Data Quality Articles
Datadobi, a global leader in hybrid cloud data services, is releasing StorageMAP 7.0, offering new features that provide deeper insights into unstructured data environments, facilitate informed decision-making, and enable policy driven data placement. These advancements are in direct response to the urgent need for businesses to manage the acute risk, cost, and opportunity associated with the rapidly increasing volume of unstructured data that is inundating most enterprises, according to Datadobi.
Posted June 27, 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 27, 2024
Daytona, an open source development environment manager, announced that it has secured $5 million in a seed funding round to spearhead its mission of democratizing development for developers globally. The seed round was led by Upfront Ventures with participation from existing investor 500 EE, enabling Daytona to accelerate the expansion of streamlined development environments to developers worldwide. The company will further use the funds for product development and hiring for new marketing, sales, and engineering roles.
Posted June 26, 2024
Microsoft-backed OpenAI is acquiring search and database analytics startup Rockset to improve infrastructure for its enterprise products. "Rockset's infrastructure empowers companies to transform their data into actionable intelligence. We're excited to bring these benefits to our customers by integrating Rockset's foundation into OpenAI products," said Brad Lightcap, OpenAI COO.
Posted June 26, 2024
At its annual SAP Sapphire conference, SAP unveiled a variety of generative AI innovations and partnerships that showcase how the company is taking business to the next level. According to SAP, by infusing Business AI across an enterprise cloud portfolio that powers the world's most mission-critical processes and partnering with companies pushing the edge of what's possible with AI, the company is igniting a new wave of insight and ingenuity in global business.
Posted June 26, 2024
XM Cyber, a leader in hybrid cloud exposure management, is offering new capabilities that will provide enhanced exposure management for SAP deployments. XM Cyber delivers continuous visibility into attack paths targeting SAP systems and the guidance to resolve these exposures. With SAP Exposure Management, organizations can better defend and ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability for the SAP systems they rely upon to perform core business functions, according to the company.
Posted June 26, 2024
SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement unveiled its June 2024 product release, featuring a host of omnichannel additions, enterprise enhancements, and AI-infused features that build on the platform's long-standing legacy in artificial intelligence. According to the company, the recent updates reflect the desire and urgency of marketers to use AI to supercharge personalized campaigns and productivity, strengthening the platform's AI features and functions, and enabling marketers to benefit from the time-saving powers of generative AI.
Posted June 26, 2024
SecurityBridge, a global provider of SAP security solutions, is releasing the SecurityBridge Platform for SAP BTP, offering unparalleled security coverage for the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and setting a new standard for safeguarding enterprise SAP cloud environments.
Posted June 26, 2024
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 26, 2024
Cleo, the pioneer and global leader of the Ecosystem Integration software category and provider of the Cleo Integration Cloud (CIC) platform, together with goVirtualOffice, one of the top Oracle NetSuite Partners, are partnering to help companies enhance productivity, improve efficiency, drive revenue, and grow profits by unifying, simplifying, and automating supply chain business processes.
Posted June 26, 2024
Panasonic Information Systems Co., Ltd., the IT subsidiary of Panasonic Holdings Corporation, announced it has selected Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the cloud database platform to support the internal systems used by all companies within the Panasonic Group. This entails migrating more than 2,000 database environments from hundreds of internal systems to Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI.
Posted June 26, 2024
Oracle is adding new AI innovations in the latest release of the Oracle APEX low-code development platform—introducing the new APEX AI Assistant that simplifies application development and helps developers quickly build feature-rich, mission-critical applications at scale. According to Oracle, developers now can create applications by using natural language prompts to specify desired capabilities and components and automatically generate SQL statements, perform one-click debug correction, eliminate the need to remember table names, and easily add an out-of-the-box conversational interface to their applications.
Posted June 26, 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 26, 2024
Rocket Software recently announced a special 4-part series on the Importance of APIs for Modernizing Your MV App. Rocket principal product manager Hernando Borda is the host for this MultiValue (MV) roundtable event—delving into the transformative power of APIs and how they can bring significant value to MV applications.
Posted June 26, 2024
Entrinsik Informer Cloud has been pivotal in higher education, where transparency and accessibility are paramount. Public Facing Dashboards in Informer Cloud are designed to meet these needs, offering numerous benefits that enhance the educational experience for students, parents, staff, and executive leadership, according to Entrinsik.
Posted June 26, 2024
Substrate Labs, an AI infrastructure startup, has received $8 million in a seed round to deliver elegant APIs that enable developers to build more modular AI systems and accelerate a new era of software development. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from South Park Commons, Craft Ventures, Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Immad Akhund (Mercury), Will Gaybrick (Stripe), and others. Led by co-founder and CEO Rob Cheung and co-founder Ben Guo, the company also announced the official launch of its API optimized for running ensembles of models.
Posted June 25, 2024
Abstract Security, crafted by category creators who redefined the cybersecurity landscape, announced the general availability (GA) of its platform designed for the future of security operations. Already in use by customers, Abstract's platform helps security analysts and operations teams navigate the complexities of data pipelines, increase security effectiveness, and lower costs, according to the company.
Posted June 25, 2024
Databricks, the Data and AI company, is introducing Databricks LakeFlow, a new solution that unifies and simplifies all aspects of data engineering—from data ingestion to transformation and orchestration. According to Databricks, with LakeFlow, data teams can now simply and efficiently ingest data at scale from databases such as MySQL, Postgres, and Oracle, and enterprise applications such as Salesforce, Dynamics, Sharepoint, Workday, NetSuite, and Google Analytics.
Posted June 24, 2024
DigitalOcean is introducing Managed OpenSearch, a comprehensive solution designed for in-depth log analysis, simplifying troubleshooting, and optimizing application performance. According to the company, traditional log management solutions can be complex, costly, and time-consuming. That's where Managed OpenSearch comes in. It's a powerful, user-friendly platform that makes it easy to gather and analyze application logs.
Posted June 24, 2024
DiffusionData, a pioneer and leader in real-time data streaming, is collaborating with Technaura, a Germany-based IT consultancy specializing in the provision of real-time data solutions and services—combining their offerings to provide markets such as financial services, IoT, telco, and healthcare with reliable and secure real-time data distribution at Internet scale.
Posted June 21, 2024
To examine enabling technologies and best practices for adopting a data fabric architecture, experts from TimeXtender and Acceldata joined DBTA's webinar, Moving to a Data Fabric: Key Challenges and Enabling Technologies, offering an amalgamation of strategies for navigating this otherwise elusive—yet vitally modern—infrastructure.
Posted June 20, 2024
Gigamon, a leading deep observability company, is launching a new initiative to help customers gain greater visibility into their hybrid cloud infrastructure to better secure and manage it. The Gigamon Power of 3 Cloud Integration Initiative uniquely brings together Gigamon, a Gigamon channel partner, and a leading networking, security, or observability technology alliance partner to provide customers with access to technology integrations and support that will help deploy and manage solutions more efficiently, according to the company.
Posted June 20, 2024
Siren, the all-in-one investigation company, is releasing the latest version of its software, presenting investigators with a pre-built intelligence graph that hastens the investigation process. Siren 14.2 automatically makes complex connections from large volumes of disparate data, surfacing previously inaccessible intelligence and improving effectiveness, according to the company.
Posted June 19, 2024
Airbyte, creator of the leading open-source data movement infrastructure, is releasing its Snowflake Cortex destination, a new data connector for Snowflake users who are interested in building generative AI (GenAI) capabilities directly within their existing Snowflake accounts.
Posted June 19, 2024
Tigera, the creator of Project Calico, is introducing Calico Cluster Mesh, delivering on its approach to secure microservices communication. According to the company, Calico Cluster Mesh delivers the benefits of a service mesh without the added complexity and latency of a traditional service mesh solution.
Posted June 19, 2024
DataBee, from Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS), is offering new capabilities in its DataBee Hive security, risk, and compliance data fabric platform—introducing DataBee EntityViews. DataBee EntityViews, powered by a patent-pending entity resolution technology, brings automated detection chaining that improves threat hunting, security detection fidelity, and insider risk monitoring, according to the company.
Posted June 18, 2024
AI is only accelerating its adoption among global corporate enterprises, thus CEOs and business leaders are positioned at the confluence of innovation and ethics as it relates to implementing AI projects in their businesses. While technical prowess and business potential are usually the focus of conversations around AI, the ethical considerations are sometimes overlooked, especially those that aren't immediately obvious.
Posted June 18, 2024
DataStrike, a leader in data infrastructure services, has completed the acquisition of database and cloud management pioneer MiCORE, forming one of the largest managed service providers (MSP) specializing in data infrastructure services for small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).
Posted June 17, 2024
Gretel, a provider of synthetic data generation, is releasing Gretel Navigator, an agent-based, compound generative AI system built to automate data creation and curation processes for AI development. With simple natural language or SQL prompts, Gretel Navigator enables users to create, edit, and augment tabular data, and design realistic, high-quality test and training datasets from scratch, according to the company.
Posted June 17, 2024
Alation, Inc., the data intelligence company, is deepening its integration with Databricks to offer trusted data for AI initiatives to the enterprise—strengthening the partnership through the Alation Open Data Quality Initiative improves data reliability, streamlines compliance, and facilitates effective decision-making.
Posted June 17, 2024
Pliops, a provider of data processors for cloud and enterprise data centers, is delivering broad-spectrum workload acceleration with its Extreme Data Processor (XDP). The company is also collaborating with scale-out software provider Hammerspace and will introduce a new joint solution.
Posted June 17, 2024
Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, is adding the S3 interface to its Global Data Platform, advancing the orchestration of existing data sets to available compute resources. With this announcement, Hammerspace continues to offer organizations new, advantageous ways to manage and leverage data, according to the company.
Posted June 17, 2024
Cirata, the company that automates Hadoop data transfer and integration to modern cloud analytics and AI platforms, is now offering support for IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), a cluster file system used as storage for IBM Spectrum Scale data lakes. The new Live GPFS support, which is included in the recent release of Cirata Data Migrator 2.5, dramatically reduces latency between storage changes and replication or migration outcomes while also enhancing the performance and scale of GPFS-resident data assets migrating to the cloud, according to the company.
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
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