Data Center Management Articles
Redgate is releasing a major upgrade for its popular tool, SQL Prompt, helping developers increase the speed and quality of their SQL coding and take advantage of the most recent improvements in SQL Server.
Posted November 11, 2019
Fastly's Compute@Edge gives developers the freedom to push complex logic closer to end users, and reduces the time to innovate by allowing developers to focus on strategy that drives their companies forward.
Posted November 11, 2019
OpenText, a provider of enterprise information management (EIM) software, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Carbonite, a provider of cloud-based subscription data protection, backup, disaster recovery and end-point security solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses and consumers. "Cloud platforms and secured, smart end-points are essential information management technologies as businesses transform into Industry 4.0," said Mark J. Barrenechea, OpenText CEO & CTO.
Posted November 11, 2019
At VMworld Europe 2019, IBM announced an extended partnership with VMware to accelerate hybrid cloud innovation and adoption across global enterprises. Through new and updated technology offerings, IBM aims to make it easier for enterprises to more securely move VMware workloads to the cloud and leverage open technologies to modernize their business operations.
Posted November 11, 2019
GridGain has announced GridGain for z/OS, a mainframe-optimized version of GridGain for use on the IBM z/OS operating system. It runs on IBM zIIPs (z Integrated Information Processor), the IBM processor optimized for running services such as Java on the IBM Z mainframe platform.
Posted November 11, 2019
ASG-PRO/JCL 3.5 increases productivity by enabling developers to run Job Control Language (JCL) scans from their preferred integrated development environments (IDE), enhancing the mainframe DevOps tool chain.
Posted November 11, 2019
IBM's new AI-powered monitoring solution is designed to help maintenance and operations leaders better understand and improve the performance of their high-value physical assets.
Posted November 11, 2019
Rockset, the serverless search and Analytics Company that enables real-time SQL on NoSQL data, is introducing the capability to build interactive, live Tableau dashboards on NoSQL data, without requiring users to write a single line of code.
Posted November 08, 2019
DBmaestro, a database DevOps solution provider, has expanded its database automation platform to enable CI/CD and release automation for MySQL, MariaDB, and Amazon RDS with DBmaestro DevOps Platform v2019.4. The new support for these databases adds to DBmaestro's current support for Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2, and PostgreSQL databases. According to the company more customers, global financial organizations as well as SMEs, are adopting MySQL and MariaDB databases due to their being a premier choice for web-based applications.
Posted November 06, 2019
Datameer, a provider of data preparation and exploration, is releasing Neebo, a new platform that enables analytics and data science teams to utilize information assets in hybrid landscapes.
Posted November 06, 2019
SolarWinds, provider of IT management software, has announced updates across its IT Operations Management offerings, including the Orion Platform suite of products, and its application performance management suite. The enhancements extend SolarWinds support for organizations investing in Microsoft Azure, and offer technology professionals the ability to monitor, manage, and secure hybrid IT operations. Included are new database performance analysis and recommendations for Azure SQL Database Managed Instances and support for the latest versions of popular databases including Oracle 19, MySQL 8, SQL Server 2019, and MariaDB 10.
Posted November 06, 2019
Grafana Labs, the company behind open source projects including Grafana and Loki, is recieving $24 million in Series A funding, which will be used to further invest in the open source community and accelerate the creation of an open and composable observability platform. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Lead Edge Capital. The company also announced new executive appointments including Douglas Hanna, chief operating officer, Dave Kranowitz, vice president of global sales, and Ryan McKinley, vice president of applications.
Posted November 01, 2019
Veritas Technologies, a provider of enterprise data protection and software-defined infrastructure, is releasing the Veritas Flex 5150 appliance, a complete data protection solution purpose built for the edge of enterprise networks. The Flex 5150 is the first appliance from Veritas to bring the NetBackup enterprise-class data protection to edge, branch, and remote offices.
Posted November 01, 2019
Dotscience is offering new platform advancements that make deploying and monitoring machine learning models on Kubernetes clusters simple and accessible to data scientists. New Dotscience Deploy and Monitor features dramatically simplify the act of deploying ML models to Kubernetes and setting up monitoring dashboards for the deployed models with cloud-native tools Prometheus and Grafana.
Posted November 01, 2019
Truly, the speed and performance of your production database systems encompasses a wide range of parameters and decisions that are made well before implementation. DBAs need to understand the options available, the factors that impact performance and development with each DBMS option, and work to keep the IT organization up-to-speed and educated on all of the available choices.
Posted October 31, 2019
Circonus, a provider of machine data intelligence, is launching its Circonus Platform, a machine data intelligence platform built to provide enterprises with the ability to handle the rapidly increasing data volume. With the Circonus Platform, enterprises can collect, store and analyze all of their machine data - without limits.
Posted October 30, 2019
SHARE, an enterprise IT user group focused on the mainframe ecosystem, and Broadcom, a global technology provider, have formed a strategic partnership focusing on mainframe advocacy and education. SHARE and Broadcom will collaborate on initiatives and share industry insights for the advancement of the community.
Posted October 30, 2019
OpenLegacy, which delivers microservices-based API integration and management for core and legacy systems, is partnering with Compuware, which provides modern and agile mainframe software tools for DevOps, to accelerate mainframe integration with modern apps using APIs and microservices. Now that the OpenLegacy platform can be accessed directly from Topaz Workbench, such integration provides both mainframe and non-mainframe developers with a common framework to create APIs and visualize, understand, debug, and maintain their cross-platform applications.
Posted October 28, 2019
Syncsort has introduced enhancements to Ironstream for ServiceNow that deliver the industry's first product to enable IT to integrate mainframe and IBM i environments into ServiceNow Event Management. The new capabilities build upon Ironstream support for ServiceNow Discovery to help increase IT productivity, proactively eliminate service outages, and resolve critical issues across the enterprise, to deliver greater value for customers with the cloud-based Now Platform.
Posted October 28, 2019
IBM has announced updates to IBM Developer for z/OS, including new automated unit testing capabilities for mainframe developers. For mainframe developers, IBM says, automating testing is an essential component for true agile development.
Posted October 28, 2019
Zumasys' software services team worked closely with Collaborative Classroom to understand their objectives and build a solution from the ground up that could meet the organization's unique requirements—including compliance with stringent federal data privacy regulations such as FERPA, CIPA, and COPPA that relate to children and students.
Posted October 23, 2019
SIOS Technology, a provider of IT resilience through intelligent application availability, and its platforms SIOS LifeKeeper 9.4 and SIOS DataKeeper 9.4, sold as SIOS Protection Suite for Linux, have achieved SAP certification (S/4-HA-CLU 1.0) for SAP S/4HANA. This certification recognizes that SIOS provides proven technology and deep expertise in delivering High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) for SAP in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Posted October 23, 2019
SAP is making enhancements to its business technology platform to enable intelligent enterprises to thrive in an experience economy. These updates aim to help customers quickly turn data into business value. By bringing together SAP technology into one "stack" with a single reference architecture, the business technology platform from SAP delivers required services for modern enterprises.
Posted October 23, 2019
Syniti is releasing its Advanced Data Migration by Syniti, central finance edition, software for enterprise customers moving in preparation for adopting S/4HANA. Syniti is partnering with truData Solutions, a technology services provider with a dedicated practice, to bring the solution to customers in North America.
Posted October 23, 2019
BigID has announced a global reseller agreement with SAP, enabling SAP to sell two BigID powered products under the names SAP Privacy Management application by BigID and SAP Data Mapping and Protection application by BigID.
Posted October 23, 2019
Hitachi Vantara has announced major updates to its portfolio of products, solutions, and services to deliver a foundation for DataOps initiatives, a methodology to improve an organization's use of data through better data quality and data management, and shorter cycle times.
Posted October 21, 2019
LevaData is collaborating with IBM to deliver a cognitive analytics and direct procurement sourcing services solution that will give procurement leaders the power to achieve business-changing outcomes through actionable insights. The new offering, DirectSpend IQ, brings together IBM's expert managed services with LevaData's Cognitive Sourcing Platform to deliver insights and recommendations for direct procurement cost savings opportunities and process transformation.
Posted October 21, 2019
Sisu, a diagnostic platform for structured data, has secured $52.5M in a Series B funding round that will fuel Sisu's expansion in the rapidly growing operational analytics market. This round was led by NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund, and Green Bay Ventures also participated in the new round. The funding brings Sisu's total capital raised to $66.7M, and coincides with the public launch of Sisu's data analytics platform.
Posted October 18, 2019
itopia, a cloud infrastructure automation solution for Google Cloud, is releasing its newest feature set, Collection Pools with Dynamic Server Uptime and Nearest Point Connection. With the latest release, itopia customers gain the flexibility to support multi-region teams with low latency and intelligent resource balancing.
Posted October 18, 2019
PMM2 provides a single-pane-of-glass to monitor the performance of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL database environments.
Posted October 16, 2019
IBM has introduced a new integrated supply chain suite, embedded with Watson AI and IBM Blockchain and open to developers, to help organizations make their supply chains smarter, more efficient and better able to make decisions to adjust to disruptions and opportunities in an era when globalization has made supplier networks more complex and vulnerable than ever.
Posted October 15, 2019
The cloud, ethics in artificial intelligence, privacy, and compliance were some of the topics that attendees were concerned about at Strata Data NY as data professionals converged at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City from September 24 - 26.
Posted October 15, 2019
The IBM z15 culminates 4 years of development with more than 3,000 IBM Z patents issued or in process and represents a collaborative effort with input from more than 100 companies.
Posted October 15, 2019
Elastic N.V., the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, is introducing Elastic Endpoint Security, based on Elastic's acquisition of Endgame, a provider of endpoint threat prevention, detection, and response based on the MITRE ATT&CK matrix. Elastic is combining SIEM and endpoint security into a single solution to enable organizations to automatically and flexibly respond to threats in real time, whether in the cloud, on-premises, or in hybrid environments. Also announced today, Elastic is eliminating per-endpoint pricing.
Posted October 15, 2019
Advanced analytics software provider Mode today announced the availability of its first instant, responsive data engine, Helix. Helix creates the dual backbone between modern business intelligence and interactive data science. By combining these workflows, data scientists no longer have to choose between shipping fast, one-off answers and building dashboards for broader coverage.
Posted October 14, 2019
dotData, a company focused on delivering full-cycle data science automation and operationalization for the enterprise, has been selected as a qualified partner in Microsoft for Startups. Microsoft for Startups selects organizations developing innovative enterprise-ready technology solutions that run on Microsoft Azure.
Posted October 14, 2019
Rocket Software, a global technology provider that develops enterprise modernization and optimization solutions for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, has announced the acquisition of RSD SA, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Adding to its more than 50 acquisitions since 1990, Rocket says the acquisition of RSD demonstrates its ongoing commitment to acquire, invest in, or partner with other companies to help ensure a vibrant mainframe ecosystem for decades to come.
Posted October 14, 2019
Compuware has announced enhancements to Topaz for Total Test, which provides unit, functional, integration, and regression testing, enabling application leaders to adopt a "shift left" approach to testing to improve application quality and development velocity and efficiency. Compuware is also announcing a partnership with OpenLegacy.
Posted October 14, 2019
Syncsort, the provider o of big iron to big data software, is making enhancements to Ironstream for ServiceNow that enable IT to integrate mainframe and IBM i environments into ServiceNow Event Management. The new capabilities build upon Ironstream support for ServiceNow Discovery to help increase IT productivity, proactively eliminate service outages, and quickly resolve critical issues across the enterprise, delivering even greater value for customers with the cloud-based Now Platform.
Posted October 14, 2019
GoodData, provider of end-to-end analytics solutions, announced it is now leveraging Amazon Redshift, a cloud data warehouse by Amazon Web Services (AWS). In addition, the combination of GoodData and Amazon Redshift can change the way in which enterprise and product teams are making business decisions. Namely, the trend toward integrating analytics into business applications so every customer, partner, and team member becomes empowered with data and insights at the point of work.
Posted October 11, 2019
Talend, a provider of cloud data integration and data integrity, is releasing Talend Cloud on Microsoft Azure, offering a secure and scalable Integration Platform-as-a-Service for collecting, transforming and cleaning data. With embedded data quality and native integration performance, Talend Cloud on Microsoft Azure delivers the trusted data companies need to make real-time business decisions, accelerate advanced analytics, and meet regulatory compliance requirements.
Posted October 11, 2019
DataStax, the company behind a database built on Apache Cassandra, is opening early access to the DataStax Change Data Capture (CDC) Connector for Apache Kafka. The DataStax CDC Connector for Apache Kafka gives developers bidirectional data movement between DataStax, Cassandra, and Kafka clusters. CDC is designed to capture and forward insert, update, and delete activity applied to tables (column families).
Posted October 10, 2019
Collibra, the Data Intelligence company, is making platform-wide upgrades to improve access to critical data and hasten time to insight. The new release introduces machine learning enhancements to Collibra Catalog and marks the availability of Collibra Privacy & Risk, a sustainable approach to compliance with modules for CCPA and GDPR.
Posted October 09, 2019