Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate and has fundamentally changed the role of database administrators (DBAs). Traditionally, DBAs have been responsible for the installation, maintenance, and management of on-prem databases. However, in the age of cloud computing, DBAs are required to adapt to new technologies, methodologies, and tools.
Posted August 31, 2023
Earthly Technologies, the company behind the open source developer tool Earthly, is releasing a free tier of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) build automation platform, Earthly Cloud. This new, free offering provides developers with 6,000 minutes per month of Earthly Cloud's consistent, fast continuous integration (CI) and remote build runners that are compatible with any CI system, according to the vendor.
Posted August 31, 2023
Deloitte—through a joint innovation initiative with Google Cloud—is introducing its ConvergeCONSUMER portfolio of solutions to Google Cloud, integrating its business intelligence (BI) capabilities with Google Cloud's data analytics, AI, and generative AI technologies.
Posted August 30, 2023
Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company, is announcing the expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud, enabling customers to use the full Lacework platform—designed to offer data-driven protection from code to cloud from a single location—on Google Cloud.
Posted August 30, 2023
NinjaOne, a modern, cloud-native IT management platform for managed service providers (MSPs) and IT departments, is advancing its platform with new automation capabilities, along with providing more visibility into over five million devices used by its customers worldwide.
Posted August 30, 2023
Descope, the drag-and-drop authentication platform for developers, is announcing the availability of third-party connectors that enable app developers to create and customize entire user journeys using no-code tools. These available connectors include Google reCAPTCHA Enterprise, Traceable, Segment, HubSpot, Amazon Rekognition, Google Cloud Translation, Amazon Translate, SendGrid, Datadog, Twilio, and Amazon S3.
Posted August 30, 2023
Google announced it is expanding the Duet AI in Google Cloud preview with new capabilities, offering AI assistance across a wide range of Google Cloud products and services to serve more cloud users—spanning developers, operators, data practitioners, and cybersecurity professionals. Being a critical part of Google's overall AI effort, Duet AI is revolutionizing the way users work with Google Cloud, which helps customers boost their productivity, gain competitive advantages, and ultimately improve the bottom line, according to the company.
Posted August 29, 2023
Propel Software, creator of a product value management (PVM) platform, is releasing Accelerated Value Services, speeding up product innovation and providing operational excellence across product lifecycle management (PLM), quality management (QMS), and product information management (PIM) software solutions. Included in the company's second major release of 2023, Propel packages best practice solutions that compress software implementations to as little as six weeks, demonstrating its commitment to rapid return on investment, according to the vendor.
Posted August 29, 2023
Neo4j, the graph database and analytics company, is announcing that it has integrated native vector search into its core database capabilities, introducing massive support for the ever-popular and -growing world of generative AI, semantic search, and LLMs.
Posted August 28, 2023
Rambus Inc., a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, is introducing a suite of Security IP solutions for the FPGA market with state-of-the-art cryptographic, side-channel, and Quantum Safe protections. According to the company, designed to meet the unique needs of FPGAs, the offering secures the broad range of devices from high-performance accelerators for generative AI, to low-power solutions for IoT devices. Rambus security IP protects FPGAs serving applications in the data center, AI/ML, edge, IoT, defense, and beyond.
Posted August 28, 2023
Scala Data Centers, a Latin American firm, is developing a new campus outside Mexico City, Mexico. The DigitalBridge-owned company announced plans to develop SMEXTP01, the company's first data center in the country. Scala's new site is projected to begin operations in Q4 2023 and is already anchored by a "large hyperscale client." The company said it will be investing $80 million in the project.
Posted August 28, 2023
IONOS, a leading digitalization partner for small and midsize businesses, announced it is enabling customers of its Compute Engine cloud platform to deploy vCPU (virtual central processing unit) server instances in their virtual data centers. The vCPU option complements the high-performance dedicated instances previously offered exclusively, and now offered as the Dedicated Core option. Both variants are finely configurable in terms of the number of vCPUs or cores and RAM size. vCPU instances can, however, also be selected in pre-configured T-shirt sizes.
Posted August 28, 2023
IBM is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to help joint clients accelerate the deployment of generative AI—while also delivering a new offering that will provide clients with the expertise and technology they need to innovate their business processes and scale generative AI effectively. IBM Consulting, in collaboration with Microsoft, will focus on helping clients to implement and scale Azure OpenAI Service.
Posted August 28, 2023
IBM is introducing watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a new generative AI-assisted product that will help enable faster translation of COBOL to Java on IBM Z and enhance developer productivity on the platform. According to IBM, this product will be generally available in Q4 2023, and is being designed to help accelerate COBOL application modernization. Watsonx Code Assistant for Z will preview during TechXchange, IBM's premier technical learning event in Las Vegas, Sept 11-13.
Posted August 28, 2023
Data is the cornerstone of the modern digital business. IT teams, database professionals, and business leaders use data to make informed decisions, increase efficiency, and stay ahead of business objectives. Applications also need data to run efficiently to ensure teams don't encounter any bottlenecks.
Posted August 28, 2023
Experts in AI and ML joined DBTA's webinar, Enabling Broader AI and ML Analytics Adoption: Data Platforms, Tools, and Practices, to delve into the myriad of ways that enterprises seeking to implement these wildly popular concepts can do so with agility, governance, integration, automation, and best practices in mind.
Posted August 25, 2023
Armory, the Continuous Deployment (CD) company, is launching its developer hub to improve the developer experience with its developer-first declarative Continuous Deployment solution (Armory Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service). The release coincides with the company's 7th anniversary.
Posted August 25, 2023
UnifyCloud, a global ISV and cloud solutions provider focused, is providing an integration with Google Cloud to its CloudAtlas platform, now offering the CloudAtlas platform to partners focused on migrating infrastructure to Google Cloud. UnifyCloud has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program, offering the CloudAtlas platform to help partners and clients efficiently assess infrastructure, applications, and databases for cloud readiness, options, effort, and cost with comprehensive, best-in-class analyses rapidly generated for Google Cloud.
Posted August 24, 2023
Styra, Inc., the creator and maintainer of Open Policy Agent (OPA), is introducing new capabilities to its enterprise-grade decision engine—Enterprise OPA. Previously named Styra Load, Enterprise OPA will now be source available for Styra customers, furthering the company's mission to provide developers, security engineers, and IT leaders with authorization solutions and collaborative communities that can scale with their needs, according to the company.
Posted August 24, 2023
Arcion, the real-time, in-memory change data capture (CDC) solution, is announcing a myriad of developments that forward Arcion's mission of powering the next generation of AI and analytics applications with real-time, large-scale CDC data pipeline technology. Among these developments include new connectors, new partnerships, and new funding to fuel Arcion's technological focus.
Posted August 24, 2023
VMware, Inc. is launching new Private AI offerings to drive enterprise adoption of generative artificial intelligence and tap into the value of trusted data. The announcement was made at VMware Explore 2023. Private AI is an architectural approach that unlocks the business gains from AI with the practical privacy and compliance needs of an organization, according to the company.
Posted August 23, 2023
Software AG and SAP are extending their partnership with an agreement to integrate its market-leading Intelligent Asset Management Suite including Asset Performance Management (APM) with Software AG's market-leading Industrial IoT Platform, Cumulocity IoT. According to the companies, customers will benefit from tight product integration and closed-loop asset performance management.
Posted August 23, 2023
SAP announced that L3Harris Technologies selected the RISE with SAP solution to help power the aerospace and defense company's enterprise transformation initiative, streamlining its ERP systems. RISE with SAP will support L3Harris' long-term strategy as it moves away from multiple ERP systems to a single platform. This single offering—which includes cloud ERP applications, cloud application services, SAP Business Technology Platform, testing services for SAP solutions and SAP Business Network for Procurement—will help L3Harris move to the cloud with greater confidence.
Posted August 23, 2023
Hitachi Vantara announced it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) SAP Competency status, recognizing the company as an AWS partner with technical proficiency and proven success in SAP implementation, migration, and innovation on AWS Cloud. Certified AWS SAP Competency Partners have the experience, tooling, methods, and best practices to streamline client migrations or transformations. As a premier-level partner with AWS SAP Competency, Hitachi Vantara's proven proficiency helps clients seamlessly move to AWS Cloud.
Posted August 23, 2023
Cleo, a leader of the Ecosystem Integration software category and provider of the Cleo Integration Cloud (CIC) platform, is expanding its Accelerator portfolio to bring new end-to-end integration solutions to the market. The new Accelerators, designed for Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, and SAP-powered enterprises, will help customers accelerate supply chain automation and optimize business processes between their systems of record and multi-enterprise B2B ecosystems.
Posted August 23, 2023
Rocket Software recently created the "Doing More with MultiValue" podcast specifically for MultiValue enthusiasts seeking insights, advice, and inspiration. With seven episodes covering essential topics, this podcast promises to deliver a treasure trove of takeaways for businesses with MultiValue applications, according to Rocket Software.
Posted August 23, 2023
Entrinsik is releasing Informer 5.8, empowering users to create customized outputs while optimizing their workflows with two powerful new features: Templates and Letterheads. Templates are pixel-perfect output backed by data that can be seamlessly used in business workflows including Jobs. Letterheads are customized exports of datasets, ad hoc reports, and templates with brand identity, which includes watermarks, headers, footers.
Posted August 23, 2023
With the pandemic easing, a new normal has arrived, with several key technologies exploding on the scene—propelled by changes that occurred during COVID-19—hastening digital transformation as businesses shifted their digital strategies. MultiValue software vendors continue to address emerging challenges and opportunities that are affecting the IT landscape by frequently adding new features and integrations with other platforms and services, helping their loyal and committed customers to stay up-to-date with the latest technology trends.
Posted August 23, 2023
LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based unified observability platform for hybrid IT infrastructure, is debuting a variety of expanded integrations and capabilities for its LM Envision platform, as well as introducing Dexda, an event management solution.
Posted August 21, 2023
MongoDB, Inc. is offering MongoDB Queryable Encryption, a technology that helps organizations protect sensitive data when queried and in-use on MongoDB. According to the company, MongoDB Queryable Encryption significantly reduces the risk of data exposure for organizations and improves developer productivity by providing built-in encryption capabilities for highly sensitive application workflows—such as searching employee records, processing financial transactions, or analyzing medical records—with no cryptography expertise required.
Posted August 18, 2023
SpringML, a technology services company, is merging with Egen, a cloud migration, application modernization and platform engineering provider, creating a provider with end-to-end capabilities across the cloud, data, analytics, AI, and platform engineering spectrum. The combined business will have all the capabilities necessary to increase the value and accelerate the timeline of the data-driven digital journeys of private and public sector clients.
Posted August 17, 2023
XponentL Data (XponentL), a leading data products solution provider, and Tamr, Inc. (Tamr), a cloud-native data mastering solution, are partnering to deliver cutting-edge data product solutions. According to the companies, this collaboration brings together two industry-leading companies with a shared vision of empowering clients to unlock the full potential of their data.
Posted August 17, 2023
Vectra AI, a provider in AI-driven cyber threat detection and response, is offering the Vectra AI Platform with patented Attack Signal Intelligence, delivering the integrated signal enterprises need to make extended detection and response (XDR). With the Vectra AI Platform, enterprises can integrate Vectra AI's public cloud, identity, SaaS, and network signal with existing endpoint detection and response (EDR) signal to arm SOC teams to keep pace with the ever-growing sophistication, speed, and scale of hybrid attacks, according to the vendor.
Posted August 16, 2023
Apica, the synthetic monitoring and observability company, is announcing the achievement of several proprietary milestones, including the acquisition of observability data fabric start-up LOGIQ.AI and the conclusion of the company's most recent funding round—accumulating a total of $10 million.
Posted August 16, 2023
Peer Software is releasing a self-hosted analytics engine that enhances storage analytics, observability, and monitoring. PeerIQ provides organizations with a single pane of visibility into heterogeneous hybrid and multi-cloud storage environments—going beyond the limitations of singular vendor storage systems, according to the company.
Posted August 16, 2023
Redis, Inc. is introducing the unified release of Redis 7.2 across the company's complete portfolio, including open source, source-available, commercial cloud, software, and Kubernetes distributions. Redis Enterprise 7.2 cloud and software products preview a scalable search feature which delivers greater performance for query and search use cases, including vector similarity search (VSS).
Posted August 16, 2023
Oracle announced the U.S. Intelligence Community has authorized Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to host Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) missions. This new accreditation provides the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community access to Oracle Cloud innovations and expands Oracle's enterprise accreditations to support unclassified, controlled unclassified information (CUI), and top-secret workloads. Oracle also offers customers access to dedicated cloud regions authorized at FedRAMP High/DISA IL2-4, DISA IL 5, and FedRAMP+.
Posted August 16, 2023
Oracle announced that Wendy's has successfully implemented Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite and moved business-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to increase productivity, expand business insights, and improve the experience it delivers to its growing customer base.
Posted August 16, 2023
Oracle is introducing Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer, a rack-scale cloud infrastructure that enables organizations to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) compute services anywhere. According to the company, with Compute Cloud@Customer, customers can develop, deploy, secure, and manage workloads using the same software stack as OCI in deployments as small as a single rack.
Posted August 16, 2023
In the 1992 movie Sneakers, hackers discover a device that can break the encryption of virtually any computer system. At the time of release, the idea seemed far-fetched. But today, because of quantum computers, we may soon have a similar device. Quantum theory is now approaching its 100th anniversary, with the central tenants of the theory having been well-established by the mid-1920s. Together with general relativity, quantum theory is one of the foundational theories of modern science. Our modern world would not be possible without quantum theory: It's central to the design of semiconductors, lasers, MRIs, and even LEDs.
Posted August 16, 2023
Code42 Software, Inc., the Insider Risk Management (IRM) leader, is partnering with Tines—the no-code automation platform for security teams—to release Incydr Flows, powered by Tines to enable security teams to simplify manual, error-prone, and cross-functional workflows.
Posted August 15, 2023
MindsDB, an artificial intelligence virtual database enabling the creation of the next wave of AI-centered applications, announced it has received an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA's venture capital arm, bringing total seed funding raised to $46.5 million. The latest round—which includes existing investors Benchmark, Mayfield, Y Combinator, OpenOcean, and Walden Catalyst—will further advance MindsDB's mission, making AI more accessible to all businesses by enabling the world's 30 million software developers to implement AI capabilities in their products.
Posted August 15, 2023
PEAK:AIO, a provider of a transformative software defined storage platform, is partnering with Stormgrid, a provider of cutting-edge hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, offering state-of-the-art AI infrastructure to enhance performance and scalability for Stormgrid's burgeoning customer base.
Posted August 14, 2023
Virtualitics, Inc., an artificial intelligence and data exploration company, announced it has raised $37 million in a Series C financing round, empowering the company to invest in growth and innovation to drive even greater expansion. The funding will go toward ecosystem investments and investments to enhance its AI platform leadership by adding more machine learning and data analytics capabilities as well as self-serve prescriptive workflows to make it easy for customers to analyze and understand complex data and transform their business.
Posted August 14, 2023
365 Data Centers, a provider of network-centric colocation, cloud solutions, and network connectivity, is enhancing its business continuity capabilities to serve customers at its data center facilities in two regional markets: Smyrna/Atlanta, Georgia, and Marlboro/Boston, Massachusetts.
Posted August 14, 2023
The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, announced that Zowe will mark its 5-year anniversary this month. Zowe, an open source software framework for the mainframe that strengthens integration with modern enterprise applications, will celebrate the milestone by bringing the community together for Zowe Day at SHARE New Orleans on August 14.
Posted August 14, 2023
IBM announced its expanded offering in collaboration with Cloudflare, the Internet security, performance, and reliability company, is now available to Enterprise Premier Plan users. Both IBM and Cloudflare continue to have a mission of delivering solutions that will address these potentially costly security threats, without hindering Internet speed or business innovation, according to the companies.
Posted August 14, 2023
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of Apptio Inc. after receiving all required regulatory approvals, giving clients the ability to derive additional value through the combination of Apptio and IBM. This acquisition brings together Apptio's FinOps offerings, including ApptioOne, Cloudability, and Targetprocess, and IBM's automation portfolio of Turbonomic, AIOps, and Instana to give clients a "virtual command center" for managing, optimizing, and automating technology spending decisions.
Posted August 14, 2023
Unravel Data, an AI-enabled data observability and FinOps platform, is releasing Unravel 4.8.1, enabling Google Cloud BigQuery customers to see and better manage their cloud data costs. This launch comes on the heels of the recent BigQuery pricing model change that replaced flat-rate and flex slot pricing with three new pricing tiers, and will help BigQuery customers to implement FinOps in real time to select the right new pricing plan based on their usage, and maximize workloads for greater return on cloud data investments.
Posted August 11, 2023