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Amazon finally opens doors to its serverless analytics

Still managing app servers by hand? What is this, 2012?

Tobias Mann Thu 2 Jun 2022 // 19:42 UTC

If you want to run analytics in a serverless cloud environment, Amazon Web Services reckons it can help you out all while reducing your operating costs and simplifying deployments.
As is typical for Amazon, the cloud giant previewed this EMR Serverless platform – EMR once meaning Elastic MapReduce – at its Re:Invent conference in December, and only opened the services to the public this week.
AWS is no stranger to serverless with products like Lambda. However, its EMR offering specifically targets analytics workloads, such as those using Apache Spark, Hive, and Presto.

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We've never even built datacenters using robots here on Earth

Interesting Moon experiment raises cool questions about disposal of hidden value

Rupert Goodwins Mon 30 May 2022 // 09:11 UTC

Opinion Making a call on the quality of a new idea in tech can be hard. But if you ask me, not in the case of Lonestar Data Holdings, whose plan to build datacenters on the Moon is literal lunacy.
Every detail of the roadmap, from tentative tiny proofs of concept to massive underground server farms built and tended by Moon robots, is priceless nonsense. From Apollo onward, every spacecraft has had data storage and network access. We have retrieved data held in New Horizon's 16GB filing system from Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth, 16 thousand times more distant than the Moon. Concept bloody well proved.
As for building bit lairs in lava pipes by robot, nobody's built a datacenter by robot on Earth yet. And nobody seems minded to try.

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Teradata to take $60m hit for withdrawal from Russia

Calls time on interactions and services with customers, including state-owned bank Sberbank

Lindsay Clark Fri 6 May 2022 // 15:12 UTC

Data warehousing specialist Teradata is taking a $60 million hit by ending sales, operations and support in Russia following the country's invasion of Ukraine.
CFO Claire Bramley told investors that of the $60 million, around $10 million was removed from first quarter revenue, leaving a $50 million impact expected across the remaining three quarters of 2022.
Teradata CEO Steve McMillan said: "In the quarter, we stopped conducting business in Russia, ceased customer interactions and services with all Russian accounts, and confirmed that we do not have any suppliers critical to our supply chain from Russia or Ukraine. Our actions were managed with a priority of support and care for our employees who were directly affected.

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Pyramid Analytics receives $120m in VC funding for 'decision intelligence'

Investor money set to help the software vendor make its AI analytics tech a thing

Lindsay Clark Mon 9 May 2022 // 16:00 UTC

Pyramid Analytics, the BI company which counts Siemens, VW Ireland and Dell among its customers, has secured Series E funding of $120 million.
Founded in 2009, the company has now secured venture capital totalling $200 million, with the latest round led by H.I.G. Growth Partners, with the participation of Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings, Kingfisher Capital, and General Oriental Investments. Sequoia Capital and Viola Growth are among investors in earlier rounds.
The company sells something it calls "Decision Intelligence." It claims that applying artificial intelligence to analytics lowers the skills barrier and automates the complex steps required to make decisions with data.

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Mastering metadata key to shifting data fast, says Arcitecta

A new transmission protocol can work lightning fast, but only with very thorough records to pull from

Brandon Vigliarolo Mon 25 Apr 2022 // 15:15 UTC

Companies that move and analyze huge volumes of data are always on the lookout for faster ways to do it. One Australian company says it has created a protocol that can "transmit terabytes per minute across the globe."
The company, Arcitecta, which has an almost 25-year history, has just announced the new Livewire protocol, which is part of their data management platform, Mediaflux, used by institutions including the Australian Department of Defense, drug maker Novartis, and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
According to CEO Jason Lohrey, Livewire itself has already made an impact for some of the largest data movers. "One of our customers transmits petabytes of data around the globe, he told The Register.

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Real-time data analytics firm Tinybird nets $37m in Series A

Millions of rows per second in real time, so the legend goes...

Brandon Vigliarolo Tue 5 Apr 2022 // 15:30 UTC

A data analytics company claiming to be able to process millions of rows per second, in real time, has just closed out a Series A funding round to take-in $37 million.
Tinybird raised the funds via investors Crane Ventures, Datadog CPO Amit Agarwal, and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, along with new investments from CRV and Singular Ventures.
Tinybird's Stephane Cornille, said the company plans to use the funds to expand into new regions, build connectors for additional cloud providers, create new ways for users to build their own connectors, provide tighter Git integration, Schema management and migrations, and better defaults and easier materialization.

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EU cuts off key Russian banks from SWIFT system

State-owned Sberbank's software contracts under scrutiny

Lindsay Clark Wed 2 Mar 2022 // 12:52 UTC

As of this morning, the EU confirmed it had "agreed to exclude key Russian banks from the SWIFT system, the world's dominant financial messaging system.
"This measure will stop these banks from conducting their financial transactions worldwide in a fast and efficient manner. Today's decision has been closely coordinated with the EU's international partners, such as the United States and the United Kingdom," the EU said in a statement.
Russian majority state-owned Sberbank has so far managed to hold onto vital HR and CRM systems contracts with the world's largest software companies, despite political outcry from the firms' home nations over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Teradata: Public cloud sales soar from low base, majority of business still on-prem

Perpetual software and hardware licenses dive in Q4, consultancy withers on vine

Lindsay Clark Tue 8 Feb 2022 // 22:26 UTC

Teradata is still working to shake off its image as an on-premises data warehouse provider by highlighting annual recurring revenue in public cloud of $202m for calendar 2021, nearly doubling from $106m in the prior year.
However, the 91 per cent year-on-year increase came in 9 points lower than 100 per cent growth the company had forecast at an investors’ day last in September, and it remains a small part of overall sales.
For Q4 2021, total revenue for the biz was down 3 per cent on the same period a year earlier to $475m. Total recurring revenue was $364m, perpetual software licenses and hardware was down 44 per cent to $19m, and consulting services fell 17 per cent to $92m.

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SAP patent not inventive enough to get legal protection, judge rules

Teradata also sees wings clipped in ongoing battle with German ERP giant

Lindsay Clark Tue 16 Nov 2021 // 10:15 UTC

An SAP patent was not "inventive enough" to be legally binding, according to a US judge in an intellectual property case which also saw Teradata's claim in the dispute reduced.
The federal judge in California last week trimmed down claims from both sides of an ongoing dispute over a joint venture the firms entered into back in 2008.
Teradata alleged that the German software company used the JV to try to access the US company's intellectual property and build its HANA in-memory database, which it would try to get its customers to use, according to a 2018 filing at the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

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Snowflake doubters voice reservations over data warehouse's attempt to break into financial services

On-prem systems hold advantages in terms of known costs, say insiders

Lindsay Clark Fri 17 Sep 2021 // 14:38 UTC

Cloud-based data warehouse darling Snowflake has launched its latest venture into financial services, while Teradata, something of a stalwart in data warehousing for banks and insurers, is attempting to broaden its appeal with machine learning implementations.
Though the world has been focused on Snowflake's stratospheric rise – it went from $1.5bn value in 2018 to $120bn shortly after its IPO last year – it may struggle to make inroads into the lucrative financial services markets, according to insiders and industry experts.
The so-called cloud-native data warehouse biz launched what it calls the Financial Services Data Cloud this week, accompanied by the claim that 57 per cent of Fortune 500 firms in the sector are on its platform. It is described as an industry-tailored platform that brings together Snowflake technology with "partner-delivered solutions" and "industry-critical datasets."

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