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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 ...
Aerospike takes on Neo4j and TigerGraph with launch of graph database
Aerospike Inc., maker of a highly scalable NoSQL database, today is entering the graph database market with an offering that it claims can outperform and outscale offerings from market leaders such as Neo4j Inc. and TigerGraph Inc. Based on the Apache TinkerPop open-source graph framework that is also the basis of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s ...
Oracle to launch EU-only public cloud
Taking what it says is a unique approach to addressing the compliance needs of organizations in the European Union, Oracle Corp. today launched dedicated cloud infrastructure exclusively for use by the 27 EU member countries, providing the same services, service-level agreements and pricing as its broader public cloud. The EU Sovereign Cloud, which will be ...
Data observability startup Telmai raises $5.5M in oversubscribed seed round
Data observability startup Telmai Inc. today said it has raised $5.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round, bringing its total funding to $8.5 million. The company has created what it says is a unique approach to data quality management with an engine based on the Apache Spark analytics framework. It can accommodate a wide variety ...