributed ledger for Azure SQL.

• May 21, 2021 21 May'21

  Superconductive raises $21M for open source data quality

  The open source Great Expectations project is becoming increasingly popular, as the commercial vendor seeks to build out a cloud service to expand the project's reach.

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  CockroachDB version 21.1 simplifies distributed SQL database

  Cockroach Labs updated its database platform with enhanced capabilities giving database administrators more control over where and how data is distributed around the world.

• May 19, 2021 19 May'21

  Syncari raises $17.3M for automated cloud data sync

  Data synchronization vendor is looking to solve the challenge of keeping data updated and automated across multiple cloud systems in a unified data model.

• May 18, 2021 18 May'21

  PlanetScale launches new database-as-a-service platform

  The main vendor behind the open source Vitess distributed SQL cloud platform for MySQL is out with a new cloud platform that will integrate well with developer-based workflows.

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  ChaosSearch brings SQL to cloud data lake platform

  The cloud data lake engine provider expands beyond log search, with a multi-model API that now includes SQL query execution for analytics and BI.

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Kafka users detail real-time data benefits

  Confluent introduces a series of new real-time data efforts as users of the open source data-streaming technology outline real-world deployment applications.

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  K2View updates DataOps platform with data fabric automation

  A data operations platform vendor is bringing new capabilities to its data platform that will help organizations more easily integrate and automate the movement of data.

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  MariaDB expands SkySQL cloud database for high availability

  The Xpand distributed SQL capability is now generally available on the MariaDB SkySQL DBaaS, providing users with more performance and scalability.

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Future of data management is in the cloud

  Organizations are increasingly moving their data management efforts to the cloud with cloud database systems set to produce the majority of revenue by 2022.

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Syniti boosts DataOps chops with DMR merger

  The CEO of an enterprise data management vendor explains why his firm is merging with Data Migration Resources to expand their reach and data quality offerings.

• April 27, 2021 27 Apr'21

  Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 unifies database management

  The updated tool introduces a database workload analyzer feature to help administrators optimize operation on premises and in the cloud.

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Redis Labs previews future database and caching features

  Open source database vendor previews a series of upcoming improvements as Redis users at RedisConf 2021 provide insights into how they are using the technology today.

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  Oracle brings GoldenGate data integration service to cloud

  Oracle is making its GoldenGate real-time data technology available on its second-generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform, as well as enabling multi-cloud operations.

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Era Software raises $15.25M for enterprise data management

  The startup that began as the EraDB time series database is advancing its efforts with new funding and a cloud service for its EraSearch data management platform.

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Dgraph GraphQL database users detail graph use cases

  Graph DB vendor Dgraph Labs is expanding its AWS cloud footprint with new regions and adding change data capture capabilities in its latest open source release.

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Pandemic triggered data security movement to DBaaS

  Database-as-a-service technology has aided enterprises tasked with keeping data secure with IT professionals working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Soda launches cloud service to improve data observability

  Data quality vendor Soda has had a busy 2021, building out new services and raising funding to help organizations identify and remediate data quality problems.

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Bigeye raises $17M Series A funding to boost data quality

  The former Uber product manager and current CEO and co-founder of a startup outlines the challenges and opportunities of enabling a new data trust platform with data quality at its foundation.

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Informatica pulls together cloud data management in the cloud

  Informatica rolls out its Intelligent Data Management Cloud, as customers provide insight into cloud data management challenges and opportunities at Informatica World 2021.

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Alation brings data catalog technology to the public cloud

  Alation's data intelligence technology is getting easier for organizations to use, with a new managed service that can help enterprises better use the data they have.

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Yellowbrick Manager embraces Kubernetes for data warehouse

  Yellowbrick is building out a new unified control plane to help users manage distributed cloud data warehouse deployments. The vendor also advanced its data lake integration.

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Trifacta unveils new integrations to enable data wrangling

  Trifacta on Wednesday unveiled an updated tool to enable customers to work with their directly in Google BigQuery along with two new integrations designed to improve data preparation.

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  Upsolver raises $25M for no-code data lake platform

  Upsolver's CEO discusses why the vendor is raising new money to advance its cloud data lake go-to-market efforts, and technologies such as the open source Presto query engine.

• April 02, 2021 02 Apr'21

  Vaccination data poses data management challenges for firms

  If companies are considering the use of vaccination credentials to reopen offices, IT teams should start planning now.

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Aiven set to grow open source database-as-a-service platform

  There is no shortage of challenges and competition in the open source database market, but Aiven CTO Heikki Nousiainen sees opportunities for growth.

• March 26, 2021 26 Mar'21

  Presto users detail what's next for open source SQL engine

  The open source Presto project is gaining adoption beyond just Uber and Facebook as the need to connect and query disparate sources of data continues to be in demand.

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  CrateDB 4.5 takes distributed SQL database open source

  The distributed SQL database vendor is out with a new version of its CrateDB database that brings improved security and management features for on-premises and cloud deployments.

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Incorta 5 advances direct data mapping technology

  The big data analytics platform vendor will add more data connectors and advance data visualization capabilities as enterprises' need for more insights from data continues to grow.

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse updated with new data tools

  Oracle is updating its cloud data warehouse platform with new tools that aim to enable users to more easily benefit from data analytics and machine learning predictions.

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Instaclustr acquires Credativ to boost managed databases

  The managed open source database services vendor is looking to grow its platform offering by bringing in new expertise to enable PostgreSQL deployments.

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Starburst and Varada partner for Trino data platform effort

  Managing Trino, the open source project formerly known as PrestoSQL, could get easier and faster with a new partnership from two leading vendors in the market.

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  Flatfile looks to be universal translator for data loading

  Startup raises new funding to help advance its vision for making it easier for business users to extract, load and transform data from one source to another.

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  Precisely looks to boost data integrity software platform

  Precisely is getting an infusion of capital as it moves forward with its decades-long business mission to help organizations use data effectively to make key decisions.

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  Apache Daffodil advancing Data Format Description Language

  Data integration and data loading efforts could get easier to execute, as open source DFDL project becomes a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation.

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Oracle Database 21c looks for adoption of blockchain tables

  Blockchain isn't just for cryptocurrency. The technology can be an additional layer of security and authenticity enabling an immutable transaction ledger in a relational database.

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Yugabyte raises $48M to build out distributed SQL database

  The leader of a young open source database company explains why the vendor is raising new money as the demand for cloud scalability continues to grow.

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Microsoft ignites Apache Cassandra Azure service

  Microsoft rolled out a series of enhancements for the company's cloud data efforts, including updates to Azure Cosmos DB and a new database service for Cassandra.

• March 02, 2021 02 Mar'21

  Airbyte set to advance open source data integration platform

  The CEO of a data integration startup explains how he is looking to grow the technology and community behind the vendor's open source data extract and loading platform.

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  DataStax Astra serverless DBaaS optimizes deployments

  DataStax is changing how its DBaaS works, providing a way for users to more easily scale both up and own and only pay for the resources that are consumed.

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  AWS Data Exchange and the third-party cloud data marketplace

  The general manager of the AWS Data Exchange data feed service details what the cloud data marketplace is all about and where it's headed in the future.

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  Hasura 2.0 expands GraphQL API-to-database connectivity

  Hasura is looking beyond solely transactional databases with its new platform update, enabling users to more easily connect with BigQuery as well as other data sources.

• February 19, 2021 19 Feb'21

  Alation 2021.1 data catalog improves data intelligence

  Alation updated its platform with new features for data discovery and search, as well as more data governance capabilities to enhance data trust.

• February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

  Grafana Enterprise brings observability stack on premises

  Grafana Labs is launching a new on-premises project stack for data observability, based on a series of open source projects that the company leads or supports.

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  Matillion raises $100M for ETL to enable data middleware

  The co-founder and CEO of Matillion, talks about his company’'s latest round of Series D funding and how data will be the key to success for many organizations in 2021.

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  New SingleStore CIO's vision is to enrich lives through data

  Oliver Schabenberger is moving from BI and analytics to data management, and in this Q&A discusses his surprising departure from an established vendor to go to a newer company.

• February 12, 2021 12 Feb'21

  YugabyteDB 2.4 brings new Spark to distributed SQL database

  Distributed SQL database vendor issues new stable release of its platform, adding support for Apache Spark 3.0 and encryption for data at rest.

• February 12, 2021 12 Feb'21

  Starburst Galaxy brings Trino to the cloud

  Starburst previewed a new managed service based on the open source Trino-based data management and query engine platform technology during the Datanova virtual conference.

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Talend CEO talks about vendor's growth strategy

  With its cloud business a primary driver of growth, Talend is progressing toward the goal of increasing annual revenue from $250 million to $1 billion.