Starburst Newsletter – March 2021

Virtual Event – Great Data Minds – 2nd Annual Technology Matter Marathon 

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

10am – 6pm, ET

Technology DOES matter. Please join for the day, or drop in for our session to experience best-in-class solutions.

Starburst Session: Decision-making, elevated. Make faster & better decisions based on more complete data, 3:00pm to 3:50pm.

Virtual Event – TechTalk – NYC

Thursday, March 11, 2021

2pm – 4pm, ET

TechTalk Virtual Commercial IT events are live online events where you’ll hear the most recent news from technology innovators who are impacting the fast-changing tech landscape. Attendees receive a complimentary bottle of wine following the event.

Virtual Event – Big Data & Analytics Summit Canada

Wednesday, March 24-25, 2021

11:00am – 5:30pm, ET

Use code: STARBURST15 to receive 15% off registration

The 7th Annual Big Data & Analytics Summit Canada is designed to provide data executives with current trends, strategic insights and best practices trending in technology, data, AI, machine learning, risk management and retaining talent.

Webinar – How to Scale Cloud-Based Analytics on Sensitive Data

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

11:00am – 12:00pm

We are excited to partner with Immuta to share how to scale cloud-based analytics on sensitive data. Analytics on sensitive data is now a central driver of success for most organizations. In response, data teams are rapidly expanding their cloud data platforms to maximize the value of that sensitive data. As cloud data ecosystems become more diverse, the risk, cost, and complexity multiply with each added platform, delaying time to data access and eroding ROI — the very reasons for adopting these new technologies.

Architecture of Starburst Hive Connector
After a decade of running Hive queries on their data lakes, many companies are astonished at the speeds in which they are able to query their existing Hive tables by just replacing Hive with Starburst.

Starburst Announces $100M Series C Led by Andreessen Horowitz

After bootstrapping the company to profitability for the first two years without any outside capital, we have now raised over $164M in the last 12 months. Learn what this means for the future of Starburst and our missions to help enable analytics anywhere.

Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) had an amazing 2020

Recently the PrestoSQL community and project chose the new name, Trino, but the amazing work on this project remains the same. We take a look at what all our community members across the globe have created with us in 2020!

Starburst Customer Success

Some of the largest companies in the world trust Starburst to enable their analytics. Check out who they are and read some of their success stories.

Migration from PrestoSQL to Trino explained

Now that PrestoSQL is rebranded to Trino, here come the hard part: migrating to the new version of the software. Trino 351 uses the name Trino everywhere, but there are some unavoidable compatibility aspects that administrators of Trino need to know about. This post makes makes the transition as smooth as possible. If you run Starburst Enterprise, see the announcement below for 350-e LTS release.