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• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia replaced by former ServiceNow CEO

  Frank Slootman, who led ServiceNow and Data Domain through successful IPOs, is the new chairman and CEO of cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake, replacing former CEO Bob Muglia.

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia talks cloud data warehouse evolution

  In this Q&A, now-former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia discusses the vendor's decision to embrace cloud data warehousing and how the industry is changing as more data moves to the cloud.

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Wayfair charts open source components course to growth

  Teams at Wayfair mix new open source tools to power customer-facing apps. In such shops, tech leaders like Ben Clark must deftly maneuver an obstacle course of data components.

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  MongoDB buys Realm database to boost mobile chops

  MongoDB is buying Realm, the maker of an open source database for cross-platform mobile applications, to boost its Atlas cloud platform and Stitch backend as a service.

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  Google takes a run at enterprise cloud data management

  New Google Cloud boss Thomas Kurian is putting databases and data management at the forefront at Google. The vendor has forged key data deals, showing a more mature Google Cloud.

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• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  Kafka at center of new event processing infrastructure

  Events are as important as data in emerging applications underlying many e-commerce efforts. Streams of events tell a company what motivates customers to use online products.

• April 04, 2019 04 Apr'19

  Tools manage performance for big data cloud applications

  Tools such as Unravel and Pepperdata offer a way to measure performance of big data cloud applications, which may aid companies with on-premises configuration issues.

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Facebook alumni forge own paths to big data analytics tools

  Startups Interana and Rockset differ in their approaches to providing new query capabilities on fast-arriving big data. Both are led by technologists who started at Facebook.

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Building a business glossary enhances data governance

  Experts say data professionals are responsible for establishing a common vocabulary across the organization to help ensure data governance success and GDPR compliance.

• March 21, 2019 21 Mar'19

  Machine learning approaches gain critical mass for data pros

  Machine learning will bring change to analytics and data management, said data luminary Michael Stonebraker. Others agree managing such change will take special effort.

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Big data management practices gain attention amid risks

  Many data professionals have yet to solidify traditional data management practices, but they have a new set of challenges to overcome to ensure data privacy and avoid misuse.

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Aerospike database garners Spark, Kafka connectors

  Apache Kafka and Apache Spark connectors ease use of the Aerospike NoSQL data store in high-speed applications such as analytics that are becoming more broadly supported.

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Data catalog software takes on data lakes, privacy laws

  Data catalog systems form a hub for managing a company's data. New products are focusing on machine learning and AI add-ons that help automate some aspects of data governance.

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  Hazelcast grid tunes for data scalability tradeoffs

  An in-memory data grid (IMDG) from Hazelcast lets designers tune subsystems to support consistency over availability, or the reverse, depending on what designers want.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Originators form group to boost Presto SQL query engine

  The Presto engine arose as an alternative to Hive for big data queries. Now, the Presto Software Foundation has formed to promote the SQL query software's virtues.