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Quilt Data Launches, Introduces Visual Index to Amazon's Public DataQuilt Data, where the world's data comes together, today launched and announced an index to Amazon's public cloud data (open.quiltdata.com), enabling organizations globally to discover and share petabytes of data. The world's cloud data is already larger than the world wide web and projected to expand 100 times over in the next five years. For the first time, Quilt enables anyone to search, understand and explore this vast universe of data with a standard web browser. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190919005030/en/ Quilt provides a visual overview of S3 buckets so that organizations can discover and apply more of the cloud data that they are collecting. (Graphic: Business Wire) Quilt Data is backed by some of Silicon Valley's best-known investors, including Y Combinator, Vertex Ventures, Fuel Capital and Streamlined Ventures, amongst several others. Quilt's data collaboration platform is used by organizations worldwide to share, understand, discover and model petabytes of data in domains like cell biology, image recognition, sports performance analysis, drug discovery and geospatial analysis. "Quilt unifies the world's data into a single interface," said Kevin Moore, CEO and co-founder of Quilt Data. "We're creating a place on the web where anyone can uncover everything the world knows about a given subject. Unlike Google (News - Alert) or Wikipedia, Quilt's search results are actual data - not web pages - that can go directly to decision makers, analysts and algorithms. Businesses, governments and individuals will use Quilt to make informed decisions faster." Cloud data will reach 125 exabytes (125 billion gigabytes) by 2025. Ben Golub, executive chairman of Storj Labs and co-founder of Docker, reveals that "an arms race is emerging as companies compete to acquire data to train intelligent systems. Platforms like Quilt offer an edge in this race. I view Quilt as a connecting link between people, machines and data. Quilt has the opportunity to reshape what it means for companies to be data-driven at cloud scale." Since it is no longer feasible for organizations to copy the vas expanses of cloud data into applications and servers, Quilt connects the world's data by indexing it in place. User data is never copied to Quilt's servers, but instead remains in Virtual Private Clouds controlled and owned by the users themselves. Quilt's belief that users should control their own data is a stark break from the policies of advertising-driven companies like Google and Facebook (News - Alert), who sell their user data. In contrast, Quilt's business model ensures that users remain in control of their own data. Quilt Data's executive and advisory teams come from hale research and software development backgrounds at a wide-range of respected companies including Apple, Oracle Labs, NVIDIA (News - Alert), Docker and beyond. The company is led and founded by:
Quilt Data's Board of Advisors includes:
Supporting Resources About Quilt Data Quilt Data's mission is to empower organizations to make data-driven decisions faster by making their cloud data discoverable, visual, versioned and collaborative. Quilt handles both public and private data. Organizations can publish unlimited data, free of charge, on open.quiltdata.com. For private data, Quilt offers a Virtual Private Cloud license through the AWS Marketplace. Common use cases for Quilt include data-intensive projects in machine learning, predictive analytics, and data engineering. The company is funded by Y Combinator, Vertex Ventures, Fuel Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Foundation Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures and Digital Collective. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190919005030/en/ |