Apache Kafka

Redpanda 24.1 Raises Streaming Data Performance to New Heights

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Dienstag, Mai 7, 2024

Streaming data pioneer Redpanda today announced the release of Redpanda 24.1, a powerful update that provides users more options for optimizing performance, extends inline processing capabilities and ensures the predictability and security of their systems.

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  • Streaming data pioneer Redpanda today announced the release of Redpanda 24.1, a powerful update that provides users more options for optimizing performance, extends inline processing capabilities and ensures the predictability and security of their systems.
  • With a flexible write caching option, Redpanda 24.1 significantly improves performance on a wider variety of hardware and storage infrastructure.
  • Crucial for use cases that prioritize real-time ephemeral event data, write caching delivers much faster performance than the impressive speed Redpanda achieves with guaranteed data durability.
  • Redpanda users can now opt for the fastest possible streaming performance for applications that have more relaxed durability requirements.

Cloudera announces Data-in-Motion products will be made available as Kubernetes Operators for Red Hat OpenShift

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Dienstag, Mai 7, 2024

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloudera, the data company for trusted enterprise AI, today announced Cloudera Flow Management - Kubernetes Operator and Cloudera Streaming - Kubernetes Operator, allowing customers to deploy Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka and Apache Flink clusters on Kubernetes application platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes. With these upcoming Kubernetes Operators, customers can more easily deploy end-to-end data streaming capabilities on their existing Kubernetes clusters and benefit from auto-scaling, efficient resource management as well as streamlined set up and operations.

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  • Cloudera Flow Management - Kubernetes Operator and Cloudera Streaming - Kubernetes Operator reduces operational overhead by utilizing the proven operator pattern that Red Hat OpenShift users are familiar with.
  • We are pleased to collaborate with Cloudera to help customers deploy streaming pipelines to speed up innovation projects and scale on Red Hat OpenShift."
  • Cloudera is demonstrating its latest series of updates at the Red Hat Summit , taking place May 6-9 in Denver, Colorado.
  • The Data-in-Motion products available as Kubernetes Operators to run on Red Hat OpenShift are in tech preview and will be generally available in 2H 2024.

Datorios unleashes real-time AI with the first observability tool for streaming data

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Mittwoch, April 24, 2024

PALO ALTO, Calif. and TEL AVIV, Israel, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Datorios.com, a leading developer of real-time technology for Apache Flink announces today the immediate availability of the Datorios data observability platform for Apache Flink. The new offering gives organizations never-before-seen insights into streaming data processing, which makes it easier for companies to bring new real-time AI systems to market and audit their behavior.

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  • Based on years of research and development in real-time military intelligence, Datorios provides never-before-seen insights into the streaming data that fuels AI applications and other realtime systems.
  • Datorios reveals exactly how that data looks as it's being transformed and processed within Apache Flink-based data pipelines, As a result, the development, troubleshooting, and auditing of real time AI applications becomes much easier.
  • "The most innovative companies are trusting AI to put operations on auto-pilot," said Ronen Korman, CEO and co-founder of Datorios.
  • "Datorios is their flight data recorder, showing them exactly how a system behaved and why at any point in time.

Confluent Unveils Tableflow to Unite Analytics and Operations with Data Streaming

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Dienstag, März 19, 2024

Confluent Tableflow easily transforms Apache Kafka® topics and the associated schemas to Apache Iceberg® tables with a single click to better supply data lakes and data warehouses.

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  • Confluent Tableflow easily transforms Apache Kafka® topics and the associated schemas to Apache Iceberg® tables with a single click to better supply data lakes and data warehouses.
  • The analytical estate includes data warehouses, data lakes, and analytics engines that power analytics and decision-making and use data streams and historical tables to run queries and different analytical functions.
  • Connectors address the challenges of traditional data architectures that can silo data, decrease data quality, and lead to unplanned downtime.
  • Schema Registry is a crucial component for governing data streams, helping teams enforce universal data standards to ensure data quality and data consistency while reducing operational complexity.

WarpStream Labs Raises $20M to Modernize Data Streaming with a Cloud Native Replacement for Apache Kafka

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Donnerstag, März 14, 2024

WarpStream Labs, the cloud native data streaming infrastructure company, announced it raised $20M in funding led by Greylock and Amplify Partners.

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  • WarpStream Labs, the cloud native data streaming infrastructure company, announced it raised $20M in funding led by Greylock and Amplify Partners.
  • Data streaming is becoming increasingly important as organizations seek to leverage real time data capabilities to gain competitive advantage.
  • Yet almost all modern data streaming stacks are built on-top of Apache Kafka, which was designed in 2011 to run in static data centers.
  • But we realized that Husky only addressed part of the problem – all the data still had to flow through Apache Kafka,” said Richard Artoul, CEO and Co-Founder of WarpStream Labs.

GridGain to Sponsor, Exhibit at Kafka Summit 2024 in London

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Dienstag, März 12, 2024

FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GridGain®, provider of the leading unified real-time data platform, today announced the company will be a Silver Sponsor of the Kafka Summit 2024, taking place March 19-20, 2024 at the ExCel London. GridGain will be demonstrating its unified real-time data platform in Booth #210. The Kafka Summit is the premier event for the Apache Kafka community, where data architects, engineers, DevOps professionals and developers can take a deep dive into streaming technologies.

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  • FOSTER CITY, Calif., March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GridGain ® , provider of the leading unified real-time data platform, today announced the company will be a Silver Sponsor of the Kafka Summit 2024 , taking place March 19-20, 2024 at the ExCel London.
  • GridGain will be demonstrating its unified real-time data platform in Booth #210.
  • The Kafka Summit is the premier event for the Apache Kafka community, where data architects, engineers, DevOps professionals and developers can take a deep dive into streaming technologies.
  • "We look forward to networking with the incredible Kafka community and sharing the power of our unified real-time data platform to power stream processing and analytics at ultra-low latencies."

SingleStore Achieves the AWS Generative AI Competency

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Mittwoch, März 6, 2024

SingleStore , the data platform that allows you to transact, analyze and contextualize data in real time, today announced it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Generative AI Competency in the category of Infrastructure and Data.

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  • SingleStore , the data platform that allows you to transact, analyze and contextualize data in real time, today announced it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Generative AI Competency in the category of Infrastructure and Data.
  • This specialization recognizes SingleStore as an AWS Partner that helps customers and the AWS Partner Network (APN) drive the advancement of services, tools and infrastructure pivotal for implementing generative AI technologies.
  • Achieving the AWS Generative AI Competency differentiates SingleStore as an AWS Partner that has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success supporting customer pain points and boosting customer experience.
  • “We’re excited to achieve the AWS Generative AI Competency at launch and know this will allow us to leverage AWS to provide our customers with the tools they need to succeed.”
    The AWS Competency Program aims to assist customers in connecting with AWS Partners who possess extensive knowledge and technical expertise in using AWS technologies and best practices to adopt generative AI.

SingleStore Accelerates Go-to-Market Strategy with AWS

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Dienstag, März 5, 2024

With this collaboration with AWS, SingleStore is better equipped to provide the underlying architecture needed to support high scalability, real-time performance, security, ease of integration and manage AI workloads demand at scale.

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  • With this collaboration with AWS, SingleStore is better equipped to provide the underlying architecture needed to support high scalability, real-time performance, security, ease of integration and manage AI workloads demand at scale.
  • “By strengthening our collaboration with AWS, we hope to continue to provide users with context for their generative AI applications with speed, scale and simplicity,” said Madhukar Kumar, CMO, SingleStore.
  • “Our whole network is powered by AWS, and by collaborating with SingleStore it’s so easy to integrate with our existing infrastructure,” said Jack Chamberlain, Engineering Manager, Jigsaw Dating.
  • The SingleStore Managed Service, a fully managed, on-demand, and elastic relational database, is effortlessly deployable on AWS.

Astronomer Achieves Exceptional Company Growth Driven by Astro, the Apache Airflow-Powered Platform, and Relocates HQ to New York City

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Dienstag, Februar 13, 2024

NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Astronomer , the leader in modern data orchestration, announced a 292% year-over-year growth in revenue for Astronomer's Astro, its Apache Airflow-powered platform.

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  • NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Astronomer , the leader in modern data orchestration, announced a 292% year-over-year growth in revenue for Astronomer's Astro, its Apache Airflow-powered platform.
  • Moreover, Apache Airflow downloads have surged to 30 million a month, demonstrating a robust 68% year-over-year growth.
  • Airflow surpassed Apache Spark and Apache Kafka with over 2,700 contributors making it one of the most successful Apache projects of all time.
  • "As Apache Airflow powers more and more critical business applications, demand for data uptime becomes a priority.

Confluent Migration Accelerator Simplifies the Switch to a Complete Data Streaming Platform

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Dienstag, Februar 13, 2024

Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, today announced the Confluent Migration Accelerator, a new program in partnership with the Confluent partner ecosystem to jumpstart organizations' data streaming journeys.

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  • Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, today announced the Confluent Migration Accelerator, a new program in partnership with the Confluent partner ecosystem to jumpstart organizations' data streaming journeys.
  • Several Confluent partners have joined the Confluent Migration Accelerator to make this migration easier.
  • “The Confluent Migration Accelerator will make it easy for organizations to swiftly reap the benefits of the only data streaming platform that streams, governs, processes and connects real-time data.
  • Confluent empowers customers to leverage valuable legacy data to power modern, cloud-based apps and experiences.”
    Key benefits of the Confluent Migration Accelerator include:
    Press the “easy button” for a simplified migration - Partner with leading data streaming experts to augment staff, access funding credits (subject to approval), and accelerate the migration with packaged migration offerings.