Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
March 6, 2018
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: March 6, 2018. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
MapR Technologies has extended advanced containers integration into the MapR Converged Data Platform. The company is enabling the deployment of stateful applications with its Data Fabric for Kubernetes providing persistent storage and full Kubernetes support with volume access. The persistent storage for stateful containers is a well-known problem in the container world, said Jack Norris, SVP of Data & Applications, MapR, noting that MapR is providing an "elegantly simple way" to solve that problem that is scalable, fast, and secure.
Cambridge Semantics and CData Software have formed a technology partnership to provide SQL query access to a code-free, graph-based, big data management and analytics environment. With graph technology becoming increasingly popular in today's data-driven organizations, the partnership opens a new option to SQL users who will be able use their existing query skills and familiar data access tools to access the integration of diverse data sources.
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.