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Monte Carlo Survey Finds Data Engineers Spend 40% of Their Workday on Bad Data

Monte Carlo released a report this week that found that data engineers spend 40% of their workday on average evaluating or checking data quality. For its 2022 State of Data Quality Survey, Monte Carlo joined Wakefield Read more…

Data Observability, Metaverse Land on Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Tech

The dog days of August are here, which can only mean one thing: It’s time for Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies! The 2022 version includes numerous data and AI technologies among its 25 entries, includin Read more…

Second Half 2022 Tech Predictions for Data and AI

As we emerge from halftime of the show that is the year 2022, it’s time to take stock of where we’ve come this year in big data, advanced analytics, and AI, and assess where we’re likely to go next. Based on whe Read more…

Soda Envisions Data Reliability as Code with SodaCL

Soda today announced the general availability of Soda Checks Language (SodaCL), a new domain specific language designed to enable data engineers to deliver data reliability checks as code within Soda Core, a new framewor Read more…

IBM Acquires Observability Platform Databand.ai

IBM has announced the acquisition of data observability software vendor Databand.ai. Today’s announcement marks IBM’s fifth acquisition of 2022. The company says the acquisition “further strengthens IBM’s softwar Read more…

VCs Open Up the Checkbook for Observability Startups

Observability continues to be one of the biggest tech trends in big data. It certainly has the attention of venture capitalists, who have committed hundreds of millions of dollars to data observability startups in recent Read more…

Monte Carlo Raises $135 Million to Grow Data Observability Biz

Data observability has emerged as one of the hottest sectors in the big data market, thanks to its focus on fixing broken data pipelines. One of the hottest players in the field is Monte Carlo, which this week announced Read more…

Grafana Labs Announces $240M Series D Round

Grafana Labs has just announced a $240 million Series D round led by existing investor GIC and joined by new investor J.P. Morgan. The Series D investment comes just seven months after the company’s $220 million Series Read more…

WhyLabs Goes In Search of AI Observability

Data observability is one of the hottest sectors of the market, and numerous startups have attracted big investments in their offerings. But when it comes to the impact of data on AI, data observability only gets you so Read more…

AIOps Platform Provider Selector Raises $28M Series A

Selector, an AIOps, analytics and observability platform provider, has announced it raised $28 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $33 million. Selector will use these new funds for its mar Read more…

Data Intelligence Focus Rewarding for Collibra

What the world needs now, according to Collibra co-founder and CEO Felix Van de Maele, is a hefty dose of data intelligence. That is, it needs an intelligent approach to managing, governing, tracking, and securing data, Read more…

2021 Big Data Year in Review: Part 2

There was a lot going on in 2021, but we’ve done our best to synthesize some of the top stories of the year. Here, we pick up where we left off in part one of this two-part piece. One of the most interesting develop Read more…

Inside AutoTrader UK’s Data Observability Pipeline

In the course of shifting its analytics estate to the cloud, AutoTrader UK has adopted many new tools and technologies, including BigQuery, Looker, and dbt, which have helped to democratize data access among users. Along Read more…

With ‘Deltas,’ Bigeye Sets Its Sights on Dataset Validation

As data sources and repositories grow larger and larger, companies are increasingly turning their eyes to data observability – being able to understand the health of all that data. Now, data observability firm Bigeye i Read more…

Monte Carlo Launches ‘Insights’ for Operational Analytics

Monte Carlo launched in 2019 with the aim of improving data reliability. In the intervening two years, the company has raised more than $101 million in funding to advance this goal – and now, that investment is bearing Read more…

Bigeye Observes $45 Million in Funding

Data observability startup Bigeye, which uses statistics and machine learning to detect inconsistencies and other problems in data, has netted $45 million in a Series B round that it will use to accelerate the company’ Read more…

Cribl Raises $200 Million in Series C Funding to Advance Data Observability

Founded in 2017, San Francisco-based startup Cribl named itself after an obscure device called a cribble – which the company defines as "an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom generally used for gold panning Read more…

In Search of Data Observability

The concept of “observability” is well understood as it pertains to DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE). But what does it mean in the context of data? According to Barr Moses, the CEO of data observability Read more…

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