Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
September 18, 2024
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: September 18, 2024. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Abstract Security, the company building the future of AI-enabled security operations, is announcing support for deployments within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With its solution centered on tying security back to business value, Abstract's latest support expansion brings true data management and security to GCP environments.
Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, is announcing a series of new capabilities for Confluent Cloud, forwarding the company's mission of delivering a comprehensive data streaming platform that meets its users where they are. These latest updates—support for Table API, extending Apache Flink to Java and Python developers; private networking for Flink; a Confluent extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code); and Client-Side Field Level Encryption—each serve to make stream processing and data streaming more accessible and secure, according to Confluent.
Firebolt is offering a next-generation Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW) that delivers low latency analytics with drastic efficiency gains, reflecting continuous feedback from users and real-world use cases. According to the company, data engineers can now deliver customer-facing analytics and data-intensive applications (data apps) more cost-effectively and with greater simplicity.