Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
In today's data-focused world, modern organizations rely on data not only to conduct business but to plan their future. Data is the fuel for AI and machine learning techniques that drive forward-looking organizations. Data continues to drive daily transactions that drive business. Current and historical data is analyzed for patterns to help streamline operations and boost performance and cost efficiency. And that all must happen within the context of industry and governmental regulations that dictate how data must be governed and protected.
Posted November 20, 2024
Exabeam, a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations, is partnering with Wiz, a leader in cloud security, with the aim of powering secure, resilient cloud environments with enhanced threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) capabilities. Featuring a Wiz product integration for the Exabeam New-Scale Platform, this collaboration emphasizes the power of cloud security intelligence and AI-powered analytics.
Posted November 19, 2024
Sabey Data Centers, a premier designer, builder, and operator of multi-tenant data centers, is partnering with SEGUENTE, a global technology company that provides innovative liquid-cooled IT hardware and AI software platforms for high-performance computing, to enhance both companies' ability to deliver sustainable, optimized, and scalable data center solutions to customers across Sabey's portfolio.
Posted November 18, 2024
Accelsius, whose proprietary two-phase, direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems enable high-performance computing and rack density for data center and edge operators, announced the successful raise of $24 million in a recent funding round, enabling the company to accelerate its plans for an international presence, continue to grow shipments and revenue in the U.S., and expand its professional teams across engineering, R&D, sales, marketing, manufacturing and operations. The Series A funding round started in early 2024.
Posted November 18, 2024
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5, the latest version of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux helps organizations deploy applications and workloads more quickly and with greater reliability, enabling them to lower costs and more effectively manage workloads across hybrid cloud deployments while mitigating IT risks, from the data center to public clouds to the edge.
Posted November 18, 2024
IBM announced quantum hardware and software advancements to execute complex algorithms on IBM quantum computers with record levels of scale, speed, and accuracy. IBM Quantum Heron, the company's most performant quantum processor to-date and available in IBM's global quantum data centers, can now leverage Qiskit to accurately run certain classes of quantum circuits with up to 5,000 two-qubit gate operations.
Posted November 18, 2024
BlackFog, a leader in ransomware prevention and anti data exfiltration (ADX), is releasing its next generation enterprise platform that delivers even more powerful ransomware and insider threat prevention. According to the company, BlackFog's pioneering platform focuses specifically on anti data exfiltration to prevent unauthorized data from leaving a device, ensuring that an organization's most sensitive information is protected.
Posted November 15, 2024
Silverfort, a leading identity security company, is acquiring Rezonate, an innovator in identity-first security for cloud environments—fulfilling Silverfort's mission of providing the industry's most complete identity security platform. According to the company, the consolidated offering will strengthen and expand Silverfort's ability to protect identities across all on-prem assets, cloud identity providers, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS applications. The combined offering, fully integrated into Silverfort's platform, will be available in mid-2025.
Posted November 15, 2024
ThoughtSpot, the AI-powered analytics company, is debuting Spotter, an agentic AI analyst designed to help enterprises derive greater, actionable value from their data. Based around accessibility, reliability, and enriched insights, Spotter is ThoughtSpot's AI-powered solution for enterprises seeking to scale trusted, data-driven decision-making.
Posted November 14, 2024
At a time when every enterprise looks to leverage generative artificial intelligence, data sites are turning their attention to graph databases and knowledge graphs. The global graph database market size was $2.12 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow to $10.3 billion in 2032, according to estimates from Adroit Research. These databases enable data managers and analysts to model, store, and query complex and increasingly interconnected relationships between datapoints. They also are employed to construct knowledge graphs that can cut through data silos, enable semantic searches, and support chatbots and recommendation engines.
Posted November 14, 2024
Many organizations have a false sense of confidence when it comes to databases and their vulnerability, believing that if their database is hit by a ransomware attack, it will automatically cease operations to indicate an attack has taken place. Then, they can just restore the last clean version of the database, and everything will be fine.
Posted November 14, 2024
Far too often information engineers and others take a dismissive stance about managing data structures. This indifferent attitude is largely because whatever tool the engineers use provides fast performance in resolving queries. They believe that quick performance means all is well, so nothing else matters, right?
Posted November 14, 2024
In DBTA's recent webinar, The Future of Open: What's Next in Lakehouse Architecture, experts offered their perspectives on why open lakehouse architectures continue to be a popular vehicle for enabling modernization and innovation across the enterprise, examining the latest trends, tools, and emerging best practices.
Posted November 14, 2024
NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, is updating its portfolio of enterprise storage offerings introducing new NetApp AFF A-Series and AFF C-Series systems with mid-range, all-flash, unified data storage and updates to NetApp StorageGRID. According to the company, Intelligent Data Infrastructure is a comprehensive framework that empowers organizations to define and implement a transformative intelligent data strategy that is secure, agile, and future-ready.
Posted November 13, 2024
TigerEye, the AI-powered planning and revenue management platform, is announcing DuckDB.dart version 1.1.3, offering a myriad of new, exciting enhancements. Following TigerEye's announcement of DuckDB.dart as an open source project, today, TigerEye delivers a variety of customer-centered enhancements—including full feature parity.
Posted November 12, 2024
The Modern Data Company, a pioneer in data products, is launching the Data Product Hub, a new addition to its DataOS platform that will streamline data consumption and enable business users to leverage data products independently. The DataOS Hub democratizes access to trusted data and accelerates digital transformation across the enterprise.
Posted November 11, 2024
CloudBolt Software, The Cloud ROI Company and leader in cloud FinOps, is pursuing a strategic partnership with CloudEagle.ai, a leading SaaS management and procurement platform, to move toward a unified approach to optimizing and governing both cloud and SaaS spend.
Posted November 11, 2024
Kaseya, a global provider of AI-powered cybersecurity and IT management software, is releasing Kaseya 365 User, which joins Kaseya 365 Endpoint which launched in April 2024. Kaseya 365 User gives managed service providers (MSPs) the ability to help their customers prevent, respond to, and recover from threats to user identity and security.
Posted November 08, 2024
Timescale, a leading PostgreSQL database platform, is expanding its PostgreSQL AI offerings with the launch of a pgai Vectorizer, available open-source and hosted in the cloud. Pgai Vectorizer unlocks the ability for any developer to build advanced AI applications without the need for external tools or specialized expertise.
Posted November 07, 2024
Immuta, the data security experts, is expanding its platform with the launch of a new Data Marketplace solution that aims to power fast and safe internal data sharing. Fueling a data marketplace that is owned and managed by the customer, the Immuta Platform enables rapid, data-driven decisions by bringing together data teams and data users to automate discovery and access, while still providing enterprise-grade governance and security, according to the company.
Posted November 06, 2024
Oracle is building on its partnership with Vodafone Business IoT to bring global IoT connectivity to Oracle's Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP) industry applications customers. Built on the high performance and security of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, ECP uses edge architecture to give businesses the out-of-the-box connectivity and near real-time data intelligence required to power essential new services.
Posted November 06, 2024
Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, is releasing Generative AI (GenAI) Blueprints to make it faster and easier for customers to build enterprise-grade GenAI applications on several industry-leading technology platforms. The blueprints—for AWS, Databricks, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, and Snowflake—include standard reference architectures, prebuilt, ecosystem-specific "recipes," and GenAI Model-as-a-Service and vector database connectors to minimize GenAI development complexity and accelerate implementation, according to Informatica.
Posted November 06, 2024
In multidimensional data modeling practice, there is the concept of a bridge dimension. A bridge dimension, being the dimensionalized equivalent of a normalized data design's associative entity, allows for the resolution of a many-to-many relationship. By its very nature, the bridge is saying, "Yes, let's normalize our dimensional designs." The bridge dimension exists to resolve a many-to-many relationship between two other dimensions.
Posted November 06, 2024
XM Cyber, a leader in continuous exposure management, is releasing its innovative Vulnerability Risk Management (VRM) solution, extending its Continuous Exposure Management Platform and empowering organizations to see through the fog of false positives left behind by legacy vulnerability assessment tools.
Posted November 05, 2024
Alation Inc., the data intelligence company, is launching Alation Anywhere for Google Chrome to streamline contextual data discovery and empower users to act on data intelligence within Chrome. According to Alation, the extension allows users to seamlessly search, preview, and retrieve critical metadata from Alation without leaving their browser, delivering trusted, governed data at the point of need for real-time, enterprise-wide decision-making and accelerated time to value.
Posted November 04, 2024
Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader, is releasing FortiDLP, a next-generation data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management solution based on Next DLP's innovative technology and integration into the Fortinet Security Fabric, the new solution bolsters Fortinet's overall portfolio of DLP capabilities.
Posted November 04, 2024
IBM announced that its Envizi environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Suite received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization. Designed to create a single, trusted system of record for all ESG data, the IBM Envizi ESG Suite helps organizations automate the capture and management of ESG data for enhanced analysis, reporting, and opportunity identification.
Posted November 04, 2024
IBM announced that it is bringing the Apptio portfolio of enterprise agile planning (EAP), IT financial management, and cloud FinOps solutions to Microsoft Azure. In addition, IBM announced their global expansion of IBM Software availability on the Azure Marketplace to make it easier for customers to buy software directly on the marketplace while using their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment.
Posted November 04, 2024
IBM is launching IBM Guardium Data Security Center—allowing organizations to protect data in any environment, throughout its full lifecycle, and with unified controls. IBM Guardium Data Security Center provides a common view of organizations' data assets, empowering security teams to integrate workflows and address data monitoring and governance, data detection and response, data and AI security posture management, and cryptography management together in a single dashboard.
Posted November 04, 2024
Picture this: A doctor receives an emergency call late at night. A patient has been brought into the emergency room with severe symptoms, and immediate access to their medical history is crucial. Within seconds, the doctor accesses the patient's electronic health records, seamlessly pulling up a comprehensive view of their health history. Thanks to a secure and reliable database, the doctor can make informed decisions quickly, potentially saving the patient's life.
Posted November 04, 2024
Commvault, a provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is releasing Cloud Rewind on the Commvault Cloud platform—integrating cloud-native distributed application recovery and rebuild capabilities from its acquisition of Appranix. According to the company, this gives cloud-first organizations a secret weapon to transform their cyber resilience capabilities.
Posted October 31, 2024
Denodo, a leader in data management, is unveiling Agora, a new cloud-based solution that transforms data management for organizations across the globe—offering customers a managed service of the Denodo Platform. With Agora, customers can offload infrastructure management and platform operations to Denodo, accelerating access to data for end users while saving organizations time on day-to-day tasks. This enables businesses to attain more of their strategic business goals, so they can stay agile in an ever-changing market, according to the company.
Posted October 31, 2024
Central to any modernization strategy is data management, acting as the true foundation for any advanced technology to succeed and thrive. As scalability, flexibility, and cost effectiveness continues to dictate key goals for data management strategies, the migration to the cloud is the vehicle by which enterprises transform into agile, data-driven entities.
Posted October 31, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is debuting a series of new features for dbt Cloud, the control plane for enterprise data stacks. These latest enhancements serve to empower users across the various stages of the analytics development lifecycle, adhering to One dbt, the company's mission of delivering a single, unified dbt experience regardless of an enterprise's infrastructure, data platform, or cloud.
Posted October 31, 2024
MinIO, the leader in high-performance storage for AI, is announcing new optimizations for Arm-based chipsets powering on its object store, expanding the software ecosystem for the power of Arm. Centering low-power, computationally dense chips, MinIO's enhancements for Arm aim to better accommodate the AI-powered future.
Posted October 30, 2024
Keeper Security, a leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software, is introducing several significant updates to its KeeperFill browser extension, enabling users to customize their viewing experience with landscape mode, a new option for an expanded view of their extension window.
Posted October 30, 2024
Solix Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of cloud data management solutions, is debuting its multi-cloud, transactional, streaming data lake built on the cloud-native Solix Common Data Platform (CDP), designed to centralize data warehouse and database capabilities within a single offering. The SOLIXCloud Enterprise Data Lake is a third-generation data platform that addresses the complex, diverse data needs of modern enterprises with the convenience of a low-cost, secure, cloud data management solution.
Posted October 29, 2024
Cofense, the leading provider of intelligence-driven phishing defense solutions, is unveiling new AI-powered capabilities for its Phishing Detection and Response (PDR) platform that work to ease SOC analyst workloads with AI spam reduction. SOC analysts, plagued by heavy workloads and alert fatigue, benefit from the ability to sort through alert noise and focus on genuine threats with Cofense's new AI functionality.
Posted October 28, 2024
LightBeam.ai, a leader in AI-driven data security, privacy, and governance solutions, is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace, enabling organizations to easily leverage LightBeam's platform for a comprehensive approach to data security, privacy, and compliance all from within their Google Cloud environment.
Posted October 28, 2024
In DBTA's latest webinar, Stop Fixing, Start Predicting: Mastering Predictive Maintenance with IoT Data Analytics and AI, experts from OpenText explained how to implement a predictive maintenance program—shaped by the latest advancements in AI, machine learning (ML), and data analytics—to ensure that business operations remain on, available, and drive successful outcomes.
Posted October 25, 2024
Airbyte, creator of leading open-source data movement infrastructure, is enhancing support for Delta Lake on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, making it easier for users to replicate data from any source into their lakehouse. Airbyte enables organizations to replicate data from any source into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform in minutes, with post-load transformation capabilities.
Posted October 25, 2024
Vectorize, a pioneering startup in the field of AI-powered data integration, announced it has secured $3.6 million in seed funding, along with unveiling its Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform designed to transform how businesses of all sizes leverage their data for AI applications. The funding round was led by True Ventures.
Posted October 24, 2024
Stream.Security, a leading provider of real-time cloud security solutions, announced the closing of a $30 million Series B funding round, enabling the company to further support its real-time, cloud-native threat exposure management solution.
Posted October 24, 2024
Accenture is making a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Reality Defender, an RSA Innovation award-winning cybersecurity company specializing in deepfake detection. Together, Accenture and Reality Defender will equip clients in the financial services, media, and high-tech industries with the ability to rapidly identify, detect, respond to, and prevent deepfake fraud.
Posted October 23, 2024
Semantic Web Company and Ontotext announced that the two organizations are merging to create a knowledge graph and AI powerhouse, Graphwise. Semantic Web Company brings expertise in knowledge engineering, semantic AI, and intelligent document processing, while Ontotext brings the most versatile graph database engine and state-of-the-art AI models for linking and unifying information at scale.
Posted October 23, 2024