Master Data Management Articles
When designing a data center, a recognized set of principles is typically followed. Scalability, resiliency, reliability, and sustainability are all essential, but the most important common feature for data center products may be flexibility. The equipment cabinet should likewise be flexible, but this has not always been the case. There has been a rethinking of the way IT infrastructure, power, and cooling converge—and the data center cabinet is starting to adapt.
Posted November 16, 2022
Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, is releasing Wasabi Cloud Sync Manager, a high performing cloud migration tool that allows businesses globally to move their data out of expensive hyperscale cloud environments to Wasabi without egress fees or downtime. The solution also delivers seamless replication and synchronization of data between different Wasabi regions to reduce latency, meet compliance requirements, and foster best practices for data backup and recovery, according to the vendor.
Posted November 15, 2022
Apiiro, a provider of cloud-native application security, announced it has received $100 million in a significant Series B round, allowing the enterprise to accelerate the business and advance the company's mission to empower developers and application security engineers to proactively fix risks before releasing to the cloud. The funding round was led by General Catalyst with participation by Greylock and Kleiner Perkins.
Posted November 11, 2022
Virtana, a provider of AI-driven solutions for hybrid cloud management and monitoring, is integrating its flagship Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) solution, VirtualWisdom, into its Virtana Platform. Virtana's IPM integration delivers an industry-leading foundation for Virtana Platform, as evidenced by the product's 5-star ratings across dozens of reviews on the trusted Gartner Peer Insights rating platform, according to the vendor.
Posted November 11, 2022
In the simplest terms, a logical data model is a visual representation of the business rules and requirements covering the universe-of-discourse for a given solution or enterprise, along with some textual support. Keeping this in mind, the logical data model is a metaphor describing the piece of the organization under analysis.
Posted November 10, 2022
In the last Mongo Matters column, we looked at MongoDB's new SQL interface for querying data in MongoDB Atlas. Almost all of the "NoSQL" databases today support some form of SQL interface in order to leverage the multitude of SQL-based BI tools and the wealth of SQL expertise in the data analytics market. This "SQL for NoSQL" usually bemuses SQL aficionados and is often seen as some sort of repudiation of the document database concept.
Posted November 10, 2022
Last month we looked at various types of database recovery, how they work, and how DBAs need to prepare for recovery scenarios. This month, let's delve a little deeper into the issues and decisions that DBAs need to be prepared to address as they work on database recovery. The first thing that DBAs need to be aware of is the recovery time objectives, or RTOs, for the database objects in question. In an ideal world, RTOs would have been established for each object and the backup procedures would be in place to establish sufficient time for recovering to those objectives.
Posted November 10, 2022
Rocket Software's MV data servers and supporting tools are seeing a boost in releases as the company moves toward a more agile framework to deliver highly anticipated enhancements. "One of the main goals in Rocket MV is to bring our products to the next generation of developers through modern and innovative functionality," said Chris Rizza, product manager, Rocket Software.
Posted November 10, 2022
Snyk, a provider of developer security, is offering its SnykLaunch Fall 2022, providing a number of significant innovations that extend the reach and power of the company's existing Developer Security Platform. This platform update allows more companies to maximize the benefits of DevSecOps and effective collaboration between their developer, operations, and security teams, according to the vendor.
Posted November 10, 2022
Deloitte and Google Cloud are significantly expanding of their alliance by combining Deloitte's deep industry and domain knowledge and modern software engineering capabilities with Google Cloud's market-leading technology. The extensive partnership aims to help enterprises continuously build and evolve industry-leading cloud solutions.
Posted November 10, 2022
Directus, an open source software company focused on democratizing data across the enterprise, announced it raised 7 million in Series A financing, enabling the company to build an open data platform that adds an API and no-code app to any SQL database.
Posted November 10, 2022
Micro Focus announced that its mainframe application modernization solution will tightly integrate with Google Cloud's Dual Run product. This capability means an organization can run its production workload on the mainframe in parallel with running in Google Cloud, where Dual Run can validate that outcomes are the same on both environments.
Posted November 07, 2022
Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world's largest companies, is releasing the newest version of Rocket Intelligent Legacy Automation (Rocket ILA) for IBM i users. Rocket ILA 10.2.0 provides new features within Rocket Process Insights and will help business analysts, IT managers, developers, and product managers involved in the modernization journey to build smarter, more effective modernization plans.
Posted November 07, 2022
TurnKey Internet, a ColoHouse company, is offering the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors in its dedicated server, new cloud offering in existing locations, Albany, NY; Orangeburg, NY; Colorado Springs, CO, and adding new server footprints into Chicago, IL; Miami, FL and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Posted November 07, 2022
IBM is introducing new software designed to help enterprises break down data and analytics silos so they can make data-driven decisions fast and navigate unpredictable disturbances. IBM Business Analytics Enterprise is a suite of business intelligence planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and dashboard capabilities that provides users with a robust view of data sources across their entire business.
Posted November 07, 2022
Rafay Systems, a platform provider for Kubernetes management and operations, announced two new services—Service Mesh Manager and Network Policy Manager—to empower platform, developer, and DevSecOps teams to centrally manage transport security and application traffic for cloud-native applications.
Posted November 02, 2022
Qlik is launching Qlik Cloud Data Integration, its Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (eiPaaS) offering to fuel enterprise data strategies through a real-time data integration fabric that connects all enterprise applications and data sources to the cloud.
Posted November 02, 2022
Aerospike, Inc., the real-time data platform leader, is offering the early availability of Aerospike Cloud on AWS, providing developers and development teams the full power of the multi-model Aerospike Database 6 delivered as an on-demand, pay-as-you-go, fully elastic service. Aerospike Cloud offers easy onboarding and a cost-effective way for developers and data architects to build scalable, real-time applications with a fraction of the servers and operational overhead required with traditional data solutions, according to the vendor.
Posted November 02, 2022
WellSpan Health, a leading integrated healthcare system, has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite to unify operations and improve business visibility. With Oracle Fusion Applications, WellSpan will be able to integrate its finance, supply chain, and HR processes to improve operational insights, reduce costs, enhance the team member experience, and support its future expansion.
Posted November 02, 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 November 02, 2022
To reconcile enterprises with the growing demands of modern applications, new technologies and strategies are necessary to successfully support applications in their respective hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Posted November 01, 2022
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, is introducing Red Hat Device Edge, a solution for flexibly deploying traditional or containerized workloads on small devices such as robots, IoT gateways, points of sale, public transport, and more. This latest product in the Red Hat edge portfolio aims to provide a future-proof platform that allows organizations' architecture to evolve as their workload strategy changes, according to the company.
Posted October 31, 2022
VAST Data, the data platform company for the AI-powered world, is enhancing its Universal Storage software platform, raising the bar for secure, sustainable hyperscale data infrastructure. Built upon its disaggregated and shared-everything (DASE) architecture, the new feature updates (versions 4.4 and 4.5) in Universal Storage enable VAST to power a zero-trust approach to data protection.
Posted October 31, 2022
IBM is extending its comprehensive portfolio of data resilience solutions with the introduction of the IBM Diamondback Tape Library, a high-density archival storage solution that is physically air-gapped to help protect against ransomware and other cyber threats in hybrid cloud environments.
Posted October 31, 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
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
RisingWave Labs, the streaming database company, announced it has received $36 million in a recent round of funding, allowing the company to meet surging demand for streaming databases that enable users to make real-time decisions based on the most recent data.
Posted October 27, 2022
Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company, is launching a new, open-source tool for cloud hunting and security efficacy testing after unveiling its recent Cloud Threat Report. The new tool, known as Cloud Hunter, will help customers keep pace with ever-improving adversarial tradecraft through advanced environmental analysis and improved incident response time.
Posted October 27, 2022
SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc., a provider in enterprise identity security, is offering new innovations infused into the SailPoint Identity Security Cloud to help enterprises move beyond the traditional identity governance approach of looking at access after-the-fact and replacing it with a forward-looking approach to managing access.
Posted October 27, 2022
Apollo GraphQL, the supergraph company, is releasing Apollo GraphOS, an end-to-end platform that can build, connect, and scale any supergraph. GraphOS is the execution fabric for the supergraph—a powerful runtime that connects backend and frontend systems in a modular way. It offers self-hosted or cloud-hosted routing, so users can choose to operate the supergraph in the cloud, and build without complex infrastructure setup or configuration, according to the company.
Posted October 27, 2022
SIOS Technology Corp., provider of application high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, announced the SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux clustering software has achieved SAP recertification for integration with both SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA. This reaffirms SIOS' commitment to providing proven technology and deep expertise in High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) for SAP in physical, virtual, and cloud environments, according to the company.
Posted October 26, 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
As a result of customer demand, BlueFinity is extending of its professional services division with a group which will focus on "Intro Apps." Intro Apps are created by BlueFinity for their customers using the Microsoft centric Evoke low-code/no-code development platform and is a fast and inexpensive way of going live with a modern, fully working app that is integrated with a customer's existing applications.
Posted October 26, 2022
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their longstanding alliance by announcing a multi-year partnership to help customers solve business challenges with accelerated computing and AI.
Posted October 20, 2022
Digital.ai announced the Banff release of its AI-Powered DevOps Platform, featuring expanded intelligence, automation, and collaboration, to further help companies accelerate digital transformation. The new version makes it possible for public sector and enterprise organizations to accelerate delivery while managing risk, all with a focus on driving maximum value from software investments, according to the vendor.
Posted October 20, 2022
Anonos, provider of technology that resolves the conflict between data use and protection, announced it has raised $50 million in growth financing, enabling the company to scale customer success and expand partnerships, sales, and marketing for its Data Embassy software platform that powers secure data processing in untrusted environments with cleartext accuracy and speed for faster insights to achieve enterprise goals.
Posted October 19, 2022
People.ai, the enterprise responsible for guiding enterprise sales teams in pipeline and revenue generation, is announcing People.ai Revenue Intelligence for Oracle as a listing on Oracle Cloud Marketplace which can also be integrated with Oracle Sales Fusion.
Posted October 19, 2022
Oracle is partnering with Commvault to provide customers with a versatile and unique solution to guard against data loss, data corruption, and data theft. Commvault has established itself as a leader in intelligent data services that span on-premises deployments, public cloud, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)—including data protection for a broad range of workloads.
Posted October 19, 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
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
The latest global market research from IBM found that more than 77% of respondents have adopted a hybrid cloud approach which can help drive digital transformation, yet the majority of responding organizations are struggling with the complexity to make all their cloud environments work together.
Posted October 17, 2022