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VMware adds cross-cloud management to core virtualization platforms
In a bid to erase distinctions between on-premises and cloud infrastructure VMware Inc. today introduced extensions to its vSphere virtualization platform and vSAN storage virtualization software that provide centralized cloud-based management of data center infrastructure. They also provide access to new cloud services that can be activated without requiring changes to existing applications or hardware. ...
Kyligence rolls out unified metrics platform for analytics
Kyligence Inc., the developer of an analytics platform based upon the Apache Kylin open-source distributed data warehouse, today announced a platform that organizations can use to store business metrics in order to align them better with analytics reports. Kyligence Zen is described as an “intelligent metrics store platform” that automates pipelines from data lakes or data warehouses ...
Starburst buys acceleration technology for its distributed query engine
Starburst Data Inc., developer of a commercial distribution of the Trino distributed SQL query engine, today said it has acquired Varada Ltd., a Tel Aviv-based maker of a data lake analytics accelerator. The price wasn’t disclosed. Varada, which was formerly named Expandb Technologies, had previously raised $19.5 million in seed and venture funding, according to ...
Conquering ‘shadow IT’: How enterprises are trying to tame the cloud software beast
Like many companies, high-performance sporting equipment maker Catapult Sports Pty Ltd. used to give its employees wide latitude to choose their own software-as-a-service applications. But as its information technology department prepared a campaign to achieve compliance with a key security standard, its lack of visibility into the services employees was using became a liability. “There ...
Oracle introduces lower-cost version of its full on-premises cloud stack
Saying its Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer offering has been an unqualified success with large customers, Oracle Corp. today is introducing a lower-cost version of the on-premises cloud stack along with a rack-level package that delivers an assortment of cloud services customers can deploy in their data centers. Announced nearly two years ago, Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer delivers ...
Ahana rolls out “forever free” managed Presto service and takes $7.2M in additional funding
Ahana Cloud Inc., which offers managed and commercial versions of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, today announced an additional investment of $7.2 million from Liberty Global Ventures BV with participation from existing investor GV Management Co LLC. The funding expands the company’s Series A financing to $27.2 million and total funding to $32 million. At ...
Snowflake bids for transactional and data science workloads in broad set of enhancements
Snowflake Inc. is leading off its Snowflake Summit 2022 conference today with a brace of announcements aimed at making its platform more programmable, flexible and accommodating of a greater variety of workloads, including transactions. The company, which has been chastened by slowing growth and a nearly 66% decline in its stock price since the beginning of ...
Data mesh creator: Standards needed to avoid ‘potential for abuse and misuse’
Having fired the imagination of the data analytics industry with her concept of a data mesh, Zhamak Dehghani has taken the natural next step and written a book about it. “Data Mesh: Delivering data-driven value at scale” covers not just the technology and architectural aspects of the distributed and federated alternative to data warehousing Dehghani ...
Databricks adds data lineage feature to its catalog with support for nontraditional uses
Databricks Inc. today is adding data lineage features to its Unity Catalog governance platform, a move that it says significantly expands data governance capabilities on the hybrid data warehouse or data lake that it calls a lakehouse. Data lineage describes how data flows throughout an organization, giving customers the ability to see where lakehouse data ...
Immuta scoops up $100M for its data-level security technology
Data security startup Immuta Inc. today said it has raised a $100 million late-stage funding round that pegs the company’s valuation at $1 billion. The maker of software that secures access at the data level said the Series E round brings the total amount it has raised to $267 million. Immuta’s software prevents unauthorized access ...