Master Data Management Articles
NetApp is offering its latest update for Astra Control, now enhanced to support cloud block storage providers (Microsoft Azure Disk Storage and Google Persistent Disk) and new Kubernetes platforms (Rancher Kubernetes Engine and community Kubernetes).
Posted February 24, 2022
Advanced, an international provider of application modernization solutions, is partnering with Google Cloud, to drive innovation, increase agility, and reduce operational costs for customers by shifting workloads to Google Cloud.
Posted February 24, 2022
As business has become more digital, data has become the most valuable asset of many organizations. But protecting that data has also become much more complicated as organizations increasingly migrate it to a mix of public and private cloud infrastructures, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud. With most businesses today operating in a multi-cloud environment, it's no longer possible to simply lock up precious data in the proverbial vault and guard the perimeter.
Posted February 24, 2022
As an industry, we've been talking about the promise of data lakes for more than a decade. It's a fantastic concept—to put an end to data silos with a single repository for big data analytics. Imagine having a singular place to house all your data for analytics to support product-led growth and business insight.
Posted February 24, 2022
Teradata is forming a global partnership with Microsoft to integrate the Teradata Vantage data platform with Microsoft Azure, enabling businesses seeking to modernize their data analytics workloads to leverage the technology of both companies. Teradata Vantage on Azure is already heavily integrated with the Azure ecosystem, including more than 60 Azure data services.
Posted February 24, 2022
thatDot, Inc., a provider of complex event stream processing software, is debuting Quine, a unique approach that combines graph data and streaming technologies into a modern, developer-friendly open source software package. Developers and data pipeline engineers use Quine to rapidly build high volume, real-time, complex event processing workflows at scale, according to the vendor.
Posted February 23, 2022
Treasure Data is introducing Treasure Data Journey?Orchestration, a new, omnichannel-first solution enabling marketers and customer experience (CX) managers to create relevant, high-converting customer experiences at scale that cut across channels, campaigns, and business units.
Posted February 23, 2022
Couchbase, Inc., provider of a modern database for enterprise applications, is releasing Couchbase Mobile 3, an edge-ready data platform that empowers mobile developers and edge architects to build fully native, modern applications anywhere with the framework or platform of their choice.
Posted February 23, 2022
oXya, a Hitachi Group company, announced it has earned the SAP on Microsoft Azure advanced specialization designation, signaling that, as a Microsoft Partner, oXya has demonstrated its deep knowledge, extensive experience, and proven success at implementing SAP solutions on Azure.
Posted February 23, 2022
SAP is releasing SAP Process Automation, offering a simpler and faster way to enhance business efficiency and agility. Previewed at SAP TechEd 2021, SAP Process Automation combines the capabilities of SAP Workflow Management and SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation in an easy-to-use, no-code AI-powered experience, according to the company.
Posted February 23, 2022
Ensono, an end-to-end managed services provider, announced it has earned the SAP on Microsoft Azure advanced specialization, a validation of a services partner's deep knowledge, extensive experience, and proven success at implementing SAP solutions on Azure.
Posted February 23, 2022
By utilizing Entrinsik Informer Dashboards, Canadore College found an effective solution for visualizing its data. Informer is making faculty much more receptive to data, as it is allowing them to not only be more involved in the decisions being made around their programs but shows them exactly why decisions are being made.
Posted February 23, 2022
Rocket Software recently assisted SMC transform its business with the help of the Rocket MultiValue Integration Server (MVIS). Focused on the mission of advancing automation for its clients, SMC also needed to automate transactions and provide real-time access to its ERP system to improve employee productivity and customer experiences.
Posted February 23, 2022
Last year picked up where 2020 left off. Though pandemic restrictions have eased, 2022 looks to be another uncertain year with the rise of the omicron variant. As we begin 2022, DBTA presents the annual MultiValue Special Report and asks MV executives to address several questions.
Posted February 23, 2022
Catalogic Software, a provider of smart data protection solutions, is releasing major features to its cloud native back-up-as-a-service platform, CloudCasa, enabling advanced migration and recovery to restore data across clusters, regions, cloud accounts, and cloud providers. CloudCasa protects cloud-native applications across IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), DigitalOcean, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher, and VMware Tanzu.
Posted February 22, 2022
Data management has never been so unfettered—and yet so complicated at the same time. An emerging generation of tools and platforms is helping enterprises to get more value from their data than ever. These solutions now support and automate a large swath of structural activities, from data ingestion to storage, and also enhance business-focused operations such as advanced analytics, AI, machine learning, and continuous real-time intelligence.
Posted February 22, 2022
Shoreline.io, the Incident Automation company, is releasing its platform on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), building on existing GA support for AWS. Customers can now seamlessly remediate issues across their multi-cloud environments as if they were working on a single box, according to the vendor.
Posted February 17, 2022
Hexaware Technologies, a global technology consulting and solutions company, is now a Premier Services Partner of Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, recognizing Hexaware's commitment to delivering accelerated outcomes through its proprietary Amaze for Data & AI platform at scale and speed on Snowflake's Data Cloud.
Posted February 16, 2022
Retrospect, a StorCentric company, is releasing Retrospect Backup 18.5, featuring new anomaly detection, customizable filtering and thresholds, and enhanced ransomware protection. With deeper Microsoft Azure Blob integration for Immutable Backups and integrated cloud bucket creation, Retrospect Backup 18.5's anomaly detection and ransomware protect bolsters StorCentric's data-centric security approach to organizations' critical infrastructure, according to the vendor.
Posted February 16, 2022
InfluxData, creator of the time series platform InfluxDB, is releasing a variety of features for the Industrial Data and Internet of Things (IoT) space. InfluxData is releasing key features to expedite IoT and Industrial IoT application building. New capabilities deliver a more intuitive experience for developers and engineers working with time series data at the edge and deliver better data processing for use cases spanning predictive maintenance, performance monitoring, energy optimization, operational technology, smart offices, smart homes, and more, according to the vendor.
Posted February 15, 2022
Kyligence, originator of Apache Kylin and developer of the AI-augmented data services and management platform Kyligence Cloud, is releasing the beta version of its intelligent data cloud platform on Google Cloud. "This is a significant step in the evolution of both the Kyligence Cloud and the Google Cloud ecosystem," said Li Kang, vice president, North America, Kyligence. "Having Kyligence's cloud platform available on Google Cloud, makes it even more seamless for customers around the world to leverage Kyligence to unlock insights faster from big data."
Posted February 15, 2022
Yellowbrick Data, a provider of distributed data cloud architecture for data warehousing, is forming a strategic partnership with Nippon Information and Communication Corporation (NI+C), advancing Yellowbrick's global expansion strategy to offer the cloud experience across private and public deployments or at the edge for mission-critical applications in Japanese markets.
Posted February 14, 2022
Wallaroo Labs, Inc., announced it has closed $25 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to expand product, sales, and marketing, and to release a free community edition of its machine learning platform. The funding round was led by Microsoft's venture arm, M12. New investors Ridgeline Partners and NSS Advisors joined existing seed investors Boldstart Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, Eniac Ventures, and Greycroft as part of the round.
Posted February 11, 2022
D2iQ, a provider of open enterprise-grade Kubernetes management for hybrid multi-cloud environments, is partnering with Kong Inc., the cloud connectivity company, to provide a comprehensive solution for building, deploying, and scaling cloud native applications in Day 2 operations.
Posted February 11, 2022
It's time to submit nominations for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users.
Posted February 09, 2022
In early November 2021, Microsoft announced the private preview of its flagship database product, SQL Server 2022. At some point in 2022, we will see SQL Server 2022 released as a general availability (GA) product, but the specific release date has not yet been disclosed. We can expect to see a variety of the announced features in the next major release deployed to Azure SQL customers. Microsoft has a long history of deploying new features to the Azure cloud far in advance of the on-prem products.
Posted February 08, 2022
Most database administrators know database servers didn't initially come in a cloud or cluster. Once upon a time, DBAs had to reconfigure disk files and handle data manually. Now, with virtualization and the shift toward the cloud, the evolution of database administration yields more opportunities to automate tasks and fewer reasons for DBAs to get their hands dirty.
Posted February 08, 2022
Oracle Autonomous Database is a fully managed cloud service. It is a combination of Exadata infrastructure automation, Oracle Database 19c automation, and automated data center operations and machine learning. During Quest Experience Week 2021, Gerald Venzl, distinguished product manager at Oracle, shared how Oracle Autonomous Database simplifies the management of operational and analytical database workloads and how innovation continues to improve analyst, data scientist, and developer productivity.
Posted February 08, 2022
The old Chinese expression "May you live in interesting times" has never been more applicable in my lifetime than in 2020 and 2021. The global pandemic combined periods of great anxiety with long stretches of mind-numbing lockdown boredom. But it certainly kept our attention!
Posted February 08, 2022
Folks relate to physical tables; even the most non-relational-minded person can picture a fixed structure file and equate that to a table and its columns. The spreadsheet image is ubiquitous. DBMS-defined views are logically similar to tablesand in usage are certainly interchangeable with tables.
Posted February 08, 2022
VAST Data, the storage software company, announced it is broadening its international expansion plans, continuing to disrupt and modernize the legacy storage infrastructure market. VAST has opened up operations in the UK, France, Germany, Israel, Turkey, Czech Republic, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, and Korea. These will now be followed by further expansion across EMEA with Benelux, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the Nordics, and in Asia with Japan.
Posted February 08, 2022
Each year, Data Summit features industry-leading experts covering the topics that matter most for data professionals who want to stay on top of the latest technologies and strategies. The conference program is now available for review, and a variety of pass options are being offered, including special pricing for attendees who register early.
Posted February 08, 2022
Panzura is introducing Data Flex, a set of new hyper-converged cloud capabilities for users of the company's flagship global file system Panzura CloudFS. The new features are designed to provide more flexible access, management, and visibility of unstructured data across an entire hybrid multi-cloud environment, under a single pane of glass using Panzura solutions.
Posted February 07, 2022
Exasol announced that its high-performance analytics database is now available through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model on Amazon Web Services (AWS), strengthening Exasol's position as the performance bridge to the cloud for businesses with a cloud-first strategy.
Posted February 07, 2022
NVIDIA announced that its AI Enterprise 1.1 is now generally available, bringing new updates including production support for containerized AI with the NVIDIA software on VMware vSphere with Tanzu, which was previously only available on a trial basis. Now, enterprises can run accelerated AI workloads on vSphere, running in both Kubernetes containers and virtual machines with NVIDIA AI Enterprise to support advanced AI development on mainstream IT infrastructure.
Posted February 07, 2022
More data is being collected than ever before from online interactions, apps, and smart devices. With cyberattacks, ransomware, and a variety of data breach risks on the rise, industry leaders took the opportunity presented by Data Privacy Day to reflect on the current state of data security and the business damage that can be sustained if data is not handled effectively.
Posted February 07, 2022
Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security provider, is adding a variety of key features to its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), helping time-strapped security, DevOps, and IT practitioners to assess their cloud native security risks and respond to attacks in real-time.
Posted February 04, 2022
Foresite Cybersecurity, a cyber security innovator, is acquiring Cyber Lantern, absorbing the company's solutions into its security monitoring, management, and assessment solutions. Now integrating support for more than 160 of the most important compliance standards, Foresite offers the most comprehensive SaaS solution for small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) looking to automate the management of their security, risk, and compliance initiatives.
Posted February 04, 2022
Keepit, a provider of cloud backup and recovery with a blockchain-based cloud dedicated to SaaS data protection, is including support for Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) in its recent platform update. This upgrade adds comprehensive Azure AD support to Keepit's multi-cloud backup and recovery solution.
Posted February 03, 2022
SolarWinds, a provider of secure IT management software, is offering its database performance monitoring products—SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA), SolarWinds SQL Sentry, and SolarWinds Database Insights for SQL Server—on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Organizations can now fulfill their license subscriptions for SolarWinds database performance management products with their Azure consumption commitment benefit under their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC).
Posted February 03, 2022