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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 ...
Stellate raises $25M to build a global CDN network based on GraphQL
GraphCDN Inc. today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A funding round and is changing its name to Stellate Inc., a word meaning star-shaped. The series A round brings the total the company has raised to $30 million. The new funding comes from Tiger Global Management LLC following a seed round led by ...
Software AG set to raise growth targets, CEO says
As he nears the four-year anniversary of his appointment as chief executive of Software AG, Sanjay Brahmawar is spending little time looking back at his accomplishments. There’s a new five-year plan to prepare. It has been an eventful six months for the 53-year-old company that, until the arrival of Brahmawar (pictured), was known mainly for ...
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CIOs welcome users’ bid for more IT budget control – mostly
When Richard Wiedenbeck became chief information officer of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. 12 years ago, he encountered a siloed business structure in which each business unit fulfilled its own information technology needs. “IT was treated as back-office order-taking operation to an unhealthy level,” he said. “Businesspeople were making software application and design decisions who had ...
Element brings semantic data platform to Azure Digital Twin cloud service
Element Analytics Inc., maker of a semantic data platform for use in industrial settings, today announced the availability of its Unify data management platform on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Digital Twins cloud service. A digital twin is a software rendering of a physical asset that matches the characteristics exactly for the purpose of running simulations, testing ...
Snowflake shares tumble as growth slows
Shares of once-high-flying software unicorn Snowflake Inc. are finally falling to earth. The stock price of the cloud data warehousing provider fell nearly 14% after-hours today on a weaker-than-expected full-year forecast amid signs of a slowdown in spending by large enterprise customers. The quarterly numbers weren’t bad overall. Losses narrowed in its fiscal first quarter ...
Buildots raises $60M Series C funding in red-hot construction software market
Buildots Ltd., the developer of a construction management application, said it has raised $60 million in a Series C venture capital round, bringing its total funding to $106 million. The Tel Aviv-based firm’s software collects data from cameras mounted on hardhats and compares it to schedule information to flag mistakes in real-time. Founded in 2018 ...