Database Management Articles
With cloud-based enterprise software becoming the norm, set against a backdrop of businesses having to adapt their processes and operations in a highly volatile economic environment, Kubernetes-supported software deployments are a perfect fit. Those C-level executives responsible for business change and development should not ignore the power of Kubernetes and its ability to ensure their business has the digital foundation to adapt in a safe, secure, and efficient manner for years to come.
Posted June 28, 2021
Domino Data Lab, provider of the leading enterprise MLOps platform, is releasing Domino 4.4, adding enhancements that re-imagine the data science workbench. Domino 4.4 introduces several new features, including Durable Workspaces and CodeSync, which support a more productive way for data scientists to work.
Posted June 25, 2021
Edge Delta, helping corporations unlock the value of their data, announced it has secured $15 million in Series A funding round, enabling the company to support its analytics solutions at the edge. The funding round was led by Menlo Ventures and Tim Tully, the former CTO of Splunk. Previous investors, MaC Venture Capital and Amity Ventures, participated as well.
Posted June 25, 2021
dotData, a leader in full-cycle enterprise AI automation solutions, in partnership with Snowflake, is releasing the dotData Platform with Snowflake, a leading Cloud Data Platform that streamlines and simplifies the movement of data between both vendors.
Posted June 24, 2021
Morpheus Data, the hybrid cloud application orchestration company, is releasing a significant update of its platform, aiming to help enterprise customers streamline the transition to containers and simplify the adoption of infrastructure-as-code. "It has become virtually impossible for IT teams to manage an increasingly complex set of cloud services, container platforms, and automation tools," said Brad Parks, chief marketing officer at Morpheus Data. "Customers are flocking to Morpheus because we eliminate technology silos and bring order to cloud, container, and automation chaos."
Posted June 24, 2021
CloudBolt Software, an enterprise cloud management provider, is releasing the Spring '21 version of its platform, offering powerful new capabilities to help enterprises optimize public cloud costs, enhance governance and compliance, and streamline integrations in hybrid, multi-cloud environments.
Posted June 24, 2021
Hasura, the data access infrastructure company, is adding cross database joins to the Hasura GraphQL Engine, allowing the ability to access data across databases at the API layer. The company also added schema sharing capabilities and git-based CI/CD workflows. These features are available in preview and will be generally available later this year.
Posted June 24, 2021
DataRobot and Palantir Technologies have announced a new partnership designed to create real-time solutions to help solve the most pressing demand forecasting problems. "The pandemic completely upended the way our customers forecast demand, which is why we've partnered with Palantir to ensure they can create the most accurate, viable models moving forward," said Dan Wright, CEO of DataRobot. "By combining the power of the DataRobot Augmented Intelligence platform with Palantir's capabilities, we're helping our joint customers create longer-lasting, more flexible AI solutions that will generate tremendous business value."
Posted June 24, 2021
According to a 2020 analysis by Gartner, 75 % of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform by 2022. But moving database workloads, such as Oracle and SQL, can be complex and expensive. There are typically two options, 'lift and shift' or pivot to a new architecture. DBTA recently held a webinar with Peter Elliman, director, product marketing, Druva and Jesse Kachapis director, solution architecture, Druva, who discussed how Druva offers direct-to-cloud data protection for databases running on-premises and in the cloud.
Posted June 24, 2021
Assured Data Protection, a prominent IT managed services provider for cloud data protection solutions, is offering new features for ProtectView that allows enterprises to raise, update, and report specific incidents and service requests directly through the ProtectView platform to help better manage Rubrik estates.
Posted June 24, 2021
OpenText is offering several SAP Solution Extensions, complementing RISE with SAP and empowering businesses on their journey to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud. "There has never been a greater need for immediately accessible information and processes than during this global pandemic—putting cloud-based solutions front and center," said Mark J. Barrenechea, CEO and CTO at OpenText.
Posted June 23, 2021
At SAP's most recent event, its global SAPPHIRE NOW conference, the company announced new innovations to help customers transform business processes and drive improved performance.
Posted June 23, 2021
SAP intends to create a larger business network for business communities to connect and improve business outcomes, better navigate changing economic and geopolitical conditions, and enhance sustainability contributions. SAP unveiled the first step toward creating the world's largest business network with SAP Business Network, which will bring together Ariba Network, SAP Logistics Business Network, and SAP Asset Intelligence Network. Over 5.5 million organizations will benefit from being members of this connected community, according to the vendor.
Posted June 23, 2021
MariaDB Corporation is releasing MariaDB Community Server 10.6 with enhancements that bring significant advancements to the open source MariaDB community. MariaDB Community Server 10.6 adds important features for developers with JSON table functionality, frees users from expensive proprietary ties with expanded PL/SQL compatibility, and adds powerful insurance for bad database days with atomic DDL.
Posted June 23, 2021
GRAX, Inc., a leading SaaS Data Value Platform, is offering a new platform, dubbed History Stream, that allows users to effortlessly stream native SaaS app data stored in their own AWS or Azure cloud data lake into industry-standard tools.
Posted June 23, 2021
Radiant Advisors' John O'Brien discusses how the pandemic and associated challenges of 2020 impacted the analytics lifecycle and drove a shift toward agile business intelligence in this clip from his keynote at Data Summit Connect 2021.
Posted June 23, 2021
GT Software has relaunched as Adaptigent. After more than 35 years as an established presence in the industry, the company says, the new branding, leadership and corporate structure reflect its mission to empower innovation within the modern digital ecosystem and facilitate growth and transformation of the company to better serve customers.
Posted June 23, 2021
Rocket Software continues to make strides with its MultiValue suite of products, driven by customer demand and satisfaction. With the goal of attracting and retaining new developer talent, modernization, and improving productivity, Rocket is issuing some maintenance releases for Rocket UniData, Rocket UniVerse, Rocket D3, and introducing Rocket MV BASIC for Visual Studio Code.
Posted June 23, 2021
Spanning the spectrum of approaches, the DBTA 100 showcases forward-looking companies that are improving and expanding upon existing technologies and processes to help their customers use data more effectively. Several top MultiValue companies land on the list again this year, including Kore Technologies, Revelation Software, and Rocket Software.
Posted June 23, 2021
Zaloni, a provider of data management and DataOps software, has announced the 6.4 release of the Zaloni Arena DataOps platform. "Zaloni's latest release provides new automated governance and data consumption features that deliver trusted data to end users faster than ever before," said Susan Cook, CEO of Zaloni.
Posted June 22, 2021
Spectra Logic, a global leader in data storage and data management solutions, is making enhancements to its StorCycle Storage Lifecycle Management software, allowing the tiering and protection of cloud data, increased security against ransomware, and more.
Posted June 22, 2021
Next Pathway Inc., the Automated Cloud Migration company, is extending Snowpark, Snowflake's powerful developer tool, to automatically migrate and run ETLs and ETL pipelines (data workflows) natively in Snowflake. "We are in the midst of a generational shift as organizations are rapidly moving their data to the cloud," said Christian Kleinerman, Snowflake SVP of product. "Our partnership with Next Pathway is essential to helping our customers automate this migration from on-premise solutions to Snowflake's Data Cloud."
Posted June 21, 2021
Today, data is driving business success. Downtime is a killer and even slow response time can be hazardous to business health. But how do organizations achieve the performance and speed that is required today amid growing complexity and rapid data growth?
Posted June 21, 2021
Neo4j, a leader in graph technology, announced it is receiving a $325 million investment as part of a Series F funding round that will allow the company to continue to innovate its graph platform for a variety of use cases.
Posted June 17, 2021
InterSystems, a creative data technology provider, is offering the latest release of its InterSystems IRIS data platform, introducing Adaptive Analytics capabilities and additional SQL extensions for analytics to improve the process of implementing an enterprise data fabric architecture.
Posted June 17, 2021
Infragistics, the software company responsible for the UI and UX solutions powering cross-platform applications, is releasing Infragistics Ultimate 21.1. "Infragistics Ultimate 21.1 ensures best-of-breed development on your desired platform," said Jason Beres, SVP developer tools, Infragistics. "It offers updates on the mainstay frameworks in Infragistics Ultimate, including Window Forms, WPF, .NET Core as well as the modern web frameworks in Blazor, Angular, React and Web Components and Indigo.Design, the new app builder that can radically accelerate your app design and development."
Posted June 17, 2021
Sisense, a leading AI-driven platform for infusing analytics everywhere, is forming a partnership with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, in addition to achieving premier Status in the Snowflake Partner Connect Program with its optimized real-time live connector.
Posted June 16, 2021
Imply, a pioneer of Analytics-in-Motion, and founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, announced it is closing on a $70 million Series C funding round, empowering the company to extend its market leadership. Analytics-in-Motion is the new requirement for digital transformation, and has emerged due to the demands of modern business and the limitations of existing analytics solutions to meet these demands, according to the vendor.
Posted June 16, 2021
DataKitchen, a DataOps consultancy and platform provider, has released the third book in its DataOps series. "In this book, we share all of the insight that we've gained from our own experiences coaching data analytics professionals on the best way to lead organizational change," said Chris Bergh, CEO and head chef of DataKitchen.
Posted June 16, 2021
Oracle has announced the addition of 13 more Always Free services to Oracle Cloud Free Tier, enabling developers and operators to learn, try out, and deploy workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Posted June 16, 2021
The global mainframe market is projected to witness a substantial growth, growing at a CAGR of 3.2% during the forecast period from 2021 to 2029, according to a new report added to ResearchAndMarkets.com website. According to the report, based on geography, North America led the overall mainframe market accounting for the largest market share in 2020 and the region is likely to remain foremost throughout the forecast period from 2021 to 2029.
Posted June 15, 2021
DataStax is introducing Astra Streaming, a highly-scalable, multi-cloud messaging and event streaming platform built on Apache Pulsar and integrated with DataStax's marquee serverless database, Astra DB, to deliver a multi-cloud solution for managing both data in motion and data at rest.
Posted June 15, 2021
Couchbase is releasing its Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes (CAO) Version 2.2, offering an automated cloud-native database experience. One of the key new capabilities of this release is the Auto-scaling Couchbase services feature. Couchbase's auto-scaling feature monitors the user's cluster and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady and predictable performance, based on pre-defined thresholds for all Couchbase services.
Posted June 14, 2021
Infoworks.io, a leading data fabric company, is partnering with Hitachi Solutions America, enabling the companies to leverage Infoworks' comprehensive automated solution for enterprise data operations and orchestration to augment and accelerate Hitachi's delivery of customer solutions for Microsoft Azure.
Posted June 14, 2021
Data onboarding is a crucial but painstaking process that holds back individual companies and entire industries from reaching their full potential. The last thing a company wants is to lose a client over frustration due to data migration. A new survey of 5,000 managers and executives—many from outside IT departments—conducted by Flatfile has found that more than three-quarters of respondents either "sometimes or often" run into problems onboarding data.
Posted June 14, 2021
Sunlight.io, a developer of virtualization technology for data-intensive applications, is joining an OEM partnership with Altos Computing, a subsidiary of Acer Inc., to create efficient hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliances. By combining the power of Sunlight's NexVisor HCI stack and Altos BrainSphere servers, organizations can run resource-intensive workloads like AI and analytics with high density, ultra-high performance and simple scalability, from the edge to the core data center, according to the vendors.
Posted June 14, 2021
With new "data models" and types of database systems purported to be better than relational, it seems that the industry is all too ready to stick a fork in relational. So, is relational technology outdated? There are all sorts of pretenders to the throne for data management including Hadoop, XML, and the various types of NoSQL database products. But why? Are there truly any shortcomings in the relational way that require its wholesale replacement?
Posted June 14, 2021
DataOps is becoming the solution enterprises are choosing to bring improved quality and reduced cycle times to data analytics. Borrowing from Agile Development, DevOps and statistical process control, this new methodology is poised to revolutionize data analytics with its eye on the entire data lifecycle. DBTA held a webinar with Susan Cook, CEO, Zaloni; Dan Potter, VP of product marketing, Qlik; and Chris Bergh, CEO, DataKitchen, who discussed emerging DataOps best practices and solutions.
Posted June 11, 2021
Domo, provider of the Domo Business Cloud, is providing support for Snowpark, the new developer experience for Snowflake, the Data Cloud Company. The integration aims to deliver joint solutions that make it easier for developers, data engineers, and data scientists to build and extend custom solutions across the enterprise.
Posted June 11, 2021
Confluent is offering its latest platform update, Confluent Platform 6.2, and is introducing Health+ to provide users with the tools and visibility needed to ensure the health of data in motion. Health+ helps reduce risk of downtime and data loss with intelligent alerts to identify potential issues before they occur and avoid business disruption.
Posted June 10, 2021
We're still at the start of the 2020s, and already, things look very different from the preceding decade. For data executives and professionals, the years ahead may mean change on a scale never seen before in the IT industry. Promising new technologies—as well as redesigned and repurposed older ones—are reshaping the data center and analytics shops in new and exciting ways. We asked industry leaders for their views on what is enhancing the ability of enterprises to compete on data.
Posted June 10, 2021
Inside a relational database management system, the principal persisted data structure is considered a logical relation. Operations performed against that data within the RDBMS result in a logical relation too. In other words, everything is a table. To step away a little from the term "table," let's use the word "grid."
Posted June 10, 2021
Due to my background working with other major database platforms such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, I've long been an advocate for the SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). This powerful and easy product can quickly and effectively migrate most popular relational database platforms into SQL Server. The migration process using SSMA usually results in a 80/20 or 90/10 migration, in which 80%-90% of the database objects migrate without an issue. But 10%-20% typically requires additional hand-holding and manual migration work.
Posted June 10, 2021
Oracle has a history of delivering the data management solutions of choice for managing customers' operational and analytical workloads on-prem and in the cloud. Oracle's strategy is to continue delivering unique and innovative products and services to meet and exceed customers' requirements. At the recent INSYNC 21 virtual conference, Jenny Tsai-Smith, vice president of database product management at Oracle, presented a keynote on Oracle's data management strategy.
Posted June 10, 2021
Traditional DBAs who have spent a lot of time with all the nerd knobs at their disposal need to think more about the movement of data. Instead of thinking in terms of data administration—and running the risk of becoming redundant—they should become more familiar with how data moves in and out of their enterprises.
Posted June 10, 2021