How do you know if you're getting the most out of the data analysts in your organization? Wayne Eckerson, president of Eckerson Group, offered a quick checklist to measure how to support the data analyst at Data Summit 2023.
Posted June 26, 2023
Hasura is announcing a series of innovations—including the Hasura Data Delivery Network (DDN), the Hasura Schema Registry, Native Queries and Logical Models, and more—that optimize data consumption as well as API creation and management.
Posted June 23, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is releasing Baffle Manager 2.0, delivering a new user interface (UI) and other features that highly automate enterprise-wide data protection for applications, analytics, and AI. With no code or application changes, Baffle cryptographically protects the data as it's created, used, and shared. Baffle Manager 2.0's new UI, APIs, automation, and expanded integrations deliver a single platform to create and manage data-centric protection policies that can be reused and enforced across all cloud-native stores, legacy and third-party applications, and new AI initiatives.
Posted June 23, 2023
Privacera, the cloud data governance and security provider founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, is announcing the private preview of Privacera AI Governance (PAIG), empowering organizations to efficiently manage the entire AI data security lifecycle.
Posted June 23, 2023
MotherDuck, builder of the serverless, easy-to-use data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB, is announcing the first release of its cloud analytics platform, following its numerous integrations and partnerships, as well as its $47.5M funding round which took place less than a year ago.
Posted June 22, 2023
MemVerge, a cloud automation provider, is launching Memory Machine Cloud Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise built on the company's Cloud Automation 2.0 technology, offering a transformative portfolio for analytic application users that empowers millions of users who are non-cloud experts to take advantage of cloud computing.
Posted June 22, 2023
Noname Security is announcing the general availability of Active Testing V2, the latest iteration of the API security testing solution that eliminates vulnerabilities and ensures compliance in the midst of rapidly changing regulatory requirements.
Posted June 21, 2023
ThinkData Works Inc., a data catalog provider, is introducing a new data lineage solution that allows companies to better visualize data flows, improving efficiency and observability for an organization's entire data ecosystem. According to the company, the offering provides a comprehensive view of data pipelines, displaying an active graph of data lineage from warehouse to model and letting users analyze and explore pipelines to ensure quality, limit risk, and reduce cost.
Posted June 21, 2023
Aerospike, Inc. is debuting their new graph database, built to be developer-ready, real-time, and highly scalable. The launch of Aerospike Graph responds to the lack of graph database solutions that can support large graph datasets with a sustainable cost model, often pushing companies to drain their own resources in an effort to create ad-hoc, inflexible solutions.
Posted June 21, 2023
Now that we're emerging from the pandemic and the dust is starting to settle, organizations are taking a good, hard look at their digital transformation and modernization priorities moving forward. To shed light on the adoption and maturity of trending data architectures and where the industry is headed, Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, partnered with Radiant Advisors to field the latest survey, "Market Study: 2023 Modern Data Architecture Trends," sponsored by Cambridge Semantics, Informatica, Kinetica, Teradata, and Vertica.
Posted June 21, 2023
Oracle's new EU Sovereign Cloud is now available, and it aims to help private and public sector organizations across the European Union gain more control over data privacy and sovereignty requirements. One of the first cloud offerings designed to address the EU's emerging regulatory landscape, Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud gives customers the services and capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) public cloud regions with the same prices, support, and service level agreements (SLAs) to run all workloads, according to the vendor.
Posted June 21, 2023
Oracle is aiming to make it easier for organizations to balance price and performance in their cloud environments and reduce costs with new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E5 instances with 4th generation AMD EPYC processors. According to the company, unlike other cloud providers' rigid instance options that bind organizations to paying more for unused computing resources, flexible instances from OCI allow customers to allocate cores and memory as needed.
Posted June 21, 2023
Oracle announced it plans to develop powerful, generative AI services for organizations worldwide in collaboration with Cohere, a leading AI platform for the enterprise, helping organizations automate end-to-end business processes, improve decision-making, and enhance customer experiences, according to the company.
Posted June 21, 2023
NINJIO is launching NINJIO SENSE, a behavioral science-based solution that empowers a culture of cybersecurity based on human behavior, divided into seven core susceptibilities—curiosity, fear, craving, obedience, opportunity, social, and urgency.
Posted June 20, 2023
Tableau, a Salesforce company, announced the 2023.2 version of its platform is now available with new capabilities to improve analytics platform productivity, efficiency, and security. With Tableau Prep, users can now easily perform multi-row calculations that enable the computation of table calculations while preparing data.
Posted June 20, 2023
DBTA held a webinar, Game-Changing Technologies in Machine Learning and AI, joined by a panel of experts to explore the bustling world of AI and ML solutions that can propel any business into the modern age, an era characterized by the need for business flexibility, innovation, and efficacy.
Posted June 20, 2023
DBTA's webinar, Building a Data Mesh on your Lakehouse, offered best practices and tools for implementing a data mesh—an architectural framework that solves data efficiency challenges through decentralized ownership—as well as how data lakehouse and data pipeline automation can accelerate its adoption and effectiveness.
Posted June 19, 2023
Kodem, provider of a software composition analysis (SCA) platform, is emerging from stealth with $25M in funding from Greylock and TPY Capital, enabling the company to launch its platform globally and expand its go-to-market team. Kodem is redefining application security by using runtime intelligence to gain deep application understanding and determine actual application risk. This significantly reduces the time it takes to remediate issues and brings the number of alerts down by more than 90%, dramatically improving efficiency, saving organizations real time and money, and making applications safer, according to the company.
Posted June 19, 2023
Kinetica, the database for time and space, is expanding its partner ecosystem in the United States, Europe, and Asia to meet the growing demand for its real-time, vectorized, analytic database for time-series and spatial workloads. The company added strategic global systems integrators to its partner roster, including Expero, Riskfuel, and Semantic AI.
Posted June 19, 2023
The new capability, available now across all markets, complements Flexential's national 100Gbps backbone allowing for any to any dynamic connections to customer deployments, and access to a vast ecosystem of carriers, cloud providers and subsea transport options on the FlexAnywhere platform of 39 data centers across 19 markets.
Posted June 19, 2023
AMD recently unveiled the products, strategy, and ecosystem partners that will shape the future of computing, highlighting the next phase of data center innovation. AMD made a series of announcements showcasing its AI Platform strategy, giving customers a cloud to edge, to endpoint portfolio of hardware products, with deep industry software collaboration, to develop scalable and pervasive AI solutions.
Posted June 19, 2023
IBM Security is expanding integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS), helping customers simplify and enhance cloud security by bringing together native AWS Cloud Foundational Services with IBM Security QRadar Log Insights and IBM Security QRadar SIEM. IBM Security has also recently made strategic investments to strengthen its Guardium family of data security products, extending data visibility and control into leading cloud service providers such as AWS.
Posted June 19, 2023
IBM announced plans to open its first Europe-based quantum data center to facilitate access to cutting-edge quantum computing for companies, research institutions, and government agencies. The data center is expected to be operational in 2024, with multiple IBM quantum computing systems, each with utility scale quantum processors, i.e., those of more than 100 qubits.
Posted June 19, 2023
Virtana, an IT operations management (ITOM) company accelerating hybrid, multi-vendor, and multi-cloud infrastructure innovation, is acquiring cloud observability platform, OpsCruise, a purpose-built cloud-native, and Kubernetes observability platform. According to the company, with this acquisition, Virtana continues to deliver on its vision to support simplified and unified hybrid infrastructure observability for on-prem, cloud, and edge multi-vendor environments by extending its hybrid coverage to support cloud-native, open-source, containers, and serverless functions.
Posted June 16, 2023
Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management, and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is forging new global partnership agreements with Cisco, bringing Hitachi Vantara into Cisco's Service Provider and Solution Technology Integrator (STI) partner programs.
Posted June 16, 2023
Quantinuum is launching Quantum Origin Onboard, a cryptographic key enhancement solution that leverages the power of quantum computing to strengthen the security of devices and systems.
Posted June 15, 2023
Zilliz is now offering its cloud vector database for free, including a plethora of new features along with additional pricing options for individuals and organizations. According to the company, the move makes vector databases accessible for projects of all sizes. Developers can now, regardless of budget, spin up generative AI applications while protecting against hallucination.
Posted June 15, 2023
Lacework is announcing the expansion of its ongoing relationship with AWS, integrating a new composite alert feature underpinned by Amazon GuardDuty findings, as well as the introduction of an AWS built-in solution designed to automate configuration and integration with AWS Cloud Foundational Services.
Posted June 14, 2023
Glen Willis, solutions architect at Monte Carlo, joined DBTA's webinar, Operationalizing Data Observability: Best Practices and Critical Strategies, to explore how data observability can be implemented—with best practices, strategies, and tools—to keep data fresh, reliable, and efficient.
Posted June 14, 2023
Granica is emerging from stealth—backed by $45M in funding—and introducing its cloud native AI efficiency platform, built to put valuable, data-centric AI research into the hands of enterprises.
Posted June 14, 2023
CTERA, a provider of edge-to-cloud file services, is launching CTERA Ransom Protect, a new homegrown AI-powered cyber protection engine natively integrated into the CTERA global file system. Using activity sensors built into the file system that are feeding an advanced machine learning algorithm trained on an extensive dataset of attack flows, CTERA Ransom Protect is able to detect and block attacks within seconds and provides tools for immediate mitigation and instant recovery.
Posted June 14, 2023
Flipside, a provider of blockchain marketplace design and analytics, is launching its on-demand blockchain data offering specifically for the enterprise. Flipside Shares is available on Snowflake Marketplace and provides joint customers—of all sizes—with access to expertly modeled and curated blockchain datasets, without the hassle of managing nodes, complex data pipelines, or costly data storage.
Posted June 14, 2023
Impossible Cloud, offering decentralized multi-service cloud solutions, is launching its Partner Program to help partners and resellers implement, demo, and integrate Impossible Cloud's performance-driven solutions into enterprise environments. According to the company, the program has been developed to support various prospective channel partners—including value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators (SIs), managed service providers (MSPs), and independent software vendors (ISVs)—in their efforts to bring more innovative and profitable solutions to customers leveraging the emerging B2B benefits of web3.
Posted June 14, 2023
In the seminal novel 1984, George Orwell imagines a dystopian future in which governments routinely rewrite historical records as a means of control: "He who controls the past controls the future." While few Western governments have yet to engage in the wholesale creation of false history, the practice is too common in totalitarian governments. And with AI-generated fakes being increasingly hard to differentiate from the real thing, the ability to create alternate historical records has never been easier.
Posted June 14, 2023
RKVST, a provider of provenance-as-a-service, is introducing Instaproof, enabling companies to get the information they need to decide what data to trust. With RKVST Instaproof anyone can easily check the file they are working with by dragging it onto Instaproof to verify its provenance. If the file has been registered with RKVST, the provenance information displayed can be used to decide which files to trust.
Posted June 14, 2023
Descope is launching product additions that innovate passkeys for developers, streamlining the integration of passkeys to existing applications.
Posted June 13, 2023
Union.ai, a company that extends organizations' ability to create next-generation AI and data products at scale, is releasing Union Cloud for North American and European customers of AWS and GCP, empowering enterprises to deliver highly reliable and impactful products that leverage the latest AI technologies at low cost, high quality, and rapid velocity.
Posted June 13, 2023
Datadobi is announcing that its StorageMAP Assess solution and StorageMAP Unstructured Data Management software will now be available in the AWS Marketplace—a digital catalog that streamlines software findability, testing, buying, and deployment—granting the solutions a remarkable boost in accessibility and reach.
Posted June 13, 2023
AWS announced the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) Serverless, a platform that automatically provisions and scales migration resources to make database migrations easier. With AWS DMS Serverless, users can replicate data across a wide variety of popular database and analytics engines and services, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, and more.
Posted June 13, 2023
Pegasystems Inc., the low-code platform provider empowering the world's leading enterprises to Build for Change, is introducing the latest version of its Pega Infinity software suite with new features that will accelerate low-code development, optimize existing processes, and create effortless experiences for employees and customers alike.
Posted June 13, 2023
Privacera is announcing the availability of two new AWS Lake Formation integrations, designed to centralize authoring, management, and monitoring of data security and access policies to improve the protection of sensitive data.
Posted June 12, 2023
VMware is announcing a series of upgrades to its digital employee experience (DEX) solution that will ultimately increase its presence as a unified approach toward empowering IT teams' productivity while reducing cost drains.
Posted June 12, 2023
Quest Software is announcing the launch of erwin Data Intelligence by Quest 13.0 which introduces a centralized marketplace armed with robust search and data discovery functions that drive efficient connection between users and high-value data.
Posted June 12, 2023
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is rolling out a preview of a new sustainability dashboard on the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform as well as introducing a comprehensive portfolio of sustainability services. The offerings, which span technology, services, financing, and asset upcycling programs, are designed to help organizations reduce the carbon footprint associated with their IT estates.
Posted June 12, 2023
Kasten by Veeam, a market leader for Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, is releasing its new Kasten K10 V6.0 Kubernetes data protection platform, including features that will help customers scale their cloud native data protection more efficiently, better protect their applications and data against ransomware attacks, and increase accessibility by adding new cloud native integrations.
Posted June 12, 2023
Airbyte is announcing the launch of three new features—checkpointing, column selection, and schema propagation—designed to improve Airbyte's resource usage, efficiency, and reliability while simultaneously enhancing flexibility when addressing compliance requirements
Posted June 09, 2023
Impossible Cloud, offering decentralized multi-service cloud solutions, is launching its Partner Program to help partners and resellers implement, demo, and integrate Impossible Cloud's performance-driven solutions into enterprise environments. According to the company, the program has been developed to support various prospective channel partners—including value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators (SIs), managed service providers (MSPs), and independent software vendors (ISVs)—in their efforts to bring more innovative and profitable solutions to customers leveraging the emerging B2B benefits of web3.
Posted June 09, 2023
DataStax is announcing that its Database-as-a-Service, Astra DB, now supports vector search—representing a leap by the company into enhanced support for AI workloads, including those using LLMs.
Posted June 09, 2023
CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider built for large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, announced it has secured an additional $200 million in funding to propel its specialized cloud infrastructure to train, serve inference, and fine-tune models with AI. This latest funding milestone comes from Magnetar Capital, a leading alternative asset manager. The funding extension comes just one month after the company announced $221 million in Series B funding, also led by Magnetar, bringing the total for the round to $421 million.
Posted June 08, 2023
Velotix is launching its three-tiered architecture for the Velotix security platform, built to propel organizations on their way toward fully automated data access.
Posted June 08, 2023