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Cloud Computing Articles

Teleport, a provider of Identity-based Infrastructure Access Management, is releasing Teleport 9, the latest edition of the open-source Teleport Access Plane, introducing the Teleport Machine ID which delivers identity-based access and audit for infrastructure resources like servers and databases, CI/CD automation, service accounts, and custom code in applications such as microservices. 

Posted April 08, 2022

Atlassian is introducing two new capabilities to the Atlassian platform, offering the Atlassian Data Lake and Atlassian Analytics. The Atlassian Data Lake contains cross-product and cross-instance data for easy analysis with pre-modeled and enriched fields to speed up insight generation. Atlassian Data Lake is built on the enterprise-grade trusted Atlassian platform to ensure privacy and security.

Posted April 08, 2022

Stacklet, developers of a cloud governance as code platform based on the open source Cloud Custodian project, is offering the Stacklet Platform as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), making it easier and frictionless for organizations to shift to governance as code model.

Posted April 08, 2022

It's no secret that businesses have become more data-driven in recent years, with powerful big data analytics increasingly deliv­ering on the promise of adding business value. As a result, the quality and enrichment of data have become top priorities for business leaders on a global scale. In fact, according to a recent survey of chief data officers, 88% have started building auto­mation into their data management processes to help manage data quality.

Posted April 07, 2022

Are you a developer who is using Oracle Database and is interested in learning more about Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)? At Quest's INSYNC conference, Anil Nair, prod­uct manager at Oracle, presented "A Developer's Guide to Oracle RAC." The session covered tips and tricks to ensure that develop­ers can benefit from features such as session failover and load balancing with minimal effort.

Posted April 07, 2022

It is well known that a database is the fundamental building block for any data-based initiative. Databases are used when collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing data. A database is the silent component that drives business decisions and operational improvements or simply keeps track of inventory. As much as the database should be the almost invisible part of these processes, it is crucial to make the right choice. While it might look easy to select a suitable database, there are a few things to evaluate when making a decision.

Posted April 07, 2022

Enterprises are just scratching the sur­face of data-driven opportunities, and many simply aren't ready to leverage their data assets to lead their markets. There are concerns about the security of sharing data between organizations, as well as iden­tifying and building platforms to accomplish a data-driven infrastructure. These concerns may abate as data-driven partner ecosystems and benefits develop. 

Posted April 07, 2022

Airbyte, creators of an open-source data integration platform, is releasing its cloud service for data movement in the U.S. "With Airbyte Cloud, we remove the headache of building and maintaining custom data infrastructure by providing a simple, economical way for enterprises to move data as needed," said Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO, Airbyte.

Posted April 07, 2022

Talend, a global leader in data integration and management, is acquiring Gamma Soft, a market innovator in change data capture (CDC), adding Gamma Soft's enterprise-class change data capture technologies will help customers streamline their data modernization initiatives, including cloud migrations, and support advanced, real-time analytics use cases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 

Posted April 07, 2022

With data increasing at a rapid pace and more companies seeing the need to compete on analytics, there is also more awareness of the essential role of data literacy. As the amount of data created everyday continues to explode, businesses are looking for every advantage they can get to adapt to changing market headwinds

Posted April 07, 2022

Google unveiled a variety of new services and innovations that allow customers to work with limitless data, across all workloads, and extend access to everyone. These new enhancements were revealed during its Data Cloud Summit.

Posted April 06, 2022

Ascend.io, the Data Automation Cloud, announced it has received $31 million in Series B funding, enabling the company to scale go-to-market efforts and expand into new geographies, as well as extend Ascend's Data Automation Cloud to support full multi-cloud data mesh automation.

Posted April 06, 2022

Sumo Logic, the SaaS analytics platform to enable reliable and secure cloud-native applications, is introducing a new milestone in innovation for Sumo Logic Observability with the release of Sumo Logic OpenTelemetry Distro Collector (OT Distro). The OT Distro Collector is designed to simplify and democratize the collection of logs, metrics, traces, and metadata from modern cloud applications.

Posted April 06, 2022

BMC has selected Oracle Exadata Cloud Service running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to power its BMC Helix platform. "Our goal is to offer customers the choices they need to enable faster, more accurate, and more efficient ways of delivering service innovations across the globe," stated Margaret Lee, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Service and Operations Management, BMC.

Posted April 06, 2022

Incorta and Tata Consultancy Services have announced a new partnership to make Oracle Cloud ERP migration more manageable for organizations with highly customized data environments. The partnership brings the TCS Crystallus solution together with Incorta's unified data analytics platform to deliver preconfigured industry solutions with full visibility into combined data across Oracle platforms. 

Posted April 06, 2022

Confluent, Inc., the data streaming platform to set data in motion, is forming a new strategic partnership with Microsoft, adding greater investments across technology integrations, solution development, and go-to-market activities. With this commitment, Confluent and Microsoft aim to reduce the operational burden of managing data streams in Azure and speed up real-time application development in the cloud.

Posted April 05, 2022

Equalum, a best-in-class provider of data integration and ingestion solutions, is releasing its Continuous Data Integration Platform (CDIP) Version 3.0, available for on-prem, hybrid, or cloud-based operations. The platform supports real-time streaming use cases as well as batch ETL, replication, and tier one change data capture.

Posted April 05, 2022

Dagger, the DevOps platform that orchestrates the delivery of applications to the cloud, is launching the public beta of its product along with announcing the closing of a $20 million Series A funding round.

Posted April 04, 2022

Hivelocity, the leading Bare Metal Cloud Company, is partnering with cloud provider Ridge, enabling users to deploy cloud-native applications anywhere their customers are.

Posted April 04, 2022

SingleStore, the single database for data-intensive applications, is partnering with IBM to offer SingleStoreDB with IBM, designed to provide enterprises with a one-stop shop that can empower them to take advantage of SingleStore's database technology with IBM.

Posted April 04, 2022

LambdaTest, a leading end-to-end cloud-based test orchestration platform, announced it has closed a deal on $45 million in a venture round, enabling the company to further the innovation that will push the boundaries of cloud-based test orchestration in terms of execution speed, performance and reliability.

Posted April 01, 2022

Swim, developer of an open core platform for continuous intelligence at scale, is releasing Swim Continuum 4.1, introducing a new UI framework optimized for large-scale streaming applications. Its new, high-performance UI framework is able to continuously update the application UI with streaming data from millions of backend objects, unlike other UI frameworks that are hobbled by REST and render UI components on a request/response basis.

Posted April 01, 2022

The OpenNMS Group, Inc., a subsidiary of NantHealth, Inc., is releasing OpenNMS Meridian 2022 with improved features such as enhanced security and more.

Posted April 01, 2022

It is easy to attribute catastrophic outcomes and insidious, unintended side effects to failures of governance. Or, more often, to a lack of governance. In practice, however, all organizations are governed, either formally or informally. Formal governance involves discretely defined accountability and expectations encoded in principles, policies, and processes. Informally—and more influentially—organizations are governed by the behaviors and norms modeled and rewarded by their leadership and peers.

Posted April 01, 2022

Many organizations still remember the sting of being a victim of the dreaded patent trolls. Patents were granted to encourage, recognize, and reward innovation. Awarding the inventors with a well-defined degree of exclusivity for a period of time improves their chances of both financial reward and the recouping their initial investment.

Posted April 01, 2022

In the world of machine learning (ML), there are a few very important processes which are critical to anyone in the ML space. The first is making sure the data used in machine learning is clean. This topic gets talked about a lot so, while it is very important, let's skip this and move on to the next step. Assuming a clean and complete dataset already exists, the user then proceeds to start training models.

Posted April 01, 2022

IT executives are struggling to source skills that enable cloud and edge adoption, which has been the largest barrier to deploying cloud-based technologies. To help address the problem, Google announced in October that it will help more than 40 million people build cloud skills. With this pressing issue in mind, Rahul Pradhan, head of cloud products, engineering, Couchbase, recently reflected on the impact the skills shortage is having on DevOps teams, and how organizations can address this issue.

Posted March 31, 2022

To drive significantly greater productivity and efficiency for increasingly complex chip designs, Synopsys is introducing a new cloud-optimized electronic design automation (EDA) deployment model. Synopsys Cloud provides access to the company's cloud-optimized design and verification products, with pre-optimized infrastructure on Microsoft Azure to address higher levels of interdependencies in chip development. 

Posted March 31, 2022

A lot of digital ink has been spilled over the hottest topic in data integration today: the data mesh. But is the data mesh truly achievable for a modern enterprise? And is it truly novel, or simply a rehashing of older paradigms and techniques? DBTA held a webinar with Paul Lacey, Sr. director of product marketing, Matillion who discussed what a decentralized approach to data management could look like in practice.

Posted March 31, 2022

Datafold, a data quality platform that automates the most tedious parts of data engineering workflows, is partnering with dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, to provide a new integration to deliver trusted data faster. Datafold has automated test coverage for analytics engineers which can now be added into a company's CI/CD workflow in one click with dbt Cloud or with a Python SDK for dbt Core.

Posted March 30, 2022

BMC, a provider of software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise (ADE), is introducing new operations management features and capabilities to its BMC Helix solution. The updates are designed to increase decision-making accuracy and accelerate mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) through early detection, operational intelligence, and resource optimization.

Posted March 30, 2022

GoodData, a provider of data and analytics infrastructure, is offering new dashboard plugins that enable enhanced capabilities for dashboards customization without the need of GoodData support. With the creation of dashboard plugins, GoodData customers are able to tailor their default dashboards experience with custom code based on the low-code GoodData.UI SDK for custom application development.

Posted March 30, 2022

Talend, a provider in data integration and data governance, is offering Talend Data Catalog 8, an automated data catalog providing enhanced proactive data governance capabilities.

Posted March 29, 2022

ScaleOut Software is introducing support for Redis clients in ScaleOut StateServer Version 5.11, available as a community preview. With this release, Redis users can harness the company's flagship distributed caching product to connect to a cluster of ScaleOut servers and execute Redis commands.

Posted March 29, 2022

Aerospike, provider of a real-time data platform, has announced that Aerospike Kubernetes Operator 2.0 is now certified for Red Hat OpenShift and Aerospike Cloud Managed Service is now available on the Google Cloud Platform. "With our certification of OpenShift and Aerospike Cloud Managed Services on Google Cloud Platform, customers can easily manage data across multi-cloud deployments in their operations where previously they were hindered by regulations, cost control, and talent availability that stalled innovation," said Subbu Iyer, CEO, Aerospike.

Posted March 29, 2022

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 11. Winners will be showcased in a special section on the DBTA website and in the August 2022 issue of Database Trends and Applications magazine.

Posted March 28, 2022

PlanetScale, the serverless database powered by MySQL and Vitess, is introducing PlanetScale Rewind, an "Easy Button" to undo schema migrations that enables users to recover in seconds from changes that break production databases. PlanetScale Rewind lets users almost instantly revert changes to the previous healthy state without losing any of the data that was added, modified, or otherwise changed in the interim.

Posted March 28, 2022

Shoreline.io, the Incident Automation company, announced it has raised $35 million in Series B funding, enabling the company to expand the team and deliver prepackaged solutions for the many commonplace problems encountered by engineers in the public cloud.

Posted March 28, 2022

RapidAPI, provider of an API Hub that enables millions of developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs, announced it has raised $150 million in Series D funding, enabling the company to continue to scale its API Hub, adding more capabilities to help developers create and collaborate on APIs - following its release of API Testing tools and acquisition of API development tool, Paw. This recent round puts the company at a $1 billion valuation.

Posted March 24, 2022

Alluxio, the developer of the open source data orchestration platform for data driven workloads such as large-scale analytics and AI/ML, is now enabling the integration of NetApp StorageGRID with Alluxio's Data Orchestration Platform. The combined solution will help enterprises accelerate adoption of the cloud and optimize their resource spend for a modern data platform ready for enormous scale, according to the vendors.

Posted March 24, 2022

Domo is introducing several key enhancements to its cloud-based platform to make it easier than ever to put data to work for everyone, enhancing the speed, scale, and user experience (UX). Included in these platform enhancements are new functionality in Domo Multi-cloud, a new Governance Toolkit and updates to Universal Data Modeling, making it easier to understand, engage and leverage data across any organization, according to the vendor.

Posted March 24, 2022

NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, is collaborating with Cisco to release with FlexPod XCS, the evolution of FlexPod providing one automated platform for modern applications, data and hybrid cloud services.

Posted March 24, 2022

Google Cloud and VMware, Inc. are expanding their partnership to help customers accelerate app modernization and cloud transformation as customers will now be able to use the VMware Cloud Universal program to take advantage of Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Posted March 24, 2022

MongoDB has announced an expansion of a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). Under this 6-year agreement, MongoDB and AWS have committed to a broad range of initiatives to make it easier for joint customers to advance their cloud adoption journey, including integrated go-to-market activities across sales and marketing, developer enablement and training through shared developer relations activities, and both technology integrations and commercial incentives to streamline the migration of on-premises workloads to MongoDB Atlas on AWS.

Posted March 24, 2022

Druva has unveiled a software as a service (SaaS) data protection solution for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) that combines snapshots, backup, and cloud-native disaster recovery within a single platform. With these latest enhancements, Druva says it will help customers further strengthen security for critical cloud workloads, and drive down costs through storage efficiencies that eliminate traditional cross-account and cross-region requirements.

Posted March 24, 2022

SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE, a provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations in the SAP environment, announced it is moving to the cloud with RISE with SAP. The cloud move is part of a transformation program that SNP launched in January this year. As part of the program, the IT company will also integrate Datavard, which it acquired last year, and drive forward its own digitalization strategy by introducing various measures.

Posted March 23, 2022

After finding several vulnerabilities during a routine release, SAP has published 17 new and updated Security Notes on its March Patch Day (including the notes that were released or updated since last Patch Tuesday). This includes four HotNews Notes and one High Priority Note.

Posted March 23, 2022

Miracle Software Systems, Inc. announced it has achieved SAP gold partner status in the SAP PartnerEdge program, indicating the company's exceptional delivery capabilities, extensive competency working with SAP, and ability in driving business value to its customers.

Posted March 23, 2022

SAP announced it has completed the acquisition of a majority stake of Taulia, a leading provider of working capital management solutions. "With Taulia now an official part of our solution portfolio, we can help companies gain financial flexibility and stability and contribute to making supply chains more resilient," said Luka Mucic, CFO of SAP.

Posted March 23, 2022

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