Apache Cassandra

Senhasegura Extends Privileged Access Management (PAM) Security to Database Management

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

Senhasegura , a global provider of privileged access management (PAM) solutions, today expanded its 3600 Privileged Platform capabilities with the launch of Database Proxy.

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Senhasegura , a global provider of privileged access management (PAM) solutions, today expanded its 3600 Privileged Platform capabilities with the launch of Database Proxy.
Database Proxy seamlessly integrates Senhasegura’s PAM security controls with the industry’s most popular databases, helping database administrators (DBAs) manage data security, control, and compliance to better protect against costly data breaches.
This specialization underscores the company’s commitment to providing targeted and efficient database security solutions for the industry’s most popular database environments.
Senhasegura’s Database Proxy also makes it easy for database developers to interact directly with their preferred database client while leveraging the advanced security controls already offered by Senhasegura’s PAM Core.

DataStax Launches New Data API to Dramatically Simplify GenAI Application Development

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

DataStax , the company that powers generative AI (GenAI) applications with relevant, scalable data, today announced the general availability of its Data API, a one-stop API for GenAI, that provides all the data and a complete stack for production GenAI and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications with high relevancy and low latency.

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DataStax , the company that powers generative AI (GenAI) applications with relevant, scalable data, today announced the general availability of its Data API, a one-stop API for GenAI, that provides all the data and a complete stack for production GenAI and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications with high relevancy and low latency.
The new vector Data API and experience makes the proven, petabyte-scale power of Apache Cassandra ® available to JavaScript, Python, or full-stack application developers in a more intuitive experience for AI development.
“Astra DB's Data API has been a game-changer for us to build production RAG applications that use enterprise data,” said Rahul Singh, chief executive officer, Anant.US.
This has significantly expedited our production processes.”
“The Astra DB vector experience advanced GenAI development at Aviso,” said Santosh Maddila, principal data scientist, Aviso AI.

AxonOps Announces Technical Preview of Apache Cassandra™ Cloud Provisioning

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

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AxonOps , the One-Stop Operations platform for Apache Cassandra, announced at Cassandra Summit 2023 today the technical preview of Cloud Provisioning.

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AxonOps , the One-Stop Operations platform for Apache Cassandra, announced at Cassandra Summit 2023 today the technical preview of Cloud Provisioning.
Organizations wanting to directly manage Apache Cassandra within their own cloud provider accounts now have access to tooling that automates the provisioning, scaling, upgrade, patching and certificate management of their clusters.
“AxonOps delivers tooling that automates and streamlines operations for those organizations wanting to self-manage their data infrastructure, and Cloud Provisioning is a critical step in that journey, starting with Apache Cassandra,” said John Glendenning, Co-founder & CEO AxonOps.
Built by Cassandra experts frustrated by the lack of effective tooling, AxonOps provides access to all of the capabilities required to effectively monitor, maintain and backup an Apache Cassandra environment.

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.

DataStax Launches New Integration with LangChain, Enables Developers to Easily Build Production-ready Generative AI Applications

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

DataStax , the company that powers generative AI applications with real-time, scalable data, today announced a new integration with LangChain, the most popular orchestration framework for developing applications with large language models (LLMs).

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DataStax , the company that powers generative AI applications with real-time, scalable data, today announced a new integration with LangChain, the most popular orchestration framework for developing applications with large language models (LLMs).
The integration makes it easy to add Astra DB – the real-time database for developers building production Gen AI applications – or Apache Cassandra ®, as a new vector source in the LangChain framework.
Generative AI applications built with RAG stacks require a vector-enabled database and an orchestration framework like LangChain, to provide memory or context to LLMs for accurate and relevant answers.
The new integration lets developers leverage the power of the Astra DB vector database for their LLM, AI assistant, and real-time generative AI projects through the LangChain plugin architecture for vector stores .

DataStax Delivers New JSON API: Enabling the World’s Largest Community of Developers to Easily Build Generative AI Applications with the Astra DB Vector Database

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Available via the open source data API gateway, Stargate , the new JSON API lets JavaScript developers easily leverage Astra DB as a vector database for their large language model (LLM), AI assistant, and real-time generative AI projects.

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Available via the open source data API gateway, Stargate , the new JSON API lets JavaScript developers easily leverage Astra DB as a vector database for their large language model (LLM), AI assistant, and real-time generative AI projects.
This makes it simple for JavaScript developers – the largest community of developers in the world – to build generative AI applications with vector search, using the library they know and love.
The Astra DB vector database is designed for building real-world, production-level AI applications with real-time data.
The flexibility of Cassandra lends itself to such enhancements, and this new JSON API for Astra DB is right in line with the emerging needs of DataStax developers.”
For more information on the JSON API for Astra DB and how to build generative AI applications with DataStax, read the blog here .

DataStax Delivers a Production-ready, Massively Scalable, HIPAA-enabled, PCI Compliant Vector Database to Fuel Enterprise-wide Generative AI Applications

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

A database that supports vector search can store data as “vector embeddings,” which is essential to delivering generative AI applications like those built on GPT-4.

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A database that supports vector search can store data as “vector embeddings,” which is essential to delivering generative AI applications like those built on GPT-4.
Additionally, vector search will be available for customers running DataStax Enterprise, the on-premises, self-managed offering, within the month.
“An enterprise will need trillions of vectors for generative AI so vector databases must deliver limitless horizontal scale.
“Employing generative AI and columnar data lakehouse technology, SkyPoint AI ensures seamless access to resident health data and administrative insights.

DataStax Adds Vector Search to Astra DB on Google Cloud for Building Real-time Generative AI Applications

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

DataStax is working closely with the Google Cloud AI/ML Center of Excellence as part of the Built with Google AI program to enable the best of Google Cloud’s generative AI offerings to enhance the capabilities and experience of customers using DataStax.

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DataStax is working closely with the Google Cloud AI/ML Center of Excellence as part of the Built with Google AI program to enable the best of Google Cloud’s generative AI offerings to enhance the capabilities and experience of customers using DataStax.
And now, because of Cassandra’s ability to search by meaning, it will play a key role in building generative AI applications.
We plan to use Google Cloud’s generative AI capabilities alongside Astra DB’s vector search to power our real time data infrastructure and generative AI experiences."
Their close partnership with Google Cloud, and early access to the latest generative AI services from Google Cloud ensure the delivery of high quality AI applications to the largest companies in the world.

ScyllaDB Continues Record Growth in Response to Rising Cloud Cost Pressures

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

This comes on the heels of the company announcing that its 800% overall revenue growth landed ScyllaDB a spot in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.™ ScyllaDB ranked 182 and is the only database on this year’s list.

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This comes on the heels of the company announcing that its 800% overall revenue growth landed ScyllaDB a spot in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.™ ScyllaDB ranked 182 and is the only database on this year’s list.
“ScyllaDB is uniquely architected to capitalize on continuing hardware innovations,” explained Dor Laor, ScyllaDB Co-Founder and CEO.
ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput and ~20X lower latency versus databases such as Amazon DynamoDB, Google Bigtable, and Apache Cassandra.
Moreover, ScyllaDB offers organizations the flexibility to run their database on their cloud provider of choice – or opt for multi-cloud, hybrid, or on-prem deployment options.

DataStax Brings the Power of Real-time Data to Applications Processing Credit Card Data

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

DataStax , the real-time AI company, has achieved Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance for Astra DB on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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DataStax , the real-time AI company, has achieved Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance for Astra DB on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Rigorous PCI DSS standards ensure that companies managing payment information, such as credit card, debit card and electronic check data, maintain a secure environment.
“By attaining PCI compliance, DataStax can serve an even greater array of customers looking to leverage the power of real-time data to meet the needs of their business – all while ensuring the privacy and integrity of the data stored in Astra DB,” said Ed Anuff, chief product officer at DataStax.
Astra DB empowers organizations to build and scale real-time applications without limits.