Data Quality Articles
Digital Equipment Corporation, known as DEC; Peoplesoft; Sun; and now VMware all have something dark in common. At one point, they were all great American companies leading the path toward innovation in the Six Cities of Silicon Valley. They were magnificent leaders in computing innovation, each at different stages of the evolution of Silicon Valley-based technology.
Posted April 18, 2024
In 2023, the integration of generative AI (GenAI) into the constantly evolving landscape of data management emerged as a game changer, promising to reshape the way organizations interact with databases, data, and metadata. In 2024, as enterprises hamstrung by hiring and budget woes continue to be judged by their productivity and efficiency, they'll also be judged by their ability to do two things: deliver actionable insights and provide guidance in an easily consumable format and empower users of all skill levels to interact with key data and drive insights.
Posted April 17, 2024
BMC, a global leader in software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, is acquiring the Netreo, a provider of smart and secure IT network and application observability solutions enabling the BMC Helix platform to provide customers with a full-stack, open observability, and AIOps solution. With this acquisition, BMC continues to invest in innovation—from IT operations management to service management, data and application workflow automation, and mainframe management, according to the company.
Posted April 17, 2024
Innovation in the big data and analytics space continues to blossom, with more companies than ever before riding the high of generative AI. Along with the myriad possibilities of this new sphere of artificial intelligence comes some questions and concerns. Startups are emerging to address challenges and leverage opportunities this new area may bring. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2024.
Posted April 17, 2024
Oracle NetSuite is introducing a series of new product innovations to help businesses in the U.K. optimize finance processes, expand insights, and increase efficiency. The latest updates for customers in the U.K. include new generative AI, enterprise performance management (EPM) and e-invoicing capabilities, and the ability to combine insights from multiple NetSuite instances into a single NetSuite Analytics Warehouse environment.
Posted April 17, 2024
Qdrant and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Cloud Engineering are partnering to enable the ability to deploy Qdrant Hybrid Cloud as a managed service on OCI. This release marks the next step in the collaboration between Qdrant and OCI, which enables enterprises to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence powered through scalable vector search, according to the companies.
Posted April 17, 2024
Oracle and Palantir are partnering to provide secure cloud and AI solutions with the aim to power businesses and governments around the world. Oracle's distributed cloud and AI infrastructure, combined with Palantir's leading AI and decision acceleration platforms, will help organizations maximize the value of their data—which will contribute to increasing efficiency, addressing sovereignty requirements, and help them outpace adversaries, according to the companies.
Posted April 17, 2024
There is much ado these days regarding the language facility popular AI tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Microsoft Copilot, and Gemini Connected appear to display. What do these systems comprehend? Do they understand? Are the underlying architectures a big leap toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) or an entertaining dead end? This article is not about that. This is a loosely related thread on how the language we use to describe AI systems affects our ability to govern them effectively.
Posted April 16, 2024
ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corp. and leading provider of enterprise IT management solutions, is extending support for CloudSpend, its cloud cost management tool, has extended to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—now covering the three largest public cloud computing platforms worldwide by market share, enabling enterprises with a multi-cloud setup to streamline their operational expenses.
Posted April 16, 2024
Starburst, the open data lakehouse company, is introducing its fully managed Icehouse implementation on Starburst's multi-cloud data lakehouse service, Galaxy. According to the company, with the Galaxy Icehouse, customers can benefit from the scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of a combined Trino and Iceberg architecture (Icehouse) without the burden and cost of building and maintaining a custom solution themselves.
Posted April 15, 2024
LimaCharlie, creator of the Security Operations (SecOps) Cloud Platform, is offering a new bi-directional integration platform enhancement, allowing for two-way data flows that streamline detection and response processes while eliminating reliance on third-party automation applications.
Posted April 12, 2024
David Loshin, principal consultant at Knowledge Integrity and James Goodfellow, director of product marketing at Progress joined DBTA's webinar, 6 Challenges of Managing Information in a Modernized Hybrid Data Architecture to explore several major roadblocks that enterprises should consider when adapting to a hybrid data landscape and architecture.
Posted April 12, 2024
Postman, a leading API collaboration company, is acquiring Orbit, the community growth platform for developer companies, integrating Orbit's technology and deploying its expertise in support of Postman's vision of empowering 100 million developers through API collaboration.
Posted April 12, 2024
Syntax Systems, a leading global technology solutions and services provider for cloud application implementation and management, is partnering with Cogniac Corporation, a global leader in enterprise-grade computer vision, to accelerate the development of industrial AI applications—enhancing the automation of manufacturing processes through the integration of advanced computer vision capabilities.
Posted April 11, 2024
Earlier this year, I had the privilege of serving on the organizing committee for the DataTune conference in my hometown of Nashville, Tenn. Unlike many database-specific or platform-specific conferences, which tend to focus on analytics and data science, DataTune covers a wide variety of topics such as database engineering, development, administration, and analytics. I was delighted to be joined on the committee by two friends, Dustin Dorsey and Cameron Cyr, authors of Unlocking dbt: Design and Deploy Transformations in Your Cloud Data Warehouse.
Posted April 11, 2024
Data insights have never been more vital to business operations than they are today. Line-of-business (LOB) teams rely on data insights to drive sustainable growth, lead business operations, and understand customer behaviors and needs. The growing demand for data analytics has spurred a flourishing $31 billion-plus industry of established and emerging tech companies—but is the data analytics tech stack working for enterprises? Despite years of investment and effort, research indicates that 95% of businesses still struggle with operational challenges around data and analytics, leaving only 5% with the competitive advantage data-driven decision making delivers.
Posted April 11, 2024
Data management needs AI and machine learning (ML), and, just as important, AI/ML needs data management. As of now, the two are connected, with the path to successful AI "intrinsically linked to modern data management practices," said Dan Soceanu, senior product manager for AI and data management at SAS. Blazing this path requires "prioritizing data quality, accessibility, and governance."
Posted April 11, 2024
Rocket Software announced it has published a new paper titled, "Protecting Your Business, A Practical Guide to System Recovery using Rocket jBASE Transaction Journaling" after recognizing a pressing need for resilience and recoverability. With businesses relying heavily on digital systems for operations, finance, and customer engagement, any disruption can have far-reaching consequences.
Posted April 11, 2024
Every DBA knows that a test platform is required to properly enable application development. Indeed, testing has always been crucial, but it has become more complicated with the advent of new technologies, platforms, and devices, not to mention the impact of regulatory compliance. One of the biggest challenges faced by DBAs and developers is managing test data.
Posted April 11, 2024
AI talent is in high demand; AI reveals brain oscillations for memory and disease; AI may allow us to talk to whales; AI can help plan meals and other tasks; an AI platform for dentistry just raised $53 million. That was the tip of the AI news iceberg—in one day. Has technology ever garnered so much interest, so widely, so fast? Amid the hype lies the incalculable promise of AI—and the fear of getting left behind by competitors that figure it out first. It's no wonder that organizations are rushing to implement AI, ready or not. The trouble is, many are not ready.
Posted April 11, 2024
Data makes the world go round, but there are gaps in the data needed to make the products and raw materials that move around the world. Unforeseen events around the globe—such as weather, wars, ships running aground, or infrastructure issues such as the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse that closed the main shipping lane in and out of the Port of Baltimore—can wreak havoc with even the most carefully planned supply chains.
Posted April 11, 2024
The impact of generative AI (GenAI) is massive and is only going to increase. One area most immediately affected is journalism. Any job that involves the processing and production of the written word is a job that could be impacted by GenAI, which—at the end of the day—is designed to process language inputs and produce convincing output.
Posted April 11, 2024
There is an old quote attributed to various origins that says, "When I hear the word ‘culture,' I reach for my gun." The saying expresses frustration at a term, in this case "culture" being used, abused, and politicized beyond all forbearance. Even when it was first popularized, it was a line meant to draw laughter from the audience of a play, rather than suggesting anyone carry an actual firearm. And no one is suggesting anyone do so now. "Relational" is a term that, over the last few decades, has undergone its own level of use, abuse, and politicization.
Posted April 11, 2024
Gathid is debuting its new approach to identity and access governance, inspired by the power of gathered identities, the platform pinpoints identity and access anomalies with its patented directed graph model. Designed for rapid deployment, immediate applicability, and smooth integration across complex IT infrastructures, this solution tackles the critical need for scalable and cost-effective identity management, according to the company.
Posted April 10, 2024
AI—both operational and generative—is knocking on enterprises' doors, forcing data managers to make new architectural choices on what it will take to support these data-hungry initiatives. Data mesh and data fabric are increasingly favored to help organizations get better control of their data, but which is the best option?
Posted April 10, 2024
GlobalLogic, a Hitachi group company, is introducing a "first-of-its-kind Platform-of-Platforms" architecture designed to support deployment of enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI)—aimed to address critical challenges every enterprise must overcome when operationalizing AI and generative AI (GenAI) at scale.
Posted April 09, 2024
The market is saturated with thousands of purpose-built database systems. This creates too much noise for analysts and scientists dealing with vital data problems across numerous important application domains: genomics, geospatial, and more. To solve this problem, Stavros Papadopoulos, founder and CEO at TileDB, Inc., is introducing the concept of a universal database, which had heretofore been a missed opportunity in the database community.
Posted April 08, 2024
Cisco and a group of eight leading companies including Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft, and SAP, as well as six advisors are launching the AI-Enabled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Workforce Consortium—focused on upskilling and reskilling roles most likely to be impacted by AI.
Posted April 08, 2024
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is launching Open Source Essentials, a certificate and education program targeting the fundamental knowledge open source professionals should have. The learning objectives are designed to cover all major domains that affect Open Source. They include software fundamentals, open source software licenses, open content licenses, open source business models, and project management as well as collaboration and communication.
Posted April 08, 2024
LightEdge, a leading provider of secure cloud and colocation, is acquiring Connectria, a provider of multi-cloud infrastructure and managed hosting solutions, adding six data center locations to LightEdge's existing footprint of 12 highly interconnected facilities across eight U.S. markets.
Posted April 08, 2024
Zilliz, a trailblazer in vector database technology, is releasing Milvus 2.4, introducing a new standard in vector search capabilities with a groundbreaking GPU indexing feature powered by NVIDIA's CUDA-Accelerated Graph Index for Vector Retrieval (CAGRA), part of the RAPIDS cuVS library. Building on Zilliz's commitment to innovation, Milvus 2.4 enhances GPU indexing capabilities since the introduction of GPU IVF-Flat and GPU IVF-PQ indexes last year.
Posted April 05, 2024
LogRhythm, the company helping security teams stop breaches, is offering its 8th consecutive quarterly release, facilitating seamless dashboard and search import/export to community repositories to bridge the communication gap. Additionally, LogRhythm Axon introduces key features to streamline auditing for compliance standards and enable greater efficiency with security analytics mapped to MITRE ATT&CK use cases.
Posted April 04, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is introducing a strategic realignment of the organization designed to accelerate the company's growth plan, including its ability to respond to market opportunities with a focus on hybrid cloud and generative AI.
Posted April 03, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their collaboration to deliver sovereign AI solutions to customers around the world. Oracle's distributed cloud, AI infrastructure, and generative AI services, combined with NVIDIA's accelerated computing and generative AI software, are enabling governments and enterprises to deploy AI factories, according to the companies.
Posted April 03, 2024
Oracle NetSuite is expanding its generative AI capabilities, introducing Text Enhance that helps users leverage company-specific, relevant data to create and refine contextual and personalized content. Now embedded in more finance and accounting, supply chain and operations, sales and marketing, and customer support processes, NetSuite Text Enhance will help organizations reach their goals faster and more efficiently by increasing productivity, reducing human error, improving consistency, and accelerating business processes, according to Oracle.
Posted April 03, 2024
Oracle is releasing Java 22, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform, delivering thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements to help developers increase productivity, drive innovation, and accelerate growth across their organizations.
Posted April 03, 2024
As disheartening as it may sound to new graduates, even when you leave school never to return, you still must continue to learn. There are always new tasks to comprehend, and new tools to drive. And when one serves as a data modeler, one is always going to be exposed to new data. Fortunately, if one has a good foundation, acquainting with new data can be easily managed. Every new conceptual or logical data model is an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding about another subject area within an organization.
Posted April 03, 2024
Jason Tolbert, senior director, strategic alliances (Microsoft) at Informatica, and Pavan Lakkala, principal program manager at Microsoft, joined DBTA's webinar, Revolutionizing Cloud Data Management for the era of AI, to explore how combining the Microsoft Fabric with Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) can empower enterprises to solve critical, modern data challenges and accelerate their AI and analytics initiatives.
Posted April 02, 2024
Redjack, a provider of cyber resilience solutions, is launching its cyber resilience platform, a paradigm-shifting approach that places a business function lens on asset inventory—empowering organizations to prioritize cybersecurity, compliance, and digital transformation efforts by providing a comprehensive view of assets and dependencies within the context of their business functions.
Posted April 02, 2024
Dremio, the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics, announced the general availability of Dremio Cloud on Microsoft Azure, bringing users closer to their data with lakehouse flexibility, scalability, and performance. Dremio Cloud's intuitive unified analytics, high-performance SQL query engine, and lakehouse management service for next-gen DataOps let organizations shift left for a faster time to insight, according to the company.
Posted April 02, 2024
Astronomer, a leader in modern data orchestration, is releasing the latest version of the Astro platform with new features designed to allow users to accelerate innovation while achieving the highest levels of governance and compliance.
Posted April 01, 2024
Domo unveiled a new wave of features for Domo.AI, the company's framework of flexible artificial intelligence (AI) services, introducing capabilities to help ensure each organization's unique AI needs are fulfilled. The new capabilities were announced at Domopalooza: the AI + Data Conference.
Posted April 01, 2024
Matan Libis, VP of product at SQream, Ashwin Rajeeva, co-founder and CTO at Acceldata, and Preeti Kodikal, director of product marketing at Acceldata, joined DBTA's webinar, Building a Next-Generation Data Architecture: Key Capabilities and Strategies, to examine the ways that designing, implementing, integrating, and managing the systems that collect, store, process, and analyze data will successfully support the latest technologies that aim to bring your business to the next level.
Posted March 29, 2024
Abstract Security, crafted by category creators who have consistently redefined the cybersecurity landscape, is emerging from stealth along with unveiling its platform designed to centralize the management of security analytics. Abstract Security's platform correlates data in real-time between data streams and separates compliance and security data to both increase detection effectiveness and lower costs.
Posted March 29, 2024
CrowdStrike and Rubrik are forming a strategic partnership to accelerate data security transformation and stop breaches before they happen. By unifying rich, data-centric attack context from the Rubrik Security Cloud with the industry-leading AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform, organizations can rapidly detect, investigate, and stop attacks targeting sensitive data, according to the companies.
Posted March 29, 2024
Databricks, the Data and AI company, is introducing DBRX, a general-purpose large language model (LLM) that enables organizations around the world to cost-effectively build, train, and serve their own custom LLMs. DBRX democratizes the training and tuning of custom, high-performing LLMs for every enterprise so they no longer need to rely on a small handful of closed models, according to the company.
Posted March 28, 2024
The 11th annual Data Summit conference will be held May 8-9, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Boston, with pre-conference workshops taking place on May 7, 2024. Early bird pricing is available now until April 5. At Data Summit 2024, you'll hear the innovative approaches the world's leading companies are taking to solve today's key challenges in data management. Whether your interests lie in the technical possibilities and challenges of new and emerging technologies or using Big Data for business intelligence, analytics, and other business strategies, Data Summit 2024 has something for you!
Posted March 28, 2024
Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is releasing its Rubrik Enterprise Proactive Edition (EPE), combining DSPM with recovery designed for complete cyber resilience, wherever data lives. Rubrik EPE allows organizations to secure mission-critical data for comprehensive protection, recovery, and resilience against cyberattacks, whether in a cloud, SaaS, or on-premises environment, according to the company.
Posted March 28, 2024
Synopsys, Inc. is introducing Synopsys fAST Dynamic, a new application security testing (DAST) offering on the Synopsys Polaris Software Integrity Platform that enables development, security, and DevOps teams to quickly find and fix security vulnerabilities in modern web applications.
Posted March 28, 2024
Foundational, a solution using advanced analysis to identify and prevent data issues in data platforms, is debuting its platform along with announcing $8 million in seed funding. With this funding, Foundational will continue to develop its technology and introduce new and exciting product capabilities that benefit data developers as they build at scale.
Posted March 27, 2024