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
ScaleOut Software, the developer of leading-edge software that delivers scalable, highly available, in-memory computing and streaming analytics technologies to a wide range of industries, is launching Version 3 of its ScaleOut Digital Twins cloud service and on-prem hosting platform. The updated solution now features a new user interface (UI) that eases digital twin deployment and management, as well as advanced functionality for large-scale digital twin simulation and an integration with Amazon Dynamo DB.
Posted May 14, 2024
SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, is announcing a series of enhancements for the SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA), the monitoring and optimization solution for multiple database management system (DBMS) platforms, available in the cloud and on-premises environments. These latest updates increase transparency and control for databases, ultimately empowering enterprises to get more value out of PostgreSQL.
Posted May 14, 2024
Richard Schiller, senior product manager at Quest Software, and John de Saint Phalle, senior product manager at Precisely, joined DBTA's webinar, Cloud Migration Best Practices: Success Factors and Pitfalls to Avoid, to offer their expertise on how to successfully migrate to the cloud by navigating risks, requirements, best practices, and solutions.
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
Pavithra Rao, delivery solutions architect at Databricks, and Taylor McGrath, VP solutions engineering at Rivery, joined DBTA's webinar, From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Data Integration Unleashed, to examine how enterprises can put advanced cloud computing to work—and accelerate their data delivery by 7.5X—while maintaining cost efficiency.
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
RunPod, the launchpad that empowers developers to deploy custom full-stack AI applications, is announcing the completion of its seed funding round—co-led by Intel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital with participation from Julien Chaummond, Nat Friedman, and Adam Lewis—having raised $20 million. The GPU cloud computing service provider will leverage the funds to pursue new partnerships and integrations, as well as perfecting its product offering, according to the company.
Posted May 13, 2024
Xage Security, a global leader in zero trust access and protection, is announcing the launch of two product enhancements—Xage Insights and Xena—which aim to empower enterprises to adapt to the constantly evolving world of cyber threats. By leveraging AI, these latest innovations from Xage drive greater visibility and increase data value from within the Xage Fabric Platform, a cybersecurity mesh for zero trust access management and data security.
Posted May 10, 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 10, 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
At the annual Data Summit conference, Bharath Vasudevan, head of product, erwin, Quest, led the session, "Making AI Ethical & Explainable," considered how consistent, clean, and curated datasets are key in bridging the gap between data and the real-world, enabling AI to transcend "magic" and ground itself in transparent truth.
Posted May 09, 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
On the second day of the Data Summit 2024 conference, Beth Rudden, CEO, Bast.ai, and Lalit Ahuja, chief technology officer, GridGain Systems, Inc., explored themes surrounding modern data management challenges—including AI-driven versioning, implementing taxonomies and ontologies, going real time, and more.
Posted May 09, 2024
Zoe Steinkamp, developer advocate, InfluxData, led the annual Data Summit session, "Architecting for Speed and Scale," highlighting how Apache Iceberg brings data harmony—complemented by flexibility, scalability, and high performance—to enterprises' structured data.
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
At the annual Data Summit conference, the session "Data Fabric Key Enablers," led by John Bagnall, senior product manager, Matillion, illustrated how ETL plays an integral role in data fabric implementation, enabling enterprises to easily and efficiently manage, integrate, and analyze data from diverse sources.
Posted May 08, 2024
Ranjeeta Bhattacharya, senior data scientist, BNY Mellon, and Yetkin Ozkucur, director for professional services and presales, Quest, led the annual Data Summit session, "Putting Generative AI to Work," assessing the ways in which GenAI-based enterprise applications can be set up for success based on both development and data best practices.
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
At the annual Data Summit conference, Jeff Fried, director, platform strategy and innovation, InterSystems, led the session, "Taking Data Fabric to the Next Level," discussing how a mix of a data fabric architecture and GenAI can enhance data management practices, offering technological examples, real-world scenarios, as well as risks in execution.
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
Aaron Cutshall, enterprise data architect, Healthfirst, Inc., and Niraj Vora, lead sales engineer, Fivetran, joined the annual Data Summit session, "Moving to a Modern Data Architecture," to examine the multitude of nuance associated with cultivating modern data architecture, focusing on the roles that clear frameworks and centralized data strategies have to play.
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
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 08, 2024
Wayne Eckerson, president, Eckerson Group, led the annual Data Summit pre-conference workshop, "Constructing Your Data Strategy: A Business & Technical Foundation for Success at Data Summit 2024," to explore the fundamentals of crafting an actionable, executable data strategy that aligns with businesses' unique needs, culture, and data maturity.
Posted May 07, 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
John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, offered his expertise at the annual Data Summit's pre-conference workshop, "Enterprise Data & Analytics Architecture Road Maps That Scale," exemplifying how to leverage your organization's business drivers to define and execute a road map that powers advanced analytic capabilities.
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
Microsoft announced it is collaborating with Brookfield Asset Management to invest more than $10 billion to develop renewable energy capacity to power the growing demand for artificial intelligence and data centers. Brookfield will deliver 10.5 gigawatts of renewable energy for Microsoft between 2026 and 2030 in the U.S. and Europe under the agreement. The companies described the deal as the largest single electricity purchase agreement signed between two corporate partners.
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
IBM is announcing a massive expansion of its software portfolio to 92 new countries in the AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This global expansion helps democratize IBM products that drive innovation all over the world, making procurement easier, more streamlined, and highly efficient.
Posted May 06, 2024
Portkey.ai, a leading provider of AI gateway and observability solutions, is unveiling a strategic partnership with F5, Inc., a global leader in multicloud application security and delivery, with the goal of increasing the efficiency, reliability, and security of deploying, managing, and monitoring large language model (LLM) apps.
Posted May 03, 2024
Solodev, the cloud platform for developers, is debuting Solodev AI, a cloud platform engineered to accelerate developer workflows by offering a central location to build, train, and host custom AI apps and foundation models. As generative AI (GenAI) continues to be the main focus of innovation for nearly every enterprise, Solodev AI aims to help businesses start their AI journeys with customizable apps from an AI marketplace or host their existing AI apps in a secure, scalable cloud environment, powered by AWS.
Posted May 03, 2024
IBM is announcing a massive expansion of its software portfolio to 92 new countries in the AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This global expansion helps democratize IBM products that drive innovation all over the world, making procurement easier, more streamlined, and highly efficient.
Posted May 02, 2024
Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence, is announcing its acquisition of Cambridge Semantics, a modern data fabric provider and creator of one of the industry's leading analytical graph databases. This acquisition merges the power of Cambridge Semantics' graph-powered data fabric technology with Altair's tools for data analytics and data science, enabling organizations to cultivate a robust DataOps and knowledge foundation—especially for the GenAI era.
Posted May 02, 2024
Securiti, the pioneer of the Data+AI Command Center, is debuting the Securiti LLM Firewall, a new category of firewall designed to enhance the protection of generative AI (GenAI) systems and applications from inbound attacks. Built to understand both the context and the nature of GenAI apps at its core, the Securiti LLM Firewall represents a new frontier of protection for the AI technology sweeping every corner of industry.
Posted May 02, 2024
Deep Instinct, the prevention-first cybersecurity company that stops unknown malware pre-execution with a purpose-built, AI-based deep learning (DL) framework, is unveiling Deep Instinct's Artificial Neural Network Assistant (DIANNA), a prevention-first, generative AI (GenAI) cyber companion designed to offer explainability for unknown threats. Equipped with revolutionary, expert-grade static malware analysis, DIANNA is an enterprise's virtual team of malware analysts and incident response specialists that delivers deep analysis into all attacks—including those not yet discovered.
Posted May 01, 2024
Illumio, Inc., the Zero Trust Segmentation company, is announcing its partnership with Wiz, a leading cloud security provider, enhancing the Wiz Integration (WIN) Platform—the platform that enables bi-directional sharing of security findings across the cloud security ecosystem to reduce risk, improve efficiency, and enable an open cloud security ecosystem, according to Wiz. This newfound partnership and integration recognizes the gaps in cloud security and aims to increase the visibility and reaction times associated with cloud breaches, further increasing overall security efficiency.
Posted May 01, 2024
CData Software, a leading provider of data connectivity solutions, is announcing the launch of CData Sync Cloud, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool for the ETL/ELT market, re-envisioning cloud ETL pricing models by bringing a fixed-price, CData-hosted solution to the cloud market.
Posted May 01, 2024
Oracle is introducing new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX) to help marketers, sellers, and service agents accelerate deal cycles. The new AI capabilities will help organizations generate more sales faster by automating time-consuming tasks and enabling front office professionals to target, engage, and serve buyers more precisely.
Posted May 01, 2024
Oracle is expanding its commitment to create a safer and more secure healthcare ecosystem by launching the Autonomous Shield initiative to simplify and accelerate Oracle Health EHR migrations to OCI at no additional cost. In the nearly two years since the Cerner acquisition, Oracle has invested tens of thousands of engineering hours and millions of dollars to enhance its core clinical applications and improve cybersecurity for its customers in the healthcare industry.
Posted May 01, 2024
Oracle announced that NVIDIA AI Enterprise on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Supercluster is now available in the Oracle U.S. Government Cloud region to help address sovereign AI. Building on the expansion of their partnership, Oracle and NVIDIA are helping U.S. government customers train and deploy AI solutions with access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's more than 100 services, including its generative AI services running on high-performance accelerators such as NVIDIA H100 and NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, as well as ultra-low-latency networking, and secure storage.
Posted May 01, 2024
Sida Shen, product marketing manager at CelerData, joined DBTA's webinar, Why It's Time for Lakehouse Users To Ditch Their Data Warehouse, to guide viewers through the latest advancements in the lakehouse space that can alter the way these lakehouses perform—warehouse-free.
Posted April 30, 2024
Cycode, a provider of Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), announced it has finalized its acquisition of Bearer, an AI-powered SAST and API discovery company, empowering Cycode to deliver a comprehensive suite of new application testing capabilities that ensures safer, accurate, and frictionless code security management.
Posted April 30, 2024
OpenText, The Information Company, is debuting OpenText Debricked Open Source Select, a solution aimed toward helping developers select the right open source components that align with company intake policies before a single line of code is written. Prompted by a 2024 Forrester Consulting study commissioned by OpenText—which found that 66% of organizations struggle to find open source code that meets their organizations' security policies—Open Source Select features an innovative policy overlay that grants greater visibility into what open source components they can use.
Posted April 29, 2024
Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, is releasing AllegroGraph 8.1, a Neuro-Symbolic AI Platform that incorporates ChatStream, a natural language query interface for querying a neuro-symbolic application.
Posted April 29, 2024
Global security leader Forcepoint is introducing Forcepoint Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), driven by artificial intelligence (AI), delivering real-time visibility, easing privacy compliance, and minimizing risks for data stored in multi-clouds and networks, including endpoints. According to the company, Forcepoint DSPM harnesses innovative AI-mesh technology to swiftly identify data risks, such as obsolescence, improper access, and misplaced files.
Posted April 29, 2024