Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
July 31, 2024
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: July 31, 2024. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading fully-managed service for Apache Airflow, is unveiling its latest platform release, forwarding pipeline resilience, release velocity, and hardened security, as well as support for dbt on Astro—the platform's first foray outside of the Airflow universe.
Fireproof, developer of open-source database technology, announced it has closed its pre-seed funding round, enabling the company to further support the launch of Fireproof Cloud—a platform designed to make database management easy for everyone, while offering industry leading data integrity and portability.
Protect AI, a leader in AI security, is announcing the acquisition of SydeLabs, the company that specializes in automated red teaming—or attack simulations—for generative AI (GenAI) systems. This acquisition will serve to propel Protect AI's mission toward helping organizations test and improve large language model (LLM) security.
Weaviate, an AI-native vector database company, is releasing a developer "workbench" of tools and apps along with flexible tiered storage to help organizations put AI into production. Inspired by Weaviate's vibrant open source community, Weaviate's new developer offerings accelerate AI application development and provide end-to-end solutions for some of the most common AI use cases, helping organizations make the leap from AI prototypes to production, according to the company.