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Astronomer Unveils New Capabilities in Astro to Streamline Enterprise Data Orchestration

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Mardi, mars 26, 2024

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NEW YORK, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronomer, the leader in modern data orchestration, today announced its latest Astro platform release with new features designed to allow users to accelerate innovation while achieving the highest levels of governance and compliance at scale.

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This accelerates time-to-value on Astro and promotes more efficient and secure software processes for data engineers.
"Reliable data orchestration is critical to enabling informed decision-making, driving day-to-day business operations, and powering user-facing experiences" said Pete DeJoy, SVP of Product at Astronomer.
"By offering these new features to our Astro customers, we're helping them control costs while scaling the data workflows crucial to fueling modern data analytics, AI/ML tools, and much more.
Our Astro API and Dashboard features increase data productivity to help give time back to data teams, and allow them to focus on the tasks that will drive their organization's capacity for innovation."

Astronomer Unveils Latest Astro Release with Advanced Security and Cost-Savings Features

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Mercredi, décembre 6, 2023

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SAN FRANCISCO and CINCINNATI, Dec. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronomer, the leader in modern data orchestration, today announced the latest Astro platform release to streamline the data pipeline journey and help teams unleash the power of their data. This release features a suite of powerful enhancements designed to secure and optimize data platforms, simplify connectivity, and empower teams to leverage the full potential of their data. Three key features introduced in this release include a Connection Management system, new tools to upgrade with confidence including Upgrade Utilities and Deployment Rollbacks, and Scale-to-Zero Development Deployments.

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This release features a suite of powerful enhancements designed to secure and optimize data platforms, simplify connectivity, and empower teams to leverage the full potential of their data.
Three key features introduced in this release include a Connection Management system, new tools to upgrade with confidence including Upgrade Utilities and Deployment Rollbacks, and Scale-to-Zero Development Deployments.
Astro's latest platform is designed to meet these challenges, offering data engineers and teams robust security measures and optimized processes.
New innovations in the latest Astro Platform include:
Connection Management: A cornerstone of this release, Connection Management changes how businesses handle securing credentials to critical data services.

Astronomer Accelerates AI Workflows with Integrations for Top LLM Providers

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Mardi, novembre 28, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO and CINCINNATI, Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronomer, the leader in modern data orchestration, today announced a new set of Apache Airflow™ integrations to accelerate LLMOps (large language model operations) and support AI use cases. Modern, data-first organizations are now able to connect to the most widely-used LLM services and vector databases with integrations across the AI ecosystem, including OpenAI, Cohere, pgvector, Pinecone, OpenSearch, and Weaviate.

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By enabling data-centric teams to more easily integrate data pipelines and data processing with machine learning (ML) workflows, organizations can streamline the development of operational AI.
DataOps is at the center of all ML operations and is driving forward generative AI and LLM production.
With these new integrations, we are now helping organizations realize the full potential of AI and natural language processing, and optimize their machine learning workflows," said Steven Hillion, SVP of Data & AI at Astronomer.
Astronomer continues to expand Astro's integrations with leading AI tools to give enterprises the flexibility and freedom necessary to evolve their AI strategies to meet their business needs.

Astronomer Announces Collaboration with Microsoft, Offering Fully Managed Apache Airflow for Microsoft Azure Customers

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Mercredi, novembre 15, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO and CINCINNATI, Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronomer, a provider of modern data orchestration, today announced that its Astro platform is now available as Apache Airflow™ on Astro – an Azure Native ISV Service. Astro enables companies to place Airflow at the core of their data operations, providing ease of use, scalability, and enterprise-grade security, to ensure the reliable delivery of mission-critical data pipelines. As a first-class managed service in the Azure Portal, developers can create an Airflow instance with just a few clicks, access an extensive library of pre-built integrations, and easily coordinate all data operations from Astro's unified data platform.

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With Astro's streamlined integration on Azure, organizations can effortlessly deploy, monitor, and scale Apache Airflow workflows.
"Astronomer's integration with Microsoft Azure makes Astro more readily available to power critical business applications," said Andy Byron, CEO at Astronomer.
This allows them to swiftly initiate, write, and deploy DAGs without prior Airflow experience – providing an effortless gateway to managed Airflow.
"Using Astro's Apache Airflow offering on Microsoft Azure has modernized our data operations.

Grand Ventures Raises $50 Million Fund to Invest in Early-Stage Startups

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Lundi, octobre 9, 2023

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Grand Ventures today announced the closing of a $50 million second fund to invest in early-stage companies.

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 09, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Grand Ventures today announced the closing of a $50 million second fund to invest in early-stage companies.
This Fund II received significant support from its existing investor base while adding new limited partners, including family offices.
The fund is managed by General Partners Tim Streit, Camila Noordeloos, and Nathan Owen.
The close of Fund II brings Grand Ventures' total funds raised to over $80 million.

Astronomer Introduces New Capabilities to Enable The Future of Effortless, Cost-Effective Managed Airflow

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Jeudi, septembre 14, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO and CINCINNATI, Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronomer, the leader in modern data orchestration, introduces new capabilities to Astro, its Apache Airflow-powered platform. These capabilities include a new architecture and deployment model with competitive consumption-based pricing, ensuring teams of all sizes can harness the advanced capabilities of Astro for data orchestration. Airflow's flexibility and extensibility has placed it at the center of the Machine Learning data stack as the critical orchestrator of Machine Learning Operations (MLOps). With the explosion of demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Astronomer's new capabilities enable organizations to rapidly harness the potential of AI and natural language processing, accelerating the development of next-gen applications with precision and agility.

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Astronomer to Showcase Astro's Next-Gen Architecture, Consumption-Based Pricing, and Updated Airflow Certification at the 2023 Airflow Summit
SAN FRANCISCO and CINCINNATI, Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronomer, the leader in modern data orchestration, introduces new capabilities to Astro, its Apache Airflow-powered platform.
Today, Astronomer is excited to announce a new component of the Astro platform: The Astro Hypervisor.
In tandem with these innovations, Astronomer refreshed its Astronomer Academy —the free, definitive learning hub for everything Airflow.
At the 2023 Airflow Summit, the largest in-person gathering for Airflow enthusiasts and professionals, Astronomer invites attendees to explore Astro firsthand.

Astronomer Revenue Jumps More Than 200 Percent in H1 2023 as Apache Airflow™ Growth and AI Initiatives Drive Global Demand for Data Orchestration Platform

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Jeudi, septembre 7, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO and CINCINNATI, Sept. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronomer, the leader in modern data orchestration, announced today a 206% year-over-year growth in revenue for 'Astronomer's Astro'. Additionally, in-product usage of its Apache Airflow-powered platform surged by more than 1,400 percent in the first half of 2023. As data pipelines have become pivotal to key business outcomes, companies depend on Airflow and Astro as the backbone of their innovations. Organizations around the world, including Condé Nast, Electronic Arts, FanDuel, and many more, have implemented Astro to power their data pipelines, fueling the analytics and operational platforms that drive revenue for businesses.

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Additionally, in-product usage of its Apache Airflow-powered platform surged by more than 1,400 percent in the first half of 2023.
As data pipelines have become pivotal to key business outcomes, companies depend on Airflow and Astro as the backbone of their innovations.
Over the past year, Apache Airflow has continued to gain immense popularity as a versatile and scalable platform for orchestrating complex data workflows.
Its rise is attributed to the increasing demand for big data and data engineering tasks, where businesses require dynamic, extensible, and code-driven solutions to schedule, coordinate, and monitor data pipelines.

ATOMOS ANNOUNCES FIRST ORBITAL MISSION DEMONSTRATING RENDEZVOUS, DOCKING, REFUELING AND ORBITAL TRANSFER

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Mardi, juillet 25, 2023

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The vehicles, Quark and Gluon, will perform rendezvous, docking, refueling, and orbital transfer.

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The vehicles, Quark and Gluon, will perform rendezvous, docking, refueling, and orbital transfer.
Quark will provide in-space services such as orbit raising, satellite life extension, cargo delivery to space stations, and refueling.
"Nothing like this mission has been attempted since DARPA's Orbital Express, which had a budget more than 20x ours," says Clark.
Atomos is deep into the flight vehicle assembly, integration, and testing, with propulsion, rendezvous, docking, and refueling already space qualified.

Snowflake Extends Programmability for Developers with New Snowpark Container Services to Run Secure Generative AI in the Data Cloud; Includes NVIDIA GPUs, Notebooks, Apps, and More

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Mardi, juin 27, 2023

Snowpark Container Services further expands the scope of workloads that can be brought to customers’ data.

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Snowpark Container Services further expands the scope of workloads that can be brought to customers’ data.
Snowflake has partnered with dozens of third-party software and application providers to deliver world-class products that can run within their end-customer’s Snowflake account using Snowpark Container Services.
Furthermore, NVIDIA and Snowflake are building transformative accelerated computing and software integrations for Snowpark Container Services.
The collaboration also brings NVIDIA AI Enterprise — the software pillar of the NVIDIA AI platform — to Snowpark Container Services, along with support for NVIDIA accelerated computing.

Appen appoints former Pivotal Software and Astronomer SaaS executive Andrew Ettinger to lead worldwide sales

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Lundi, mai 22, 2023

Andrew will direct Appen’s global go-to-market sales and operations to meet our growth objectives.

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Andrew will direct Appen’s global go-to-market sales and operations to meet our growth objectives.
Andrew brings over 25 years of leadership experience in growing software and services companies from start-ups to scale-ups to a successful IPO with scaled growth.
Previously, Andrew served as a North American sales executive at Pivotal Software, where he helped scale the business from US$0-$100 million in annual recurring revenue ahead of Pivotal’s IPO, and up to US$500 million during his seven year tenure.
I look forward to delivering on the enormous potential of deep learning and generative AI,” says Andrew.