Data Warehousing Articles
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
StorMagic, the company solving the world's edge data problems, is unveiling SvHCI, an innovative response to the spike in costs of hypervisors—namely, by VMware and its recent acquisition by Broadcom. SvHCI is the world's most inexpensive, full-stack, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution—offering both a hypervisor and a storage layer—purpose-built for edge and small to medium-sized business (SMB) environments, according to StorMagic.
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
DBI Software, a provider of performance monitoring, tuning, and trending tools for IBM Db2 LUW and SQL Server databases, is releasing version 10 of the DBI Web Performance Suite.
Posted June 07, 2024
Bigeye, the enterprise-grade data observability platform for modern and legacy data stacks, is announcing support for column-level lineage for ETL platforms, bringing extended visibility to enterprises' hybrid data environments. This release empowers organizations with both on-prem sources and cloud data warehouses to map the entire lineage of their data analytics pipeline, ushering in more holistic insights on data quality.
Posted June 07, 2024
CloudZero, a globally trusted leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency, announced that the company is now a validated Databricks partner, making it one of the first and only cloud cost optimization platforms accepted into the Databricks partner program. As part of the newly announced partnership, CloudZero developed a new in-platform Databricks cost adaptor that helps customers to visualize and explore 100% of their Databricks spend.
Posted June 06, 2024
Guiding enterprises through the thicket of the latest database technologies and strategies, experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, New Database Technologies and Strategies for the AI Era, to offer their expertise on the market's best solutions for supporting AI projects.
Posted June 06, 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 05, 2024
Oracle is releasing Oracle Linux 8 Update 10 for the 64-bit Intel and AMD (x86_64) and 64-bit Arm (aarch64) platforms is designed for distributed computing environments. Oracle Linux sources, binaries, ISOs, and errata continue to be readily accessible and freely available from the Oracle Linux yum server, without any restrictions.
Posted June 05, 2024
A first and important step in being successful at almost any job or task is understanding oneself. This is true for engineers, modelers, or even architects. Do you know how to perform your tasks? Are you faster or slower than others doing the same tasks? Do you have more or less errors in your output than others? It seems that a rising number of people are so uncomfortable with competing that they may even avoid asking these kinds of questions of themselves; but this is not about competition, it is about understanding oneself, it is about being responsible, it is about holding oneself accountable.
Posted June 05, 2024
Neo4j, the graph database and analytics leader, is announcing a partnership with Snowflake that brings Neo4j's fully integrated, native graph data science solution to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. This news—which was announced at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024—empowers enterprises to leverage advanced, graph-enabled insights without moving their data from the Snowflake environment.
Posted June 04, 2024
Asigra, the provider of ultra-secure backup and recovery, is announcing the general availability of SaaSAssure, a SaaS-based data protection platform that empowers organizations to safeguard business-critical SaaS data while ensuring backup, recovery, availability, compliance, and security for all of a company's SaaS applications.
Posted June 03, 2024
Jitterbit, a global leader in empowering transformation through automation, is introducing Jitterbit Premier Support, a comprehensive service designed to address and resolve issues with immediacy and effectiveness to minimize downtime, maintain business continuity, and ensure quality of service.
Posted June 03, 2024
CrowdStrike and Cloudflare, Inc., the leading connectivity cloud company, are expanding their strategic partnership to connect their platforms to enhance security from the device to the network, accelerate Security Operations Center (SOC) transformation, and stop breaches before they happen.
Posted June 03, 2024
IBM is expanding its portfolio of servers with the introduction of IBM Power S1012, delivering 3X more performance per core. This 1-socket, half-wide Power10 processor-based system is available in a 2U rack-mounted or tower deskside form factor and is optimized for edge-level computing, delivering the lowest entry price point in the Power portfolio to run core workloads for small and medium-sized organizations, according to IBM.
Posted June 03, 2024
Aston, provider of the fastest path to clean energy for the global supply chain, is launching a first-of-its-kind Rapid Development Program (RDP) for Clean Data Centers. Aston's demand-driven approach brings scalable clean energy to data centers with a network of clean energy generation and industrial private grids purpose-built for each customer's energy needs today and for decades to come, according to the company.
Posted June 03, 2024
Zilliz is introducing Milvus Lite, a lightweight vector database that runs locally within the Python application, making it a compact and efficient solution ideal for environments with limited computing resources such as laptops, Jupyter Notebooks, and mobile or edge devices. Based on the open-source Milvus vector database, Milvus Lite reuses the core components for vector indexing and query parsing while removing elements designed for high scalability in distributed systems.
Posted May 31, 2024
Microsoft and Broadcom are expanding their partnership, unveiling plans to support VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) subscriptions on Azure VMware Solution. Customers that own or purchase licenses for VMware Cloud Foundation will be able to use those licenses on Azure VMware Solution, as well as their own data centers, giving them flexibility to meet changing business needs, according to Microsoft and Broadcom.
Posted May 31, 2024
Redpanda is acquiring Benthos, a popular open-source stream processing platform that enables enterprises to move, integrate, and perform transformations on streams of data flowing between systems and data sources, making Redpanda a complete and unified, end-to-end streaming data platform built close to the hardware to be more performant, simpler to deploy and easier to operate.
Posted May 31, 2024
In the latest DBTA webinar—Microsoft Fabric Essentials and Modernization Pathways—Tobin Thankachen, lead architect, data management at Datavail—Microsoft's solution partner—offered their expertise on Microsoft Fabric, answering viewers' questions while demonstrating how it works and the modernization pathways fit for organizations' unique architectures.
Posted May 30, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is introducing dbt Cloud enhancements designed to help businesses turn data into a competitive advantage as companies' data volumes explode and the need for trustworthy, high-quality data increases. "Accurate and timely data is crucial, which is why we've delivered a standardized way to quickly build reliable, holistic, and high-quality data pipelines at scale," said Luis Maldonado, VP of product at dbt Labs. "These new features take this even further, significantly improving data workflows and AI workloads, all while empowering more users with powerful business insights."
Posted May 30, 2024
Pavithra Rao, delivery solutions architect at Databricks, and Taylor McGrath, VP solutions engineering at Rivery, joined DBTA's webinar, From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Data Integration Unleashed, to examine how enterprises can put advanced cloud computing to work—and accelerate their data delivery by 7.5X—while maintaining cost efficiency.
Posted May 30, 2024
Tigera, the creator of Project Calico, is offering new features of Calico Enterprise and Calico Cloud, extending the products' Runtime Threat Defense capabilities. Through Calico, Tigera equips security, DevOps, and platform engineering teams with the deep visibility and monitoring required to bolster the security of their container platforms and containerized applications, according to the company.
Posted May 28, 2024
Catalogic Software, a provider of secure data protection solutions, is releasing the latest version of Catalogic DPX, the company's enterprise data protection software, making enhancements to the DPX vStor backup repository technology. This release introduces advancements in data immutability and recovery functionalities, and vStor Snapshot Explorer feature, all designed to bolster the security and flexibility of the company's flagship enterprise backup solution, according to the company.
Posted May 28, 2024
To discuss the ways GenAI can be augmented for true success, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, and David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube, joined DBTA's webinar, Delivering on the promise of AI: Increasing Accuracy with a Semantic Layer, offering the ways that a semantic layer—or a consistent convention of understanding and definition that data adheres to—can position GenAI and large language models (LLM) to live up to their technological intent.
Posted May 24, 2024
EDB, the leading Postgres data and AI company, is introducing EDB Postgres AI, an intelligent platform for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads that can be deployed as cloud, software, or physical appliance, all powered by the same Postgres engine. The launch of EDB Postgres AI also ushers in a new corporate identity aimed at the belief that Postgres can solve the AI generation's most complex data challenges.
Posted May 24, 2024
Averlon, a pioneering cloud security company, is emerging from stealth mode with an $8 million seed funding round aimed at transforming how organizations stay ahead of security threats. This latest investment, which brings the company's total funding to $10.5 million, is led by Voyager Capital with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Outpost Ventures, along with several prominent CISOs and industry leaders.
Posted May 24, 2024
Puppet by Perforce, the industry standard for infrastructure automation, is making significant enhancement to its commercial offering, adding new security, compliance, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities. With the demands of digital transformation, security imperatives, and efficiency requiring every organization to move with greater agility, Puppet Enterprise emerges as a timely solution to increase business velocity without sacrificing security and resiliency, according to the company.
Posted May 23, 2024
Syncari, a leader in data unification and automation, is launching its Autonomous Data Management platform, offering distributed 360-degree data, centralized governance, and democratized access that is essential for powering transformative digital and AI technologies. According to the company, the platform enables enterprises to automate processes seamlessly across all data domains, using a unified master data model, ensuring robust data consistency and transactional lineage.
Posted May 22, 2024
BlueFinity recently looked at a LinkedIn poll that asked, "What do businesses want when designing new MV apps?"—revealing key insights that will shape the future of MV app development. There is, however, a contradiction in the public discourse of what the results of the poll suggested and what is being discussed in public and private forums focusing on MV.
Posted May 22, 2024
Cycode, the leader in Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), is launching an ASPM marketplace that features more than 100 connectors and integrations to enable customers to seamlessly integrate and ingest findings from relevant third-party security tools, complement and contextualize those findings with native scanners, and eliminate gaps within supply chain security.
Posted May 21, 2024