Apache Airflow

Teradata Embraces Open Table Formats, Iceberg and Delta Lake, to Deliver the Most Open and Connected Ecosystem for Trusted AI

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Teradata’s fully open and connected approach is designed to be future-ready and allow enterprises to employ a modern data strategy with unmatched agility and flexibility for executing Trusted AI at scale.

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  • Teradata’s fully open and connected approach is designed to be future-ready and allow enterprises to employ a modern data strategy with unmatched agility and flexibility for executing Trusted AI at scale.
  • Teradata’s agnostic OTF support and open catalog integration is designed to enable the platform to read various catalogs with predictable execution.
  • “In today’s data landscape, we’re seeing wide adoption of open table formats with 51% of organizations actively adopting Delta tables and 27% adopting Apache Iceberg.
  • Forward-looking statements in this release include the availability, capabilities, and benefits provided by the integration of open table formats with Teradata’s VantageCloud platform and Teradata AI Unlimited.

Astronomer Unveils New Capabilities in Astro to Streamline Enterprise Data Orchestration

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

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.

Key Points: 
  • 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 Bolsters Leadership Team to Drive Go-To-Market Strategy & Cloud Revenue Growth

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

NEW YORK, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronomer, the leader in modern data orchestration, today announced two additions to its leadership team to drive go-to-market strategy and cloud growth. Mike Haas joins as Chief Revenue Officer and Leo Zheng as Chief Marketing Officer. The extension of the Astronomer leadership team better positions the company to meet the growing demand for Astro, the company's Apache Airflow-powered platform. As the reliable and predictable delivery of data becomes increasingly mission-critical for companies of all sizes, from startups to the F100, data pipelines managed by Astro are key to enabling informed decision-making, day-to-day business operations, and user-facing applications – including AI and LLM-powered experiences. 

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Astronomer , the leader in modern data orchestration, today announced two additions to its leadership team to drive go-to-market strategy and cloud growth.
  • The extension of the Astronomer leadership team better positions the company to meet the growing demand for Astro , the company's Apache Airflow-powered platform.
  • Mike Haas joins Astronomer as CRO to develop and execute its global sales strategy.
  • Prior to Astronomer, he led sales at Clumio, a leader in backup and data recovery for the public cloud.

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

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Tuesday, February 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.

EMA Webinar to Present Highlights from the Latest "EMA Radar™ Report for Workload Automation and Orchestration"

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

LAFAYETTE, Colo., Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT and data management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host a research webinar titled "Highlights from the EMA Radar™ Report for Workload Automation and Orchestration 2023" featuring Dan Twing, President and COO at EMA, Robby Dick, Principal Solutions Marketing Manager at BMC, and Gabe Geller, Lead Solutions Marketing Manager at BMC.

Key Points: 
  • Our upcoming webinar will delve into the core trends shaping the future of automation.
  • 2023 marked a transformative era for workload automation (WLA) with significant advances by leading products to expand orchestration capabilities.
  • Orchestration is the megatrend in workload automation and as this expanded focus continues to mature, it is driving the changes in and around WLA.
  • "2023 was a pivotal year for workload automation, witnessing remarkable strides in orchestration capabilities," said Twing.

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

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

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.

Key Points: 
  • 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.

Cloudera Supports Advanced NVIDIA AI Technologies

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloudera, the data company for trusted enterprise AI, announced additional support for key NVIDIA technologies in public and private clouds to help enable customers to efficiently build and deploy best-in-class applications for artificial intelligence.

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloudera, the data company for trusted enterprise AI, announced additional support for key NVIDIA technologies in public and private clouds to help enable customers to efficiently build and deploy best-in-class applications for artificial intelligence.
  • "NVIDIA's leadership in AI computing perfectly complements Cloudera's leadership in data management, offering customers a complete solution to harness the power of GPUs across the entire AI lifecycle."
  • The CML service now supports the cutting-edge NVIDIA H100 GPU in public clouds and in data centers.
  • "The Cloudera and NVIDIA integration will empower us to use data-driven insights to power mission-critical use cases such as fraud detection.

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

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Wednesday, November 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.

Key Points: 
  • 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.

Treeverse Releases lakeFS 1.0 to Improve Lifecycle Management of Data Lakes and Integration with Modern Data Stack

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Treeverse, the creator of lakeFS , the open-source technology that brings data version control to data lakes, today announced the release of lakeFS 1.0, a scalable and highly reliable system with backward compatible interfaces within the modern data stack.

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  • Treeverse, the creator of lakeFS , the open-source technology that brings data version control to data lakes, today announced the release of lakeFS 1.0, a scalable and highly reliable system with backward compatible interfaces within the modern data stack.
  • Treeverse introduced lakeFS, its open-source software (OSS) for scalable data version control in August 2020 to bring order to the chaos that comes with developing and maintaining data products based on petabytes of data.
  • Key capabilities include:
    lakeFS is the only scalable, high-performance data version control option in the market suitable for enterprise-level data operations.
  • lakeFS enables data professionals to manage data as code and increases the efficiency of data engineers, ML/AI practitioners and analysts throughout the lifecycle of the data.

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

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Monday, October 9, 2023

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.