Andrew Brust
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Big on data, always and forever
Since I began covering the data and analytics space over a decade ago, it seems like everything has changed. Really, though, it's just a tech cycle repeating itself. Data is, and will be, a part of every such cycle. → Read More
Idera acquires Yellowfin BI, adds it to developer tools business
Yellowfin BI becomes part of Idera's portfolio of dev tools, removing another independent BI provider from the market. → Read More
Firebolt announces $100M Series C funding round, recruits industry veteran CTO
Firebolt, which emerged with its cloud data warehouse platform only 13 months ago, announces a Series C funding round. The company also has a new CTO: Mosha Posumansky, a veteran of Microsoft, Google and the analytics world at large. → Read More
Databricks' TPC-DS benchmarks fuel analytics platform wars
Databricks, the champion of data lakehouse technology and its open storage format underpinnings, announced it set a world record for a data warehouse performance benchmark. → Read More
Qlik confidentially registers for IPO
Qlik, one of the original self-service BI players, has submitted a draft registration with the SEC related to a proposed public offering. → Read More
Analytics and AI in 2022: Innovation in the era of COVID
This year's predictions focus less on analytics technology per se and more on its application to address pandemic-driven phenomena. → Read More
At Ignite, Microsoft enhances its cloud database, warehouse and lake services
Microsoft unveils new capabilities within Azure Synapse Analytics, Cosmos DB and its stable of open source databases. → Read More
InfluxData makes time series dev-friendly
Notebooks, query/code generation and a Visual Studio Code add-in help turn application developers into time series data developers. It's an additional -- and important -- initiative in the open source data world's developer charm offensive. → Read More
Google launches serverless Spark, AI workbench, new data offerings at Cloud Next
Google Cloud BigQuery, Vertex AI, Spanner all see important enhancements. Tableau partnership and Google Earth Engine further enable analytics scenarios on Google Cloud. → Read More
Databricks, Qlik, Nvidia show AI is heating up
Databricks is announcing its acquisition of 8080 Labs today. This follows Qlik's announcement last week that it's buying Big Squid, and Domino Data lab's announcement yesterday of a $100M Series F funding round, and deepened partnership with Nvidia. AI is working hard to get to the enterprise mainstream. → Read More
Azure Purview data governance service heads to GA
Azure Purview's underlying data governance platform, and the data catalog application that runs atop it, are now both generally available. With the Azure Data Catalog product now superseded, Microsoft is finally in the data governance game for real. → Read More
Confluent announces governance for streaming data
The company behind real-time data mainstay Apache Kafka says its managed cloud solution is the industry's first governance suite for streaming data. → Read More
Databricks raises $1.6B series H funding round
Another season, another round raised by Databricks. After its $1B series G round in February, the company has raised another $1.6B, bringing valuation to $38B. → Read More
Sisense Extense Framework and apps deeply embed analytics
Sisense's Extense Framework -- and certain Sisense-authored apps that use it -- allow analytics to be embedded in business apps, and to leverage their native presentation mechanisms. We look at Sisense's Slack, Google Sheets and Google Slides integration in-depth. → Read More
Spell introduces MLOps for deep learning
Deep learning model development and management drives special requirements, especially around the provisioning of hardware. Spell introduced a machine learning operations (MLOps) platform last week that caters to these very needs. → Read More
DotData boasts automated feature engineering for Databricks
dotData's AutoFE enables Databricks users to improve machine learning model accuracy by finding optimal features faster. → Read More
Dremio launches "SQL Lakehouse" cloud service
Dremio Cloud launches at the company's Subsurface event today. The service, initially running exclusively on AWS, will offer enhanced concurrency, workload isolation and advanced security. → Read More
Microsoft announces Arc-enabled Azure SQL general availability
The ability to run Azure SQL Managed Instance -- a cloud version of SQL Server -- on non-Azure clouds, and even on-premises, will be generally available and production-ready on July 30th, 2021. → Read More
Hitachi Vantara acquires data governance player Io-Tahoe
Data discovery and governance player Io-Tahoe, a division of UK energy provider Centrica, is acquired by data and analytics-focused Hitachi Vantara, which had previously acquired Pentaho and Waterline Data. → Read More
Cloud data warehouse startup Firebolt closes $127M Series B funding round
The cloud data warehouse startup, which is focused on application-oriented analytics over big data, will use the new funds for expansion of its product, engineering and go-to-market teams. → Read More