Big Data Articles
IBM has announced that Workday, a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has adopted the IBM Cloud as part of a multi-year strategic partnership. IBM Cloud will become the foundation for Workday's development and testing environment. IBM Cloud will provide capacity expansion in support of Workday's development and testing requirements. "Workday will use IBM Cloud to continue accelerating Workday's internal development and testing efforts to support our ongoing global expansion," said Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and CEO of Workday.
Posted August 22, 2016
Seagate Technology plans to ship two new flash innovations that extend the limits of storage computing performance in enterprise data centers to higher levels. The new products include a 60 terabyte (TB) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid-state-drive (SSD) and the 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD.
Posted August 22, 2016
Waterloo is known as the site of Napoleon's downfall. But it was the insufficiency of communication - a failure to deliver vital information concerning the proximity of enemy garrisons on the march - that deserves the lion's share of the blame. In the battle of conducting business today, information endures.
Posted August 20, 2016
SHARE recently wrapped up its summer conference in Atlanta. James Vincent, immediate past president of SHARE, reflected on the changes that have taken place in the IT industry during his tenure and the key takeaways from the event which took place July 31-August 5. "One takeaway is that SHARE is on the right track when it comes to its focus on the new IT generation, what we call zNextGen," said Vincent.
Posted August 20, 2016
Tableau Software has updated its signature platform with a completely refreshed design, new analytical and mobile enhancements, options for preparing data, and a host of new enterprise capabilities.
Posted August 19, 2016
SnapLogic is making improvements to its Elastic Integration Platform, adding new integration components, which it calls "Snaps" to its library in the Summer 2016 release. The core platform also offers improved performance and new data governance features for hybrid deployments. The Summer 2016 release introduces several enhancements to SnapLogic's support for Hadoop- and Spark-based big data integration, as well.
Posted August 18, 2016
Salesforce, which recently announced plans to buy Quip, a provider of a business productivity software suite for web and mobile that enables collaborative creation and editing of documents and spreadsheets, is also buying BeyondCore, provider of an enterprise analytics tool.
Posted August 18, 2016
Waterline Data, the Smart Data Catalog company, is releasing an enhanced version of its Smart Data Catalog, allowing users to gain easier self-service access to trusted, high quality data for faster discovery, understanding, use and governance.
Posted August 17, 2016
patchVantage has announced plans to formally launch its flagship product which automates backup, cloning, and patching for Oracle databases and applications.
Posted August 17, 2016
Nervana has announced its planned acquisition by Intel, a move it says indicates that Intel is formally committing to pushing the forefront of AI technologies. The company will continue to operate out of its San Diego headquarters. Terms of the deal were not disclosed by industry estimates placed it at more than $400 million.
Posted August 16, 2016
Google has announced that all of its database storage products are generally available and covered by corresponding service level agreements (SLAs). With this announcement, the company says, Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable and Cloud Datastore are now generally available. It is also releasing new performance and security support for Google Compute Engine.
Posted August 16, 2016
Magnitude Software, a provider of enterprise information management software, has acquired Simba Technologies Inc., a provider of cross-platform standards-based data access solutions for relational, multi-dimensional, and non-relational data sources. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed.
Posted August 16, 2016
Connect with Oracle users and IOUG Members on a more personal level close to home. IOUG Regional User Groups are a vital route to information exchange
Posted August 16, 2016
Get in the back-to-school spirit by taking advantage of IOUG education!
Posted August 16, 2016
Velostrata, a provider of cloud workload mobility, announced a new flagship solution with new capabilities for easing cloud migration projects. Velostrata 2.0 comes with additional support for Microsoft Azure, complementing existing AWS support and providing multi-cloud flexibility and anti lock-in.
Posted August 16, 2016
As IT decision making moves out of the IT department and into the functional areas of organizations, partnerships and collaboration become even more critical. According to an article in strategy+business on why CEOs must become more technology savvy, "the majority of technology spending (68%) is now coming from budgets outside of IT, a significant increase from 47% in 2014." What this means is that many critical technology decisions are being made without the consultation of IT professionals.
Posted August 16, 2016
Regulatory compliance is a critical aspect of the IT landscape these days, and the ability to audit database activities showing who did what to which data when is a specific requirement of many industry and governmental regulations. There are six primary methods that can be used to accomplish database auditing.
Posted August 16, 2016
MapR Technologies, Inc. is receiving an equity financing of $50 million, with funds going towards the company's continued growth and innovative technology. The $50 million equity financing was led by Future Fund, with participation from all existing investors, including Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, New Enterprise Associates, Qualcomm Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures.
Posted August 12, 2016
Redis Labs and Intel announced they have collaboratively benchmarked a throughput of 3 million database operations/second at under 1 millisecond of latency, while generating over 1GB NVMe throughput, on a single server with Redis on Flash and Intel NVMe-based SSDs.
Posted August 12, 2016
Informatica is releasing five new Informatica Cloud offerings in Amazon Web Services Marketplace (AWS Marketplace) to help organizations jumpstart data management projects in the cloud.
Posted August 12, 2016
Percona unveiled a new open sourced platform for MongoDB called the Percona Memory Engine for MongoDB. With Percona Memory Engine for MongoDB, Percona has now delivered an open source in-memory storage engine that works with Percona Server for MongoDB, the open source drop-in replacement for the MongoDB Community Edition that includes enterprise-grade features and functionality.
Posted August 11, 2016
Melissa Data is releasing a Master Address Table tool to validate, enhance, and manage addresses in a local neighborhood or area. The Master Address Table will contain current, detailed information on more than 180 million U.S. addresses, including residential, commercial, and more than two million non-USPS addresses, or physical addresses that do not receive USPS delivery.
Posted August 11, 2016
Paxata is unleashing new native push/pull seamless connectivity options to and from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that include the Amazon Redshift data warehouse and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
Posted August 11, 2016
Magnitude Software is introducing a new platform that will integrate heterogeneous ERP data into SAP S/4 HANA in real time. The solution, dubbed RTD Stream, will enable access to the entirety of an organization's fragmented ERP data, allowing finance professionals to centrally control their operations in a shared services environment.
Posted August 10, 2016
MuleSoft is teaming up with Pivotal to deliver application networks on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform. Customers who want to create a network of applications, data, and devices using MuleSoft can now deploy to Pivotal Cloud Foundry and manage their application network with Anypoint Platform.
Posted August 10, 2016
Nimbus Data is releasing a new all-flash platform for cloud, big data, virtualization, and massive digital content that will offer unprecedented scale and efficiency.
Posted August 09, 2016
Datameer is launching a newly redesigned Global Partner Program to recruit and enable a dynamic ecosystem of technology, services, and reseller partners. Datameer's new program introduces a rewards system that recognizes partners and helps form a trusted and easily accessible network for customers.
Posted August 09, 2016
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Posted August 08, 2016
At SHARE Atlanta, attendees had the opportunity to directly influence the content of a brand-new, highly anticipated Redpaper on IDCAMS during a live session with IBM Redbooks and via the hashtag #SHAREredpaper.
Posted August 08, 2016
"Having a machine scan your servers and source code is a great step to help prevent data breaches, but the human element of security testing cannot be overlooked," said Charles Henderson, global head of security testing and X-Force Red, IBM Security.
Posted August 08, 2016
IBM Security announced a new app for its IBM QRadar security algorithm that analyzes the usage patterns of insiders, including employees, contractors and partners, to determine if their credentials or systems have been compromised by cybercriminals. IBM QRadar User Behavior Analytics is available for free via the IBM Security App Exchange.
Posted August 08, 2016
Seagate Technology plc announced a high-capacity drive - a two-terabyte (TB) version of its Nytro XM1440 M.2 non-volatile memory express (NVMe) Solid State Drive (SSD). As the latest addition to the Seagate Nytro SSD product line, the 2TB Nytro XM1440 M.2 NVMe SSD is designed to accelerate enterprise data access, with twice the density of prior M.2 NVMe environments. The drive is optimized for read-intensive and mixed workloads, the vendor said.
Posted August 08, 2016
Appvance announced it is shipping a DevOps-driven software test automation platform, Appvance UTP. Initially announced in May, Appvance UTP is a unified software test automation platform that is designed to eliminate the redundancies created by traditional QA silos that clog DevOps teams.
Posted August 08, 2016
Dell Services is introducing its own innovation lab for SAP HANA, designed to help organizations evaluate, understand, and benefit from their investments in the SAP HANA platform. With Dell Services' SAP HANA lab, customers can load up to 30 terabytes (TB) of data to fully configure solutions for prototyping or proof of concepts to help them better understand and articulate the business value.
Posted August 08, 2016
Blue Medora, a provider of cloud and data center management solutions, is partnering with New Relic to develop a new application performance monitoring tool. The new REST API-based, agentless plugins are aimed at improving enterprise IT operations' visibility between Blue Medora and the other systems that companies monitor with New Relic.
Posted August 08, 2016
1010data, Inc. is making enhancements to its Consumer Insights Platform (CIP) with its latest release. CIP 3.0 supports a wider range of business users by facilitating faster decision-making with a more user-friendly interface, additional reports, and enhanced interactivity built right into key features, according to the company.
Posted August 05, 2016
Progress now provides day one support for Hadoop Hive, Spark SQL, MongoDB and more with latest update to its DataDirect suite of connectivity tools. With this new upgrade, Progress DataDirect on-premises ODBC and JDBC drivers will support any new versions of supported data sources.
Posted August 05, 2016
The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) is excited to be joining the Oracle technology community in San Francisco once again at Oracle OpenWorld 2016, September 18-22. IOUG's 30,0000+ member community is comprised of the top Oracle technology experts from around the globe, several of whom will be presenting sessions on hot topics like Data Intelligence, iOT, Data Security, and Cloud migrations.
Posted August 04, 2016
Thousands of members of the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) get the answers they need by sharing best practices, case studies and lessons learned. As the world's largest education, networking and advocacy forum for users of Oracle Applications, the OAUG helps members connect to find the solutions they need to do their jobs better and to improve their organizations' return on investment in Oracle Applications.
Posted August 04, 2016
Anyone who has ever attended Oracle OpenWorld knows that you must plan ahead. The conference held in San Francisco each fall is vast, and the upcoming conference, scheduled for September 18-22, 2016, promises to be equally expansive. Just as in years before, tens of thousands of attendees from well over 100 countries can be expected converge to learn more about Oracle's ever-expanding ecosystem of technologies, products and services during thousands of sessions held at the Moscone Center and multiple additional venues in downtown San Francisco. Here, Database Trends and Applications presents the annual Who to See @ Oracle OpenWorld special section.
Posted August 04, 2016
With 20 million downloads to date, MongoDB is arguably today's fastest-growing database technology. MongoDB's rapid growth has been driven primarily by its attractiveness to developers. By using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) documents as the native database format, MongoDB reduces the impedance mismatch between program code and database, allowing more agile and rapid application development.
Posted August 04, 2016
When you think about the role of a database professional, you probably don't include "cost savings" in the list of responsibilities. Maybe if there were a clearer correlation between the work of database professionals and money, people would pay more attention. Well, it turns out, there is.
Posted August 04, 2016
Can Oracle and its partners keep up with the increasing demands of customers for real-time digital capabilities? Is the Oracle constellation of solutions—from data analytics to enterprise applications—ready for the burgeoning requirements of the Internet of Things (IoT) and data-driven businesses? For Oracle—along with its far-flung network of software vendors, integrators, and partners—times have never been so challenging.
Posted August 04, 2016
The month of June heralded the long-awaited release of Microsoft's SQL Server 2016. The 2016 edition includes unique security functionality with Always Encrypted that protects data both at rest and in motion, ground-breaking performance and scale as evidenced by the number-one performance benchmarks, and accelerated hybrid cloud scenarios and Stretch Database functionality that supports historical data on the cloud.
Posted August 04, 2016
Kore Technologies has unveiled the latest release of its signature platform, Kourier Integrator, improving several key areas of the hailed solution. A year and a half in the making, Kourier Integrator Release 4.3 makes it easier to create, deploy, and use RESTful Web Services for real-time enterprise application integration.
Posted August 04, 2016
Rocket Software is making improvements to its mvBase platform, delivering new enhancements customers are looking for. mvBase 3.3 adds remote files, Windows 10 64-bit support, overflow management, and patch updates.
Posted August 04, 2016
MultiValue technologies aren't going anywhere. In fact, Steve O'Neal, a principal solutions architect at Rocket Software, believes MV will play an important role as big data evolves in the future.
Posted August 04, 2016