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Quest Software, a global leader in systems management, data protection, and security software, is announcing the launch of erwin Data Modeler by Quest 12.5—an update to the data management solution engineered to support strategic efforts such as large language model (LLM) development, data intelligence, and data platform modernization.
Posted August 11, 2023
What are the liability and cost traps you need to watch out for when contracting for data ownership? Adler Law Group president and founder David Adler discussed these key legal considerations in his presentation at Data Summit 2023. Liability and cost traps fall into three areas including laws, rules, and regulations; IT integrations; and third parties, Adler explained.
Posted August 11, 2023
Data experts joined DBTA's webinar, Modernizing Data Integration and Governance for the Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Era, to discuss innovative approaches toward overcoming data silos while simultaneously ensuring both effective governance and access.
Posted August 10, 2023
CISO Global, Inc., a provider of managed cybersecurity and compliance solutions, is introducing Argo Edge, combining the most sought-after security technologies on the market with CISO's proprietary IP and threat feeds for a pre-built and easy-to-implement combined platform. This new solution has been independently valued at $49 million.
Posted August 10, 2023
Syxsense, a provider of unified security and endpoint management (USEM) solutions, is releasing Cortex Copilot, a new AI engine that allows IT and security administrators to simplify and speed up the process of creating endpoint management and security workflow automation.
Posted August 10, 2023
For more and more organizations, real time is not only the right time—it's the only time that matters. No longer can decision makers afford to only understand the material events affecting their businesses a month, a day, or even just a few hours after the fact. They need a sense of what is happening in the moment to be able to predict and adjust for events that are arising. The value of real-time data "is that it provides needed information to accelerate business insights so teams can make better informed decisions and avoid the issues around using older data," said Tarun Chopra, vice president of product management for data and AI at IBM.
Posted August 10, 2023
Existing data infrastructures are crumbling under the weight of data, leading to unsustainable energy consumption, increased management complexity, and declining security. That's the word from a recent survey of 1,288 executives, released by Hitachi Vantara. The survey also finds 76% feel their current data infrastructures "will be unable to scale to meet upcoming demands"—such as AI. Another 61% report they are simply "overwhelmed" by the amount of data they manage. By 2025, the report's authors predict, large organizations will be storing more than 65 petabytes (PB) of data.
Posted August 10, 2023
When Apple first released the iPhone, the company did something that was a bit wild, a bit innovative, especially for a new piece of technology. The iPhone did not come with a 500-page instruction manual explaining how everything worked. There was very little documentation for users. Apple worked hard designing the interface to allow users to apply their own intuitions and navigate around. While some grumbled, it was successful enough, and people adapted.
Posted August 10, 2023
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 10, 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 10, 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 10, 2023
At BLUEPRINT 4D 2023, in Dallas, Oracle's Alexandre Lima shared how Oracle's product, GoldenGate, can help manage data integration, availability, and migrations across multiple platforms. After acquiring the application, Oracle invested heavily in improving GoldenGate. This has made the GoldenGate family of products reliable, consistent, secure, and fast-moving.
Posted August 10, 2023
Rocket Software is releasing Rocket MV BASIC for Visual Studio Code (MVVS) v2.1.0, including a preview of the highly anticipated feature—Online Editing. In the latest MVVS v2.1.0 extension, the Online Editing feature takes center stage, enabling users to effortlessly view and edit program files either locally or remotely on a Rocket UniVerse or Rocket UniData server, according to the company.
Posted August 10, 2023
With more data than ever being created, making the right choices among the countless options for data management and analytics is a top priority for many organizations. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers.
Posted August 09, 2023
Torq, the hyperautomation cybersecurity provider, is debuting Torq Socrates, a Tier-1 analysis AI agent designed to hyperautomate security processes for enterprises bogged down by overwhelming security workloads and a small talent pool.
Posted August 09, 2023
VAST Data, the data platform company for the AI era, is unveiling its data computing platform, engineered to underpin the burgeoning world of AI that rivals the capabilities of other existing data platforms.
Posted August 09, 2023
Synopsys, Inc is launching the Synopsys Software Risk Manager platform, a powerful new application security posture management (ASPM) solution that enables security and development teams to simplify, align, and streamline their application security testing across projects, teams, and application security testing (AST) tools.
Posted August 08, 2023
Edgio, the platform of choice for speed, security, and simplicity at the edge, is releasing a new API Security solution that uses machine learning (ML) to discover and protect enterprise Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from evolving threats. According to the company, the latest addition to Edgio's Security platform reduces the risk of API-specific attacks and through simple integration with developer workflows enables strong application performance and accelerated application release velocity.
Posted August 08, 2023
Ermetic, a cloud infrastructure security company, is introducing CNAPPgoat, an open source project that allows organizations to safely test their cloud security skills, processes, tools and posture in interactive sandbox environments. CNAPPgoat supports AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms for assessing the security capabilities included in Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP).
Posted August 07, 2023
SnapLogic, a provider of generative integration, is introducing SnapGPT, a generative integration solution that empowers everyone to integrate faster and easier. Leveraging open source and proprietary large-language models and artificial intelligence, SnapGPT allows users to integrate any applications or data sources with natural language.
Posted August 04, 2023
AttackIQ is delivering "testing for everyone" via AttackIQ Flex, AttackIQ Ready! and AttackIQ Enterprise product offerings. Users anywhere in the world can now use AttackIQ's advanced adversary emulation capabilities to test with any budget, with a simplified testing experience, and with comprehensive risk visibility, in minutes, according to the company.
Posted August 04, 2023
Ontotext is releasing GraphDB 10.3, introducing new features such as the integration of ChatGPT, a popular large language model (LLM), to greatly assist users in comprehending SPARQL queries and results, while also providing a new mechanism to enrich RDF data. With the integration of ChatGPT, users will now be able to delve into the world of RDF with greater ease and gain a deeper understanding of its capabilities.
Posted August 03, 2023
Nasuni Corporation, a provider of file data services, is announcing a new feature integrated with the Nasuni Ransomware Protection Service that enriches the proactive detection and recovery of ransomware attacks.
Posted August 03, 2023
Dell Technologies is dipping its feet into the generative AI space with new offerings to help customers quickly and securely build generative AI (GenAI) models on-premises, aiming to accelerate improved outcomes and drive new levels of intelligence.
Posted August 03, 2023
SQream, a scalable GPU accelerated data analytics software platform, is releasing its flagship product SQream DB, a GPU-based analytics software solution, on the Samsung Cloud Platform (SCP), allowing Samsung Cloud Platform users to gain maximum insights from their data/AI/ML sets in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost, regardless of the dataset size or query complexity.
Posted August 02, 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 02, 2023
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has introduced a new Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA) for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). According to Oracle, the solution helps make security compliance and cloud adoption for mission-critical workloads easier, faster, and more cost effective by using a framework of cloud native services.
Posted August 02, 2023
Oracle is releasing MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, enabling customers to query data in object storage as fast as querying data inside the database. MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse supports a variety of object store file formats such as CSV, Parquet, and export files from other databases, and can combine object storage file data and MySQL database transactional data together in the same query.
Posted August 02, 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 02, 2023
Dynatrace, the leader in unified observability and security, is expanding its Davis AI engine to create a hypermodal artificial intelligence (AI), converging fact-based, predictive- and causal-AI insights with new generative-AI capabilities. According to the company, the expanded Davis AI will boost productivity across business, development, security, and operations teams by delivering generative-AI recommendations fueled by precise context from predictive- and causal-AI techniques that reflect the unique attributes of each organization's hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystem.
Posted August 01, 2023
Protect AI, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security company, announced it has closed a $35M Series A round of funding, enabling the company to scale sales and marketing, go to market activities, R&D, and customer success initiatives.
Posted August 01, 2023
Jitterbit, the enterprise empowering transformation through automation, is debuting Harmony EDI, a cloud-based, self-managed electronic data interchange (EDI) solution designed to help streamline business processes and automate workflows within the realm of EDI.
Posted July 31, 2023
Bfore.AI, a predictive security solution, is releasing its signature PreCrime solution suite, expanding predictive threat intelligence and reinforcing proactive digital risk protection (DRP) to accelerate early identification and remediation, optimize security operations, and take preemptive actions against online fraud.
Posted July 31, 2023
LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based unified observability platform for hybrid IT infrastructure, announced it has expanded its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS), adding value to Amazon CloudWatch data and expanding monitoring coverage across an extensible array of AWS services to help customers quickly see meaningful insights, increase uptime, and gain faster visibility into business changes.
Posted July 31, 2023
IBM is introducing a new tool to help enterprises track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across cloud services along with the ability to advance sustainability performance throughout the hybrid, multi-cloud journey. Now generally available, the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator—an AI-informed dashboard—can help clients access emissions data across a variety of IBM Cloud workloads such as AI, high performance computing (HPC), and financial services.
Posted July 31, 2023
IBM Consulting is collaborating with the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) to build Pulse by NABP, a new digital platform that is intended to bring visibility to the drug supply chain and help protect patients from counterfeit or substandard prescription medications.
Posted July 31, 2023
IBM Security released its annual "Cost of a Data Breach Report," revealing that the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million in 2023—an all-time high for the report and a 15% increase over the last 3 years. Detection and escalation costs jumped 42% over this same time frame, representing the highest portion of breach costs, and indicating a shift towards more complex breach investigations.
Posted July 31, 2023
Developers have a strong affinity for deploying their applications on open-source database engines, such as MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers these engines as a managed service and manages complex and time-consuming administrative tasks, such as database engine software installation and upgrades, storage management, replication for high availability and read throughput, and backups for disaster recovery.
Posted July 28, 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 27, 2023
Kinetica, the database for time and space, is unveiling a completely free iteration of Kinetica Cloud, enabling anyone to experience real-time data analysis capabilities by simply signing-up—no credit card needed. Kinetica Cloud Free Forever offers the full extent of its services, for free, for up to 10GB of data.
Posted July 27, 2023
Teradata is acquiring Stemma Technologies (Stemma), a cloud-native, fully managed, data catalog solution, adding AI to accelerate transformative analytics value for customers. Stemma's robust data catalog solution will strengthen Teradata's data fabric and accelerate the analytic productivity of the Vantage platform, according to Teradata.
Posted July 26, 2023
Vertex, Inc., a global provider of tax technology solutions, announced that its Vertex Indirect Tax Determination for SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA is now an SAP Endorsed App for the North American region. As businesses grow and evolve on a global scale, so do their tax needs. Navigating the ever-changing tax landscape doesn't need to be complicated, according to the company.
Posted July 26, 2023
Cosmo Tech announced that its Supply Chain Vulnerability Scan is now available on the SAP Store, arming SAP Integrated Business Planning software with an AI-Simulation add-on to deliver supply chain resilience at all levels of planning to customers.
Posted July 26, 2023
SAP announced it is making strategic direct investments in three leading generative AI companies, furthering its commitment to deliver Business AI that's relevant, reliable, and responsible. The investments in Aleph Alpha GmbH, Anthropic PBC, and Cohere reinforce SAP's open ecosystem approach to AI, leveraging the best technology to embed AI across the SAP portfolio, according to the company.
Posted July 26, 2023
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, a global healthcare company, announced it has reached an important milestone in its IT transformation, successfully migrating its key SAP software systems to the cloud with the RISE with SAP offering. This strategic move lays the foundation for future innovation targets and enables Fresenius to improve scalability, enhance application security, and drive the digitalization of its global business processes, according to the company.
Posted July 26, 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 26, 2023
Keith Lambert, VP of marketing and business development at Kore Technologies, and Mark Dobransky, managing partner and co-founder of Kore Technologies, joined DBTA's webinar, Modernize Your MultiValue Applications with Real-Time Integration, to explore the ways in which U2 applications can be successfully integrated with other technologies, as well as how RESTful Web Services and APIs can be leveraged and created to propel positive implementation.
Posted July 26, 2023
Postman, the API platform company, is announcing the completed acquisition of Akita Software, the system behavior monitoring and observation accessibility company, with plans to integrate Akita's robust API monitoring and discovery capabilities within the Postman platform.
Posted July 25, 2023
DBI Software, a provider of performance monitoring, tuning, and trending tools for IBM Db2 LUW and SQL Server databases, is releasing version 9 of the DBI Performance Web Suite. Version 9 of the Web Suite, collector, and classic tools includes many new features and enhancements such as a top query resource and degradation analyzer, historical locks, recommendations with links to the relevant views, a Linux version of the Web Suite, and support for Edge.
Posted July 25, 2023