Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
Alluxio, a developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, is creating a solution in collaboration with Intel that offers an in-memory acceleration layer with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane persistent memory (PMem).
Posted April 30, 2020
Business and IT have, in the past, used times of crisis to adapt and transform themselves for the better. While the COVID-19 pandemic has undeniably had a devastating effect on business, and life itself, it may also be a catalyst for change, compelling organizations to rethink their long-term operations and spending amidst the short-term crisis brought on by the health emergency. Industry leaders recently discussed what "the new normal" may look like.
Posted April 30, 2020
Kong Inc., a cloud connectivity company, is releasing a new open source tool called Insomnia Designer, offering a collaborative API design editor. Building on Insomnia Core, which Kong acquired in 2019, the software works natively with Insomnia's testing capabilities to accelerate the development, performance and stability of REST and GraphQL services, the communications backbone of the modern applications and services people rely on each day.
Posted April 30, 2020
dotData, focused on delivering full-cycle data science automation and operationalization for the enterprise, is launchg dotData AI-FastStart, a new bundle of technology and services that includes a one year license to a fully-hosted version of dotData's autoML 2.0 platform, along with training and support.
Posted April 29, 2020
Actian, a provider of hybrid cloud data warehousing and data integration, has introduced its Avalanche Real-Time Connected Data Warehouse Solution with support for AWS and Azure cloud platforms. The Actian hybrid solution offers integration capabilities natively built into the product, enabling enterprises to harness diverse data sources for use in high performance analytics.
Posted April 29, 2020
Franz, a provider of semantic graph database technology for knowledge graph solutions, has introduced AllegroGraph 7. With this release, the patented distributed knowledge graph solution adds innovations that address the fact that large enterprises have knowledge graphs that are so large that no amount of vertical scaling will work. "Large enterprises have knowledge graphs that are so big that no amount of vertical scaling will work," said Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz.
Posted April 29, 2020
LOGIQ, creator of LOGIQ Insights, is releasing LOGIQ Insights 1.2, enabling self-service observability on the Kubernetes platform along with many features built for Kubernetes environments and workloads.
Posted April 29, 2020
Sigma Computing, a provider of cloud-native analytics and business intelligence (A&BI), is extending the power of Sigma to be used throughout the cloud data analytics stack.
Posted April 28, 2020
John Murphy, senior vice president, products, EnterpriseDB recently reflected on the impact of COVID-19, including the shift in business practices and the renewed attention to what is really important. "The impact of the pandemic has enterprises laser-focused in three areas: the flexibility of their technology infrastructure; cost, obviously more than ever; and their people's talent," said Murphy.
Posted April 28, 2020
Verizon Media is unveiling three new resources that developers and data teams can use to organize and better understand publicly available COVID-19 data. The resources include a dataset, API, and dashboard that help engineers analyze and navigate COVID-19 data.
Posted April 28, 2020
Fluree, a startup that provides a data-centric technology stack, is launching the Fluree Partner Network (FPN) providing enabling technology for ISVs, Sis, and VARs to build and deliver the Web3 applications.
Posted April 28, 2020
NVIDIA has completed the acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., enabling customers to achieve higher performance, greater utilization of computing resources, and lower operating costs.
Posted April 27, 2020
Flexential, a provider of data center colocation and hybrid IT solutions, is offering next-generation Managed Public Cloud and Managed Container Orchestration services to automate cloud infrastructure, application deployment, and increase speed to market. Flexential's Managed Public Cloud solution, for AWS and Microsoft's Azure cloud platforms, offers a white-glove turnkey service with ongoing 24x7 operational support of a company's public cloud environment, including management of the hyperscale cloud platform, services, and instances within.
Posted April 24, 2020
Imply has announced the release of a new version of its flagship product. Imply is a real-time analytics solution based on Apache Druid to store, query, and visualize event-driven data. Imply 3.3 takes advantage of new SQL JOIN support in Apache Druid 0.18, simplifying data pipelines and creating substantial savings by reducing storage costs, data ingestion costs and maintenance costs.
Posted April 23, 2020
Swarm64, a provider of database acceleration solutions for the PostgreSQL open source database, is releasing Swarm64 DA 4.0, database acceleration software that extends PostgreSQL with the ability to analyze data orders of magnitude faster than usual.
Posted April 23, 2020
Core Scientific, a provider of AI and blockchain cloud infrastructure and software solutions, and SQream, are partnering to bring accelerated analytics of massive data to the GPU Cloud for data scientists. This partnership aims to provide cost effective accelerated analytics based on GPU computing for machine learning and deep learning used by telecom operators, financial services, healthcare organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and more.
Posted April 23, 2020
ID Agent, a Kaseya company and provider of Dark Web monitoring and security awareness training solutions, is adding Passly, an integrated secure identity and access management solution, to its Digital Risk Protection (DRP) Platform. Passly combines single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA) and password management into one flexible, comprehensive and integrated solution for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and multifunction IT teams at companies of any size.
Posted April 22, 2020
GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, is releasing GigaSpaces 15.2, doubling performance and introducing the GigaOps Stack for DataOps functionality that simplifies and streamlines modern application development and deployment. Version 15.2 increases the velocity, reliability, and security of data processing and analytics in alignment with business goals, while freeing enterprises to develop and deploy modern time-sensitive and data-driven applications that support their digital transformation initiatives.
Posted April 22, 2020
SAP is launching "Bridge-IT," an app created using SAP and Qualtrics technology that empowers employees and customers with accurate real-time facts on COVID-19. Created to support employees and combat inaccurate news, the app will collate information from trustworthy sources including The World Health Organization (WHO), and combine it with specific country data, local government guidance, travel information, and relevant company policies, to provide localized information for users.
Posted April 22, 2020
SAP is making several update to its Schedule a Manager and Ask an Expert Peer services, among others, to better focus on the customer support experience and enable customer success. Based on AI and machine learning technologies, SAP has further developed existing functionalities with new, automated capabilities such as the Incident Solution Matching service and automatic translation.
Posted April 22, 2020
Pure Storage, a provider of storage-as-a-service IT solutions, has achieved the platinum level in the SAP PartnerEdge program and is an SAP global technology partner. This enables Pure Storage's FlashArray product to provide significant value to customers and service providers running mission critical SAP workloads.
Posted April 22, 2020
HVR, an independent provider of real-time cloud data replication technology, is now certified by SAP for integration with SAP HANA. The SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has certified that HVR Software 5.6 integrates with SAP HANA using SAP standard integration technologies to load data into SAP HANA database.
Posted April 22, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, several companies have been instrumental in providing tools to promote remote workplace safety. Rocket Software is among the organizations that reacted swiftly when shelter in place orders were announced.
Posted April 22, 2020
Smyth Automotive provides full-service automotive parts, paint and body, and machine shop services. In business since 1963, the company differentiates itself with knowledgeable, helpful and friendly staff, better prices and great quality.
Posted April 22, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many companies to switch to remote work and BlueFinity is assisting companies with the transition. Its Evoke product allows citizen developers (the company's existing staff) to build business apps using low-code, drop and drag, point and click; and option select methods.
Posted April 22, 2020
To get a full appreciation for the incredible pace of change in business technology, look at the past 6 years. In 2014, IDC published a report that said that, by 2020, the digital universe would contain nearly as many digital bits as there are stars in the universe, and the data we create and copy annually would reach 44 zettabytes, or 44 trillion gigabytes. Guess what? It's 2020. And it turns out IDC was correct in assuming that we were about to endure a data deluge.
Posted April 22, 2020
ScienceLogic, a provider of monitoring solutions for multi-cloud management and hybrid IT infrastructure, is introducing its latest enhancements in context-infused AIOps. With the introduction of Behavioral Correlation, ScienceLogic is transforming how IT teams identify, troubleshoot, and remediate service-disrupting events—before end-user impact can even be detected.
Posted April 21, 2020
With growing numbers of people filing for unemployment benefits amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, cities and states are having difficulty changing the COBOL code (for mainframes that control their citizens' data) fast enough to respond to the increased unemployment payment eligibility. The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, has organized its membership to address the skills gap spotlighted by public sector officials.
Posted April 20, 2020
Solo.io, a software company that helps organizations adopt and operate innovative cloud native technologies, is releasing the open source Service Mesh Hub. The platform offers a unified dashboard for installing, discovering, operating, and extending a single service mesh or group of meshes, with multi-cluster "virtual mesh": orchestration and support for the new Istio 1.5. Istio is an open source service mesh led by Google, IBM and Lyft to connect, monitor, and secure microservices, which has gained in popularity among Kubernetes end users.
Posted April 20, 2020
Solo.io is updating Gloo, its Envoy based API Gateway, to focus on improving the developer experience in consuming APIs. In this release the company added a developer portal to make it easy to securely publish and manage APIs to developers both inside and outside the organization.
Posted April 17, 2020
DataStax is offering a preview build of Kong with support for DataStax Astra (beta), bringing a cloud-native database-as-a-service (DBaaS) built on Apache Cassandra to every developer. As part of the beta program, DataStax has been working with developers and listening to their feedback. Many asked for an integration with Kong so DataStax prioritized that request and Kong is one of the first integrations of DataStax Astra.
Posted April 17, 2020
Yellowbrick is providing free access to its cloud data warehouse to give real-time access and insights of critical data to researchers and companies actively working on a vaccine for COVID-19.
Posted April 16, 2020
Alluxio, the developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, is receiving $15.5 million after extending its Series B financing, enabling the company to expand its hybrid cloud data orchestration.
Posted April 16, 2020
VAST Data, a storage company, has raised $100 million in Series C funding which will be used to drive global expansion and accelerate the company's next phase of growth.
Posted April 16, 2020
Melissa, a provider of global address, name, email, phone, and identity verification solutions, is offering free address validation services for six months in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted April 15, 2020
At Oracle OpenWorld 2019, Oracle introduced the Cloud Free Tier with Always Free services so anyone can try the world's first self-driving database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for an unlimited time. It provides customers with the opportunity to build, learn, and explore the full functionality of Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including Compute VMs, Block and Object Storage, and Load Balancer.
Posted April 15, 2020
Software AG is releasing webMethods AppMesh, a configurable control plane for microservices, APIs, and service mesh that adds application context to service mesh, providing better agility, management, and governance of microservices as business apps.
Posted April 14, 2020
Pepperdata, a provider of Analytics Stack Performance (ASP) solutions, is releasing Streaming Spotlight, a new product in Pepperdata's data analytics performance suite enabling Kafka integration. The suite is purpose-built for IT operations teams, giving them a single, comprehensive view of their analytics stack, both in the cloud and on premises.
Posted April 14, 2020
Ascend.io, the data engineering company, is providing a native integration between the Ascend and Looker platforms, closing the gap between enterprise data engineering and data analysis platforms.
Posted April 09, 2020
Alcide, a Kubernetes security provider, is releasing sKan, an open and free command line tool that brings Alcide Security Platform to the hands of developers, DevOps and Kubernetes application builders. sKan enables developers to scan Kubernetes configuration and deployment files as part of their application development as well as CI pipelines.
Posted April 09, 2020
Modern software development teams have adopted a continuous delivery approach based upon DevOps and agile development techniques. The small and frequent code changes that result from such methodologies can deliver significant benefit in terms of reduced lead time for changes, a lower failure rate, and a reduced mean time to recovery when errors are encountered. Indeed, today's developers migrate more frequent changes into the production environment than ever before.
Posted April 08, 2020
I've kept you informed over the years about not just the latest news and features in SQL Server, but across the entire Microsoft Data Platform, both on-premise and in the cloud. This includes additional products such as SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), and their cloud siblings, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Factory (ADF). Another important and powerful sibling product is Azure Cosmos DB, previously known as Document DB, which I first wrote about here many years ago.
Posted April 08, 2020
As we have moved forward with APIs and microservices, every organization has even more data stores to manage and more sources of data to consider. Sorting through data structures for operational solutions can become mind-numbing due to the variety, or even frustrating due to a lack of detail from many vendors. Source systems are no longer the monoliths they once were.
Posted April 08, 2020
Even before the IT elements of data optimization begin, aligning organizational culture around a data-driven mindset will be a major challenge. Making the case for data optimization is important. Even before the IT elements of data optimization begin, aligning organizational culture around a data-driven mindset will be a major challenge. Making the case for data optimization is important.
Posted April 08, 2020