Alation

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Alation has raised $123M in Series E funding at a valuation of in excess of $1.7B, a material increase from the Series D round in June of last year, particularly in the context of the recent stock-market decline. So why invest now, and in this turbulent market? Sands sees that market need as a major product opportunity.

Data Governance 98

Data Governance Marketing Finance Data Lake 98

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2013, Amazon Web Services revolutionized the data warehousing industry by launching Amazon Redshift , the first fully-managed, petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse. Amazon Redshift made it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze large volumes of data using existing business intelligence tools.

Data Warehouse 102

Data Warehouse Data Lake Analytics Machine Learning 102

Alation

JULY 7, 2022

Two data-driven careers. In 2013 I joined American Family Insurance as a metadata analyst. To answer these questions we need to look at how data roles within the job market have evolved, and how academic programs have changed to meet new workforce demands. The data scientist. The first was in Madison, Wisconsin.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data-driven Insurance Statistics 52