Data Center Management Articles
Attunity Ltd., a provider of data integration and big data management software solutions, has introduced Attunity Compose 3.0, a new version of its agile data warehouse automation solution.
Posted March 01, 2017
Today's successful organizations are data-driven, and many are building, maintaining, and accessing databases that scale well beyond the terabyte range. In fact, many have total data assets that now measure in the petabytes. But it's not just the size of databases that is expanding.
Posted March 01, 2017
The Simple Storage Service (S3) outage that took place on Feb. 28 prompted observations and reflections from industry experts about the need for proactive cloud services monitoring, the requirement to diversify with multi-cloud strategies, and even the possibility of "too-big-to-fail" safeguards for large cloud services providers.
Posted March 01, 2017
Informatica is addressing the increasing need for data security intelligence with the addition of data-focused user behavioral analytics to detect higher sensitive data risk and protect by orchestration of remediation capabilities in its data security offering, Informatica Secure@Source.
Posted March 01, 2017
Arcadia Data, provider of visual analytics software, is now certified to integrate with MapR technologies, allowing users to tap into converged data applications. Arcadia on MapR provides a catalyst for digital transformation in organizations by enabling data-centric applications in areas such as information security, customer intelligence, financial trade surveillance, and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Posted March 01, 2017
SolarWinds, is unleashing its PerfStack dashboard, an entirely new way of visualizing and correlating IT monitoring data. The dashboard will improve troubleshooting of performance issues across the IT environment, from infrastructure to applications, according to the vendor.
Posted March 01, 2017
Redgate Software has released a new database provisioning tool, SQL Clone, which allows copies of SQL Server databases and backups to be created in seconds, using only about 40MB of disk space per instance. According to the vendor, the release aims to resolve two key concerns that DBAs face when provisioning copies of databases or backups for use in test and development environments.
Posted February 27, 2017
Oracle is expanding its Cloud at Customer portfolio with the availability of the Oracle Exadata Cloud Machine, allowing organizations to deploy Oracle Exadata as a cloud service inside their own data center, in addition to the Oracle Cloud and in a traditional on-premises environment.
Posted February 27, 2017
IBM has announced IBM Machine Learning, a cognitive platform for continuously creating, training and deploying a high volume of analytic models in the private cloud. The company has extracted the core machine learning technology from IBM Watson and will initially make it available on the z System mainframe, due to the significant volume of enterprise data stored on these systems.
Posted February 27, 2017
Syncsort is making advancements in its big data integration solution, DMX-h, that help organizations to accelerate their business objectives by speeding development, adapting to evolving data management requirements and taking advantage of the rapid innovation in big data technology. The update introduces new workflow capabilities with Spark 2.0 integration to help simplify Hadoop and Spark application development.
Posted February 27, 2017
Kong Yang, head geek at SolarWinds, believes the rise of the mobile workforce and the pressure to implement new technologies means that modern IT professionals must be able to quickly evolve beyond the confines of on-premises and shift into the realm of hybrid IT. Here, Yang reflects on some of the ways that IT professionals can begin that journey.
Posted February 24, 2017
OPTO Software, part of iTMS Software Services Pty Ltd., provides manufacturing inventory software, including ERP solutions, to a wide variety of industries. Customers span the fields of manufacturing, mining, civil, fabrication, and engineering as well as distribution, retail and wholesale, construction, and importing and exporting. A key differentiator for iTMS/OPTO is its deep understanding of the nuances of manufacturing. Revelation supports that agility, ensuring that OPTO platform is easily configured.
Posted February 22, 2017
Oracle has expanded the Oracle Cloud Platform's data integration offerings with the launch of Oracle Data Integrator Cloud. The new cloud service is aimed at speeding and simplifying cross-enterprise data integration to support real-time analytics.
Posted February 22, 2017
Are enterprises more or less secure than 5 years ago? That's the big question of the moment, especially with ongoing revelations about state-sponsored hacking, as well as an unending stream of reports about customer and employee data being compromised by even the most seemingly security-conscious organizations. Awareness of data security is running at a fever pitch at the highest levels of government and business organizations. There have been plenty of technology advances, and awareness has grown. Still, the wave of breaches and threats never seems to abate, and likely never will.
Posted February 22, 2017
Imagine you are standing by a railway track near a lever that switches between two sets of tracks. A runaway rail trolley is heading toward the fork in the tracks, and five people are trapped on the currently activated line. You could switch the trolley to the alternative track, but there is a single person trapped there as well. Do you switch the trolley? The artificial intelligence community is increasingly wrestling with similar moral conundrums implicit in the ever-more pervasive algorithms that underlie much of our technological infrastructure.
Posted February 22, 2017
Hazelcast, a provider of an open source in-memory data grid (IMDG) has announced the general availability of Hazelcast IMDG 3.8, providing an improved operational experience for systems requiring maximum uptime. According to Hazelcast, with this release, the number of times the cluster must be shut down for maintenance has been dramatically reduced. Advanced data management capabilities have also been added for managing persistence and multi-data center deployments.
Posted February 22, 2017
Informatica, a provider of data management solutions, has acquired Diaku, Ltd., a London-based provider of data governance solutions. Diaku's flagship application, Diaku Axon, now called "Informatica Axon," integrates with Informatica data management solutions for data quality, master data management, big data and cloud to form a unified data governance offering.
Posted February 22, 2017
No one solution can be all things to all enterprises, and as enterprises began to deploy vSAN across their environments, they noticed a big thing was missing. Despite its many benefits, vSAN lacks support for a file system. The importance of having a file system within a data center cannot be overstated. Without a file system, the guest VMs (virtual machines) cannot share files between them and are forced to use an external NAS (network attached storage) solution as shared storage. Without a file system overlaying this data, it becomes laborious and impossible to scale efficiently.
Posted February 21, 2017
Data centers are now designed to not only accommodate current regulations and standards but also predicted capacity requirements, while simultaneously reducing operating costs by incorporating aisle containment structures. One solution offered by many experts in the field is the use of scalable or modular designs. The aisle containment structure is gaining popularity because it meets these goals by providing an infrastructure that is repeatable and rapidly deployable.
Posted February 21, 2017
BI and analytics software vendor Yellowfin has partnered with Kodak to deliver real-time analytics in Kodak's new PRINERGY Cloud, a SaaS cloud for the print industry, built on the Microsoft Azure platform.
Posted February 16, 2017
Signals from IoT-enabled devices represent an opportunity for organizations to better manage, interpret, and leverage data, and the organizations that have the ability to integrate device data into their business processes and applications can gain critical predictive insights and drive cost-effective actions.
Posted February 14, 2017
Percona, which provides MySQL and MongoDB solutions and services, has introduced a bundle of updated products for MongoDB and MySQL environments. The bundle includes PerconaServer for MongoDB 3.4, Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1, and Percona Toolkit 3.0, and will be generally available the week of Feb. 20.
Posted February 14, 2017
Software AG, a provider of enterprise infrastructure solutions, is collaborating with Google to make its webMethods Hybrid Integration Platform available on Google Cloud Platform. Software AG will also provide its Digital Business Platform on the Google Cloud later in the year.
Posted February 13, 2017
Kaminario, a storage solutions provider, has released its sixth generation (Gen6) K2 all-flash array, delivering multi-petabyte scale storage. Kaminario K2 Gen6 is powered by VisionOS, a software platform that optimizes commodity hardware resources. K2 is built for delivering applications on highly scalable private clouds or as-a-service infrastructures.
Posted February 13, 2017
Vision Solutions, a provider of IT modernization solutions for IBM Power Systems, has introduced MIMIX Share 5.4, designed to meet the data-sharing needs of organizations with multiple databases.
Posted February 13, 2017
EnterpriseDB (EDB) is launching a new version of the EDB Postgres Data Adapter for Hadoop with compatibility for the Apache Spark cluster computing framework, allowing users to combine analytic workloads. The new version gives organizations the ability to combine analytic workloads based on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) with operational data in Postgres, using an Apache Spark interface.
Posted February 09, 2017
Splice Machine is releasing its data platform on AWS this spring. With Splice Machine's Cloud RDBMS, companies will benefit from a complete SQL database, transactional and analytical workloads, zero management, elasticity, concurrency, and availability.
Posted February 09, 2017
As businesses realize the importance of big data, adoption is on the rise. But big data is still not in full-scale production everywhere, and many companies say operational challenges hold them back. So what are the operational challenges that big data presents? It's a confluence of three key features of big data.
Posted February 08, 2017
The role of the DBA is growing and becoming more complicated in the age of digital transformation. As the amount and type of information we store expands, DBAs must become versed in administering not just one type of DBMS (e.g., relational), but multiple types (document, key/value, wide column stores, and graph) and even non-DBMS data platforms (e.g., Hadoop). Furthermore, cloud computing can change the manner in which existing applications and databases operate.
Posted February 08, 2017
There are many points in life where you may ask yourself whether it is better to build or buy. Think of a new house, a business, or an application. Regardless of the object of discussion, answering certain upfront questions can act as a guide to help you along the path to the right solution. Given the increasing importance, complexity, and breadth of database systems, the question of whether to build or to buy database monitoring is an important one to consider.
Posted February 08, 2017
MapR Technologies, Inc., which provides a converged data platform, has introduced persistent storage for containers with complete state access to files, database tables, and message streams from any location. The MapR Converged Data Platform for Docker includes the MapR Persistent Client Container (PACC) that enables stateful applications and microservices to access data for greater application agility and faster time-to-value.
Posted February 07, 2017
Hortonworks, Inc, a provider of open and connected data platforms, is releasing its Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Optimization Solution, partnering with Syncsort and AtScale to deliver a powerful solution. With the EDW Optimization Solution, customers can extend the value of existing EDW investments and overcome the challenges, risks, and costs of introducing new solutions into legacy infrastructure.
Posted February 07, 2017
Hazelcast, a provider of an open source in-memory data grid (IMDG) platform, is unveiling Hazelcast Jet, a new platform that gives users a distributed processing engine for big data streams. With Hazelcast's IMDG providing storage functionality, Hazelcast Jet is a new Apache 2 licensed open source project that performs parallel execution to enable data-intensive applications to operate in near real-time.
Posted February 07, 2017
As news of data breaches continues to grab headlines, data security is becoming a greater enterprise concern. However, at the same time, it is becoming clear that many organizations are actually doing things that make their data more vulnerable. Recently, Joe Pasqua, executive vice president of products at MarkLogic, provider of enterprise NoSQL database technology, discussed the ways organizations and their employees are unintentionally putting their data at greater risk—and the ways to address it.
Posted February 03, 2017
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has acquired Niara Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based provider of software for the user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) market segment. Niara will operate within HPE Aruba to enhance the company's ClearPass network security portfolio for wired and wireless network infrastructure. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Posted February 02, 2017
Oracle is opening new centers in Bristol, Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, and Tel Aviv as part of its expanding Startup Cloud Accelerator program to spur cloud-enabled innovation.
Posted February 01, 2017
Java started its life in the early 1990s as an attempt to develop an architecture-independent language that could be used in consumer electronics and other embedded contexts. It found itself in the right place at the right time when the web exploded in the mid-1990s and over the next 10 years became one of the mainstays of web development. Today, Java remains as popular as ever. It's arguably the most popular programming language of our generation.
Posted February 01, 2017
IBM announced its second-quarter 2016 earnings results, and its cloud business continues to accelerate. Overall, revenue was $20.2 billion for the quarter, and "strategic imperatives"—which include cloud and data analytics—were $8.3 billion in the quarter, up 12% year to year. Cloud revenues (public, private and hybrid) for the quarter increased 30%. Cloud as-a-service revenues saw an annual run rate of $6.7 billion in the quarter, up 50% year to year.
Posted January 30, 2017
HPE announced a definitive agreement to acquire Cloud Cruiser, a provider of cloud consumption analytics software that enables customers to manage and optimize public, private and hybrid cloud usage and spend.
Posted January 30, 2017
Pure Storage, a solid-state array vendor, announced that FlashBlade, the company's second product built for high-performance unstructured workloads, is now shipping in both 8.8TB and 52TB blade capacities with the Elasticity 1.2 software. FlashBlade was first announced in March 2016.
Posted January 30, 2017
Syncsort's latest "State of the Mainframe" survey shows the mainframe is no longer an isolated technology within the IT infrastructure, and corporations are making it part of big data analytics initiatives.
Posted January 30, 2017
Syncsort's latest "State of the Mainframe" survey shows the mainframe is no longer an isolated technology within the IT infrastructure, and corporations are making it part of big data analytics initiatives.
Posted January 30, 2017