… it could help IT teams quickly surface and resolve issues from infrastructure and applications to data and machine learning systems.

We're excited to announce that Databand has been acquired by IBM to extend its leadership in observability to the full stack of capabilities for IT – across infrastructure, applications, data, and machine learning. See how Databand achieves automated data lineage so you can diagnose pipeline failures and downstream impacts. Think the impact of bad data is just a minor inconvenience? Bad data cost Unity, a publicly-traded video game software development company, $110 million. Whether it's old pictures on our phones, items around the house, or documents at work, there's always that glimmer of thought that we just might need it one day.

Big Blue's been on a buying spree lately with Databand.ai, If you do, you might miss another huge IBM buyout. Up front: Big data is a big deal. Less than a decade ago, many businesses were manually entering data into spreadsheets to meet their insight needs. Today, even the most modest startups can benefit from deep analytics.

As 2020 finally winds down and potential vaccines promise emergence from COVID reality, Israel's startup ecosystem showcases its MedTech prowess, AI dominance, and data magic in this week's recap of the Israel tech sphere. Investments keep on coming, VCs keep on funding, multinational organizations recognize the innovative potential in Israeli startups, and a recap of the ecosystem's fundraising efforts for the month of November. Aquarius Engines develops a smart miniature sustainable combustion engine that can help scale the big machines down to size. Aquarius recently announced a $10 million funding round, led by TPR, a Japanese automotive parts manufacturer. To date, the Israeli startup has raised $37 million from Paz Oil, Marius Nacht, Honda Group's Musashi Seimitsu, and others.