Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Continual, the missing AI layer for the modern data stack. We’ve also raised a $14.5M Series A, led by Innovation Endeavors and joined by Amplify Partners, Illuminate Ventures, Inspired Capital, Data Community Fund, Activation, New Normal, GTMfund, and angels Tomer Shiran, the founder of Dremio, and Tristan Handy, the founder of dbt Labs.
It’s hard to believe enterprise BI platforms have been around for three decades. In that time, they have served the purpose of collecting and analyzing large amounts of data to help businesses make more informed decisions. But in today’s data-driven economy, analysts struggle to keep up with the myriad of business intelligence reports from traditional BI tools – which fail to effectively and efficiently analyze and interpret data in real-time.
Today, the Envoy community has introduced Envoy Gateway, a new project to better support Kubernetes deployments via the new Kubernetes Gateway API, which is the next generation Ingress specification in Kubernetes world. Kong has been deeply invested in the success of Envoy since we started developing Kuma in 2019 – now used in Kong Mesh (built on top of Kuma).
Similar to the momentum that cloud technology has had in the business world, AI and machine learning are quickly becoming essential to the enterprise. 86% of companies now view AI as a “mainstream technology,” and corporate AI adoption rose 50% in 2021 from the year prior for initiatives such as service-operations optimization and product enhancement.
We’re proud to share that the Iguazio MLOps Platform has been named a leader and outperformer in the GigaOm Radar for Data Science Platforms: Pure-Play Specialist and Startup Vendors report. The GigaOm Radar reports take a forward-looking view of the market and are geared towards IT leaders tasked with evaluating solutions with an eye to the future. GigaOm analysts emphasize the value of innovation and differentiation over incumbent market position.
Ably provides an edge messaging service to deliver data at low latency and power live and collaborative applications on millions of simultaneously connected devices. Our platform runs tens of millions of concurrent, long-running WebSocket and HTTP streaming connections and reaches more than 300 million devices across 80 countries each month. Ably is on track to power realtime digital experiences for one billion devices per month by 2024.
We’re entering the defining decade of data. While every aspect of our lives have been changed by data in recent years, the next ten will see data rebuild the world around us. Every business, in every industry, needs a plan to adapt to this new world if they want to thrive. But how? That’s a question in the minds of data leaders, CEOs, and board members. The right approach is critical if companies want to dominate this new era. The wrong decision can spell disaster.
While the title to this post is clearly playful, when it comes to customer success it’s all business. Our rapid growth has always been a function of our customers’ happiness. Regardless if it’s a new release or a service engagement, our internal focus revolves around a few key themes.
