Data Warehousing Articles
Database administration is a technical discipline, and it almost goes without saying that DBAs should be armed with significant technical knowledge. And this column typically covers the many diverse technology issues facing DBAs. However, there are non-technical qualities and aspects to the DBA role that are not as frequently discussed. So, this month we will proffer some guidance on non-technical areas for DBAs to focus on to make them more valuable to their employers!
Posted October 21, 2024
Aerospike is releasing Aerospike Database 7.2, with enhancements to multi-zone deployments through a new active-rack feature and a new version of shipping control for Cross Datacenter Replication (XDR). Version shipping controls provide flexible choices for backups and connectors and will subsequently be leveraged by the Aerospike Backup Service (ABS).
Posted October 18, 2024
StreamNative, the cloud-native data streaming company founded by the original creators of Apache Pulsar, is unveiling a managed Apache Flink Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) service, designed to merge the powers of both Flink and StreamNative for the latter's customer base. This product offering—powered by Ververica, the original creators of Apache Flink—serves to inject more simplicity into the process of deploying real-time applications in the cloud, according to StreamNative.
Posted October 18, 2024
Adaptiv Networks, a leader in cloud-based SD-WAN and SASE solutions, and Coro, a leading cybersecurity platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), are collaborating to empower Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to deliver a complete portfolio of network and data security solutions.
Posted October 17, 2024
Enabling the collection and utilization of data is crucial to successfully supporting AI projects at enterprise scale. From data integration to data pipelines, AI performance, data governance, compliance, and more, adhering to data engineering best practices has never been more prudent for enabling an AI-powered future.
Posted October 17, 2024
Informatica is introducing innovative updates to its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) aimed at equipping organizations with AI-ready data. With enhancements to advanced analytics, AI-driven application integration and master data management, users can now ensure their AI systems are powered by the most reliable, accurate, high-quality data, according to Informatica.
Posted October 17, 2024
Leading cloud ERP provider, Acumatica, is introducing the Professional Services Edition of its cloud ERP platform, built to enable small and midsized professional services firms to increase efficiency and accelerate growth.
Posted October 17, 2024
It has been a whirlwind time for data managers and their enterprises, and the innovations that are reshaping data operations aren't showing any signs of slowing down soon. AI and advanced analytics are changing the game, of course, as are a myriad of technologies now available to help manage and extract business value from the data flowing through organizations. Here is what industry experts tell BDQ they now see emerging and what we can expect in the months and years to come.
Posted October 17, 2024
Qualys, Inc., a provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, is launching a Risk Operations Center (ROC) with Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) to enable CISOs and business leaders to manage cybersecurity risks in real time, transforming fragmented, siloed data into actionable insights.
Posted October 16, 2024
ScaleFlux, a leader in data storage and memory technology, is expanding its product portfolio to meet the demands for global data production. The company is introducing cutting-edge controllers for both NVMe SSDs and Compute Express Lin (CXL) modules, reinforcing its leadership in innovative technology for the data pipeline, according to the vendor.
Posted October 16, 2024
The career paths of IT professionals—whether they start out as administrators, creatives, or executives—are as varied as snowflakes in a blizzard. Along the way, many of us are fortunate enough to meet mentors who guide us and help us grow into better professionals.
Posted October 16, 2024
To meet the rapidly growing demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in Malaysia, Oracle announced plans to invest more than $6.5 billion to open a public cloud region in the country. The upcoming cloud region will enable Oracle customers and partners in Malaysia to leverage AI infrastructure and services and migrate mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Posted October 16, 2024
As companies measure the health and performance of their IT/cloud/application infrastructure and various data-in-motion streams such as metrics, events, logs, and traces, the number of monitoring tools grows, resulting in a complicated and overloaded observability stack. Kishore Gopalakrishna, co-founder and CEO at StarTree, believes unified observability platforms can solve these pain points by providing the flexibility, data autonomy, and extensibility offered by a disaggregated model.
Posted October 15, 2024
Eon, a next-generation cloud backup solution, is emerging from stealth, having raised a total of $127 million in funding in its efforts to replace legacy backup tools and generic snapshots, transforming backups into useful, easy-to-manage assets. The first backup autopilot for the age of cloud infrastructure, Eon monitors cloud resource sprawl and brings cloud backup posture management (CBPM) to enterprises, according to the company.
Posted October 10, 2024
In today's digital landscape, delivering exceptional user experiences has become a top objective for businesses across industries. As applications and digital touchpoints increase, understanding user behavior within these platforms is crucial for driving product innovation and business growth. However, collecting, managing, and reporting on user data has traditionally been a complex and resource-intensive endeavor, often requiring significant engineering resources.
Posted October 10, 2024
Picture this: A doctor receives an emergency call late at night. A patient has been brought into the emergency room with severe symptoms, and immediate access to their medical history is crucial. Within seconds, the doctor accesses the patient's electronic health records, seamlessly pulling up a comprehensive view of their health history. Thanks to a secure and reliable database, the doctor can make informed decisions quickly, potentially saving the patient's life.
Posted October 10, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is debuting a series of new features for dbt Cloud, the control plane for enterprise data stacks. These latest enhancements serve to empower users across the various stages of the analytics development lifecycle, adhering to One dbt, the company's mission of delivering a single, unified dbt experience regardless of an enterprise's infrastructure, data platform, or cloud.
Posted October 09, 2024
Egnyte, a leading provider of cloud-based content collaboration and governance solutions, announced it has been granted five United States Utility Patents this year that address complex data governance and compliance challenges. According to the company, these patents reinforce its commitment to innovation in data privacy and cloud storage management.
Posted October 08, 2024
Grafana Labs, the company offering open and composable operational dashboards, is adding a variety of updates to its platform including advancements in AI/ML for observability, significant enhancements to the fully managed Grafana Cloud observability platform, and the launch of Grafana Labs' new startup program.
Posted October 07, 2024
Darktrace, a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, is expanding Darktrace / CLOUD to support Microsoft Azure environments, leveraging Microsoft's virtual network flow logs for agentless deployment. Also available for AWS deployments, Darktrace / CLOUD is built from the ground up for cloud defense. It leverages Darktrace's unique Self-Learning AI to monitor cloud assets, containers, and users, and correlate that activity with identity and network data from across an organization's digital ecosystem.
Posted October 07, 2024
WekaIO (WEKA), the AI-native data platform company, announced that the WEKA Data Platform has been certified as a high-performance data store for NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Partners. With this certification, NVIDIA Cloud Partners can now leverage the WEKA Data Platform's performance, scalability, operational efficiency, and ease of use through the jointly validated WEKA Reference Architecture for NVIDIA Cloud Partners using NVIDIA HGX H100 systems.
Posted October 07, 2024
The EY organization is expanding its collaboration with IBM to leverage software from Apptio, an IBM Company. EY strategy and consulting experience, used in concert with Apptio software, can help enable organizations to focus their resources on their strategic priorities at all levels of the organization, according to the vendor.
Posted October 07, 2024
SingleStore, the world's only database that empowers users to transact, analyze, and search petabytes of data in milliseconds, is announcing its recent acquisition of BryteFlow, a leading data integration platform. With this acquisition, SingleStore expands its ability to ingest data from a range of sources—such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, and more—and helps its users operationalize data from their CRM and ERP systems.
Posted October 04, 2024
Quadrant Information Security (Quadrant), a leading provider of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions, is introducing a new service, Quadrant Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), to help organizations systematically manage and reduce the risks associated with the ever-expanding attack surfaces in complex enterprise IT environments.
Posted October 03, 2024
MongoDB is releasing MongoDB 8.0, offering significant performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, and additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities. Architectural optimizations in MongoDB 8.0 have significantly reduced memory usage and query times, and MongoDB 8.0 has more efficient batch processing capabilities than previous versions.
Posted October 03, 2024
Oracle Health is providing electronic health record (EHR) innovations that will help clinicians streamline routine tasks and deliver more efficient, informed patient care. According to Oracle, with the new capabilities, caregivers can more quickly and easily update and access critical patient information from practically anywhere to help increase efficiency and reduce burden.
Posted October 02, 2024
Oracle and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the launch of Oracle Database@AWS, a new offering that allows customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. Oracle Database@AWS will provide customers with a unified experience between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS, offering simplified database administration, billing, and unified customer support.
Posted October 02, 2024
Oracle is releasing Java 23, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform, delivering thousands of improvements to help developers increase productivity and drive innovation. Additional enhancements to the platform's performance, stability, and security will help organizations accelerate business growth, according to Oracle.
Posted October 02, 2024
SQream, a leading accelerated data processing platform, is debuting its native Snowflake connector which brings its cloud data solution, SQream Blue, to the Snowflake environment. With this connector, SQream delivers the best of its GPU parallelizing solution to Snowflake's data warehouse platform, eliminating the need for intermediate data transfers or complex ETL processes.
Posted October 01, 2024
Wind River, a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge, is launching eLxr Pro, its commercial enterprise Linux offering to address the needs of cloud-to-edge deployments. Expanding the company's industry-leading Linux portfolio, eLxr Pro delivers long-term commercial support and services to the recently launched open source eLxr project distribution, according to the company.
Posted September 30, 2024
Veeam Software, the #1 leader by market share in Data Resilience, is announcing an integration with Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, aiming to simplify, centralize, scale, and automate data monitoring and incident response. This integration—which merges the strengths of Palo Alto Networks AI-driven security operations center (SOC) platform and Veeam's recovery capabilities—empowers organizations to take an integrated approach to protecting their data backups and proactively respond to cyberthreats, according to the companies.
Posted September 30, 2024
Observe, Inc., the SaaS observability company, is launching "Project Voyager," its most significant product update yet that introduces an AI Investigator along with OpenTelemetry-Native APM and Snowflake Observability, enabling Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to troubleshoot incidents faster and improve customer experience.
Posted September 27, 2024
DBTA's latest webinar, Data Management for AI: Knowledge Graphs, Vector Databases, and Semantic Layers, gathered three experts to explore the nuances of AI and the importance of its underlying infrastructure, offering technologies and tools to best facilitate success.
Posted September 27, 2024
Airbyte, a leading open data movement platform, is launching a plethora of technologies that make virtually any data even more accessible for analytics and GenAI (generative artificial intelligence). Airbyte is introducing Airbyte 1.0, available as Airbyte Open Source and the Airbyte Cloud online service, the Airbyte Marketplace with more than 300 data connectors, an AI Assistant to create data connectors, support for LLMs and Gen AI workflows, and the general availability of Airbyte Self-Managed Enterprise for on-premises deployments.
Posted September 27, 2024
SIOS Technology Corp., a leading provider of application high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, is debuting SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux version 9.9.0, which continues to deliver a robust HA/DR solution for business-critical applications and databases. Version 9.9.0 offers a variety of new DR advancements, including synchronous and asynchronous data mirroring, intelligent failover mechanisms, enhanced security management, and more.
Posted September 26, 2024
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is announcing that it will acquire Clumio, a technology leader in data protection for critical cloud data in AWS. This acquisition will merge the powers of Commvault and Clumio, delivering cyber resilience to next-generation applications built on AWS.
Posted September 26, 2024
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading Postgres data and AI company, is unveiling a series of contributions to PostgreSQL 17 that forward the database as an effective option for large-scale data analytics and AI workloads, according to EDB. This release—which was driven by over 200 developers world-wide—reflects the growing popularity and significance of Postgres, as well as EDB's long-standing commitment to the PostgreSQL community.
Posted September 26, 2024
Firebolt is offering a next-generation Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW) that delivers low latency analytics with drastic efficiency gains, reflecting continuous feedback from users and real-world use cases. According to the company, data engineers can now deliver customer-facing analytics and data-intensive applications (data apps) more cost-effectively and with greater simplicity.
Posted September 26, 2024
Operant AI, provider of the Runtime AI Application Protection Platform, announced it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to accelerate team and product expansion bringing unprecedented transparency and active cloud-native protection to all APIs, AI, and cloud applications with a particular focus on securing the entire data-in-use lifecycle as it flows through every layer of modern application environments.
Posted September 26, 2024
SAP announced it has successfully completed its acquisition of WalkMe Ltd., a leading digital adoption platform company listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market that enables seamless workflow execution across business software applications, improving user experience and adoption and supporting business transformation.
Posted September 25, 2024
New Relic, the intelligent observability platform, is supporting RISE with SAP to help enterprises accelerate and future-proof cloud transformation. In close partnership with SAP, New Relic offers a best-of-breed observability solution—New Relic Monitoring for SAP Solutions—that unifies monitoring across the entire SAP landscape.
Posted September 25, 2024
Syniti, a global leader in enterprise data management, assisted with one of the largest transformation projects in Bridgestone's history—its migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The company's goal was to remove siloes across the organization by consolidating business processes across its SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) system into one SAP S/4HANA Cloud instance allowing the company to improve operational efficiency, data accuracy and set the stage for future growth, automation, and innovation in the tire and mobility sectors.
Posted September 25, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is releasing the new generation of the Hitachi EverFlex infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) portfolio, reinforcing its commitment to enhancing IT operations.
Posted September 24, 2024
Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technologies and services, is launching a series of new features for the Pure Storage platform that empower enterprises to keep up with the pace of innovation—particularly in the realm of architecture, as dictated by the advancements in AI. These new innovations—which include Real-time Enterprise File, a virtual machine (VM) assessment, and more—continue Pure Storage's momentum in empowering enterprises to adapt to the constantly evolving demands for data architectures.
Posted September 24, 2024
Gresham Technologies, a global leader in innovative financial technology solutions, which recently completed its merger with Alveo, is rebranding to "Gresham." According to the company, this change marks a significant milestone in the organization's evolution and highlights Gresham's commitment to a future of innovation and customer success as it embarks on this new chapter.
Posted September 24, 2024
DataOps.live, The Data Products Company, is offering a new range of AIOps capabilities that provides end-to-end lifecycle management of AI workloads from development to production. Centered around Snowflake Cortex and AWS Bedrock, these latest AIOps capabilities enable data engineers, data product owners, and data scientists to easily and quickly build and operationalize AI-driven data products with unparalleled consistency, scalability, and governance, the company said.
Posted September 23, 2024
IBM is introducing IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering (Rhapsody SE), a web-based solution for systems engineering teams that empowers them to deliver smarter, more complex, and more competitive solutions to their end users. IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering is based on several key technologies that allow customers to use the benefits of complexity while mitigating its associated risks.
Posted September 23, 2024
IBM is acquiring Kubecost, a leading Kubernetes cost monitoring and optimization software company, to show its commitment to growing in the FinOps space. The addition of Kubecost to IBM's FinOps solutions deepens IBM's support for FinOps teams, DevOps teams, and the open-source community, according to the company.
Posted September 23, 2024