Business Intelligence and Analytics Articles
Oracle revealed plans to open two Oracle Cloud Regions in Morocco to offer enterprise cloud services to local and regional organizations across Africa. The upcoming new regions will enable Oracle customers and partners to migrate mission-critical workloads from their data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), while helping them comply with local regulations. As a result, customers and partners can access a wide range of cloud services to modernize their applications and innovate with AI, data, and analytics, according to Oracle.
Posted June 05, 2024
A first and important step in being successful at almost any job or task is understanding oneself. This is true for engineers, modelers, or even architects. Do you know how to perform your tasks? Are you faster or slower than others doing the same tasks? Do you have more or less errors in your output than others? It seems that a rising number of people are so uncomfortable with competing that they may even avoid asking these kinds of questions of themselves; but this is not about competition, it is about understanding oneself, it is about being responsible, it is about holding oneself accountable.
Posted June 05, 2024
Mei Long, product manager at Prophecy, and Nathan Tong, sales engineer at Prophecy, joined DBTA's webinar, Build Data Pipelines on Databricks in 5 Easy Steps, to discuss various practical strategies and techniques to streamline data transformation, foster seamless collaboration between teams, and establish data transformation standards that value reliability and quality.
Posted June 04, 2024
Jitterbit, a global leader in empowering transformation through automation, is introducing Jitterbit Premier Support, a comprehensive service designed to address and resolve issues with immediacy and effectiveness to minimize downtime, maintain business continuity, and ensure quality of service.
Posted June 03, 2024
CrowdStrike and Cloudflare, Inc., the leading connectivity cloud company, are expanding their strategic partnership to connect their platforms to enhance security from the device to the network, accelerate Security Operations Center (SOC) transformation, and stop breaches before they happen.
Posted June 03, 2024
Lacework, the data-driven security company, is debuting Lacework Edge, a new proxy-based, cloud-native security service edge (SSE) solution designed to secure users and networks at the edge. Expanding the Lacework platform's visibility and behavioral analysis to the edge, this latest solution aims to ease risk management at the edge with sophisticated—yet explainable—technology.
Posted June 03, 2024
OmniOn Power announced the release of its RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) Client module for its DC power systems, addressing the growing need for secure, remote access to data center infrastructure. The addition of RADIUS Client modules to OmniOn's power systems allows for the centralized management of access credentials and policies without the need to individually configure each system controller, according to the company.
Posted June 03, 2024
IBM is expanding its portfolio of servers with the introduction of IBM Power S1012, delivering 3X more performance per core. This 1-socket, half-wide Power10 processor-based system is available in a 2U rack-mounted or tower deskside form factor and is optimized for edge-level computing, delivering the lowest entry price point in the Power portfolio to run core workloads for small and medium-sized organizations, according to IBM.
Posted June 03, 2024
Building on more than 20 years of partnership, IBM and Adobe are delivering guidance and technology to help clients benefit from the full value of Generative AI in marketing, content creation, and brand governance. The companies are accomplishing this through a unique alliance spanning technology and consulting services, driving joint innovation through hybrid cloud infrastructure, data, applications, and a multi-model generative AI approach.
Posted June 03, 2024
Aston, provider of the fastest path to clean energy for the global supply chain, is launching a first-of-its-kind Rapid Development Program (RDP) for Clean Data Centers. Aston's demand-driven approach brings scalable clean energy to data centers with a network of clean energy generation and industrial private grids purpose-built for each customer's energy needs today and for decades to come, according to the company.
Posted June 03, 2024
Zilliz is introducing Milvus Lite, a lightweight vector database that runs locally within the Python application, making it a compact and efficient solution ideal for environments with limited computing resources such as laptops, Jupyter Notebooks, and mobile or edge devices. Based on the open-source Milvus vector database, Milvus Lite reuses the core components for vector indexing and query parsing while removing elements designed for high scalability in distributed systems.
Posted May 31, 2024
Microsoft and Broadcom are expanding their partnership, unveiling plans to support VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) subscriptions on Azure VMware Solution. Customers that own or purchase licenses for VMware Cloud Foundation will be able to use those licenses on Azure VMware Solution, as well as their own data centers, giving them flexibility to meet changing business needs, according to Microsoft and Broadcom.
Posted May 31, 2024
Redpanda is acquiring Benthos, a popular open-source stream processing platform that enables enterprises to move, integrate, and perform transformations on streams of data flowing between systems and data sources, making Redpanda a complete and unified, end-to-end streaming data platform built close to the hardware to be more performant, simpler to deploy and easier to operate.
Posted May 31, 2024
Bolster, a provider of multi-channel phishing protection, announced it has received $14 million in a Series B financing round, enabling the company to invest in GTM initiatives that strategically prioritize executive monitoring, business email compromise (BEC) attack detection and takedown, and threat-hunting automation.
Posted May 30, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is introducing dbt Cloud enhancements designed to help businesses turn data into a competitive advantage as companies' data volumes explode and the need for trustworthy, high-quality data increases. "Accurate and timely data is crucial, which is why we've delivered a standardized way to quickly build reliable, holistic, and high-quality data pipelines at scale," said Luis Maldonado, VP of product at dbt Labs. "These new features take this even further, significantly improving data workflows and AI workloads, all while empowering more users with powerful business insights."
Posted May 30, 2024
Zendata, a provider of AI governance and data privacy solutions, is emerging from stealth with the aim of increasing understanding around data usage. Backed by $2 million in a funding round led by PayPal Ventures, First-hand Alliance, Geek Ventures, and Altari Ventures, Zendata will continue to develop its platform while expanding its customer base.
Posted May 29, 2024
Tigera, the creator of Project Calico, is offering new features of Calico Enterprise and Calico Cloud, extending the products' Runtime Threat Defense capabilities. Through Calico, Tigera equips security, DevOps, and platform engineering teams with the deep visibility and monitoring required to bolster the security of their container platforms and containerized applications, according to the company.
Posted May 28, 2024
Catalogic Software, a provider of secure data protection solutions, is releasing the latest version of Catalogic DPX, the company's enterprise data protection software, making enhancements to the DPX vStor backup repository technology. This release introduces advancements in data immutability and recovery functionalities, and vStor Snapshot Explorer feature, all designed to bolster the security and flexibility of the company's flagship enterprise backup solution, according to the company.
Posted May 28, 2024
Parasoft, a global leader in software testing and quality solutions, is introducing several advancements in software testing technology, equipping teams with automated AI-enhanced API test generation, microservices code coverage collection, and web accessibility testing.
Posted May 28, 2024
To discuss the ways GenAI can be augmented for true success, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, and David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube, joined DBTA's webinar, Delivering on the promise of AI: Increasing Accuracy with a Semantic Layer, offering the ways that a semantic layer—or a consistent convention of understanding and definition that data adheres to—can position GenAI and large language models (LLM) to live up to their technological intent.
Posted May 24, 2024
EDB, the leading Postgres data and AI company, is introducing EDB Postgres AI, an intelligent platform for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads that can be deployed as cloud, software, or physical appliance, all powered by the same Postgres engine. The launch of EDB Postgres AI also ushers in a new corporate identity aimed at the belief that Postgres can solve the AI generation's most complex data challenges.
Posted May 24, 2024
Averlon, a pioneering cloud security company, is emerging from stealth mode with an $8 million seed funding round aimed at transforming how organizations stay ahead of security threats. This latest investment, which brings the company's total funding to $10.5 million, is led by Voyager Capital with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Outpost Ventures, along with several prominent CISOs and industry leaders.
Posted May 24, 2024
Puppet by Perforce, the industry standard for infrastructure automation, is making significant enhancement to its commercial offering, adding new security, compliance, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities. With the demands of digital transformation, security imperatives, and efficiency requiring every organization to move with greater agility, Puppet Enterprise emerges as a timely solution to increase business velocity without sacrificing security and resiliency, according to the company.
Posted May 23, 2024
Cytex, Inc., a SaaS-based, full-spectrum industry leader in cybersecurity, is unveiling the Audify Compliance Verification Platform, a real-time compliance verification platform solution providing continuous compliance attestation of the cybersecurity posture of the entire organization.
Posted May 23, 2024
Syncari, a leader in data unification and automation, is launching its Autonomous Data Management platform, offering distributed 360-degree data, centralized governance, and democratized access that is essential for powering transformative digital and AI technologies. According to the company, the platform enables enterprises to automate processes seamlessly across all data domains, using a unified master data model, ensuring robust data consistency and transactional lineage.
Posted May 22, 2024
Cisco is releasing a new virtual appliance for its AppDynamics On-Premises application observability offering, enabling customers to use a self-hosted observability solution built on AI-powered intelligence for anomaly detection and root cause analysis, application security, and SAP monitoring.
Posted May 22, 2024
SAP announced that PureTech Scientific LLC, a global leader in the production of glycolic acid products with a range of uses from skin care to clean and disinfect, has gone live with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition to position itself for further growth. With its entire ERP now in the cloud, PureTech Scientific gets real-time insight of its daily production and the ability to employ and automate barcoding. PureTech Scientific is now able to complete SAP goods issue and goods receipt transactions automatically with mobile devices, further reducing time needed for reporting.
Posted May 22, 2024
SecurityBridge, a global provider of SAP security solutions, is releasing its Next-Generation Security Dashboard for SAP, providing a comprehensive suite of security functions customized for CISOs, SOCs, and SAP Basis teams. The dashboard now offers real-time views into threat monitoring, compliance ratings, patching status, code vulnerabilities, interface traffic, and more.
Posted May 22, 2024
IBM and SAP are advancing their collaboration, adding new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions that can help clients unlock business value. "IBM and SAP's shared approach to generative AI, built on an open ecosystem, trust and purpose-built models, will help empower clients to optimize business outcomes," said John Granger, senior vice president, IBM Consulting. "Our new Value Generation partnership initiative will enable clients to accelerate the path to innovation, competitive advantage and become a next generation enterprise through generative AI."
Posted May 22, 2024
BlueFinity recently looked at a LinkedIn poll that asked, "What do businesses want when designing new MV apps?"—revealing key insights that will shape the future of MV app development. There is, however, a contradiction in the public discourse of what the results of the poll suggested and what is being discussed in public and private forums focusing on MV.
Posted May 22, 2024
RDM Infinity is releasing the latest version of its innovative solution, rdmBUILD v2.2, designed to revolutionize MultiValue investments. rdmBUILD v2.2 is packed with features to enhance performance, streamline communication, and empower systems like never before, according to the company.
Posted May 22, 2024
Rocket Software announced the promotion of Emma Breslin, who will take the reins of Product Manager in Rocket's Application Modernization business unit. Breslin will be overseeing Rocket MultiValue data servers and tools, including Rocket UniVerse and UniData. "Joining Rocket's Application Modernization business unit as the Product Manager for Rocket MultiValue data servers and tools has been an exhilarating transition for me," said Breslin. "I've been part of the tech support team since 2004 and have seen Rocket UniVerse and UniData evolve from their IBM days to now. It's incredibly fulfilling to move from a reactive support role to a proactive stance in product management."
Posted May 22, 2024
Cirata, the company that automates Hadoop data transfer and integration to modern cloud analytics and AI platforms, announced that Cirata Data Migrator is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace—making it easier for joint customers to acquire the technology they need to migrate Hadoop data lakes across multi-cloud environments that include Google Cloud, while helping to optimize cloud spend.
Posted May 21, 2024
Cycode, the leader in Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), is launching an ASPM marketplace that features more than 100 connectors and integrations to enable customers to seamlessly integrate and ingest findings from relevant third-party security tools, complement and contextualize those findings with native scanners, and eliminate gaps within supply chain security.
Posted May 21, 2024
Rafay Systems, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider for modern infrastructure and accelerated computing, is extending the capabilities of its enterprise PaaS for modern infrastructure to support graphics processing unit- (GPU-) based workloads—making compute resources for AI instantly consumable by developers and data scientists. Additionally, the company also launched a new AI Suite with standards-based pipelines for machine learning operations (MLOps) and large language model operations (LLMOps) to help enterprise platform teams quicken the development and deployment of AI applications for developers and data scientists, according to Rafay Systems.
Posted May 20, 2024
FireMon, the leading network security policy management (NSPM) company, is releasing FireMon Asset Manager 5.0, providing comprehensive real-time cyber situational awareness of an organization's infrastructure. The update brings improved manageability, extends integration with other platforms, and further strengthens delivering complete visibility of organizational assets.
Posted May 20, 2024
IBM is releasing IBM Copilot Runway, a new offering from IBM Consulting designed to help enterprises create, customize, deploy, and manage copilots including Copilot for Microsoft 365. With the new offering, clients will be able to seamlessly integrate copilots' generative AI into their organizations in order to enhance productivity and drive business success, according to the company.
Posted May 20, 2024
Flexential, a leading provider of secure and flexible data center solutions, is expanding its FlexAnywhere Platform, introducing plans to develop its fifth data center and colocation facility in the Denver area. By expanding its data center footprint in the region, Flexential aims to meet surging demand for data center inventory and connectivity across Denver, according to the company.
Posted May 20, 2024
Broadcom Inc. is launching its Automic Automation solution as a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, providing the same features as the Automic Automation on-premises solution with the added benefits of a service. With advanced workload automation and workflow orchestration capabilities, Automic SaaS will unify and simplify automation across mainframe, distributed, and hybrid cloud environments, while freeing up resources normally absorbed by infrastructure management so they can focus on more strategic automation projects, according to Broadcom.
Posted May 20, 2024
In today's world where data reigns supreme, the role of Database Administrators (DBAs) extends far beyond just maintaining databases. DBAs play a crucial role in overseeing the entire lifecycle of data within organizations, from its inception to disposal. This is called data lifecycle management. But let's define data lifecycle management (or DLM) in a bit more depth.
Posted May 20, 2024
Cube, the enterprise helping companies manage and optimize their analytics workflows, is debuting new intelligence capabilities that enable enterprises to develop AI and embedded analytics solutions with ease. These new features—AI API and chart prototyping for Cube Cloud—empower Cube customers to leverage the company's universal semantic layer to streamline AI and embedded analytics solutions development while improving the quality of generative AI (GenAI).
Posted May 17, 2024
Nozomi Networks, the leader in OT and IoT security, and Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, is expanding their longstanding global partnership to further strengthen and streamline the way industrial and enterprise CISOs and their teams anticipate, diagnose, and respond to cyberthreats.
Posted May 17, 2024
Riverbed, a provider of AI Observability, is launching an advanced AI-powered observability platform to optimize digital experiences, along with introducing several new solutions and a unified agent built upon this open architecture. Expanding on its broad collection of full-fidelity data across the IT landscape, Riverbed's new observability capabilities now enable IT to overcome visibility blind spots around public cloud, zero trust and SD-WAN architectures, and remote work environments.
Posted May 17, 2024
ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a provider of enterprise IT management solutions, is releasing SaaS Manager Plus, a SaaS management solution for enterprises to streamline their SaaS ecosystems. SaaS Manager Plus will integrate with Zoho apps and other widely utilized applications.
Posted May 16, 2024
The Department of Labor announced the release of a far-reaching set of principles that provide employers and developers, that create and deploy artificial intelligence, with guidance for designing and implementing AI in ways that enhance job quality and protect workers' rights. These new guidelines were developed as a result of President Biden's Executive Order on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.
Posted May 16, 2024
Amazon's Just Walk Out technology seemed like the epitome of futuristic shopping when it debuted at Amazon Fresh stores. I, like many, was thrilled about the potential of advanced AI transforming the shopping experience. The idea of simply grabbing items and leaving without the hassle of a traditional checkout process was a game changer. I believed that the technology arm behind these stores, Amazon Web Services (AWS), was at the forefront of AI innovation. However, the recent revelations about the true nature of this technology have left me, and many others, feeling disappointed and misled.
Posted May 16, 2024
ScienceLogic, a provider of automated IT operations, is unveiling Autonomic IT—business-accelerating capabilities that combine data, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation to enable enterprises to focus on innovation. With support from the ScienceLogic SL1 platform, enterprises can achieve improved, global hybrid cloud visibility, significantly reduce IT complexity and costs, diagnose root cause faster, and leverage automation to slash manual effort as they progress towards the full realization of Autonomic IT, according to the company.
Posted May 15, 2024