January 30, 2025
News Flashes
Orchid Security, an emerging leader in identity-first security orchestration, announced it has raised $36 million in seed funding, enabling the company to continue its work using Large Language Models (LLMs) to address the longstanding challenge of managing fragmented identity systems in large enterprises.
Progress is unveiling Progress Data Cloud, a centralized Data Platform as a service designed to improve data and AI operations in the cloud without the complexity of infrastructure management.
Thoras.ai announced the successful closure of a $5 million seed funding round, enabling the company to scale its AI-driven platform to redefine how enterprises achieve reliability, uncover root causes, and prevent costly downtime—offering a bold new vision for scalable, adaptive observability.
AppOmni, a leader in SaaS security, announced new policy compliance checks to help U.S. Federal Government agencies comply with the mandate from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA's) Binding Operational Directive, or BOD 25-01, to secure cloud applications.
Think About It
Throughout 2024, data managers and professionals were at the locus of the new waves of innovation driven by AI and analytics—and the activity was frenetic and intense. As the year 2025 progresses, this intense and frenetic activity will only continue. Cloud services, AI, AI agents, and cybersecurity are top areas of interest that industry leaders are watching. The following are several prominent trends mentioned that are shaping data management.