Data Warehousing Articles
Today's data environments are becoming more flexible and portable than their more rigid, siloed predecessors, thanks to emerging approaches. Strategies that are the building blocks of portability, adaptability, and rapid delivery—containers, microservices, DevOps, and DataOps—are transforming the way data is managed.
Posted April 29, 2021
If you're looking for proof of the hybrid, multi-platform nature of today's data environments, look no further than many SQL Server sites. Linux—not too long ago seen as a competitive platform to all things Microsoft—has become a platform of choice now supporting many SQL Server environments.
Posted April 29, 2021
It's time to cast your vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, our readers.
Posted April 29, 2021
Innovative enterprise tech startups are emerging to tackle both new and longstanding challenges and problems in ways never thought possible. Many of these companies have fresh approaches to accelerate digital transformation, expand AI and analytics initiatives, streamline DevOps, improve data observability, and more. Here are 16 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2021.
Posted April 29, 2021
An important new set of features for security and confidential computing was announced at the recent Microsoft Ignite virtual conference and are now in public preview. Although the name doesn't exactly trip off your tongue, Always Encrypted with Secure Enclaves offers important new capabilities for organizations that need greater control and security over their data while also enjoying the agility, scalability, and productivity gains of the public cloud.
Posted April 29, 2021
IBM and SAP continue to assist companies through their digital transformations, upping their commitment to clients more than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. SAP and IBM look to continue to co-create and enhance solutions as businesses operate in this new normal, complementing their collaboration on cloud and RISE with SAP.
Posted April 28, 2021
Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5. "This release has been in the making for over a year and represents major breakthroughs in monitoring and management automation for Oracle environments," said Mughees Minhas, product management vice president, enterprise and cloud manageability, Oracle.
Posted April 27, 2021
Marvell Technology, Inc., a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, announced it has completed its acquisition of Inphi Corporation, creating a U.S. semiconductor powerhouse positioned for end-to-end technology leadership in data infrastructure.
Posted April 23, 2021
RapidAPI, a next-generation API platform that enables developers and enterprises to manage thousands of APIs, has raised $60 million in its Series C funding round, enabling the company to support an influx of new developers to its platform. The funds will be used to support the onboarding of leading API providers to the public marketplace and the expansion of the API platform, including RapidAPI's Enterprise Hub to serve the rapidly-growing enterprise customer base.
Posted April 22, 2021
In an era of rapid digital transformation, companies that fail to effectively manage and leverage their data assets will find themselves falling behind. Speed, scalability and flexibility are critical tenets of modern data strategies and require technologies and processes that are responsive to the business.
Posted April 21, 2021
The cloud is changing the way businesses use data and at the same time, the way we use data is changing the cloud. Organizations are adopting multiple cloud data platforms to maximize data's value, but in doing so are often increasing complexity for data engineering and DataOps teams that may stifle the very reason for investing in those platforms.
Posted April 20, 2021
The FIDO Alliance is launching the FIDO Device Onboard (FDO) protocol, a new, open IoT standard that enables devices to simply and securely onboard to cloud and on-premise management platforms. Through this standard, the FIDO Alliance addresses challenges of security, cost, and complexity tied to IoT device deployment at scale.
Posted April 20, 2021
AuditBoard, providers of innovative cloud-based platform transforming how enterprises manage their compliance and risk programs, is being relaunched as CrossComply, reflecting the solution's distinct capabilities to streamline managing compliance across frameworks, controls, policies, and more, across the enterprise. CrossComply is one of four solutions available within AuditBoard's integrated GRC platform, which streamlines and simplifies audit, risk, and compliance programs for large organizations.
Posted April 19, 2021
GoodData, a leading global analytics company, is releasing a new cloud-native analytics platform offering, GoodData.CloudNative (GoodData.CN), representing step one in the definition and implementation of the new Data as a Service (DaaS) category and ecosystem.
Posted April 19, 2021
Trifacta is partnering with Databricks on a joint solution that natively integrates Trifacta's interactive, visual data preparation capabilities into the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. The new solution accelerates the development and orchestration of data preparation pipelines by removing bottlenecks that can slow data prep for analytics and machine learning models while also tracking data lineage and ensuring sustainable data governance.
Posted April 16, 2021
With the 1-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown just behind us, there has been a lot of dialogue regarding what different industries have experienced over the past year. Acknowledging this dubious anniversary, we sat down to collect our thoughts and share a few advisements with respect to our small corner of the legal and tech industry.
Posted April 13, 2021
In the future, 2021 may be viewed as a sharp turning point when companies recovered from the dramatic changes of 2020 and moved from surviving to thriving. Recently, John O'Brien, CEO and principal advisor, Radiant Advisors, spoke with BDQ about the challenges and opportunities for organizations as they emerge from the seismic shifts of the past year.
Posted April 09, 2021
Swarm64, a provider of database acceleration solutions for the PostgreSQL open source database, is forming a partnership with EDB, a leading contributor to PostgreSQL, to help companies reduce IT costs. Swarm64 DA has successfully completed the EDB GlobalConnect Technology Partner certification process for use with EDB Postgres Advanced.
Posted April 08, 2021
As companies embrace digital transformation across the enterprise, it is data and the effective use of it that determines whether new technologies such as AI, automation, and analytics will be successful. The importance of having an effective data management and data warehousing operation is more critical than ever before.
Posted April 07, 2021
You would think that with the towering importance of data in today's modern organization that data modeling would be viewed as extremely important by management and IT professionals, so it is somewhat ironic that the age of big data has coincided with a long-term slide in data administration and modeling in many organizations. This is not a situation that should continue to be tolerated.
Posted April 06, 2021
There's still life in the data lake concept, as evidenced by the growing success of Dremio. Dremio describes itself as "the cloud data lake" platform. It provides a cloud-based engine that layers over cloud object storage such as Amazon S3, Azure's Data Lake Storage, or even legacy Hadoop systems.Why would Dremio succeed where Hadoop ultimately failed?
Posted April 06, 2021
As the world of data analytics continues to evolve and reshape after a tumultuous 2020, the need for agility is rapidly driving a new era in data culture in which it is imperative to handle data immediately and at scale. While emphasis on self-service data and analytics has been top-of-mind for some time now, the shift to self-sufficiency is held back by culture, not technology. With the new year pushing more robotics process automation at all levels of the business—and for all data users—organizations are becoming more acutely aware that true enablement isn't just about tools and tech. It's about people.
Posted April 05, 2021
Since its emergence, many companies have made great strides with DevOps, advancing their development processes. However, for DevOps to continue transforming enterprises, it must evolve to address longstanding challenges, take advantage of new opportunities, and spread beyond its comfort zone.
Posted April 05, 2021
Conventional data management systems are fundamentally ill-suited for the world of data as it exists today. These systems, based with few exceptions on the relational data model, are broken because they integrate based on data location at the storage layer. While this approach worked reasonably well for the past 25 years, the world today has far too much data to use data location in storage as the basic lever.
Posted April 02, 2021
Data may be at the heart of all digital engagements, but most enterprises are still behind the curve when it comes to effectively identifying and managing it. That's the takeaway from the latest survey of 419 enterprise executives from BARC, which finds continuing challenges with identifying and surfacing the data assets needed to succeed in today's digital economy.
Posted April 02, 2021
Faster decision making enabled by access to role-appropriate information is the goal of organizations striving to become data-driven. At the same time, there is strong pressure on companies to ensure data quality and trustworthiness, as well as to maintain data security to avoid breaches and risk regulatory non-compliance.
Posted April 02, 2021
Spectra Logic, a leader in data storage and data management solutions, is releasing the publication of its annual "Data Storage Outlook" report, which explores how the world manages, accesses, uses, and preserves its ever-expanding data repositories.
Posted April 01, 2021
Navisite announced that Velocity Technology Solutions, a Navisite company, has been recertified as an SAP-certified service provider of managed services across four areas, continuing to strengthen its capabilities and portfolio of manage services for SAP solutions.
Posted March 24, 2021
Aiven, a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure, announced it raised $100 million in its Series C funding round, enabling the company to deepen its investment in open source software and further expand globally. This now brings the company's total investment to $150 million and a valuation of more than $800 million.
Posted March 23, 2021
Overcoming travel challenges, Data Summit Connect 2021, presented by DBTA and Big Data Quarterly, is a virtual event that will run May 11-12 and include provocative sessions, exhibits, and opportunities to network. In addition, preconference workshops will be held on May 10.
Posted March 22, 2021
Instaclustr, delivering reliability at scale through fully managed open source data technologies, is acquiring credativ, adding a rich collection of open source software and services to Instaclustr's portfolio.
Posted March 17, 2021
EdgeMicro, a leading edge colocation company, is releasing Edge Anywhere in response to heightened capacity requirements and custom location demands stemming from the pandemic.
Posted March 17, 2021
Global cloud-led, data-centric software company, NetApp is releasing Spot Wave and extending Spot Ocean's support of Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. Together, these products provide customers with leading solutions for simple, scalable, and efficient infrastructure for cloud-native applications.
Posted March 17, 2021
Our new industrial era poses a paradox for every manufacturer. The increased revenues driven by high consumer demand often conceal the pressure felt on margins due to rising material costs and constant labor shortages. Consequently, many manufacturers seek supply-chain innovations to optimize their asset utilization, reduce production waste, minimize re-work, and produce reliable lead times. However, none of these efficiencies are possible without a modern data infrastructure.
Posted March 16, 2021
Machine learning is becoming the go-to solution for greater automation and intelligence. A recent study fielded amongst the subscribers of DBTA found that 48% currently have machine learning initiatives underway with another 20% considering adoption. At the same time, most projects are still in the early phases. DBTA recently held a roundtable webinar with Gaurav Deshpande, VP of marketing, TigerGraph; Santiago Giraldo, director of product marketing data engineering and machine learning, Cloudera; and Paige Roberts, open source relations manager, Vertica, who discussed key technologies and strategies for maximizing machine learning's impact.
Posted March 12, 2021
The latest product release from Panzura, CloudFS 8 Defend, is now available, providing seamless integration with the Varonis Data Security Platform, which protects enterprise data from unauthorized access and cyber-threats both on-premises and in the cloud.
Posted March 12, 2021
A new book called "MongoDB Performance Tuning" takes a deep dive into MongoDB performance optimization. "We wanted to bring a 'floor-to-ceiling' approach to tuning, covering every aspect from the design of the document schema," said database expert Guy Harrison, who co-authored the book with Michael Harrison.
Posted March 11, 2021
Navisite announced it is now a Google Cloud Partner, a designation that recognizes the company as an authorized managed services provider on Google Cloud. As a Google Cloud Partner, Navisite not only demonstrates the required knowledge and expertise to successfully migrate customers to Google Cloud but also the commitment and partnership with Google Cloud to help customers maximize business growth, innovation, and profitability.
Posted March 09, 2021
Kinetica, the streaming data warehouse, is releasing the Kinetica Developer Edition, giving developers, data engineers, and data architects the ability to create ideas and small-scale proof-of-concepts without worrying about license expiration.
Posted March 09, 2021
Akash Network, a project out of Overclock Labs, is releasing Akash MAINNET 2, an open-source and viable decentralized cloud alternative to centralized cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Posted March 08, 2021
There are many new and intriguing possibilities for analytics that require an investment in learning and new technology. But the return on the investment can be sizable in terms of gaining insight into your business, and in better servicing your customers.
Posted March 08, 2021