Data Warehousing Articles
MinIO Inc., creators of the MinIO object storage suite, is expanding its partnership, along with providing a technical preview to deliver object storage on VMware Cloud Foundation, by integrating with VMware Data Services Manager. According to the companies, this solution will combine VMware Cloud Foundation's more secure enterprise-class infrastructure and the MinIO Object Store to deliver a fully integrated experience for mission-critical workloads running on VMware Cloud Foundation.
Posted November 22, 2023
New Relic, the all-in-one observability platform for every engineer, is introducing New Relic AI monitoring (AIM), an APM solution for AI-powered applications that provides engineers unprecedented visibility and insights across the AI application stack, making it easier to troubleshoot and optimize their AI applications for performance, quality, cost, and responsible use of AI.
Posted November 20, 2023
IONIX is extending its industry-leading Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform with Threat Exposure Radar, a threat exposure management capability fully integrated with an attack surface management solution. According to the company, the product innovation provides a unified view of critical exposures from the entire, expanding, enterprise attack surface across cloud, on-premises, SaaS, and third-party systems.
Posted November 16, 2023
Data mesh is still in its infancy, and data personas and organizations are craving clarity and specificity. It is critical to be aware of the "why" and "what" and fully understand the role that knowledge graphs play when considering adopting a data mesh strategy.
Posted November 16, 2023
Nihal Mirashi, principal solutions marketing manager at Pure Storage, and Thomas Stutesman, principal field solutions architect at Pure Storage, joined DBTA's webinar 3 Key Strategies to Unlocking Oracle Database Storage Excellence, to guide audiences through effectively managing highly scaled Oracle environments while unlocking superior performance—all without adding complexity or disruptive technologies.
Posted November 15, 2023
Syntax Systems, a global technology solutions and services provider for cloud application implementation and management, has officially acquired Montreal-based Beyond Technologies, enabling the company to further specialize in SAP solution integration and business performance optimization. The deal, which was announced October 3, 2023, brings Beyond, a professional services firm specializing in SAP solution integration and business performance optimization, into the Syntax family.
Posted November 15, 2023
Onapsis, a provider of business application security and compliance, is making pivotal advancements to the Onapsis Platform, catering to cloud, hybrid, and on-premise solutions. The standout updates spotlight the Onapsis Security Advisor, which now boasts enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) engines that facilitate dynamic industry peer comparisons against hundreds of the world's leading SAP customers.
Posted November 15, 2023
BlueFinity's Evoke platform can help modernize MV applications with enriched features that offer several advantages to the MultiValue marketplace for application modernization and new app development. The platform is designed to empower organizations with MultiValue (and DB2, Oracle, or SQL Server) database systems to modernize and extend their applications in a highly efficient and cost-effective manner.
Posted November 15, 2023
Experts in analytics joined DBTA's webinar, The Future of Analytics: Data Warehouses, Data Lakehouses, and Data Mesh, to offer IT leaders and practitioners best practices and new technologies for navigating where modernity meets analytics.
Posted November 14, 2023
The original intention of surrogate keys across multidimensional database designs was to help optimize joins by keeping all keys, used for joining between facts and dimensions, both numeric and single-columned. Often such surrogates were generated as simple sequential numbers, 1, 2, 3…. Early versions of many relational database products had sub-optimal performance when joining data together via character strings—especially large quantities of data.
Posted November 13, 2023
Entrinsik is announcing the launch of Informer AI, a game-changing solution that promises to revolutionize how users interact with Informer by leveraging artificial intelligence. According to the company, utilizing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, Informer AI automates tasks, simplifies workflows, and offers real-time analytics and trend analysis.
Posted November 09, 2023
At the Snowday 2023 event, Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, launched an extensive series of innovations centered around deriving value from AI and powering a robust data strategy that permeates throughout the rest of the application development process.
Posted November 03, 2023
Backblaze, Inc., the specialized storage cloud provider, is debuting "shard stash," an innovation in data upload technology that improves upload speeds, where small file uploads (1MB or less) are 30% faster than AWS S3, according to the company.
Posted November 03, 2023
Alation, Inc., the data intelligence company, is expanding its partner ecosystem with the addition of Monte Carlo, Sigma Computing, and ThoughtSpot, extending Alation's connectivity to new data sources, building upon more than 100 existing connectors that enable organizations to gain insight across the modern data stack.
Posted October 30, 2023
Fivetran, the company automating data movement out of, into, and across cloud data platforms, is announcing its recent achievement of HITRUST certification for the Fivetran Automated Data Movement Platform in all of its cloud regions, worldwide.
Posted October 27, 2023
Stacklet, creators and lead maintainers of CNCF's Cloud Custodian project, is unveiling Jun0, a powerful new assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to help teams speed up cloud governance tasks, reporting, and initiatives using simple text-based queries.
Posted October 26, 2023
According to Gartner, global spending on the public cloud is expected to increase by approximately 20.7% to reach $591.8 billion (about $1,800 per person in the U.S.) in 2023. The advantages of migrating to the cloud are widely recognized. By adopting cloud-first models, businesses can move away from traditional, fixed-cost methods of managing IT infrastructure. Cloud migration allows for controllable, agile, and secure operations that can easily scale as needed while optimizing costs.
Posted October 26, 2023
Databricks, the Data and AI company, is acquiring Arcion, a Databricks Ventures portfolio company that helps enterprises quickly and reliably replicate data across on-prem, cloud databases, and data platforms. According to the company, this move will enable Databricks to provide native solutions to ingest data from various databases and SaaS applications into the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. The transaction is valued at over $100 million, inclusive of incentives.
Posted October 26, 2023
Nyriad, the provider of the world's first GPU-accelerated storage system, is unveiling UltraIO-as-a-Service, an on-prem Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) solution designed to address various organizational challenges—such as budget constraints, the rapid proliferation of data, lack of IT talent, operational complexity, and sustainability guidelines—while delivering on agility, ease of use, and billing simplicity.
Posted October 24, 2023
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and the provider of open source security, support, and services, is releasing Charmed Spark, an advanced solution for Apache Spark that accelerates data engineering across both public cloud and private data centers.
Posted October 23, 2023
Alluxio, the data platform company for data-driven workloads, is unveiling Alluxio Enterprise AI, a high-performance data platform designed to unify performance, data accessibility, scalability, and cost efficiency in powering AI and machine learning (ML) workloads.
Posted October 19, 2023
Recently, companies such as Dropbox, Amazon, Lyft, and Meta, as well as Apple, have used the draconian and cruel layoff approach to economic optimization. Yet while the "R" word is bantered around, the "mainstream media" continues to claim that a recession has not yet arrived. This is despite the academic definition of "recession," that is, consecutive quarters of negative gross domestic product growth, as was the case in the first half of 2022.
Posted October 19, 2023
Oracle announced it has acquired Next Technik, a leading provider of field service management solutions for NetSuite customers which is now part of the Oracle NetSuite organization. This acquisition provides field service management capabilities for NetSuite customers, which enables businesses to digitize and streamline scheduling and dispatch.
Posted October 18, 2023
It may be well-understood that cybersecurity needs to be front and center in all technology projects, but organizations are still slow or hesitant to fully commit to it. This is becoming a problem for data-intensive organizations, which need to brace for an onslaught of both external and internal threats. Only about one-half of organizations are beginning to recognize how important cybersecurity is from the start in any transformation effort, an Accenture survey of 3,000 executives shows.
Posted October 12, 2023
For most enterprises these days, hyperscale data workloads and AI have become the norm and are driving data strategies. However, while conventional wisdom dictates that this means greater reliance on cloud services and cutting-edge approaches to manage data pipelines, there's a place for more well-tread approaches as well. Many data managers intend to beef up their data warehouse capabilities and even return to on-prem systems in the near future.
Posted October 12, 2023
Today's applications—including enterprise applications—need to be always on and always available and often must serve a global base of users who expect almost instantaneous response times regardless of where they are located. Meeting these challenges doesn't just mean happier users: There are direct bottom-line benefits for every business able to tackle the underlying issues of low latency and ultra-high availability. Because of the fundamental role the database plays in every application tech stack, the most logical place to tackle these issues is at the database layer. One of the best and most cost-effective ways to do this is by deploying applications on top of a distributed relational database.
Posted October 12, 2023
Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, is announcing several advancements to both its Evergreen portfolio, data resilience offerings, and AI-powered storage services.
Posted October 11, 2023
The "big data" world is pervasive—to the point in which every organization is now a big data organization. As AI, machine learning, and other high-end analytics become mainstream parts of business operations, new ways of handling data assets are coming to the fore. Industry leaders and experts recently shared their views with Big Data Quarterly on the latest technology developments shaping today's big data world.
Posted October 10, 2023
HumanFirst, the low-code data productivity suite, is announcing a new Google Cloud alliance aimed at enabling enterprises all over the world to enhance data insight discovery and AI application performance based on unstructured, text-based data.
Posted October 09, 2023
Vantage Data Centers has raised $1.35 billion in securitized notes, enabling the company to refinance the existing loans in place for three of Vantage's data centers in Northern Virginia and five data centers in Quebec, Canada. The remaining funds will be used for "general corporate needs."
Posted October 09, 2023
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), the Center for Digital Government (CDG), and IBM released a report entitled, "Preparing for Future Shocks in State Government," aiming to help frame what future disruptions may look like for state chief information officers (CIOs) and how they can effectively tackle them.
Posted October 09, 2023
Azion, a leader in edge computing, is introducing new Real-Time Metrics features through its Observe product suite, providing seamless insights with powerful real-time visualization into application performance, availability, and security for better observability within organizations.
Posted October 05, 2023
Cloud experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, Modernizing Your Data and Analytics in the Cloud, to discuss the ways a cloud-first strategy can successfully manifest to meet the data demands of modern business.
Posted October 04, 2023
Oracle is introducing the Fusion Data Intelligence Platform, a next-generation data, analytics, and AI platform that will help Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications customers achieve better business outcomes by combining data-driven insights with intelligent decisions and actions. This new platform, an evolution of the Oracle Fusion Analytics Warehouse product, will deliver business data-as-a-service with automated data pipelines, 360-degree data models for key business entities, rich interactive analytics, AI/ML models, and intelligent applications, according to the company.
Posted October 04, 2023
Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, and Oracle are expanding their collaboration to offer customers more choice in deploying applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). As part of the expanded collaboration, Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes for architecting, building, and deploying cloud-native applications, will be supported and certified to run on OCI.
Posted October 04, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is offering a solution for securing private data for use in generative AI (GenAI) projects that integrates seamlessly with existing data pipelines. With Baffle Data Protection for AI, companies can accelerate GenAI projects knowing their regulated data is cryptographically secure and remain compliant, while minimizing risk and gaining the benefits of a breakthrough technology, according to the company.
Posted October 03, 2023
Sisense, an analytics platform provider that empowers companies to build and embed analytics into data products, is unveiling the public preview of Compose SDK for Fusion, a flexible development toolkit that gives developers and product leaders tools to embed context-aware analytics in a code-first, scalable, and modular way.
Posted October 03, 2023
Nextdata, the provider of a data-mesh-native platform to build and share data products at scale, announced it has secured a total of $12 million in seed investment, enabling the company to advance the development of its proprietary data mesh technology and expand the hiring of critical talent across product, engineering, and go-to-market teams.
Posted October 02, 2023
Cloudflare, Inc., the company helping to build a better internet, is introducing a new platform—accompanied by high performance at scale, a new vector database, and observability capabilities—that will enable developers to build full-stack AI applications on Cloudflare's network. Dubbed Workers AI, this solution offers fast and affordable inference without the need to manage infrastructure, driving increased productivity for shipping out production-ready, fast, and secure applications.
Posted October 02, 2023
Dan Zuckerberg, senior solutions architect at Databricks, and Jon Walls, account executive at Retool, joined DBTA's webinar, Building Data Apps and AI-Powered Operations With Databricks and Retool, guiding viewers through the ways in which Databricks and Retool provides the means for data teams to rapidly develop powerful, AI-enabled data apps.
Posted October 02, 2023
Panzura, a market leader in hybrid multi-cloud file management, is now offering Panzura Edge gateway, a scalable, enterprise-class file-sharing solution that allows organizations to create private workspaces and securely share and update files stored within Panzura's Cloud File System (CloudFS).
Posted September 29, 2023
TrustCloud, the Trust Assurance platform that uses AI to upgrade GRC into a profit center, is introducing TrustCloud Business Intelligence, a suite of dashboards and reports that equip GRC and security leaders to track and share the business, risk, and financial impact of their trust programs.
Posted September 28, 2023
Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, is launching Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and the general availability of Universal Profiling, providing site reliability engineers (SREs), at all levels of expertise, with context-aware, relevant, and actionable operational insights that are specific to their IT environment. While Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) has helped to translate, streamline, and automate problem resolution, Elastic AI Assistant for Observability, powered by the advances of generative AI, makes it faster and easier, according to the company.
Posted September 28, 2023
Starburst, the data lake analytics platform, is adding enhancements to both Starburst Galaxy and Starburst Enterprise, supporting customers at every stage of their cloud journeys. According to the company, as the data lake analytics platform built for optionality, Starburst is committed to meeting customers where they are and supporting those journeys regardless of the stage.
Posted September 28, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, Data Security and Governance in the Cloud Era, to explore the latest technologies and best practices for navigating the cloud with security and governance in mind.
Posted September 28, 2023