Data Warehousing Articles
Egnyte is announcing a series of new patents and product features—as well as a new generative AI (GenAI)-powered assistant—for securing and easing the management of mission-critical data.
Posted January 24, 2025
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Connectivity Link, a hybrid multi-cloud application connectivity solution that provides a modern approach to connecting disparate applications and infrastructure.
Posted January 24, 2025
Qdrant is debuting its platform-independent GPU-accelerated vector indexing, solving indexing bottlenecks for large data use cases.
Posted January 24, 2025
Deep Instinct, the zero-day data security company built on an AI-based deep learning framework for cybersecurity, is releasing DSX for Cloud - Amazon FSx NetApp, delivering real-time prevention and explainability of zero-day attacks for NetApp workloads, wherever they reside.
Posted January 24, 2025
Dataiku, the Universal AI Platform, is launching Dataiku Optimizer for Snowflake, a Snowflake Native App that empowers joint customers to monitor and improve their usage of Snowflake services while working within their Dataiku solutions.
Posted January 23, 2025
Given the criticality of understanding the breadth and depth of software audits, and the consequential costs, this survey, "The Rising Cost of Software Compliance: 2025 Survey on Software Audits," has been conducted by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc. to gain a better understanding of the current state of software licensing and audit trends.
Posted January 22, 2025
Panaya, a leader in AI powered change intelligence and smart testing for business applications, is collaborating with Cognizant, an SAP Global Strategic Services Partner. According to the companies, this collaboration aims to accelerate organizations' SAP S/4HANA transformation journey, enabling seamless migration and unlocking the untapped potential of digital transformation.
Posted January 22, 2025
A day in the life of a DBA (database administrator) can be quite hectic. The DBA is required to maintain production and test environments while at the same time keeping an eye on active application development projects, attending strategy and design meetings, helping to select and evaluate new products, and keeping legacy systems robust and stable, while ensuring access from new systems.
Posted January 22, 2025
Atlas Salt, Inc., a new developer in Canada's mining industry, is using Oracle's project and financial management solutions to support the development of the Great Atlantic Salt (GAS) deposit. The GAS project, which is set to initially produce up to 2.5 million tons of rock salt annually, represents North America's first new salt mine in nearly three decades.
Posted January 22, 2025
Oracle and Adarga, a leader in AI-driven information intelligence, are partnering to bring Adarga's Vantage software to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle's distributed cloud. Together, Adarga and Oracle will help defense and security organizations deliver mission-critical data and insights to the U.K. and its allies.
Posted January 22, 2025
For enterprises already leveraging the Oracle footprint, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents both an exciting opportunity and a challenge. Many organizations find themselves asking: How can AI enhance the systems we've already invested in? Is it a seamless addition, or will it disrupt established workflows?
Posted January 22, 2025
Rocket Software announced the latest enhancements to the Rocket U2 System Builder Extensible Architecture version 6.6.2. This release brings a host of improvements and fixes that enhance the functionality and reliability of the platform.
Posted January 22, 2025
A surrogate is, "One appointed to act in place of another." A surrogate key is appointed to act in place of a natural key. Why? Well, one could argue that surrogate keys existed since the beginning of the computer. As the computer uses internal addresses for finding everything, and in the early days that usage had to be explicitly managed by those programming. It wasn't until relational theory came along that the concept of using data values as identifiers arose and were functionally implemented.
Posted January 22, 2025
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, announced general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, a new edition of Red Hat OpenShift that provides a dedicated way for organizations to access the virtualization functionality already available within Red Hat OpenShift.
Posted January 21, 2025
ThoughtSpot is debuting Analyst Studio, a creator space designed to help data teams accelerate their data readiness for AI and analytics.
Posted January 20, 2025
Exabeam, a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations, is introducing LogRhythm Intelligence Copilot, a generative AI-powered feature delivering actionable insights to empower security teams and accelerate workflows. According to the company, this release solidifies Exabeam as a trusted innovator, providing real AI to automate cybersecurity while competitors under-deliver.
Posted January 20, 2025
President Joe Biden issued an executive order to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence data centers, calling for leasing federal sites owned by Defense and Energy departments to host gigawatt-scale AI data centers and new clean power facilities. The move aims to address enormous power needs in a short time frame.
Posted January 20, 2025
New approaches to data architecture and data management are key toward enabling AI across the enterprise. In DBTA's latest webinar, Modernizing Your Data Management Strategy for the AI Era, experts discuss emerging technologies and best practices for supporting AI with a robust, end-to-end data strategy.
Posted January 17, 2025
Orchid Security, an emerging leader in identity-first security orchestration, announced it has raised $36 million in seed funding, enabling the company to continue its work using Large Language Models (LLMs) to address the longstanding challenge of managing fragmented identity systems in large enterprises.
Posted January 17, 2025
MariaDB announced the general availability of MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2025, the latest major release of its enterprise database solution that now supports AI applications in addition to a full range of transactional, analytical, and semi-structured tools.
Posted January 16, 2025
The Data Group is unveiling Omega, a breakthrough solution designed to address fragmented and scattered data across multiple cloud-based SaaS applications. According to the vendor, Omega reimagines how businesses manage their data, providing a streamlined, central data hub that brings all their critical information together, making it easily accessible, secure, and under their full control.
Posted January 16, 2025
Since the early days of hardware and software, major vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, SAP, and others have leveraged vendor lock-in as a strategic approach to gain customer advantage. This tactic shifts the balance of power to vendors, enabling them to expand and retain their business base.
Posted January 16, 2025
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and AI, is acquiring Upsolver, a pioneer in real-time data streaming and Apache Iceberg optimization, deepening Qlik's ability to provide enterprises with end-to-end, open, and scalable solutions that unify data integration, analytics, and AI under a single platform.
Posted January 15, 2025
The interest surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has never been higher, but AI agents are the next wave of innovation enterprises need to prepare for. An AI agent is a fully automated program with complex reasoning capabilities and memory that uses an LLM to solve problems, creates its own plan to do so, and executes that plan.
Posted January 15, 2025
dbt Labs, a pioneer in analytics engineering, is acquiring SDF Labs, the team of former Meta and Microsoft engineering leaders behind SDF, a next-generation data transformation technology—enabling dbt Labs to integrate SDF's powerful multi-dialect, dbt-native SQL comprehension capabilities into dbt.
Posted January 14, 2025
Thoras.ai announced the successful closure of a $5 million seed funding round, enabling the company to scale its AI-driven platform to redefine how enterprises achieve reliability, uncover root causes, and prevent costly downtime—offering a bold new vision for scalable, adaptive observability.
Posted January 14, 2025
The months and years ahead promise to be an interesting time in the data analytics space.AI and machine learning are already making their mark, elevating analytics—and its front-end sibling, business intelligence. End users are seeing their capabilities expand in new directions, with an ability to ask questions they did not even consider with earlier technology iterations. Industry leaders are tracking a range of developments that are defining analytics and BI in the year ahead.
Posted January 13, 2025
Articul8 AI (Articul8), a generative AI (GenAI) enterprise software company, is releasing A8 Essential, an innovative self-service GenAI product that empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their data. According to the company, A8 Essential fills the unmet need in the market to build complex, domain-specific, enterprise-grade GenAI applications.
Posted January 13, 2025
A lot of SAP customers and consultants look at SAP BW/4HANA as a "lower-class" SAP system. Something for "someone else" to worry about. They forget about all the work that went into setting up their company's data warehouse in SAP BW/4HANA, or further back, like some of my early SAP consulting projects on BW7 and BW3.5.
Posted January 09, 2025
While the generative AI (GenAI) revolution is rolling forward at full steam, it's not without its share of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The great promises that can be delivered through large language models (LLMs) are tainted by concerns over hallucinations, bias, data security, "black-box" decisioning, and outdated information.
Posted January 09, 2025
In 2025, preventing risks from both cybercriminals and AI use will be top mandates for most CIOs. Ransomware, in particular, continues to vex enterprises, and unstructured data is a vast, largely unprotected asset. AI solutions have moved from experimental to mainstream, with all the major tech companies and cloud providers making significant investments in building turnkey generative (GenAI) and AI solutions for enterprise customers.
Posted January 09, 2025
Throughout 2024, data managers and professionals were at the locus of the new waves of innovation driven by AI and analytics—and the activity was frenetic and intense. As the year 2025 progresses, this intense and frenetic activity will only continue. Cloud services, AI, AI agents, and cybersecurity are top areas of interest that industry leaders are watching. The following are several prominent trends mentioned that are shaping data management.
Posted January 09, 2025
Oracle is introducing Oracle Exadata X11M, the latest generation of the Oracle Exadata platform, delivering a variety of performance improvements across AI, analytics, and online transaction processing (OLTP). Combining intelligent power management with the ability to run mission-critical workloads faster and on fewer systems helps customers achieve their energy efficiency and sustainability goals.
Posted January 08, 2025
Ireckonu, a leading provider of hospitality digital solutions, and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that Ireckonu CORE Middleware and Customer Data Platform (CDP) is now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and can be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and integrated with OPERA Cloud via the Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP).
Posted January 08, 2025
Cybersecurity continues to be top of mind for organizations everywhere as 2025 begins. In 2024 alone, hackers attacked hospitals and other health care organizations, telecom giants, supply chains, and more. Even government entities haven't been spared in these attacks. Here, security experts share their predictions for incoming threats in 2025.
Posted January 07, 2025
Yondr Group, a leading global developer, owner, and operator of hyperscale data centers, announced it secured a 4.5-acre site in Toronto to develop its first Canadian data center. The three-story 27MW data center is planned to bring its first megawatts online in mid- 2026. The development sits strategically within an emerging Canadian corridor for data center infrastructure.
Posted January 06, 2025
Quantum Corporation, the provider of technology, software, and services that today's organizations need to make video and other unstructured data smarter, is announcing the availability of Scalar i7 RAPTOR, the latest version of Quantum's efficient, dense, low-cost solution for AI data lakes. Engineered for hyperscale customers, managed service providers (MSPs), and large enterprises, Scalar i7 RAPTOR solidifies its position as the densest, most scalable tape solution available, according to Quantum.
Posted January 02, 2025
Peer Software is now offering advanced capabilities in the latest version of its flagship solution Peer Global File Service (PeerGFS), designed to meet data management requirements of complex globally distributed storage environments.
Posted January 02, 2025
Vectra AI, Inc., a leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), is partnering with Lumifi, a leading managed detection and response (MDR) technology company, now integrating Vectra AI Network Detection and Response (NDR) into Lumifi's service offerings to provide customers with greater visibility into their networks, insights into attacker behavior, and the ability to stop network-based attacks early in their progression.
Posted December 23, 2024
BattleFin Group, Inc, a market leader and pioneer in the alternative data discovery industry, is acquiring Exabel, an alternative data analytics platform, solidifying BattleFin's global leadership in both data discovery and data intelligence markets.
Posted December 20, 2024
Kurrent, the event-native data platform innovator, is announcing $12 million in funding, accompanied by two other major company milestones: a rebrand from its previous moniker, Event Store, and the launch of Kurrent Enterprise Edition.
Posted December 20, 2024
AI innovation in the big data space shows no signs of slowing down, with companies rushing to adopt or create their own solutions based on AI, automating redundant tasks, and spinning up all kinds of use cases to justify spending big bucks in the area. Here, tech experts share their predictions for AI in 2025.
Posted December 20, 2024
LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based hybrid observability platform powered by AI, is unveiling "Veeue powered by AppDirect," an integrated solution born from LogicMonitor's partnership with AppDirect. Designed to extend LogicMonitor's hybrid observability to over 1,500 managed service provider (MSP) businesses, "Veeue powered by AppDirect" empowers these enterprises to streamline operations and enhance service delivery.
Posted December 19, 2024
KNIME, the open source data analytics and AI company, is releasing its AI companion, K-AI, enabling users to co-create powerful data workflows with AI. According to the company, K-AI will answer questions, make recommendations, and extend or build whole data workflows based on user prompts. The AI companion speeds up the time to insight, while giving users complete transparency into and control over what AI is doing.
Posted December 19, 2024