Weekly DaaS Roundup for December 26

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World of DaaS
December 26, 2024

NEWS, READS AND MORE

Lessons from Cybersyn Alex Izydorczyk

In general the broader tech industry has a tendency to focus on the positive, while glossing over the negative. A refreshingly honest take from Alex on what went wrong at Cybersyn and what it means for the broader DaaS industry.

By 2026 half of the US population will live in a state that has a privacy law in place. A state by state breakdown of what’s coming in 2025 and beyond.

While some of it may be posturing from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi - data complied by Live Data Technologies shows a growing gulf between the two, with Databricks hiring a lot more AI/ML talent and poaching a significant amount of people from Snowflake.

While third party cookies didn’t go the way of the dodo, the threat spurred a flurry of development in first party data capabilities which may in the end make third party cookies obsolete after all.

The new generation of defense contractors will need a lot more data as evidenced by the Army’s 2025 data platform upgrade. 

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M&A AND FUNDING

Windward to go private

The public maritime data company will be taken private by a consortium of PE investors at roughly $260m. Shares of $WNWD jumped by 42% to close out the year.

Commure scoops up Memora Health

Said to be valued at $6b, Commure is becoming the largest player in healtcare data, having acquired Augmedix($AUGX) earlier in the year with more M&A on the horizon.

SCENES FROM WORLD OF DAAS IN NYC

Was great to see 40+ World of DaaS NYC members come together in one place last week to talk all things data. To those who made it out, thank you!

RANDOM ART(TIFICIAL HALLUCINATION) OF THE WEEK

prompt: a robot who only wanted data

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