Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
Organizations often force the DBA to take on the job of data modeling. That does not mean that DBAs are well-trained in data modeling, nor does it mean that DBAs are best suited to take on this task. The data administration (DA) team is best suited for modeling data. This is because data modeling requires knowledge of the business aspects of data resource management.
Posted April 13, 2023
The biggest technology news of the year so far has undoubtedly been the release of the OpenAI ChatGPT technology. ChatGPT is a chat-bot style AI that can generate amazingly knowledgeable and human-like conversations. ChatGPT can also generate essay-type answers to exam questions, write halfway decent song lyrics, or even generate computer code. I was going to explain how ChatGPT works, but instead, I'll let ChatGPT tell you.
Posted April 13, 2023
2022 was a big year for observability. Many businesses made concerted efforts to gain a better understanding of its value. Leading technology research firms applauded its potential impact to simplify increasingly complex IT environments, with Gartner featuring observability in its "Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends" report. Analysts predicted a bright future for the technology, with some suggesting observability adoption would increase at a compound annual growth of 8.2%.
Posted April 13, 2023
NetBox Labs is announcing its Series A funding results of $20 million, enabling the company to grow its platforms.
Posted April 12, 2023
Startups continue to emerge this year, addressing challenges and leveraging opportunities in innovative and novel ways. The landscape is constantly changing, and 2023 is no different. These companies bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, becoming a part of data fabric or mesh, and more.
Posted April 12, 2023
The 10th annual Data Summit conference will be held May 10-11, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Boston, with pre-conference workshops taking place on May 9, 2023. Whether your interests lie in the technical possibilities and challenges of new and emerging technologies or using Big Data for business intelligence, analytics, and other business strategies, Data Summit 2023 has something for everyone.
Posted April 11, 2023
Kyligence is announcing the general availability of Kyligence Zen, a low-code, centralized metrics platform to define, collect, and analyze enterprise-grade metrics.
Posted April 11, 2023
Alation Inc., a provider of enterprise data intelligence solutions, is expanding partnerships with Databricks, the lakehouse company, and dbt Labs, a provider of analytics engineering, to extend knowledge, collaboration, and trust across the modern data stack. Joint customers can now easily integrate rich metadata from Databricks Unity Catalog and leverage a new connector that provides support for dbt Core and dbt Cloud in Alation. As a result, users have a better understanding of their data landscape and can view underlying data changes and transformations to power data intelligence, according to Alation.
Posted April 11, 2023
Fivetran, a global leader in automated data movement, is introducing support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with Apache Iceberg data lake format to combine large-volume, cost-effective data storage with simple access and comprehensive compliance.
Posted April 11, 2023
VMware, Inc. is introducing new capabilities across the VMware Tanzu and VMware Aria platforms, empowering customers with the capabilities to take a cloud-smart approach to modern application delivery across any cloud. Tanzu Application Platform 1.5, with new capabilities will enable companies to build and deploy more software, more quickly and securely, through a rich set of developer tooling.
Posted April 10, 2023
According to a new report, the total global market size for the "Data Center Networking Market" was valued at USD 21.80 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.4% over the forecast period to reach USD 49.41 billion by 2029. Maximize Market Research, an international business and consultancy firm has recently published a research report on the "Data Center Networking Market."
Posted April 10, 2023
Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, is launching a new Cyber Cloud data center in Mexico City, Mexico, adding to the company's global network of Cyber Cloud data centers. This move provides Acronis partners with access to a comprehensive range of cutting-edge cyber protection solutions, empowering them to create new services and offerings to manage their clients' data protection needs more efficiently and effectively with faster access, continuous data availability, and the added benefit of data sovereignty, according to the vendor.
Posted April 10, 2023
Rocket Software, a global technology provider that develops enterprise software, is releasing Rocket Content Automation, enabling critical operational connections between disparate systems and data sources without introducing mainframe migration or compliance risks. Rocket Content Automation drives collaboration between business and IT organizations, creating enhanced experiences with seamless automation across the Rocket Content Services portfolio, modernizing enterprise customers' content and data landscapes, according to the company.
Posted April 10, 2023
IBM and Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, are collaborating to drive data innovation across hybrid cloud environments. This collaboration aims to allow enterprises to run applications across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud or at the edge—and help enable users to cost efficiently access and utilize key business data and analytics in real time, according to the vendors.
Posted April 10, 2023
This month, I want to take a higher-level view of database performance concepts and introduce a few themes that will likely follow you throughout your career working with database systems and applications. These themes should be viewed as guiding principles to keep in mind when confronted with database performance issues.
Posted April 10, 2023
TDengine is announcing its strategic partnership with Casne Engineering which will integrate technologies to boost the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market.
Posted April 06, 2023
Synopsys, Inc is introducing Fast Application Security Testing (fAST) offerings that represent the latest capabilities and features of the Polaris Software Integrity Platform. "Today, development, DevOps and security teams of all sizes need a fully integrated and automated solution that combines multiple testing technologies, reduces complexity, and matches the pace of modern DevSecOps," said Jason Schmitt, general manager of the Synopsys Software Integrity Group.
Posted April 06, 2023
Honeycomb, a leading observability platform used by high-performing engineering teams, announced it has raised $50 million in Series D funding, propelling the company's expansion globally and support for OpenTelemetry, along with efforts toward building a cohesive integration strategy across the entire software development ecosystem.
Posted April 06, 2023
Snyk, a leader in developer security, is releasing SnykLaunch April 2023, a series of strategic enhancements to the company's Developer Security Platform to enable global enterprises to create a secure software supply chain, while advancing greater DevSecOps collaboration and enhancing developer productivity.
Posted April 05, 2023
Databricks is announcing the Databricks Lakehouse for Manufacturing, the first open, enterprise scale lakehouse platform—designed with the manufacturer in mind—to lower costs, boost productivity, and unify data ecosystems, as well as AI.
Posted April 05, 2023
Oracle is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA to include running strategic NVIDIA AI applications on the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster. NVIDIA has selected OCI as the first hyperscale cloud provider to offer NVIDIA DGX Cloud, an AI supercomputing service, at massive scale. In addition, NVIDIA is running NVIDIA AI Foundations, its new generative AI cloud services, which are available through DGX Cloud, on OCI.
Posted April 05, 2023
Flexential, a provider of data center colocation, cloud and connectivity, and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced it will offer connectivity to Oracle Cloud through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect. Flexential is expanding its Cloud Fabric ecosystem by offering low latency interconnection options to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This can allow customers in any Flexential data center across its national FlexAnywhere platform to connect to OCI, according to the vendor.
Posted April 05, 2023
Oracle is releasing Java 20, the latest version of the programming language and development platform, delivering thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, including platform enhancements that will help developers improve productivity and drive innovation and growth across their organizations.
Posted April 05, 2023
CloudBees, a software delivery platform for enterprises, announced the integration of CloudBees' continuous delivery and release orchestration solution, CloudBees CD/RO, with Argo Rollouts to enhance customers' ability to deliver software faster, with higher quality, and at scale in cloud-native environments.
Posted April 04, 2023
Dremio, an open and easy data lakehouse company, and Domo, a data experience platform innovator, are forming a new partnership to expand access to critical data for better decision-making with native data integration with Domo Cloud Amplifier, allowing joint customers to easily connect to Domo to analyze data directly on the data lakehouse.
Posted April 04, 2023
MariaDB is announcing the latest release of MariaDB SkySQL, introducing innovations such as autoscaling and serverless analytics.
Posted April 03, 2023
EQT Corporation and Context Labs are announcing their strategic partnership which targets the further commercialization of verified low carbon intensity natural gas products and carbon credits, as well as increase transparency for critical emissions data.
Posted April 03, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, "From Edge to Cloud: IoT Data Management and Stream Processing," to explore how new approaches to data management can mean the difference between relying on archaic infrastructures and adopting agile, flexible, and scalable data processes.
Posted April 03, 2023
Digitate, a provider of SaaS-based enterprise software for IT and business operations, is releasing a new solution, dubbed Eagle, to help advance greater agility and resiliency in digital enterprises. The new release advances AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities across the entire ignio product line, solving key business challenges with better enterprise risk management, intelligent patching and compliance, automation of advanced SAP operations, and streamlined change management process.
Posted March 31, 2023
John Steinmetz, VP of data and analytics at Shiftkey, and Shane Murray, CTO at Monte Carlo, joined DBTA's webinar, "Virtual Data Panel: Measuring Data Team ROI," to discuss the strategies and tools data teams can implement as they look inward to measure their own ROI—whether it be to improve their data quality, or to effectively vocalize their organizational value.
Posted March 31, 2023
Domo is launching several new features to enhance the data experience for everyone across an organization, regardless of their skill level, reaching people at all stages of their data journey. "Our focus is to make data accessible and actionable through human-first data experiences. We want to enable everyone with the ability to leverage data, no matter their role or comfort level working with data," said Ben Schein, SVP of product at Domo.
Posted March 31, 2023
AttackIQ is launching AttackIQ Ready!, a fully managed BAS that improves enterprise security posture and security program performance by employing years of advanced content and actionable reporting.
Posted March 30, 2023
Incorta, the real-time business analytics company, is partnering with Google Cloud as part of several initiatives surrounding cloud computing and analytics deployments. The collaboration is aimed at helping companies move their business application and enterprise resource planning data into the cloud.
Posted March 30, 2023
Logpoint is introducing new capabilities to its cybersecurity operations platform, converging SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, endpoint security, and Business-Critical Security (BCS) technologies. The new capabilities enable security analysts to protect the organization against threats by increasing observability and decreasing the time to respond to threats.
Posted March 30, 2023
SnapLogic, a provider of intelligent integration and enterprise automation, is now available in the Google Cloud Marketplace, offering both line-of-business and IT teams with the ability to accelerate and automate the process of moving data in and out of Google Cloud to help surface critical business insights that improve decision-making. Additionally, the company has successfully achieved a Google Cloud Ready - AlloyDB designation.
Posted March 30, 2023
OpenText is releasing the latest version of ValueEdge, an innovative modular, cloud-based DevOps, and value stream management (VSM) platform. According to OpenText, ValueEdge23 includes new capabilities that build on the platform's existing functionality, enabling chief technology officers (CTOs) to accelerate speed-to-value eliminating the typical waiting, wasting, and wondering in the development process.
Posted March 30, 2023
Google Cloud and MongoDB significantly expanding their joint commitment to powering data-driven transformations with a multi-year extension of their partnership. The partnership expansion includes plans to double the scope of Google Cloud infrastructure that MongoDB needs to support accelerating adoption of Atlas.
Posted March 30, 2023
Ermetic, the cloud infrastructure security company, is offering automated capabilities that enable customers to discover and fix misconfigurations, compliance violations, and risky or excessive privileges in Kubernetes clusters through its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).
Posted March 30, 2023
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through Wednesday, May 10.
Posted March 29, 2023
Jitterbit, a global provider for empowering transformation through automation, is acquiring Zudy, a leading no-code/low-code application development platform provider for enterprise organizations. This acquisition expands on Jitterbit's existing capabilities in the no-code/low-code application development space, further demonstrating the company's commitment to providing a best-in-class suite of tools and services for integrating and automating business processes, according to the company.
Posted March 27, 2023
Semarchy, a master data management and data integration leader, is introducing new capabilities to enable organizations to capitalize on their data that include integration with Microsoft Azure, new visibility and control for MDM workflows, and simplified data integration infrastructure deployment through Docker images.
Posted March 27, 2023
T-Systems will now have the ability to provide its customers with cloud access to IBM's quantum systems, including multiple quantum computers powered by the 127-qubit IBM Eagle processor. The Deutsche Telekom IT subsidiary will embark on the path to providing access to this technology, as well as insights on how it can be applicable to its customers' businesses. In addition, T-Systems will offer dedicated quantum know-how and training.
Posted March 27, 2023
Cleveland Clinic and IBM officially unveiled the first deployment of an onsite private sector IBM-managed quantum computer in the United States, dedicated to healthcare research with an aim to help Cleveland Clinic accelerate biomedical discoveries. Quantum computing is a rapidly emerging technology that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that today's most powerful supercomputers cannot practically solve. The ability to tap into these new computational spaces could help researchers identify new medicines and treatments more quickly, according to IBM.
Posted March 27, 2023
Keepit, a leader in cloud data protection and management, announced that all of its data centers located in the Americas and EMEA are now powered by 100% renewable energy. Keepit operates 10 data centers across the U.S., Canada, Germany, the U.K., and Denmark. The data centers are powered by energy sources that fall under local renewable energy guarantee schemes: GoOs (Guarantees of Origins) in the EU, REGOs (Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin) in the U.K., and RECs (Renewable Energy Certificates) in the U.S. and Canada.
Posted March 27, 2023
LiquidStack, a provider of liquid immersion cooling for data centers, announced it has received an investment from Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator. The investment will help further support the adoption of LiquidStack's solutions and significantly reduce data center carbon footprint, water consumption, e-waste, and environmental impact, while creating additional value for both Trane and LiquidStack customers.
Posted March 27, 2023
Amplitude, Inc. announced it is expanding its suite of product features for Amplitude Experiment to better support data leaders as they improve their organization's experimentation practices. Built upon Amplitude's Digital Analytics Platform and natively integrated with Amplitude Analytics, Amplitude Experiment helps data leaders unite analytics, experimentation, and new program management capabilities to scale their experimentation programs faster and further, according to the vendor.
Posted March 24, 2023
Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, is joining NVIDIAs DGX-Ready Software program, simplifying the deployment and management of AI for customers. Dataiku has been selected for the exclusive, invite-only program because of its tested and certified solutions that pair with NVIDIA DGX systems, allowing NVIDIA customers and partners to easily implement advanced analytics and AI.
Posted March 23, 2023
Redis, the real-time data platform, is releasing RedisJSON 2.0, enabling customers to easily modernize existing applications and create entirely new digital experiences requiring real-time access and processing of JSON document files. According to the company, this new version now comes with native indexing, querying, and full-text search capabilities, powered by RediSearch, reducing complexity for developers and all coming at the speed of Redis.
Posted March 23, 2023