Data Integration Articles
Pentaho, a Hitachi Group Company, has announced that Pentaho Labs has created an integration with MQTT, a machine-to-machine (M2M) IoT transport protocol, to act as the connecting link between physical devices and the data integration process. MQTT, or MQ Telemetry Transport, was created by IBM in 1999 and used today in a variety of IoT environments, including smart homes, manufacturing, and energy.
Posted December 16, 2016
Infosys, a provider of consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services, and NoSQL database technology provider MongoDB have formed a global partnership designed to help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation and application modernization initiatives.
Posted December 16, 2016
Crate.io is releasing CrateDB 1.0, an open source SQL database that enables real-time analytics for machine data applications. CrateDB makes machine data applications that were previously only possible using NoSQL solutions available to mainstream SQL developers.
Posted December 15, 2016
By now it's well documented that employees will take IT tasks into their own hands when IT cannot give them the support they need, and when they need it. The phenomenon is ubiquitous and persistent, even to the point that it's been dubbed "shadow IT." Gartner recently noted that by 2020, a third of successful attacks experienced by enterprises will be on their shadow IT resources.
Posted December 14, 2016
Informatica, a provider of data management solutions, is now offering hourly pricing for Informatica Cloud Services for Microsoft Azure in the Azure Marketplace. Available as a pay-as-you-go hourly pricing model, the solution is designed to help users of the Azure cloud platform and Microsoft Cortana Intelligence Suite get started faster on cloud data integration and management projects. Additionally, users can run enterprise-class integration jobs with no upfront costs, and simplify integration of disparate data sources - on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment.
Posted December 14, 2016
1010data, Inc., which provides an integrated platform that combines self-service data management and analytics at scale with ready-to-use data, has announced version 10 of its platform. According to the vendor, the new release provides increased self-service and makes it easier to load, analyze and visualize enterprise-class data, and to write queries, debug errors and deploy user-friendly applications with its entirely redesigned and optimized GUI interface.
Posted December 14, 2016
GridGain Systems, a provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache Ignite, has announced the availability of GridGain Professional Edition 1.8, a fully supported version of Apache Ignite 1.8.
Posted December 14, 2016
IDERA, a provider of database lifecycle management solutions, has released Workload Analysis for SAP HANA, which is aimed at enabling a smooth transition to in-memory computing platform as an alternative to traditional, relational databases.
Posted December 14, 2016
IT operations teams have been furiously preparing for this year's holiday season - the retail industry's busiest time of the year for web traffic. Here is a checklist of the key factors IT operations teams need to consider to ensure their IT infrastructure is ready now - and stays that way throughout the shopping season.
Posted December 14, 2016
ZeroPoint technology focuses on analyzing documents, email, web content and server traffic for hazardous content such as malicious code
Posted December 13, 2016
Compuware has acquired the assets of Standardware, Inc., including its COPE IMS virtualization software, a solution intended to reduce the time, cost and technical difficulty associated with the development and testing of IMS systems—helping enterprises to increase their digital business agility, while also aiding staff members with less mainframe experience in performing IMS-related DevOps tasks.
Posted December 12, 2016
IBM has introduced a blockchain ecosystem to help accelerate the creation of blockchain networks. The blockchain ecosystem program is designed for venture capitalists, start-ups, systems integrators, independent software vendors and enterprise developers.
Posted December 12, 2016
IBM has announced new Bluemix services designed to simplify and speed app development in the cloud. With these new services, developers can now access and construct preconfigured toolchains using popular DevOps tools, including GitHub and Slack.
Posted December 12, 2016
CA Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Automic Holding GmbH, a provider of software for automating IT and business processes.
Posted December 12, 2016
When software providers consider transitioning to (or at the very least adding) a SaaS offering, they think about the impact to their business of moving from a perpetual license model to a recurring revenue stream. And while it's easy to remember and consider such migration costs as application-level rearchitecture, other upfront and ongoing costs - such as infrastructure and service-related costs - are often severely underestimated.
Posted December 12, 2016
Scribe Software is releasing the next generation of Scribe Online, offering a completely revamped user experience and an extended application programming interface. The new update simplifies and accelerates the process of creating and maintaining integrations between cloud services, on-premises applications, and databases.
Posted December 08, 2016
It has become all too clear that no organization is immune from the risk of a data breach, and that anyone accessing data can pose a threat - including trusted employees and partners. Here, IT executives speculate on the impact newer technologies such as IoT, blockchain, and cloud, as well as the need for data protection, including disaster recovery plans, encryption, and comprehensive oversight.
Posted December 07, 2016
Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Dyn, a cloud-based internet performance and domain name system (DNS) provider that monitors, controls, and optimizes internet applications and cloud services to enable faster access, reduced page load times, and higher end user satisfaction.
Posted December 07, 2016
Oracle Linux 7 Update 3 for x86-64 servers is now generally available, according to Teri Whitaker, program manager at Oracle, who announced the release in a post on Oracle's Linux blog.
Posted December 07, 2016
SnapLogic is receiving $40 million in Series F funding to hasten its reach around the globe and transform ways to integrate data, applications, and devices for digital business. The new round was led by European private equity firm Vitruvian Partners, with further investment from Andreessen Horowitz, Capital One, Ignition Partners, NextEquity Partners, and Triangle Peak Partners. This brings SnapLogic's funding to $136.3 million to date.
Posted December 07, 2016
Dell Boomi is releasing an enhanced version of its integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) to help organizations rapidly and cost-effectively integrate data across applications in hybrid IT environments. The latest release enables Boomi customers to build a connected business at scale through new features to increase user productivity, speed up implementation, and provide unparalleled control of integrations.
Posted December 07, 2016
In what has become a data-driven world, your organization's data is valuable. It has become the "keys to the kingdom," so to speak. Very few companies today could function without data, especially good data. However, I would suggest that more important than data, is information. Data provides the building blocks, but information is really the consumable outcome that can be used as a competitive edge.
Posted December 01, 2016
Terms such as "active," "inactive," and "canceled" may seem mundane and inconsequential, and when folks hear the term,"valid values," their eyes glaze and expectations of interest diminish. But exciting or not, reference values and an understanding of them are important to every organization.
Posted December 01, 2016
If you are a SQL Server professional, but you don't know about the PASS Summit, then you are missing out. The annual conference is convened every fall in downtown Seattle, the backyard of Microsoft, and attracted over 6,000 attendees this year. And, since it's so close to the Microsoft Redmond campus, hundreds of the SQL Server developers and program managers get to attend—answering user questions, delivering sessions, and presenting chalk talks and panel discussions.
Posted December 01, 2016
The clear trend these days is to automate and enable computerized tasks to streamline and optimize administrative and maintenance tasks. Many database management tasks that today require oversight and handholding by DBAs can, over time, be turned over to intelligently automated software to manage. But automation is just the first step.
Posted December 01, 2016
It's been amusing to watch the NoSQL movement transition from a "We don't need no stinking SQL" attitude to a "Can I please have some SQL with that?" philosophy. The nonrelational databases that emerged over the past 8 years initially offered no SQL capabilities. However, today we have an embarrassment of SQL options for "NoSQL." Hive offers SQL for Hadoop systems, Spark has SparkSQL, MongoDB has a SQL-based BI connector, and so on.
Posted December 01, 2016
There are three big challenges facing today's DBAs—a shift to an application-centric focus, the need to support multiple database platforms, and expanding responsibilities for managing database performance in the cloud as well as on premises.
Posted December 01, 2016
Yellowfin, business intelligence (BI) and analytics software vendor, is launching a virtualized data preparation module for analytics, fully integrating it into the metadata layer of its BI platform. Yellowfin's Data Preparation Module will enable organizations to model, profile, clean, shape, enrich, secure, and publish all data for reporting and analytics in a single BI environment.
Posted December 01, 2016
Dataguise - through its DgSecure platform - is now supporting sensitive data discovery on Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS, as well as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). The platform will now scan for sensitive information stored on Amazon Redshift, RDS, and S3 and provide ongoing monitoring of sensitive data in S3 throughout its lifecycle.
Posted December 01, 2016
What's ahead for 2017 in terms of big data and IoT? IT executives reflect on the impact that Spark, blockchain, data lakes, cognitive computing,AI and machine learning, and other cutting-edge approaches may have on data management and analytics over the year ahead.
Posted November 30, 2016
SUSE is acquiring OpenStack IaaS and Cloud Foundry PaaS Talent and Technology Assets from HPE. The agreement aims to accelerate SUSE's entry into the growing Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market.
Posted November 30, 2016
At HPE Discover London, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) introduced new solutions designed to help organizations deploy Internet of Things (IoT) devices in wide area, enterprise and industrial environments.
Posted November 30, 2016
VoltDB has partnered with Confluent and completed development and certification of its Sink Connector for Confluent Open Source, based on Apache Kafka, utilizing Kafka's Connect API.
Posted November 30, 2016
Syncsort has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Trillium Software. Syncsort, Inc. is an IT solutions provider backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. and Trillium is a provider of data quality solutions.
Posted November 30, 2016
Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the Apache Spark project, has introduced a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant Apache Spark, cloud-based platform. The announcement was made today at the 2016 Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference.
Posted November 30, 2016
Reltio, an enterprise data-driven applications and modern data management platform as a service (PaaS) company, announced it has earned HITRUST CSF Certification status for information security by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) for Reltio Cloud.
Posted November 29, 2016
Tableau Online, a fully managed SaaS cloud analytics platform, allows organizations to connect, blend and analyze live or extracted data from on-premises and cloud databases such as Amazon Redshift and Teradata, applications such as Salesforce and Google Analytics, and data in spreadsheets stored in computers or online.
Posted November 29, 2016
CA Technologies is incorporating predictive analytics capabilities for monitoring data that touches the mainframe. CA Mainframe Operations Intelligence is a new algorithms-based solution suite that identifies and predicts system issues before they impact performance. Machine learning is applied to make sure there is no downtime and provides the intelligence that reduces the effort and skill to run data centers.
Posted November 28, 2016
CA Technologies announced new additions to its DevOps portfolio that spans development to production. New releases of CA's core app and infrastructure monitoring products—CA Application Performance Management (CA APM), CA Performance Management and CA Virtual Network Assurance—are intended to speed software release velocity and improve customer experiences.
Posted November 28, 2016
Resilient, an IBM Company unveiled the results of a new survey which found that only 32% of IT and security professionals feel their organization is ready for a cyberattack - down slightly from 35% in 2015. The annual Cyber Resilient Organization study also found that 66% of respondents say their organization is not prepared to recover from cyberattacks.
Posted November 28, 2016
Symantec Corp. and LifeLock, Inc. recently announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Symantec to acquire LifeLock for $2.3 billion in enterprise value. The deal is expected to close in the first calendar quarter of 2017.
Posted November 28, 2016
Rackspace has announced that its Fanatical Support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) global team was awarded a certification distinction by AWS for achieving more than 500 AWS professional and associate certifications. Rackspace is an audited AWS Managed Service Partner, AWS DevOps Competency partner, and AWS Marketing & Commerce Competency partner in the AWS Partner Network.
Posted November 22, 2016
AtScale, which provides a self-service BI platform for big data, has announced an expansion of its services. With this announcement, the company says it is introducing a BI platform that enables businesses to work seamlessly across all of big data, on premise and in the cloud. In addition to Hadoop, AtScale has announced preview availability of support for data stored in Teradata, Google Dataproc and BigQuery, expanding on the company's existing support for Microsoft Azure and HDInsight.
Posted November 21, 2016
At CA WORLD '16, CA Technologies announced two new security solutions. CA Threat Analytics for PAM, a new behavior analytics solution that integrates with CA Privileged Access Manager (PAM), features machine-learning capabilities for better threat detection and breach prevention associated with privileged users. In addition, CA Identity Service, a new, turn-key identity-as-a-service solution, has been introduced to address identity and access management (IAM) needs for both on-premises and cloud-based applications.
Posted November 21, 2016