Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
January 26, 2022
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: January 26, 2022. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Couchbase has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outposts Ready designation, part of the AWS Service Ready Program. This achievement recognizes that Couchbase has demonstrated integration with AWS Outposts deployments, which is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs and tools to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-prem facility for a consistent hybrid experience.
Domino Data Lab, provider of an Enterprise MLOps platform, is releasing Domino 5.0 with new capabilities that unleash model velocity, a metric of how fast data science teams build and update models. Domino 5.0 is also the validated and integrated with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end software suite optimized to run AI workloads with VMWare vSphere with Tanzu, on mainstream data center servers.
Firebolt, the cloud data warehouse for builders of next-gen analytics experiences, has announced a $100 million Series C funding round, reaching a $1.4 billion valuation. This latest round of funding brings its total investment to $269 million. The new funding will enable Firebolt to capitalize on the demand from tech companies to build analytics-enabled products.
Keepit, a provider of cloud backup and recovery that offers a blockchain-based cloud dedicated to SaaS data protection, announced it has formally entered the North American market with the establishment of a U.S. headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. The announcement comes after a $30 million investment in the company aimed at fueling Keepit's global growth in becoming a leader in the SaaS data protection market.
Semarchy, a provider of data management solutions, has released xDI—a data integration component—as part of its Intelligent Data Hub platform. Semarchy xDM enables organizations to improve business outcomes by addressing underlying data problems using a single software platform for governance, master data, reference data, data quality, enrichment, and workflows.
Zaloni has announced certification on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). Zaloni's data governance platform, Zaloni Arena, is now a Cloudera Certified Technology and has been tested, validated, and certified to work with the Cloudera Data Platform.