- Executive Q&A: A Closer Look at Open Data Lake Analytics
TDWI – An open data lake analytics approach will augment (and over time surpass) adoption of data warehousing given the significant long-term strategic benefits it provides to companies, Ahana's Dipti Borkar argues. - Ahana Adds Caching, Apache Ranger Integration to its Presto Managed Cloud Service
SiliconANGLE – Ahana Cloud, which curates a commercial version of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, announced numerous updates to its recently introduced Presto managed service. Topping the list is an input/output caching capability that executives said increases performance up to five-fold. - Ahana Announces New Capabilities for its Presto Managed Service
Datanami – Ahana, a self-service analytics company for Presto, announced today at PrestoCon Day significant updates to its Ahana Cloud for Presto managed service. One of the key features is the data lake IO caching capability that can dramatically improve query performance, reducing latencies up to 80%. - Ahana Debuts New Ahana Cloud Features at PrestoCon Day
Business Intelligence Solutions News – Ahana announced updates to Ahana Cloud, the self-service analytics company's Presto database managed service product. The new version of Ahana Cloud is highlighted by performance upgrades, better cluster management, ease of use, and security. - Open-Data Lake Architecture for Modern Analytics and Business Intelligence
EnterpriseTalk – An exclusive interview from EnterpriseTalk with Dipti Borkar, Co-Founder and CPO of Ahana. Learn what Dipti has to say on the topic of open data lake architecture and how this approach benefits businesses. - Open-Source Managed Services: Why Customers Win (Part 2)
Forbes – In part one of this series, we discussed how open-source managed services (OSMS) came about and their principal concepts and benefits. In this article, we’ll focus on how customers benefit from OSMS. - Diving into Open Data Lakes Analytics
Computer Weekly – Ahana announced a go-to-market solution in collaboration with Intel via its participation in the Intel Disruptor Program to offer an Open Data Lake Analytics Accelerator Package for Ahana Cloud users that leverages Intel Optane on the cloud with AWS. - Presto Poised for a Breakout Year as Data Explosion ContinuesDatanami – Presto, the federated SQL query engine developed at Facebook as a follow-on to Apache Hive, appears to be on the cusp of breaking out in a big way. That’s good news for customers who want to analyze a wide variety of data stored across on-prem and cloud locations, as well as vendors selling Presto software and services.
- Open-Source Managed Services: Technology In Evolution (Part I)Forbes – The latest evolution in open source offerings is in the area of managed services. These new services provide customers with even more ways in which they can benefit from the open-source community. But before we delve deeper into what open source managed services are, let’s take a look at how we got here.
- The Once and Future Federated Database
The Next Platform – “Federated databases allows you to query data in multiple systems as if it resides in a single virtual database,” Simmen continues. “And it provides an extensible set of APIs to add new sources to the federation and to expose datasets and tables from those sources into a single catalog view of whole systems." - DZone Trend Report: Leaders in Tech
DZone – According to our survey, nearly 90% of respondents are currently using containers in some manner. We decided to sit down with co-founder and cloud expert, Dipti Borkar, to talk about our key research findings and her advice to the Kubernetes community. - Ahana Goes GA with Presto on AWS
Datanami – Organizations that want to analyze massive amounts of data stored in S3 and other cloud repositories may be interested in Ahana, which today announced the general availability of the first cloud-native managed service for Presto on AWS. - 31 Data Science and Analytics Predictions from 24 Experts for 2021
Solutions Review – See the predictions for data science and analytics by Ahana cofounders Dipti Borkar and Dave Simmen, including open analytics, open source for analytics and AI, and the federated, disaggregated stack. - Solving query optimization in Presto
InfoWorld – By combining machine learning and adaptive query execution, query optimization in Presto could become smarter and more efficient over repeated use. - The Open Analytics Stack, the Next Wave of SaaS on Kubernetes, and the In-VPC Deployment Model: What We’ll See in 2021 | Transforming Data with IntelligenceTWDI – As cloud adoption accelerates, users want the best of all possible worlds -- flexibility and ease of use along with tight security around their data. The virtual public cloud (VPC) may be the answer.
- From Big to Fast: Presto Continues to Shine for Cloud Data Lake Analytics
The New Stack – Over the last three decades, various technologies have been developed and applied for big data analytics on structured and unstructured business data. Because today most companies store data on different platforms in multiple locations with various data formats, these large and diverse data sets often stymie the ability to capture real-time opportunity and extract actionable … - The 10 Coolest Data Analytics Startups Of 2020
CRN – Ahana exited stealth earlier this year and began offering software and services around the PrestoDB open-source SQL engine. In September the company debuted its Ahana Cloud for Presto service designed to simplify the adoption, use and management of Presto and make it easier to connect the big data technology with databases, data catalogs and data lake systems. - Cloud computing storms a bastion of the enterprise: the data warehouse
siliconANGLE – But the complex ecosystem of open-source tools that made up the typical data lake was also a problem. Users had to do much of the integration grunt work themselves. In Hadoop, “everything is configuration-based,” said Dipti Borkar, chief product officer at Ahana Cloud Inc., which curates a cloud version of the Presto distributed SQL query engine. “There can be up to 300 configuration parameters that you have to figure out on your own.” - DMRadio Podcast – Decisions, Decisions! How to Invest in Data
DMRadio – In this podcast, CEO Steven Mih discusses what you should be considering when it comes to investing in data. He's joined by a panel of other of other founders in the data space, each sharing their thoughts and perspectives on modern data infrastructure. - The Emergence of Open Analytics
Dataversity – As businesses are increasingly becoming more data-driven and need to make faster, more informed decisions, the traditional data warehousing approach for accessing and analyzing data is becoming more impractical, time-consuming and likely to increase cost, effort, and vendor lock-in. An alternative approach that is now widely deployed by the most innovative, data-driven technology companies consists of a loosely coupled disaggregated stack that enables querying across many databases and data lakes, without having to move any of the data. - 2020 Datanami Readers’ Choice AwardsDatanami – Ahana wins Editors' Choice for Best Big Data Startup in Datanami's fifth annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, which recognizes the companies, products, and projects that have made a difference in the big data community this year.
- The False Technology Choice DichotomyDataversity – I think the bundled/packaged technology service-on-a-platform providers that have arisen in the last few years offer the optimal solution for many enterprises. These vendors have grown up in the age of the cloud, during the big data/NoSQL/data lake/container explosion, and have personnel with a lot of open source, DIY experience — often having worked on open source projects directly.
- 16 Steps Every Tech Professional Can Take to Recession Proof Their CareerForbes – While the tech industry tends to be more resilient in the face of recession than others, no industry is wholly immune from economic downturns. Members of Forbes Technology Council share 16 things those working in the tech industry can do to protect themselves from the impacts of an economic downturn.
- How To Make Your Company More Data-DrivenForbes – So, how does a company build itself into becoming the most data-driven organization in their industry? It's a difficult task that requires many changes, but it is both possible and imperative in today's competitive market.
- insideBIGDATA Latest News – 10/6/2020
insideBIGDATA – Ahana Unveils First Cloud-native Managed Service for Presto on AWS. Ahana, the self-service analytics company for Presto, announced its new Presto-as-a-Service offering designed to simplify the deployment, management and integration of Presto. - “Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 10/1/2020insideBIGDATA – Ahana, the self-service analytics company for Presto, announced an additional investment of $2.3 million in seed financing led by new investor Lux Capital, along with participation from existing investor GV (formerly Google Ventures), bringing total funds raised to $4.8 million. Ahana has also expanded its technical team...
- Ahana Rolls of Presto-as-a-Service To Promote Self-Service SQL Analytics
Integration Developer News – “Ahana Cloud gives you Presto as a Cloud Data Warehouse but in an open, disaggregated stack. It integrates the catalog with the data lake by default. And then enables you to bring your own tools and data sources,” Dipti Borkar told IDN. - The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 9/28/20
AlleyWatch – San Mateo-based Ahana brings PrestoDB-based ad hoc analytics offerings to market. Founded by Dipti Borkar and Steven Mih in 2020, Ahana has now raised a total of $4.6M in total equity funding and is backed by investors that include GV and Lux Capital. - The Pitch: Ahana simplifies the growing complexity of data analytics
Silicon Valley Business Journal – Ahana Inc. aims to be the company that businesses turn to when they want help in using Presto, an open-source software that Facebook designed to do analytics using a wide variety of databases, in the cloud. - Ahana Launches Cloud-Native Managed Service For PrestoCRN – Startup Ahana this week launched its Presto-as-a-Service offering that’s designed to simplify the use and management of the Presto SQL query engine and speed the adoption of the open-source big data technology.
- The Future of Open Source: Launching the Open100
Accel – The Accel Open100 is a collection of the fastest-growing start-ups of significance in open source. Ahana made the inaugural list! - 3 ways to add data skills to your career portfolio for free
Digitizing Polaris – Presto was difficult to use until now. Today, startup Ahana introduced its new Presto-as-a-Service offering designed to simplify the deployment, management and integration of Presto - Ahana Brings Managed Presto Service To AWS
TFiR – Video discussion with Steven Mih, Cofounder and CEO; Dipti Borkar, Cofounder and CPO; and Swapnil Bhartiya of TFiR on Ahana Cloud for Presto. - Ahana releases managed Cloud for Presto service
TechTarget – New Ahana cloud system brings a managed service to market that integrates data management and visualization capabilities to aid in business intelligence and data analytics. - The Crunchbase News Briefing: Mon., Sept. 21
Crunchbase – Here’s what you need to know today in startup and venture news....Ahana raises additional $2.3M - Ahana Expands Seed Funding To $4.8 Million With Additional Funding Led By Lux Capital
AIthority – Ahana, the self-service analytics company for Presto, announced an additional investment of $2.3 million in seed financing led by new investor Lux Capital, along with participation from existing investor GV (formerly Google Ventures) - SD Times news digest: Ahana Cloud for Presto
SD Times – Ahana unveiled its cloud-native managed service designed to simplify the deployment, management and integration of Presto... Ahana included in SD Times news digest along with .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 Preview released and Windows 10 Build 19042.508 - Ahana Unveils Managed Service for Presto on AWS
Database Trends & Applications – Ahana, a PrestoDB-based analytics company, has announced its new offering designed to simplify the deployment, management, and integration of Presto - Ahana Unveils First Cloud-native Managed Service for Presto on AWSDatanami – Ahana, the self-service analytics company for Presto, announced today its new Presto-as-a-Service offering designed to simplify the deployment, management and integration of Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine
- Ahana delivers Presto distributed query engine as a service on the AWS cloudSilicon Angle – Ahana Cloud Inc., commercial curator of the Presto distributed query engine, today is announcing a cloud native offering of Presto as a service on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud. The company also said it raised an additional $2.3 million in seed financing
- Ahana announces managed service for Presto on AWS
ZDNet – The startup, focused on the Presto query engine, announces its new managed service for the open source technology, available on Amazon Web Services. The company is also announcing $2.3M in additional seed funding. - Presto Managed Service on AWS
Insights From Analytics – Ahana is focused on bringing PrestoDB-based analytics to market so companies can get insights from a broad range of data in a timely manner. - Why you should use Presto for ad hoc analyticsInfoWorld – A federated SQL query execution engine created at Facebook, Presto brings interactive querying to all of your data — no matter where it resides.
- Presto Federated Queries
Towards Data Science – In this post, you will gain a better understanding of Presto’s ability to execute federated queries, which join multiple disparate data sources without having to move the data. - Entrants in the Unified Analytics Warehouse Race
Enterprise Management – As the race to deliver the UAW heats up, EMA sees 14 vendors working toward a convergence of the data warehouse and data lake. Ahana is one of them. - Ahana Moves Presto ForwardDBTA – Recently, Steven Mih, who is CEO, and Dipti Borkar, who is chief product officer, discussed the analytics challenges data professionals are facing now and their involvement with the Presto Foundation.
- Big Data Career Notes: August 2020 EditionDatanami – David E. Simmen joins Ahana as chief technology officer. He will be responsible for the company’s technology strategy, and at the same time, leading product development.
- 30 Notable IT Executive Moves: July 2020CRN – Ahana, a SQL analytics company for Presto, appointed former Apple iCloud database engineer David Simmen as chief technology officer.
- Headcount: Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — July 2020
SDxCentral – David Simmen left his post at Apple where he engineered iCloud database services to serve as Ahana’s new CTO. - “Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 7/29/2020insideBIGDATA – In new people movement news we heard … Ahana, the SQL analytics company for Presto, announced the appointment of David E. Simmen as Chief Technology Officer.
- Latest Tech Hires and People Moves: Week of July 27, 2020
Toolbox – Ahana, the SQL analytics company for Presto, has appointed David E. Simmen as their new Chief Technology Officer. - Ahana Welcomes David Simmen to Executive Team as Chief Technology OfficerDatanami – Simmen will oversee the company’s technology strategy while driving product innovation. His extensive database experience will further accelerate Ahana’s vision of simplifying ad hoc analytics for organizations of all shapes and sizes.
- Ahana Welcomes Database Pioneer David E. Simmen to Executive Team as Chief Technology Officer
DevOps – Former Splunk Fellow and Chief Architect & Teradata Fellow brings 30+ years of database expertise to lead technology innovation. - Ahana Appoints David E. Simmen As Its CTOTFiR – Ahana, the SQL analytics company for Presto, has appointed David E. Simmen as its CTO. In his new role, Simmen will oversee the company’s technology strategy while driving product innovation.
- Open Source Data Management: A Podcast With Ahana
Early Adopter Research – EAR’s Dan Woods leads a discussion with Ahana’s Steven Mih and Dipti Borkar about using SQL as an integration point, along with how to use object storage. - As cloud native computing rises, it’s transforming culture as much as codeSilicon Angle – “Cloud gives you the flexibility to pick and choose which parts of your application to abstract and which to spend your engineering resources on, giving companies the ability to focus on building on their core differentiators,” said Steven Mih, chief executive of Ahana Inc., a startup that provides services around the Presto distributed database platform.
- Thoughts on Google’s Open Usage CommonsDigitizing Polaris – Google introduced Open Usage Commons (OUC). Steven Mih, cofounder and CEO of Ahana thinks it’s a great move. “For open source projects, given the code is open, the trademark is one of the most important assets that a project has because the name is how people become aware of it."
- Money Moves: June 2020SDxCentral – Presto-based analytics company Ahana raised $2.25 million in funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) along with participation from Leslie Ventures and other angel investors. Ahana also joined the Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation.
- Will the Presto Community Ever Be United Again?Datanami – If you haven’t noticed yet, there’s drama in Presto-land. There are now two versions of the open source SQL query engine, PrestoDB and PrestoSQL, and each of them have different software foundations behind them. PrestoDB continues the original version of Presto as it was created at Facebook, according to the co-founders of Ahana, Steven Mih and Dipti Borkar.
- News Bits
Storage Review – Ahana announced that its open source PrestoDB is available on the AWS Marketplace and on DockerHub, PrestoDB AMI and PrestoDB container respectively. PrestoDB AMI on AWS Marketplace is completely free and works as a good introduction to Presto. - Latest Tech Product Launches in AI, Big Data, Cloud and MoreToolbox – Presto based analytic company Ahana announced the availability of Linux Foundation’s utterly open-source PrestoDB Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on the AWS Marketplace, becoming the first to do so. The company has also made a PrestoDB container available on DockerHub.
- Ahana brings PrestoDB SQL query engine to the cloudTechTarget – The open source PrestoDB project is getting new commercial support options, thanks to big data analytics startup Ahana. Ahana on June 30 released PrestoDB in the AWS Marketplace as well as a container images that are available on the Docker Hub.
- Big Data Startup Ahana Offers PrestoDB Through AWS Marketplace, DockerHub
CRN – Less than a month after exiting stealth mode, big data startup Ahana said it is making the Linux Foundation’s PrestoDB SQL query engine software available through the Amazon Web Services Marketplace and is providing a PrestoDB container through DockerHub. - Ahana bring PrestoDB distributed database to AWS and Docker HubsiliconANGLE – Backed by $2.25 million in an initial funding round led by Google LLC’s GV Management Co LLC, Ahana Cloud Inc. today released the open-source version of the PrestoDB distributed database on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud platform and in a containerized version on Docker Inc.’s Docker Hub.
- PrestoDB Now Available on AWS Marketplace and DockerHub
Insights from Analytics – Ahana is providing community and commercial support for PrestoDB users. PrestoDB is a federated SQL engine for data engineers and analysts to run interactive, ad hoc analytics on large amounts of data, which continues to grow exponentially across a wide range of data lakes and databases. - Meet Ahana: community and commercial support for PrestoDBDigitizing Polaris – If you thought that big data was supposed to make us smarter and lead to better decisions, you were, at least, partly right. But as big data keeps getting bigger and data workers see an increased need for fast ad hoc querying, they need better tools.
- The 10 Hottest Big Data Startups Of 2020 (So Far)CRN – Businesses and organizations today are turning to next-generation database software and data management tools to help them manage the huge volumes of data they generate and collect. Here’s a look at 10 companies that offer ground-breaking big data software to help solution providers and their customers achieve those goals. Ahana is one of the 10!
- The 10 Hottest Big Data Startups Of 2020 (So Far)CRN – The 10 hottest big data startups of 2020 (so far) include companies that provide next-generation big data analytics, database and data warehouse software with artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities.
- Presto is the third time charm for federated databasesThe Next Platform – That, in a nutshell, is what the PrestoDB database originally created by Facebook can do, although that was not its original design intent, and that is why Dipti Borkar and Steven Mih have formed a company called Ahana to extend and commercialize PrestoDB.
- PrestoDB Hits Fork in the Road as Startup Gains Venture FundingDatanami – The Linux Foundation’s branch of the ecosystem for the PrestoDB SQL query engine is expanding with new member Ahana, which this week announced a seed funding round along with membership in the Presto Foundation.
- Ahana Raises $2.25 Million Seed Funding and Joins Linux Foundation’s Presto FoundationDBTA – Ahana has raised $2.25 million in funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) along with participation from Leslie Ventures and other angel investors. Additionally, Ahana has joined the Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation.
- Ahana gets seed funding, and a tale of two Prestos
ZDNet – Presto-focused Ahana emerges from stealth, highlights schism in open source query engine’s ecosystem. - Ahana Raises $2.25M in Seed Funding
Finsmes – Ahana, a San Mateo, Calif.- Presto-based analytics company, raised $2.25m in seed funding. The round was led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) with participation from Leslie Ventures and other angel investors. The company intends to use the funds to expand its technical team and deliver Presto-based analytics products. - Presto Virtual TechTalks (June) – speakers from LinkedIn & Facebook
meetup – Join us Friday, June 5, 2020, from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM PDT for the Presto Virtual TechTalks meetup featuring 2 exciting talks from engineers at LinkedIn and Facebook.
Ahana Welcomes Satish Ramakrishnan as VP, Engineering to Senior Management Team
Ramakrishnan brings deep SaaS and data management expertise to Presto managed service to lead engineering and technical operations San Mateo, Calif. – April 7, 2021 — Ahana, the self-service analytics … Continue reading Ahana Welcomes Satish Ramakrishnan as VP, Engineering to Senior Management Team
Ahana Announces New Capabilities for Its Presto Managed Service Including Data Lake Caching, Security and Seamless Operations
Caching advancements improve query performance up to 5x for complex workloads making Ahana the most advanced cloud service for Presto San Mateo, Calif. – March 24, 2021 — Ahana, the … Continue reading Ahana Announces New Capabilities for Its Presto Managed Service Including Data Lake Caching, Security and Seamless Operations
PrestoCon Day Showcases Momentum of Presto Community, Features Industry Leaders Sharing Use Cases and Best Practices
Popular session topics include the Presto and Apache Iceberg Connector by Twitter and the Presto, Today & Beyond panel with Ahana, Uber and Facebook San Mateo, Calif. – March 17, … Continue reading PrestoCon Day Showcases Momentum of Presto Community, Features Industry Leaders Sharing Use Cases and Best Practices
Ahana Cofounders Make Data Predictions for 2021
Open Analytics, Open Source, Multi-Cloud and Federated, Disaggregated Stack Rise to the Top San Mateo, Calif. – January 6, 2021 — Ahana’s Cofounder and Chief Product Officer, Dipti Borkar, and … Continue reading Ahana Cofounders Make Data Predictions for 2021
Ahana Announces General Availability of Managed Service for Presto on AWS; Delivers Combined Solution with Intel to Drive Adoption of Open Data Lakes Analytics
Additionally, Ahana announced a go-to-market solution in collaboration with Intel via its participation in the Intel Disruptor Program to offer an Open Data Lake Analytics Accelerator Package for Ahana Cloud users that leverages Intel Optane on the cloud with AWS.
Ahana Wins Best Big Data Startup in Fifth Annual Datanami Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
San Mateo, CA – September 21, 2020 — Ahana, the self-service analytics company for Presto, today announced an additional investment of $2.3 million in seed financing led by new investor Lux Capital, along with participation from existing investor GV (formerly Google Ventures), bringing total funds raised to $4.8 million. Ahana has also expanded its technical team with three new co-founders adding top Presto and core database talent from Alibaba, Uber and Walmart, each responsible for running major Presto deployments.
Ahana Expands Seed Funding to $4.8 Million with Additional Funding Led by Lux Capital
San Mateo, CA – September 21, 2020 — Ahana, the self-service analytics company for Presto, today announced an additional investment of $2.3 million in seed financing led by new investor Lux Capital, along with participation from existing investor GV (formerly Google Ventures), bringing total funds raised to $4.8 million. Ahana has also expanded its technical team with three new co-founders adding top Presto and core database talent from Alibaba, Uber and Walmart, each responsible for running major Presto deployments.
Ahana Unveils First Cloud-native Managed Service for Presto on AWS
San Mateo, CA – September 21, 2020 — Ahana, the self-service analytics company for Presto, announced today its new Presto-as-a-Service offering designed to simplify the deployment, management and integration of Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine, with data catalogs, databases and data lakes on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Ahana Cloud for Presto is the only easy-to-use, cloud-native managed service for Presto, and is deployed within the user’s AWS account, giving customers complete control and visibility of clusters and their data.
Ahana Welcomes Database Pioneer David E. Simmen to Executive Team as Chief Technology Officer
San Mateo, CA — July 23, 2020 – Ahana, the SQL analytics company for Presto, today announced the appointment of David E. Simmen as Chief Technology Officer. Simmen will oversee … Continue reading Ahana Welcomes Database Pioneer David E. Simmen to Executive Team as Chief Technology Officer
Ahana Announces Linux Foundation’s PrestoDB Now Available on AWS Marketplace and DockerHub
Ahana to provide community and commercial support for PrestoDB users San Mateo, CA — June 30, 2020 – Ahana, the Presto-based analytics company, announced today the availability of the completely … Continue reading Ahana Announces Linux Foundation’s PrestoDB Now Available on AWS Marketplace and DockerHub
Ahana Raises $2.25 Million Seed Funding Led by GV and Joins Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation
Ahana to focus on growing the Presto community to simplify ad-hoc analytics with PrestoDB federated SQL engine San Mateo, CA — June 2, 2020 – Ahana, the Presto-based analytics company, … Continue reading Ahana Raises $2.25 Million Seed Funding Led by GV and Joins Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation
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