IBM and Automation Anywhere are collaborating to help companies drive new efficiencies by delivering solutions that assist employees with routine, data-intensive tasks. As part of the agreement, the two companies plan to integrate Automation Anywhere's Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform, used to create software bots to handle repetitive, task-based business processes, with IBM's portfolio of digital process automation software, including IBM Business Process Manager and Operational Decision Manage
Posted July 17, 2017
Cisco Jasper has introduced an expanded platform to bring the benefits of its Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity platform to as broad an audience as possible. Control Center 7.0 offers a multi-tiered IoT platform that provides companies various options to meet specific needs, regardless of their stage of IoT implementation.
Posted July 17, 2017
IBM has announced the first IBM Watson-based services platform, fully built on the IBM Cloud, designed to augment human intelligence to help improve service provider operations. The IBM Services Platform with Watson's cognitive capability can both predict problems and proactively direct automation to improve quality, as well as provide IT staffs with critical information to help them make faster, data-driven decisions.
Posted July 17, 2017
Flexera, a software management vendor, is collaborating with Microsoft to address issues afflicting the software supply chain. The goal is to promote the creation of transparency and visibility into how software is been purchased, deployed, and used.
Posted July 17, 2017
IBM intends to be the first major cloud provider to launch bare-metal servers powered by next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. New IBM Cloud bare metal servers powered by the Intel Xeon Silver 4110 processor and Intel Xeon Gold 5120 and 6140 processors will be designed to help deliver greater performance and generate faster insights from big data workloads, and will be offered through the IBM Cloud.
Posted July 17, 2017
Bradmark Technologies, Inc., a global provider of monitoring and performance management software for big data and transactional databases, is entering a reseller agreement with Database License Reseller, LLC, Inc., an SAP database technologies and legacy Sybase products and services provider. The agreement will allow Database License Reseller to offer Bradmark's Surveillance DB performance monitoring software to the SAP Sybase database market.
Posted July 12, 2017
OpenText, a provider of enterprise information management (EIM) solutions, is unveiling a new artificial intelligence (AI) platform that combines open source machine learning with advanced analytics. The platform, named Magellan will acquire, merge, manage and analyze big data and big content. Magellan's cognitive computing platform offers users machine-assisted decision making, automation, and business optimization, in an easy to use and affordable package.
Posted July 12, 2017
Seeking to protect inventors, innovation and American jobs, eight top technology companies have joined together to form the High Tech Inventors Alliance (HTIA), dedicated to supporting balanced patent policy.
Posted July 12, 2017
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Software is launching the latest version of its Adaptive Backup and Recovery (ABR) Suite with new features that help customers secure their digital environments. The ABR Suite combines HPE Data Protector, HPE Backup Navigator, and HPE Storage Optimizer to deliver a centralized, integrated, and streamlined approach to backup and recovery that reduces complexity and automates processes.
Posted July 12, 2017
Getting Your Oracle Health Checked
Posted July 11, 2017
Symantec Corp., a cybersecurity company, is acquiring U.S.- and Israel-based Skycure, a provider of software for mobile threat defense. Following completion of the acquisition, Skycure's predictive threat detection techniques will be added to Symantec's enterprise and consumer mobility offerings to help organizations ensure that the devices used by an increasingly mobile workforce are risk-free and secure while accessing corporate resources
Posted July 11, 2017
Datavail, a provider of managed services for applications, business intelligence, and databases, is acquiring Accelatis, an enterprise performance management software platform company.
Posted July 11, 2017
Extracting Insights from Oracle Database
Posted July 07, 2017
Constructing a Modern Data Architecture
Posted July 07, 2017
TIBCO Software, a provider of integration, API management, and analytics, is acquiring nanoscale.io, a provider of microservices technology and tooling. The acquisition extends and enhances TIBCO's leadership in the development of microservices and APIs that connect and integrate with a more expansive on-premises or hybrid cloud environment, and bolster its Connected Intelligence platform.
Posted July 06, 2017
Centerbridge to Acquire Syncsort and Vision Solutions for $1.26 Billion
Posted July 06, 2017
To help advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive solutions in the enterprise, IBM has launched a collaborative development initiative with Lightbend, a provider of a reactive application development platform. The companies say that the resulting joint solutions will provide a complete toolchain to help Java and Scala developers build and deploy AI and cognitive applications in both on-premises and cloud environments.
Posted July 06, 2017
Vision Solutions, Inc., a provider of business resilience solutions for IBM Power Systems and a portfolio company of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., has completed the acquisition of Enforcive Systems, Ltd. (formerly BSafe), a provider of IT security and compliance management solutions that support IBM z/OS, IBM i, IBM AIX, Windows, and Linux platforms.
Posted July 06, 2017
BMC, a provider of enterprise IT solutions, has introduced BMC Digital Workplace, a cloud-based service intended to provide a more highly integrated and digitally capable workplace for IT and other departments. Available both in the cloud and on-premises, BMC Digital Workplace enables IT, HR, Legal, facility management, and any other line-of-business groups to offer employees one-stop-shopping for the tools and information they need to do their work effortlessly.
Posted July 06, 2017
CA Technologies has added new solutions and capabilities within its API Management portfolio that are intended to help developers, enterprise architects and digital leaders create and deploy microservices—and manage the APIs that connect and orchestrate microservices.
Posted July 06, 2017
Companies using Cisco UCS servers can now manage their data-intensive workloads on-premises with the IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) System, now available as a VersaStack Solution for Cloud Object Storage. According to IBM, this pre-validated, tested, and supported solution is designed to offer storage for unstructured data for use cases such as active archive, backup, content repository, enterprise collaboration, and cloud application development.
Posted July 06, 2017
Oracle has announced that Bank of America has selected Oracle's cloud-based ERP and financial applications for its international general ledger and broker-dealer systems.
Posted July 05, 2017
Pure Storage, an all-flash data platform vendor, has introduced new software and hardware innovations for the FlashArray product line that addresses cloud workload integration.
Posted July 05, 2017
MicroStrategy, a provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software, is releasing MicroStrategy 10.8, updating critical capabilities across enterprise analytics, enterprise mobility, embedded analytics, enterprise cloud, and enterprise IoT.
Posted July 05, 2017
Datameer is unveiling SmartAI, a solution for operationalizing deep learning models directly within enterprise data lake environments securely and at scale. SmartAI allows enterprises to democratize data science, taking the deep learning work of data scientists from the lab to the business in production-ready scenarios that meet the big data security, governance, and management standards IT requires.
Posted June 29, 2017
Kinetica, provider of a GPU-accelerated relational database, has closed $50 million in Series A financing to expand its operational team worldwide.The company will use its new funding to hire additional engineering, sales, and marketing talent as well as open new offices throughout the world.
Posted June 29, 2017
Cloud technology has been around in some shape or form for more than 50 years. How can we make such a claim? Let's compare today's cloud computing to computer timesharing from the 1960s. Timesharing was a computing environment that supported multiple users simultaneously. This sounds suspiciously similar to the modern idea of "the cloud."
Posted June 29, 2017
Dell EMC has announced a new platform for implementing and sustaining a hybrid cloud based on Microsoft Azure Stack. The new Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack is aimed at helping organizations standardize on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem and provides automated IT service delivery for traditional and cloud-native applications.
Posted June 29, 2017
Emerging from stealth mode this week, Aparna Systems announced the Orca µCloud and Orca µServer—providing an open software Cloud-in-a-Box solution. Going beyond "hyperconvergence," Aparna says it provides "ultra-convergence" with the combination of compute, storage and networking resources in a compact, energy-efficient system. "Hyper-convergence is compute and storage with a hypervisor on it. In our case it is that plus networking. We provide the networking software and networking infrastructure," said Sam Mathan, CEO and co-founder of Aparna.
Posted June 29, 2017
Datos IO has announced a new version of its cloud-scale data management platform, RecoverX 2.0, to help organizations be more agile, enhance productivity, and drive operational efficiency as they deploy their next-generation customer-centric applications in the cloud and scale their traditional applications across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud infrastructures.
Posted June 29, 2017
There's a wide and growing acceptance that containers are replacing operating systems as the deployment target for application components. While application modules were previously designed to be installed upon a specific version of an operating system on a particular hardware platform, they are now increasingly being designed to run within a virtualized representation of an operating system—most frequently within a Docker container.
Posted June 29, 2017
Oracle has announced that Bank of America has selected Oracle's cloud-based ERP and financial applications for its international general ledger and broker-dealer systems.
Posted June 28, 2017
Xcalar, a startup offering business analytic solutions, is releasing version 1.2 of its business analytics platform, enabling the fastest, easiest, and most cost-effective access to actionable insights. In addition to the platform update, Xcalar also announced it has secured over $21 million in venture funding to date with its Series A round led by Khosla Ventures. Other investors include industry visionaries Andy Bechtolsheim and Diane Greene, and Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Merus Capital.
Posted June 28, 2017
Attivio, a cognitive search and insight platform company, is expanding its strategic relationship with TIBCO Software to offer an OEM of Attivio's data catalog technology.
Posted June 28, 2017
DataCore is launching its DataCore Cloud Replication software solutions on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace to support customers' disaster recovery efforts. Customers with on-premises deployments of SANsymphony software-defined storage and Hyper-converged Virtual SAN can use the Microsoft Azure cloud as an added replication location to safeguard highly available systems.
Posted June 27, 2017
Sumo Logic, a cloud-native machine data analytics platform, is receiving a $75 million funding that will lead to the continued growth of Sumo Logic's business. This recent round is led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from new and existing investors including Accel Partners, DFJ Growth, Greylock Partners, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Sequoia Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and others. Sumo Logic has raised a total of $235 million in funding over 7 years.
Posted June 27, 2017
JASK, an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) cybersecurity company, has launched with the announcement of $12 million in Series A funding. According to JASK, while humans are the best defense against cyberattacks today, there is a shortage of candidates to fill cybersecurity roles and many organizations spend too much of their time on common malware infections, leaving them vulnerable to the targeted threats that matter most.
Posted June 27, 2017
Datical, a provider of database release automation solutions, is launching a new capability to the Datical DB platform that automatically monitors the status of every database deployment across the enterprise. The Datical Monitoring Console (DMC) provides teams with visibility into the outcomes of all database deployments, detailing the scope of changes applied and pinpointing the causes of failures - a process that can typically take days or weeks to complete.
Posted June 27, 2017
The Top Ideas Frequently Overlooked When Managing an Oracle Database
Posted June 26, 2017
Hackolade, a Brussels-based provider of data modeling for NoSQL and multi-model databases, has announced the availability of Hackolade version 1.7, a new release of its data modeling software, to support both MongoDB version 3.4 and MongoDB Atlas, its cloud-hosted database as a service. This is one of the first next gen data modeling tools available on the market that helps in proper representation of physical data models for MongoDB collections and views.
Posted June 23, 2017
Redgate is upgrading its pioneering database provisioning tool, SQL Clone, to enable it to clone databases up to 64TB in size, allowing companies to provision copies for development, testing, and diagnostics quicker and easier. SQL Clone creates full copies of SQL Server databases and backups in seconds and uses only a tiny fraction of disk space.
Posted June 22, 2017
Snowflake Computing, a provider of cloud data warehouse technology, is extending its concept of the modern data warehouse to what it calls a "data sharehouse."
Posted June 22, 2017
IBM is boosting its data governance and data science initiatives to help developers and analysts tap into the power of cognitive computing to gain greater understanding and control of their data, while improving their ability to comply with data regulations such as the European Union's upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Posted June 22, 2017
Zumasys, the parent company of jBASE and a provider of MultiValue software and cloud computing solutions, is collaborating with Indiana-based Ivy Tech Community College and Cook Medical to integrate jBASE into its Software Development certificate program to simulate real-world programming scenarios
Posted June 21, 2017
MV Vendors Continue to Grab the Spotlight in DBTA 100
Posted June 21, 2017
Quest Software, a systems management and security software provider, has announced general availability of SharePlex v9, the latest release of the company's replication and real-time data integration solution. With version 9, SharePlex enables customers to replicate data from both Oracle and SQL Server to more target databases both on-premises and in the cloud.
Posted June 21, 2017
New England Water Heater is a plumbing services company specializing in water heater repair and installation based in North Waltham, MA. The company provides a centralized service through a network of geographically dispersed plumbing companies in the surrounding region, including its own company, Home Services of New England (HSNE) Plumbing. As a longtime Revelation Software customer, NEWH uses a system on Revelation's OpenInsight 9.4 for business processes such as document management, phone calls, and customer support.
Posted June 21, 2017
Oracle has expanded the Oracle Cloud Platform's integration offerings with the availability of the Oracle API Platform Cloud Service.
Posted June 21, 2017
Boxever, which provides an artificial intelligence-based personalization platform for B2C companies, has announced its partnership with the Oracle Marketing AppCloud, and the availability of Boxover's Customer Intelligence Cloud on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Boxover, which is also a Silver level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, offers AI and data analytics capabilities to help marketers improve personalization.
Posted June 21, 2017
SAP is releasing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) version 11.0 for SAP BW/4HANA, improving planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidation, and reporting. The latest version of SAP BPC supports more strategic decision-making and better results through accelerated insight to action and serves as a platform for finance transformation and innovation.
Posted June 21, 2017