Any significant improvement in processing times will be a boon to productivity, say analysts Lindsay Clark Wed 17 Mar 2021 // 14:45 UTC Share Copy Informatica has announced a serverless, Spark-based data integration engine intended to accelerate data engineering for machine learning in the cloud using Nvidia GPU processors. Within the vendor's integration platform-as-a-service, CDI Elastic, microservices support different data management activities. The new capability is targeted at extract, transform, load-type (ETL) workloads. "You may have data sitting in a data lake, and you want to do parallel processing of that data at high performance. That's what CDI Elastic services designed for," said Rik Tamm-Daniels, VP strategic ecosystems.