Database Security Articles
Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is releasing its Rubrik Enterprise Proactive Edition (EPE), combining DSPM with recovery designed for complete cyber resilience, wherever data lives. Rubrik EPE allows organizations to secure mission-critical data for comprehensive protection, recovery, and resilience against cyberattacks, whether in a cloud, SaaS, or on-premises environment, according to the company.
Posted March 28, 2024
Synopsys, Inc. is introducing Synopsys fAST Dynamic, a new application security testing (DAST) offering on the Synopsys Polaris Software Integrity Platform that enables development, security, and DevOps teams to quickly find and fix security vulnerabilities in modern web applications.
Posted March 28, 2024
DBOS, Inc., the developer of a prominent cloud-native operating system, is debuting its first product offering on the heels of its seed funding results led by Engine Ventures and Construct Capital, with participation from Sinewave and GutBrain Ventures. Backed by $8.5 million in funding, DBOS is releasing DBOS Cloud, a solution born from the idea of building database-oriented infrastructure in the cloud.
Posted March 28, 2024
Skybox Security, a provider of Exposure Management solutions, is unveiling Skybox 13.2, the latest iteration of the company's Vulnerability and Threat Management solution. Skybox 13.2 delivers effective vulnerability prioritization that leverages customer-specific context to address prioritization and remediation processes with more nuances, according to the company.
Posted March 28, 2024
Foundational, a solution using advanced analysis to identify and prevent data issues in data platforms, is debuting its platform along with announcing $8 million in seed funding. With this funding, Foundational will continue to develop its technology and introduce new and exciting product capabilities that benefit data developers as they build at scale.
Posted March 27, 2024
InterSystems is adding vector search to the InterSystems IRIS data platform to enable efficient and accurate retrieval of relevant information from massive datasets when working with large language models. By converting text and images into high-dimensional vectors, these techniques allow quick comparisons and searches, even when dealing with millions of files from disparate datasets across the organization.
Posted March 27, 2024
SAP announced new product and partnership milestones that reimagine travel and expense management experiences along with offering new capabilities powered by generative AI. SAP debuted new business AI capabilities in SAP Concur solutions to help customers save time and improve accuracy when managing business travel and expenses.
Posted March 27, 2024
SAP announced that Deutsche Telekom, one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies, has selected the RISE with SAP solution to accelerate its journey to the cloud. Deutsche Telekom is the first enterprise to implement RISE with SAP through SAP's recently expanded partnership with T-Systems as a premium supplier of RISE with SAP, marking a significant milestone in the relationship between SAP and Deutsche Telekom, according to the companies.
Posted March 27, 2024
SAP is releasing a new composable payment solution to help retailers stay ahead of changing customer expectations. The new solution, SAP Commerce Cloud, open payment framework, helps retailers become more agile as new payment options—such as buy now, pay later—gain popularity.
Posted March 27, 2024
SAP and NVIDIA announced a partnership expansion focused on accelerating enterprise customers' ability to harness the transformative power of data and generative AI across SAP's portfolio of cloud solutions and applications. The companies are collaborating to build and deliver SAP Business AI, including scalable, business-specific generative AI capabilities inside the Joule copilot from SAP and across SAP's portfolio of cloud solutions and applications—all of which are underpinned by the SAP generative AI hub.
Posted March 27, 2024
As disheartening as it may sound to new graduates, even when you leave school never to return, you still must continue to learn. There are always new tasks to comprehend, and new tools to drive. And when one serves as a data modeler, one is always going to be exposed to new data. Fortunately, if one has a good foundation, acquainting with new data can be easily managed. Every new conceptual or logical data model is an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding about another subject area within an organization.
Posted March 27, 2024
Inc. magazine announced RDM Infinity has once again made its annual 5000 Regionals: Rocky Mountain list. Boasting a median revenue growth of 163% from 2020 to 2022, RDM stands alongside 72 other regional businesses that represent a unique look at the most successful companies within the Rocky Mountain economy's most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses.
Posted March 27, 2024
AI and the cloud revolution have brought about a seismic shift in the realm of database administration, transforming traditional roles and presenting unprecedented opportunities. To assist DBAs, Rocket Software offers the MultiValue Performance Experience (MVX: Performance), a tool that empowers DBAs with unparalleled capabilities in monitoring and optimizing performance.
Posted March 27, 2024
Entrinsik Informer AI is now available, offering new possibilities for data analysis and interaction. Informer AI offers real-time assistance with Help Center AI, enhances scripting and querying capabilities through Copilot AI, and empowers users to create digital assistants in seconds. Uniquely adept at handling both structured and unstructured data, these assistants can visualize data, print templates, and connect to APIs, integrating seamlessly with datasets, PDFs, and documents.
Posted March 27, 2024
Database administration is a very technical discipline, but it is also a discipline in which the practitioner is very visible politically within the organization. DBAs should be armed with a proper attitude and sufficient technical knowledge before attempting to practice database administration. This column usually covers the many diverse technology issues with which DBAs must deal. But for this month, we are going to take a short diversion and discuss some high-level guidance for DBAs to follow that can make their job easier to deal with.
Posted March 27, 2024
Redis, a leading real-time data platform, is acquiring Speedb, one of the world's fastest data storage engines, to bolster a broad array of enterprise applications and use cases with diverse performance requirements. According to the company, Redis will leverage Speedb to enhance real-time data processing and power low-latency user experiences, all while guaranteeing unmatched cost performance for all applications where speed is critical, including generative AI applications.
Posted March 26, 2024
Semgrep, a code security solution designed for engineering-centric security programs, is debuting Semgrep Assistant, an AI-powered tool designed to empower AppSec engineers and developers to make decisions faster—and with greater accuracy.
Posted March 26, 2024
Redpanda is introducing Redpanda Serverless, a fully managed, pay-as-you-go edition of its cost-effective streaming data platform that empowers developers to get started with streaming data in seconds and to automatically scale the service up or down to match their data workloads. As with all Redpanda products, Redpanda Serverless is fully Apache Kafka API-compatible, ensuring it works with the complete Kafka ecosystem without requiring changes to application code.
Posted March 25, 2024
HEAVY.AI, innovator in advanced analytics, is releasing HeavyIQ, bringing groundbreaking Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities to the GPU-accelerated HEAVY.AI analytics platform. This solution enables organizations to interact with their data through conversational analytics.
Posted March 25, 2024
IBM is augmenting IBM Power with IBM Power Virtual Server, helping enterprises by providing a flexible, scalable, and secured platform to run mission-critical workloads, including AI, that extends on-premises environments to the cloud. With a flexible-as-a-service offering, IBM is helping clients with frictionless workload migration and modernization from on-premises to the cloud. This is possible because of architectural parity between IBM Power and IBM Cloud that helps our clients achieve growth while adopting innovative AI and hybrid cloud technologies.
Posted March 25, 2024
IBM is acquiring Pliant, a leading provider of network and IT infrastructure automation products, adding essential capabilities to automate network and IT infrastructure tasks and abstract these functions to the application layer. These optimizations include infrastructure resource provisioning and management, traffic management, and configuration management for both traditional network and IT infrastructure and public clouds.
Posted March 25, 2024
VIRTEL, innovator in mainframe 3270 access and user interface modernization technologies for over 30 years, is releasing Virtel Web Suite version 4.62, adding features inspired by customer requests. Virtel Web Suite v4.62 is both a roll-up of all software maintenance since v4.61 and the addition of many customer-driven enhancements to security, system administration, performance and mainframe-to-mainframe connectivity.
Posted March 25, 2024
Kyndryl, an IT infrastructure services provider, and Cloudflare, Inc., a leading connectivity cloud company, are extending their partnership, forming the Global Strategic Alliance to enable enterprises to migrate and manage networks for multi-cloud connectivity and comprehensive network security.
Posted March 25, 2024
CalypsoAI, a leader in AI security and enablement, is introducing the CalypsoAI Platform, an advanced SaaS-based security and enablement solution for generative AI applications within the enterprise. With the new model-agnostic SaaS platform, technology, innovation, and security leaders can harness the power of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) across their enterprise safely and securely, according to the company.
Posted March 22, 2024
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is releasing Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) 1.2—making this version the first open source release of KGO, continuing Kong's long history of supporting the open source community. In addition, this latest version introduces a new era for deploying and managing the Kong Gateway in a Kubernetes-native manner, offering unprecedented ease and flexibility for Kubernetes platform teams, according to the company.
Posted March 22, 2024
AttackIQ, an independent vendor of breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions and founding research partner of the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense (CTID), is unveiling AttackIQ Ready! 2.0, the latest iteration of the fully managed breach and attack simulation-as-a-service that empowers organizations to stay on top of the gaps in their security defenses.
Posted March 21, 2024
Tarsal, the security data movement company, is announcing the close of its recent seed funding round—led by Harpoon Ventures and Mango Capital with participation from YCombinator, Abstract Ventures, and Backend Capital—having raised $6 million. With a focus on the security data lake movement, Tarsal empowers security teams to modernize data management with performance and cost-effectiveness at the center.
Posted March 21, 2024
Cato Networks, a leader in SASE, is adding network incident detection and response tools to the Cato SASE Cloud platform, enabling advanced AI algorithms instantly identify outages in customer networks and conduct root cause analysis. With Network Stories for Cato XDR, NOC and SOC teams now have a common platform for improved collaboration and channel partners can quickly bring NOC-as-a-service (NOCaaS) offerings to market, according to the company.
Posted March 21, 2024
IONIX is adding a force multiplier to its Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform, introducing a centralized Threat Center to accelerate security teams' response to newly disclosed zero-days. According to the company, IONIX Threat Center delivers up-to-the-minute detailed insights into exposures posed by the latest zero-day vulnerabilities, identifying specific assets that are exposed or potentially exposed to the zero-day exploit along with alerting customers and highlighting suggested remediation actions.
Posted March 20, 2024
One configures SQL Server for high availability (HA) in anticipation of some event that will cause a critical application to go offline unexpectedly—a software glitch that causes an app to freeze or a fault in storage that brings down a disk, for example. A well-designed HA solution will cause a secondary instance of your application and database infrastructure—running in a nearby but geographically distinct data center—to assume your critical loads and keep your operations running smoothly, with no loss of data.
Posted March 20, 2024
Microsoft Corp. and Oracle are expanding their partnership to meet growing customer demand for Oracle Database@Azure, expanding the platform to five more regions—expanding the availability footprint to 15 regions globally. Customers can now place orders for Oracle Database@Azure in the Microsoft Azure Germany West Central region in Frankfurt. This marks the debut of Oracle Database@Azure in Europe, and the second region after Microsoft Azure East U.S. general availability in December 2023.
Posted March 20, 2024
After Linux kernal support ended in January, OpenELA announced its commitment to providing a platform for developers to collaborate on the maintenance of the 4.14 Linux kernel. The OpenELA kernel-lts project is a repository that contains a continuation of long-term maintenance kernel releases hosted on kernel.org. This continuation follows all the upstream stable rules, does not target specific hardware, vendors, or users, and the patches are primarily selected from ongoing upstream stable kernels, according to the association.
Posted March 20, 2024
QMware, a leading hybrid quantum computing company that provides cloud services, is collaborating with NVIDIA and Oracle to test and develop a new state-of-the-art hybrid quantum computing service for enterprise customers. QMware will use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU clusters, as well as the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum open-source hybrid quantum computing platform.
Posted March 20, 2024
According to Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, generative AI (GenAI) has reached the "Peak of Inflated Expectations." What does this mean in simple terms? Essentially, right now people's expectations of what the technology can do doesn't align with reality. As such, companies can make costly mistakes if they let hype or FOMO lead their GenAI strategy and investment. That said, even as GenAI is generating a lot of hype, it can also generate tremendous value if businesses do it right.
Posted March 19, 2024
CloudCasa by Catalogic, a leader in multi-cloud application resilience and mobility for Kubernetes, is releasing the newest edition of its CloudCasa platform, adding new migration and replication workflows to simplify key Kubernetes use cases. Also released are new cloud integration and manageability features, extending and improving the backup, restore, and disaster recover capabilities of CloudCasa, as well as its ability to centrally manage Velero installations in large and complex environments, according to the company.
Posted March 19, 2024
Pathlock, a provider of identity and application access governance, is releasing Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), a product within the Pathlock Cloud Platform that encompasses control management, risk quantification, and change monitoring to streamline control mechanisms from various frameworks into one centralized, automated system.
Posted March 19, 2024
BigID, a pioneer in AI-augmented data security, compliance, and privacy for modern, cloud-first enterprises, is announcing the closure of its $60 million growth round led by Riverwood Capital with participation by Silver Lake Waterman and Advent. This funding will contribute toward the company's mission to provide universal data security, compliance, and privacy across any data type, especially as it relates to generative AI (GenAI).
Posted March 19, 2024
InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, allowing users to quickly build and run time series applications on managed infrastructure with AWS's scalability, reliability, and security without the overhead of self-management.
Posted March 18, 2024
MinIO, the leader in high-performance object storage for AI, is launching the MinIO Enterprise Object Store, the company's latest product engineered to empower the creation and management of exabyte-scale data infrastructure for commercial customers. Optimized for performance and scale challenges associated with AI workloads, the MinIO Enterprise Object Store offers six key features: the MinIO Enterprise Catalog, Data Firewall, Key Management Server, Cache, Observability, and Enterprise Console.
Posted March 18, 2024
RestorePoint.AI is releasing its cloud-delivered Secure Managed Data Service (SMDS), enabling midsize organizations to securely take advantage of new analytics and Generative AI (GenAI) driven technologies, and extract business intelligence from their data. The RestorePoint.AI SMDS addresses the growing need for secure data management as a service among businesses that lack the resources to build and manage their own analytics and GenAI integrations, according to the company.
Posted March 15, 2024
Wipro Limited, a leading technology services and consulting company, and Nutanix, Inc., a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, are launching a new Nutanix-focused business unit to help they mutual clients accelerate their digital and hybrid multi-cloud journeys. The new business unit will combine the industry expertise of Wipro FullStride Cloud with Nutanix Cloud Platform to enhance joint solution engineering and expand go-to-market strategies.
Posted March 15, 2024
Opaque Systems, a leader in confidential data for trusted AI to help enterprises move AI into production, is unveiling the early access version of Opaque Gateway, an agile software solution designed to enable enterprises to experience the benefits of AI without sacrificing data privacy, security, or sovereignty. Not only does this radically alter the space of security for AI but also forwards flexible generative AI (GenAI) deployments and robust cost management for its implementation, according to the company.
Posted March 14, 2024
Domino Data Lab is introducing the Domino AI Gateway, enabling companies to manage access to commercial LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and more—enhancing security by holding LLM API keys. The Domino AI Gateway can help teams access large language models securely and responsibly. It provides enterprise security to ensure that only approved users can see and use model endpoints from commercial providers.
Posted March 14, 2024
Regulations are constantly evolving, becoming more punitive with larger fines and penalties every year. As a result, there is a collective industry movement toward the continuous improvement of cybersecurity in business and their ecosystem. This includes understanding what policies and processes must be implemented to remain compliant.
Posted March 14, 2024