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RKVST, a provider of provenance-as-a-service, is introducing Instaproof, enabling companies to get the information they need to decide what data to trust. With RKVST Instaproof anyone can easily check the file they are working with by dragging it onto Instaproof to verify its provenance. If the file has been registered with RKVST, the provenance information displayed can be used to decide which files to trust.
Posted May 26, 2023
Appdome is launching a new capability within its cyber defense platform—Build-to-Test—which empowers developers of mobile apps to optimize the testing of cybersecurity features within their projects.
Posted May 26, 2023
Delinea, a provider of solutions that seamlessly extend Privileged Access Management (PAM), is releasing the latest version of Cloud Suite, part of its Server PAM solution, offering privileged access to and authorization for servers. New updates include more granular support for just-in-time (JIT) and just-enough privilege access automation, and improved identity assurance through enforced human interaction when prompted for multi-factor authentication (MFA) at server log-in or privilege elevation.
Posted May 25, 2023
Honeywell is releasing its operational technology (OT) cybersecurity solution, Honeywell Forge Cybersecurity+ | Cyber Insights, to assist customers in improving the availability, reliability, and safety of their industrial control systems and operations.
Posted May 25, 2023
Caveonix is launching the fifth-generation offering of its Caveonix Cloud platform, built to provide actionable insights and real-time continuous protection of applications.
Posted May 25, 2023
IBM announced the creation of IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh, a SaaS offering that is designed to enable enterprises to bring management to their hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure. Driven by "Application-Centric Connectivity," IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh is engineered to automate the process, management, and observability of application connectivity in and between public and private clouds to help modern enterprises operate their infrastructure across hybrid multi-cloud and heterogeneous environments, according to the company.
Posted May 25, 2023
Cloud experts joined DBTA's webinar, "Cloud Migration Best Practices: Top Strategies and Tools," to explore the risks and potential of cloud transformation, where certain strategies, solutions, and requirements may be the difference between a successful migration and one that fails to root.
Posted May 25, 2023
Ridge Security, an automated security validation solution provider, is releasing Ridge Security RidgeShield, an automated, cloud workload protection and testing solution.
Posted May 25, 2023
SolarWinds is announcing the advancement of AI and ML capabilities within its IT service management (ITSM) solution, SolarWinds Service Desk.
Posted May 24, 2023
NVIDIA announced that it is integrating its NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning to help enterprises accelerate their AI initiatives, enabling Azure customers worldwide to quickly build, deploy, and manage customized applications using the more than 100 NVIDIA AI frameworks and tools.
Posted May 24, 2023
Habu, a global provider of data clean room software, is partnering with Microsoft Azure to integrate its Data Clean Room applications with Azure confidential computing. The move will enable businesses to unlock insights from sensitive data without sacrificing security, privacy, or performance, according to the companies.
Posted May 24, 2023
SAP and Microsoft are deepening their long-standing partnership, using the latest in enterprise-ready generative AI innovation to help solve customers' most fundamental business challenges. The companies will collaborate on integrating SAP SuccessFactors solutions with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot in Viva Learning, as well as Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service to access powerful language models that analyze and generate natural language. The integrations will enable new experiences designed to improve how organizations attract, retain, and skill their people, according to the companies.
Posted May 24, 2023
Avantra, a leading AIOps platform for SAP operations automation, is launching its new Cloud edition for RISE with SAP, enabling RISE customers to automate cloud, on premise, and third party operation activities as they migrate their business operations to the cloud.
Posted May 24, 2023
XM Cyber, a provider of hybrid cloud security, is partnering with SAP to help organizations utilizing SAP solutions, such as RISE with SAP and SAP eCommerce Cloud, to transition their data and processes to the cloud with less risk and without compromise. Leveraging the capabilities of XM Cyber's Exposure Management Platform and its attack-path technology, SAP customers can now use the company's exposure management technology to gain visibility into their entire attack surface, both on-premise and in the cloud, to detect and migrate malicious activity before it can occur, according to the vendors.
Posted May 24, 2023
SAP and IBM announced that IBM Watson technology will be embedded into SAP solutions to provide new AI-driven insights and automation. The move aims to help accelerate innovation and create more efficient and effective user experiences across the SAP solution portfolio. SAP will use IBM Watson capabilities to power its digital assistant in SAP Start, which provides a unified entry point for cloud solutions from SAP.
Posted May 24, 2023
Rocket AccuTerm, an established terminal emulator for MultiValue applications, is receiving updates improving its functionality and security. Rocket AccuTerm 8.1 now offers a seamless single sign-on experience, a true web version (i.e., with no hosted dependencies on Rocket Software) that matches its desktop counterpart, and adherence to the industry's leading software security standards, including Synopsys Black Duck, Polaris, and VeraCode.
Posted May 24, 2023
Western Nevada Supply recently chose RDM Infinity to consolidate a variety of service centers into a state-of-the-art distribution center by modernizing Western Nevada's legacy warehouse management system (WMS). The relationship between RDM Infinity and Western Nevada Supply has been a beneficial collaborative partnership.
Posted May 24, 2023
The upcoming release of Informer 5.8 is bringing an array of features built to empower users to create customized outputs while optimizing their workflows. At the heart of this release are two powerful new features, Templates and Letterhead. According to Madhavi Chandra, chief product officer, in a blog post, Informer 5.8 includes the game-changing Templates feature, designed to provide users with total control over their custom outputs.
Posted May 24, 2023
The pandemic significantly accelerated the pace of technological advancement and digital transformation, generating a need for new digital programs and solutions. The drive to meet this demand has increased pressure on IT departments, which, in turn, has heightened collaboration between IT and line-of-business (LOB) executives. Business technologists, or staff members who are not in the IT department but leverage technology to solve their business problem to improve the productivity of their department, are increasingly choosing the applications, technology frameworks, and platforms that help them solve their business problems without heavy reliance on IT.
Posted May 24, 2023
Nefolo, the Shadow IT leader that provides 360-degree SaaS visibility and optimization, is introducing its global Shadow IT platform, a solution that gives businesses comprehensive visibility and control over their application landscape. The cloud-based platform provides real-time insights into an organization's entire SaaS portfolio, including who is using what applications, how those applications are being used, and whether they pose any security or compliance risks.
Posted May 23, 2023
Vultr, a privately-held cloud computing company, and Domino Data Lab, provider of an Enterprise MLOps platform, announced the integration of Domino Nexus with Vultr's Kubernetes Engine to help businesses achieve competitive advantage in the era of generative AI.
Posted May 23, 2023
Deloitte is acquiring the assets of Optimal Design Co., a product engineering services (PES) company specializing in the innovation and development of smart connected products and internet of things (IoT) devices, enabling clients to unlock innovation and achieve their digital transformation goals.
Posted May 22, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, "Implementing and Managing a Data Fabric: Steps to Success," to aid both IT decision makers and data professionals in cultivating an optimized and manageable data fabric with a variety of strategies and best practices to do so.
Posted May 22, 2023
IBM is introducing new IBM Quantum Safe technology, providing a comprehensive set of tools and capabilities, combined with IBM's deep security expertise, designed as an end-to-end solution. As quantum computers continue to advance, they will reach the ability to break the most widely used security protocols in the world. Recognizing this risk, IBM has leveraged its extensive expertise across cryptography, quantum computing, and critical infrastructure to develop IBM Quantum Safe technology, according to the company.
Posted May 22, 2023
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has shared plans for a new data center architecture for AI workloads, along with the development of its own custom chip for running artificial intelligence models. "This new data center will be an AI-optimized design, supporting liquid-cooled AI hardware and a high-performance AI network connecting thousands of AI chips together for data center-scale AI training clusters," said Santosh Janardhan head of infrastructure at Meta, in a blog post, adding that the new data center systems will be faster and more cost-effective to build than earlier facilities.
Posted May 22, 2023
IBM is acquiring Polar Security, an innovator in technology that helps companies discover, continuously monitor, and secure cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) application data, along with addressing the growing shadow data problem. IBM plans to integrate Polar Security's DSPM technology within its Guardium family of leading data security products. With the integration of Polar Security's DSPM technology, IBM Security Guardium will provide security teams with a data security platform that spans all data types across all storage locations—SaaS, on premise, and in public cloud infrastructure.
Posted May 22, 2023
Democratizing data use within an organization empowers employees, fosters greater collaboration, and enables them to make more informed, data-driven decisions. By giving data and analytics tools and solutions to the many, companies can take accurate and timely decision making out of the hands of the few, resulting in improved productivity, increased efficiency, and enhanced business outcomes.
Posted May 18, 2023
Zendesk, the business process innovator, is announcing the launch of Zendesk AI, a customer experience (CX) solution built on billions of customer service interactions to deliver personalized, efficient, and more empathetic CX, according to the vendor.
Posted May 18, 2023
NeuroBlade, the company reinventing infrastructure for data analytics, is announcing the launch of the NeuroBlade SQL Processing Unit (SPU)—a processor designed solely for analytics in mind—now available with select Dell Power Edge servers.
Posted May 18, 2023
Timescale, the cloud data platform company, is making a strategic move to reposition itself in the market, reflecting a significant transformation taking place within the organization that includes a refreshed visual identity, an updated website, and product restructuring.
Posted May 18, 2023
ServiceNow and NVIDIA are collaborating to develop powerful, enterprise-grade generative AI capabilities that can transform business processes with faster, more intelligent workflow automation. According to the company, using NVIDIA software, services, and accelerated infrastructure, ServiceNow is developing custom large language models trained on data specifically for its ServiceNow Platform, the intelligent platform for end-to-end digital transformation.
Posted May 17, 2023
VAST Data, the data platform company for the AI era, announced VAST's data platform is now a certified datastore for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, providing organizations with agile, scalable performance for the most challenging machine learning and deep learning workloads, including generative AI.
Posted May 17, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, "The Top Data Engineering Challenges and How to Solve Them," to discuss how organizations can navigate and best support data engineering functions, where next-gen data architecture strategies may pose a wealth of opportunity for organizations attempting to build efficient, agile, and resilient data systems.
Posted May 17, 2023
The Zero Trust model has emerged as a game-changing approach to data backup and security. With the proliferation of cyberattacks in recent years, traditional security measures are no longer sufficient. In 2023 alone, it is projected that cybercrime will cost businesses around the world over $8 trillion. This staggering figure underscores the urgent need for companies to adopt a more comprehensive approach to data protection.
Posted May 17, 2023
Oracle is adding innovations to Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, the industry's autonomous database powered by machine learning and optimized for analytics workloads, breaking through the proprietary and closed nature of traditional data warehouses and data lakes. Oracle is providing native multi-cloud capabilities and open standard-based data sharing across databases, simplifying data integration and analysis with a unique low-code based tool, and transforming the economics of data lakes by providing ultra-fast enterprise storage at the same low cost as object storage.
Posted May 17, 2023
DigiCert, a global provider of digital trust and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), is integrating DigiCert ONE, the platform for digital trust, on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). According to the companies, customers will benefit from DigiCert ONE's fast time to value combined with OCI's high-performance and security-first architecture for single and multi-cloud deployments. Moving forward, DigiCert and Oracle will collaborate on further integration into the OCI ecosystem to help joint customers manage their digital trust initiatives in a unified architecture.
Posted May 17, 2023
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is announcing its Spring '23 release, which includes support for flexible Standard shapes with independent scaling of compute and storage.
Posted May 17, 2023
The end goal of database design is to be able to transform a logical data model into an actual physical database. A logical data model is required before you can even begin to design a physical database. Assuming that the logical data model is complete, though, what must be done to implement a physical database?
Posted May 17, 2023
Veza announced that its Veza Authorization Platform is now available on the Snowflake Data Cloud, enabling joint customers to manage access permissions and secure their sensitive data at scale. By leveraging the Snowflake Data Cloud, Veza is joining Snowflake in mobilizing the world's data to help organizations secure access to sensitive data and achieve continuous compliance, according to the vendor.
Posted May 16, 2023
Qlik announced it has closed its acquisition of Talend, expanding the company's capabilities for modern enterprises to access, transform, trust, analyze, and act with data. Qlik and Talend solutions are complementary, extending the capabilities in many vital areas such as data quality, transformation, application connectivity, and API services.
Posted May 16, 2023
Cognizant is introducing a new, enterprise-wide platform, dubbed Cognizant Neuro AI, designed to provide enterprises with a comprehensive approach to accelerate the adoption of generative AI technology. According to the company, the platform leverages Cognizant's consulting, advisory, ecosystem partnership, digital studios, solutioning, and delivery capabilities, in conjunction with industry expertise, to help clients transition seamlessly into the era of generative AI.
Posted May 16, 2023
The global hype surrounding ChatGPT, large language models (LLMs), and generative AI has launched a plethora of conversations about its efficacy in the business sphere; yet understanding how to best leverage these tools remains rather elusive. At Data Summit 2023, David Seuss led the session, "Investigating Neural Networks and AI," focusing on what ChatGPT, LLMs, and generative AI are, as well as how they can provide a competitive edge for a wide variety of organizations seeking to drive positive business outcomes.
Posted May 15, 2023
AvePoint, an advanced platform that optimizes SaaS operations and secures collaboration, is introducing updates to the AvePoint Confidence Platform that will help organizations modernize their digital workplaces with scalability and control. According to the company, as organizations increase their dependencies on SaaS applications for digital collaboration, AvePoint's new SaaS management capabilities further improve operational efficiency, increase visibility, and enable security and compliance.
Posted May 15, 2023
Jeff Fried, director of product management at InterSystems, led the Data Summit session, "Viewing Data Fabric and Data Mesh as Complementary," to explore the ways in which data fabric and data mesh can be lifted beyond an "either/or" approach, where when united, these paradigms can propel enterprises into accessible and comprehensively data-driven entities.
Posted May 12, 2023
Alec Gilarde, senior associate at Bullpen Capital, led the Data Summit session, "Data-Driven Investment in a Changing World," delving into venture capitalist investments—powered by data—that radically transform the efficacy of investing while offering reduced risk, scalability, and increased transparency.
Posted May 12, 2023
Prioritizing data quality is step one to becoming data-driven. However, what is step one to improving data quality? In most IT suites, the argument is better processes, better data fields, and better technology. Kasara Weinrich, principal consultant, future of work, ADP disagrees. Organizational data literacy is the most important step to truly achieving great data quality, data-driven decision making, and data management. At Data Summit 2023, Weinrich talked about this during her session, "Data as a Second Language: Every Layer of Your Organization Needs to Be Fluent."
Posted May 11, 2023
Frank Cervone, program coordinator of information science and data analytics at San Jose State University, led the Data Summit session, "Developing Database DevOps," to explore how DataOps can be optimized to lead organizations to better business outcomes in regards to both data and analytics work.
Posted May 11, 2023