Data Integration Articles
SnapLogic is receiving $40 million in Series F funding to hasten its reach around the globe and transform ways to integrate data, applications, and devices for digital business. The new round was led by European private equity firm Vitruvian Partners, with further investment from Andreessen Horowitz, Capital One, Ignition Partners, NextEquity Partners, and Triangle Peak Partners. This brings SnapLogic's funding to $136.3 million to date.
Posted December 07, 2016
Dell Boomi is releasing an enhanced version of its integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) to help organizations rapidly and cost-effectively integrate data across applications in hybrid IT environments. The latest release enables Boomi customers to build a connected business at scale through new features to increase user productivity, speed up implementation, and provide unparalleled control of integrations.
Posted December 07, 2016
In what has become a data-driven world, your organization's data is valuable. It has become the "keys to the kingdom," so to speak. Very few companies today could function without data, especially good data. However, I would suggest that more important than data, is information. Data provides the building blocks, but information is really the consumable outcome that can be used as a competitive edge.
Posted December 01, 2016
Terms such as "active," "inactive," and "canceled" may seem mundane and inconsequential, and when folks hear the term,"valid values," their eyes glaze and expectations of interest diminish. But exciting or not, reference values and an understanding of them are important to every organization.
Posted December 01, 2016
If you are a SQL Server professional, but you don't know about the PASS Summit, then you are missing out. The annual conference is convened every fall in downtown Seattle, the backyard of Microsoft, and attracted over 6,000 attendees this year. And, since it's so close to the Microsoft Redmond campus, hundreds of the SQL Server developers and program managers get to attend—answering user questions, delivering sessions, and presenting chalk talks and panel discussions.
Posted December 01, 2016
The clear trend these days is to automate and enable computerized tasks to streamline and optimize administrative and maintenance tasks. Many database management tasks that today require oversight and handholding by DBAs can, over time, be turned over to intelligently automated software to manage. But automation is just the first step.
Posted December 01, 2016
It's been amusing to watch the NoSQL movement transition from a "We don't need no stinking SQL" attitude to a "Can I please have some SQL with that?" philosophy. The nonrelational databases that emerged over the past 8 years initially offered no SQL capabilities. However, today we have an embarrassment of SQL options for "NoSQL." Hive offers SQL for Hadoop systems, Spark has SparkSQL, MongoDB has a SQL-based BI connector, and so on.
Posted December 01, 2016
There are three big challenges facing today's DBAs—a shift to an application-centric focus, the need to support multiple database platforms, and expanding responsibilities for managing database performance in the cloud as well as on premises.
Posted December 01, 2016
IT operations teams have been furiously preparing for this year's holiday season - the retail industry's busiest time of the year for web traffic. Here is a checklist of the key factors IT operations teams need to consider to ensure their IT infrastructure is ready now - and stays that way throughout the shopping season.
Posted December 01, 2016
By now it's well documented that employees will take IT tasks into their own hands when IT cannot give them the support they need, and when they need it. The phenomenon is ubiquitous and persistent, even to the point that it's been dubbed "shadow IT." Gartner recently noted that by 2020, a third of successful attacks experienced by enterprises will be on their shadow IT resources.
Posted December 01, 2016
CA Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Automic Holding GmbH, a provider of software for automating IT and business processes.
Posted December 01, 2016
Yellowfin, business intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, is launching a virtualized data preparation module for analytics, fully integrating it into the metadata layer of its BI platform. Yellowfin's Data Preparation Module will enable organizations to model, profile, clean, shape, enrich, secure, and publish all data for reporting and analytics in a single BI environment.
Posted December 01, 2016
Dataguise - through its DgSecure platform - is now supporting sensitive data discovery on Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS, as well as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). The platform will now scan for sensitive information stored on Amazon Redshift, RDS, and S3 and provide ongoing monitoring of sensitive data in S3 throughout its lifecycle.
Posted December 01, 2016
What's ahead for 2017 in terms of big data and IoT? IT executives reflect on the impact that Spark, blockchain, data lakes, cognitive computing,AI and machine learning, and other cutting-edge approaches may have on data management and analytics over the year ahead.
Posted November 30, 2016
SUSE is acquiring OpenStack IaaS and Cloud Foundry PaaS Talent and Technology Assets from HPE. The agreement aims to accelerate SUSE's entry into the growing Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market.
Posted November 30, 2016
At HPE Discover London, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) introduced new solutions designed to help organizations deploy Internet of Things (IoT) devices in wide area, enterprise and industrial environments.
Posted November 30, 2016
VoltDB has partnered with Confluent and completed development and certification of its Sink Connector for Confluent Open Source, based on Apache Kafka, utilizing Kafka's Connect API.
Posted November 30, 2016
Syncsort has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Trillium Software. Syncsort, Inc. is an IT solutions provider backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. and Trillium is a provider of data quality solutions.
Posted November 30, 2016
Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the Apache Spark project, has introduced a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant Apache Spark, cloud-based platform. The announcement was made today at the 2016 Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference.
Posted November 30, 2016
Reltio, an enterprise data-driven applications and modern data management platform as a service (PaaS) company, announced it has earned HITRUST CSF Certification status for information security by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) for Reltio Cloud.
Posted November 29, 2016
Tableau Online, a fully managed SaaS cloud analytics platform, allows organizations to connect, blend and analyze live or extracted data from on-premises and cloud databases such as Amazon Redshift and Teradata, applications such as Salesforce and Google Analytics, and data in spreadsheets stored in computers or online.
Posted November 29, 2016
CA Technologies is incorporating predictive analytics capabilities for monitoring data that touches the mainframe. CA Mainframe Operations Intelligence is a new algorithms-based solution suite that identifies and predicts system issues before they impact performance. Machine learning is applied to make sure there is no downtime and provides the intelligence that reduces the effort and skill to run data centers.
Posted November 28, 2016
CA Technologies announced new additions to its DevOps portfolio that spans development to production. New releases of CA's core app and infrastructure monitoring products—CA Application Performance Management (CA APM), CA Performance Management and CA Virtual Network Assurance—are intended to speed software release velocity and improve customer experiences.
Posted November 28, 2016
Resilient, an IBM Company unveiled the results of a new survey which found that only 32% of IT and security professionals feel their organization is ready for a cyberattack - down slightly from 35% in 2015. The annual Cyber Resilient Organization study also found that 66% of respondents say their organization is not prepared to recover from cyberattacks.
Posted November 28, 2016
Symantec Corp. and LifeLock, Inc. recently announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Symantec to acquire LifeLock for $2.3 billion in enterprise value. The deal is expected to close in the first calendar quarter of 2017.
Posted November 28, 2016
Rackspace has announced that its Fanatical Support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) global team was awarded a certification distinction by AWS for achieving more than 500 AWS professional and associate certifications. Rackspace is an audited AWS Managed Service Partner, AWS DevOps Competency partner, and AWS Marketing & Commerce Competency partner in the AWS Partner Network.
Posted November 22, 2016
AtScale, which provides a self-service BI platform for big data, has announced an expansion of its services. With this announcement, the company says it is introducing a BI platform that enables businesses to work seamlessly across all of big data, on premise and in the cloud. In addition to Hadoop, AtScale has announced preview availability of support for data stored in Teradata, Google Dataproc and BigQuery, expanding on the company's existing support for Microsoft Azure and HDInsight.
Posted November 21, 2016
At CA WORLD '16, CA Technologies announced two new security solutions. CA Threat Analytics for PAM, a new behavior analytics solution that integrates with CA Privileged Access Manager (PAM), features machine-learning capabilities for better threat detection and breach prevention associated with privileged users. In addition, CA Identity Service, a new, turn-key identity-as-a-service solution, has been introduced to address identity and access management (IAM) needs for both on-premises and cloud-based applications.
Posted November 21, 2016
Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Dyn, a cloud-based internet performance and domain name system (DNS) provider that monitors, controls, and optimizes internet applications and cloud services to enable faster access, reduced page load times, and higher end user satisfaction.
Posted November 21, 2016
Oracle Linux 7 Update 3 for x86-64 servers is now generally available, according to Teri Whitaker, program manager at Oracle, who announced the release in a post on Oracle's Linux blog.
Posted November 17, 2016
Oracle has announced a new solution that enables brands to leverage insights from the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve customer service experiences. The two products have been combined in a packaged integration to help brands take advantage of the insights from IoT devices with the aim enabling value-added services such as remote diagnostics and preventive maintenance.
Posted November 16, 2016
The business of arranging millions or billions of zeros and ones in exactly the right order—also known as the business of software—has undergone many significant shifts over the history of computing, and we might be about to experience yet another.
Posted November 16, 2016
Introduced at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle's new MySQL Cloud Service provides the benefits of MySQL Enterprise Edition through the Oracle Public Cloud. Diby Malakar, a vice president of product management at Oracle, recently discussed the latest database service from Oracle.
Posted November 16, 2016
Rocket Software is releasing an enhanced version of its Discover platform, boosting the self-service business intelligence platform for MultiValue customers. Rocket Discover 1.6, with its native interface to Rocket D3, UniVerse and UniData databases, will enable business users to connect to MV data sources through secure Web services, and use Discover's interface for data visualization and discovery, and collaboratively share dashboards.
Posted November 16, 2016
BMC, a provider of IT solutions for the digital enterprise, has announced enhancements to its BMC Discovery solution to improve its interaction with other systems while also increasing security and efficiency. Using a RESTful API, BMC Discovery v11.1 now provides an open platform enabling other systems to take advantage of discovery data and drive discovery configuration. The new version also leverages integration with the CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution to manage and secure privileged access to scanned environments.
Posted November 16, 2016
Databricks has announced that, in collaboration with industry partners, it has broken the world record in the CloudSort Benchmark, a third-party industry benchmarking competition for processing large datasets. Databricks was founded by the team that created the Apache Spark project.
Posted November 16, 2016
SAP is making huge announcements that introduce a new HANA platform and boost SAP's analytical capabilities for its Business Objects solution. SAP HANA 2 includes and extends the proven technology from SAP's breakthrough in-memory computing platform to provide a new foundation for digital transformation.
Posted November 16, 2016
SAP SE is releasing an update to its SAP S/4HANA platform aimed at improving user productivity. By utilizing a simplified data model and SAP Fiori 2.0 user experience, the SAP S/4HANA 1610 release can reduce complexity and allow applications to yield new business capabilities, according to SAP. "All companies and all line-of-business and industries need to start with 1610 if they want to capitalize on the digital transformation for their company before their competitor does," said Sven Denecken, senior vice president of product management, co-innovation and packaging S/4HANA at SAP SE.
Posted November 16, 2016
IDERA, a provider of database lifecycle management solutions, has released DB PowerStudio 2016+. The portfolio of database management tools was designed and built from the ground up by IDERA following the company's acquisition of Embarcadero in October 2015. With this update, in particular, IDERA adds new features for Oracle databases.
Posted November 16, 2016
The definition of "data visualization" often varies depending on whom you ask. For some, it's a process of visually transforming data for exploration or analysis. For others, it's a tool to share analytical insights or invite discovery.
Posted November 15, 2016
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced Hitachi Content Intelligence, an addition to its Hitachi Content Portfolio (HCP), creating an object storage portfolio with search and analytics capabilities. The new intelligence solution rounds out the HCP portfolio, which offers a seamlessly integrated cloud-file gateway and enterprise file sync and sharing, and improves organizations' ability to strategically manage data.
Posted November 15, 2016
Expanding the capabilities for customers to take advantage of the elasticity of Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark in the cloud to power new workloads and analytic applications, Hortonworks, Inc. has announced the availability of Hortonworks Data Cloud on the AWS Cloud.
Posted November 15, 2016
IBM has rolled out new hybrid cloud all-flash storage solutions developed to modernize and transform storage deployments. IBM Spectrum Storage Suite addresses the often-rigid economics of data management through the opportunity to test new hybrid cloud and cognitive applications.
Posted November 14, 2016
IBM has formed a partnership with Topcoder, a global software development community of designers and developers, to harness the power of Watson to create the next generation of artificial intelligence apps, APIs, and solutions. This partnership also benefits businesses that gain access to an increased talent pool of developers through the Topcoder Marketplace with experience in cognitive computing and Watson.
Posted November 14, 2016
The Project Intu platform aims to simplify the process for developers that seek to create cognitive experiences in various form factors such as spaces, avatars, robots and other IoT devices. It also extends cognitive technology into the physical world, enabling devices to interact more naturally with users.
Posted November 10, 2016