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3 weeks ago | redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens

Apache Parquet is a columnar data storage format. It was originally developed by Cloudera and Twitter and was donated to the Apache Software Foundation in 2013. While it began as part of the Hadoop ecosystem, it has since become a core building block of modern data infrastructure. Today Parquet is heavily used in data warehousing, data lakes, cloud storage, and machine learning pipelines.

1 month ago | redmonk.com | James Governor

Business is essentially software-driven these days and in the era of AI generated code the need for better software delivery compliance tools has never been more critical. For companies in regulated industries, and those simply seeking higher quality software delivery, with processes and effective controls, compliance was already a significant challenge. Compliance and audit are closely related, and too often the approach has been to wait until the audit happens, and then hustle and hope.

2 months ago | redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens

Vibe coding is an extension of developers ability to tinker using LLMs, but its true power will come in enabling adjacent personas like product managers to more closely collaborate with their dev teams. Tinkering is indeed in important. In the heady days of 2023 when the exploration of LLM tooling in the development workflow was still quite nascent, my colleague Kate Holterhoff wrote a piece entitled AI is for Tinkerers.

2 months ago | redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens

On March 18, 2025 Google Cloud announced an agreement to acquire Israeli security company Wiz for $32B. Pending regulatory approvals, the deal is expected to close in 2026 as an all cash transaction. Wiz is an agentless security tool, designed to run in multi-cloud environments. They tout an end-to-end platform, but their market toehold stems from the convenience of their multi-cloud scanning.

Mar 14, 2025 | redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens

After ten months of regulatory review, on Feb 27 2025 IBM closed its acquisition of HashiCorp for $6.4B (or $35/share in cash.) The RedMonk team has collectively been busy on the road, planning conferences, and writing books, but we still wanted to come together and share our thoughts on the merger. We’ll also share some initial reactions about the announcement of the intent to buy DataStax. Below is a team Q&A with our thoughts about the deals.