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• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  Swim Continuum advances event streaming data intelligence

  The vendor is continuing to build out its technology aimed at enabling organizations to build applications that use real-time data to improve operations.

• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  White House: Data backups critical part of cyber strategy

  Security experts and vendors support the White House's suggestions, such as offline data backups, to promote cyber resilience.

• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  Tableau analytics platform update targets efficiency

  The vendor's first 2022 release includes capabilities that make natural language query easier and aid dashboard developers as they build new assets.

• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  Rewind adds Atlassian Jira backups to supported services

  Rewind's Backups for Jira expands its portfolio of supported SaaS platforms with Jira Software Cloud. New Rewind technology will add new SaaS requests faster.

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  Oracle HeatWave ML fuses machine learning with database

  The tech giant is continuing to build out the capabilities of its MySQL HeatWave cloud database with real-time elasticity, performance boosts and machine learning integration.

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• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  Pinecone raises $28M to advance vector database

  The startup's database technology enables enterprises to use traditional data stores alongside vector-based data to support advanced data queries and search.

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Snowflake launches industry-specific data cloud for retail

  Retail Data Cloud is the vendor's fourth industry-specific data cloud, and comes prepackaged with data sets and capabilities to enable efficient data management and analytics.

• March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22

  Data, analytics remain key tools as pandemic abates

  The past two years have shown the vital role of analytics, and even as some COVID-19 restrictions ease, many organizations now understand BI is a permanent part of decision-making.

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  DataStax Astra DB integrates real-time data streaming

  The database-as-a-service vendor advanced the change data capture capabilities of its cloud database with technology from its Apache Pulsar-based streaming service.

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  PlanetScale eases serverless database schema migration

  The database-as-a-service platform vendor looks to make it easier for developers to build data-driven applications and revert schema changes when needed.

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  Domo BI update includes app development, multi-cloud tools

  The vendor's platform update highlights its focus on applications as a way to extend analytics to more business users and expands the platform's multi-cloud capabilities.

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  StarTree brings Apache Pinot real-time database to the cloud

  The open source Apache Pinot OLAP data store is set to become easier to deploy, manage and operate in the cloud with improved data ingestion and data observability capabilities.

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  Domo making app development a focus of analytics platform

  With a new CEO in place, one of the cloud-based vendor's main goals is to get data into the hands of more business users within the flow of their everyday work.

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  Seeking truth in crisis times shows importance of metadata

  Metadata gives context to data, and during crises like the war in Ukraine when it's difficult to know what news to trust, context can help distinguish truth from fiction.

• March 17, 2022 17 Mar'22

  Snowflake brings data cloud to healthcare and life sciences

  Snowflake is continuing to build out its industry vertical platform offerings, helping users in different market segments collect, share and analyze data.

• March 17, 2022 17 Mar'22

  Jitsuin rebrands as RKVST for blockchain data assurance

  The RKVST platform supports multiple types of blockchain data applications, including secured SBOM data sharing for cybersecurity.

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Pyramid Analytics helps LionShare increase speed, efficiency

  Using the BI vendor's platform, the healthcare marketing and CRM firm has improved speed to insight and increased customer engagement with data for its clients.

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Oracle Multi-VM Autonomous Database lands on Exadata systems

  The tech giant now enables users of the Exadata Cloud at Customer service to run multiple types of the vendor's fully managed and unmanaged databases on the same hardware.

• March 15, 2022 15 Mar'22

  Redis launches JSON database capabilities with RedisJSON 2.0

  The data platform vendor is growing beyond its data caching roots to support more data types and full database capabilities that integrate with RediSearch indexing technology.

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  Fauna brings real-time streaming to serverless database

  The ability to directly subscribe to real-time updates is the latest feature for the Fauna database that can help developers quickly bring data to applications.

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Instaclustr to support Karapace open source schema registry

  Instaclustr is joining rival Aiven in an effort to support an open source technology that brings REST proxy and schema technology to Kafka event streaming.

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud update targets productivity

  The vendor's new and enhanced features are aimed at improving user efficiency and include a new browser extension along with added data governance capabilities.

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  An analyst's blueprint for choosing a cloud data platform

  Though choosing the tools that best fit the needs of an organization is difficult, analyst Doug Henschen has come up with a series of steps that can serve as a guide.

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Databricks extends data lakehouse platform to healthcare

  Healthcare data exists in widely varying formats. Getting it into a data lake where it can be used for analytics and machine learning is a challenge Databricks is looking to meet.

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  Use of data, analytics a growing part of battle for equality

  As technology plays a larger role in working toward a more equitable world, the practice of using analytics to further social causes is becoming more widespread.

• March 08, 2022 08 Mar'22

  DataStax scales K8ssandra for cloud-native Cassandra

  The real-time data vendor is out with a new release of its K8ssandra Kubernetes operator that enables organizations to deploy, configure and run the Apache Cassandra database.

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Differentiation key for independent Pyramid Analytics

  A strong set of augmented intelligence capabilities and an end-to-end platform are enabling the vendor to grow despite not having the backing of a large parent company.

• March 04, 2022 04 Mar'22

  Directus brings Open Data Platform technology to the cloud

  The vendor's new managed cloud service is designed to enable organizations to connect applications, business intelligence and websites to data sources and databases.

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Dremio opens up data lakehouse with new engine

  The data lakehouse vendor is expanding its cloud platform with a new SQL query engine and data metastore for data lakes that builds on top of the Apache Iceberg table format.

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Domo CEO Josh James steps down, John Mellor promoted

  The analytics vendor's leadership change comes as it continues to add functionality to its platform and after it reported strong fourth-quarter and full-year revenue growth.

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Anomalo Pulse dashboard aims for data quality insights

  The startup is enhancing its platform by providing users with a new dashboard that brings visibility into the state of data used for data analytics and business intelligence.

• March 01, 2022 01 Mar'22

  Imply Polaris brings Apache Druid database to the cloud

  Imply's new Polaris cloud database services builds on the open source Druid technology, with integrated data ingestion capabilities and a new multi-stage query engine.

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  Sisense analytics tools spur growth at Hastings Mutual

  The insurance company is using the BI vendor's tools to improve data-driven decision-making efficiency and identify sales opportunities leading to revenue growth.

• February 28, 2022 28 Feb'22

  DBT Labs raises expectations for data transformation

  DBT Labs co-founder and CEO Tristan Handy outlines his view on the modern data stack, how the vendor's technology powers data pipelines and why he raised money now.

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  SentinelOne reboots Scalyr as enterprise data platform

  The cybersecurity vendor launches DataSet as a separate technology service from its core cybersecurity platform to help organizations manage and query large volumes of data.

• February 24, 2022 24 Feb'22

  Ahana aims to improve Presto data lake security in the cloud

  Data startup Ahana has updated its Presto cloud platform with integrated governance and control capabilities for data lake deployments.

• February 24, 2022 24 Feb'22

  MetLife improves efficiency with Tibco Data Virtualization

  The insurance giant's investment management division has reduced its data integration process from weeks to hours since adopting the analytics vendor's technology in 2017.

• February 24, 2022 24 Feb'22

  OwnBackup SaaS data protection expansion includes ServiceNow

  Following major funding rounds and acquisitions, SaaS data protection vendor OwnBackup has made its move into new territory. Further SaaS support is on the horizon.

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Couchbase Mobile 3 brings NoSQL database to the edge

  The vendor looks to integrate an edge-to-cloud database architecture with a new release that provides developers with tools to manage distributed database deployments.

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Power BI platform adds new data prep, mobile capabilities

  Microsoft added more than 40 features to its main analytics tool this month, including enhancements to data preparation capabilities and upgraded mobile formatting options.

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Voltron Data takes aim at data management with Apache Arrow

  CEO and co-founder Josh Patterson outlines the promise of the new language-agnostic data analytics development framework and why the vendor is raising big money to support it.

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Alteryx makes personnel changes to navigate cloud journey

  The longtime data management vendor has remade its C-suite over the past few years, including adding a new CEO and president, as it modernizes its technology.

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  Veritas NetBackup 10 promises multi-cloud data automation

  The latest release of Veritas NetBackup refocuses its data protection and management capabilities on Kubernetes containers, SaaS tools and more frequent updates.

• February 17, 2022 17 Feb'22

  Hyperledger expands open source blockchain efforts

  The CTO of a major blockchain group provides insight into the growing effort to build open source blockchain technologies for enterprises, though challenges remain.

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  Salesforce, Tableau unveil trio of new integrations

  As part of its Spring '22 Release, the CRM giant added three new tools powered by the analytics vendor's augmented intelligence capabilities.

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  ArangoDB 3.9 scales graph database operations

  The open source graph database vendor released a new version of its platform with new features to enable users to better deal with the challenges of growing data workloads.

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  InfluxData expands time series database capabilities

  The open source-based InfluxDB platform is adding capabilities to better handle data coming from industrial sensors and devices that enable organizations to optimize operations.

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  Retrospect Backup adds anomaly detection, Azure immutability

  In its latest software update, Retrospect Backup updates with more precise capabilities, including cyber-attack visibility features and enhancements for Azure Blob storage.

• February 14, 2022 14 Feb'22

  Proactive risk mitigation should be a business priority

  Every organization will likely deal with a critical event at some point, but many are still reluctant to make proactive risk mitigation a priority.

• February 14, 2022 14 Feb'22

  Elastic 8.0 aims to enhance search relevance

  Elastic is updating its flagship platform with a major release that adds enhanced vector search and natural language processing capabilities to improve data query results.

• February 11, 2022 11 Feb'22

  Good data-driven decision-making avoids common pitfalls

  Avoiding cognitive biases that can lead to the use of incomplete or inaccurate data is crucial to the successful use of analytics.

• February 10, 2022 10 Feb'22

  Data quality startup Superconductive raises $40M

  The vendor behind the open source Great Expectations data quality technology is looking to build a commercial cloud service to help data professionals accurately profile data.

• February 10, 2022 10 Feb'22

  Vast Data, Commvault partner for faster backup, recovery

  Vast Data is using its high-performance flash as a backup target for Commvault's software, bringing its efforts to compete with HDDs to the purpose-built backup appliance market.

• February 10, 2022 10 Feb'22

  Oracle Autonomous cloud database gains MongoDB API support

  The tech giant continues to build out its multimodel database capabilities with the general availability of a new API for widely used MongoDB applications.

• February 10, 2022 10 Feb'22

  ScyllaDB 5.0 set to advance NoSQL database capabilities

  At Scylla Summit 2022, the open source NoSQL database vendor introduced upcoming services including a DBaaS as well as a new platform release, and a user outlined its application.

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  Reverse ETL vendor Census raises $60M

  Census raises new money as the vendor ramps up its operations to help organizations get data from data warehouses to power large-scale business applications.

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  Crate & Barrel modernizes with MicroStrategy BI platform

  The home decor chain added governance capabilities and sped time-to-insight by adopting the longtime analytics vendor's platform after 14 years using a legacy system.

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  Starburst brings in $250M to advance data mesh aspirations

  The vendor continues on its path toward an initial public offering, as demand for its open source Trino-based data lake query engine platform grows.

• February 08, 2022 08 Feb'22

  CloudCasa offers bring-your-own storage for Kubernetes backup

  The latest update for Catalogic's CloudCasa Kubernetes backup service offers new features to improve cloud security and enables users to bring their own choice of storage.

• February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22

  Analytics database vendor Exasol launches DBaaS on AWS

  The OLAP database vendor now has a new cloud service model that provides users with a managed instance for data analysis, business intelligence and machine learning.

• February 07, 2022 07 Feb'22

  Trusted data key to MicroStrategy platform plans

  The vendor plans to add new capabilities this year that will provide AI-generated guidance to better enable self-service users to take action using governed data.

• February 04, 2022 04 Feb'22

  Kasten, Veeam revenue reports reflect backup market strength

  Cloud and container-based protection were among the keys that helped Kasten, Veeam and Commvault hit major revenue increases. Security is a major focus for these vendors in 2022.

• February 03, 2022 03 Feb'22

  Use of AI and automation together an analytics trend in '22

  Analysts at BI vendor MicroStrategy's virtual user conference said the combination of the two technologies could deliver insights that lead to action in real time.

• February 03, 2022 03 Feb'22

  New Unitrends appliances provide pocket-sized data protection

  Unitrends gives SMBs and managed service providers local backup and recovery with its Ion appliance line. It also unveiled its Cyber Assurance Program for employee training.

• February 02, 2022 02 Feb'22

  Onehouse emerges with managed Apache Hudi data lake service

  One of the original creators of the Hudi project at Uber has launched a new company set to bring a managed service to market to operationalize cloud data lakes.

• February 02, 2022 02 Feb'22

  App development a focus of MicroStrategy analytics platform

  The longtime independent vendor is making application development and embedded BI priorities in order to enable data-driven decision-making in real time.

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Open source database vendor MariaDB set for IPO

  As cloud database-as-a-service demand grows, the open source-based relational database vendor is looking to go public, a decade after it was first forked from the MySQL database.

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  At Asigra, father-son team replaced by newly hired execs

  After running the private company for more than 30 years, David and Eran Farajun will turn day-to-day leadership of Asigra over to a newly hired team of executives.

• January 31, 2022 31 Jan'22

  Yellowfin acquired by B2B software specialist Idera

  The formerly independent analytics vendor hopes to expand its customer base by getting acquired, while its app development tools made it attractive to its new parent company.

• January 31, 2022 31 Jan'22

  Microsoft steadily adding to Power BI analytics platform

  The tech giant continues to add functionality to its BI platform, recently including a feature that will enable Premium users to run reports with only the freshest data.

• January 31, 2022 31 Jan'22

  Tibco, Citrix to merge after Citrix acquired by Vista

  The combination will join the analytics vendor's capabilities with a digital workspace and app delivery platform used by 98% of the Fortune 500. The deal is worth $16.5 billion.

• January 28, 2022 28 Jan'22

  HomeToGo turns data into action with Sisu analytics platform

  Slowed by a rising volume of data, the vacation rental vendor adopted the startup analytics vendor's platform to speed time-to-insight and fuel its product and marketing decisions.

• January 27, 2022 27 Jan'22

  Google scales up Cloud Bigtable NoSQL database

  Automated scalability is a key theme for the latest set of update features that Google is landing in its cloud managed NoSQL database service, providing users with more capacity.

• January 27, 2022 27 Jan'22

  Confluent Kafka connects apps on new Dish 5G network

  Streaming data is at the foundation of a new smart 5G service from Dish Network, where enterprises build applications that directly benefit and customize the network platform.

• January 26, 2022 26 Jan'22

  Apache Kafka 3.1 opens up data streaming for analytics

  The latest release of open source Kafka data streaming technology brings a series of new features that provide users with usability improvements for real-time data queries.

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Dremio raises $160M for cloud data lake platform technology

  The vendor is raising new money as demand for cloud data platform technology continues to grow as enterprises look to improve business intelligence and data analytics.

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Data access key to Regeneron's innovation efforts

  After developing a COVID-19 treatment in mere months, Regeneron adopted a data catalog and is developing a data governance framework to speed up its drug development pipeline.

• January 24, 2022 24 Jan'22

  IBM offloads Watson Health business data, analytics

  IBM Watson Health assets acquired by Francisco Partners include extensive data sets and software, marking an end to IBM's efforts in the healthcare tech industry.

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  Apache Hop data orchestration hits open source milestone

  The open source technology moves beyond its roots to enable a full data platform as data moves from one source to another for operations, business intelligence and analytics.

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  Datto acquires Infocyte to expand threat detection tools

  Datto picks up Infocyte for its threat detection capabilities, targeting a growing customer demand in the face of a growing skills gap.

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  MongoDB 5.2 database improves time series capabilities

  The vendor is improving on capabilities introduced in MongoDB 5.0 with an update that continues the company's push to support operational and analytics workloads.

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  Qlik IPO filing culminates a 5-year transformation

  When the vendor was taken private in 2016, its plan was to add the capabilities needed to build a cloud-first platform that enabled real-time analytics.

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Hudi powering data lake efforts at Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar

  An open source cloud data lake platform is finding adoption at large organizations including Uber, Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar as the demands of data scale grow.

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Coalesce launches with data transformation platform

  The CEO and co-founder of Coalesce gives insight into the startup's mission and the challenges organizations face with transforming data so that it's useful for data analysts.

• January 20, 2022 20 Jan'22

  Tibco continues adding developer tools to analytics platform

  Since its last major update in September 2021, the vendor has added to its array of prebuilt Spotfire Mods applications, including new AI Mods called Data Functions.

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Confluent Cloud Q1 2022 update boosts event data streaming

  The event streaming vendor is expanding its cloud platform with schema linking, data warehouse connectors and a load metrics API to improve scale and performance.

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Backblaze now a target for Kasten Kubernetes backups

  Kasten by Veeam can now use Backblaze's cloud storage as a backup target for Kubernetes data, a need that will continue to grow in popularity.

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Fivetran updates data integration platform with dbt Core

  With automated data transformations and new data lineage visualization graphs, Fivetran is looking to make building data pipelines easier for data users.

• January 18, 2022 18 Jan'22

  Databricks unveils first industry-specific lakehouse

  The cloud data vendor launched a new lakehouse designed for retail and consumer goods customers that includes blueprints and best practices.

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  Observable raises $35.6M for data collaboration platform

  After spending 15 years at Google, Melody Meckfessel brought at least one key lesson to her data visualization startup Observable: 'no grumpy developers.'

• January 12, 2022 12 Jan'22

  IBM unveils acquisition of Envizi to add ESG analytics tools

  With Envizi in the fold, the tech giant will be able to expand the environmental analytics capabilities of its platform and better enable customers who undertake ESG initiatives.

• January 12, 2022 12 Jan'22

  Self-service capabilities crucial to analytics success

  According to a new report from the Harvard Business Review and ThoughtSpot, empowering employees with self-service capabilities is fuel for a strong business intelligence program.

• January 10, 2022 10 Jan'22

  Sigma Computing keeps focus on product enhancements

  The startup recently secured $300 million in Series C funding, which its CEO said it plans to use to advance its product and expand its engineering capabilities.

• January 10, 2022 10 Jan'22

  Anomalo brings data quality platform to Snowflake

  Elliot Shmukler, co-founder and CEO of Anomalo, details how he was inspired to build his data startup after a critical data failure while he was working at Instacart.

• January 10, 2022 10 Jan'22

  Alteryx agrees to acquire Trifacta for $400 million

  The acquisition, expected to close during the first quarter of 2022, adds cloud-native capabilities to Alteryx's platform and is aimed at accelerating its move to the cloud.

• January 06, 2022 06 Jan'22

  Qlik planning an IPO, files application with the SEC

  The vendor plans to return to the public markets with an initial public stock offering after being taken private in 2016 when it was acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

• January 05, 2022 05 Jan'22

  Western Union looks to improve data quality with Talend

  Thomas Mazzaferro, chief data officer at Western Union, outlines the financial services company's approach to cloud data migration and how Talend fits into the data architecture.

• January 05, 2022 05 Jan'22

  MicroStrategy enhances security, embedded analytics features

  The vendor recently upgraded its products to the latest version of Log4j's software while also adding a new viewing experience and embedded BI capabilities to its platform.

• December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21

  AWS outage brings DR strategies back into focus

  A lengthy outage for AWS in December brought many enterprise apps and services to a halt, but it also provided a moment of reflection on DR plans and data availability.

• December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21

  5 business intelligence trends to watch in 2022

  Predicted trends for 2022 include rising adoption of automated insight delivery and augmented analytics capabilities, including natural language processing and AutoML.