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Data Culture ‘Half Baked,’ Forrester Says

Many employees don’t know where data is stored, how to access it, or what they’re allowed to do with it, according to a new Forrester report that casts doubt on the idea that large numbers of businesses are ready to Read more…

Data Catalogs: Extreme Makeover Edition

Here’s the cold, hard truth: data catalogs don’t get most people excited. In fact, it’s kind of like going to the dentist; almost nobody likes doing it, but the alternative is worse. In other words, while most peop Read more…

Databricks Enhances Lakehouse Governance with Okera Acquisition and Immuta Investment

Databricks is bolstering the data governance capabilities of its lakehouse platform with a new acquisition and investment. The company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the data governance firm Okera for Read more…

Immuta Completes Pivots to Data Security with New Product

You may know Immuta as a longtime provider of data governance tools. But with the launch of Immuta Detect, the company has completed its pivot to becoming a data security provider for cloud-based data warehouse users. Read more…

Data Access Bottlenecks Lead to Missed Opportunities: Immuta

A new report from Immuta found that 89% of organizations report missing business opportunities because of data access bottlenecks. Immuta’s third annual "State of Data Engineering Survey" spotlights top data enginee Read more…

Immuta Report Highlights ‘Aspiration Gap’ in Cloud Data Management

A new IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by data access specialist Immuta, has found that while 87% of European CXOs named becoming a data-driven organization as a high priority, significant challenges remain in their cloud data m Read more…

Report: Data Mature Organizations See 3x Greater Revenue

Digital insights specialist Heap has announced findings from its newly released sponsored IDC white paper, “How Data Maturity and Product Analytics Improve Digital Experiences and Business Outcomes.” The paper found Read more…

Report: 80% of Global Workers Experience Information Overload

OpenText, provider of an integrated information management platform, has released the results of a survey that found eight out of 10 global workers are suffering from information overload due to siloed data in too many p Read more…

Data Fabric Brings Data Together for Timely Decisions

In addition to the explosion of data volumes, many organizations are struggling with an explosion in the number of data sources and data silos. Managing data in this fluid, ever-changing environment is a major challenge Read more…

Opaque Systems Raises $22M Series A to Boost Confidential Computing

Opaque Systems announced it has raised $22 million in Series A funding bringing its total financing to $31.6 million. The San Francisco-based firm is focused on enabling collaborative analytics and AI in confidential com Read more…

Immuta Raises $100M Series E as the Latest Data Access Unicorn

Data access platform provider Immuta announced it has raised $100 million in a Series E funding round at a $1 billion valuation, bringing the company’s total funding to $267 million and making it the latest unicorn. Read more…

Finding the Data Access Governance Sweet Spot

In part one of this two-part series, I presented the three most common “tried and failed” approaches that large enterprises take to implementing data access controls to increase security and enable compliance with ev Read more…

How Unified Data Access Governance Will Determine the Winners and Losers in the New Data Economy

Given the critical role data plays in helping companies achieve growth and competitive advantage, it's no wonder that companies have been migrating their analytical workloads to the cloud. Cloud not only relieves compani Read more…

Boosting Productivity and Achieving Business Visibility Through Data Democracy

Data is at the center of today's businesses. An organization's ability to survive, let alone make progress, depends on its ability to utilize data effectively. This is not an easy task considering the 3Vs of data—volum Read more…

‘Distributed Stewardship’ Seen as Path to Data Democratization

Okera made its mark on the big data map by providing a universal access layer that gives administrators a single place to control what data users can access, no matter what tools or data sources they’re using. The comp Read more…

Okera Bolsters Access Control for Unstructured Data

Some of the most interesting data that's analyzed by organizations is unstructured data, including images, videos, and text files. But the lack of structure of that data poses regulatory challenges to organizations, whic Read more…

China Ahead on AI Strategy, Behind on Data Access

Policy makers continue to bemoan the fact that the U.S., unlike its economic rivals, lacks a coherent government strategy for accelerating AI development and adoption. While the Trump administration has taken some early Read more…

Transforming ‘Data Swamps’ into Data Lakes

Data lakes and the growing number of analytics tools emerging to access their contents are expanding the universe of business users able to reap insights via what a new survey calls “point-and-click” accessibility. Read more…

Okera Emerges from Stealth with Big Data Fabric

While data platforms like Hadoop and object stores like S3 have become popular places for organizations to stash massive amounts of data, the platforms haven't solved companies' data management challenges. In fact, they' Read more…

RDBMS Remains Popular As Data Sources Grow

As the number and variety of data sources continues to explode along with proliferation of third party APIs used to connect it, data repositories such as relational databases continue to thrive while emerging software se Read more…

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