Apache Kafka

Couchbase Announces New Capella Columnar Service To Enable Real-Time Analytics for Adaptive Applications

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Monday, November 27, 2023

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Couchbase, Inc. (NASDAQ: BASE), the cloud database platform company, today announced a new Capella columnar service on Amazon Web Services (AWS) at AWS re:Invent 2023, enabling organizations to harness real-time analytics to build adaptive applications. Capella columnar is a new service that introduces a columnar store and data integration into the Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), thereby allowing for real-time data analysis on the same platform as operational workloads. By converging operational and real-time analytic applications into one database platform, Couchbase removes friction to deliver a premium customer experience. For more information about Capella columnar and to sign up for the private preview, please visit https://www.couchbase.com/products/analytics/.

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Capella columnar is a new service that introduces a columnar store and data integration into the Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), thereby allowing for real-time data analysis on the same platform as operational workloads.
Real-time analytics are paramount to delivering these adaptive applications, and AI is making them even better and more strategic," said Scott Anderson, SVP of product management and business operations at Couchbase.
"With columnar in our Capella DBaaS, for the first time organizations can easily build adaptive applications powered by real-time analytics in a single JSON-based platform.
Attendees can visit booth number 1095 to see a demo of Capella columnar and learn more about Capella for building adaptive applications.

Monte Carlo Announces Support for Apache Kafka and Vector Databases to Enable More Reliable Data and AI Products

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Monte Carlo , the data observability leader, today announced a series of new product advancements to help companies tackle the challenge of ensuring reliable data for their data and AI products.

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Monte Carlo , the data observability leader, today announced a series of new product advancements to help companies tackle the challenge of ensuring reliable data for their data and AI products.
With this news, Monte Carlo becomes the first-ever data observability platform to announce data observability for vector databases, a type of database designed to store and query high-dimensional vector data, typically used in RAG architectures.
To help these initiatives scale cost-effectively, Monte Carlo has released two first-of-its-kind data observability products, Performance Monitoring and Data Product Dashboard.
Available in early 2024, Monte Carlo is the first data observability platform to support trust and reliability for vector databases, such as Pinecone.

Grafana Labs Launches Major New Infrastructure and Cost Monitoring Capabilities

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today is announcing new Grafana Cloud capabilities designed for Kubernetes platform teams seeking to reduce cloud costs and gain more unified monitoring experiences across their entire cloud native infrastructure.

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Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today is announcing new Grafana Cloud capabilities designed for Kubernetes platform teams seeking to reduce cloud costs and gain more unified monitoring experiences across their entire cloud native infrastructure.
Grafana Labs engineers Mark Poko and JuanJo Ciarlante will discuss Grafana Labs' journey toward cost observability and lessons learned in optimizing cloud spend.
Grafana Cloud has bundled all of these integrations into a single solution themed for various monitoring use cases.
You can also learn more about these developments at the following KubeCon talks featuring Grafana Labs engineers.

Confluent Unveils Apache Flink® on Confluent Cloud, Making it Easier to Build Real-Time Applications with Stream Processing on a Unified Platform

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

In a data streaming platform, stream processing acts as the compute layer that turns data into valuable insights and action.

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In a data streaming platform, stream processing acts as the compute layer that turns data into valuable insights and action.
As one of the top projects of the Apache Software Foundation, Flink has emerged as the de facto standard for stream processing.
“Companies globally are leveraging data streaming with Apache Kafka to power real-time experiences,” said Shaun Clowes, Chief Product Officer at Confluent.
"When used in combination, Apache Flink and Apache Kafka can enable data reusability and avoid redundant downstream processing.

New Version of Solace Event Portal Software Enables Unprecedented Visibility, Management and Control of Apache Kafka Deployments

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Current, Booth # 206 – Solace, the leading enabler of event-driven architecture for real-time enterprises, today announced a new version of its Solace Event Portal solution that gives organizations with Apache Kafka deployments better visibility into, and control over, their Kafka event streams, brokers and associated assets.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Current, Booth # 206 – Solace, the leading enabler of event-driven architecture for real-time enterprises, today announced a new version of its Solace Event Portal solution that gives organizations with Apache Kafka deployments better visibility into, and control over, their Kafka event streams, brokers and associated assets.
"Solace Event Portal for Apache Kafka provides the tooling to help organizations manage their Kafka-based event-driven applications."
The Apache Kafka-focused solution is part of a broader offering that is Solace Event Portal , a first-of-its-kind product that pioneered the event management category back in 2020.
"We are excited that the Kafka community is embracing the cutting-edge functionality Solace Event Portal for Apache Kafka brings to the table."

New Version of Solace Event Portal Software Enables Unprecedented Visibility, Management and Control of Apache Kafka Deployments

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Current, Booth # 206 – Solace, the leading enabler of event-driven architecture for real-time enterprises, today announced a new version of its Solace Event Portal solution that gives organizations with Apache Kafka deployments better visibility into, and control over, their Kafka event streams, brokers and associated assets.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Current, Booth # 206 – Solace, the leading enabler of event-driven architecture for real-time enterprises, today announced a new version of its Solace Event Portal solution that gives organizations with Apache Kafka deployments better visibility into, and control over, their Kafka event streams, brokers and associated assets.
"Solace Event Portal for Apache Kafka provides the tooling to help organizations manage their Kafka-based event-driven applications."
The Apache Kafka-focused solution is part of a broader offering that is Solace Event Portal , a first-of-its-kind product that pioneered the event management category back in 2020.
"We are excited that the Kafka community is embracing the cutting-edge functionality Solace Event Portal for Apache Kafka brings to the table."

DigitalOcean Launches Managed Kafka Offering

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), the cloud for startups and SMBs, today announced the launch of DigitalOcean Managed Kafka , a new, fully managed data streaming platform as a service offering for Apache Kafka.

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DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), the cloud for startups and SMBs, today announced the launch of DigitalOcean Managed Kafka , a new, fully managed data streaming platform as a service offering for Apache Kafka.
DigitalOcean Managed Kafka helps small and medium-sized businesses across industries, including video streaming, the Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, gaming, and eCommerce, access and process data streams in real time while eliminating the complexity associated with the Kafka administration.
With DigitalOcean Managed Kafka, startups and SMBs can benefit from the ability to scale up and down clusters with ease while setting up alerts for proactive maintenance.
“DigitalOcean's Managed Kafka offering has been a game-changer for us at Datacake,” said Lukas Klein, Chief Technical Officer at Datacake.

Confluent Announces the Data Streaming Startup Challenge

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, today announced the Data Streaming Startup Challenge.

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Confluent, Inc. (NASDAQ:CFLT), the data streaming pioneer, today announced the Data Streaming Startup Challenge.
The Data Streaming Startup Challenge will bring together startups with this drive to challenge the status quo and unlock new opportunities with data streaming.”
“Data streaming makes it easier for startups to turn data chaos into data products, enabling real-time processing and analysis for immediate insights,” said Tim Graczewski, Head of Confluent for Startups.
“The Data Streaming Startup Challenge rewards startups that aren’t simply using Confluent Cloud, but testing the limits of how real-time data can be harnessed.
Read this blog post for additional information about the Data Streaming Startup Challenge: https://www.confluent.io/blog/2023-confluent-data-streaming-startup-chal...
See more about the Data Streaming Startup Challenge on the Confluent website: https://www.confluent.io/startupchallenge/

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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Thursday, September 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.

StarTree Joins the Connect with Confluent Partner Program to Help Companies Seamlessly Integrate Data Streams

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StarTree today announced it has joined the Connect with Confluent partner program.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StarTree today announced it has joined the Connect with Confluent partner program.
The Connect with Confluent partner program helps partners accelerate the development of real-time applications through a native integration with Confluent Cloud.
Through the integration of StarTree Cloud with Confluent Cloud, customers will now be able to achieve an end-to-end real-time data streaming architecture that ingests and analyzes that data, faster than ever before.
“Data streaming is now a critical business requirement as companies shift toward a digital-first approach to everything,” said Paul Mac Farland, Vice President, Partner and Innovation Ecosystem, Confluent.