Data Quality Articles
In today's tumultuous computing landscape, the DBMS (database management system) remains core and central to the IT infrastructure. And, as such, it is central to the applications used by modern organizations to conduct business and service their customers. So, it stands to reason that a core competency for a DBA is to be able to keep their organization's databases up and operational. This requires resilience.
Posted June 17, 2024
Qumulo, the simple way to manage exabyte-scale data anywhere, is joining the Ultra Ethernet Consortium—becoming one of the first Networked Storage suppliers to enlist. Additionally, Qumulo announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation and Arista Networks to advance the state-of-the-art in IT infrastructure at the intersection of networking, storage, and data management.
Posted June 17, 2024
Keebo is introducing Workload Intelligence, Powered by Snowflake on the Snowflake Marketplace, enabling joint customers to gain full visibility into their costs, identify their performance bottlenecks, identify their inefficient queries, and advise their data teams to take advantage of optimization opportunities.
Posted June 13, 2024
Never before has the business spotlight been on database managers and professionals as it is at this time. Every business leader now wants a data-driven organization, as they recognize this is the key to competitive differentiation. Data monetization is seen as a vast new revenue source. AI—both operational and generative—relies on effective data management and quality. The ongoing transition to digital business demands real-time delivery of insights to end users and applications.
Posted June 13, 2024
Two surveys show that many executives are skeptical they can move forward with AI demands, which include the right data, at the right time. AI is a high priority, and is in production at most sites, but supplying trustworthy data is still a challenge at the back end.
Posted June 13, 2024
DevOps is now the most prevalent software development methodology in use. Since 2009, it has spread beyond development teams into other functional areas. One of the earlier DevOps extensions was into DevTestOps, which emphasized continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle. This was followed several years later by the emergence of QAOps, which built on that model with a focus on improved quality assurance (QA). At first glance, these terms refer to the same methodology. But when you dig deeper, QAOps represents a significant departure from the purpose and process of DevOps. Let's explore.
Posted June 13, 2024
Data modeling has always had a push-me/pull-you relationship in the IT world. The idea of complete logical and physical data models, insightful definitions, coherent data flow diagrams, and other related informational caches is always desirable. However, far too often, the expectation is that these activities take virtually no time to create. When the expenditure of resources goes beyond a certain level, the activities are jettisoned or otherwise given the short shrift. Actually, getting code in place is viewed as the only evidence of true progress.
Posted June 13, 2024
The world of open source has moved from being a niche interest that was the province of academics and self-described geeks to the mainstream. From being the purview of free software interest groups, open source is now ubiquitous. According to OpenUK, open source is used by 78% of private enterprises, and open source components and code are present in roughly 97% of all applications, proprietary or otherwise.
Posted June 13, 2024
Most times, if asked, I will rattle off, without hesitation, a list of ways AI is being applied along with all the ways it can go wrong. You may also get bit of a diatribe about why speaking of AI in the royal sense (i.e., "the AI") is always a bad idea. It's practically a (bad) party trick. Yet recently, when asked to characterize the primary ethical issues in AI, I had a perfect moment of mental blankness. It was an uncomfortable and instructive moment on many fronts.
Posted June 12, 2024
Ben Slater, CPO, Instaclustr by NetApp, joined DBTA's webinar, The World's Largest Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra Migration: Lessons Learned and Best Practices, shared their firsthand experience in managing a migration project of colossal scale, delivering valuable insights in areas such as planning, security, performance optimization, monitoring, and more.
Posted June 12, 2024
Apica, the leader in data management and active observability, is debuting version 2.0 of the Apica Ascent Platform, acting as a culmination of Apica's recently acquired entities—LOGIQ.AI, a data fabric innovator, and Circonus, a telemetry data management provider. Incorporating the features from both acquired companies' platforms, Ascent platform 2.0 empowers organizations with deeper, more enriched insights into data management, further simplifying how customers gather and apply their data to systems and platforms.
Posted June 12, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is developing of high-performance and energy-efficient hybrid cloud and database solutions. The new, highly-performant AMD EPYC CPU-powered Hitachi Vantara hybrid cloud solutions combine converged and hyperconverged solutions, including Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP), with 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors.
Posted June 12, 2024
MotherDuck, builder of a serverless, easy to use data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB, is announcing the general availability of MotherDuck, providing users with the ability to use DuckDB's simplicity at scale. DuckDB 1.0, which was recently announced by DuckDB Foundation and Labs, provides a scale-up approach to analytics that is faster, cheaper, and more user-friendly than distributed architectures, according to the company.
Posted June 12, 2024
Cloudera, the data company for trusted enterprise AI, is acquiring Verta's Operational AI Platform—further solidifying Cloudera's position in the AI landscape. The Verta team will join Cloudera's machine learning group, reporting to chief product officer, Dipto Chakravarty. The Verta team will draw on their collective expertise to help drive Cloudera's AI roadmap and enable the company to effectively anticipate the needs of its global customer base, according to Cloudera.
Posted June 11, 2024
To gain insight on the adoption and maturity of data management technologies and practices, DBTA and Radiant Advisors surveyed more than 250 IT leaders and professionals at organizations across North America to identify the key perceptions, priorities, challenges, and technology plans underlying modernization efforts today.
Posted June 11, 2024
Cube, the provider of the universal semantic layer for every data app, is announcing the completion of its latest funding round—led by new investor Databricks Ventures—having raised $25 million. Seeing participation from existing investors Decibel, Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and 645 Ventures, this latest funding round will help Cube invest in its growth and development strategies for its flagship product, Cube Cloud.
Posted June 10, 2024
Alation, the data intelligence company, is announcing that it has expanded its partnership with Snowflake, enabling Alation's Open Data Quality Framework to now support integration with Snowflake Horizon. This integration aims to empower enterprises to surface and remediate data quality issues before they impact downstream business and data operations, driving better governance, faster, more accurate AI model development, and more trusted decision making, according to Alation.
Posted June 10, 2024
Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity AI, is introducing its new service offering, Darktrace Managed Detection and Response (MDR), combining its detection and response capabilities spanning across the enterprise, with the expertise of its global analyst team. According to Darktrace, this powerful combination augments internal security teams with AI-powered threat containment and expert alert management across Darktrace environments, allowing them to focus resources on more strategic security efforts, like improving cyber resilience.
Posted June 10, 2024
DBI Software, a provider of performance monitoring, tuning, and trending tools for IBM Db2 LUW and SQL Server databases, is releasing version 10 of the DBI Web Performance Suite.
Posted June 07, 2024
Bigeye, the enterprise-grade data observability platform for modern and legacy data stacks, is announcing support for column-level lineage for ETL platforms, bringing extended visibility to enterprises' hybrid data environments. This release empowers organizations with both on-prem sources and cloud data warehouses to map the entire lineage of their data analytics pipeline, ushering in more holistic insights on data quality.
Posted June 07, 2024
Digital.ai, an industry-leading technology company, is introducing Erawan, the next iteration of its open, AI-powered DevSecOps platform, delivering on the company's mission to provide global enterprises with a powerful solution that supports the delivery of high-quality software applications at scale.
Posted June 07, 2024
Galileo, a provider developing generative AI for the enterprise, is releasing Galileo Luna, a suite of Evaluation Foundation Models (EFMs) designed to transform how generative AI evaluations are conducted. According to the company, this novel approach is faster, more cost-effective, and more accurate than existing evaluation methods such as askGPT and human "vibe checks." With Galileo Luna, enterprises can bring trustworthy AI solutions to market faster and at production scale.
Posted June 07, 2024
Data breaches and cyberattacks are only getting more sophisticated at an alarmingly fast pace. In 2024 so far alone, there have been approximately 875,603,100 known records breached in 1,819 publicly disclosed incidents, as reported by It Governance. Since most attacks focus on identity, theft of credentials, or human error, Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport, believes security must be a company's philosophy from Day One.
Posted June 06, 2024
CloudZero, a globally trusted leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency, announced that the company is now a validated Databricks partner, making it one of the first and only cloud cost optimization platforms accepted into the Databricks partner program. As part of the newly announced partnership, CloudZero developed a new in-platform Databricks cost adaptor that helps customers to visualize and explore 100% of their Databricks spend.
Posted June 06, 2024
Guiding enterprises through the thicket of the latest database technologies and strategies, experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, New Database Technologies and Strategies for the AI Era, to offer their expertise on the market's best solutions for supporting AI projects.
Posted June 06, 2024
Matillion, the modern data pipeline platform provider, is bringing no-code Generative AI (GenAI) to Snowflake users with new GenAI capabilities and integrations with Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake ML Functions, and support for Snowpark Container Services.
Posted June 06, 2024
SnapLogic, a leader in generative integration, is offering new connectivity and support for Snowflake vector data types, Snowflake Cortex, and Streamlit, assisting companies modernize their businesses and accelerate the creation of generative AI applications.
Posted June 05, 2024
AI has become pervasive across enterprises, and the drive is now on to push this potentially powerful intelligence out to the edge and network, where it can deliver insight and operational performance in real time. These days, no discussion of edge and IoT is complete without weighing the implications of AI. "If people think AI will stop at data centers, they have an unfortunate blind spot, because AI is likely to be deployed in some form at the edge," said Kevin Brown, SVP at Schneider Electric. "In my opinion, it will bring with it a host of new challenges regarding data privacy concerns, an increasing demand for power, and an infrastructure that will be even more broadly distributed. Undoubtedly, we need to get ahead of these challenges."
Posted June 05, 2024
Oracle announced that Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. is seeing success with Oracle Health RevElate Patient Accounting, improving its billing accuracy, accelerating reimbursements, and strengthening its financial position. CAMC has implemented RevElate Patient Accounting, an electronic health record-agnostic solution, in its ambulatory clinics and four of its Charleston facilities.
Posted June 05, 2024
Oracle is releasing Oracle Linux 8 Update 10 for the 64-bit Intel and AMD (x86_64) and 64-bit Arm (aarch64) platforms is designed for distributed computing environments. Oracle Linux sources, binaries, ISOs, and errata continue to be readily accessible and freely available from the Oracle Linux yum server, without any restrictions.
Posted June 05, 2024
A first and important step in being successful at almost any job or task is understanding oneself. This is true for engineers, modelers, or even architects. Do you know how to perform your tasks? Are you faster or slower than others doing the same tasks? Do you have more or less errors in your output than others? It seems that a rising number of people are so uncomfortable with competing that they may even avoid asking these kinds of questions of themselves; but this is not about competition, it is about understanding oneself, it is about being responsible, it is about holding oneself accountable.
Posted June 05, 2024
Mei Long, product manager at Prophecy, and Nathan Tong, sales engineer at Prophecy, joined DBTA's webinar, Build Data Pipelines on Databricks in 5 Easy Steps, to discuss various practical strategies and techniques to streamline data transformation, foster seamless collaboration between teams, and establish data transformation standards that value reliability and quality.
Posted June 04, 2024
Jitterbit, a global leader in empowering transformation through automation, is introducing Jitterbit Premier Support, a comprehensive service designed to address and resolve issues with immediacy and effectiveness to minimize downtime, maintain business continuity, and ensure quality of service.
Posted June 03, 2024
CrowdStrike and Cloudflare, Inc., the leading connectivity cloud company, are expanding their strategic partnership to connect their platforms to enhance security from the device to the network, accelerate Security Operations Center (SOC) transformation, and stop breaches before they happen.
Posted June 03, 2024
IBM is expanding its portfolio of servers with the introduction of IBM Power S1012, delivering 3X more performance per core. This 1-socket, half-wide Power10 processor-based system is available in a 2U rack-mounted or tower deskside form factor and is optimized for edge-level computing, delivering the lowest entry price point in the Power portfolio to run core workloads for small and medium-sized organizations, according to IBM.
Posted June 03, 2024
Building on more than 20 years of partnership, IBM and Adobe are delivering guidance and technology to help clients benefit from the full value of Generative AI in marketing, content creation, and brand governance. The companies are accomplishing this through a unique alliance spanning technology and consulting services, driving joint innovation through hybrid cloud infrastructure, data, applications, and a multi-model generative AI approach.
Posted June 03, 2024
Zilliz is introducing Milvus Lite, a lightweight vector database that runs locally within the Python application, making it a compact and efficient solution ideal for environments with limited computing resources such as laptops, Jupyter Notebooks, and mobile or edge devices. Based on the open-source Milvus vector database, Milvus Lite reuses the core components for vector indexing and query parsing while removing elements designed for high scalability in distributed systems.
Posted May 31, 2024
Microsoft and Broadcom are expanding their partnership, unveiling plans to support VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) subscriptions on Azure VMware Solution. Customers that own or purchase licenses for VMware Cloud Foundation will be able to use those licenses on Azure VMware Solution, as well as their own data centers, giving them flexibility to meet changing business needs, according to Microsoft and Broadcom.
Posted May 31, 2024
Redpanda is acquiring Benthos, a popular open-source stream processing platform that enables enterprises to move, integrate, and perform transformations on streams of data flowing between systems and data sources, making Redpanda a complete and unified, end-to-end streaming data platform built close to the hardware to be more performant, simpler to deploy and easier to operate.
Posted May 31, 2024
Bolster, a provider of multi-channel phishing protection, announced it has received $14 million in a Series B financing round, enabling the company to invest in GTM initiatives that strategically prioritize executive monitoring, business email compromise (BEC) attack detection and takedown, and threat-hunting automation.
Posted May 30, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is introducing dbt Cloud enhancements designed to help businesses turn data into a competitive advantage as companies' data volumes explode and the need for trustworthy, high-quality data increases. "Accurate and timely data is crucial, which is why we've delivered a standardized way to quickly build reliable, holistic, and high-quality data pipelines at scale," said Luis Maldonado, VP of product at dbt Labs. "These new features take this even further, significantly improving data workflows and AI workloads, all while empowering more users with powerful business insights."
Posted May 30, 2024
JFrog Ltd, the Liquid Software company and creator of the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform, is announcing a new partnership with GitHub, the world's leading AI-powered developer platform. Born from this partnership is a best of breed, integrated platform solution that merges every developer "Ops"—from DevOps to DevSecOps, MLOps, and GenAI-powered apps—within a single interface.
Posted May 29, 2024
Zendata, a provider of AI governance and data privacy solutions, is emerging from stealth with the aim of increasing understanding around data usage. Backed by $2 million in a funding round led by PayPal Ventures, First-hand Alliance, Geek Ventures, and Altari Ventures, Zendata will continue to develop its platform while expanding its customer base.
Posted May 29, 2024
Tigera, the creator of Project Calico, is offering new features of Calico Enterprise and Calico Cloud, extending the products' Runtime Threat Defense capabilities. Through Calico, Tigera equips security, DevOps, and platform engineering teams with the deep visibility and monitoring required to bolster the security of their container platforms and containerized applications, according to the company.
Posted May 28, 2024
Catalogic Software, a provider of secure data protection solutions, is releasing the latest version of Catalogic DPX, the company's enterprise data protection software, making enhancements to the DPX vStor backup repository technology. This release introduces advancements in data immutability and recovery functionalities, and vStor Snapshot Explorer feature, all designed to bolster the security and flexibility of the company's flagship enterprise backup solution, according to the company.
Posted May 28, 2024
Parasoft, a global leader in software testing and quality solutions, is introducing several advancements in software testing technology, equipping teams with automated AI-enhanced API test generation, microservices code coverage collection, and web accessibility testing.
Posted May 28, 2024
EDB, the leading Postgres data and AI company, is introducing EDB Postgres AI, an intelligent platform for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads that can be deployed as cloud, software, or physical appliance, all powered by the same Postgres engine. The launch of EDB Postgres AI also ushers in a new corporate identity aimed at the belief that Postgres can solve the AI generation's most complex data challenges.
Posted May 24, 2024