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Rocket Software has unveiled updated Rocket Open AppDev for Z software, breaking down silos to unify DevOps for all platforms, including the mainframe, in a single pipeline. The enhanced offering provides a comprehensive DevOps/AppDev modernization solution entirely based in open source and updated to incorporate IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python—meeting market demand for modernization, cost reductions, and enablement of new talent.
Posted March 07, 2022
DataOps is gaining traction due to its ability to help provide more powerful insights to everyone in an organization—not just CTOs and IT teams. Recently, Geir Engdahl, co-founder and CTO of Cognite, and a former Google senior software engineer, explained why he believes adoption of DataOps has become a business imperative and not just a "nice to have"—especially in the heavy asset and manufacturing space.
Posted March 03, 2022
cnvrg.io, an Intel company, is releasing cnvrg.io AI Blueprints to help developers quickly deliver AI applications with easy-to-use ML pipelines that can run on any infrastructure. cnvrg.io AI Blueprints are a curated, verified, and open-source library of ML model APIs and customizable pipelines to enable software developers to easily enhance their applications with AI to solve any business or product problem, according to the vendor.
Posted March 02, 2022
Wipro Limited, a global provider of information technology, is forming a joint go-to market partnership with vFunction, a Palo Alto-based startup that has developed a scalable, AI-based technology platform for modernizing Java applications and accelerating migration to the cloud.
Posted March 02, 2022
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has authorized Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to host Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (TS/SCI) and Special Access Program (SAP) missions. This expands on Oracle's growing number of accreditations, currently serving government workloads up to FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 5.
Posted March 02, 2022
Hazelcast has announced the latest release of its real-time data platform. The Hazelcast Platform enables enterprises to build business applications that take automated, immediate action on data without the wait times associated with database writes and human intervention. The new release is aimed at increasing the analytical capabilities of a real-time system by enabling greater situational context to event and streaming data as it is created, yielding more meaningful insights.
Posted March 01, 2022
Veritas Technologies, a provider of multi-cloud data management software, is releasing the latest version of NetBackup powered by Cloud Scale Technology, laying the foundation for Autonomous Data Management and multi-cloud data protection at scale.
Posted February 28, 2022
As business has become more digital, data has become the most valuable asset of many organizations. But protecting that data has also become much more complicated as organizations increasingly migrate it to a mix of public and private cloud infrastructures, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud. With most businesses today operating in a multi-cloud environment, it's no longer possible to simply lock up precious data in the proverbial vault and guard the perimeter.
Posted February 24, 2022
As an industry, we've been talking about the promise of data lakes for more than a decade. It's a fantastic concept—to put an end to data silos with a single repository for big data analytics. Imagine having a singular place to house all your data for analytics to support product-led growth and business insight.
Posted February 24, 2022
thatDot, Inc., a provider of complex event stream processing software, is debuting Quine, a unique approach that combines graph data and streaming technologies into a modern, developer-friendly open source software package. Developers and data pipeline engineers use Quine to rapidly build high volume, real-time, complex event processing workflows at scale, according to the vendor.
Posted February 23, 2022
Treasure Data is introducing Treasure Data Journey?Orchestration, a new, omnichannel-first solution enabling marketers and customer experience (CX) managers to create relevant, high-converting customer experiences at scale that cut across channels, campaigns, and business units.
Posted February 23, 2022
Last year picked up where 2020 left off. Though pandemic restrictions have eased, 2022 looks to be another uncertain year with the rise of the omicron variant. As we begin 2022, DBTA presents the annual MultiValue Special Report and asks MV executives to address several questions.
Posted February 23, 2022
Data management has never been so unfettered—and yet so complicated at the same time. An emerging generation of tools and platforms is helping enterprises to get more value from their data than ever. These solutions now support and automate a large swath of structural activities, from data ingestion to storage, and also enhance business-focused operations such as advanced analytics, AI, machine learning, and continuous real-time intelligence.
Posted February 22, 2022
Panasonic has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) to upgrade its technology infrastructure and drive innovation as it enters a new phase of growth. With Oracle Cloud ERP and Oracle Cloud EPM, Panasonic is working to streamline business operations, gain deeper financial insights, and position the company for a new era of expansion.
Posted February 16, 2022
The costs of downtime—even for a minute—are simply too steep for today's digitally evolving enterprises to tolerate. As part of their efforts to keep expensive downtime at bay—and ensure the continued viability and availability of data—data managers are increasingly turning to strategies such as automation and cloud services. Still, they continue to have difficulties and acknowledge that keeping their data environments up-to-date is holding them back from delivering more capabilities to their organizations.
Posted February 16, 2022
Databricks has announced the Databricks Lakehouse for Financial Services, an open, modern data platform tailored to customer use cases across the banking, insurance, and capital markets sectors.
Posted February 15, 2022
InfluxData, creator of the time series platform InfluxDB, is releasing a variety of features for the Industrial Data and Internet of Things (IoT) space. InfluxData is releasing key features to expedite IoT and Industrial IoT application building. New capabilities deliver a more intuitive experience for developers and engineers working with time series data at the edge and deliver better data processing for use cases spanning predictive maintenance, performance monitoring, energy optimization, operational technology, smart offices, smart homes, and more, according to the vendor.
Posted February 15, 2022
Wallaroo Labs, Inc., announced it has closed $25 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to expand product, sales, and marketing, and to release a free community edition of its machine learning platform. The funding round was led by Microsoft's venture arm, M12. New investors Ridgeline Partners and NSS Advisors joined existing seed investors Boldstart Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, Eniac Ventures, and Greycroft as part of the round.
Posted February 11, 2022
Wallaroo Labs, a company that helps enterprises deploy, run, and observe ML models in production at scale, has closed $25 million in a Series A round led by Microsoft's venture arm, M12.
Posted February 10, 2022
It's time to submit nominations for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users.
Posted February 09, 2022
Most database administrators know database servers didn't initially come in a cloud or cluster. Once upon a time, DBAs had to reconfigure disk files and handle data manually. Now, with virtualization and the shift toward the cloud, the evolution of database administration yields more opportunities to automate tasks and fewer reasons for DBAs to get their hands dirty.
Posted February 08, 2022
The old Chinese expression "May you live in interesting times" has never been more applicable in my lifetime than in 2020 and 2021. The global pandemic combined periods of great anxiety with long stretches of mind-numbing lockdown boredom. But it certainly kept our attention!
Posted February 08, 2022
Each year, Data Summit features industry-leading experts covering the topics that matter most for data professionals who want to stay on top of the latest technologies and strategies. The conference program is now available for review, and a variety of pass options are being offered, including special pricing for attendees who register early.
Posted February 08, 2022
IBM and Francisco Partners have signed a definitive agreement under which Francisco Partners will acquire healthcare data and analytics assets from IBM that are currently part of the Watson Health business. The agreement with Francisco Partners is "a clear next step as IBM becomes even more focused on our platform-based hybrid cloud and AI strategy," said Tom Rosamilia, senior vice president, IBM Software.
Posted February 07, 2022
Directus, a software company democratizing the future of data management, is releasing Directus 9, an Open Data Platform that can power any data driven app or digital experience. With a new codebase built on Node.js and Vue.js 3, Directus 9 achieves higher performance than previous versions for near-instant SQL query responses, whether browsing vast datasets in the Directus app or performing deeply nested relational API requests, according to the vendor.
Posted February 02, 2022
Cloudian is integrating its HyperStore object storage with the WEKA Data Platform for AI, providing high-performance, exabyte-scalable private cloud storage for processing iterative analytical workloads. The combined solution unifies and simplifies the data pipeline for performance-intensive workloads and accelerated DataOps, all easily managed under a single namespace. In addition, the new solution reduces the storage TCO associated with data analytics by a third, compared to traditional storage systems, according to the vendor.
Posted January 27, 2022
Confluent, Inc., the platform to set data in motion, announced the Confluent Q1 ‘22 Launch, including new additions to fully managed data streaming connectors, new controls for cost-effectively scaling massive-throughput Apache Kafka clusters, and a new feature to help maintain trusted data quality across global environments.
Posted January 27, 2022
To fast-track new businesses, Xerox has chosen an integrated set of Oracle Cloud solutions. This "Oracle-in-a-box" approach gives its businesses all they need to get up and running: an online storefront in Oracle Commerce, finance and accounting in Oracle NetSuite, budgeting and financial planning in Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), and integration in every direction via Oracle Integration, a key component of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Posted January 27, 2022
To help retailers digitally transform to make their businesses sustainable, SAP is featuring a number of offerings in this space. The new SAP Intelligent Returns Management solution was built to optimize the returns process for the retail industry. The solution uses routing and dispositioning decisions driven by artificial intelligence (AI) to guide products from customers' hands to the final dispositioning steps, ultimately maximizing customer experience and company margins while also mitigating waste.
Posted January 26, 2022
Attensi AS, an SAP partner delivering gamification and simulation-based training, announced that its Attensi Technology Platform is now certified for integration with cloud solutions from SAP. Through its SAP partnership, Attensi offers an innovative learning experience using, among other approaches, gaming technology and competitive elements.
Posted January 26, 2022
ProLion, a best-in-class proactive ransomware and data protection solution provider for ONTAP storage, is releasing ClusterLion for SAP on the AWS Marketplace. For the first time, ProLion customers can take advantage of the productive and trusted AWS cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.
Posted January 26, 2022
Sync Computing, a deep tech distributed cloud infrastructure company, is emerging from stealth mode, revealing its initial products and $6.1 million funding. Sync Computing is using the new capital to advance its leadership in the modern data infrastructure space and support further development of its accelerated data infrastructure engine and solution lines.
Posted January 25, 2022
The Canonical Charmed Kubeflow team is releasing Charmed Kubeflow 1.4—a state-of-the-art MLOps platform. The new release enables data science teams to securely collaborate on AI/ML innovation on any cloud, from concept to production.
Posted January 25, 2022
Coalesce, the data transformation company, is emerging from stealth with the launch of the Coalesce Data Transformation platform, simplifying the modeling, cleansing, governance, and documentation of data. The Coalesce platform dramatically increases data engineer productivity and insights to tackle today's data-intensive architectures—enabling data transformations at enterprise scale, according to the vendor.
Posted January 21, 2022
Deci, a deep learning development company harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build AI, is releasing SuperGradients, an "all-in-one" deep learning training library for computer vision models. SuperGradients enables developers to train PyTorch-based models for the most common computer vision tasks, including object detection, image classification, and semantic segmentation with just one training script.
Posted January 21, 2022
Cloudastructure, a cloud video surveillance provider, announced it has signed a Letter of Intent to purchase the IoT cybersecurity company IPG, adding an important new layer of cybersecurity to Cloudastructure's expanding physical and cybersecurity platform and a key offering for enterprise customers as they embrace new IoT technologies.
Posted January 20, 2022
IT environments are exploding. There is more data than ever before, in more places than ever before. Unfortunately, managing backup and recovery with legacy tools has proven complex and often lacks the visibility and security needed for IT teams to keep pace with their business. Frank Schwaak, senior solution architect, Oracle/SAP, at Rubrik, and Vigyan Jain, data management solutions architect, Asia Pacific and Japan, at Rubrik, recently discussed the importance of unifying backup and recovery with SaaS and what it means for the business.
Posted January 18, 2022
Fivetran, a provider of modern data integration solutions, is extending dbt Core with integrated scheduling and data lineage graphs. These enhancements signal a deeper integration of open-source dbt Core into Fivetran and delivers new features to help companies simplify the complexities of the modern data stack, cut costs through ELT (extract-load-transform) automation, and accelerate data-driven decisions, according to the vendor.
Posted January 18, 2022
The noted motivational speaker and author Zig Ziglar was quoted as saying, "When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there." This sentiment rings truer today than ever. In the past 21 months, companies across every industry have had to alter their "go-to-market" strategies to simply survive. For the local diner, this may have initially meant relying on take-out orders, then finding ways to create outdoor seating areas, and later dealing with the weather inconveniently imposing itself on outdoor patrons. For much of corporate America, changing their company's direction to reach their goals has meant converting traditional workforces to remote employees.
Posted January 18, 2022
The ultimate goal of almost all enterprise technology is to automate manual activities into digital processes. BPM (business process management) and workflow systems have been used for decades, and, under the cover of most business applications, sit complex process, task, and workflow management. It is hard to define the sheer scale and breadth of process automation other than to say that it is pervasive. Indeed, although industry analysts love to slice and dice technologies into quadrant and wave silos, doing so with process automation technology is difficult and often, though not deliberately, misleading.
Posted January 17, 2022
From data warehouses to data lakes, there is a growing array of choices when it comes to cloud platforms, deployment models, and features. At the same time, challenges remain, including data integration and governance, performance, and management and monitoring. DBTA held a roundtable webinar featuring Anand Rao, director, product marketing, Qlik; Lewis Carr, senior director, product marketing, Actian; and Thomas Hazel, founder, CTO, and chief scientist, ChaosSearch, who discussed key solutions and best practices for succeeding with modern analytics today.
Posted January 17, 2022