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SecurityBridge, a global provider of SAP security solutions, is releasing its Next-Generation Security Dashboard for SAP, providing a comprehensive suite of security functions customized for CISOs, SOCs, and SAP Basis teams. The dashboard now offers real-time views into threat monitoring, compliance ratings, patching status, code vulnerabilities, interface traffic, and more.
Posted May 22, 2024
IBM and SAP are advancing their collaboration, adding new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions that can help clients unlock business value. "IBM and SAP's shared approach to generative AI, built on an open ecosystem, trust and purpose-built models, will help empower clients to optimize business outcomes," said John Granger, senior vice president, IBM Consulting. "Our new Value Generation partnership initiative will enable clients to accelerate the path to innovation, competitive advantage and become a next generation enterprise through generative AI."
Posted May 22, 2024
BlueFinity recently looked at a LinkedIn poll that asked, "What do businesses want when designing new MV apps?"—revealing key insights that will shape the future of MV app development. There is, however, a contradiction in the public discourse of what the results of the poll suggested and what is being discussed in public and private forums focusing on MV.
Posted May 22, 2024
RDM Infinity is releasing the latest version of its innovative solution, rdmBUILD v2.2, designed to revolutionize MultiValue investments. rdmBUILD v2.2 is packed with features to enhance performance, streamline communication, and empower systems like never before, according to the company.
Posted May 22, 2024
Rocket Software announced the promotion of Emma Breslin, who will take the reins of Product Manager in Rocket's Application Modernization business unit. Breslin will be overseeing Rocket MultiValue data servers and tools, including Rocket UniVerse and UniData. "Joining Rocket's Application Modernization business unit as the Product Manager for Rocket MultiValue data servers and tools has been an exhilarating transition for me," said Breslin. "I've been part of the tech support team since 2004 and have seen Rocket UniVerse and UniData evolve from their IBM days to now. It's incredibly fulfilling to move from a reactive support role to a proactive stance in product management."
Posted May 22, 2024
A first and important step in being successful at almost any job or task is understanding oneself. This is true for engineers, modelers, or even architects. Do you know how to perform your tasks? Are you faster or slower than others doing the same tasks? Do you have more or less errors in your output than others? It seems that a rising number of people are so uncomfortable with competing that they may even avoid asking these kinds of questions of themselves; but this is not about competition, it is about understanding oneself, it is about being responsible, it is about holding oneself accountable.
Posted May 22, 2024
Cirata, the company that automates Hadoop data transfer and integration to modern cloud analytics and AI platforms, announced that Cirata Data Migrator is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace—making it easier for joint customers to acquire the technology they need to migrate Hadoop data lakes across multi-cloud environments that include Google Cloud, while helping to optimize cloud spend.
Posted May 21, 2024
Cycode, the leader in Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), is launching an ASPM marketplace that features more than 100 connectors and integrations to enable customers to seamlessly integrate and ingest findings from relevant third-party security tools, complement and contextualize those findings with native scanners, and eliminate gaps within supply chain security.
Posted May 21, 2024
Rafay Systems, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider for modern infrastructure and accelerated computing, is extending the capabilities of its enterprise PaaS for modern infrastructure to support graphics processing unit- (GPU-) based workloads—making compute resources for AI instantly consumable by developers and data scientists. Additionally, the company also launched a new AI Suite with standards-based pipelines for machine learning operations (MLOps) and large language model operations (LLMOps) to help enterprise platform teams quicken the development and deployment of AI applications for developers and data scientists, according to Rafay Systems.
Posted May 20, 2024
FireMon, the leading network security policy management (NSPM) company, is releasing FireMon Asset Manager 5.0, providing comprehensive real-time cyber situational awareness of an organization's infrastructure. The update brings improved manageability, extends integration with other platforms, and further strengthens delivering complete visibility of organizational assets.
Posted May 20, 2024
IBM is releasing IBM Copilot Runway, a new offering from IBM Consulting designed to help enterprises create, customize, deploy, and manage copilots including Copilot for Microsoft 365. With the new offering, clients will be able to seamlessly integrate copilots' generative AI into their organizations in order to enhance productivity and drive business success, according to the company.
Posted May 20, 2024
Flexential, a leading provider of secure and flexible data center solutions, is expanding its FlexAnywhere Platform, introducing plans to develop its fifth data center and colocation facility in the Denver area. By expanding its data center footprint in the region, Flexential aims to meet surging demand for data center inventory and connectivity across Denver, according to the company.
Posted May 20, 2024
Broadcom Inc. is launching its Automic Automation solution as a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, providing the same features as the Automic Automation on-premises solution with the added benefits of a service. With advanced workload automation and workflow orchestration capabilities, Automic SaaS will unify and simplify automation across mainframe, distributed, and hybrid cloud environments, while freeing up resources normally absorbed by infrastructure management so they can focus on more strategic automation projects, according to Broadcom.
Posted May 20, 2024
In today's world where data reigns supreme, the role of Database Administrators (DBAs) extends far beyond just maintaining databases. DBAs play a crucial role in overseeing the entire lifecycle of data within organizations, from its inception to disposal. This is called data lifecycle management. But let's define data lifecycle management (or DLM) in a bit more depth.
Posted May 20, 2024
Nozomi Networks, the leader in OT and IoT security, and Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, is expanding their longstanding global partnership to further strengthen and streamline the way industrial and enterprise CISOs and their teams anticipate, diagnose, and respond to cyberthreats.
Posted May 17, 2024
Riverbed, a provider of AI Observability, is launching an advanced AI-powered observability platform to optimize digital experiences, along with introducing several new solutions and a unified agent built upon this open architecture. Expanding on its broad collection of full-fidelity data across the IT landscape, Riverbed's new observability capabilities now enable IT to overcome visibility blind spots around public cloud, zero trust and SD-WAN architectures, and remote work environments.
Posted May 17, 2024
ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a provider of enterprise IT management solutions, is releasing SaaS Manager Plus, a SaaS management solution for enterprises to streamline their SaaS ecosystems. SaaS Manager Plus will integrate with Zoho apps and other widely utilized applications.
Posted May 16, 2024
The Department of Labor announced the release of a far-reaching set of principles that provide employers and developers, that create and deploy artificial intelligence, with guidance for designing and implementing AI in ways that enhance job quality and protect workers' rights. These new guidelines were developed as a result of President Biden's Executive Order on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.
Posted May 16, 2024
Amazon's Just Walk Out technology seemed like the epitome of futuristic shopping when it debuted at Amazon Fresh stores. I, like many, was thrilled about the potential of advanced AI transforming the shopping experience. The idea of simply grabbing items and leaving without the hassle of a traditional checkout process was a game changer. I believed that the technology arm behind these stores, Amazon Web Services (AWS), was at the forefront of AI innovation. However, the recent revelations about the true nature of this technology have left me, and many others, feeling disappointed and misled.
Posted May 16, 2024
ScienceLogic, a provider of automated IT operations, is unveiling Autonomic IT—business-accelerating capabilities that combine data, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation to enable enterprises to focus on innovation. With support from the ScienceLogic SL1 platform, enterprises can achieve improved, global hybrid cloud visibility, significantly reduce IT complexity and costs, diagnose root cause faster, and leverage automation to slash manual effort as they progress towards the full realization of Autonomic IT, according to the company.
Posted May 15, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is introducing dbt Cloud enhancements designed to help businesses turn data into a competitive advantage as companies' data volumes explode and the need for trustworthy, high-quality data increases. "Accurate and timely data is crucial, which is why we've delivered a standardized way to quickly build reliable, holistic, and high-quality data pipelines at scale," said Luis Maldonado, VP of product at dbt Labs. "These new features take this even further, significantly improving data workflows and AI workloads, all while empowering more users with powerful business insights."
Posted May 15, 2024
Anomalo, the complete data quality platform company, is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud, along with making its platform available on Google Cloud Marketplace. Anomalo provides organizations with a way to monitor the quality of the data stored or managed in Google Cloud's BigQuery, AlloyDB, and Dataplex without writing code, configuring rules, or setting thresholds.
Posted May 15, 2024
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, and Oracle announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute Virtual Machines (VMs). Red Hat OpenShift is a leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes for architecting, building, and deploying cloud-native applications.
Posted May 15, 2024
Oracle is introducing Oracle Code Assist, an AI code companion, to help developers boost velocity and enhance code consistency. Powered by large language models (LLMs) running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and optimized for Java, SQL, and application development on OCI, Oracle Code Assist is planned to provide developers with context-specific suggestions that can be tailored to an organization's best practices and codebases. Oracle Code Assist will also be designed to be used to update, upgrade, and refactor code written in most modern programming languages, according to the company.
Posted May 15, 2024
Oracle is releasing Oracle Database 23ai, Oracle's converged database, as a broad range of cloud services—including Oracle AI Vector Search and more than 300 additional major features focused on simplifying the use of AI with data, accelerating app development, and running mission-critical workloads. The new AI Vector Search capabilities enable customers to securely combine search for documents, images, and other unstructured data with search on private business data, without moving or duplicating it.
Posted May 15, 2024
Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, is further expanding the global coverage and capabilities of its data enrichment and geo addressing portfolio, introducing Address Fabric and Property Attributes. According to the company, these products underscore Precisely's continued commitment to helping customers easily unlock greater location-based context from their data, enabled by its identifier, the PreciselyID.
Posted May 14, 2024
Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, is partnering with Dell Technologies, via the Extended Technologies Complete program, to bring affordable and innovative hybrid cloud solutions. The Wasabi-Dell collaboration addresses aims to offer flexible, efficient hybrid cloud solutions enabling users to optimize their data management processes while simultaneously reducing overall costs, according to the companies.
Posted May 14, 2024
Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation leader, is acquiring APIIDA's federated API management business and API management assets from Cloud Software Group, allowing enterprises to deliver business value through API products in one end-to-end platform. According to the company, both these acquisitions accelerate Boomi's roadmap for providing solutions to the most pressing API management challenges that companies face today.
Posted May 13, 2024
AppOmni, a pioneer of SaaS security posture management (SSPM), is releasing AppOmni Zero Trust Posture Management (ZTPM), a unique solution set that strengthens security in modern infrastructures by bridging a critical gap in network-centric zero trust (ZT) architectures. By extending zero trust principles to applications and SaaS environments, AppOmni provides the visibility and control needed to manage and mitigate cyber risks from both internal and external threats, according to AppOmni.
Posted May 13, 2024
StarTree, the cloud-based real-time analytics company, is offering new observability and anomaly detection capabilities in StarTree Cloud, alongside vector search capabilities in Apache Pinot. Additionally, the company announced the general availability launch of StarTree ThirdEye, offering advanced anomaly detection, as well as the introduction of a write API facilitating real-time sync for ELT pipelines, and integrations with leading visualization platforms, including Tableau and Grafana.
Posted May 10, 2024
Are you taking a hard look at your cloud costs this budgeting season? Is your IT budget getting eaten up without a good ROI to show for it? Do you need to justify your cloud expenses and business cases to leadership? At Data Summit 2024, Michael Agarwal, director and global practice leader, site reliability engineering, cloud and NoSQL databases, Datavail, discussed cloud cost optimization strategies, tips, and best practices during his session, "Cloud Cost Optimization: Strategies, Tips, & Best Practices."
Posted May 09, 2024
Doug Laney opened Data Summit 2024 with a look at Infonomics in the era of AI. Laney, innovation fellow, data and analytics strategy, West Monroe, and Author of Infonomics and Data Juice, visiting professor at University of Illinois Gies College of Business, shared insights from his best-selling book, Infonomics, about how organizations can actually treat information as an enterprise asset.
Posted May 09, 2024
Time series analysis plays a crucial role in enhancing the capabilities of AI by providing valuable insights into temporal patterns, trends, and dependencies within datasets. At Data Summit 2024, Salochina Oad, ML engineer, U.S.Xpress, Inc. held her session, "Empowering AI Through Time Series Analysis."
Posted May 08, 2024
There is no doubt that data mesh principles resonate with so many data professionals, particularly those looking to move beyond brittle, monolithic architecture. However, adopting data mesh can seem daunting, due to both a scarce but improving ecosystem of tools, as well as organizational change management. At Data Summit 2024, Elliott Cordo, CEO/founder/builder, Data Futures, LLC, presented "From Daunting to Doable: The Evolution of Data Mesh."
Posted May 08, 2024
The combination of Apache Flink, Apache NiFi, and Apache Kafka for building real-time data processing pipelines is extremely powerful, as demonstrated by Timothy Spann, principal developer advocate, streaming, Cloudera and future of data meetup, startup grind, AI Camp, during his Data Summit 2024 session, "Building Real-Time Pipelines With FLaNK."
Posted May 08, 2024
The vast majority of current GenAI projects will fail, not because of inherent flaws in large language models (LLMs), but because of misconceptions about how to use them and the lack of capabilities needed to successfully design, develop, and operationalize GenAI-driven applications. At Data Summit 2024, Kjell Carlsson, head of AI strategy, Domino Data Labs, presented his session, "Shatter the Seven Myths of GenAI to Operationalize Impact," debunking the most harmful myths that set up projects for failure.
Posted May 08, 2024
Machine learning is primarily concerned with accuracy and pattern recognition, while natural language processing (NLP) is concerned with computer-human language interactions, specifically how to program computers to process, and analyze large amounts of natural language data. At Data Summit 2024, Christy Bergman, developer advocate, Zilliz, presented how to use an open source vector database to power GenAI chatbots, ecommerce recommenders, and similarity search-based apps during her workshop, "Taking Advantage of Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing."
Posted May 07, 2024
Semantic layers stand out as a key approach to solving business problems for organizations grappling with the complexities of managing and understanding the meaning of their data. At Data Summit 2024, Joseph Hilger, COO, Enterprise Knowledge and Sara Nash, principal consultant, Enterprise Knowledge LLC, discussed "Building the Semantic Layer of Your Data Platform," during their workshop session.
Posted May 07, 2024
Rocket Software, Inc., a global technology leader in modernization software, announced it has closed on the acquisition of the Application Modernization and Connectivity (AMC) business of OpenText, formerly part of Micro Focus. Rocket Software now offers customers modernization software solutions spanning the mainframe to the cloud.
Posted May 06, 2024
IBM is introducing new storage capabilities that give clients choice and control in the data center to maximize performance. A new IT life cycle management option called IBM Storage Assurance provides access to IBM FlashSystem hardware and software innovations to help protect clients' investments from day one. IBM Storage Assurance supports the new IBM FlashSystem 5300 also announced today, as well as the FlashSystem 7300 and FlashSystem 9500.
Posted May 06, 2024
IBM and HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, announced IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $6.4 billion. HashiCorp's suite of products provides enterprises with extensive Infrastructure Lifecycle Management and Security Lifecycle Management capabilities to enable organizations to automate their hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Posted May 06, 2024