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• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Arcserve and StorageCraft merge to address broader market

  The Arcserve-StorageCraft merger combines the products and channel partners of both companies, with the hope it will address the needs of businesses of all sizes.

• 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 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  Latest Uplevel tool enables software engineering efficiency

  With Project Explorer, Uplevel enables development teams to improve efficiency by identifying potential risks and monitoring the overall health of projects.

• 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

  Komprise launches replication for FlashArray File Services

  Komprise Asynchronous Replication enables file-based replication for more granular restores in backup and DR use cases. It is first available on Pure FlashArray File Services.

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• 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 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  Index Engines' CyberSense SDK expands its third-party reach

  CyberSense can more easily integrate with third-party backup and storage platforms with its new API-based developer's kit, giving customers a powerful ransomware detection tool.

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  Microsoft strengthens Power BI security with new capabilities

  The latest Power BI update features a series of new capabilities aimed at enabling organizations to secure their data as they move to the cloud and embrace remote work.

• February 17, 2021 17 Feb'21

  TigerGraph raises $105M in funding to fuel growth

  With $105 million in new financing, TigerGraph is planning to invest in more product development and expand its operations into new geographic regions.

• 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

  Rewind backup moves forward with BackHub acquisition

  With the acquisition of BackHub, Rewind's SaaS data protection extends to GitHub, helping customers protect their code without having to cobble together backup themselves.

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  ThoughtSpot, Azure alliance boosts BI capabilities of both

  A new strategic partnership between ThoughtSpot and Microsoft Azure unveiled on Feb. 11 includes joint product development plans in addition to enhanced connective capabilities.

• 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.

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  Time series database firm EraDB launches Erasearch

  EraDB made its EraSearch log management platform generally available, providing organizations with a system that can help improve performance and scalability.

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  HYCU backup enters SaaS territory with Office 365 support

  HYCU backup and recovery for Microsoft Office 365 marks the vendor's first protection for software as a service, with further expansion expected soon.

• February 10, 2021 10 Feb'21

  TSA tracks PPE supply data with MicroStrategy amid pandemic

  The TSA has taken advantage of its lengthy relationship with MicroStrategy to develop tools to oversee its supply of PPE and keep employees as safe as possible during the pandemic.

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  Monte Carlo gets new funding to expand data observability

  The CEO of data management startup Monte Carlo, which raised $25 million in Series B funding Tuesday, details her views on the key pillars of data reliability.

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  Sisense analytics suite renamed to reflect embedded BI focus

  The business intelligence vendor unveiled Sisense Fusion, a rebranded version of Sisense's platform named to reflect the vendor's new focus on embedded BI capabilities.

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  Hazelcast Jet 4.4 brings SQL to stream processing engine

  Hazelcast Jet brings new SQL query capabilities to the stream processing platform that will enable developers to continuously query streaming data without interrupting data flow.

• February 05, 2021 05 Feb'21

  MicroStrategy plans include SaaS version of its BI platform

  MicroStrategy revealed during its user conference that a SaaS version of its platform is in the works, as are new embedded analytics and process automation capabilities.

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Vendia raises $15.5M for serverless blockchain data sharing

  Vendia is building out its data platform that uses distributed ledger blockchain technology to help organizations and developers more easily share data.

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  OwnBackup CEO: Funding will support M&A, products, IPO plans

  In this Q&A, OwnBackup CEO Sam Gutmann discusses how the company is working towards going public as well as his near-term product and staffing plans.

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  IT company clicks with OpenShift Container Storage snapshots

  Red Hat's OpenShift Container Storage 4.6 update brought data protection functionality to the platform, allowing APIS IT to put more critical workloads on it.

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Embedded analytics prominent in latest MicroStrategy update

  New embedded BI capabilities and tools that enable collaboration are key features of MicroStrategy 2021, the latest platform update from the longtime BI vendor.

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Collibra acquires predictive data quality vendor OwlDQ

  With OwlDQ, Collibra is bringing data quality capabilities to its data intelligence platform to help users better understand and evaluate the impact of different sources of data.

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  MongoDB Realm Sync simplifies cloud data synchronization

  MongoDB put into general availability its mobile Realm database to data synchronization service, easing the challenge for developers to connect data from the edge to the cloud.

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  New Viya, Azure integration enables SAS analytics users

  A new integration between SAS Viya and Microsoft Azure makes Azure the preferred cloud for SAS customers and will enable a more seamless connection between the platforms.

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  Rewind CEO plans to expand SaaS app backup coverage

  Rewind's CEO says SaaS applications that aren't 'the big three' also need backup. Rewind currently protects e-commerce apps, but will expand to cover GitHub, ZenDesk and Trello.

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  Databricks fueling data lakehouse goals with $1B funding round

  Databricks gets a major vote of confidence from big name investors, including Franklin Templeton, as it raises new funding to help it advance its cloud data management technology efforts.

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  BI vendor Phocas raises funds to build predictive analytics

  With its eyes on expansion and new analytics product development, a veteran Australian-based BI vendor raised $34 million in venture capital funding.

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  Apache Iceberg rising for new cloud data lake platforms

  The open source Apache Iceberg project is helping to define a new data tier for cloud data lakes that can help to improve performance and access for large data sets.

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  Commvault Metallic expansion includes Salesforce and on-premises

  Commvault's Metallic backup now covers Salesforce, Microsoft Teams and other workloads. The vendor's investment in recurring revenue has led to its best fiscal quarter ever.

• January 28, 2021 28 Jan'21

  Data governance for self-service analytics best practices

  Establish a strong data governance strategy that will support your self-service analytics environment by including these best practices in your organization's process.

• January 28, 2021 28 Jan'21

  Expert: Agile data-driven decision-making key to growth

  Insight-driven decisions are crucial to the success and survival of organizations amid the current economic environment, advises an expert, as is the ability to act and react.

• January 28, 2021 28 Jan'21

  Veeam backups save Alaska community from ransomware attack

  Kodiak Island Borough transitioned to Veeam backups just in the nick of time. After successfully recovering from a ransomware attack, the IT department added more Veeam protection.

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  DataStax enters event streaming market with Apache Pulsar

  DataStax is getting into the event streaming market with the acquisition of Kesque, which uses the open source Apache Pulsar project as the foundation for its platform.

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  Neo4j unveils cloud graph database for the enterprise

  Neo4j Aura Enterprise is a fully-managed cloud database built for large organizations. The vendor previously developed Aura Professional, a similar tool for SMBs.

• January 25, 2021 25 Jan'21

  Customer analytics firms merge to take on Salesforce, Adobe

  Manthan Systems and RichRelevance, vendors specializing in customer analytics, recently merged to bring together AI-fueled insights with expertise in global retail.

• January 25, 2021 25 Jan'21

  Commvault CEO says we won't go back to pre-COVID-19 ways

  Commvault CEO Sanjay Mirchandani says cloud adoption and remote collaboration will stay after the pandemic, but in-person events and physical data centers will be scaled back.

• January 22, 2021 22 Jan'21

  Data governance framework key to analytics success

  Successful data-driven decision-making relies on good data at its core, and it's a strong governance plan that ensures the quality of an organization's data.

• January 22, 2021 22 Jan'21

  Looker, Google planning plenty of analytics collaborations

  While collaboration with its parent company is prominent in Looker's plans, so are investments in analytics capabilities including embedded BI and natural language processing.

• January 21, 2021 21 Jan'21

  Kyligence builds out data cloud for OLAP and big data

  Kyligence is advancing the Apache Kylin project with a cloud-native offering that can help organizations more efficiently execute and manage data queries against large data sets.

• January 20, 2021 20 Jan'21

  Fivetran data connectors boost enterprise data integration

  An enterprise data integration vendor is building out its suite of data connectors with updates for organizations to create data pipelines for business processes and analytics.

• January 19, 2021 19 Jan'21

  Everbridge CTO details critical event management 'wake-up call'

  Everbridge CTO Imad Mouline discusses how the coronavirus pandemic changed his company and businesses around the world, plus how organizations can improve crisis management.

• January 19, 2021 19 Jan'21

  Partnership enables Alteryx users to prep data in Snowflake

  Alteryx and a rising cloud data warehouse vendor unveiled a new partnership that will enable joint customers to more easily and inexpensively prepare data for analytics.

• January 15, 2021 15 Jan'21

  Informatica takes Customer 360 master data management to cloud

  Updated MDM service benefits from integrations with the broader cloud-native Informatica platform that is built on top of a microservices Kubernetes-based architecture.

• January 15, 2021 15 Jan'21

  Data storytelling a key part of Yellowfin analytics platform

  Data storytelling remains a focal point for Yellowfin. Stories, the vendor's narrative generation tool, features heavily in both its latest platform update and roadmap for 2021.

• January 15, 2021 15 Jan'21

  ScyllaDB NoSQL database to improve with Project Circe

  ScyllaDB Project Circe sets out to help improve consistency, elasticity and performance for the open source NoSQL database.

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  Assent Compliance automates text analytics with AWS

  With more than 20,000 documents to review each month, Assent Compliance, a supply chain data management vendor, turned to AWS to automate its text analysis operations.

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  Veritas acquires HubStor for SaaS data protection

  The HubStor product will continue to be offered, but Veritas intends to integrate its technology and capabilities into its Enterprise Data Services Platform in the future.

• January 13, 2021 13 Jan'21

  Oracle Database 21c brings blockchain and JavaScript

  Oracle's flagship DB platform is moving beyond its roots with the 21c update, to embrace more languages and models in a bid to create a universal converged database offering.

• January 13, 2021 13 Jan'21

  Indiana hospital hops on cloud data protection with Clumio

  Rush Memorial Hospital switched from on-premises backup and disaster recovery to cloud data protection through Clumio, significantly reducing its costs and backup management burden.

• January 12, 2021 12 Jan'21

  Cockroach Labs nabs $160M to grow distributed SQL database

  Cockroach Labs is looking to advance its CockroachDB database platform in 2021 with $160 million in new funding that it will use to help expand features and market reach.

• January 12, 2021 12 Jan'21

  Tibco acquisitions add capabilities to analytics platform

  The recent completion of Tibco's acquisition of IBI has the potential to benefit customers of both given the complementary qualities of the vendors' platforms.

• January 08, 2021 08 Jan'21

  Starburst raises $100M as PrestoSQL rebrands as Trino

  Starburst is advancing its enterprise data platform with new funding that will help advance its cloud efforts around the open source Trino query engine formerly known as PrestoSQL.

• January 08, 2021 08 Jan'21

  JetStream Software carries DR to Azure VMware Solution

  JetStream DR for Azure VMware Solution allows customers to failover on-premises VMware VMs to Azure VMware Solution. The data is stored in Azure.

• January 07, 2021 07 Jan'21

  Data storytelling vendor Toucan Toco poised for growth

  Startup data storytelling vendor Toucan Toco has big goals for 2021, including doubling its annual revenues and expanding its customer base by about 50%.

• January 07, 2021 07 Jan'21

  Quest Software adds data governance and DataOps with Erwin

  With new data modeling, catalog and governance technology from an acquisition, Quest looks to build a broader data platform to help organizations optimize and benefit from data.

• January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21

  Dremio raises $135M to boost data lake transformation effort

  The CEO of Dremio outlines why the vendor is growing as organizations increasingly rely on cloud data storage to fuel business intelligence and analytics.

• January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21

  DataOps engineer an emerging role in analytics

  As organizations accumulate more data and realize the need to implement a DataOps strategy, they are now seeking DataOps specialists to help implement and oversee data management.

• January 06, 2021 06 Jan'21

  How Alation builds on data catalog for data intelligence

  Aaron Kalb, co-founder and Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) of Alation, provides insight into the evolution of his company's technology to embrace data governance that enables data intelligence for organizations to fully benefit from their ...

• December 29, 2020 29 Dec'20

  Emerging data management trends to watch in 2021

  A number of nascent efforts across the enterprise data landscape became manifest in 2020 that are likely to become larger trends into 2021, including the data lakehouse, Iceberg and Presto.

• December 28, 2020 28 Dec'20

  Zix acquires CloudAlly backup for SaaS data protection

  Zix plans to integrate CloudAlly backup and recovery with its Secure Cloud email security and compliance platform. Backup was a technology that Zix needed.

• December 28, 2020 28 Dec'20

  COVID-19 impact on data backup will continue in 2021

  COVID-19 accelerated certain data backup trends throughout 2020. Now, with vaccines available, experts share what they believe 2021 has in store for backup and recovery.

• December 28, 2020 28 Dec'20

  ChaosSearch looks to bring order to data lakes

  Data lakes are like junk drawers in the sky, but new tech from ChaosSearch organizes the mess and makes it searchable. Here, CEO Ed Walsh shares the details and what's next in 2021.

• December 24, 2020 24 Dec'20

  Analytics trends to watch in the coming year

  Process automation and continuous intelligence are among the BI trends to watch in 2021 as organizations employ analytics to become more efficient and agile than ever before.

• December 22, 2020 22 Dec'20

  Ascend aims to ease data ingestion with low-code approach

  Data platform vendor Ascend has announced a new low-code approach to building out data pipelines on cloud data lakes to accelerate analysis and insights.

• December 21, 2020 21 Dec'20

  In 2020, backup and recovery technologies play critical role

  It was a big year for backup and recovery. Data protection technology evolved and shifted in a year dominated by the pandemic, while several vendors raised significant funding.

• December 18, 2020 18 Dec'20

  Analytics startups to watch in the coming year

  The startup BI vendors to watch in 2021 are those companies attempting to extend data analysis beyond data scientists and trained analysts to ordinary business users.

• December 18, 2020 18 Dec'20

  Rubrik acquires Igneous Systems' unstructured data tech

  Rubrik found Igneous Systems' large-scale unstructured data management capabilities to be complementary to its own and plans to fold it into the Rubrik platform.

• December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20

  Clumio launches air-gapped data protection service

  Intended as an add-on to non-Clumio data protection, RansomProtect SaaS provides an additional bunker for data through an isolated recovery environment.

• December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20

  X Series Arcserve backup appliances have built-in security

  Arcserve X Series appliances have Sophos Intercept X Advanced built in and can scale to three petabytes. All Arcserve backup appliances now ship with Sophos software.

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  AWS expands cloud databases with data virtualization

  At AWS re:invent 2020 the public cloud giant unveiled enhancements to its database and analytics portfolio, including the Babelfish project for migrating from SQL Server to PostgreSQL.

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  Cloud data warehouse Firebolt secures $37 million at launch

  Firebolt, a new challenger to established cloud data storage vendors including Microsoft and Google, launched recently after securing $37 million in financing.

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  Data prep in browser highlights Tableau BI platform update

  New data preparation capabilities highlight the release of Tableau 2020.4, which was unveiled on Dec. 15 and includes a version of Tableau Prep Builder for the browser.

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  Stargate API brings GraphQL to Cassandra database

  DataStax has integrated the open source Stargate API 1.0 release into its Astra DBaaS platform, bringing GraphQL to the Apache Cassandra database.

• December 11, 2020 11 Dec'20

  Data literacy necessary amid COVID-19 pandemic

  Data literacy is perhaps more important now than ever before as healthcare organizations, governments and enterprises struggle to deal with the effects of COVID-19.

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  New ThoughtSpot tool advances embedded BI capabilities

  ThoughtSpot this week unveiled ThoughtSpot Everywhere, an embedded analytics platform in preview, and a host of features on its roadmap, including pinboard filtering.

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Trilio raises $15M in funding for Kubernetes protection

  Sensing market opportunity, Trilio's CEO said he will seize it by using the funds to bolster sales and marketing. Trilio has raised a total of $22 million in funding.

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  Varada accelerates data virtualization with Presto

  The new Varada Data Platform combines data virtualization with the open source Presto SQL query engine to help enable rapid searches on cloud data lakes.

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Snowflake's Slootman predicts future of cloud analytics

  Cloud data platforms that effectively eliminate data silos and reduce the need for multiple tools will emerge over the next few years, according to Snowflake's CEO.

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  Startup analytics vendor Einblick emerges from stealth

  Startup BI vendor Einblick emerged from stealth on Wednesday and aims to differentiate itself with a platform that integrates AI and machine learning with business intelligence.

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  ThoughtSpot expands cloud capabilities with ThoughtSpot One

  ThoughtSpot One, a new tool from analytics vendor ThoughtSpot, enhances the natural language search and data sharing capabilities of the SaaS version of the vendor's platform.

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  SingleStore raises $80M for distributed SQL database

  Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore, explains why the vendor rebranded from MemSQL and how its platform is more than just an in-memory database, but is a general-purpose database.

• December 08, 2020 08 Dec'20

  Veeam cloud backup updates target Teams, Amazon RDS

  Veeam Software boosted its backup for AWS and Microsoft Office 365 data. Both of the cloud-based platforms are trending up in the data protection market.

• December 07, 2020 07 Dec'20

  ThoughtSpot BI platform to focus on the cloud

  After developing a strong on-premises customer base, ThoughtSpot is undergoing a transformation with the cloud at the center of is product development strategy.

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  The top 5 enterprise advanced analytics use cases

  Advanced analytics adoption has been growing across industries. The technology has many growing use cases in enterprises, but these are the top five.

• December 04, 2020 04 Dec'20

  Collibra grows enterprise data governance for the cloud

  Collibra CEO discusses the importance of data governance for enterprises and how to tie data governance to business terminology to go beyond simply controlling data.

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  Microsoft's Azure Synapse Analytics now generally available

  After more than a year in preview, Microsoft's new analytics platform that brings together data integration, data warehousing and big data analysis is now generally available.

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  Rubrik's latest update goes faster, covers more clouds

  Rubrik's update focuses on backup speed and cloud workload support, but the industry is trending away from traditional databases and toward cloud-hosted databases and containers.

• December 03, 2020 03 Dec'20

  Enabled by AWS, Vyaire ramps up production of ventilators

  When demand for ventilators increased exponentially due to COVID-19, a developer of respirators turned to analytics tools from AWS to help determine how to meet the sudden need.

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  Oracle MySQL Database Service integrates analytics engine

  The enterprise edition of the MySQL database is being enhanced on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to enable users to run analytics queries on the same system as transactional queries.

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  Google's Actifio acquisition adds cloud DR, copy management

  Google sees Actifio acquisition bolstering its disaster recovery and backup for Google Cloud Platform. No price was disclosed for the private company valued at more than $1 billion.

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  Price differentiates Amazon QuickSight, but capabilities lag

  New embedded analytics capabilities highlight the latest additions to the QuickSight platform, but despite improving capabilities, its low cost remains its key attraction.

• November 30, 2020 30 Nov'20

  MongoDB Atlas Online Archive brings data tiering to DBaaS

  MongoDB's online archive service gives organizations the ability to automatically archive data to lower-cost storage, while still enabling the data to be queried.

• November 30, 2020 30 Nov'20

  Veeam roadmap: Cloud, containers, virtual VeeamON 2021

  The Veeam roadmap seeks to take advantage of trends in data protection, from an increasing use of cloud-based workloads to the need for better cybersecurity.

• November 25, 2020 25 Nov'20

  Ataccama automates data governance with Gen2 platform update

  Data management vendor Ataccama adds new automation features to its Gen2 platform to help organizations automatically discover metadata and build an accurate business glossary for data.