In this week’s real-time analytics news: Acquisitions and partnerships, new automation tools, and more.
Keeping pace with news and developments in the real-time analytics market can be a daunting task. We want to help by providing a summary of some of the items our staff came across each week. Here are some of the news items from this week:
Sumo Logic announced the availability of a new multi-cloud and hybrid threat protection offering powered by Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). The solution, Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM Powered by AWS, is built on the Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform and incorporates its security intelligence portfolio, which includes compliance, security analytics, and Cloud SIEM technologies with out of the box integration with key AWS security services and integrations with cloud-based SaaS and on-premises security services.
Cloudera announced that it has agreed to acquire Datacoral and Cazena in two separate transactions. The additions of Datacoral and Cazena will support the evolution of Cloudera’s public cloud offering and expand Cloudera’s market opportunity as the company moves beyond big data to self-service. Datacoral adds an easy-to-use SaaS platform to the Cloudera CDP portfolio that provides simple, reliable access to more than 80 common data sources. Cazena powers instant cloud data lakes, making it possible to accelerate time to analytics and AI/ML from months to minutes. Cazena’s SaaS offerings enable Cloudera customers to easily and cost-effectively migrate to CDP for Public Cloud.
In other Cloudera news, the company entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (“CD&R”) and KKR. The transaction will result in Cloudera becoming a private company and is expected to close in the second half of 2021.
Alteryx, Inc. and KPMG LLP announced a strategic alliance to help organizations accelerate data-driven business transformations. As part of the alliance, KPMG has also been named an Alteryx Principal Alliance Partner. Together, KPMG and Alteryx will leverage their knowledge and experience in shaping data strategies and delivering broad digital transformation initiatives to speed automation outcomes, modernize tax functions and establish governance and security. The alliance will provide a seamless experience for the companies’ joint clients with access to products and services that will drive business outcomes across supply chains, retail, healthcare and life sciences, insurance, and more.
Sigma Computing combined the ease of spreadsheets with charts and data narratives in a single collaborative canvas purpose-built for business teams with the launch of Sigma Workbooks. The solution accelerates data-driven decisions by putting the power of analytics across billions of rows of live data directly into the hands of marketers, analysts, product managers, and other cross-functional business team members. The easy-to-use collaborative canvas enables everyone to find answers to critical questions in seconds, iterate and interact on analyses, share narratives in one unified place, and make data-driven decisions.
Azure announced the general availability of the Azure ND A100 v4 Cloud GPU instances, which are powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. Built to take advantage of de-facto industry standard HPC and AI tools and libraries, customers can leverage ND A100 v4’s GPUs and interconnect capabilities without any special software or frameworks, using the same NVIDIA NCCL 2 libraries that most scalable GPU-accelerated AI, real-time analytics, and HPC workloads support out-of-box, without any concern for underlying network topology or placement. Provisioning VMs within the same VM Scale Set automatically configures the interconnect fabric.
cPacket Networks announced two new products designed to deliver ultra-low-latency, high-performance, high-density 100Gbps network observability in support of the latest enterprise automation, data center consolidation, and high-performance computing requirements. Building on cPacket’s existing 100Gbps portfolio, the new cVu 32100 and cVu 32100E network packet broker+ allow enterprises to acquire, aggregate, observe, and reliably deliver network packet data to IT performance and security tools. Equipped with advanced features with the right economics and scale, these new products provide a solution for ultra-low-latency monitoring and packet brokering at the same time. This results in faster transaction velocity, better user experience, lower mean-time-to-resolution, and reduced customer churn.
Tavant announced the new version of its end-to-end test automation framework, FIRE 5.0 (Framework for Intelligent and Rapid Execution). Tavant’s FIRE 5.0 is a comprehensive tool and technology agnostic-test automation framework. This framework can orchestrate multiple automation tools and technologies, including (but not limited to) Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Protractor, Microfocus and Java, C#, F#, Python, and PHP. With its updated features, FIRE 5.0 users now experience the ease of scripting, faster feedback, enhanced test coverage, distributed execution, continuous testing, and cloud-based execution for accelerated execution.
Dremio released the first delivery in the company’s Dart Initiative, which enables customers to run all mission-critical SQL workloads directly on a data lake. Dremio is a service that sits between data lake storage and end users who want to directly query that data for high-performing dashboards and interactive analytics, without the need for copying data into data warehouses and the need for creating aggregation tables, extracts, cubes, and other derivatives. The Dart Initiative also introduces query plan caching, which eliminates planning overhead and latency for repeated queries. Additionally, the Dart Initiative includes a high-performance compiler that enables much larger and more complex SQL statements with reduced resource requirements.
Iterative.ai introduced its first commercial product, called DVC Studio, a visualized UI (user interface) of DVC and CML that simplifies ML model development and enhances collaboration. Data scientists typically use Git and GitHub or GitLab for collaboration on their source code. DVC Studio extends this collaborative functionality based on data and metrics. Iterative integrates ML workflows into current practices for software development instead of creating separate AI platforms. With open tools and formats, Iterative is cloud-agnostic, providing greater flexibility and removing the need and lock-in for proprietary AI Platforms (such as SageMaker and ML Studio).
Kofax announced the latest release of its Intelligent Automation Platform. The new release accelerates deployments by better enabling citizens as well as professional developers, resulting in greater business value and a shorter return on investment (ROI) for customers. Kofax TotalAgility, the workflow orchestration engine within the company’s Intelligent Automation Platform, has been enhanced with 50 new low-code, document intelligence, process orchestration, and connected systems capabilities—minimizing the need for costly custom coding or multiple solutions from different vendors. Kofax TotalAgility harnesses intuitive tools such as visual business rules, decision trees, and process flows.
Amplitude introduced Amplitude Experiment, an experimentation solution powered by customer behavior and product analytics. Amplitude Experiment provides organizations an end-to-end experimentation and delivery workflow that integrates customer data into every step, from generating a hypothesis to targeting users to measuring results. Through the Behavioral Graph and Amplitude’s Digital Optimization System, Amplitude Experiment resolves the underlying issues of experiment design, targeting, identity resolution, and analysis. Now with the addition of the Amplitude Experiment solution, organizations have a complete learning and growth loop from insight to action to testing and delivery, all within a single system.
Profisee announced the next step in their integration into the Microsoft Azure ecosystem — native integration with Azure Purview. The new integration with Azure Purview brings together the related disciplines of data governance and MDM to form a more complete platform for data management in Azure. Specifically, Profisee’s MDM solution natively integrates with Azure to provide organizations a fast, affordable, and scalable way to align and combine data from multiple sources and enforce governance standards on source data to deliver high-quality, trusted data across the Azure data estate.
Indigo.Design announced the release of its complete design-to-code system. The cloud-based platform addresses key issues that prevent widespread enterprise adoption of low-code applications. Namely, to create mission-critical enterprise apps, low-code apps must prioritize user experience (UX) by beginning the app creation process with user interface (UI) design. Indigo.Design achieves this by bringing together the core components of the app creation process into a low-code tool: UI prototyping and design, app building, virtual user testing, iteration, and finally, code generation.
Real-time analytics news in brief:
C3 AI and Shell announced a five-year renewal of their strategic agreement to accelerate the deployment of enterprise AI and ML applications on the C3 AI Suite across Shell. This renewal is a significant expansion of the relationship C3 AI and Shell initially developed several years ago. The primary objective of the agreement is to address reliability, asset integrity, and process optimization across Shell businesses.
Deloitte and Teradata announced a joint initiative to help mutual customers migrate their on-premise data management and analytics environments to the Teradata Vantage multi-cloud data platform. To that end, Deloitte will collaborate with Teradata to take the complexity out of data migration and equip organizations with the advanced capabilities of the future on cloud.
The combined company of Astute Solutions and Socialbakers announced its new brand name, Emplifi. The company also introduced the Emplifi CX Cloud, an AI-powered platform with three core components, including Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud, Emplifi Social Commerce Cloud, and Emplifi Service Cloud. In other news, the company announced the integration of Messenger API for Instagram into its social marketing cloud. The updated API enables businesses to integrate Instagram messages into their business applications and workflows, giving brands the power to manage customer communications at scale.
Cirrascale Cloud Services announced its dedicated, multi-GPU deep learning cloud servers support the NVIDIA A100 80GB and A30 Tensor Core GPUs. With record-setting performance across every category on the latest release of MLPerf, these latest offerings provide enterprise customers with mainstream options for a broad range of AI inference, training, graphics, real-time analytics, and traditional enterprise compute workloads.
Chooch AI announced artificial intelligence modeling using synthetic data generation. Chooch generates synthetic data based both on CAD files and 2D images and creates thousands of variations on annotated objects in images, changing angles, backgrounds, and obstructed views. With AI-augmented computer training, Chooch AI can create datasets and high accuracy AI models in minutes, even with a limited number of images.
GitLab Inc. announced it has acquired UnReview. The acquisition is expected to advance the user experience within GitLab’s Dev Section, including Manage, Plan, and Create stages by improving a user’s ability to perform impactful code reviews by using ML to recommend code reviewers based on their previous contributions to areas of code as well as current reviewer workload.
Dataiku announced that it is now available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This availability opens the door for Azure customers to take advantage of Dataiku’s easy-to-use visual interface to build data pipelines, prepare data, and build and deploy machine learning models on their cloud.
Aidence, ScreenPoint Medical, and Thirona launched the video series “Opening the black box of AI in medical imaging.” Their aim is to close knowledge gaps and increase trust in imaging AI by explaining how this emerging technology can be applied in radiology.
Hailo announced a partnership withLanner Electronics to launch AI inference solutions for real-time computer vision at the edge. Hailo has combined its Hailo-8 AI acceleration module with Lanner’s edge computing boxes to create high-performance, compact devices to support the demands of emerging AI applications at the edge.
Device Authority and Medigate announce a partnership for securing the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). The Medigate platform combines an understanding of clinical workflows with device profiling capabilities and knowledge of authorized operating requirements. Device Authority’s KeyScaler platform uses patented Dynamic Device Key Generation (DDKG) and PKI Signature+ technology to address the identity access management challenges. The partnership also opens the possibilities of retrofitting Device Authority’s KeyScaler to legacy devices.
Qlik debuted “The Pandemic Effect on the Fortune 500” interactive data analytics site in partnership with Fortune, timed with the publication of the 2021 Fortune 500 list. In its second year as the official analytics partner of the Fortune 500, Qlik delivers a data visualization experience that builds on the inaugural data-driven exploration of the Fortune 500, providing a journey through the crises that have shaped the Fortune 500 over the years, especially the recent COVID-19 crisis.
StarlingX is available in its 5.0 release. StarlingX combines Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and more to create a full-featured cloud software stack that provides everything enterprises need to deploy an edge cloud on a few servers or hundreds of them. New features in StarlingX 5.0 include edgeworker nodes that enable customized operating systems near and at the edge, security enhancements, improvements to orchestration and automation, and upgrades to and containerization of integrated open source components.
Swan Lake released a beta version of its Ballerina Programming Language, the open-source language for cloud-native programming and integration. Ballerina is a 100% open-source project created and sponsored by WSO2. The new Swan Lake Beta release simplifies how developers build and deploy cloud-native applications through an intuitive syntax for developing services and APIs, seamless JSON support, and built-in concurrency control.
Bizzabo announced its acquisition of x.ai. Bizzabo’s integration of x.ai’s scheduling engine will make it easy for event participants to make meaningful connections at virtual, in-person, and hybrid events — powering both the discovery of who should meet as well as when and how.
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