Data Quality Articles
Traditionally, MongoDB has held its signature event—MongoDB World—in June in New York City. MongoDB usually announces significant releases of their flagship database product at this event. However, this year, the company has transitioned to a global tour of "local" events that start in New York and then proceed to a few dozen regional events across five continents.
Posted July 13, 2023
As a database administrator, you know that the field is constantly evolving. New technologies are emerging all the time, and it can be difficult to keep up with the latest trends. And almost every new technical trend and advancement tends to interact with data. So, DBAs need to be "in the know" and regularly update their knowledge of what's new. That's where industry conferences come in.
Posted July 13, 2023
Occasionally one may hear that a data model is "over-normalized," but just what does that mean? Normalization is intended to analyze the functional dependencies across a set of data. The goal is to understand which data elements relate to what other data elements. The context of a normalization exercise is the semantically constructed reality within a chosen organization.
Posted July 13, 2023
Now that we're emerging from the pandemic and the dust is starting to settle, organizations are taking a good, hard look at their digital transformation and modernization priorities moving forward. To shed light on the adoption and maturity of trending data architectures and where the industry is headed, Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, partnered with Radiant Advisors to field the latest survey, "Market Study: 2023 Modern Data Architecture Trends," sponsored by Cambridge Semantics, Informatica, Kinetica, Teradata, and Vertica.
Posted July 13, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is unveiling Data Protection for Analytics, offering a single data security solution that provides end-to-end controls for data ingestion and consumption to make it easier for analytics and data science professionals to meet compliance requirements. According to the company, Baffle Data Protection for Analytics promises to secure analytics while meeting increasingly stringent compliance mandates.
Posted July 12, 2023
Deci, the deep learning company harnessing AI to build AI, is releasing DataGradients, a free, open-source tool for profiling computer vision datasets and distilling critical insights. According to the company, using DataGradients, data scientists can easily analyze the health of their data with one line of code, swiftly identifying problems such as corrupted data, distributional shifts between train and test sets, duplicate annotations, among many others.
Posted July 12, 2023
Shift5, the observability platform for onboard operational technology (OT), is debuting the Shift5 Predictive Maintenance Module, a complementary module that ingests Shift5 platform's real-time data to surface actionable insights that predict and schedule maintenance in defense, rail, and aviation industries.
Posted July 11, 2023
Honeywell is acquiring SCADAfence, a provider of operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity solutions for monitoring large-scale networks, bringing capabilities in asset discovery, threat detection, and security governance which are key to industrial and buildings management cybersecurity programs.
Posted July 11, 2023
Matillion, a provider of data productivity solutions, is offering a Productivity Platform for Data Teams, empowering the entire data team to move, transform, and orchestrate data pipelines, regardless of technical capability. The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted July 10, 2023
Data is the soul of any algorithm, so investing time and resources can reap benefits in the future. Morgan Stanley AVP Supreet Kaur discussed best practices for AI data modeling during Data Summit 2023.
Posted July 10, 2023
Keepit is debuting its latest data protection solution, the Azure DevOps backup and recovery service, engineered to centralize team culture around protection by safeguarding workloads against massively detrimental disasters.
Posted July 10, 2023
StreamSets, a Software AG company and Premier Snowflake Partner, is debuting the latest iteration of Transformer for Snowflake, StreamSets' data transformation service for the Snowflake Data Cloud.
Posted July 07, 2023
The need for trustworthy data is growing daily and to address this Manta is partnering with Teclever solutions to bring automated data lineage to businesses around the world, expanding the reach of Manta's data lineage platform. Teclever Solutions is a value-added reseller (VAR) and systems integrator (SI) that will extend Manta's reach within the APAC market.
Posted July 07, 2023
New Relic, the all-in-one observability platform for every engineer, is releasing New Relic APM 360, the industry's next evolution of application performance monitoring (APM). APM 360 correlates all essential telemetry data across the application stack and development cycle, such as deployment changes, key transactions, service-level objects (SLOs), logs, infrastructure, errors, security, debugging, and more.
Posted July 06, 2023
PingCAP, the company behind TiDB, is debuting TiDB Serverless, an offering of the database as a fully managed, autonomous Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS),designed to provide reliable scalability while mitigating the necessity of tedious manual labor tasks for developers, allowing them to focus on what matters most, according to the company.
Posted July 06, 2023
Leostream, a leading Remote Desktop Access Platform provider, is offering features designed to improve high-performance computing (HPC) and sophisticated imaging/video workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The move aims to deliver secure, performant, cost-effective resources to users of virtual machines, according to the vendor.
Posted July 06, 2023
Yugabyte is unveiling the public availability of YugabyteDB Managed on Microsoft Azure, enabling the deployment of YugabyteDB as a fully managed Database-as-a-Service on all three major public cloud vendors—AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure.
Posted July 06, 2023
Oracle is launching the latest generation of the Oracle Exadata platforms, the X10M, to deliver unrivaled performance and availability for all Oracle Database workloads. According to the company, starting at the same price as the previous generation, these platforms support higher levels of database consolidation with more capacity and offer dramatically greater value than previous generations.
Posted July 05, 2023
Many companies have been focusing on AI this year as new technologies and solutions have emerged that promise to leave organizations in the dust if they aren't paying attention. Behind all the wonders that AI brings, however, is the workhorse that must be attended behind the scenes—databases and associated data environments.
Posted July 05, 2023
CTERA, a provider of secure edge-to-cloud file services, announced a strategic sourcing agreement with Hitachi Vantara allowing CTERA offerings to be sold under the Hitachi brand, further advancing secure, multi-cloud unstructured data services, and seamless data management from edge-to-core-to-cloud.
Posted July 03, 2023
SAS, a leader in analytics, announced it can now provision SAS Viya AI and decisioning capabilities securely in the Snowflake Data Cloud with Snowpark Container Services (private preview). The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted July 03, 2023
IBM announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Vista Equity Partners to purchase Apptio Inc., a leader in financial and operational IT management and optimization (FinOps) software, accelerating the advancement of IBM's IT automation capabilities and enable enterprise leaders to deliver enhanced business value across technology investments.
Posted July 03, 2023
MongoDB, Inc. is launching five new products and introducing new features to its developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, making it faster and easier for customers to build modern applications, for any workload or use case. According to the company, these new features for MongoDB Atlas enable businesses to dramatically improve operational efficiency and speed up their pace of innovation by standardizing many types of workloads on a single developer data platform across the enterprise.
Posted June 30, 2023
Snowflake, the Data Cloud Company, and NVIDIA are partnering to provide businesses with an accelerated path to create customized generative AI applications using their own proprietary data, all securely within the Snowflake Data Cloud. The announcement was made at Snowflake Summit 2023. According to the companies, with the NVIDIA NeMo platform for developing large language models (LLMs) and NVIDIA GPU-accelerated computing, Snowflake will enable enterprises to use data in their Snowflake accounts to make custom LLMs for advanced generative AI services, including chatbots, search, and summarization.
Posted June 30, 2023
Census, provider of a data activation and reverse ETL platform, announced the launch of new features, Powered by Snowflake, that empower users to activate data using Python to run complex data transformation models on Snowflake. The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted June 29, 2023
RisingWave Labs, the company behind the distributed SQL streaming database built for the cloud, is debuting RisingWave Cloud, a fully managed SQL stream processing platform.
Posted June 29, 2023
ClickHouse Inc. is unveiling the general availability of ClickHouse Cloud on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), expanding ClickHouse's accommodation of clients' cloud platform of choice.
Posted June 29, 2023
Oracle's new EU Sovereign Cloud is now available, and it aims to help private and public sector organizations across the European Union gain more control over data privacy and sovereignty requirements. One of the first cloud offerings designed to address the EU's emerging regulatory landscape, Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud gives customers the services and capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) public cloud regions with the same prices, support, and service level agreements (SLAs) to run all workloads, according to the vendor.
Posted June 29, 2023
Immuta, a data security leader, is making key enhancements to its Data Security Platform for Databricks, enabling data teams to leverage Immuta's full platform capabilities to unlock value from data, reduce costs, and speed up innovation while maintaining strong data security posture.
Posted June 28, 2023
Cloudera is unveiling the expansion of its Open Data Lakehouse offerings, now providing support for Apache Iceberg for CDP-Private Cloud.
Posted June 28, 2023
Redpanda Data announced it has raised $100 million in Series C funding, enabling the company to infuse this capital into data-intensive applications with new foundational capabilities that are beyond the scope of legacy streaming data platforms. The funding round was led by returning investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with GV and Haystack VC. The company now has $165 million in funds secured to date.
Posted June 28, 2023
Bain & Company is forming a global partnership with SAP SE, the German-headquartered enterprise resource planning (ERP) software giant, developing a strategic approach to drive successful cloud business transformations, including ERP. The approach pairs Bain's expertise in C-suite advisory and strategic implementation with SAP's market-leading software and cloud solutions.
Posted June 28, 2023
Parkovyi DC announced that it has achieved an SAP certification for outsourcing partners in cloud and infrastructure operations. This SAP certification further strengthens PARKOVYI's capabilities and portfolio to offer managed services in Ukraine for cloud and infrastructure operations.
Posted June 28, 2023
KINEXON Industries, a provider of innovative industrial IoT (IIoT) solutions, is partnering with SAP to bring KINEXON OS - Order Tracking and Process Management into the SAP supply chain solution portfolio, enabling customers to automate operations, improve efficiency, and drive sustainability. KINEXON OS provides Order Tracking and Process Management, a comprehensive solution that enables businesses to streamline and automate shop floor processes, resulting in significant improvements in productivity. A particular focus of the cloud-based software is real-time tracking of all moving assets and the management of logistics and production orders.
Posted June 28, 2023
Intel and SAP are forming a strategic partnership to deliver more powerful and sustainable SAP software landscapes in the cloud. Designed to help customers derive greater scalability, agility, and consolidation of existing SAP software landscapes, the collaboration deepens Intel's focus on delivering extremely powerful and secure instances for SAP, powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
Posted June 28, 2023
Kore Technologies is slated to present how to Modernize Your Multi-Value Applications with Real-Time Integration in an upcoming DBTA webinar on June 29, 2023. Keith Lambert, VP marketing and business development, Kore Technologies and Mark Dobransky, managing partner, co-founder, Kore Technologies will showcase how Kourier REST can integrate a variety of modern applications into your MV platform.
Posted June 28, 2023
LicenseFortress, a provider of software license management solutions, is updating its ArxPlatform in response to the challenges posed by the recent Oracle Java licensing changes. According to the company, these enhancements will provide organizations with comprehensive solutions to navigate the evolving Java licensing landscape and mitigate the risks associated with rising Java audits.
Posted June 27, 2023
Mendix, a Siemens business and global provider of modern enterprise application development, is releasing Mendix 10, introducing a host of innovations that empower organizations to meet unprecedented demand for software by enabling shifts in enterprise-wide digital solution delivery.
Posted June 27, 2023
AtScale, a provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, is partnering with Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, to help accelerate enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. By combining Dataiku's single data and AI platform with AtScale's universal semantic layer and AI-Link, organizations will be able to improve data science productivity with business-vetted features for AI model training and feature management.
Posted June 26, 2023
How do you know if you're getting the most out of the data analysts in your organization? Wayne Eckerson, president of Eckerson Group, offered a quick checklist to measure how to support the data analyst at Data Summit 2023.
Posted June 26, 2023
Hasura is announcing a series of innovations—including the Hasura Data Delivery Network (DDN), the Hasura Schema Registry, Native Queries and Logical Models, and more—that optimize data consumption as well as API creation and management.
Posted June 23, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is releasing Baffle Manager 2.0, delivering a new user interface (UI) and other features that highly automate enterprise-wide data protection for applications, analytics, and AI. With no code or application changes, Baffle cryptographically protects the data as it's created, used, and shared. Baffle Manager 2.0's new UI, APIs, automation, and expanded integrations deliver a single platform to create and manage data-centric protection policies that can be reused and enforced across all cloud-native stores, legacy and third-party applications, and new AI initiatives.
Posted June 23, 2023
MotherDuck, builder of the serverless, easy-to-use data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB, is announcing the first release of its cloud analytics platform, following its numerous integrations and partnerships, as well as its $47.5M funding round which took place less than a year ago.
Posted June 22, 2023
Noname Security is announcing the general availability of Active Testing V2, the latest iteration of the API security testing solution that eliminates vulnerabilities and ensures compliance in the midst of rapidly changing regulatory requirements.
Posted June 21, 2023
ThinkData Works Inc., a data catalog provider, is introducing a new data lineage solution that allows companies to better visualize data flows, improving efficiency and observability for an organization's entire data ecosystem. According to the company, the offering provides a comprehensive view of data pipelines, displaying an active graph of data lineage from warehouse to model and letting users analyze and explore pipelines to ensure quality, limit risk, and reduce cost.
Posted June 21, 2023
Aerospike, Inc. is debuting their new graph database, built to be developer-ready, real-time, and highly scalable. The launch of Aerospike Graph responds to the lack of graph database solutions that can support large graph datasets with a sustainable cost model, often pushing companies to drain their own resources in an effort to create ad-hoc, inflexible solutions.
Posted June 21, 2023