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Databricks’ Delta Lake 3.0 bridges compatibility gaps with Apache Iceberg and Hudi
Databricks Inc. today released the latest version of Delta Lake, the storage framework that it donated to open source a year ago. Version 3.0 adds support for the Apache Iceberg and Apache Hudi data lake platforms using a universal format that allows data stored in Delta Lake to be read from either source. The move is ...
Prosimo gives away software for orchestrating multicloud networking application delivery
Prosimo Inc., the developer of networking technology for orchestrating application delivery across multiple clouds, is giving away part of its multicloud networking software suite in a bid to attract more customers to its full platform. MCN Foundation is a kind of starter pack for organizations moving to a multicloud environment. It simplifies the process of ...
BMC smooths path from mainframe to cloud
BMC Software Inc. today introduced a new product portfolio to help customers migrate mainframe data to a hybrid cloud environment. The BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence Cloud combines hybrid cloud technologies with on-premises mainframe computing to enable enterprises to run large-scale transaction processing while also moving to the cloud. There are three components to the suite. ...
Informatica deepens ties to Snowflake ecosystem
Informatica Corp. is launching four new product capabilities for Snowflake Inc.’s Data Cloud platform that are aimed at simplifying and speeding up the data integration replication process, all available within the native Snowflake ecosystem. Informatica Superpipe for Snowflake is said to deliver up to 3.5 times faster ingestion and replication into Snowflake. It’s the result of collaboration ...
Snowflake stresses app development in flurry of rollouts
The overarching message of a wave of announcements by Snowflake Inc. at its annual user conference this week will be about enabling applications to be built on its big-data cloud platform. Among the most significant is the availability in public preview of the Snowflake Native App Framework the company introduced a year ago on the Amazon ...
Redpanda lands $100M to expand its streaming data pipelines
Redpanda Data Inc., the developer of a data platform that unifies historical and real-time data, today said it has raised $100 million in an over-subscribed Series C round that brings its total funding to $163 million. The size of the bankroll is notable given the moribund state of technology markets over the past year. Also ...
Oracle more than triples query speed in new generation of Exadata processors
Oracle today announced the latest generation of its Exadata X10M computing platform, with up to three times higher transaction throughput and 3.6 times faster analytic query performance than the previous X9M version at the same starting price. The machine is based on Advance Micro Devices Inc.’s fourth-generation EPYC processors, which pack 96 cores into a single ...
Capital One Software boosts Snowflake cost visibility and adds intelligent query adviser
Capital One Software, the software arm of Capital One Financial Corp., today is announcing new features in Slingshot, which is a set of templates, custom workflows and controls that help users of the Snowflake Inc. Data Cloud better manage their cloud compute costs. The offering is the first, and so far only, product the company ...
Starburst broadens support for other data sources in update of managed Trino service
Starburst Data Inc., which sells a distributed query engine based on the open-source Trino project, today debuted a set of new features in its Starburst Galaxy managed cloud database that are intended to make it easier for organizations to manage data from multiple sources. The new release includes a public preview of Gravity, a centralized ...
Databricks adds applications to its marketplace
Databricks Inc. today announced it’s expanding its marketplace to include lakehouse applications and artificial intelligence models. Databricks said the expansion of the marketplace is significant because customers increasingly are running full-fledged applications on top of its Lakehouse Platform and want to expand into building AI models as well. Previously, the marketplace was limited to data ...