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• August 18, 2021 18 Aug'21

  How to increase the success rate of data science projects

  Most data science initiatives don't produce value due to obstacles like poor data quality, but CNN senior lead of product analytics Bryce Macher has a plan for success.

• 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

  Metals manufacturer uses Sisu analytics tools to spur growth

  In need of identifying repeat business opportunities, startup metals manufacturer Fractory used Sisu's platform to automate complex data queries and develop key metrics.

• 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.

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• 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 13, 2021 13 Aug'21

  Augmented analytics capabilities mark the new era of BI

  Augmented intelligence capabilities like automated data prep and natural language processing are now common, showing that BI has advanced to a new era of technological innovation.

• August 12, 2021 12 Aug'21

  MicroStrategy analytics platform helps Medibank add value

  An Australian insurance company recently migrated its data operations to the cloud and, using MicroStrategy and AWS, has reaped benefits including improved efficiency.

• August 12, 2021 12 Aug'21

  Qlik acquisition of NodeGraph adds data management tech

  Qlik said it acquired NodeGraph in a move aimed at enhancing the longtime analytics vendor's data management capabilities, including data pipeline and governance features.

• 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 11, 2021 11 Aug'21

  SIOS Protection Suite update enhances HA for cloud and SAP

  Improvements to the SIOS Protection Suite include planned failovers of SAP S/4HANA with zero downtime, GCP support and integration with third-party tools via CLI.

• 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 10, 2021 10 Aug'21

  Tellius-Looker analytics partnership enhances powers of both

  A partnership between Tellius and Looker will enable users to combine Tellius' AI and machine learning technology with Looker's data modeling and app development capabilities.

• August 06, 2021 06 Aug'21

  Startup Sisu adds more automation to its analytics platform

  Sisu recently introduced Smart Waterfall Charts, a tool that automates the development of certain visualizations, as part of its effort to find ways to explain changes in data.

• 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 05, 2021 05 Aug'21

  Collaboration key to Qlik's quest for active intelligence

  Among the new capabilities Qlik recently unveiled is a tool that enables collaboration not only at the end of an analytics project, but also throughout the project lifecycle.

• August 04, 2021 04 Aug'21

  Embedded analytics leads to improved productivity

  With many enterprises still in the early stages of using AI technologies, embedded BI remains a key means of making data accessible to a broad array of potential users.

• August 04, 2021 04 Aug'21

  Druva CEO talks COVID-19 cloud rush, data protection, roadmap

  Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh discusses the challenges posed by the recent uptick in cloud adoption, the company's product plans for Kubernetes on AWS and its backup security measures.

• 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.

• August 02, 2021 02 Aug'21

  SAS planning an IPO after rumored acquisition talks end

  The longtime independent analytics vendor, which just two weeks ago was in negotiations to get acquired, revealed plans to, instead, prepare for an initial public stock offering.

• 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 29, 2021 29 Jul'21

  Zerto update adds ransomware defense and simplifies backup

  Zerto 9 rolls out immutability for Amazon S3 and rapid VM recovery as anti-ransomware measures, and expands the platform's automation and long-term retention capabilities.

• 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 22, 2021 22 Jul'21

  Sisense unveils Extense Framework to enable embedded BI

  After rebranding its platform early in 2021 to reflect a heightened focus on embedded analytics, Sisense introduced a set of new capabilities to enable developers.

• July 21, 2021 21 Jul'21

  Looker platform update adds new app development capabilities

  Looker 21, which the vendor unveiled July 21, features the general availability of Looker's new portal for application developers and support for hosting on Microsoft Azure.

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  N2WS introduces Azure backup in 4.0 update

  N2WS expands its backup and recovery capabilities beyond AWS with new automated protection for Azure VMs. The vendor plans to build this feature out more fully in future updates.

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  Backup vendors target a growing MSP market

  MSPs aren't just a way for backup vendors to reach SMB customers, as enterprises are finding good reasons to outsource IT functions to third-party providers.

• 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 14, 2021 14 Jul'21

  SAS, Microsoft a possible pairing after Broadcom talks end

  Acquisition talks between SAS and Broadcom broke down a day after they were reported, but SAS may have hoped all along to attract another potential buyer.

• July 13, 2021 13 Jul'21

  Expert: It's time for the death of the analytics dashboard

  Dashboards take substantial time to build and maintain, and they've become outdated with the current pace of business, says ThoughtSpot's chief data strategy officer.

• 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 12, 2021 12 Jul'21

  Analytics vendor SAS an acquisition target of Broadcom

  Longtime independent business intelligence vendor SAS Institute Inc. is in talks to be acquired by Broadcom, with a reported purchase price of $15 billion to $20 billion.

• July 12, 2021 12 Jul'21

  Vendors push Kubernetes backup as a must for production

  Vendors are making significant investments in Kubernetes backup as customers' containerized applications enter production and the demand for protection increases.

• July 12, 2021 12 Jul'21

  Enabling collaboration a rising analytics trend

  A proliferation of tools that enable collaboration is an emerging trend among BI vendors as 2021 passes its midpoint. Adding AI capabilities, meanwhile, remains a major trend.

• 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 09, 2021 09 Jul'21

  Top trends include value of analytics getting recognized

  The high valuations investors are placing on data and analytics vendors, as well as the importance of AI and self-service BI amid the pandemic, marked the first half of 2021.

• 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 08, 2021 08 Jul'21

  MicroStrategy keeps focus on embedded analytics in update

  Embedded BI capabilities, including integrating single data assets, rather than entire dashboards into users' workflows, feature prominently in MicroStrategy's latest update.

• July 07, 2021 07 Jul'21

  Acronis CEO steps down, GoDaddy exec steps in

  Acronis's previous CEO will lead product development while the new CEO focuses on go-to-market, partner program expansion and increasing company headcount.

• 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.

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  Logi Analytics guided by a rigorous goal

  Guided by the desire to enable developers to create applications, embedded BI vendor Logi Analytics recently updated its platform and expanded its resources via M&A activity.

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  HPE fills in GreenLake with Zerto acquisition

  HPE will buy Zerto for $374 million and use its continuous data protection capabilities to bring disaster recovery, backup and data migration offerings to the GreenLake portfolio.

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  Eckerson Group unveils service to benchmark analytics

  Consulting firm Eckerson Group recently developed an assessment for the insurance industry to help companies compare their analytics programs with their peers.

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  TigerGraph expands reach of its graph database technology

  With demand for graph analytics on the rise, TigerGraph recently unveiled an expanded partner ecosystem that will enable the vendor to gain domain expertise as its userbase grows.

• July 01, 2021 01 Jul'21

  Yellowfin analytics platform update targets data storytelling

  The new platform update enables customers to include Yellowfin Stories, the vendor's data storytelling tool, on dashboards to create a unified workflow.

• June 29, 2021 29 Jun'21

  Tableau platform update features upgraded AI tools

  Tableau on June 29 unveiled new versions of Ask Data and Explain Data, tools that enable users with natural language processing, and two new integrations with Salesforce.

• 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

  Zerto keeps Texas bank from being left in the cold

  During Winter Storm Uri, Woodforest National Bank enacted its DR plan and used Zerto to bring its servers back online shortly after its primary data center went completely dark.

• 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 22, 2021 22 Jun'21

  Catalogic CloudCasa makes room for persistent volume backup

  Catalogic CloudCasa can now do backups instead of just snapshots, opening the door to better ransomware recoverability and meeting data governance and sovereignty requirements.

• June 21, 2021 21 Jun'21

  Roadmap for Collibra platform includes more speed and scale

  Collibra's roadmap is focused on adding more speed, with a plan in place to quadruple the amount of data customers can access and use by the end of 2022.

• June 17, 2021 17 Jun'21

  Tableau analytics capabilities aid World Food Programme

  The United Nations' World Food Programme is now using Tableau to inform its decision-making process and speed the time it takes to respond to crises worldwide.

• 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

  Grax History Stream feeds Salesforce data to analytics tools

  Grax History Stream simplifies the process of pulling Salesforce data, converting it to Parquet format, then feeding it to Amazon Redshift or other analytics tools.

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Trio of trends influencing analytics, says Tableau's Beers

  Some key trends driving product development include a single interface to work with data, embedded BI, and AI and ML, according to Tableau's tech chief.

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Veeam Government Solutions subsidiary features federal focus

  Following Veeam's acquisition by Insight Partners, the data protection vendor sought to make gains among U.S. government customers. The unveiling of a subsidiary is the next step.

• 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 15, 2021 15 Jun'21

  Veritas NetBackup sets up ransomware defenses in new update

  Veritas NetBackup is combating ransomware with data immutability for AWS S3 environments, anomaly detection, container backup and a next-gen Flex appliance.

• June 14, 2021 14 Jun'21

  Election data revolutionizes the running of campaigns

  Political campaigns used to rely primarily on polls to inform decisions, but with advances in technology over the past 15 years they are now using advanced analytics techniques.

• June 14, 2021 14 Jun'21

  Businesses still lax about SaaS backup

  An ESG survey finds customers can't reliably recover Office 365 and Salesforce data, despite the criticality of these SaaS applications and the availability of third-party tools.

• June 11, 2021 11 Jun'21

  Speed, ease of use guide Snowflake approach to analytics

  Fast-data cloud vendor Snowflake continues to expand its platform with capabilities that enable organizations to quickly and easily work with their data.

• 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 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  ThoughtSpot unveils support for Snowflake developer platform

  ThoughtSpot expanded its partnership with a leading data cloud provider, revealing ThoughtSpot for Snowpark to better enable developers as they work in-warehouse.

• June 09, 2021 09 Jun'21

  AWS analytics helps vendor fight climate change

  Using a cache of analytics tools from AWS, Carbon Lighthouse is helping commercial property owners reduce carbon emissions while saving on energy costs.

• 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 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  Domo streamlines embedded analytics platform

  The vendor released a new version of Domo Everywhere, streamlining the embedded BI platform to make it easier to develop and distribute applications.

• 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 04, 2021 04 Jun'21

  Bundesliga delivering insight to fans via AWS

  Through its partnership with AWS, Germany's top soccer league is delivering advanced analytic insights to fans and broadcasters in real time during matches.

• 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 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  AI capabilities a target for merger and acquisition activity

  Analytics vendors are on the hunt for augmented intelligence capabilities, and with acquisition activity heating up, vendors specializing in AI could be targets for BI vendors.

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Public sector IT execs detail ransomware backup, recovery tips

  City governments are particularly vulnerable to ransomware. These city IT leaders discuss how organizations can improve data protection to be ready for the next attack.

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Evolution of analytics sped up by pandemic

  Just as the pandemic has forced organizations of all kinds to adapt, business intelligence tools have had to evolve as well to keep up with the changing needs of customers.

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  GoodData launches overhauled analytics platform

  Featuring a suite of microservices, GoodData released its new platform after nearly two years spent overhauling each of its individual capabilities.

• 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 28, 2021 28 May'21

  Veeam executives detail backup trends, company plans

  In this Q&A from VeeamON, several Veeam executives discuss data backup trends, the potential of the company going public, and if more acquisitions are on the table.

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Clumio Discover gives customers full view of AWS snapshots

  With the consolidated and contextualized information that Clumio Discover provides, customers with large, sprawling AWS environments can make better snapshot policy decisions.

• 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 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Utah agency tracks wildlife data with Google analytics tools

  Tools from the Google Cloud Platform enabled the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to manage the growing amount of data that overwhelmed its on-premises system.

• 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 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Tibco update features embedded analytics, ModelOps tools

  Tibco unveiled a host of new features May 26 during its virtual user conference, including new embedded data science capabilities and a model deployment tool.

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  New Google tools aim to simplify data analytics lifecycle

  Google Cloud unveiled a trio of new tools, aimed at enabling users to work through the entire analytics workflow, during its virtual Data Cloud Summit.

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Retrospect locks down backup data against ransomware

  Retrospect Backup 18 focuses on anti-ransomware with the ability to make backups stored in public clouds immutable and an updated management console with security features.

• May 25, 2021 25 May'21

  Veeam backup software integrating Kubernetes protection

  Veeam backup software additions announced at VeeamON include Kasten integration, Office 365 enhancements and further hyperscale cloud support.

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  Catalogic sells ECX copy data management software to IBM

  Catalogic Software has divested its ECX product to long-time storage hardware partner IBM and will now focus on its CloudCasa Kubernetes data protection service.

• 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

  Cloud migration helps Choice Hotels weather COVID-19

  Choice Hotels' cloud-based global reservation system and adoption of collaboration and communication applications helped it stay in business during the pandemic.

• 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.