Cloud Computing Articles
Aerospike has announced a partnership with Ably, through which the two companies plan to integrate and jointly market their solutions.
Posted October 26, 2021
Google AI/ML Specialist Skander Hannachi defines explainable AI and outlines its predictive power and overall value proposition for organizations during his presentation at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted October 20, 2021
Oracle has announced plans to expand its cloud region footprint to support customer demand for Oracle Cloud services worldwide. Over the next year, Oracle will open 14 cloud regions with new locations across Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Upcoming cloud regions include Milan (Italy), Stockholm (Sweden), Marseille (France), Spain, Singapore (Singapore), Johannesburg (South Africa), Jerusalem (Israel), Mexico, and Colombia. Additional second regions will open in Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.), Saudi Arabia, France, Israel, and Chile. Oracle plans to have at least 44 cloud regions by the end of 2022, continuing one of the fastest expansions of any major cloud provider.
Posted October 20, 2021
The Linux Foundation has raised $10 million in new investments to expand and support the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a cross-industry collaboration that brings together multiple open source software initiatives under one umbrella to identify and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities in open source software and develop improved tooling, training, research, best practices, and vulnerability disclosure practices. "As a contributing member of the open source software community and an inaugural Linux Foundation member, Oracle has a large number of developers that contribute to third-party open source projects daily," said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of software development, Oracle.
Posted October 20, 2021
Databases are vital to every business. They are responsible for recording and communicating some of the organization's most critical data. Whether it's related to employee records, sales transactions, product inventory, customer profiles, or even just marketing activities, organizations often can't afford to lose any database data.
Posted October 20, 2021
Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, has announced the beta release of CockroachDB Serverless. "What you build and where it takes you shouldn't be limited by the capabilities of your database. Since day one at Cockroach Labs, our mission has been to make it easy to build world-changing applications by providing a fundamentally better data infrastructure," said Spencer Kimball, CEO, and co-founder of Cockroach Labs
Posted October 19, 2021
Couchbase, provider of a leading modern database for enterprise applications, announced its Couchbase Capella hosted Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering is now on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Capella delivers database flexibility for developers and performance at scale for enterprise applications. Because Capella is fully managed and automated, customers can focus on development, improving their applications and reducing time to market, instead of worrying about operational database management efforts, according to the vendor.
Posted October 19, 2021
TigerGraph, provider of a leading graph analytics platform, is collaborating with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Xilinx, Inc. on a solution to make graph analytics capabilities more accessible for enterprises to accelerate insight while reducing costs and resources. The bundled solution, which is comprised of HPE ProLiant servers using Xilinx accelerator cards and TigerGraph's native parallel graph database provides more effective real time analytics for things like fraud detection, customer360, and supply chain optimization in manufacturing, according to the vendors.
Posted October 19, 2021
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has introduced SolarWinds Database Mapper and SolarWinds Task Factory as part of its database management portfolio, strengthening the company's offering for data and technology professionals adopting and implementing DataOps strategies. The tools are aimed at helping data pros to accelerate data delivery across the organization and manage cloud migrations more efficiently. The latest release of Database Mapper includes support for Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases, increasing the tool's platform coverage.
Posted October 19, 2021
CircleCI, providers of the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, is adding new insights and enhanced installation features to their self-hosted server solution. CircleCI's self-hosted server solution offers software engineering teams the ability to scale under load and run multiple services at once, all within an individual's Kubernetes cluster and network, but with the full CircleCI cloud experience.
Posted October 18, 2021
Nexla, the unified data operations company, today announced it has secured $12 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to continue to deliver on growing enterprise demand for ready-to-use data. Founded in 2016, Nexla streamlines the process of getting ready-to-use data to more applications and more users without having to use tens of different tools.
Posted October 18, 2021
Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection, and security software provider, has announced major updates for Toad for Oracle, an intuitive database management toolset that makes it easy to perform essential database development and administration tasks. With version 15.0 generally available today, Toad for Oracle customers are now further empowered to reduce threats from cyber-attacks, with new rigorous and comprehensive secure software development life cycle (SSDLC) controls.
Posted October 18, 2021
New Relic, the observability company, is releasing New Relic Instant Observability (I/O), an open source ecosystem of quickstarts to empower all software engineers to instrument, dashboard, and alert their entire technology stack. New Relic I/O is introducing an ever-expanding, open ecosystem of knowledge-focused resources that codifies the collective experience of the world's observability experts and practitioners to help engineers around the world unlock the power of their data faster, according to the vendor.
Posted October 18, 2021
IBM's board of directors has approved the previously announced separation of Kyndryl, the company's managed infrastructure services business. Back in October 2020, IBM announced plans to separate the Managed Infrastructure Services unit of its Global Technology Services division into a new public company, creating two companies, each with strategic focus and flexibility to drive client and shareholder value. "The separation of Kyndryl is a significant step in the continued evolution of IBM," said Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman and CEO.
Posted October 18, 2021
According to a report released by Honeywell, 91% of surveyed data center managers have experienced at least one disruptive incident during the last 12 months, including downtime related to an outage (54%), a cyber or physical breach (38%) or unplanned downtime (34%). This likely is why respondents cite reduced downtime (33%), operational technology (OT) cybersecurity (32%), and speed or ability to predict or identify problems (29%) as improvements that would provide the greatest benefit to their stakeholders.
Posted October 18, 2021
Apptio, Inc., a leading provider of technology business management (TBM) SaaS applications, and IBM are partnering to help clients improve hybrid cloud technology decision-making and drive adoption of Red Hat OpenShift and IBM's open hybrid cloud approach.
Posted October 18, 2021
BMC has announced its 16th annual mainframe survey results and new and expanded capabilities within the BMC AMI (Automated Mainframe Intelligence) and BMC Compuware portfolios to fully support customers as they progress on their digital transformation journeys.
Posted October 18, 2021
Catalogic Software, a leading provider of smart data protection solutions, is introducing a new feature set for CloudCasa, Catalogic's cloud native backup-as-a-service platform, enabling support for backup of Kubernetes persistent volumes including Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) persistent volumes, to cloud storage. It is offered in a new capacity-based subscription model.
Posted October 18, 2021
Morpheus Data, the hybrid cloud application orchestration company, is offering its latest software release, targeting enterprises trying to manage a complex mix of VMware, Kubernetes, and Public Cloud services. Morpheus v5.3.3 simplifies how IT Operations works across private and public clouds as well as heterogeneous Kubernetes clusters. This eliminates management silos for platform engineering teams trying to enable developer self-service and modernize legacy applications, according to the vendor.
Posted October 14, 2021
Google is introducing the Google Distributed Cloud, a portfolio of solutions consisting of hardware and software that extend its infrastructure to the edge and into company data centers. This announcement was made at Google Cloud Next '21.
Posted October 13, 2021
Privacera, the unified data access governance provider founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, is releasing PrivaceraCloud 4.0, enabling enterprises to securely and rapidly exchange data—both inside and outside organizational boundaries—with a unified interface to govern and enforce fine-grained data permissions and policies.
Posted October 13, 2021
Streamlit, the creators of an app framework for machine learning and data science, is offering Streamlit 1.0, adding improvements and customization options that allow data scientists to go from data and models to deploying apps. Streamlit is an easy-to-use framework that lets data scientists quickly build web apps to access and explore machine learning models, advanced algorithms, and complex data types.
Posted October 12, 2021
Domino Data Lab, provider of an Enterprise MLOps platform, announced it has received $100 million in a latest funding round along with expanding its partnership with NVIDIA to further integrate products and expand joint sales efforts to support customers' efforts to build model-driven businesses.
Posted October 12, 2021
Rubrik, The Zero Trust Data Security Company, is offering a Ransomware Recovery Warranty to further assure customers that their data will be available to keep their business running. Rubrik allows companies to recover their data from cyber attacks and operational failures, and this ransomware recovery warranty underscores Rubrik's deep commitment to data security for its customers, according to the vendor.
Posted October 11, 2021
Tetrate, the enterprise service mesh company started by Istio founders to manage hybrid cloud application infrastructure, is releasing its Tetrate Istio Subscription (TIS) and flagship Tetrate Service Bridge (TSB) products on the AWS Marketplace.
Posted October 11, 2021
Cube Dev, the open-source company behind Cube.js, is releasing Cube Cloud, a hosted version of the company's open source Cube.js analytics API. With Cube Cloud, companies build data applications like metrics dashboards and analytics features that consume data from their cloud data warehouse—without building or hosting any of the complex technologies required to make this possible, according to the vendor.
Posted October 07, 2021
VMware, Inc. is offering Cross-Cloud services to help customers navigate the multi-cloud era, giving users integrated services that will help deliver a faster and smarter path to cloud to build, run, and better secure apps across any cloud with freedom and flexibility. This announcement was made at VMWare 2021.
Posted October 07, 2021
The creators and maintainers of Fluentd and Fluent Bit are launching Calyptia Cloud, a hosted solution for visualizing and optimizing Fluentd and Fluent Bit's observability pipelines. Calyptia Cloud provides a turnkey service for managing and visualizing open source Fluentd and Fluent Bit to relieve the burdens of conjuration and monitoring, allowing customers to focus on gaining the most insights and value out of their data pipelines in cloud native environments, according to the vendor.
Posted October 07, 2021
Brian O'Neill, founder and principal of Designing for Analytics, discussed the key design challenges data product teams face during his presentation at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted October 07, 2021
TigerGraph is releasing TigerGraph 3.2, including more than 40 critical enterprise features such as new availability, scalability, manageability, and security functionalities to ensure mission-critical graph applications work in both private and public clouds. This latest enterprise version of TigerGraph will meet ever-increasing demand from the world's top companies, boost developer adoption, and address key data science requirements, according to the vendor.
Posted October 06, 2021
Duality Technologies, a provider of privacy-enhanced data collaboration solutions, announced that it has raised a $30 million in a Series B funding round, enabling the company to expand its go-to-market operations, advance its partnerships with leading technology vendors, and further cement its product and technology leadership in the fields of privacy-preserving machine learning and Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs). This brings the company's total funding to $49 million.
Posted October 06, 2021
Oracle has announced the availability of the Oracle Exadata X9M platforms, the latest version of its systems for running Oracle Database. The new Exadata X9M offerings include Oracle Exadata Database Machine X9M and Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M—a platform that runs Oracle Autonomous Database in customer data centers. "For X9M we adopted the latest CPUs, networking, and storage hardware, and optimized our software to deliver dramatically faster performance," said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, mission-critical database technologies, Oracle.
Posted October 06, 2021
Appsian Security, a provider of ERP data security and compliance software, has released a unified GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) platform designed to automate ERP access governance, identity governance, user provisioning/de-provisioning, and segregation of duties.
Posted October 06, 2021
Oracle recently announced the availability of Java 17, the latest version of the programming language and development platform. Java 17 delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security updates, as well as 14 JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals) to further improve the Java language and platform to help developers be more productive.
Posted October 06, 2021
Organizations focus a majority of their database migration efforts on a single task: synchronizing data from production to their new target database. The migration goal is to have a perfect copy of the production data in the replacement database so that the cutover will be in as small of a maintenance window as possible. While data migration is a critical step in the overall migration project plan, it shouldn't consume the majority of an organization's resources. There are four key areas to consider when planning a migration from MongoDB to Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility.
Posted October 05, 2021
What types of platforms are most viable for modern data analytics requirements? These days, there are a wide variety of choices available to enterprises, including data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, and other options—resident within an on-site data center or accessed via the cloud. The options are boundless. It's a matter of finding the best fit for the business task at hand.
Posted October 05, 2021
The world of the data professionals and DBAs is swirling with threats and risks, and those dangers are on the rise. You're probably accustomed to using longstanding database features to secure your databases, including roles and permissions, and you're likely familiar with working with your identity management admins to control and create your user authentication scheme.
Posted October 05, 2021
Wondering what's new from the Oracle Database development team? William Hardie, vice president of Oracle Database product management, shared the latest information about features and enhancements and Oracle's database strategy with regard to on-premise, in-cloud, and hybrid cloud deployments.
Posted October 05, 2021
The proliferation of data sources, types, and stores is increasing the challenge of combining data into meaningful, actionable information. As a result, the need for faster and smarter data integration capabilities is growing. In a recent survey, nearly half of DBTA subscribers indicated that real-time insights are critical to their data strategies. At the same time, to deliver actual value, people need information they can trust, so balancing governance is essential nowadays, especially with ongoing regulatory requirements.
Posted October 05, 2021
Cloudian is now offering support for Red Hat OpenShift, providing enterprise-level persistent storage for modern, cloud-native applications on-premises. OpenShift customers will be able to deploy Cloudian's HyperStore object storage solution in their own data centers and take advantage of its fully native S3 compatibility, limitless scalability, military-grade security, and cloud-like agility, according to the vendor.
Posted October 05, 2021
NVIDIA and VMware are collaborating to develop an AI-ready enterprise platform that brings the world's leading AI stack and optimized software to the infrastructure used by hundreds of thousands of enterprises worldwide.
Posted October 05, 2021
Fortanix Inc., the data-first multicloud security company, is partnering with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, making Data Security Manager SaaS (DSM SaaS) available to Snowflake customers. This gives users the ability to tokenize data inside and outside Snowflake.
Posted October 04, 2021
IBM and Linux Foundation AI and Data (LFAI and Data) have joined together to create a "one-stop shop" for trusted data and AI artifacts in order to reduce duplication across teams when creating assets, as well as mitigate traceability, governance, risk management, lineage tracking, and metadata collection issues.
Posted October 04, 2021
Zadara, a provider of edge cloud services, is partnering with Zenlayer, enabling the companies to offer managed storage solutions that businesses can deploy from on-premises data centers, private colocation facilities, or the cloud. The addition of Zadara's zStorage enables Zenlayer to provide backup and disaster recovery solutions on a global scale—even at the edge, closer to where data is generated and consumed.
Posted October 01, 2021