Database Security Articles
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Posted April 29, 2021
Innovative enterprise tech startups are emerging to tackle both new and longstanding challenges and problems in ways never thought possible. Many of these companies have fresh approaches to accelerate digital transformation, expand AI and analytics initiatives, streamline DevOps, improve data observability, and more. Here are 16 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2021.
Posted April 29, 2021
An important new set of features for security and confidential computing was announced at the recent Microsoft Ignite virtual conference and are now in public preview. Although the name doesn't exactly trip off your tongue, Always Encrypted with Secure Enclaves offers important new capabilities for organizations that need greater control and security over their data while also enjoying the agility, scalability, and productivity gains of the public cloud.
Posted April 29, 2021
IBM and SAP continue to assist companies through their digital transformations, upping their commitment to clients more than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic. SAP and IBM look to continue to co-create and enhance solutions as businesses operate in this new normal, complementing their collaboration on cloud and RISE with SAP.
Posted April 28, 2021
Esri, a global leader in location intelligence, is advancing it partnership with SAP by announcing the certification and support for SAP's database-as-a-service offering and key component of SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP HANA Cloud. With this capability, Esri and SAP are accelerating customer adoption of cloud-based location intelligence platforms with a high-performance environment that scales to the largest enterprises.
Posted April 28, 2021
Social engineering, or an attempt to manipulate human behavior through specific, orchestrated actions to gain access to restricted information or systems without permission, is reportedly being used by 84% of hackers. The challenge is that humans are hard wired to trust, often willing to accept someone at his or her word, and social engineering attacks are all about taking advantage of that inherent want to trust. Unfortunately, this is not a good mix and often leads to humans becoming the weakest link in the security chain,
Posted April 28, 2021
The next update to Entrinsik's Informer platform is coming soon, according to Madhavi Chandra, director of Informer product management. In a recent blog post, she outlined some of the new features to bolster data governance and business workflows that customers can expect from the upcoming release.
Posted April 28, 2021
Zumasys is releasing the latest version of jBASE, making it easier than ever to modernize MultiValue applications. With the release of jBASE 5.8, licensing options now include flexible CPU and SaaS-based models, the migration routes from other PICK databases have been vastly simplified, and the in-line operating system approach means even more scalability, speed, and stability.
Posted April 28, 2021
From machine learning and automation to hybrid and multi-cloud environments, technology trends continue to reshape the practice of database management. As a result, database professionals face new challenges and opportunities. Today, the average database team is tasked with managing more databases, bigger databases, and a greater variety of databases—from the ground to the cloud.
Posted April 27, 2021
Ardoq, a SaaS company reinventing Enterprise Architecture (EA) for today's digital enterprise, is providing new features for its Engagement Platform that changes how organizations approach enterprise architecture models.
Posted April 27, 2021
Automox, a cloud-native endpoint management provider, announced it has secured $110 million in Series C funding to accelerate its vision to modernize IT operations with a comprehensive, cloud-native platform. The new funding will be used to expand the enterprise functionality of Automox's platform and build out its sales go-to-market function. The company also expects to add over 100 new roles over the course of the calendar year.
Posted April 27, 2021
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, is releasing RMM Central, a unified remote monitoring and management solution for managed service providers (MSPs).
Posted April 27, 2021
BigID, a leading data intelligence platform for privacy, protection, and perspective, is introducing BigID.me, a freemium, pay-as-you-go, privacy-on-demand SaaS for companies without dedicated privacy offices. BigID.me enables organizations of all sizes to automate and intuitively manage the customer privacy experience, preferences and consent management, and privacy requests, according to the vendor.
Posted April 26, 2021
Marvell Technology, Inc., a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, announced it has completed its acquisition of Inphi Corporation, creating a U.S. semiconductor powerhouse positioned for end-to-end technology leadership in data infrastructure.
Posted April 23, 2021
RapidAPI, a next-generation API platform that enables developers and enterprises to manage thousands of APIs, has raised $60 million in its Series C funding round, enabling the company to support an influx of new developers to its platform. The funds will be used to support the onboarding of leading API providers to the public marketplace and the expansion of the API platform, including RapidAPI's Enterprise Hub to serve the rapidly-growing enterprise customer base.
Posted April 22, 2021
Storage cloud company Backblaze, and Jamf (JAMF)—the standard in Apple enterprise management—is entering a joint solution partnership to make Backblaze backup and data protection services available with ease in the Jamf admin ecosystem. Paired with the announcement from Backblaze of updates to Mass Deployment tools to streamline commands for installs and updates of its backup app, these improvements offer a step change in ease for IT Administrators tasked with safeguarding computers, servers, NAS, or Veeam data.
Posted April 22, 2021
TigerGraph, provider of a graph analytics platform, announced that the company has now attained broad support across all cloud providers, becoming accessible with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and now, GCP. Additionally, the company is offering new connectors for Snowflake and Tableau, meaning users can access relationship analytics directly from their Snowflake and Tableau dashboards.
Posted April 21, 2021
In an era of rapid digital transformation, companies that fail to effectively manage and leverage their data assets will find themselves falling behind. Speed, scalability and flexibility are critical tenets of modern data strategies and require technologies and processes that are responsive to the business.
Posted April 21, 2021
The cloud is changing the way businesses use data and at the same time, the way we use data is changing the cloud. Organizations are adopting multiple cloud data platforms to maximize data's value, but in doing so are often increasing complexity for data engineering and DataOps teams that may stifle the very reason for investing in those platforms.
Posted April 20, 2021
Dataiku, a provider of leading AI and machine learning platforms, announced a new investment from Snowflake Ventures, the venture arm of Snowflake, further deepening the companies' partnership. Together, Dataiku and Snowflake deliver enterprise-ready AI capabilities that enable customers to easily and quickly build, deploy, and monitor all types of data science projects, including machine learning and deep learning, according to the vendors.
Posted April 20, 2021
The FIDO Alliance is launching the FIDO Device Onboard (FDO) protocol, a new, open IoT standard that enables devices to simply and securely onboard to cloud and on-premise management platforms. Through this standard, the FIDO Alliance addresses challenges of security, cost, and complexity tied to IoT device deployment at scale.
Posted April 20, 2021
AuditBoard, providers of innovative cloud-based platform transforming how enterprises manage their compliance and risk programs, is being relaunched as CrossComply, reflecting the solution's distinct capabilities to streamline managing compliance across frameworks, controls, policies, and more, across the enterprise. CrossComply is one of four solutions available within AuditBoard's integrated GRC platform, which streamlines and simplifies audit, risk, and compliance programs for large organizations.
Posted April 19, 2021
BMC, a provider of software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, is introducing several new offerings and integrations within the BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and BMC Compuware portfolios.
Posted April 19, 2021
Tecton, the enterprise feature store company and primary contributor to Feast, is releasing Feast 0.10, the first feature store that can be deployed locally without dedicated infrastructure. The new release makes it possible for data scientists to reap the benefits of a functionally complete feature store with no infrastructure overhead or maintenance.
Posted April 16, 2021
Dell Technologies has announced plans to spin off its 81% equity ownership interest in VMware, resulting in two standalone companies. Dell Technologies said it is poised to further capitalize on the rebound in infrastructure and PC spend, new cloud operating models driving as-a-service growth, compute moving to the edge, and customers' longer-term digital transformation initiatives.
Posted April 15, 2021
Alluxio, the developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, is releasing version 2.5 of its Data Orchestration Platform featuring access via POSIX and S3 interfaces, enabling data platform teams to accelerate data pipelines for both business intelligence and model training.
Posted April 15, 2021
As IoT devices and applications continue to proliferate, the centralized, cloud-based model used by many enterprises is taking a back seat in favor of moving data and processes closer to the edge to increase their flexibility, agility, and accessibility. With more and more organizations adopting real-time capabilities and 5G networks on the rise, 2021 is poised to be a banner year for digital transformation opportunities. However, challenges remain, from the well-tread issues of speed and scalability, to data security and governance.
Posted April 14, 2021
Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) today announced that QCI's Qatalyst constrained optimization is now available as a Software as a Service (SaaS) on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), for both classical and quantum computers. The SaaS service eliminates the need for complex quantum programming. It empowers subject matter experts (SMEs) to submit their complex optimization problems to Qatalyst, which leverages the power of quantum-ready computational software on classical processors to provide solutions.
Posted April 14, 2021
Privacera has announced a technology partnership with Dremio aimed at helping joint customers have rapid, self-service analytics across all cloud data lakes with consistent access control policies and rich audits of data usage to comply with industry and privacy regulations.
Posted April 13, 2021
With the 1-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown just behind us, there has been a lot of dialogue regarding what different industries have experienced over the past year. Acknowledging this dubious anniversary, we sat down to collect our thoughts and share a few advisements with respect to our small corner of the legal and tech industry.
Posted April 13, 2021
Streamlit, providers of the framework for machine learning and data science, is introducing Streamlit for Teams, the company's first commercial product, allowing data scientists to instantly deploy and share apps with teammates, clients and other stakeholders.
Posted April 12, 2021
Time-series databases show much promise for developers looking to collect, visualize, process, and alert time series data. Yet several questions remain such as: why do you need a specialized database for time-series data, what should you consider when looking for a time-series database, and how to get started with a minimal amount of time and effort? DBTA held a webinar with Al Sargent, senior director of product, InfluxData, who discussed how to evaluate the various time series databases on the market and get started fast.
Posted April 12, 2021
Digitate, an autonomous enterprise software provider, is releasing ignio AIOps for Azure in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, enabling customers to drive their digital transformation on cloud with Azure. ignio AIOps for Azure offers more efficiency and observability to Azure cloud, making it a necessity for managing activity and overall productivity, according to the vendor.
Posted April 12, 2021
Securiti, a provider of AI-powered data privacy and security, is partnering with Cisco Investments to work with Cisco and help their customers solve the challenge of multi-cloud and edge security, privacy and compliance. The move comes after Cisco Investments gave funding to Securiti.
Posted April 08, 2021
Cloud adoption is accelerating, alongside automation, offering companies a path to increase their database capabilities in ways not possible before. Reducing infrastructure costs, improving systems agility, and supporting new use cases are all key drivers. Moreover, since heterogeneity still rules the day at most enterprises, it's no surprise that hybrid, mult-icloud architectures are quickly becoming the go-to strategy.
Posted April 08, 2021
ScaleOut Software is releasing the on-premises version of its ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service, providing all of the analytics and visualization tools available from its Azure-hosted cloud version. Dubbed ScaleOut StreamServer DT, this new software solution lets organizations develop and deploy streaming analytics applications on servers hosted within their infrastructure.
Posted April 07, 2021
WhiteSource, a provider in open source security and management, has raised $75 million in Series D funding, enabling the company to continue to grow its automated open source security solutions. This round of funding also reflects the pace and scale with which WhiteSource has been adopted globally, enabling it to become strategically self-sufficient in financing its own growth.
Posted April 07, 2021
In December 2020, U.S. officials scrambled to shore up national cybersecurity after Russian government hackers breached the Treasury, State, and Commerce departments. The extent and fallout of these cyberattacks is still coming to light. While these were certainly the most high-profile recent cyberattacks, they were not alone. Cyberattacks, including those with the aims of ransom and extortion, are on the rise around the globe, and even small companies make tempting targets.
Posted April 06, 2021
Ellucian Colleague offers a versatile higher education ERP to make processes more effective and keep students, faculty, and staff informed. Entrinsik Informer works natively with Colleague's UniData database for easy ad hoc reporting.
Posted April 06, 2021
Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise modernization and optimization solutions, is launching version 1.3 of the new Rocket MultiValue Integration Server (MVIS). Additionally, the platform is now available at no cost to maintenance partners and customers on the Rocket UniVerse and UniData components of the MultiValue application platform.
Posted April 06, 2021
After a wild and turbulent 2020, the new year has ushered in a renewed commitment to establishing or improving corporate governance. Yet, positive energy aside, our traditional approach to endorsing governance of data, analytics, or AI remains fraught. As a result, governance initiatives springing from an earnest desire to do right (e.g., responsible AI), as well as the need to not do wrong (e.g., regulatory/compliance), struggle to enlist broad coalitions of the willing.
Posted April 05, 2021
The full potential for companies that digitally transform is predicted to be $100 trillion by 2025. This astonishing value would be reached through the combination of digital technologies—mobile, cloud, AI, sensors, and analytics, among others. These are accelerating progress exponentially, said the World Economic Forum, but this growth can be realized only if there is collaboration between business, policymakers, and non-governmental organizations.
Posted April 05, 2021