Real-time Analytics News for the Week Ending February 14

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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache HugeGraph has become a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache HugeGraph is a full-stack platform integrating graph database, computing, and AI capabilities for massive data storage, real-time querying, and offline analytics. Supporting flexible query patterns, it processes hundreds of billions of graph elements with millisecond-level latency. Backed by a vendor-neutral, diverse community co-developed by enterprises and academia, HugeGraph seamlessly integrates with the Apache ecosystem, including Apache Flink, Apache Spark, and Apache SeaTunnel. Battle-tested in security and social networking, it now bridges graph data with LLMs to empower intelligent, data-driven applications in the AI era.

Real-time analytics news in brief

Aerospike unveiled native Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) for its massively scalable, low-latency, real-time NoSQL Database, dramatically simplifying the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) that’s required by regulatory requirements. Using the solution, PII protection is automatically applied and enforced at the database layer, rather than the application layer, without requiring developer intervention. Protection is applied to all human and machine identities and integrates directly with auditing and compliance efforts. DDM is also enabled by default. 

Chainguard announced a major expansion of its Helm chart ecosystem to include community charts and add greater UI and experience enhancements, making it easier for teams to deploy trusted, production-ready Kubernetes workloads. Chainguard’s expanded set of Helm charts and upgraded Helm experience eliminates this manual toil and operational risk. By co-locating signed charts and images in a single registry, Chainguard delivers a secure-by-default, standardized catalog.

Cloudera announced the expansion of Cloudera AI Inference and Cloudera Data Warehouse with Trino to on-premises environments, empowering customers to harness advanced AI and analytics directly from within their data centers. The company also announced enhanced AI and analytics capabilities within Cloudera Data Visualization, streamlining AI workflows across cloud, edge, and data center environments.

IBM unveiled the next generation of IBM FlashSystem, co-run by agentic AI. IBM designed FlashSystem.ai to transform storage from a static repository into a self-improving system. Specifically, FlashSystem.ai automates many parts of storage management and also quickly learns over time. This new agentic AI feature is built to adapt to application behavior in hours and is designed to be significantly faster than template-based machines, suggesting performance improvements and explaining reasoning, while incorporating administrator feedback to tailor recommendations.

Qlik announced the general availability of its agentic experience in Qlik Cloud, delivered through Qlik Answers as the unified conversational interface. Qlik also announced general availability of the Qlik Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, enabling third-party assistants, including Anthropic Claude, to securely access Qlik’s analytical capabilities and trusted data products.

Simplyblock announced the public beta of Vela, a new Postgres platform that introduces Git-style branching, instant environment creation, and serverless operations, all running on a hyperconverged, high-performance storage layer. Vela transforms PostgreSQL into a branchable system, allowing developers and teams to create isolated, production-grade environments in seconds, without copying data. Such branches behave like full databases but share a common storage backend. The result is fast, efficient database provisioning that supports high iteration velocity while reducing operational burden.

Xinnor announced xiNAS, a high-performance NFS storage solution purpose-built for AI, HPC, and other data-intensive workloads. xiNAS combines Xinnor’s xiRAID software RAID engine with an optimized XFS filesystem and NFS over RDMA, maximizing the performance of the underlying hardware. Validated on Supermicro AS-1116CS-TN NVMe servers powered by AMD EPYC processors, xiNAS delivers all-flash, scale-out performance using standard NFS semantics, without proprietary clients or specialized hardware.

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Experian announced the launch of its Aperture Data Studio integration with Snowflake. The integration enables organizations to leverage Aperture Data Studio’s data quality capabilities to profile, transform, and validate data directly within the Snowflake platform. The combined solution, now available globally, addresses data quality issues without moving data, enabling joint Snowflake and Aperture Data Studio customers to keep data secure, accelerate data management, and unify data quality and governance efforts.

Immuta announced a new integration with Teradata that puts data governance directly inside the Teradata platform. The integration is aimed at teams rolling out self-service analytics, AI, and RAG without reworking existing data environments. To that end, Immuta enforces fine-grained access controls (row- and column-level) natively in Teradata, so organizations can safely open data to more users and AI systems without moving data, rebuilding views, or rewriting queries.

Nebius announced an agreement to acquire Tavily, an agentic search provider serving Fortune 500 enterprises and top AI companies. The deal brings real-time search infrastructure into Nebius’s AI cloud platform as the agentic AI market enters a period of rapid enterprise adoption. Additionally, by adding Tavily’s agentic search to its existing AI cloud platform, Nebius is expanding the integrated software stack developers need to assemble and operate enterprise-grade agentic systems.

Proofpoint announced it has acquired Acuvity. The acquisition further strengthens Proofpoint’s platform with AI-native visibility, governance, and runtime protection for AI and agent-driven workflows. Specifically, with the acquisition, Proofpoint expands its human- and agent-centric security platform to deliver comprehensive visibility, governance, and control across the agentic workspace, where humans and AI agents collaborate to execute business-critical workflows. 

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