Data Integration Articles
Pivotal Software, a cloud-native platform provider, is introducing the alpha version of PAS on Kubernetes, as well as launching new products based on PAS features that improve the developer and operator experience when using Kubernetes. Kubernetes is becoming an increasingly ubiquitous part of the cloud infrastructure. But many organizations are struggling to bring it into production because it's so complex.
Posted July 17, 2019
Talend, a provider of cloud data integration and data integrity, is releasing its Summer '19 version of Talend Data Fabric, accelerating the development of all types of integration environments from simple ingestion tasks to the most comprehensive integration scenarios.
Posted July 17, 2019
Data analytics is no longer the luxury of organizations with large budgets that can accommodate roving teams of analysts and data scientists. Every organization, no matter the size or industry, deserves a data analytics capability. Thanks to a convergence of technology and market forces, that's exactly what's happening.
Posted July 17, 2019
Snow Software, a provider of technology intelligence solutions, is releasing a new suite of offerings to better enable customers to address their growing IT operations, cloud shift, and digital transformation challenges. Included in the offering is the Adoption Tracker product, which enables discovery, inventory, and normalization of all digital technology assets, with a hybrid approach that covers everything from freemium SaaS applications to enterprise systems such as Oracle.
Posted July 17, 2019
Oracle recently unveiled a new, customer-centric vision for Oracle Analytics at its Analytics Summit. A key element of the strategy is the concept of one offering: Oracle Analytics, rationlizing 18-plus products down to a single brand.
Posted July 17, 2019
IGEL, a provider of the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, and CloudJumper are forming a partnership to simplify the deployment and management of cloud workspaces, including WVD workspaces delivered on Microsoft Azure.
Posted July 16, 2019
Exadel, a provider of digital software engineering solutions, is launching a Kubernetes deployment solution, CrossKube. The packaged solution gives organizations the ability to deploy everything that is needed for a highly scalable, cloud-based application, including application best-practice templates for Kubernetes, microservices, containerization, application discovery, database connectivity, front-end application structure, and automated testing.
Posted July 16, 2019
In his closing keynote at Data Summit 2019, John O'Brien, principal advisor and chief researcher, Radiant Advisors, discussed organizations need to take in order to get the outcomes they seek from artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Posted July 16, 2019
Redgate is releasing another update for its Data Masker for SQL Server tool, making it much easier for users to identify the best data masking rules to fit their needs. Alongside the 15 updates that were released in 2018, it's part of the development team's goal to ensure the tool ties in as closely as possible with customer requirements and workflows.
Posted July 12, 2019
Iron Mountain Incorporated, a provider of storage and information management services, is expanding its Data Restoration and Migration Services (DRMS), offering customers seeking to migrate tape-based data into Amazon Web Services (AWS). With the expanded offering, companies will have the ability to modernize their data management strategy while maintaining high levels of security, access, and governance.
Posted July 11, 2019
SIOS Technology Corp., a provider of IT resilience through intelligent application availability, has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Workloads Competency status within the AWS Partner Network (APN). This designation recognizes that SIOS provides proven technology and deep expertise in helping customers in the migration, deployment, and management of Microsoft-based applications on AWS, specifically with workloads based on Microsoft SQL Server.
Posted July 11, 2019
According to Alluxio, a provider of open source data orchestration technology, the rise of compute-intensive workloads and the adoption of the cloud has driven organizations to adopt a decoupled architecture for modern workloads—one in which compute scales independently from storage. While this enables scaling elasticity, it also introduces new data engineering problems. Just as compute and containers need Kubernetes for container orchestration, Alluxio contends, data also needs orchestration—a tier that brings data locality, accessibility, and elasticity to compute across data silos, zones, regions, and clouds.
Posted July 11, 2019
Data Summit 2019 in Boston drew industry experts with deep knowledge spanning all areas of enterprise IT, including AI and machine learning, analytics, cloud, data warehousing, and software licensing who presented 3 days of thought-provoking sessions, keynotes, panel discussions, and hands-on workshops. Here are some key takeaways from the Data Summit 2019.
Posted July 10, 2019
MongoDB gained popularity with developers very early on, but serious database engineers were often skeptical about MongoDB architecture and implementation. One area that came under some criticism was cluster consistency.
Posted July 10, 2019
Melissa, a provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, is introducing Privacy Flag, a new feature in its comprehensive Global Email Verification suite designed to verify email addresses and improve overall email deliverability. Privacy Flag draws attention to customer emails that are more likely to require additional controls to remain compliant with regulations such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Posted July 10, 2019
Opsview, the company that unifies cloud and infrastructure monitoring, will be offering a bi-directional native ServiceNow integration for Opsview Monitor. The new integration with ServiceNow provides a configuration which allows notifications from Opsview Monitor to be opened automatically as ServiceNow incidents.
Posted July 10, 2019
Collibra, the data intelligence company, is acquiring SQLdep, a leading SaaS provider of automated data lineage, empowering data citizens to uncover faster and deeper insights from data. SQLdep automates the discovery and visualization of technical data lineage and enables organizations to better capture context around data, understand data quality, support compliance initiatives, and increase trust.
Posted July 10, 2019
Google has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Elastifile, a provider of scalable, enterprise file storage for the cloud. The acquisition of Elastifile is expected to be completed later this year and is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals. Upon the close of the acquisition, Elastifile will join Google Cloud.
Posted July 09, 2019
Calling it a landmark acquisition, IBM and Red Hat announced today that they have closed the transaction under which IBM acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190 per share in cash, representing a total equity value of approximately $34 billion.
Posted July 09, 2019
With today marking the end of extended support for Microsoft's SQL Server 2008, John 'JG' Chirapurath, Microsoft Azure's GM of data, blockchain & AI, posted a blog entry yesterday urging customers to consider the company's Azure cloud service. In addition, Microsoft announced two data platform advancements.
Posted July 09, 2019
The European Commission announced that it has "approved unconditionally, under the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed acquisition of Red Hat by IBM, both information technology companies based in the US. The Commission concluded that the transaction would raise no competition concerns."
Posted July 08, 2019
Syncsort has added new data integration capabilities that expand support for Microsoft Azure, enabling enterprises to access, transform, and deliver critical mainframe data to Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse to uncover deeper business insights. The new integration leverages Syncsort's ability to integrate mainframe data into next-generation data management platforms for advanced analytics.
Posted July 08, 2019
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, is integrating AppOptics, the company's SaaS-based application performance monitoring solution, with its Loggly and Papertrail cloud-hosted log monitoring and log analytics solutions. AppOptics together with Loggly and Papertrail now combine application performance management (APM), distributed tracing, and log management to help technology professionals identify performance and availability issues before they affect users, pinpoint the root cause, and reduce mean time to repair (MTTR).
Posted July 08, 2019
IBM has launched a data prep solution designed to help clients improve their DataOps processes so they can have data ready for AI more quickly and efficiently. Jointly developed with data prep software provider Trifacta, the new InfoSphere solution is engineered to work in conjunction with clients' existing data environments, including data lakes.
Posted July 08, 2019
MarkLogic Corporation, a data platform provider for simplifying data integration, announced that MarkLogic Data Hub Service has completed the Service Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2) Type II audit as certified by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). MarkLogic is already a secure modern database and the only one to carry a Common Criteria security certification.
Posted July 08, 2019
Oracle offers a one-stop shop for all cloud needs and provides a broad portfolio of business solutions to companies of all sizes. However, some enterprises are taking issue with vendor lock-in and want to reinvent their IT strategies. Rimini Street recently conducted a survey of IT professionals to gather insight on relationships with Oracle, their application strategies, and future cloud plans.
Posted July 08, 2019
Enterprises are struggling to see value from their IoT implementations. Getting real-time data from edge devices sounds simple but isn't. Challenges include network availability, latency, cost of roundtripping between the edge and the enterprise, monitoring, etc. Edge Management is the ability to manage and monitor thousands of edge agents that are deployed in or near the edge devices to enable edge data collection, enhance edge processing, and streamline management of data from edge to enterprise.
Posted July 03, 2019
Oracle has introduced the new Autonomous Database Dedicated service to provide customers with more control for their most mission-critical workloads. "Our Autonomous Database Dedicated service eliminates the concerns enterprise customers previously had about security, isolation, and operational policies when moving to cloud," said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Mission-Critical Database Technologies, Oracle.
Posted July 03, 2019
Oracle recently announced fiscal 2019 Q4 results and fiscal 2019 full year results. "In Q4, our non-GAAP operating income grew 7% in constant currency—which drove EPS well above the high end of my guidance," said Oracle CEO Safra Catz. "Our high-margin Fusion and NetSuite cloud applications businesses are growing rapidly, while we downsize our low-margin legacy hardware business. The net result of this shift away from commodity hardware to cloud applications was a Q4 non-GAAP operating margin of 47%, the highest we've seen in 5 years."
Posted July 03, 2019
source{d}, a data platform for the software development life cycle (SDLC), is releasing a new Enterprise Edition with built-in visualization, management capabilities, and advanced analytic functions. source{d} enables enterprises to aggregate all SDLC data sources into one data lake where they can easily extract, load and transform source code, version control data, project tracking data, build systems data, configuration files and more.
Posted July 02, 2019
GridGain Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache Ignite, has introduced new GridGain Developer Bundles, which include support, consulting, and training for GridGain Community or Enterprise Edition.
Posted July 02, 2019
RavenDB, a provider of database infrastructure solutions, is releasing its new RavenDB Cloud managed database service. RavenDB Cloud performs all daily tasks such as maintaining hardware servers, installation, configuration, monitoring internals, and security for its users worldwide.
Posted July 02, 2019
Radiant Advisors' John O'Brien discusses research findings on the role and effectiveness AI (artificial or augmented intelligence) in making assistive business recommendations in this clip from his closing keynote at Data Summit 2019.
Posted July 02, 2019
MicroStrategy, a worldwide provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software, is releasing MicroStrategy 2019 Update 2, adding powerful new capabilities and products for MicroStrategy 2019 that boosts critical business data. The latest update expands the platform's suite of HyperIntelligence products to supercharge web browsing, accelerate access to intuitive intelligence on iOS and Android devices, and add windows of contextual insights to email on Outlook.
Posted July 01, 2019
EnterpriseDB has been acquired by Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed. "This acquisition comes at a time when the Postgres market is exploding," said Ed Boyajian, president and CEO of EnterpriseDB. Michael Stonebraker, a pioneer in database technology and original architect of what is now Postgres, has been named technical advisor; and database expert and entrepreneur Andy Palmer has been named to the board of directors.
Posted July 01, 2019
ProcessUnity, a provider of cloud-based applications for risk and compliance management, is releasing the latest version of its Risk and Compliance platform, extending the platform's configurability and flexibility while adding intelligent capabilities.
Posted June 28, 2019
MongoDB, a provider of a general purpose data platform, is releasing an enhanced version of its core database MongoDB 4.2. Key features include distributed transactions, field level encryption, and an updated Kubernetes Operator.
Posted June 28, 2019
GigaSpaces, provider of InsightEdge, is partnering with Tableau to help enterprises accelerate customized BI visualizations on their operational data. GigaSpaces InsightEdge big data analytics processing platform runs real-time analytics and machine learning on streaming, hot and historical data, in production at scale.
Posted June 27, 2019
Talend, a provider of cloud data integration and data integrity, is introducing a new technology partner program, extending and accelerating the development of partner-built solutions for Talend Data Fabric. The new Technology Alliance Program is available worldwide and provides partners with access integration tool kits, product licenses for testing and demonstration, marketing assistance, and technical resources, including development support to speed the building of value-added data integrations and connectors for customers.
Posted June 27, 2019
Unravel Data, a data operations platform providing full-stack visibility and AI-powered recommendations, is introducing the Unravel Partner Program, bringing together world-leading technology innovators to simplify the way businesses optimize the performance of their modern data applications and the complex pipelines that power those applications.
Posted June 26, 2019
IT executives and their business counterparts understand the importance of a strong data strategy and its value to their businesses, and most are starting to get the key pieces in place to drive transformation through next-generation technologies and processes. One in four enterprises now regards real-time data as critical to their ongoing operations—and another one in four is actively preparing to introduce real-time data capabilities into their infrastructures, according to a new Unisphere Research survey.
Posted June 26, 2019
The Pythian Group's Danil Zburivsky identifies variety as a key driving factor behind the challenges in ETL in this clip from his presentation at Data Summit 2019.
Posted June 25, 2019
Surviving and thriving with data science and machine learning means not only having the right platforms, tools and skills, but identifying use cases and implementing processes that can deliver repeatable, scalable business value. The challenges are numerous, from selecting data sets and data platforms, to architecting and optimizing data pipelines, and model training and deployment. In response, new solutions have emerged to deliver key capabilities in areas including visualization, self-service and real-time analytics.
Posted June 24, 2019