Data Warehousing Articles
InfluxData is deploying its next-generation time series engine designed to transform InfluxDB to a columnar, real-time data platform optimized for the full range of time series data, able to ingest data at high volumes with unbound cardinality, and support SQL-based queries.
Posted October 27, 2022
Chronosphere, provider of a cloud native observability platform, is offering a new release of its cloud native observability platform that includes new capabilities designed to improve cloud native engineering team efficiency. According to the company, the Chronosphere platform takes a new approach to cloud native observability with a reimagined user workflow tailored to the unique ways engineering and DevOps teams work in today's cloud native environment.
Posted October 27, 2022
Kyndryl is releasing Kyndryl Consult, a culmination of the enterprise's decades of mission critical experience paired with technology integration solutions for guiding existing customers.
Posted October 27, 2022
Is it getting easier or more difficult to lock down data in today's digital enterprises? Industry leaders have mixed opinions on the state of that challenge. Cloud vendors promise industrial-grade security for backend applications and data, while at the same time the move to cloud increases complexity.
Posted October 27, 2022
Oracle is introducing several new distributed cloud offerings to meet customers' diverse needs and the growing demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). These new options include Oracle Alloy, Oracle MySQL HeatWave for Microsoft Azure, and plans to open new public cloud regions in Chicago, Serbia, and Mexico.
Posted October 27, 2022
IBM announced it's extending the data-resilience capabilities of existing IBM data protection products and introducing new workload-specific solutions for SAP HANA and Salesforce. The IBM Safeguarded Copy capability, which currently enables IBM FlashSystem and IBM DS8000 clients to create cyber-resilient immutable snapshots, is now available to clients running IBM's Spectrum Scale high-performance global data platform, bringing logical air-gapping to unstructured data sets. This solution provides organizations with a consistent approach to safeguarding data, regardless of where it's located or how it scales up or out, according to IBM.
Posted October 26, 2022
Kasten by Veeam is unveiling the Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.5 Kubernetes data management platform, a solution geared toward bridging the gap between skill and user when employing Kubernetes.
Posted October 25, 2022
DBTA hosted a webinar, "Building a Real-time Document Data Store at Scale," featuring speakers Noel Yuhanna, VP and principal analyst at Forrester; George Demarest, director of product marketing at Aerospike; and Mario Ornelas, CEO of Zonetap, to explore the ways in which current document databases are ill-equipped to scale and perform at max efficiency, and how Aerospike rises to that challenge.
Posted October 20, 2022
DBTA hosted a webinar, sponsored by Melissa, titled "The Growing Challenge of Data Quality in the Era of Cloud and Analytics," featuring speakers Joe McKendrick, research analyst at Unisphere Research, and Bud Walker, VP of strategy and enterprise sales at Melissa, to discuss the issues with ensuring data quality among disparate and complex enterprise landscapes.
Posted October 20, 2022
Titan Data Solutions, a specialist distributor for end-to-end data management solutions and cybersecurity services, is announcing its distribution agreement with Hammerspace, the provider of Global Data Environments, expanding access to the U.K. and Europe.
Posted October 19, 2022
Redgate, the provider behind database DevOps solutions and developer tools, is unveiling Flyway Enterprise, an enhanced iteration of the Flyway tool to accommodate organizations and their efforts toward standardizing and automating database deployment throughout their teams and technologies.
Posted October 18, 2022
The world is increasingly online, and online is increasingly real-time. This presents interesting performance challenges for databases, and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is purpose-built to address them. According to a recent statistic, more than 5.47 billion people have access to the Internet which is approximately 69% of the world's population. This number has increased by a staggering 1.1 billion since 2019 or approximately 12% of the world population is now accessing internet for the first time.
Posted October 17, 2022
Cloudera is announcing the general availability of DataFlow Functions (DFF) for Cloudera DataFlow within the Public Cloud on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, improving NiFi flow functions.
Posted October 17, 2022
BMC, a global provider of software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, announced findings from its annual mainframe survey that reinforce the mainframe as a key platform for innovation. Organizations are bringing the mainframe to more of the enterprise, and digital transformation is increasingly inclusive of the mainframe. The insights align with the company's focus on providing intelligence-driven solutions that span all IT and business environments from mainframe to the cloud.
Posted October 17, 2022
IBM announced it will add Red Hat storage product roadmaps and Red Hat associate teams to the IBM Storage business unit, bringing consistent application and data storage across on-premises infrastructure and cloud. With the move, IBM will integrate the storage technologies from Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) as the foundation for IBM Spectrum Fusion. This combines IBM and Red Hat's container storage technologies for data services and helps accelerate IBM's capabilities in the burgeoning Kubernetes platform market.
Posted October 17, 2022
Data observability is a relatively new discipline in the fields of data engineering and data management. While many are familiar with the longstanding concepts of observability and monitoring in enterprise IT networks and infrastructure, data observability has only really come into the spotlight in the last two years. However, it has managed to turn a lot of heads in that short time.
Posted October 17, 2022
Enterprise growth is a goal for most companies, yet it concurrently requires strategies in the event of data disaster or to maintain a regularly operable, productive system. With a cloud-native managed, multi-region infrastructure, enterprises can use their global presence as an advantage towards recovery methods.
Posted October 13, 2022
Kubernetes is an open source platform, upheld for its extensibility and portable quality for managing containerized workloads and services. While beneficial, there are areas that can be improved when employed—such as instances of deep technology stack troubleshooting, contrasting workload requirements, and efficient database management.
Posted October 13, 2022
Postman, supplier of an API platform, is partnering with Microsoft to further the embrace of API-first lifecycles and improve the lives of developers and Microsoft Azure customers alike.
Posted October 13, 2022
The nature of enterprise functions is diverse: various teams, tools, and systems form a successful enterprise, each taking on an individual area of expertise. This necessary miscellany of groups and functions makes for a gap in data handling, where opposing operations can confound and slow productivity. Enter the semantic layer: the business glue that connects BI tools, users, and data through a common language reflected throughout every inch of the enterprise.
Posted October 12, 2022
ArangoDB, the company behind a graph data and analytics platform, is releasing the ArangoGraph Insights Platform, a cloud-based graph data and analytics platform that uncovers insights in data that are difficult or impossible to obtain with traditional SQL, document, or even other graph databases.
Posted October 12, 2022
The launch of Cloud Seed by GitLab Inc., provider of the One DevOps Platform for software innovation, in collaboration with Google Cloud, announced it now streamlines migration to the cloud within a single platform.
Posted October 11, 2022
Provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT management software, SolarWinds, is launching the SolarWinds Transform Partner Program to empower their global channel partners to accelerate digital transformation for their respective customers via AI-powered SolarWinds observability solutions.
Posted October 07, 2022
Hammerspace, the provider of the Global Data Environment for on-premises data centers and public cloud infrastructures, is debuting their latest ameliorations to the Hammerspace Global Environment, enriching data value and collaboration with the Hammerspace Metadata Plugin, User Initiated File Protection, Automated File Reservation, and Global Audit functionality, each integrated with the Hammerspace Metadata Control Plane.
Posted October 07, 2022
Data, data, data—there's more of it every day, at greater complexity than ever before. While having the tools to manage and utilize that data is necessary, ensuring you are leveraging the maximum value from those systems and tools is critical.
Posted October 07, 2022
Things break and the DBA must be prepared for situations where a failure impacts the availability, integrity, or usability of a database. Reacting to failures and service disruptions is a key component of the DBA's job. This means ensuring that appropriate backups are taken for all your critical database objects. Assuming backups exist, when an inevitable database recovery is required, the next decision is how to get the data you need back as quickly as possible. But there are several different types and methods of performing recovery.
Posted October 06, 2022
British mathematician Clive Humby famously said in 2006 that "Data is the new oil." In the 16 years since, companies of all sizes have drilled for and stored more and more data about their customers and business operations to drive performance and growth to reach their goals. In conjunction with the increased use of the consumer internet, data creation has exploded in recent years—considering the majority of the world's data collected over the course of human history has occurred in just the last two years alone. As a result, entire businesses and industries have been built solely on having access to unique and useful data.
Posted October 06, 2022
DiffusionData, previously known as Push Technology, is announcing its brand realignment to solidify its position as a provider of real-time data streaming, messaging solutions, and digital transformation solutions.
Posted October 06, 2022
As technology has rapidly expanded and evolved to its present-day iteration, its own unique challenges have surfaced as well; issues like data ethics and data privacy have cultivated the modern technological landscape, as assaults to those ideals have become wildly relevant to the everyday tech user's digital identity.
Posted October 05, 2022
Every organization, from the smallest nonprofit entities to the trillion-dollar behemoths dominating the historic landscape south of San Francisco, recognizes that tomorrow is not guaranteed. In the early days of this decade, the world's governments put the world economy into existential peril as they attempted to "lock down" public interaction, resulting in the world's economies shutting down. Even when the most destructive restrictions were loosened, there was a considerable amount of less onerous restrictions which lingered on for many months.
Posted October 04, 2022
IBM plans to acquire Dialexa, a leading U.S. digital product engineering services firm, to help companies drive innovation and achieve their digital growth agendas. The acquisition is expected to deepen IBM's product engineering expertise and provide end-to-end digital transformation services for clients.
Posted October 03, 2022
DataRobot is releasing DataRobot Dedicated Managed AI Cloud, a dedicated hosted version of AI Cloud managed by DataRobot experts. Dedicated Managed AI Cloud provides the latest DataRobot capabilities to support critical AI and machine learning projects with the advantage of public cloud services, reducing cost and time-to-value in deploying, upgrading, and managing the AI infrastructure, according to the vendor.
Posted September 29, 2022
The open-source data platform purpose-built for time-series data, TDengine, is announcing its launch of TDengine Cloud for enterprises seeking to initialize, scale, and operate the TDengine time-series data platform with ease in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Posted September 29, 2022
Open source cloud data platform company, Aiven, is unveiling its beta launch of Aiven for ClickHouse, initially debuted at Uptime—the company's first annual developer conference. The beta iteration of Aiven for ClickHouse introduces the enterprise to the cloud data warehousing market, allowing for accelerated open source columnar database access for Aiven customers. Users seeking to employ high-performance analytics for critical business insights will have Aiven ClickHouse's fully managed cloud data warehouse in their Aiven toolbelt.
Posted September 29, 2022
Alation Inc., a provider of enterprise data intelligence solutions, is launching the Alation Cloud Service for Snowflake, offering departments and organizations of all sizes to start cataloging data on Snowflake's platform. The new offering, launched in partnership with Snowflake, makes data governance easy and accessible, enabling organizations to start small, flexibly expand by adding data connectors, users, and data objects, and support use cases like cloud data migration for less than $100k, according to the vendors.
Posted September 29, 2022
Is the mainframe still necessary? Well, let's put it this way: If all the world's mainframes shut down, we'd be facing a zombie apocalypse. That's a bit hyperbolic but the underlying point stands: Without mainframes, banks couldn't process financial transactions at ATMs or online, retailers' ecommerce platforms would go dark, and healthcare systems would be unable to access patient records or other vital information. Mainframes are still a vital part of the modern enterprise. If they no longer existed, businesses would lose access to years of records and entire computing systems would crash.
Posted September 28, 2022
StormForge, provider of cloud-native application performance testing and resource optimization, is unveiling the latest capabilities of its StormForge Optimize Live solution, featuring bi-dimensional Kubernetes pod autoscaling—now available within the platform.
Posted September 28, 2022
The big data world is changing in ways never seen before, particularly when it comes to bringing data together and into situations where it can be actionable for the business. The challenge faced by all enterprises—large and small—is being able to discover, identify, and bring the data needed to build products, deliver services, and understand customers. Data integration itself has been a practice—and challenge—for decades. Now, however, new tools and processes are enabling new ways of bringing enterprises to a state in which it can support sophisticated applications such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things.
Posted September 27, 2022
HEAVY.AI, an innovator in advanced analytics, is introducing HeavyRF, an extension of the company's deep analytics platform that uses NVIDIA Omniverse to create digital twins that help telco network operators speed deployments of wireless networks.
Posted September 27, 2022
DBTA recently held a webinar titled, "How Cisco Provides World-Class Technology Conference Experiences Using Automation, Programmability, Python, InfluxDB and Grafana," featuring speaker Jason Davis, distinguished services engineer for DevNet at Cisco Systems, to discuss the precise approaches taken by Cisco during CiscoLive events that improve network performance, availability, resiliency, and observability through automation.
Posted September 26, 2022
Modern applications require databases that can constantly adapt to their real-time needs, introducing a variety of complexities when it comes to selecting the right database for the job. The era of the one-size-fits-all approach by employing a singular database is no longer viable; databases crafted for the specific demands of applications are the present—and future—of effective application development and maintenance. AWS Databases, which are purpose-built for a variety of application needs, are the solution amid complexity.
Posted September 22, 2022
Kyndryl, provider of managed IT services, is unveiling Kyndryl Bridge as the latest in Kyndryl's digital integration initiatives. Through real-time, AI-powered analytics and insights for enterprise IT estates, Kyndryl Bridge enables advanced customization and control over mission critical operations. The aim for the platform is to offer enhanced visibility within an organization's operations to prevent potential issues and act on them before they trickle down to affect business operations. Further, the enterprise aims to provide enhanced observability and analytics for modernizing enterprise functions, positioning businesses to be more competitive in a quickly evolving market.
Posted September 21, 2022
Global provider of modern data integration, Fivetran, is debuting the availability of its Metadata API for advanced data tracking within Fivetran-managed pipelines. Data access control is key to Fivetran's latest API, tracking in-flight data from source to target to provide deep insights regarding governance and observability tool employment—allowing users to know who is accessing what data.
Posted September 21, 2022