Data Integration Articles
KX is expanding its partnership with Microsoft, now offering kdb Insights Enterprise on Microsoft Azure. According to KX, this represents an industry-first Data Timehouse, a new class of data and AI management platform designed for temporal data generated by digital transformation.
Posted March 21, 2023
DBTA recently held a webinar, "Six Steps to Data Democratization Using APIs," joined by Todd Wright, senior product marketing manager at Progress, and David Loshin, principal consultant at Knowledge Integrity, to explore how APIs can be leveraged to increase data democratization and continuous accessibility while enabling self-service reporting and maintaining data protection and compliance.
Posted March 21, 2023
DataRobot is releasing DataRobot AI Platform 9.0, featuring deeper partner integrations, AI Accelerators, and redesigned service offerings, all centered on helping organizations derive value from their AI investments. The DataRobot AI Platform allows customers to leverage Value-Driven AI, a unique and collaborative approach that improves how organizations run, grow and optimize their business, according to the vendor.
Posted March 20, 2023
Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, is releasing Orchestration Recipes that will enable organizations to automate the migration from any legacy identity system to any cloud identity provider (IDP) without rewriting any code using the Maverics multi-cloud Identity Orchestration platform. The recipes support moving off outdated IDPs to more secure and flexible cloud identity systems like Okta, Microsoft Azure AD, AWS Cognito, and more.
Posted March 20, 2023
TrueFort, the lateral movement protection company, is launching the TrueFort Trust Partner Program for IT solution providers, systems integrators, consultants, MSPs/MSSPs, and ISVs. The program will deliver custom workload, lateral attack, and microsegmentation security solutions using a channel friendly model that allows partners to capitalize on new market opportunities to generate new recurring revenue streams.
Posted March 20, 2023
SambaNova Systems is releasing the new SambaNova Suite, a collection of accurate generative AI models optimized for the enterprise, deployed on-premises or in the cloud.
Posted March 17, 2023
LicenseFortress, Inc., an independent software asset management provider, is introducing Database Insight as an add-on to the ArxPlatform, further strengthening its partnership with Application Performance Ltd. The ArxPlatform leverages intelligent, real-time software license compliance monitoring and alerting for Oracle, Microsoft, and VMware. The addition of Database Insight will provide optimization for how database licenses are used, as well as unlocking hosting and cloud platform savings, according to the company.
Posted March 17, 2023
The world is becoming increasingly digital every day and, as a result, even more data-driven. The datasphere is experiencing stunning growth, with 90% of all data being created over just the past two years. This explosive growth is something that will only continue in the future, and it's clear that as companies begin to amass more and more data, they need to take a hard look at their data management practices.
Posted March 16, 2023
Altair, a global provider of computational science and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, is rebranding its entire data analytics and AI suite as Altair RapidMiner, uniting all data analytics technology into one platform, following the acquisitions of RapidMiner and World Programming. The Altair RapidMiner platform offers comprehensive end-to-end solutions from data ingestion and modeling to operationalization and visualization. Additionally, the platform is now available via Altair Units, delivering a new generation of frictionless AI capabilities to customers, according to the company.
Posted March 16, 2023
Census, provider of the Data Activation platform that syncs customer data from data warehouses to key business tools, announced a new integration and partnership with Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. By adding Datadog monitoring, Census customers can track the health of real-time reverse ETL syncs using custom alerts and dashboards, according to the vendor.
Posted March 16, 2023
AI is advancing at a faster clip this year with the debut of several technologies boosting its usage. Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), for example, is the large-scale natural language technology that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. AI expert and Erudit's chief science officer and co-founder, Ricardo Michel Reyes, discussed the growing use of AI in programming and whether or not its advancement is something that programmers should fear when it comes to their job security.
Posted March 15, 2023
In IT, few names are more significant than SAP and AWS. Countless organizations rely on SAP's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for running their mission-critical systems, while AWS holds an astonishing 33% share of the cloud services hosting market.
Posted March 15, 2023
UiPath, an enterprise automation software company, announced that data science teams using Amazon SageMaker, an end-to-end machine learning (ML) service, can now connect to UiPath to quickly connect new ML models into business processes without the need for complex coding. The UiPath Business Automation Platform makes it simple for data scientists, ML engineers, and business analysts to automate deployment pipelines, reducing the cost of experimentation, and increasing the pace of innovation, according to the vendor.
Posted March 15, 2023
Globalstar Inc, a provider of connectivity to businesses and people worldwide, is working with Oracle NetSuite to support its vision to deliver the most reliable communication services. With NetSuite, Globalstar has been able to take advantage of an integrated business system to streamline and scale its international operations and reallocate time and resources to accelerate growth.
Posted March 15, 2023
AT&T Mexico is moving critical IT and business processes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to expand the benefits of mobile internet to more than 21 million subscribers and business customers. The move will impact customers in industries such as education, health, and banking nationwide. With OCI, the company will be able to manage OSS/BSS workloads, analytics, and databases more efficiently in the cloud, according to the company.
Posted March 15, 2023
This month, I want to take a higher-level view of database performance concepts and introduce a few themes that will likely follow you throughout your career working with database systems and applications. These themes should be viewed as guiding principles to keep in mind when confronted with database performance issues.
Posted March 15, 2023
Armory, the continuous deployment (CD) company, is releasing several plugins for Spinnaker that are designed to make the platform faster and more secure. Spinnaker can help teams deploy software quickly, safely, and reliably. However, the platform presents technical and cost challenges when managing the growing number of accounts, configurations, credentials, resources and infrastructure overhead required for deployments at scale.
Posted March 14, 2023
Google Cloud and MongoDB significantly expanding their joint commitment to powering data-driven transformations with a multi-year extension of their partnership. The partnership expansion includes plans to double the scope of Google Cloud infrastructure that MongoDB needs to support accelerating adoption of Atlas.
Posted March 14, 2023
The EY organization (EY) and IBM are collaborating to focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions that aim to help organizations accelerate business transformation with value-led sustainability. EY and IBM teams will pursue innovative offerings that help integrate sustainability with business strategy, support the operationalization of their programs with speed and scale, and transform how value is created for their business, their stakeholders, their people, and the planet.
Posted March 13, 2023
IBM and Cohesity are collaborating to address the critical need organizations have for increased data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments. Combining data protection, cyber resilience, and data management capabilities from both companies, IBM will launch its new IBM Storage Defender solution which will include Cohesity's data protection as an integral part of the offering.
Posted March 13, 2023
Dremio, the easy and open data lakehouse, is offering key new features to enable customers to create their data lakehouses more easily by performantly loading data into Apache Iceberg tables, query and federate across more data sources with Dremio Sonar, automatically format SQL queries in the Dremio SQL Runner, and securely connect Microsoft PowerBI using single sign-on (SSO).
Posted March 13, 2023
SolarWinds, a provider of powerful and secure IT management software, announced SolarWinds Observability is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, empowering SolarWinds customers to take advantage of the Azure cloud platform. In addition, SolarWinds expanded customer availability across the Asia-Pacific region to the company's software as a service (SaaS)-delivered observability offering designed to help businesses gain visibility into modern and distributed digital services.
Posted March 10, 2023
Ontotext, a global provider of enterprise knowledge graph (EKG) technology and semantic database engines, is releasing GraphDB 10.2, empowering users to oversee system health and diagnose problems easier. The solution also includes support for X.509 client certificate authentication, which provides greater flexibility when accessing a secured GraphDB instance.
Posted March 10, 2023
Across database structures, dates are ubiquitous: sales date; order date; shipment date; receipt date; created date; last updated date. You might think that with such an abundant presence, dates would be well understood. Sadly, dates hide in the shadows—and many are confused over how dates work. People run a query, get a result, and seem to expect that what one sees, is what one gets. If they see a two-digit year, they believe that is exactly how the data is stored.
Posted March 09, 2023
Rocket Software announced it will launch the first of its new MultiValue (MV) eLearning modules. Available in late February, the first module is an MV Foundation path that covers eight topics: querying files and records; editing records and fields; creating files; describing files, records, and fields with a dictionary; creating interactive (I-type) fields; manipulating selections of data with select lists; writing a simple program with prompts and conditional logic in a paragraph; and increasing performance with hashed files and indexes.
Posted March 09, 2023
The Rocket Software MV team announced the release of UniVerse 11.3.5, increasing supportability, stability, and performance. UniVerse 11.3.5 contains a total of 70 bug fixes and 15 enhancements encompassing audit logging, Python, replication, security, encryption, and more.
Posted March 09, 2023
Logpoint is releasing AgentX, an endpoint agent for Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Cloud deployments that accelerates threat detection and investigation on endpoints to ensure fast response capabilities. According to the company, in addition to gathering telemetry, AgentX adds interrogation, compliance checks, and vulnerability management capabilities to Logpoint's security operations platform, converging SIEM, SOAR, and UEBA technologies, to improve overall security posture significantly.
Posted March 08, 2023
Fluree, provider of a graph ledger database and data pipeline toolset for secure-data management and sharing, is partnering with Fabric to remove "middleman" companies, such as Facebook and Google, that currently collect consumer data and sell it to advertisers without express permission of the individuals in question.
Posted March 08, 2023
Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped carrying a wallet when leaving the house. Almost all shops supported—often insisted on—touchless payments, so there was no need to carry around paper money, and since my phone was fully able to perform touchless payments, my phone became all I needed to navigate the commercial world. I'm sure most of you have had a similar experience.
Posted March 08, 2023
MSRcosmos is launching an SAP modernization-in-a-box solution, powered by Microsoft Azure, the solution aims to transform the SAP landscape into an agile and intelligent enterprise architecture by extracting full capabilities of cloud, data and AI, and intelligent automation.
Posted March 08, 2023
Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is introducing the Rubrik Transform Partner Program to empower partners to become trusted data security advisors and help improve the cyber readiness, resilience, and recovery for their customers. Rubrik Transform leverages a points-based scoring system and customizable incentive plan to reward top-performing partners, equipping them with important resources to win in the ongoing battle against modern cyber threats, according to the vendor.
Posted March 07, 2023
Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity provider, is releasing its new Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) module for Cortex XSIAM, enabling customers to ingest user identity and behavior data and deploy state of the art AI technology to detect identity-driven attacks. The module further strengthens XSIAM's ability to consolidate multiple security operations capabilities into a unified, AI-driven security operations center (SOC) platform, according to the vendor.
Posted March 07, 2023
Digibee, an enterprise integration platform as a service (eiPaaS) company, is partnering with Orasi, a DevSecOps innovator, joining Orasi's strong partner community that brings enterprise customers full development and delivery lifecycle support for market-driven products. Digibee will provide, through the Digibee Enterprise Integration Platform (eiPaaS), the ability to connect and integrate disparate legacy and cloud-based systems as part of Orasi's expert guidance, services, and tools that accelerate the maturation of secure, high quality applications.
Posted March 06, 2023
Ermetic, the cloud infrastructure security company, is offering automated capabilities that enable customers to discover and fix misconfigurations, compliance violations, and risky or excessive privileges in Kubernetes clusters through its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).
Posted March 06, 2023
Virtana, a provider of AI-driven solutions for hybrid cloud management and monitoring, is making enhancements to the the infrastructure performance management (IPM) capabilities of Virtana Platform, focusing on proactive enterprise IT management.
Posted March 03, 2023
Fivetran, the global leader in automated data movement, is releasing three new offerings that extend the Fivetran Data Movement Platform to give users options for all deployment types for secure, real-time, and high-volume database replication. Trusted by thousands of market-leading companies such as Autodesk, Conagra Brands, Lionsgate, Morgan Stanley and Ziff Davis, Fivetran's fully managed service helps companies power mission-critical workloads and drive data-informed business decisions.
Posted March 03, 2023
DiffusionData, the provider of data streaming and messaging solutions formerly known as Push Technology, is launching Gateway Framework 1.0, a simplistic framework for integrating back-end data sources or any external system with Diffusion, according to the vendor.
Posted March 03, 2023
Qlik is launching Connector Factory, its strategy to continually expand access to and delivery of data from hundreds of SaaS applications and data sources for enterprise cloud analytics and data integration needs. Connector Factory is an evolution in Qlik's continued focus on connecting and unlocking data from key enterprise sources for analysis and action, according to the vendor.
Posted March 02, 2023
Aptum, a hybrid multi-cloud managed service provider, is releasing its Multi-Tenant Cloud (MTC), a powerful virtual data center solution providing the ability to deploy virtual machines, virtual appliances, and other services in a multi-tenant environment using a consumption-based billing model. According to the company, Aptum's MTC was designed with today's businesses' needs in mind, regardless of their size.
Posted March 01, 2023
It's time to submit nominations 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 users. The nominations period has been extended through Wednesday, March 15, 2023, followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted March 01, 2023
TigerGraph, provider of an advanced analytics and ML platform for connected data, is releasing the latest version (3.9) of TigerGraph Cloud, the native parallel graph database-as-a-service. TigerGraph Cloud 3.9 includes new security, advanced AI, and machine learning capabilities that meet the demands of its rapidly growing customer base and streamline the adoption, deployment, and management of the most scalable graph database platform, according to the company. The underlying parallel native graph database engine is also available for on-prem or self-managed cloud installation.
Posted March 01, 2023
Kaleyra, Inc., a rapidly growing omnichannel business communications platform, announced it has launched its global messaging services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), accelerating innovation in the CPaaS space and further capitalize on the two companies' long-standing relationship to drive the future of business communications and customer engagement.
Posted March 01, 2023
Digital Realty, a provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, and member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced it will offer connectivity to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect point-of-presence (PoP) within the newly launched Oracle Cloud Chicago Region.
Posted March 01, 2023
KDDI Corporation, one of Japan's top three telecommunications carriers and the operator of the "au" mobile phone service, announced it has chosen Oracle Database to modernize its online payment brand, au PAY, and customer loyalty program, au Ponta Points Program. By working with Oracle, au Pay payment processing is now five times faster than before, while au Ponta Points Program's processing performance has improved by 200%, according to the company. In addition, Oracle helps KDDI meet changing customer needs by enabling it to develop new services and applications 30% faster.
Posted March 01, 2023
Observability by definition is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. In other words, a system's behavior is determined from its outputs—information obtained by certain measures. Though observability as a term has been used for many years, the modern understanding originates in software observability, which is the ability to collect data about program execution, internal states of modules, and communication between components.
Posted March 01, 2023
Talend, a provider of data integration and management, is making updates to Talend Data Fabric, its end-to-end platform for data discovery, transformation, governance, and sharing. In the Winter '23 release, Talend introduces advanced capabilities and enhancements to simplify and automate cloud migrations and data management, expand data connectivity, and improve data visibility, quality, control, and access.
Posted February 28, 2023
DBTA held a webinar, "Rethinking Data Management for Microservices and Cloud-Native Apps," to highlight a variety of modern data management approaches that will accommodate the world of cloud-native applications that form today's data-driven businesses.
Posted February 27, 2023
SolarWinds, a provider of secure IT management software, is expanding the global reach of its full-stack, software as a service (SaaS) SolarWinds Observability solution with the opening of a new data center in Europe. Located in Germany, the data center will allow more Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to access SolarWinds Observability so they can manage highly complex hybrid and multi-cloud IT environments.
Posted February 27, 2023