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Domino Data Lab is announcing updates to its platform that will drive accessibility to open source tools and techniques—including Ray 2.0, MLflow, and Feast's feature store for machine learning (ML)—allowing enterprises to see tangible value from their AI, sooner; the announcement also features the launch of Domino Cloud, the fully-managed MLOps Platform-as-a-Service, and the general availability of Domino's hybrid and multi-cloud Nexus capability.
Posted March 23, 2023
Postman is announcing the general availability of Postman Flows, a low-code tool to enable those without extensive programming experience to create API applications.
Posted March 22, 2023
DuploCloud is announcing the general availability of its on-prem solution that improves Kubernetes implementation for mid-market and enterprise organizations.
Posted March 22, 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 March 22, 2023
Snow Software, a global leader in technology intelligence, is releasing Snow SaaS Management, a new version of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) management solution that supports IT leaders' need to take control of their sprawl, manage surprise SaaS costs, mitigate compliance and security risks, and optimize overall spend.
Posted March 22, 2023
Organizations rely heavily on SAP systems and applications to run crucial business processes; securing these systems against cyber-attacks is vital. While several cybersecurity frameworks exist to manage cyber risks, they use generic wording that is hard to apply to application security and lack specific guidance to cover SAP environments. As a result, organizations must select the right frameworks to enhance their security posture and streamline complex security operations to safeguard critical assets from attacks.
Posted March 22, 2023
Zebra Technologies Corporation, an innovator at the front line of business with solutions and partners that deliver a performance edge, is releasing Zebra Picking Plus, an Application Programming Interface (API) for SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), designed to help organizations run their warehouse operations more efficiently.
Posted March 22, 2023
SAP is offering new key data innovations and partnerships that give customers access to mission-critical data, enabling faster time to insights and better business decision-making. SAP announced the SAP Datasphere solution, the next generation of its data management portfolio, which gives customers easy access to business-ready data across the data landscape.
Posted March 22, 2023
SAP security provider SecurityBridge is adding the Management Dashboard for SAP security to the SecurityBridge Platform, combining all SAP data aspects and presents the information through a customizable, single pane of glass security dashboard view. With the Dashboard, organizations can now benefit from analyzing live monitoring, static configuration validation, patching, interface traffic statistics, and code security information in one place.
Posted March 22, 2023
DataRobot is releasing DataRobot AI Platform 9.0, featuring deeper partner integrations, AI Accelerators, and redesigned service offerings, all centered on helping organizations derive value from their AI investments. The DataRobot AI Platform allows customers to leverage Value-Driven AI, a unique and collaborative approach that improves how organizations run, grow and optimize their business, according to the vendor.
Posted March 22, 2023
Rocket Software will present its roadmap for Q2 2023 during an upcoming livestream highlighting its MultiValue products. The livestream will include updates on Rocket UniVerse, Rocket UniData, Rocket D3, jBASE, OpenQM, AccuTerm, and MultiValue tools including the MultiValue Integration Server (MVIS) and the MV Experiences (MVX) as well as new e-Learning.
Posted March 22, 2023
Evoke from BlueFinity allows MultiValue technologists to create native and web apps that are as modern as any app on a phone, tablet, or desktop. Evoke enables users to integrate MV data and legacy code, meaning faster to market with lower development cost and easier enhancement and modification, according to the vendor. Users can utilize tools such as chatbots, AI, ChatGPT, graphs, signature panels, retail card views, component libraries and much, much more without becoming a specialist in those technologies.
Posted March 22, 2023
Entrinsik is releasing Informer 5.7, adding a new user interface that simplifies Informer with intuitive ways to navigate, design, and utilize the tool from the home screen. Also, Informer 5.7 features an enhanced workflow which has been redesigned to feel natural and provide a consistent experience, increasing the ease and effectiveness of accessing, analyzing, sharing, and automating data.
Posted March 22, 2023
Observability by definition is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. In other words, a system's behavior is determined from its outputs—information obtained by certain measures. Though observability as a term has been used for many years, the modern understanding originates in software observability, which is the ability to collect data about program execution, internal states of modules, and communication between components.
Posted March 22, 2023
KX is expanding its partnership with Microsoft, now offering kdb Insights Enterprise on Microsoft Azure. According to KX, this represents an industry-first Data Timehouse, a new class of data and AI management platform designed for temporal data generated by digital transformation.
Posted March 21, 2023
Splunk, Inc. is unveiling new updates to the company's unified security and observability platform designed to increase the safety and resilience of its customers' digital enterprises. With enhancements to both Splunk Mission Control and Splunk Observability Cloud, organizations will be better equipped to mitigate cybersecurity threats in the midst of their digital transformation efforts.
Posted March 21, 2023
DBTA recently held a webinar, "Six Steps to Data Democratization Using APIs," joined by Todd Wright, senior product marketing manager at Progress, and David Loshin, principal consultant at Knowledge Integrity, to explore how APIs can be leveraged to increase data democratization and continuous accessibility while enabling self-service reporting and maintaining data protection and compliance.
Posted March 21, 2023
To explore how DBAs can effectively address this myriad of challenges, experts joined DBTA's webinar, "The Role of the DBA in 2023: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities," identifying the methods and strategies for overcoming the growing pains of a constantly evolving data environment.
Posted March 20, 2023
Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, is releasing Orchestration Recipes that will enable organizations to automate the migration from any legacy identity system to any cloud identity provider (IDP) without rewriting any code using the Maverics multi-cloud Identity Orchestration platform. The recipes support moving off outdated IDPs to more secure and flexible cloud identity systems like Okta, Microsoft Azure AD, AWS Cognito, and more.
Posted March 20, 2023
TrueFort, the lateral movement protection company, is launching the TrueFort Trust Partner Program for IT solution providers, systems integrators, consultants, MSPs/MSSPs, and ISVs. The program will deliver custom workload, lateral attack, and microsegmentation security solutions using a channel friendly model that allows partners to capitalize on new market opportunities to generate new recurring revenue streams.
Posted March 20, 2023
SambaNova Systems is releasing the new SambaNova Suite, a collection of accurate generative AI models optimized for the enterprise, deployed on-premises or in the cloud.
Posted March 17, 2023
LicenseFortress, Inc., an independent software asset management provider, is introducing Database Insight as an add-on to the ArxPlatform, further strengthening its partnership with Application Performance Ltd. The ArxPlatform leverages intelligent, real-time software license compliance monitoring and alerting for Oracle, Microsoft, and VMware. The addition of Database Insight will provide optimization for how database licenses are used, as well as unlocking hosting and cloud platform savings, according to the company.
Posted March 17, 2023
The world is becoming increasingly digital every day and, as a result, even more data-driven. The datasphere is experiencing stunning growth, with 90% of all data being created over just the past two years. This explosive growth is something that will only continue in the future, and it's clear that as companies begin to amass more and more data, they need to take a hard look at their data management practices.
Posted March 16, 2023
Altair, a global provider of computational science and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, is rebranding its entire data analytics and AI suite as Altair RapidMiner, uniting all data analytics technology into one platform, following the acquisitions of RapidMiner and World Programming. The Altair RapidMiner platform offers comprehensive end-to-end solutions from data ingestion and modeling to operationalization and visualization. Additionally, the platform is now available via Altair Units, delivering a new generation of frictionless AI capabilities to customers, according to the company.
Posted March 16, 2023
Census, provider of the Data Activation platform that syncs customer data from data warehouses to key business tools, announced a new integration and partnership with Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. By adding Datadog monitoring, Census customers can track the health of real-time reverse ETL syncs using custom alerts and dashboards, according to the vendor.
Posted March 16, 2023
AI is advancing at a faster clip this year with the debut of several technologies boosting its usage. Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), for example, is the large-scale natural language technology that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. AI expert and Erudit's chief science officer and co-founder, Ricardo Michel Reyes, discussed the growing use of AI in programming and whether or not its advancement is something that programmers should fear when it comes to their job security.
Posted March 15, 2023
CelerData is releasing the latest iteration of its enterprise analytics platform, CelerData Version 3, which continues to empower high-performance analytics in the enterprise.
Posted March 15, 2023
Grafana Labs is announcing its recent acquisition of Pyroscope, the open source, continuous profiling project company.
Posted March 15, 2023
In IT, few names are more significant than SAP and AWS. Countless organizations rely on SAP's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for running their mission-critical systems, while AWS holds an astonishing 33% share of the cloud services hosting market.
Posted March 15, 2023
UiPath, an enterprise automation software company, announced that data science teams using Amazon SageMaker, an end-to-end machine learning (ML) service, can now connect to UiPath to quickly connect new ML models into business processes without the need for complex coding. The UiPath Business Automation Platform makes it simple for data scientists, ML engineers, and business analysts to automate deployment pipelines, reducing the cost of experimentation, and increasing the pace of innovation, according to the vendor.
Posted March 15, 2023
Globalstar Inc, a provider of connectivity to businesses and people worldwide, is working with Oracle NetSuite to support its vision to deliver the most reliable communication services. With NetSuite, Globalstar has been able to take advantage of an integrated business system to streamline and scale its international operations and reallocate time and resources to accelerate growth.
Posted March 15, 2023
Oracle announced that the University System of Georgia (USG) has joined Oracle Academy to advance technology education and help students develop career-ready expertise in cloud, software development, and business applications. Oracle Academy will work with USG to provide curriculum, cloud technology and professional development across the university system's 26 public colleges and universities serving over 334,000 students.
Posted March 15, 2023
AT&T Mexico is moving critical IT and business processes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to expand the benefits of mobile internet to more than 21 million subscribers and business customers. The move will impact customers in industries such as education, health, and banking nationwide. With OCI, the company will be able to manage OSS/BSS workloads, analytics, and databases more efficiently in the cloud, according to the company.
Posted March 15, 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 March 15, 2023
Armory, the continuous deployment (CD) company, is releasing several plugins for Spinnaker that are designed to make the platform faster and more secure. Spinnaker can help teams deploy software quickly, safely, and reliably. However, the platform presents technical and cost challenges when managing the growing number of accounts, configurations, credentials, resources and infrastructure overhead required for deployments at scale.
Posted March 14, 2023
Datadobi, in collaboration with Climb Channel Solutions,4 is launching the StorageMAP File System Assessment Service, an intelligent unstructured data solution that equips users with a comprehensive understanding of their data environment to encourage more informed decision-making.
Posted March 14, 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 14, 2023
The EY organization (EY) and IBM are collaborating to focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions that aim to help organizations accelerate business transformation with value-led sustainability. EY and IBM teams will pursue innovative offerings that help integrate sustainability with business strategy, support the operationalization of their programs with speed and scale, and transform how value is created for their business, their stakeholders, their people, and the planet.
Posted March 13, 2023
Lonestar Data Holdings announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding for furthering its plan to establish lunar data centers. Lonestar's initial data center, the size of a hardback novel, will be followed by a series of larger data centers offering data storage and edge processing.
Posted March 13, 2023
IBM and Cohesity are collaborating to address the critical need organizations have for increased data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments. Combining data protection, cyber resilience, and data management capabilities from both companies, IBM will launch its new IBM Storage Defender solution which will include Cohesity's data protection as an integral part of the offering.
Posted March 13, 2023
Dremio, the easy and open data lakehouse, is offering key new features to enable customers to create their data lakehouses more easily by performantly loading data into Apache Iceberg tables, query and federate across more data sources with Dremio Sonar, automatically format SQL queries in the Dremio SQL Runner, and securely connect Microsoft PowerBI using single sign-on (SSO).
Posted March 13, 2023
BrainChip Holdings Ltd is launching the second iteration of the Akida platform, the event-based digital neuromorphic processor IP that imitates the human brain for efficient data processing.
Posted March 10, 2023
SolarWinds, a provider of powerful and secure IT management software, announced SolarWinds Observability is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, empowering SolarWinds customers to take advantage of the Azure cloud platform. In addition, SolarWinds expanded customer availability across the Asia-Pacific region to the company's software as a service (SaaS)-delivered observability offering designed to help businesses gain visibility into modern and distributed digital services.
Posted March 10, 2023
Ontotext, a global provider of enterprise knowledge graph (EKG) technology and semantic database engines, is releasing GraphDB 10.2, empowering users to oversee system health and diagnose problems easier. The solution also includes support for X.509 client certificate authentication, which provides greater flexibility when accessing a secured GraphDB instance.
Posted March 10, 2023
A long, long time ago—in the early 90s—I first worked as a DBA with responsibility for enterprise databases. I will never forget how surprised and disappointed I was to discover that the data in the database files were completely unencrypted. A system administrator with access to the database files could read the data in those files, even if they didn't have a database username and password.
Posted March 09, 2023