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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…

Zettaset Patents Data Access Approach

Big data security specialist Zettaset said it has been awarded a U.S. patent for a technique designed to boost data access and performance in distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop and NoSQL. Zettaset said this Read more…

CFOs Cling to Excel, ‘Gut’ Instincts

Despite the waterfall of information piling up in corporate databases every business day, a new survey of chief financial officers finds there is actually a "data deficit" when it comes to making decisions based on quick Read more…

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