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Iguazio

CEO: Asaf Somekh

The Iguazio Continuous Analytics Data Platform simplifies business analytics processes for big data, the Internet of Things and cloud-native applications by unifying different data types and workloads.

The Iguazio system creates a unified data model through multiple protocols and industry standard APIs, the latter including Amazon-compatible streaming and table, object and file APIs. Any type of data is stored in a normalized and search-optimized form just once and transformed on the fly, eliminating the need for copies, ETL processes and complex data pipelines.

Iguazio, founded in 2014 and based in Herzliya, Israel, was also named a 2017 Gartner "cool vendor" in data management.