Guidelines for Understanding the Next-Generation of Hadoop Technologies
Posted October 05, 2017
TIBCO Software, a provider of solutions for integration, API management, and analytics, has entered into an agreement to acquire Cisco's Data Virtualization business (formerly Composite Software), specifically Cisco Information Server, a solution that enables enterprise-scale data virtualization, and associated consulting and support services.
Posted October 05, 2017
Data professionals and vendors converged at Strata Data in New York to trade tips and tricks for handling big data. Top of mind for most was the impact of machine learning and how it's continuing to evolve as the "next big thing."
Posted October 05, 2017
FogHorn Systems has received a Series B round of funding totaling $30 million to support innovation in the Industrial IoT (IIoT) edge computing market segment. This new round brings FogHorn's total funding to $47.5 million and will be used to significantly expand the company's engineering resources and global go-to-market presence.
Posted October 04, 2017
At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison showcased new cybersecurity machine learning capabilities that improve IT security and management. The new machine learning powered security capabilities are part of enhancements to Oracle Management Cloud, an integrated solution for IT security and management that enables organizations to monitor and analyze their operational and security data in a single solution.
Posted October 04, 2017
NVIDIA announced in a blog post recently that Oracle is using NVIDIA's Tesla GPU accelerators for its public cloud. Oracle's cloud customers can access NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU accelerators, starting today, and Oracle will expand its cloud offerings to include the Tesla V100 GPUs, which are based on the NVIDIA Volta architecture.
Posted October 03, 2017
Dremio launched its data analytics platform in July and at Strata Data Conference in New York the company had the opportunity to showcase what the company can do. The company's mission is to cut out the need for traditional ETL, data warehouses, cubes, and aggregation tables, as well as the infrastructure in order to enable users to be independent and self-directed in their use of data, thereby accelerating time to insight.
Posted October 03, 2017
Anaconda, Inc., a Python data science platform provider, is partnering with Microsoft to embed Anaconda into Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio and SQL Server to deliver data insights in real time. Microsoft and Anaconda will partner to deliver Anaconda for Microsoft, a subset of the Anaconda distribution available on Windows, MacOS and Linux. Anaconda, Inc. will also offer a range of support options for Anaconda for Microsoft.
Posted October 03, 2017
Google has launched Cloud Firestore, a fully managed, NoSQL document database that lets developers store, synchronize, and query data for their mobile apps, with offline support, at scale.
Posted October 03, 2017
At OpenWorld, Oracle announced its new Blockchain Cloud Service. The distributed ledger cloud platform is aimed at helping customers to increase business velocity, create new revenue streams, and reduce cost and risk by securely extending ERP, supply chain, and other enterprise SaaS and on-premises applications to drive tamper-resistant transactions on a trusted business network.
Posted October 03, 2017
AtScale, which provides a universal semantic platform for BI on big data, has completed a $25 million Series C financing round. Seeking to provide big data access to any data, anywhere, for any employee, AtScale enables enterprises to simplify their business intelligence infrastructure by allowing business users to continue working with the tools they know while providing the enterprise with a universal semantic layer to centrally manage data definitions, performance and security.
Posted October 03, 2017
MemSQL, provider of a real-time data warehouse platform, is releasing MemSQL 6, adding new extensibility features to enable machine learning and performance improvements for analytical queries. With this update, developers can use machine learning functions with live data and SQL, and a real-time data warehouse to easily build operational applications without requiring multiple disparate systems.
Posted October 02, 2017
At the Strata Data Conference in New York, Paxata, provider of the Adaptive Information big data prep platform, announced early availability of its Intelligent Ingest as part of its next major release. The new automated ingest capabilities are aimed at making it more simple for business consumers to rapidly incorporate data from any cloud or format to prepare data for business analysis.
Posted October 02, 2017
At the Strata Data conference in New York, Attunity, a provider of data integration and big data management software solutions, showcased the new release of its data integration platform designed to address the changing needs of companies with advanced analytics and data management initiatives. According to Kevin Petrie, senior director and technology evangelist at Attunity, many legacy data integration tools are not able to handle the necessary volume and variety of data feeding to the cloud at the required performance levels.
Posted October 02, 2017
At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle announced embedded artificial intelligence capabilities within existing Oracle ERP Cloud, Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud, Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud, and the Oracle Customer Experience Cloud applications.
Posted October 02, 2017
Zaloni is introducing a machine learning data matching engine that leverages the company's data lake solution, enabling enriched data views for multiple use cases across business sectors. Zaloni's data matching engine provides a new approach for creating an integrated, consistent view of data that is updated, efficiently maintained, and can drive customer-facing applications.
Posted October 02, 2017
According to a new survey from SAS, less than half (45%) of respondents have a structured plan in place for compliance with the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and more than half (58%) indicate that their organizations are not fully aware of the consequences of noncompliance.
Posted October 02, 2017
In his Sunday night keynote, Oracle's CTO Larry Ellison detailed the benefits of two new offerings: the company's Autonomous Database, and the Highly Automated Cyber Security offerings.
Posted October 02, 2017
VoltDB Showcases New Fraud Detection Capabilities at Strata Data Conference
Posted September 29, 2017
Rackspace has agreed to acquire Datapipe, one of the world's leading providers of managed services across public and private clouds, managed hosting and colocation. This acquisition, the largest in Rackspace history, brings important new capabilities to Rackspace and will enable the company to better serve customers of all kinds, globally and at scale.
Posted September 28, 2017
Alation has added new capabilities for cataloging data lakes deployed both on-premises and in the cloud, including data lakes built with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
Posted September 28, 2017
SolarWinds Network Insight for Cisco ASA is available in the latest versions of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, both part of the SolarWinds Orion Platform. SolarWinds Network Insight for Cisco ASA provides network administrators with complete visibility into, and reporting, and alerting for VPN tunnel visibility (LAN-to-LAN), high availability and failover status, hardware status, interface monitoring with critical configuration data such as security level, and connection count.
Posted September 28, 2017
Veriflow has introduced updates to its Continuous Network Verification platform that help enterprises, government agencies, and service providers to reduce downtime and improve protection by eliminating outages and vulnerabilities in the network. Emerging from stealth in April 2016, and with $8.2 million in series A funding raised in June 2016, Veriflow has pioneered the application of "mathematical network verification."
Posted September 28, 2017
BDNA, a provider of comprehensive technology asset information, is entering an agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop BDNA Cloud Asset Insights, a new solution that provides discovery and normalization for commercial software assets deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Posted September 28, 2017
Oracle has made enhancements to the Oracle Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud. The offering now features built-in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning that powers Digital Twin and Digital Thread capabilities.
Posted September 28, 2017
DataCore Software is launching the first of its new line of database optimization products for high-velocity transaction processing and real-time analytics. The platform MaxParallel for SQL Server is available now in the Azure Marketplace as well as through DataCore-authorized partners around the globe. The plug-and-play product supports SQL Server 2016, 2014, 2012 and 2008 running on-premises and in the cloud.
Posted September 28, 2017
Datameer is unveiling a solution for instant, interactive visual exploration of entire datasets of any size, transforming the way users interact with big data within their data lake. The platform was shown publicly for the first time at the 2017 Strata Data Conference New York.
Posted September 28, 2017
Alation and Paxata have announced a partnership and integration to simplify the establishment of trust in the data lake. Alation is a provider of software for collaborative data cataloging to enable analysts and information stewards to search, query and collaborate for faster, more accurate insights. Paxata provides an enterprise-grade, self-service, scalable, intelligent platform that enables business consumers to quickly transform raw data into ready information.
Posted September 28, 2017
BlueData, provider of a Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) software platform, is enhancing its BlueData EPIC platform and extending the solution to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. This release adds new innovations and options for running Hadoop, Spark, and other Big Data workloads on Docker containers -- delivering on the requirements from its rapidly growing customer base, including many of the world's largest enterprises across multiple industries.
Posted September 28, 2017
iguazio, a provider of a continuous analytics and event driven-application platform, is releasing its Unified Data Platform, simplifying data pipeline complexities and accelerating machine learning and artificial intelligence in the enterprise. The announcement was made at the 2017 Strata Data Conference in New York.
Posted September 28, 2017
Splice Machine, provider of a Hybrid Database Management System (DBMS), is releasing its Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, allowing users to manage a set of powerful applications.
Posted September 28, 2017
Kore Technologies is attending the Epicor Users Group iSolutions/Prelude user conference on October 8-10, and will be showcasing its latest solutions. The Epicor Users Group is an independent, non-profit, global organization comprised of companies using Epicor Software.
Posted September 27, 2017
Columbia Ultimate Business Systems (CUBS) is a leader at providing integrated solutions for the collections industry and is one of the largest resellers of JBASE. CUBS leverages the Zumasys Cloud and IT solutions expertise to offer clients across all platforms and configurations a service model that has transformed their IT infrastructure.
Posted September 27, 2017
Announcing SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 1
Posted September 27, 2017
SAP is updating its cloud platform to unlock and drive more business agility and business digital transformation, according to Dan Lahl, SAP's vice president of product marketing. "If you think about where cloud platform exists in the SAP portfolio I would use two analogies: either we're the plumbing and electricity that makes the house go or we could be viewed as the glue that holds the house together," Lahl said.
Posted September 27, 2017
SAP is connecting SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning and SAP RealSpend to provide managers with real-time visibility into financial forecasts of headcount plans. Working together, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning and SAP RealSpend enable managers to access financial data in real-time for their operational headcount planning needs.
Posted September 27, 2017
IBM is launching new SAP-certified bare metal servers for SAP HANA platform deployments in the IBM Cloud and new configurations for VMware environments that will give enterprises the power and performance they need to manage their mission-critical applications running on SAP HANA. IBM's newest cloud infrastructure for SAP HANA solutions on the IBM Cloud is designed to provide clients with larger and more powerful infrastructure to run memory-intensive applications running on SAP HANA.
Posted September 27, 2017
Information Builders, a provider of business intelligence (BI) and analytics, data integrity, and integration solutions, has announced that its iWay Universal Adapter Suite has achieved SAP-certified integration with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. The certification is a reflection of the iWay Adapter Suite's interoperability and ability to integrate data residing within SAP solutions.
Posted September 27, 2017
Oracle has announced the availability of the first release candidate of MySQL 8.0, which focuses on making MySQL better for modern apps. The new release was announced in a MySQL team blog post by Morgan Tocker.
Posted September 27, 2017
The "world's first autonomous self-driving database" was announced by Oracle executive chairman of the board and CTO Larry Ellison during a live event at the company's Redwood City headquarters. In addition to the database, which he said he plans to showcase in an Oracle OpenWorld presentation in October, Ellison also discussed Oracle's emphasis on automation in platform services, and the decision to be much more aggressive in simplifying and lowering the pricing of automation around those platform services with two programs—Bring Your Own License to PaaS and Universal Credits.
Posted September 27, 2017
Oracle has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a platinum member. Oracle is also releasing Kubernetes on Oracle Linux and open sourcing a Terraform Kubernetes Installer for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Posted September 27, 2017
Infoworks.io Inc., a provider in automated Big Data warehousing, is releasing Infoworks Cloud Big Data Warehouse, an end-to-end data warehousing platform in the cloud that empowers enterprises to rapidly build and deploy big data use-cases rapidly. The Infoworks Cloud Big Data Warehouse enables enterprises to reduce management complexity of their big data infrastructure, improve time-to-value, and empower users to rapidly innovate.
Posted September 27, 2017
Dataguise, a provider of data-centric audit and protection (DCAP), is introducing DgSecure 6.2, enhancing its governance capabilities. The announcement was made at the 2017 Strata Data Conference in New York. The company is showcasing its latest DCAP solution at the event.
Posted September 27, 2017
IBM is launching a new platform called the Integrated Analytics System, a new unified data solution designed to give users fast, easy access to advanced data science capabilities. The system, which comes with a variety of data science tools built-in, allows data scientists to get up and running quickly to develop and deploy their advanced analytics models in-place, directly where the data resides for greater performance.
Posted September 27, 2017
Qubole has announced deeper integration with Microsoft Azure, adding support in the Qubole Data Service (QDS) for the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store.
Posted September 27, 2017
Cloudera is rolling out a public beta release of Cloudera Altus Data Engineering on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The Altus PaaS offering helps data engineers use on-demand cloud infrastructure to speed the creation and operation of data pipelines that support data-driven applications.
Posted September 27, 2017
Cloudera has announced SDX (Shared Data Experience) for Cloudera Enterprise, a suite of tools to build and run multi-function analytics on-premises and in cloud environments.
Posted September 27, 2017
Informatica has introduced a new set of solutions and enhancements for intelligent data lake management and enterprise data cataloging to improve regulatory compliance in the era of GDPR. The solutions also feature integration with Hortonworks Atlas and support for Cloudera Altus, expanding Informatica's coverage across hybrid enterprise deployments, on premises and in the cloud.
Posted September 27, 2017
Melissa, a provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, has added geographic risk data to its location intelligence tools and services. Through a partnership with HazardHub, a provider of geographic risk datasets for U.S. properties, natural hazard data such as wind, fire, water, or earthquake risk can be associated with specific properties to enable a greater level of risk awareness and location intelligence. Coupled with Melissa's property and mortgage data enhancements, users have an end-to-end property intelligence solution that provides enriched property data supported by precise risk scores.
Posted September 26, 2017
Attunity, a provider of data integration and big data management software solutions, has rolled out a major new release of its data integration platform designed to address the rapidly-evolving needs of modern analytics and data management initiatives. The new version was unveiled and demonstrated at Strata Data Conference in New York.
Posted September 26, 2017