Syncsort has introduced enhancements to Ironstream for ServiceNow that deliver the industry's first product to enable IT to integrate mainframe and IBM i environments into ServiceNow Event Management. The new capabilities build upon Ironstream support for ServiceNow Discovery to help increase IT productivity, proactively eliminate service outages, and resolve critical issues across the enterprise, to deliver greater value for customers with the cloud-based Now Platform.
Posted October 28, 2019
IBM has announced updates to IBM Developer for z/OS, including new automated unit testing capabilities for mainframe developers. For mainframe developers, IBM says, automating testing is an essential component for true agile development.
Posted October 28, 2019
IBM has announced updates to IBM Developer for z/OS, including new automated unit testing capabilities for mainframe developers. For mainframe developers, IBM says, automating testing is an essential component for true agile development.
Posted October 25, 2019
OZ, a global consulting, services, and solutions provider, has announced a partnership with erwin, a data governance company, to help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation efforts in analytics and AI, automation, IoT, and cloud services.
Posted October 25, 2019
StreamSets, a provider of a DataOps data integration platform, is partnering with Databricks, a provider of unified data analytics, to support data teams with rapid, no-code development using Apache Spark and Delta Lake. With the combined approach, the two companies say, they are enabling more data to be delivered faster to drive analytics.
Posted October 25, 2019
Teradata has announced new Vantage capabilities to help organizations simplify analytics ecosystems and allow them to move from analytics to answers, wherever they are on their cloud journey. As part of the new offerings, Teradata has launched a Hadoop Migration Program, which provides a collection of tools, processes, and services to help companies move away from Hadoop
Posted October 25, 2019
The organization's new solution provided database access through a simple client front-end that could be installed on any standard PC. Employees could connect to the system from a laptop or home office whenever they wanted.
Posted October 23, 2019
Entrinsik is releasing Informer 5.1 with new features including multi-tenancy, Mapping Suites, and business workflow enhancements. This latest release of Informer introduces a new multi-tenancy architecture that enables VARS and ISVs who develop and deploy software to quickly serve multiple customers using a single instance of Informer.
Posted October 23, 2019
Zumasys' software services team worked closely with Collaborative Classroom to understand their objectives and build a solution from the ground up that could meet the organization's unique requirements—including compliance with stringent federal data privacy regulations such as FERPA, CIPA, and COPPA that relate to children and students.
Posted October 23, 2019
SIOS Technology, a provider of IT resilience through intelligent application availability, and its platforms SIOS LifeKeeper 9.4 and SIOS DataKeeper 9.4, sold as SIOS Protection Suite for Linux, have achieved SAP certification (S/4-HA-CLU 1.0) for SAP S/4HANA. This certification recognizes that SIOS provides proven technology and deep expertise in delivering High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) for SAP in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Posted October 23, 2019
SAP is making enhancements to its business technology platform to enable intelligent enterprises to thrive in an experience economy. These updates aim to help customers quickly turn data into business value. By bringing together SAP technology into one "stack" with a single reference architecture, the business technology platform from SAP delivers required services for modern enterprises.
Posted October 23, 2019
Syniti is releasing its Advanced Data Migration by Syniti, central finance edition, software for enterprise customers moving in preparation for adopting S/4HANA. Syniti is partnering with truData Solutions, a technology services provider with a dedicated practice, to bring the solution to customers in North America.
Posted October 23, 2019
BigID has announced a global reseller agreement with SAP, enabling SAP to sell two BigID powered products under the names SAP Privacy Management application by BigID and SAP Data Mapping and Protection application by BigID.
Posted October 23, 2019
MarkLogic, provider of a NoSQL, multi-model database platform, announced that it has become one of the first independent software vendors to certify container images built on Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI). Red Hat certification on UBI makes it easier to deploy MarkLogic.
Posted October 22, 2019
Sisu, provider of a diagnostic platform for structured data, has secured $52.5 million in a Series B funding round, bringing Sisu's total capital raised to $66.million, and coinciding with the public launch of Sisu's data analytics platform.
Posted October 22, 2019
Hitachi Vantara has announced major updates to its portfolio of products, solutions, and services to deliver a foundation for DataOps initiatives, a methodology to improve an organization's use of data through better data quality and data management, and shorter cycle times.
Posted October 21, 2019
Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, is launching CockroachCloud, a self-service distributed SQL database. By using CockroachCloud, organizations can provision, scale, and manage a highly available distributed SQL database.
Posted October 21, 2019
LevaData is collaborating with IBM to deliver a cognitive analytics and direct procurement sourcing services solution that will give procurement leaders the power to achieve business-changing outcomes through actionable insights. The new offering, DirectSpend IQ, brings together IBM's expert managed services with LevaData's Cognitive Sourcing Platform to deliver insights and recommendations for direct procurement cost savings opportunities and process transformation.
Posted October 21, 2019
MicroStrategy 2019 in combination with DataRobot's Enterprise AI Platform aims to speed decision making and augment employee productivity with AI-driven insights and recommendations, delivered into the tools, apps, and devices people rely on every day.
Posted October 21, 2019
Florida Blue's Padmesh Kankipati compares essential features of data lakes and data warehouses and the kinds of data that go into them in this clip from his presentation at Data Summit 2019.
Posted October 21, 2019
Sisu, a diagnostic platform for structured data, has secured $52.5M in a Series B funding round that will fuel Sisu's expansion in the rapidly growing operational analytics market. This round was led by NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund, and Green Bay Ventures also participated in the new round. The funding brings Sisu's total capital raised to $66.7M, and coincides with the public launch of Sisu's data analytics platform.
Posted October 18, 2019
itopia, a cloud infrastructure automation solution for Google Cloud, is releasing its newest feature set, Collection Pools with Dynamic Server Uptime and Nearest Point Connection. With the latest release, itopia customers gain the flexibility to support multi-region teams with low latency and intelligent resource balancing.
Posted October 18, 2019
Oracle has announced plans to hire nearly 2,000 employees worldwide to work on its growing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure business. Oracle says the new positions in areas such as software development, cloud operations, and business operations, will support its expanding infrastructure customer base, and come as the company rolls out new product innovations and opens cloud regions around the globe.
Posted October 16, 2019
PMM2 provides a single-pane-of-glass to monitor the performance of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL database environments.
Posted October 16, 2019
Oracle has identified a need for "augmented" analytics, leveraging machine learning and AI throughout the analytics process to help drive up the impact and value of data, and enable knowledge workers to uncover more insights. Recently, Bruno Aziza, group VP, Oracle Analytics, described this new phase in analytics, the role that cloud plays in making it possible, and what the capabilities will enable for customers.
Posted October 16, 2019
IBM has introduced a new integrated supply chain suite, embedded with Watson AI and IBM Blockchain and open to developers, to help organizations make their supply chains smarter, more efficient and better able to make decisions to adjust to disruptions and opportunities in an era when globalization has made supplier networks more complex and vulnerable than ever.
Posted October 15, 2019
Data continues to grow in volume, variety, and velocity, resulting in new data management technologies. Recently, Deepti Srivastava, product manager for Cloud Spanner at Google Cloud, discussed how database requirements are evolving and how Google's Cloud Spanner is advancing a relational-NoSQL-convergence approach by giving customers the combined benefits of relational database structure with non-relational horizontal scale.
Posted October 15, 2019
The cloud, ethics in artificial intelligence, privacy, and compliance were some of the topics that attendees were concerned about at Strata Data NY as data professionals converged at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City from September 24 - 26.
Posted October 15, 2019
The IBM z15 culminates 4 years of development with more than 3,000 IBM Z patents issued or in process and represents a collaborative effort with input from more than 100 companies.
Posted October 15, 2019
Elastic N.V., the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, is introducing Elastic Endpoint Security, based on Elastic's acquisition of Endgame, a provider of endpoint threat prevention, detection, and response based on the MITRE ATT&CK matrix. Elastic is combining SIEM and endpoint security into a single solution to enable organizations to automatically and flexibly respond to threats in real time, whether in the cloud, on-premises, or in hybrid environments. Also announced today, Elastic is eliminating per-endpoint pricing.
Posted October 15, 2019
Elsevier technology research director Helena Deus explains how Elsevier used NLP and AI to organize dispersed content in a non-traditional way and built an extensive community of readers in this clip from her keynote at Data Summit 2019.
Posted October 15, 2019
Advanced analytics software provider Mode today announced the availability of its first instant, responsive data engine, Helix. Helix creates the dual backbone between modern business intelligence and interactive data science. By combining these workflows, data scientists no longer have to choose between shipping fast, one-off answers and building dashboards for broader coverage.
Posted October 14, 2019
dotData, a company focused on delivering full-cycle data science automation and operationalization for the enterprise, has been selected as a qualified partner in Microsoft for Startups. Microsoft for Startups selects organizations developing innovative enterprise-ready technology solutions that run on Microsoft Azure.
Posted October 14, 2019
Rocket Software, a global technology provider that develops enterprise modernization and optimization solutions for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, has announced the acquisition of RSD SA, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Adding to its more than 50 acquisitions since 1990, Rocket says the acquisition of RSD demonstrates its ongoing commitment to acquire, invest in, or partner with other companies to help ensure a vibrant mainframe ecosystem for decades to come.
Posted October 14, 2019
IBM has introduced a new integrated supply chain suite, embedded with Watson AI and IBM Blockchain and open to developers, to help organizations make their supply chains smarter, more efficient and better able to make decisions to adjust to disruptions and opportunities in an era when globalization has made supplier networks more complex and vulnerable than ever.
Posted October 14, 2019
Compuware has announced enhancements to Topaz for Total Test, which provides unit, functional, integration, and regression testing, enabling application leaders to adopt a "shift left" approach to testing to improve application quality and development velocity and efficiency. Compuware is also announcing a partnership with OpenLegacy.
Posted October 14, 2019
Syncsort, the provider o of big iron to big data software, is making enhancements to Ironstream for ServiceNow that enable IT to integrate mainframe and IBM i environments into ServiceNow Event Management. The new capabilities build upon Ironstream support for ServiceNow Discovery to help increase IT productivity, proactively eliminate service outages, and quickly resolve critical issues across the enterprise, delivering even greater value for customers with the cloud-based Now Platform.
Posted October 14, 2019
GoodData, provider of end-to-end analytics solutions, announced it is now leveraging Amazon Redshift, a cloud data warehouse by Amazon Web Services (AWS). In addition, the combination of GoodData and Amazon Redshift can change the way in which enterprise and product teams are making business decisions. Namely, the trend toward integrating analytics into business applications so every customer, partner, and team member becomes empowered with data and insights at the point of work.
Posted October 11, 2019
Talend, a provider of cloud data integration and data integrity, is releasing Talend Cloud on Microsoft Azure, offering a secure and scalable Integration Platform-as-a-Service for collecting, transforming and cleaning data. With embedded data quality and native integration performance, Talend Cloud on Microsoft Azure delivers the trusted data companies need to make real-time business decisions, accelerate advanced analytics, and meet regulatory compliance requirements.
Posted October 11, 2019
Syncsort, the provider o of big iron to big data software, is making enhancements to Ironstream for ServiceNow that enable IT to integrate mainframe and IBM i environments into ServiceNow Event Management. The new capabilities build upon Ironstream support for ServiceNow Discovery to help increase IT productivity, proactively eliminate service outages, and quickly resolve critical issues across the enterprise, delivering even greater value for customers with the cloud-based Now Platform.
Posted October 11, 2019
DataStax, the company behind a database built on Apache Cassandra, is opening early access to the DataStax Change Data Capture (CDC) Connector for Apache Kafka. The DataStax CDC Connector for Apache Kafka gives developers bidirectional data movement between DataStax, Cassandra, and Kafka clusters. CDC is designed to capture and forward insert, update, and delete activity applied to tables (column families).
Posted October 10, 2019
Collibra, the Data Intelligence company, is making platform-wide upgrades to improve access to critical data and hasten time to insight. The new release introduces machine learning enhancements to Collibra Catalog and marks the availability of Collibra Privacy & Risk, a sustainable approach to compliance with modules for CCPA and GDPR.
Posted October 09, 2019
Instana, a provider of automated application performance management (APM) solutions for microservice applications, is extending the monitoring and tracing capabilities for applications using GraphQL as part of their infrastructure, including deep inspection of GraphQL queries. With this latest extension, Instana says it is the first APM provider to monitor GraphQL and the applications making use of the unique data query engine.
Posted October 08, 2019
BigID has announced a global reseller agreement with SAP, enabling SAP to sell two BigID powered products under the names SAP Privacy Management application by BigID and SAP Data Mapping and Protection application by BigID.
Posted October 07, 2019
Ontotext has announced GraphDB 9.0, which is aimed at lowering the effort required for development and continuous operation of knowledge graphs by opening multiple integration extension points for its users and developers.
Posted October 07, 2019
Booz Allen Hamilton principal Shelly Brown provides a primer on and a rationale for cultivating existing data science talent from within an organization in this clip from her presentation at Data Summit 2019.
Posted October 07, 2019
Building on Oracle and Microsoft's cloud interoperability partnership, Oracle has announced the availability of an integration between Oracle Digital Assistant and Microsoft Teams. Enterprise customers can now access Oracle Cloud Applications through an AI-powered voice experience in Teams. "Using Oracle Digital Assistant, business users can simply and conversationally interact with business applications directly from their Microsoft Teams interface just as they would collaborate with their fellow employees or other productivity tools," said Suhas Uliyar, vice president, AI and Digital Assistant, Oracle.
Posted October 02, 2019
Oracle and VMware have expanded their partnership. With this new solution, customers will be able to migrate VMware vSphere workloads to Oracle's Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure. As part of this partnership, Oracle will also provide technical support for Oracle software running in VMware environments both in customer on-premise data centers and Oracle-certified cloud environments.
Posted October 02, 2019
The most important benefits from autonomous systems will come from eliminating human errors. In cars, this can mean avoidance of errors that can cause accidents, and in technology, it can mean eliminating common user errors that can expose data to hackers. The combination of Oracle database, infrastructure, and other IT services result in systems that are more secure, reliable, flexible, and cost-efficient than competing cloud services, according to Oracle.
Posted October 02, 2019
TIBCO Software, a provider of integration, API management, and analytics, is introducing a series of new products, features, and connectivity that help make agile innovation easier than. Enhancements to the TIBCO Connected Intelligence platform further accelerate TIBCO customers' time-to-action, enabling them to innovate faster and more sustainably, ultimately turning ideas and investments into business value.
Posted October 01, 2019