Articles from Imply

Imply, the company behind Lumi, the modern data layer for observability, today released The Breaking Point for Observability Leaders report. The new research is based on a survey of senior observability and platform leaders at large enterprises, examining how data growth, retention limits, and cost pressures are reshaping observability strategies. The findings show a widening gap between what teams spend on observability tools and the value they receive amid surging data volumes and budget pressures.

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid®, today announce Imply Lumi, the industry’s first Observability Warehouse — a high-performance, cost-efficient data layer built to plug into existing observability tools with zero disruption.

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid®, today announced the availability of Imply Polaris on Microsoft Azure. As a cloud database service for Apache Druid, Polaris provides a simple developer experience for building real-time analytics applications.

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid®, is proud to announce its receipt of a 2023 Confluent Partner Award. This recognition is for partners who play a key role in empowering customers to drive innovation with real-time data.

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, today announced that Apache Druid was named the winner of the Best Data Product and Top Big Data and AI Open Source Projects categories in the eighth annual BigDATAwire (formerly Datanami) Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. This award extends the phenomenal momentum and adoption that Apache Druid has had in 2023, reinforcing its leadership position as the database of choice for real-time analytics applications.

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, is excited to announce the launch of its Developer Center. This one-of-a-kind hub is designed for developers, engineers and architects and is aimed at accelerating the development of real-time analytics applications.

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, today announced that Pranav Parekh has been named its new Chief Customer Officer, a strategic move aimed at enhancing customer experience and elevating Imply's commitment to delivering exceptional value to its customers. Parekh will take charge of sales engineering, solution architects, customer success and support, leading an initiative to drive customer-centric innovation and solidify Imply as the industry leader in real-time data analytics.

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid®, today announced it has joined the Connect with Confluent partner program, an initiative designed to help organizations accelerate the development of real-time applications through native integrations with Confluent Cloud. This partnership brings together Imply and Confluent’s cloud-managed services for Druid and Apache Kafka®, respectively, offering developers:

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid®, today unveiled the third milestone in Project Shapeshift, an initiative designed to evolve Apache Druid and solve the most pressing issues developers face when building real-time analytics applications. This milestone introduces the following:

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of the real-time analytics database Apache Druid, today announced the launch of its new podcast “Tales at Scale.” The show will feature guests from across the database and analytics space as well as experts on Apache Druid. Topics include real-time analytics applications, real-time data architectures, the latest Druid releases and more.

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, today announced that Imply Polaris was named Best Open-Source Cloud Solution in The Cloud Awards, the international awards for cloud computing. As a cloud database service for Apache Druid, Polaris provides the simplest developer experience for building real-time analytics applications.

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, today announced that Apache Druid was named the “Reader’s Choice” winner of the Best Analytics Database category in the seventh annual BigDATAwire (formerly Datanami) Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards. This award extends the phenomenal momentum and adoption that Apache Druid has had in 2022, reinforcing its leadership position as the database-of-choice for modern analytics applications.

Imply, founded by the creators of Apache Druid®, today announced full details for Druid Summit 2022 virtual conferences. Druid Summit 2022 will concurrently serve delegates across the Americas, EMEA and APAC.

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid®, today announced its CTO and Co-Founder Gian Merlino will be a keynote speaker at the inaugural Current 2022, the first-ever data streaming industry event. The conference takes place October 4-5, 2022 in Austin, Texas, at the Austin Convention Center and The Fairmont Austin.

Imply, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Druid®, today unveiled at a virtual event the second milestone in Project Shapeshift, the 12-month initiative designed to solve the most pressing issues developers face when building analytics applications. This milestone introduces the following:

Imply, founded by the creators of Apache Druid®, today announced that Druid Summit will be hitting the road starting in May, bringing the live event to cities in the U.S., EMEA and APAC. Druid Summit is the annual event for developers, architects and other data professionals who are building analytics applications and are interested in learning or expanding their knowledge of Apache Druid. The event brings together the global Apache Druid community to learn from each other, share best practices and take away practical how-tos on building modern analytics applications.

Imply, the creators of the most popular database for modern analytics applications, today announced the appointment of Jennifer Palecki as the company’s first chief people officer. Ms. Palecki will report to Fangjin Yang, Imply co-founder and CEO, and will lead the company’s strategy and processes for building and retaining exceptional talent. The appointment represents a milestone investment in the company’s culture with an emphasis on collaboration and growth.

Imply, the most popular database for modern analytics applications, today announced the appointment of Eric Tschetter as field chief technology officer (CTO). This addition to the company’s executive management team brings together the power of all four original creators of Apache Druid® to realize a shared vision at Imply for creating a complete, integrated architecture for modern analytics applications.

Druid Summit -- Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid®, today unveils Project Shapeshift, which will offer developers and organizations a next level Druid experience that reimagines the process of building modern analytics applications. A series of game changing capabilities will be released throughout the next year to transform the Druid experience to fit a cloud-native, developer-centric world.

Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid®, will debut the Imply Accreditation Program for Apache Druid Basics at Druid Summit 2021. Only those who have registered for Druid Summit 2021 will have early access to the accreditation program, which is built to provide anyone new to the Apache Druid database with all the foundational skills needed to develop interactive, modern analytics applications.

Imply, founded by the creators of Apache Druid®, today announced full details for Druid Summit 2021 virtual conferences. Druid Summit 2021 will concurrently serve delegates across the Americas, EMEA and APAC.

Imply, the pioneer of Analytics-in-Motion, and founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, today announced two key hires to its executive team, with Praveen Rangnath joining as Chief Marketing Officer and Kevin Hodgkins joining as Vice President of Customer Success. Rangnath will lead the global marketing team and Hodgkins will lead all global customer success-facing functions.

Imply, the pioneer of Analytics-in-Motion, and founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, today announced the closing of a $70 million Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Tiger Global Management, bringing total funding to over $116 million. Existing investors A16Z, Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Capital also participated in this round. This additional funding follows a banner year for Imply, growing market adoption of both Imply and open source Apache Druid. Imply has now surpassed 100 enterprise and digital-native customers, using Imply as the engine for analytics-powered applications that they build, and/or as a complete solution to directly solve internal BI and operational analytics use cases. The additional funding will extend Imply’s market leadership in the rapidly growing area of Analytics-in-Motion.