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Mainframes continue to represent the strong core of Data Center technology, while Virtualization and Cloud are also emerging as important technologies to support efficiency, scalability, and cost containment. Topics critical to Data Center Operations and Computing including hardware and software for Storage, Consolidation, High Availability, Backup & Recovery, and IT Optimization, as well as automated tools that help compensate for the growing Mainframe Skills Shortage.



Data Center Management Articles

Domo is launching next generation of the Domo Appstore, which includes a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).  This new collaboration with AWS further enhances the ability to leverage data to modernize business processes, according to Domo.

Posted February 12, 2020

Hazelcast, an open source in-memory computing platform, has announced an additional $28.5 million in funding, bringing its total Series D round to $50 million. Hazelcast raised an initial $21.5 million in Series D funding in June but, given the interest from the investor community, the company said, it expanded the round. 

Posted February 11, 2020

Xerox Holdings Corp. has announced its intention to launch a tender offer on or around March 2, 2020, for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of HP Inc. at a price of $24 per share, which will be comprised of $18.40 in cash and 0.149 Xerox shares for each HP share. 

Posted February 10, 2020

GoodData, a provider of end-to-end analytics solutions, is now providing compliance with the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) within its flagship platform. By deploying GoodData, companies can be assured that they're not only getting robust analytics but state-of-the-art data governance policies, data security measures, regulatory controls, access measures, and data distribution capabilities—all taken care of for them by GoodData.

Posted February 10, 2020

Woolpert has been awarded an Esri Release Ready Specialty Partner status, recognizing that Woolpert is an early adopter of Esri technologies.

Posted February 10, 2020

While organizations are adopting cloud for some areas of their database estate, very few are migrating totally. DBAs now need to manage hybrid estates that combine on-premise and cloud deployments. No wonder that 23% of respondents see migrating to the cloud and integrating with the cloud as their biggest challenge over the next 12 months. Ensuring they have the ability to monitor their entire estate from a single tool is therefore vital if DBAs are to remain on top of their workloads.

Posted February 10, 2020

The mainframe has a long history of applications and uses, which stretches back more than 50 years. This means that some mainframe applications require modernization. This is often referred to as "mainframe modernization," but a better term for this is "mainframe application modern­ization" because the mainframe already is a mod­ern platform.

Posted February 10, 2020

For data managers, AI and machine learning not only offer new ways of delivering rapid insights to business users but also the promise of improving and adding intel­ligence to their own operations. While many AI and machine learning efforts are still works in progress, the technol­ogies hold the potential to deliver more enhanced analytic capabilities through­out enterprises.

Posted February 10, 2020

Kore Technologies is releasing version 4.7 of the Kourier Integrator platform, increasing performance times across the board. This latest release includes the Package Execution Manager (PEM), improving the overall performance, execution, and transparency of Kourier generated Microsoft SSIS packages, and provides a stable and fault tolerant environment in which to run them.

Posted February 10, 2020

The PICK MultiValue community recently celebrated another milestone as PICK date, a count of days since December 31, 1967, turned over to 19000. Developers using any of the MultiValue products will now start seeing current dates starting with 19 rather than 18 as they peruse raw data.

Posted February 10, 2020

CHO, a producer of olive oil, is using IBM Blockchain to provide traceability for its Terra Delyssa extra virgin olive oil across eight quality assurance checkpoints, including the orchard where the olives were grown, the mill where olives were crushed, and the facilities where the oil was filtered, bottled, distributed, and more.

Posted February 10, 2020

Arvind Krishna has been elected as the CEO of IBM and a member of its board of directors. In this role, Krishna succeeds Virginia "Ginni" Rometty, IBM chairman, president, and CEO, who will continue as executive chairman of the board and serve through the end of the year, when she will retire after almost 40 years with the company. Announcing the executive changes on January 30, IBM said that Krishna, who is currently IBM SVP for Cloud and Cognitive Software, and was a principal architect of the company's acquisition of Red Hat, would assume the job on April 6, 2020. James Whitehurst, IBM SVP and CEO of Red Hat, was also elected by the board as IBM president, effective April 6, 2020

Posted February 10, 2020

Whether you are reading the news, going to the store, dealing with customer service or sending a package, it has become apparent that AI is becoming part of our daily lives. We can see this on more of a macro level with the automotive industry and its adoption of AI to improve the overall driving experience, as well as the healthcare industry as it uses the technology to automate the process of identifying and ultimately diagnosing high-risk patient groups. Even the agriculture industry is taking advantage of AI to improve operating efficiency and assist with the automation of essential farming processes.

Posted February 10, 2020

Software intelligence company Dynatrace is expanding digital experience management capabilities, including advanced analytics and segmentation of mobile app user sessions, auto-instrumentation for additional mobile platforms and technologies, and enhancements to its explainable AI engine, Davis, including insights from third-party mobile app components.

Posted February 07, 2020

Incorta, provider of a unified data analytics platform powered by direct data mapping, is releasing the latest version of its platform, Incorta 4.6, providing new features, capabilities, and performance enhancements.

Posted February 07, 2020

Splice Machine, a provider of a scalable SQL database, is partnering with Heirloom Computing to enable enterprises to modernize legacy, mission-critical, mainframe applications with Splice Machine's intelligent SQL database.

Posted February 05, 2020

Aiven, a startup that combines the open source technologies with cloud infrastructure, has raised $40 million in Series B funding, enabling the company to add new integrations and innovations.

Posted February 05, 2020

One of the great challenges with catastrophic events is that they can come from any number of sources, so business owners must make sure they're prepared for all types of disasters. Preparation is the only way to avert disasters and ensure your operations will continue without significant disruption.

Posted February 05, 2020

Splice Machine, a provider of a SQL database, has formed a partnership with Heirloom Computing. The partnership leverages Heirloom's technology to automatically re-platform mainframe applications so they execute on any cloud, while preserving critical business logic, user interfaces, data integrity, and systems security.

Posted February 04, 2020

Looker, a data platform company, is introducing the Looker Certification program for people to get "Looker Certified." The program is launching with two exams that are available now - a LookML Developer Certification and a Business Analyst Certification - with additional exams to be rolled out over time.   

Posted February 04, 2020

dotData, focused on delivering full-cycle data science automation and operationalization for the enterprise, has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning (ML) Competency status, reaching the milestone after 8 months of joining the AWS Partner Network.

Posted February 04, 2020

InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, InfluxDB Cloud is now on Google Cloud, offering developers and businesses unified billing, support, and integration with other Google Cloud services. InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud is a serverless, purpose-built time series database-as-a-service with advanced analytics that provide real-time observability into IoT and DevOps workloads.

Posted February 04, 2020

Neo4j, a provider of graph technology, is releasing Neo4j 4.0, addressing unlimited scalability, intelligent data context, and enterprise-grade security.

Posted February 04, 2020

Rockset, a real-time database built for the cloud, is ushering in new growth with several industry partnerships and continued product innovation. The company is entering several new partnerships and implementing technology integrations, including adding DynamoDB to search and analyze database change streams, Apache Kafka to analyze raw events in real time, and Tableau to visualize live data from a variety of sources.

Posted February 03, 2020

Quantum Corporation is entering into an agreement with Western Digital Technologies to acquire its ActiveScale object storage business. By acquiring the ActiveScale product line and talent, object storage software and erasure coding technology is now available in Quantum's portfolio and enables the company to expand in the object storage market. 

Posted February 03, 2020

StreamSets, provider of a DataOps platform, is supporting and integrating its platform for Microsoft's recently announced SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters. With this integration, SQL users are empowered to design and operationalize data pipelines for big data workloads without the complexities of coding for big data systems.

Posted January 30, 2020

Yellowbrick Data, provider of a modern analytical data warehouse built for the hybrid cloud, is partnering with MicroStrategy, enabling a new integration of a Yellowbrick Data warehouse and MicroStrategy 2020, MicroStrategy's flagship enterprise analytics platform.

Posted January 30, 2020

Vapor IO, creators of the Kinetic Edge platform and Kinetic Edge Exchange (KEX), announced Cloudflare will be rolling out its cloud services on the Kinetic Edge platform, nationwide. Additionally, Vapor IO has completed its Series C financing, raising a total of $90 million to build out its Kinetic Edge platform in 36 U.S. markets by the end of 2021.

Posted January 30, 2020

Dynatrace, a software intelligence company, is collaborating with Google and Microsoft on the OpenTelemetry project to shape the future of open standards-based observability.

Posted January 30, 2020

LightStep, a provider of observability software, today announced the release of its Service Health for Deployments solution to help developers quickly and easily identify and remediate service health issues during and after a deployment. With LightStep's solution, developers can monitor performance regressions to their services during and after a deployment, gaining visibility into the latency, error ratio, and throughput changes to their operations.

Posted January 29, 2020

Portshift, a provider of identity-based workload protection for cloud-native applications, today introduced a simplified and intuitive pod security policy (PSP) implementation for Kubernetes.

Posted January 29, 2020

The Aerospace Systems Company, a division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) and Japanese manufacturer of aircraft, has chosen the SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing solution for production engineering and operations. SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for production engineering and operations can help KHI streamline processes by centrally managing design and manufacturing bills of material (BOMs) for aircraft as well as reflect changes at the design stage.

Posted January 29, 2020

SAP is joining the CEO Carbon Neutral Challenge, issued by Gucci President and CEO Marco Bizzarri pledging to support global business in the transition to a low-carbon economy. In the transition to new sustainable business models, SAP has a team of innovation services and solutions professionals focused on enabling customers to embrace disruption and transform their business through innovation using intelligent technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and advanced data analytics

Posted January 29, 2020

SAP is releasing a new enterprise edition of the SAP Litmos Training Content solution, with more than 2,000 video or downloadable courses, including 150 courses designed for customer-experience professionals. The new edition also extends SAP's learning portfolio to customer-facing professionals using Salesforce solutions.

Posted January 29, 2020

Accenture is acquiring maihiro, a provider of customer experience and customer relationship management consulting, optimization, and ongoing enhancement services. This acquisition strengthens Accenture's SAP capabilities.

Posted January 29, 2020

Semiconductor Company Tachyum Inc. will be participating as a Community Member in the Open Compute Project (OCP), an open consortium aiming to design and enable the delivery of efficient server, storage, and data center hardware for scalable computing. By joining OCP, Tachyum is able to contribute its expertise to helping redesign existing technology to efficiently support the growing demands of the modern data center.

Posted January 28, 2020

Aisera, a provider of an AI driven service experience solution, is launching its debut product that will deliver transformational AI to corporations looking for the best in self-service experience solutions.

Posted January 28, 2020

Pepperdata, a provider of Analytics Stack Performance (ASP) tools, is releasing Query Spotlight, making it easy for operators and developers to understand the detailed performance characteristics of their query workload along with infrastructure-wide issues that impact these workloads.

Posted January 28, 2020

SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has released the results of a survey of application owners, developers, and support teams, whose roles span cloud operations, DevOps, monitoring engineering, and site reliability engineering (SRE).

Posted January 28, 2020

Mphasis, an IT solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, is partnering with Israeli-based QEDIT, an enterprise solution provider that uses Privacy-Enhancing Technology and Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography, to help companies transact and leverage their business data in a privacy-compliant manner.

Posted January 28, 2020

SIOS Technology Corp. has introduced SIOS AppKeeper, an out-of-the-box solution to automatically respond to service outages on Amazon EC2 instances, protecting applications from service interruptions and downtime while eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming manual intervention. SIOS AppKeeper was first introduced in the Japanese market in early 2017 by sister company Japan-based SIOS Technology, Inc.

Posted January 28, 2020

Collibra, the Data Intelligence company, is launching Collibra Lineage, enabling organizations to better understand where data comes from and how it flows and transforms as it moves across the enterprise. The launch also marks the integration of SQLdep, the automated technical lineage provider that Collibra acquired in July 2019.

Posted January 27, 2020

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, the Swiss Data Center Efficiency Label was announced with the initial goal to decarbonize data centers in Switzerland and reduce their overall energy consumption. "We are witnessing a paradigm shift in IT, whereby conventional silicon technologies that historically resulted in doubling in chip density and efficiency every 2 years for 5 decades have reached their physical limits," said Babak Falsafi, professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences and founding director of the EcoCloud, an industrial/academic consortium at EPFL. "As a result, sustained IT performance growth can only come from building more infrastructure."

Posted January 27, 2020

Red Hat has introduced Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 to provide an integrated, multi-cloud experience to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform users. Enhanced with Multi-Cloud Object Gateway from Red Hat's 2018 acquisition of NooBaa, Red Hat says that OpenShift Container Storage 4 enables greater abstraction and flexibility so customers have the freedom to choose data services across multiple public clouds, while still operating from a unified Kubernetes-based control plane for applications and storage.

Posted January 27, 2020

Researchers at Google recently announced they had achieved "quantum supremacy" by performing a non-trivial computation on a quantum computer that decisively outperformed a "classical" computer performing the same task. Although IBM disputed some details of the achievement, this announcement will probably stand as a milestone in the development of quantum computing technology. In minutes Google's quantum computer performed the calculation that would have taken most traditional computers thousands of years.

Posted January 27, 2020

Unravel Data has announced that its platform has earned the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2, Type II certification from the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA). The platform provides visibility and AI-powered recommendations to drive more reliable performance in modern data applications. The SOC 2 certification process is governed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA).

Posted January 24, 2020

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