Cloud Computing Articles
After releasing version 2.0 of its open source DataOps platform infrastructure, Meltano announced it has raised an additional $8.2 million in funding to further extend the project's capabilities. This brings its total Seed Round funding to $12.4 million. The funding round was led by Venrock, with additional participation by Alphabet's GV, Uncorrelated Ventures, Data Tech Fund and numerous angel investors.
Posted June 14, 2022
Snow Software, a provider of technology intelligence, and Anodot, the business monitoring company, are forming a new strategic partnership to help organizations solve the urgent challenge of managing rapidly growing and increasingly complex cloud costs. Snow and Anodot will bridge the disciplines of IT asset management (ITAM) and finance operations (FinOps) together to address evolving issues associated with cloud cost management.
Posted June 13, 2022
Kaizen Analytix LLC, a provider of data, analytics, and technology solutions, is releasing its new Anomaly Detection Engine that systematically searches through all segments of a company's data to quickly identify outliers which lead to fraud, customer churn, revenue leakage, and other issues.
Posted June 13, 2022
According to AWS, many customers in a variety of industries want to modernize their mainframe-based applications to take advantage of the cloud but, to do so, they need to go through a lengthy and complex process. To make it faster and easier for customers to modernize mainframe-based workloads by moving them to the cloud, AWS has announced the general availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization, a new service.
Posted June 13, 2022
With greater automation and more robust cloud services, today's data professionals are seeing their roles elevated, working more closely with their businesses to deliver data-driven capabilities. At the same time, they, too, are feeling the effects of "The Great Resignation," reporting higher-than-usual turnover and increased pressure on overworked staffs.
Posted June 13, 2022
MariaDB Corporation and MindsDB, a provider of in-database machine learning, are partnering on a solution that makes machine learning predictions easy and accessible to cloud database users. By using MindsDB in SkySQL, MariaDB's fully managed cloud database service, data science and data engineering teams can increase their organization's predictive capabilities to plan for and address real-world business issues, according to the vendors.
Posted June 09, 2022
NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, is introducing innovations and solutions to provide enterprises with more simplicity, more security, and more flexibility for their hybrid multicloud environments. These new capabilities include improved ransomware protection, hybrid cloud storage in a single subscription, unified management in a single user interface, and close collaboration with VMware to help transition workloads to the cloud.
Posted June 08, 2022
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is unveiling HPE Swarm Learning, a breakthrough AI solution to accelerate insights at the edge, from diagnosing diseases to detecting credit card fraud, by sharing and unifying AI model learnings without compromising data privacy.
Posted June 08, 2022
Vertica, a Micro Focus line of business, has released version 12 of the Vertica analytical database, which includes new features and enhancements for analytics and machine learning across multi-cloud, hybrid on-prem and cloud, and multi-regional deployments.
Posted June 07, 2022
Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company, is introducing new agentless scanning for workloads, providing organizations with comprehensive and frictionless visibility into vulnerability risks across all active hosts, containers, and application language libraries in their environment.
Posted June 07, 2022
Coalesce, the data transformation company, is forming partnerships with Fivetran and Snowflake to make data teams more efficient and productive, delivering faster results than any other data transformation tool on the market. The partnership with Coalesce allows Snowflake customers to automate the data transformation process, cutting down on time and resources spent preparing data to get the most out of Snowflake. Without Coalesce, the process is manual and time consuming, according to the vendors.
Posted June 07, 2022
Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, is introducing CockroachDB 22.1, delivering updates across the entire application lifecycle that empower developers and architects to accomplish more, with less effort.
Posted June 03, 2022
Clumio, a cloud data protection vendor, has introduced a new air gap ransomware protection solution, Clumio SecureVault Lite for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Posted June 03, 2022
DryvIQ, an enterprise data management (EDM) provider, has announced the availability of its latest migration and governance solutions that enable organizations to intelligently understand and protect enterprise content. "Enterprises have massive volumes of unstructured data, and many of them struggle to safely move, manage, and protect it. It's a significant problem that's not going away," says Sean Nathaniel, president of DryvIQ.
Posted June 03, 2022
Rivery, the SaaS ELT, announced a new funding round of venture capital, receiving $30 million that will enable the company to expedite its growth across all teams in New York and Tel Aviv HQ including R&D, Product, and Sales, as well as expanding on EMEA where a London office has been launched to focus on the regional market.
Posted June 03, 2022
As we advance deeper into the digitally roaring 2020s, data executives and professionals are seeing change on a scale never seen before in their careers. A new generation of technologies that often build on previous solutions means new ways of working and ensuring performance for today's increasingly data-driven enterprises. We asked industry leaders for their views on what technology is enhancing enterprises' ability to compete on data.
Posted June 02, 2022
Broadcom Inc., a global technology provider that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, announced it is acquiring VMware, Inc., an innovator in enterprise software. Broadcom will acquire all of the outstanding shares of VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction that values VMware at approximately $61 billion, based on the closing price of Broadcom common stock on May 25, 2022. In addition, Broadcom will assume $8 billion of VMware net debt.
Posted June 02, 2022
Entrinsik is offering native support for jBase, enabling users to speak directly to their target database in the appropriate query language. Entrinsik already provides native support for UniData and UniVerse.
Posted June 02, 2022
Zumasys is acquiring the assets of PPI Information Systems, a PICK software house located in St. Louis, Missouri. PPI is a proven provider of software services offering programming services in PICK and Microsoft .NET using SQL or Universe as databases.
Posted June 02, 2022
Rocket Software is introducing the Rocket MV BASIC for Visual Studio Code 1.6.0 extension, now available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Rocket MV BASIC for VS Code (MVVS) allows BASIC developers to edit, compile, and now debug their BASIC applications in Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
Posted June 02, 2022
Companies now collect more data than ever before, but challenges remain for accessing and analyzing them. David Armlin, VP solution architect and customer success, ChaosSearch, discussed "Learn, Unlearn, Relearn: Embracing the Future of Cloud Analytics," during his Data Summit 2022 session.
Posted June 02, 2022
There are so many new buzzwords lately, including the data lakehouse, data mesh, and data fabric, just to name a few. But what do all these terms mean, and how do they compare to a data warehouse? This presentation covers all of them in detail and explains the pros and cons of each, with suggested use cases so attendees can see what approach will really work best for their big data needs.
Posted June 02, 2022
Microsoft has recently released a powerful new DMV specifically to help with memory issues, sys.dm_os_out_of_memory_events. It is currently available in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instances. This DMV consolidates and simplifies telemetry from SQL Server ring buffers, applies heuristics, and provides a result set. The DMV stores a record for each out-of-memory (OOM) event that occurs within the database, providing details about the OOM root cause, the memory consumption of database engine components at that point in time, potential sources of memory leaks, and more.
Posted June 02, 2022
PlanetScale, the serverless database provider powered by MySQL and Vitess, is offering a number of new innovations that accelerate delivery of "The Future Database," with new Insights providing granular performance visibility, Portals for multi-region deployment, and Connect enabling expansive analytics platform integrations.
Posted June 02, 2022
Nokia has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) to consolidate and replace its human resources systems in the cloud as part of its global digitalization program. Nokia will use a worldwide deployment of Oracle Cloud HCM to manage all HR processes, including recruitment, compensation, and performance management, for the company's global workforce in its 130 countries of operation.
Posted June 01, 2022
In a new Oracle blog post, Leo Leung, vice president, product management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, provided an update on Oracle's Interconnect for Azure strategy.
Posted June 01, 2022
Data Intensity recently announced its deepened commitment to accelerate and transform Oracle-powered workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), combining a strategic partnership with its own migration and lifecycle management portfolio of expert technical and functional support services.
Posted June 01, 2022
Redgate Software's SQL Data Catalog now provides a simple, policy-driven approach to data protection. Along with automatically scanning columns within databases and using intelligent rules to make recommendations about how they should be classified, the platform now auto-generates static data masking sets from the classification metadata that can be used to protect the databases.
Posted May 31, 2022
Deepnote, an early-stage startup backed by Accel and Index Ventures, is emerging from beta with version 1.0, opening up to the general availability of collaborative data science notebooks to data teams worldwide. Since the company's Series A announcement in Jan 2022, Deepnote has added many features going into the 1.0 launch. Most notably is the addition of Deepnote Workspaces, which empowers data teams to organize and surface data projects, notebooks, and apps in one place.
Posted May 31, 2022
Cloudian's HyperStore object storage platform is now integrated and validated to work with Microsoft SQL Server 2022, a relational database management system that supports a wide variety of transaction processing, business intelligence, and analytics applications.
Posted May 31, 2022
IBM and SAP announced their partnership has reached a new milestone as IBM undertakes one of the world's largest corporate transformation projects based on SAP ERP software, designed to fuel the company's growth and better support its clients.
Posted May 31, 2022
Apollo GraphQL is offering supergraph, a network of a company's data, microservices, and digital capabilities that empowers product and engineering teams to quickly create incredible experiences for their customers. A supergraph acts as a composition layer facilitating collaboration between backend data and services, and frontend apps and devices.
Posted May 26, 2022
Cohesity, a provider of next-gen data management, is partnering with Palo Alto Networks to integrate its Cohesity Helios next-gen data management platform with Palo Alto Networks' Cortex XSOAR security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platform for improved ransomware detection and recovery.
Posted May 26, 2022
Next Pathway Inc., the Automated Cloud Migration company, is extending the capabilities of its cloud migration planning tool, Crawler360. In this latest release, Next Pathway has improved and expanded the visualization capabilities of this tool, giving clients better insights into the dependencies across data pipelines in legacy data warehouses and data lakes.
Posted May 26, 2022
Druva Inc. is signing a multi-year global Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) to accelerate customer migration and provide an added layer of cyber resiliency to the already secure AWS Cloud. Built on the existing relationship between Druva and AWS, this agreement underscores both companies' commitment to delivering a cloud-native data protection solution on AWS, and supporting enterprises during critical phases of the cloud journey, including support for workload migration and deployments.
Posted May 26, 2022
D2iQ, an enterprise Kubernetes provider for smart cloud-native applications, has introduced version 2.0 of Kaptain AI/ML, an enterprise-ready distribution of open source Kubeflow that enables organizations to develop, deploy, and run AI and machine learning (ML) workloads in production environments.
Posted May 26, 2022
Dell Technologies revealed it will deliver new cloud experiences, an expanded ecosystem, and offerings to help customers manage and protect applications across data centers and multi-cloud environments. These new offerings are designed to help organizations easily store, protect, and control their data and applications across an increasing number of platforms and locations, according to the vendor.
Posted May 26, 2022
TigerGraph, provider of a leading graph analytics platform, is introducing the TigerGraph ML (Machine Learning) Workbench—a powerful toolkit that enables data scientists to significantly improve ML model accuracy, shorten development cycles, and deliver more value to the business.
Posted May 25, 2022
Google Cloud and SAP are an expanding their relationship, unveiling new integrations between Google Workspace and SAP's flagship cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud. These native integrations will allow customers to connect core SAP software designed for running all mission-critical processes in the cloud with the collaborative capabilities of Google Docs and Google Sheets to innovate how work gets done across the enterprise, according to the vendors.
Posted May 25, 2022
SAP is introducing new innovations that deliver business value for customers in four critical areas: supply chain resilience, sustainability, business process transformation, and no-code application development. The innovations announced will help SAP customers accelerate their transformation journey with cloud-based solutions that provide the end-to-end business process support customers most need, according to the vendor.
Posted May 25, 2022
SirionLabs, a provider of AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM), announced that its SirionOne platform has achieved SAP Ariba certification for integration with SAP's cloud solutions from the SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC). The integration enables new levels of contract intelligence for customers across legal, procurement, and sales teams by plugging into SAP Ariba and unlocking access to business-critical information in real-time from within enterprise applications.
Posted May 25, 2022
Tamr, a cloud-native data mastering solution, is offering Tamr Enrich, a set of enrichment services built natively into the data mastering process using Tamr's patented human-guided machine learning. Tamr Enrich curates and actively manages external datasets and services, enabling customers to seamlessly embed trusted, high-quality external data insights to their data mastering pipelines for richer business.
Posted May 24, 2022
Equalum, a provider of data integration and ingestion solutions, is expanding modern data integration support and introducing a next-gen design solution for optimal data loading to GCP's Big Query, Google Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, as well as other cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and AWS.
Posted May 24, 2022