Ascend.io, the Data Automation Cloud, announced it has received $31 million in Series B funding, enabling the company to scale go-to-market efforts and expand into new geographies, as well as extend Ascend's Data Automation Cloud to support full multi-cloud data mesh automation.
Posted April 28, 2022
Sumo Logic, the SaaS analytics platform to enable reliable and secure cloud-native applications, is introducing a new milestone in innovation for Sumo Logic Observability with the release of Sumo Logic OpenTelemetry Distro Collector (OT Distro). The OT Distro Collector is designed to simplify and democratize the collection of logs, metrics, traces, and metadata from modern cloud applications.
Posted April 28, 2022
Alteryx, Inc., the Analytics Automation company, is launching Alteryx Analytics Cloud, its first unified end-to-end analytics automation platform.The availability of new Alteryx solutions in the cloud means users only need a browser to gain access to insights, with a setup that can be done in minutes instead of days.
Posted April 28, 2022
The 9th annual Data Summit conference will be held May 17-18, 2022, at the Hyatt Regency Boston. Pre-conference workshops will take place on May 16, 2022. The program is available for review and a variety of pass options are available to suit individual requirements.
Posted April 27, 2022
Digital.ai is unveiling the latest release of its industry-leading AI-Powered DevOps Platform, dubbed Ascension, empowering both private and public sector organizations to unify, secure, and generate predictive insights across the software lifecycle. The Ascension release further enables technology leaders to scale their distributed workforce and connect agile development at the portfolio, team, and individual levels.
Posted April 27, 2022
Rollbar, provider of real-time error monitoring Software as a Service, is offering new and updated software development kits (SDKs) and capabilities. These SDKs keep Rollbar current on both older, but very significant, platforms like .Net, PHP, and Laravel and also the fastest-moving platforms like Apple iOS, React, Typescript, and Flutter.
Posted April 27, 2022
Aerospike Inc. is releasing Aerospike Database 6, a significant new update of the core engine that powers Aerospike Real-time Data Platform, giving developers an environment that supports multiple programming models to build real-time applications with a predictable performance at any scale.
Posted April 27, 2022
SAP is simplifying its services and support portfolio by pivoting to focus heavily on customer adoption and consumption. The portfolio is built for the cloud and designed to help customers realize value quickly and achieve lasting success. The cloud-based portfolio offers SAP customers new experiences, extensions, and services to address their individual needs and makes it easier for them to engage with SAP at their own pace. Customers can take advantage of project-specific services as well as proactive and mission-critical support within the portfolio.
Posted April 27, 2022
SAP is introducing an experience-driven journey to process analytics, correlating experience data from user surveys (whether customer, supplier, or employee) with underlying IT systems to give companies the ability to understand how best to optimize their end-to-end business processes for both operational excellence and customer experience.
Posted April 27, 2022
Fivetran, a provider of modern data integration solutions, now supports the Google Cloud Cortex Framework and announced that it is a Launch Partner for the new Google Cloud Ready - BigQuery program. For Google Cloud customers moving SAP data, they then can leverage the numerous predefined data models and content available with Google Cloud Cortex Framework, which helps users to kickstart insights and reduce time-to-value.
Posted April 27, 2022
Microsoft announced it has begun migrating its internal SAP systems to S/4HANA under the RISE with SAP umbrella, making SAP responsible for the licensing, technical management, hosting, and support of its SAP applications under a single SLA. The migration to S/4HANA will serve a dual purpose for Microsoft: modernizing its legacy SAP systems before the end of mainstream support in 2027 and demonstrating to customers that it is capable of hosting and running one of the largest and most complex SAP installations in the world within the RISE framework.
Posted April 27, 2022
Google and Pick Cloud's partnership continues to benefit members of the MultiValue community by investing in the planet and reducing carbon footprints. Google data centers are already carbon neutral. Each Google data center is twice as energy efficient as a typical enterprise data center. They deliver six times as much computing power for the same amount of electrical power, compared to five years ago, according to the vendor.
Posted April 27, 2022
Rocket Software is launching the latest version of the MultiValue Performance Experience (MVX: Performance) platform, delivering increasing value to customers and addressing issues and bugs in the code faster. The latest MVX: Performance 1.2.0 release continues to add metrics customers are interested in monitoring.
Posted April 27, 2022
BlueFinity is giving users the option of developing a native or web app with Evoke. With a low-code platform, such as Evoke from BlueFinity, the developer can generate and deploy native (as well as web apps) to run on all devices, operating systems and browsers, all from the same app design and code.
Posted April 27, 2022
Cloudreach, an Atos company and multi-cloud services provider, is launching Sunstone, a breakthrough software platform designed to accelerate the modernization of in-cloud environments. Through the use of AI and machine learning technologies, Sunstone automates the continuous modernization of in-cloud applications to drive innovation, boost performance, increase security, and reduce costs, according to the vendor.
Posted April 26, 2022
D2iQ, an enterprise Kubernetes provider for smart cloud-native applications, is offering its newest release of the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) with customer-led updates that give enterprises more control and visibility when deploying and managing Kubernetes deployments in any environment.
Posted April 26, 2022
SOOS, the software security company on a mission to make risk remediation affordable and accessible to all, is releasing its new Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tool, making cybersecurity accessible to more businesses. In a field dominated by expensive, cumbersome options, SOOS is committed to providing simple, straightforward, and effective tools, according to the vendor.
Posted April 26, 2022
At AWS Summit San Francisco, AWS announced that Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is generally available for both Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL. Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora that allows a database to scale capacity up or down based on your application's needs.
Posted April 21, 2022
As part of its efforts to enable hands-on learning experiences with Linux, open source, and mainframes, the Open Mainframe Project has announced the launch of the 2022 Summer Mentorships, which kick off in June and go through August. The announcement was made in a blog post on the Open Mainframe Project website.
Posted April 21, 2022
Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M. With Oracle Autonomous Database Service or Oracle Exadata Database Service running on Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M, customers can run existing workloads faster, with greater scale, and at a lower cost than previous generations. In addition, when upgrading from X8M to X9M, organizations can reduce costs by consolidating hundreds of OTLP, analytics, and mixed database workloads onto a single cloud service.
Posted April 21, 2022
Software intelligence company Dynatrace has extended its advanced AIOps capabilities for leading database environments, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL. New out-of-the-box extensions enable DevOps teams and DBAs to automatically surface and proactively act on real-time answers about the relationship between their database infrastructure and applications. Dynatrace database observability for Oracle is generally available now. Support for Microsoft SQL Server will be generally available within 90 days, and support for additional database platforms will be announced later in 2022.
Posted April 21, 2022
Oracle has announced that Oracle MySQL HeatWave now supports in-database machine learning (ML) in addition to the previously available transaction processing and analytics. MySQL HeatWave ML fully automates the ML lifecycle and stores all trained models inside the MySQL database, eliminating the need to move data or the model to a machine learning tool or service. Eliminating ETL reduces application complexity, lowers cost, and improves security of both the data and the model. HeatWave ML is included with the MySQL HeatWave database cloud service in all 37 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions.
Posted April 20, 2022
Quest Software has announced the launch of Foglight 6.1, a monitoring and optimization platform for the hybrid enterprise. Foglight enables businesses to confidently manage their IT infrastructure and databases by providing them with the tools for deep-dive database workload optimization and cloud cost management. New features include notification management for IT alert configuration, gMSA account integration for password security, and execution plan analysis for MySQL.
Posted April 20, 2022
Are you a developer who is using Oracle Database and is interested in learning more about Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)? At Quest's INSYNC conference, Anil Nair, product manager at Oracle, presented "A Developer's Guide to Oracle RAC." The session covered tips and tricks to ensure that developers can benefit from features such as session failover and load balancing with minimal effort.
Posted April 20, 2022
The global data center cooling market forecast by investment is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.64% during the period 2022-2027, according to a new report that has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The report reveals that the market will witness "intense competition" across the globe as the construction of data centers grows, and data center operators are constantly looking out for energy-efficient and eco-friendly cooling systems.
Posted April 20, 2022
TIBCO Software has announced the release of TIBCO WebFOCUS 9.0.0, which adds new capabilities such as TIBCO WebFOCUS Container Edition and a Hub for a personalized user experience, along with enhancements for TIBCO WebFOCUS Designer. "Valuable data and AI/ML algorithms flow through absolutely every corner of an organization. The use of visual discovery and improved data management enables users and developers to turn that raw data into truly meaningful insights," said Mark Palmer, senior vice president, engineering, TIBCO.
Posted April 20, 2022
DC BLOX, a provider of data centers across the Southeast, has announced the expansion of its Birmingham, AL and Greenville, SC data centers. The rapid growth in two of DC BLOX's most recent markets reflects strong local demand for core data center and connectivity infrastructure. The Greenville facility is adding its second data hall since announcing its official opening in January of 2022, while Birmingham will deploy DC BLOX's newest design to accommodate the need for High-Performance Compute (HPC) applications in its market.
Posted April 20, 2022
Privitar has formed a strategic partnership with Denodo. The companies' goal is to advance modern data provisioning and put safe data at the core of any data mesh and logical data fabric powered by data virtualization. "Our partnership with Privitar will enable organizations to automatically and transparently allow sensitive data to be consistently governed while remaining protected and compliant with legislation," said Suresh Chandrasekaran, executive vice president, Denodo.
Posted April 20, 2022
IBM has announced IBM Impact, a new framework for the company's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) work that reflects how the company aspires to create a more sustainable, equitable, and ethical future. As detailed in the 2021 ESG report issued today, IBM Impact comprises three pillars: Environmental Impact, Equitable Impact, and Ethical Impact. These values have been embedded in IBM's DNA as a company and have driven its work for its employees, stakeholders, and the world over the past century.
Posted April 19, 2022
As organizations accelerate cloud adoption and build diverse data stacks to maximize the value of best-of-breed cloud platforms like Databricks and Snowflake, one often overlooked challenge is managing access and privacy controls as systems scale.
Posted April 19, 2022
BMC has announced new capabilities and integrations across its BMC AMI (Automated Mainframe Intelligence) and BMC Compuware portfolios. These innovations are aimed at increasing developer productivity, helping to predict service impacts, and helping to prevent attackers from compromising mainframe environments. Separately, BMC also recently announced day one support for the IBM Db2 13 and IBM z16 releases.
Posted April 18, 2022
IBM has announced Db2 13 for z/OS, which, the company says, enhances the availability, security and resiliency of data and applications. According to IBM, Db2 13 for z/OS provides the ability to develop large-scale AI-insights through an innovative, database-integrated approach, infuse AI within any application to improve operations and reduce costs, and enhance resiliency, efficiency, and application stability for maximum availability. Availability is planned for May 31, 2022.
Posted April 18, 2022
IBM has unveiled the IBM z16, its next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator—delivering latency-optimized inferencing. This innovation is designed to enable clients to analyze real-time transactions, at scale—for mission-critical workloads such as credit card, healthcare and financial transactions.
Posted April 18, 2022
DBI Software, a provider of best-in-class performance monitoring, tuning, and trending tools for IBM Db2 LUW and SQL Server databases, has announced the release of version 7 of its Database Performance Web Suite.
Posted April 18, 2022
iboss, a Zero Trust Edge cloud security provider, is introducing a new Zero Trust Policy Manager (ZTPM), enabling organizations of to quickly and easily implement Zero Trust policies to secure their data and resources. The ZTPM, a new capability within iboss' platform, will enable organizations to implement Zero Trust according to the new federal NIST 800-207 guidelines. The ZTPM supports all major constructs within the NIST 800-207 Zero Trust Architecture publication to ensure organizations are protected from breaches and data loss.
Posted April 18, 2022
Absolute Software, a provider of self-healing endpoint and secure access solutions, is releasing Absolute Ransomware Response, enabling customers to strengthen preparedness and accelerate endpoint recovery in the face of the ever-growing threat of ransomware attacks.
Posted April 18, 2022
Startups are always emerging to address challenges and leverage opportunities in innovative ways. The companies bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with analytics, breaking down silos, and more. Here are 15 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2022.
Posted April 18, 2022
dbt Labs, a pioneer in analytics engineering, is providing dbt Cloud on Databricks Partner Connect, allowing Databricks customers to experience the benefits of dbt Cloud on the lakehouse.
Posted April 15, 2022
SADA, a business and technology consultancy and Google Cloud partner, announced a new three-year expansion of its relationship with Google Cloud—rolling out additional offerings and services that build upon Google Cloud solutions and capabilities.
Posted April 15, 2022
Kentik, the network observability company, is expanding its partnership with Cloudflare and offering a new security integration with the company, helping customers ensure network infrastructure availability and reduce operational costs. Now, network security teams can procure and use Kentik's DDoS detection and analytics, and Magic Transit, Cloudflare's industry-leading DDoS mitigation tool, as an integrated, on-demand solution.
Posted April 14, 2022
greymatter.io, an enterprise microservices platform provider based in Alexandria, Virginia, has closed a $7.1 million Series A round, led by Elsewhere Partners. Greymatter.io provides a microservices platform, which includes service mesh and API management for enterprise-scale IT environments.
Posted April 14, 2022
Snowplow, an industry leader in data creation and behavioral data, announced that it has successfully joined the Snowflake Partner Network as a Premier Partner, along with achieving the Snowflake Ready Technology Validation. The Snowflake Ready Technology Validation program recognizes organizations that have completed a third party technical validation to confirm optimization with Snowflake integrations.
Posted April 14, 2022
Infoworks.io announced that Infoworks Replicator 4.0 is enabling the migration of on-prem Hadoop data lakes to the cloud faster with one-third the resources required of traditional approaches.
Posted April 13, 2022
Databricks, the Data and AI company and pioneer of the data lakehouse paradigm, is releasing Delta Live Tables (DLT), an ETL framework that uses a simple declarative approach to build reliable data pipelines and automatically manage data infrastructure at scale.
Posted April 13, 2022
Satori, creator of the Universal Data Access Service for cloud-based data stores and infrastructure, is adding support for three of the most popular relational databases—MySQL, CockroachDB, and MariaDB—allowing users to now control access to data stored in these databases in a streamlined, secure, and non-disruptive way.
Posted April 12, 2022
Neo4j, a leading graph data platform, is unveiling Neo4j Graph Data Science, the company's comprehensive graph analytics workspace built for data scientists. The platform is now available with new and enhanced capabilities, and as a fully managed cloud service called AuraDS.
Posted April 12, 2022
Oracle has announced that Oracle MySQL HeatWave now supports in-database machine learning (ML) in addition to the previously available transaction processing and analytics. MySQL HeatWave ML fully automates the ML lifecycle and stores all trained models inside the MySQL database, eliminating the need to move data or the model to a machine learning tool or service. Eliminating ETL reduces application complexity, lowers cost, and improves security of both the data and the model. HeatWave ML is included with the MySQL HeatWave database cloud service in all 37 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions.
Posted April 11, 2022
Quest Software has announced the launch of Foglight 6.1, a monitoring and optimization platform for the hybrid enterprise. Foglight enables businesses to confidently manage their IT infrastructure and databases by providing them with the tools for deep-dive database workload optimization and cloud cost management. New features include notification management for IT alert configuration, gMSA account integration for password security, and execution plan analysis for MySQL.
Posted April 11, 2022
Digitate, a provider of autonomous enterprise software for IT and business operations, is offering new benefits, incentives, and program opportunities for its global partner ecosystem. The new Elevate Partner Program will enable partners to increase profitability and accelerate their growth with Digitate, as more organizations supercharge their digital transformation with AIOps.
Posted April 11, 2022
Teleport, a provider of Identity-based Infrastructure Access Management, is releasing Teleport 9, the latest edition of the open-source Teleport Access Plane, introducing the Teleport Machine ID which delivers identity-based access and audit for infrastructure resources like servers and databases, CI/CD automation, service accounts, and custom code in applications such as microservices.
Posted April 08, 2022