The rise of DevOps, which promises to bring development and operations teams into alignment, is moving database managers and administrators ever closer to the key touchpoints of their businesses. DevOps methodologies "have been the de facto model for startups and born-in-the-cloud organizations for many years," noted Bob Quillin, vice president of the Oracle Container Group. "Now those approaches and techniques are moving to larger teams and organizations based on clear business advantages, cultural benefits, and the emergence of repeatable patterns driven by open source technologies tested at cloud-scale by these early adopters."
Posted April 04, 2018
Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison announced the availability of the first service based on the new Oracle Autonomous Database during a presentation at Oracle headquarters. Described as "the world's first self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing database cloud service," the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud uses machine learning to deliver performance, security, and availability with no human intervention.
Posted April 04, 2018
OneLogin has announced a new product that allows companies to manage access for on-premises and cloud-based applications with a single identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) solution.
Posted April 04, 2018
Meta Networks Ltd., a provider of secure cloud-native networking, is releasing its signature network and security platform - Meta NaaS (Network-as-a-Service). Meta Networks' user-centric platform is delivered as a service to connect people, applications, clouds, and sites within a software-defined perimeter, reducing the possibility of a security breach while improving the overall user experience.
Posted April 04, 2018
SWIM.AI today exited stealth and announced the general availability of its edge software solution. SWIM EDX delivers edge intelligence and real-time business and operational insights. By applying analytics, self-training digital twins and edge computing, SWIM EDX allows manufacturers, infrastructure providers, enterprises, municipalities, and IoT vendors to analyze and take immediate action on fast edge data.
Posted April 04, 2018
JetStream Software Inc., a provider of cloud software, launched a new cross-cloud data management platform to support workload migration, resource elasticity, and business continuity across multi-cloud and multi-data center infrastructures. JetStream Cross-Cloud Platform provides "built for the cloud" data management capability in an all-software, hypervisor-integrated solution for multi-cloud, multi-data center operations.
Posted April 04, 2018
Blockchain may be the best thing to happen to data management and information security or just the latest tech fad, depending on your point of view. To help IT professionals get up-to-speed, Data Summit 2018 will present a number of sessions on the distributed ledger technology. Data Summit 2018 will take place this year at the Hyatt Regency Boston, May 22-23, with pre-conference workshops on Monday, May 21. Cognitive Computing Summit will also be co-located at the event.
Posted April 04, 2018
IBM has launched three new consulting services offerings, as well as an IBM Blockchain Platform Starter Plan, a low-cost plan to help clients, developers, and startups to develop, operate, and govern networks on the IBM Blockchain Platform.
Posted April 04, 2018
Hitachi Consulting, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., a Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), and provider of consulting-led solutions and services, has been named an OPN Cloud Elite partner. Joining a small number of Oracle partners who have attained this designation, Hitachi Consulting earned the status by achieving a set of criteria that demonstrate its full investment in Oracle Cloud solutions.
Posted April 03, 2018
DFLabs, a provider of security automation and orchestration, has achieved certified technical integration of the DFLabs IncMan platform with both McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) and McAfee Data Exchange Layer (DXL). This combination enables customers to deploy end-to-end security solutions for faster, more automated detection and response to security threats, plus orchestration of remediation efforts.
Posted April 03, 2018
Pure Storage, the all-flash storage platform that, unveiled a new AI-Ready Infrastructure, AIRI, powered by NVIDIA, to power and operationalize AI-at-scale for every enterprise. Architected by Pure Storage and NVIDIA, AIRI is purpose-built to enable data architects, scientists and business leaders to extend the power of the NVIDIA DGX-1.
Posted April 03, 2018
As a part of its technology and marketing partnership with the NCAA, Google Cloud has unveiled an end-to-end analytics architecture and workflow built over the past few months (leveraging Kaggle, BigQuery, and more) to ingest, load, and analyze the NCAA's decades of data.
Posted March 30, 2018
The rise of DevOps, which promises to bring development and operations teams into alignment, is moving database managers and administrators ever closer to the key touchpoints of their businesses. DevOps methodologies "have been the de facto model for startups and born-in-the-cloud organizations for many years," noted Bob Quillin, vice president of the Oracle Container Group. "Now those approaches and techniques are moving to larger teams and organizations based on clear business advantages, cultural benefits, and the emergence of repeatable patterns driven by open source technologies tested at cloud-scale by these early adopters."
Posted March 29, 2018
Dell EMC has introduced the Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) family, a software-defined wide area network solution (SD-WAN) with the new Intel Xeon D-2100 processor, to help speed digital transformation by connecting the enterprise edge to the cloud via universal customer premise equipment (uCPE).
Posted March 29, 2018
Morpheus Data is enhancing its unified multi-cloud orchestration platform to enable customers to develop new applications faster with less administrative overhead on virtually any cloud or infrastructure. The rapid shift to hybrid IT coupled with increasing pressure from development teams creates a challenge for resource constrained IT departments.
Posted March 29, 2018
With news unfolding about an app that was able to gather 50 million Facebook users' data that was later resold to a political data firm in order to try to influence American voter sentiment, industry leaders are weighing in on what this may mean for the future of governance and regulatory compliance. While not a breach or hack, the use of the data by a third party, and the particular purposes it was collected for, has drawn outrage from lawmakers and Facebook customers, and prompted heightened interest in regulations that could enable individuals to control the use of their data.
Posted March 29, 2018
Not many companies have the opportunity to take a greenfield approach to data architecture. Most have "accidental architectures" that were never really intentionally designed at all, but instead have been built up over time across different eras of data management, according Rick Sherman, managing partner of Athena IT Solutions. But fragmented architectures can still be improved, says Sherman, who will present a talk titled "Designing a Data Architecture for Modern Business Intelligence and Analytics" at Data Summit.
Posted March 29, 2018
Entrinsik, developer of Informer, landed the "Top Performer" spot for business intelligence tools in the 2018 Summer Customer Success Report published by FeaturedCustomers.com. The Top Performer designation is awarded to vendors with significant market presence and resources and enough customer success content to validate their vision. Highly rated by customers, Entrinsik Informer consistently publishes customer-driven content and curates dozens of positive reviews from multiple third-party sites.
Posted March 28, 2018
Zumasys is offering a five day training class for programmers to become acclimated with the jBASE platform from April 9-13. Over the duration of the week, attendees will be educated on the differences of jBASE compared to other MultiValue platforms, and will explore the features of this powerful technology while being introduced to modern programming methodologies.
Posted March 28, 2018
Having spent my entire career in IT, I wasn't expecting to learn so much in my first three months in a new position. Of course, I knew that with the transition there would come an adjustment period, as there is in any role, but the sheer amount of information I've absorbed in the past weeks has been both exciting and overwhelming.
Posted March 28, 2018
Registration is now open for Data Summit 2018 presented by DBTA and Big Data Quarterly. For a limited time, super early bird pricing is also available for the conference which will take place May 22 - 23, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Boston.
Posted March 28, 2018
SAP is introducing SAP Predictive Engineering Insights, a cloud-based solution that creates virtual equivalents of physical assets. Powered by SAP Leonardo, SAP Predictive Engineering Insights replaces the need for physical inspections with ongoing, live "digital inspection" and analysis. The new platform will provide real-time, intelligent analysis based on sensor feeds.
Posted March 28, 2018
SAP is launching the application edition of the SAP Predictive Analytics software to help enterprises create and manage predictive machine learning models for applications that run business activities. Co-developed with Accenture, the application edition enables intelligent enterprises by embedding predictive and machine learning capabilities in their applications, putting powerful data-driven insights at the fingertips of every business user.
Posted March 28, 2018
Silwood Technology Ltd, a supplier of enterprise application metadata intelligence software, is boosting its Safyr platform with SAP and SAP Business Warehouse (BW) integration. Safyr now provides users of SAP and SAP Business Warehouse greater visibility and intelligence about the data connections between the two products. The company has also enhanced product features for GDPR data discovery.
Posted March 28, 2018
iconectiv, an authoritative partner of the global communications industry, is joining SAP's partnership ecosystem, bringing its cloud-based telecom services. In this latest addition to the iconectiv TruPartner Program, the company will provide service providers and related telecom firms using the SAP HANA platform with solutions that enhance database management, maximize network efficiencies, decrease operational costs, and reduce risk by providing highly accurate and actionable network and numbering data and analysis.
Posted March 28, 2018
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards Program in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are chosen by you—the people who actually use them. This year, there are 27 categories in which to vote—providing plenty of opportunity for the recognition of both well-established products as well as new and cutting-edge technologies.
Posted March 28, 2018
DataDirect Networks (DDN) is partnering with SQream to deliver real-time Big Data analytics solutions and accelerate business decision making.The combination of DDN's SFA and IME NVMe SSD storage platforms with SQream DB's GPU-based Big Data SQL database (SQream DB) enables enterprises to ingest, compress, store, and analyze massive amounts of data.
Posted March 28, 2018
With more big data options than ever before we are now in the post-relational database era, according to David Teplow, CEO, Integra Technology Consulting. However, professionals aren't done with relational database management systems (RDBMS) and are utilizing Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB and more, alongside tried and true RDBMS solutions.Teplow will discuss the rise of Hadoop and other massively parallel processing architectures during his Data Summit 2018 session titled, "SQL's Sequel: Hadoop and the Post-Relational Revolution."
Posted March 28, 2018
Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison announced the availability of the first service based on the new Oracle Autonomous Database during a presentation at Oracle headquarters. Described as "the world's first self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing database cloud service," the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud uses machine learning to deliver performance, security, and availability with no human intervention.
Posted March 28, 2018
Redgate Software, a Microsoft SQL Server tools vendor, is updating its SQL Monitor solution, adding capabilities that allow it to integrate with the deployment tools in Redgate's portfolio. The new deployment capability is important because the increased frequency of releases that DevOps enables means companies and organizations are shifting from big deployments to smaller ones.
Posted March 27, 2018
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has introduced its first backup solution targeted for direct use by end user customers.
Posted March 27, 2018
DH2i, a provider of multi-platform availability, disaster recovery, and cost improvement solutions for Windows, Linux and Oracle databases and Docker containers, has announced the latest version of its DxEnterprise (DxE) software.
Posted March 26, 2018
CloudJumper, a Workspace as a Service (WaaS) platform provider for agile business IT, is adding new features and capabilities to its Cloud Workspace WaaS and App Services platform. The newest generation of Cloud Workspace WaaS by CloudJumper reduces the costs and complexity associated with deploying WaaS in businesses ranging from SMBs to the enterprise.
Posted March 22, 2018
Salesforce's announcement that it would purchase MuleSoft, a provider of a platform for building application networks, for approximately $6.5 billion was widely hailed as the most expensive cloud software deal in history.
Posted March 22, 2018
ScyllaDB, the next generation of NoSQL, unveiled Scylla Manager, a new addition to Scylla Enterprise, to improve the manageability and reduce the administration of Scylla deployments. Scylla Manager centralizes cluster administration and automates recurrent tasks, such as periodic repair to Scylla Enterprise clusters, bringing greater predictability and control to Scylla-based environments.
Posted March 22, 2018
Dell EMC has introduced the Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) family, a software-defined wide area network solution (SD-WAN) with the new Intel Xeon D-2100 processor, to help speed digital transformation by connecting the enterprise edge to the cloud via universal customer premise equipment (uCPE).
Posted March 22, 2018
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has added new offerings to help customers ramp up, optimize and scale artificial intelligence (AI) usage across business functions to drive outcomes such as better demand forecasting, improved operational efficiency and increased sales.
Posted March 22, 2018
Morpheus Data is enhancing its unified multi-cloud orchestration platform to enable customers to develop new applications faster with less administrative overhead on virtually any cloud or infrastructure. The rapid shift to hybrid IT coupled with increasing pressure from development teams creates a challenge for resource constrained IT departments.
Posted March 22, 2018
With news unfolding about an app that was able to gather 50 million Facebook users' data that was later resold to a political data firm in order to try to influence American voter sentiment, industry leaders are weighing in on what this may mean for the future of governance and regulatory compliance. While not a breach or hack, the use of the data by a third party, and the particular purposes it was collected for, has drawn outrage from lawmakers and Facebook customers, and prompted heightened interest in regulations that could enable individuals to control the use of their data.
Posted March 22, 2018
Oracle recently acquired Zenedge, which helps secure critical IT systems deployed via cloud, on-premise, or hybrid hosting environments.
Posted March 21, 2018
Database environments continue to increase in size and complexity while the challenge of maintaining the performance and availability of business-critical systems is also growing. A brand new study fielded among Database Trends and Applications readers and members of the Independent Oracle Users Group reveals that database professionals are being tasked with managing more database instances and platforms, and in greater sizes, than ever before - both on premises and in the cloud.
Posted March 21, 2018
Everything around us today is an outcome of the Industrial Age. The 250-plus years of changes allow a toaster in every house, a car in every driveway, and a computer in every pocket. It's hard to imagine the amount of change that workers have gone through during this period. We are now on the journey through the Information Age, and it continues to change our world every day. The future is not written, but I know who will create it: Those that seek out the change.
Posted March 21, 2018
Syncsort, a provider of "Big Iron to Big Data" software, is releasing new innovations in its Ironstream data integration software. The new updates include the ability to deliver mainframe log and application data in real-time directly to Elastic Logstash.
Posted March 21, 2018
Looker, a data platform company, is creating new integrations with Atlassian products that improve collaboration. This powerful integration brings product development tools into the Looker platform for the first time. Product teams can now use information from multiple sources to track, alert, and act on vital product information directly from within Looker.
Posted March 21, 2018
Data is considered the cornerstone of every institution. The premise has been that the more data companies can gather, the more return on investment. However, businesses must now contend with regulations to safeguard that data. Kristina Podnar, digital policy advisor at NativeTrust Consulting, will address the need to govern big data and how to successfully adopt new policies during her Data Summit 2018 session titled, "GDPR: Writing Policy for Big Data."
Posted March 21, 2018
Data strategy is a commonly misunderstood term and everybody defines it differently. But to really harness the power of your data, you need a solid strategy that incorporates everything—from security to data governance to choosing the right technologies, says Lynda Partner, VP, Marketing & Analytics as a Service, Pythian, who will present a talk at Data Summit 2018 titled "The Business of Data: Defining Your Strategy."
Posted March 20, 2018
Big data, similar to relational data stores, presents challenges in terms of data gravity, both the attraction and the weight, which can cause friction and can be harmful to development and testing teams' ability to get the data they need to be successful. While DevOps is the combination of software development and operations teams working together to foster greater agility in software development and deployment, DataOps takes simple DevOps a step further, making data central to the process, according to Kellyn Pot'Vin-Gorman, Technical Intelligence Manager, Delphix, who will present a talk titled "Making Big Data Bite-Size With DataOps" at Data Summit.
Posted March 20, 2018
Attivio, provider of an AI-powered cognitive search and insight platform, has launched SUIT, a framework for developing search applications. SUIT (Search UI Toolkit) is integrated with Attivio's machine learning-based search platform and with popular open source search engines, including Elasticsearch and Solr. An open source application, SUIT provides the components - search, authentication, content security, API integration, results visualization - required to create a search UI, helping IT to quickly respond to the growing demand for search.
Posted March 20, 2018
Not many companies have the opportunity to take a greenfield approach to data architecture. Most have "accidental architectures" that were never really intentionally designed at all, but instead have been built up over time across different eras of data management, according Rick Sherman, managing partner of Athena IT Solutions. But fragmented architectures can still be improved, says Sherman, who will present a talk titled "Designing a Data Architecture for Modern Business Intelligence and Analytics" at Data Summit.
Posted March 19, 2018
Splice Machine is launching a connector that aims to boost IoT and machine learning applications.The solution, Apache Spark DataSource, provides a fast, native, ACID-compliant datastore for Spark and also opens up Splice Machine's underlying Apache Spark engine to directly use advanced capabilities such as Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, and MLlib or R (for machine learning).
Posted March 19, 2018