Big Data Articles
Oracle NetSuite is introducing Guided Learning to help customers maximize the value of the suite and accelerate adoption of the platform. NetSuite Guided Learning provides step-by-step guidance embedded in NetSuite to help educate users about system functionality and features. Available to all NetSuite licensed customers at no additional cost, the contextual learning guides help businesses leverage the full capabilities of the suite and reduce time spent on training, according to the company.
Posted July 19, 2023
Oracle is adding generative AI-powered capabilities to Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) supported by the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) generative AI service and embedded in existing HR processes to drive faster business value, improve productivity, enhance the candidate and employee experience, and streamline HR processes.
Posted July 19, 2023
Occasionally one may hear that a data model is "over-normalized," but just what does that mean? Normalization is intended to analyze the functional dependencies across a set of data. The goal is to understand which data elements relate to what other data elements. The context of a normalization exercise is the semantically constructed reality within a chosen organization.
Posted July 19, 2023
Redis, Inc. announced the company achieved certification for compliance with ISO 27017:2015 for cloud services and ISO 27018:2019 for privacy protections, adding to Redis Enterprise Cloud‘s existing ISO 27001:2013 certification further boosting security.
Posted July 18, 2023
PrivacyHawk, a pioneer in personal data protection, is receiving $2.7 million in funding, enabling the company to support growth in sales, marketing, and product development in its mission to protect personal data and reduce everyone's risk of being targeted by fraud and cybercrimes.
Posted July 17, 2023
Flexential, a provider of data center colocation, cloud, connectivity, and data protection, is unveiling plans to significantly grow capacity on its national FlexAnywhere Platform this year, with the construction of a new 36MW phased development at its Atlanta-Douglasville, Georgia campus.
Posted July 17, 2023
BMC is releasing a variety of innovations for the BMC AMI portfolio centered on hybrid cloud integration with an open borders approach to mainframe computing, creating consistent, complementary experiences not only for mainframe professionals, but for the customers they serve, too. The new BMC AMI Cloud suite of solutions empowers organizations to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy for mainframe data management. Integration of mainframe data with the hybrid cloud enables organizations to choose the on-premises, private cloud, or public cloud strategy that is best suited for their needs. This provides an efficient and high-preforming alternative to replace or augment proprietary mainframe virtual tape library (VTL) systems.
Posted July 17, 2023
IBM announced it is rolling out IBM watsonx—the enterprise-ready AI and data platform. watsonx comprises three products to help organizations accelerate and scale AI—the watsonx.ai studio for new foundation models, generative AI and machine learning (now available); the watsonx.data fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture (now available); and the watsonx.governance toolkit to help enable AI workflows to be built with responsibility, transparency and explainability (coming later this year).
Posted July 17, 2023
IBM announced that it is one of four organizations selected to support the Internal Revenue Services' (IRS) seven-year, $2.6B Enterprise Development Operations Services (EDOS) contract vehicle—modernizing existing IRS IT systems, improving cybersecurity, and expanding advanced analytics capabilities.
Posted July 17, 2023
Flatfile, provider of an AI-assisted data exchange, is releasing its Flatfile Data Exchange Platform, an extensible platform for file-based data import to offer an API-first and event-driven data exchange platform for enterprise developers. According to the company, Flatfile's next-generation release breaks new ground by making the power of Flatfile fully accessible and extensible for software developers. It enables them to build fully customizable, powerful workflows that address a wide range of file-based import related use cases. This provides huge cost savings and makes data available faster and more securely and improves data accuracy.
Posted July 14, 2023
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, is adding OpenAI observability as a native capability to Site24x7, its comprehensive cloud-based observability platform, to enable application owners to monitor the utilization of different OpenAI models seamlessly while tracking real-time performance and cost metrics.
Posted July 13, 2023
Zluri, a SaaS operations (SaaSOps) platform, announced the company received $20 million in a recent funding round, enabling the company to help organizations manage their SaaS estates and mitigate risks. The Series B funding round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from existing investors including MassMutual Ventures, Endiya Partners, and Kalaari Capital. The company has now raised $32 million in total venture funding since 2020.
Posted July 13, 2023
According to PWC's "Future of Experience" survey, 73% of respondents view customer experience as an important factor in their purchasing decisions. Nevertheless, understanding the customer journey can be a difficult and lengthy process for many product developers. Outdated software, the lack of a customer-focused culture, and data silos all contribute to a negative experience.
Posted July 13, 2023
RDM Infinity, a provider of MultiValue software solutions, announced that John Bramley will join its fast-growing team to extend and enhance the firm's custom programming practice. As the MultiValue Strategist at RDM, he will play a key role in building, training and managing a growing team of young MultiValue developers.
Posted July 13, 2023
OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) provides integrated foundational and advanced services that work together to accomplish more faster in categories of compute, storage, network, and security. Foundational services include metric, log/logging analytics, alarms, traces, and Ops insights repository. As metrics, logs, and traces are popular discussion topics for today's world, these services are especially significant.
Posted July 13, 2023
Traditionally, MongoDB has held its signature event—MongoDB World—in June in New York City. MongoDB usually announces significant releases of their flagship database product at this event. However, this year, the company has transitioned to a global tour of "local" events that start in New York and then proceed to a few dozen regional events across five continents.
Posted July 13, 2023
As a database administrator, you know that the field is constantly evolving. New technologies are emerging all the time, and it can be difficult to keep up with the latest trends. And almost every new technical trend and advancement tends to interact with data. So, DBAs need to be "in the know" and regularly update their knowledge of what's new. That's where industry conferences come in.
Posted July 13, 2023
To help bring new resources and innovation to light, each year, Database Trends and Applications magazine presents the DBTA 100, a list of forward-thinking companies seeking to expand what's possible with data for their customers. Several top MultiValue companies land on the list again this year, including Kore Technologies, Revelation Software, and Rocket Software.
Posted July 13, 2023
Now that we're emerging from the pandemic and the dust is starting to settle, organizations are taking a good, hard look at their digital transformation and modernization priorities moving forward. To shed light on the adoption and maturity of trending data architectures and where the industry is headed, Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, partnered with Radiant Advisors to field the latest survey, "Market Study: 2023 Modern Data Architecture Trends," sponsored by Cambridge Semantics, Informatica, Kinetica, Teradata, and Vertica.
Posted July 13, 2023
All eyes are on AI this year, with the space heating up as generative AI arrived on the scene with the popularity of ChatGPT technologies, along with new tools for automation and ease of use allowing companies to gain deeper insights into their analytics and better serve their customers.
Posted July 12, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is unveiling Data Protection for Analytics, offering a single data security solution that provides end-to-end controls for data ingestion and consumption to make it easier for analytics and data science professionals to meet compliance requirements. According to the company, Baffle Data Protection for Analytics promises to secure analytics while meeting increasingly stringent compliance mandates.
Posted July 12, 2023
Deci, the deep learning company harnessing AI to build AI, is releasing DataGradients, a free, open-source tool for profiling computer vision datasets and distilling critical insights. According to the company, using DataGradients, data scientists can easily analyze the health of their data with one line of code, swiftly identifying problems such as corrupted data, distributional shifts between train and test sets, duplicate annotations, among many others.
Posted July 12, 2023
Honeywell is acquiring SCADAfence, a provider of operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity solutions for monitoring large-scale networks, bringing capabilities in asset discovery, threat detection, and security governance which are key to industrial and buildings management cybersecurity programs.
Posted July 11, 2023
Qlik is expanding its platform to deliver a comprehensive best-in-class approach to accessing, transforming, and delivering trusted quality data for analysis and action into Snowflake's Data Cloud. The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted July 11, 2023
Matillion, a provider of data productivity solutions, is offering a Productivity Platform for Data Teams, empowering the entire data team to move, transform, and orchestrate data pipelines, regardless of technical capability. The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted July 10, 2023
Data is the soul of any algorithm, so investing time and resources can reap benefits in the future. Morgan Stanley AVP Supreet Kaur discussed best practices for AI data modeling during Data Summit 2023.
Posted July 10, 2023
The need for trustworthy data is growing daily and to address this Manta is partnering with Teclever solutions to bring automated data lineage to businesses around the world, expanding the reach of Manta's data lineage platform. Teclever Solutions is a value-added reseller (VAR) and systems integrator (SI) that will extend Manta's reach within the APAC market.
Posted July 07, 2023
New Relic, the all-in-one observability platform for every engineer, is releasing New Relic APM 360, the industry's next evolution of application performance monitoring (APM). APM 360 correlates all essential telemetry data across the application stack and development cycle, such as deployment changes, key transactions, service-level objects (SLOs), logs, infrastructure, errors, security, debugging, and more.
Posted July 06, 2023
Leostream, a leading Remote Desktop Access Platform provider, is offering features designed to improve high-performance computing (HPC) and sophisticated imaging/video workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The move aims to deliver secure, performant, cost-effective resources to users of virtual machines, according to the vendor.
Posted July 06, 2023
Daasity, a data and analytics platform built for omnichannel consumer brands, announced that its SuiteApp has achieved the "Built for NetSuite" status. The new SuiteApp, built using the Oracle NetSuite SuiteCloud Platform, helps organizations centralize, visualize, analyze, and report on all brand data, according to the company.
Posted July 05, 2023
Oracle is launching the latest generation of the Oracle Exadata platforms, the X10M, to deliver unrivaled performance and availability for all Oracle Database workloads. According to the company, starting at the same price as the previous generation, these platforms support higher levels of database consolidation with more capacity and offer dramatically greater value than previous generations.
Posted July 05, 2023
Many companies have been focusing on AI this year as new technologies and solutions have emerged that promise to leave organizations in the dust if they aren't paying attention. Behind all the wonders that AI brings, however, is the workhorse that must be attended behind the scenes—databases and associated data environments.
Posted July 05, 2023
CTERA, a provider of secure edge-to-cloud file services, announced a strategic sourcing agreement with Hitachi Vantara allowing CTERA offerings to be sold under the Hitachi brand, further advancing secure, multi-cloud unstructured data services, and seamless data management from edge-to-core-to-cloud.
Posted July 03, 2023
SAS, a leader in analytics, announced it can now provision SAS Viya AI and decisioning capabilities securely in the Snowflake Data Cloud with Snowpark Container Services (private preview). The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted July 03, 2023
According to a report published by Allied Market Research, the global mainframe market was estimated at $2.09 billion in 2017, and is expected to hit $2.90 billion by 2025, registering a CAGR of 4.3% from 2018-2025. Growth in demand for high-performance computing, development of IoT landscape, and rise in adoption of the mainframe as a service fuel the growth of the global mainframe market. On the other hand, lack of mainframe skilled professionals and high costs restrain the growth to certain extent.
Posted July 03, 2023
Amazon and Ohio state Governor Mike DeWine announced new investment plans that will AWS invest an estimated $7.8 billion by the end of 2029/2030 to expand its data center operations in Central Ohio. Numerous localities in Central Ohio are reportedly under consideration for the new data center campuses, and final site selections will be decided at a later date.
Posted July 03, 2023
VIRTEL, a provider of innovative mainframe solutions and creator of the original browser-based 3270 emulation Virtel Web Access, is launching Virtel Screen Redesigner (VSR), a cutting-edge tool designed to transform and modernize mainframe 3270 screens. As organizations strive to enhance user experience, increase productivity, and adapt to evolving technologies, the need to revitalize legacy mainframe applications becomes critical.
Posted July 03, 2023
IBM announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Vista Equity Partners to purchase Apptio Inc., a leader in financial and operational IT management and optimization (FinOps) software, accelerating the advancement of IBM's IT automation capabilities and enable enterprise leaders to deliver enhanced business value across technology investments.
Posted July 03, 2023
Qlik is releasing a suite of OpenAI connectors that will help customers securely bring Generative AI content into Qlik, providing support for a wide range of cloud analytics and automation use cases. Expanding Qlik's robust set of native artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) capabilities, Qlik's OpenAI connectors deliver the power of Generative AI directly within Qlik, bringing back rich contextual content through a ChatGPT experience to enhance data and insights in Qlik applications and automations, according to the company.
Posted June 30, 2023
MongoDB, Inc. is launching five new products and introducing new features to its developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, making it faster and easier for customers to build modern applications, for any workload or use case. According to the company, these new features for MongoDB Atlas enable businesses to dramatically improve operational efficiency and speed up their pace of innovation by standardizing many types of workloads on a single developer data platform across the enterprise.
Posted June 30, 2023
Snowflake, the Data Cloud Company, and NVIDIA are partnering to provide businesses with an accelerated path to create customized generative AI applications using their own proprietary data, all securely within the Snowflake Data Cloud. The announcement was made at Snowflake Summit 2023. According to the companies, with the NVIDIA NeMo platform for developing large language models (LLMs) and NVIDIA GPU-accelerated computing, Snowflake will enable enterprises to use data in their Snowflake accounts to make custom LLMs for advanced generative AI services, including chatbots, search, and summarization.
Posted June 30, 2023
Census, provider of a data activation and reverse ETL platform, announced the launch of new features, Powered by Snowflake, that empower users to activate data using Python to run complex data transformation models on Snowflake. The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted June 29, 2023
Tamr, Inc., a leader in data products, is launching Smart Curation, a Snowflake Native App on Snowflake Marketplace that allows data teams to monitor their data products seamlessly and proactively. The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted June 29, 2023
MemVerge, a cloud automation provider, is launching Memory Machine Cloud Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise built on the company's Cloud Automation 2.0 technology, offering a transformative portfolio for analytic application users that empowers millions of users who are non-cloud experts to take advantage of cloud computing.
Posted June 29, 2023
Oracle's new EU Sovereign Cloud is now available, and it aims to help private and public sector organizations across the European Union gain more control over data privacy and sovereignty requirements. One of the first cloud offerings designed to address the EU's emerging regulatory landscape, Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud gives customers the services and capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) public cloud regions with the same prices, support, and service level agreements (SLAs) to run all workloads, according to the vendor.
Posted June 29, 2023
Immuta, a data security leader, is making key enhancements to its Data Security Platform for Databricks, enabling data teams to leverage Immuta's full platform capabilities to unlock value from data, reduce costs, and speed up innovation while maintaining strong data security posture.
Posted June 28, 2023