Databricks, founded by the team that created Apache Spark, has secured $140 million in a Series D funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The new funding brings Databricks' total capital raised to $247 million, and will accelerate the company's investment in making artificial intelligence (AI) achievable for enterprise organizations with its Unified Analytics Platform.
Posted August 22, 2017
Centerbridge Partners, L.P., a private investment firm, has completed the $1.26 billion acquisition of enterprise software providers Syncsort Incorporated and Vision Solutions, Inc. from affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. Headquartered in Pearl River, NY, the new company benefits from a dramatic increase in global presence, as well as significantly expanded product offerings, afforded by the combination.
Posted August 18, 2017
The new funding will be used by ZingBox to increase headcount in the next year to accelerate product capabilities and expand market reach for its IoT Guardian technology.
Posted August 18, 2017
Docker has announced the latest release of Docker Enterprise Edition (EE), a container as a service (CaaS) platform for managing and securing Windows, Linux, and mainframe applications across both on premises and cloud infrastructure.
Posted August 16, 2017
InfluxData has updated InfluxCloud, its managed and hosted version of the InfluxData open source time series DB platform for metrics and events.
Posted August 16, 2017
IDERA, a provider of database lifecycle management solutions, has released ER/Studio 17, incorporating significant updates to its Business Architect process modeling tool. The new capabilities are aimed at helping business analysts to map and model relationships between people, processes, and data as the foundation for enterprise architecture and data governance initiatives.
Posted August 16, 2017
In an expansion of its Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud, Oracle has introduced new offerings for tax reporting, and profitability and cost management as well as new strategic modeling and disclosure management capabilities.
Posted August 16, 2017
The production release of Oracle Database Programming Interface for C (ODPI-C) is now available on GitHub. ODPI-C is an open source library of C code that simplifies access to Oracle Database for applications written in C or C++. It is available as source code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 and/or the Oracle UPL licenses, for direct inclusion into a code base.
Posted August 16, 2017
Oracle has announced that Oracle Exadata Cloud is now available on Oracle's bare-metal compute and storage services. According to Oracle, the integrated and programmable cloud services enhance application development and deployment through faster connectivity, provisioning, processing, and database access.
Posted August 16, 2017
Microsoft has acquired cloud computing orchestration company Cycle Computing to make it easier for customers to use high-performance computing (HPC) and other computing capabilities in the cloud. The purchase was announced in a blog post by Jason Zander, corporate VP, Microsoft Azure.
Posted August 15, 2017
Kyvos Insights, a big data analytics company, is releasing Kyvos 4.0, providing users with new capabilities for creating data cubes with near limitless scalability and performance. Kyvos 4.0 delivers new levels of scalability, performance, and support for concurrent users, enabling organizations to provide self-service, interactive business intelligence (BI) on big data for all of their users across the enterprise.
Posted August 15, 2017
The production release of Oracle Database Programming Interface for C (ODPI-C) is now available on GitHub. ODPI-C is an open source library of C code that simplifies access to Oracle Database for applications written in C or C++. It is available as source code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 and/or the Oracle UPL licenses, for direct inclusion into a code base.
Posted August 15, 2017
Oracle has announced that Oracle Exadata Cloud is now available on Oracle's bare-metal compute and storage services. According to Oracle, the integrated and programmable cloud services enhance application development and deployment through faster connectivity, provisioning, processing, and database access.
Posted August 15, 2017
We've heard the term "digital transformation" used almost to the point of exhaustion in the past couple of years—but it's not just a lot of hot air: It's the future. Organizations must update their legacy architecture to remain current in the new enterprise landscape, and mainframe rehosting offers 10 key advantages
Posted August 14, 2017
IBM Research scientists have achieved a new world record in tape storage - their fifth since 2006. Tape storage is currently the most secure, energy-efficient and cost-effective solution for storing enormous amounts of backup and archival data, as well as for new applications such as big data and cloud computing.
Posted August 14, 2017
Automic Software, a provider of business automation software and subsidiary of CA Technologies, announced a new automation use case to help enterprises empower digital transformation initiatives across their SAP environments.
Posted August 14, 2017
IBM announced a new all-flash, high-performance data and file management solution for enterprise clients running exabyte-scale big data analytics, cognitive and AI applications. The combined flash and storage software solution has been certified with the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) to provide clients with more choice in selecting the right platform for their big data analytics on data processing engines like Hadoop and Spark.
Posted August 14, 2017
Artificial Intelligence Has a 1% Problem
Posted August 14, 2017
At the SHARE summer 2017 event in Providence, RI, Harry Williams, SHARE's president, reflected on the changes taking place in the enterprise technology ecosystem, and what's ahead for the IBM users group and the industry overall.
Posted August 14, 2017
Alteryx, a provider of self-service data analytics, is partnering with Plotly, which offers a data visualization platform for modern data science. The companies plan to enhance visual representations of data within the Alteryx platform.
Posted August 14, 2017
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a platinum member.
Posted August 10, 2017
DFC Global, one of the largest providers of accessible consumer and commercial financial services in the world, will partner with Kofax, a provider of software to simplify and transform the First Mile of business, to digitally transform its customer onboarding processes. DFC Global will deploy Kofax SignDoc e-signature capabilities into its point of sale solution, digitally transforming its loan origination process to speed processing, reduce costs, ensure compliance, and improve the customer experience for application, disclosure, and execution purposes.
Posted August 09, 2017
Lifeline Data Centers is being awarded a FedRAMP-Ready status by the United States government, which means Lifeline Data Centers will now be able to hold conversations with government agencies and private corporations about hosting sensitive data. FedRAMP is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.
Posted August 09, 2017
Redgate Software, a Cambridge, UK-based database tools provider, has launched a new one-stop resource to help software professionals find the information and advice they need faster and easier.
Posted August 09, 2017
Tableau Software has acquired ClearGraph, a Palo Alto startup founded in 2014 that enables data discovery and data analysis through natural language query technology.
Posted August 09, 2017
The EQT Mid Market US fund has acquired Data Intensity, a provider of mission-critical application and database managed services, from Audax Private Equity.
Posted August 09, 2017
TMMData, provider of the data integration and data preparation platform Foundation, has announced its advancement to business partner within the Adobe Exchange partner program for Adobe Experience Cloud. Through this relationship, joint TMMData and Adobe Analytics Cloud users will be provided with access to self-service resources and tools that enable them to access data from online and offline sources, and cloud or on-premises databases, and automate campaign setup for planning, management, evaluation, optimization and more.
Posted August 08, 2017
MongoDB Connector for BI is now certified by Tableau as a named connector, enabling users to visually analyze rich, JSON-like data structures associated with modern applications directly in MongoDB Enterprise Advanced.
Posted August 08, 2017
Monitoring Databases with the Open Source TICK Stack
Posted August 07, 2017
Unlocking the Mysteries of Oracle and SQL Server Database Issues
Posted August 07, 2017
BackOffice Associates, a provider of information governance, data stewardship, and data migration solutions, has announced that Bridge Growth Partners, a private equity firm, has signed an agreement to make a majority equity investment in the company.
Posted August 03, 2017
Cohesity, a provider of hyperconverged secondary storage, is releasing Cohesity Orion 5.0, enabling companies to simplify administration, reduce overall data copies, accelerate search and retrieval, and dramatically lower storage costs. Cohesity Orion 5.0 provides a platform for data protection and archiving that spans on-premises and cloud infrastructure that can be managed through a simple, single-pane-of-glass user interface.
Posted August 03, 2017
Accenture has acquired Search Technologies, a Herndon, Virginia-based technology services firm specializing in the design, implementation and management of big data and search analytics. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Kamran Khan, president and CEO of Search Technologies, will lead a new Content Analytics team within Accenture Analytics.
Posted August 03, 2017
Creative Media Works, operating as BBM Messenger has selected Pythian to help them migrate to the Google Cloud Platform. Pythian, a global IT services company that helps businesses adopt technologies to better compete, will help BBM Messenger move its mission-critical IT infrastructure for Android, iOS and Windows consumer BBM from BlackBerry on-prem data centers in Canada to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in Asia.
Posted August 03, 2017
Oracle, SafeLogic and OpenSSL Join Forces to Update FIPS Module
Posted August 03, 2017
IDERA, a provider of database, development, and test management tools, announced it is acquiring AquaFold, a provider of cross-platform database tools. AquaFold will join IDERA's database development and management portfolio, enabling the company to expand its multi-platform support.
Posted August 02, 2017
Oracle is adding hundreds of new capabilities to Oracle Cloud Applications with Release 13. Key enhancements are aimed at enhancing the user experience and supporting business users across the organization through greater personalization, productivity, insight, and collaboration. Supply chain is a key focus of the release.
Posted August 02, 2017
Workiva, a provider of solutions for enterprise productivity and Gold-level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, has announced data integration between its Wdesk platform and more than 100 cloud, SaaS and on-premise applications, including Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud.
Posted August 02, 2017
Oracle has announced the Oracle Monetization Cloud, a new cloud service that accelerates time to market for digital and subscription-based products and services by enabling the lifecycle of customer onboarding, offer creation, rating and discounting, billing, customized invoicing and reporting.
Posted August 02, 2017
Datameer is releasing Datameer 6.3, improving data analyst productivity, deepening connectivity into the business intelligence tooling ecosystem, and strengthening security and governance functionalities. New analytic functions, workbook operations, and improved big data sampling for interactive preparation design enhance self-service analyst access to data lakes.
Posted July 31, 2017
IBM unveiled IBM Z, the next generation of the world's most powerful transaction system, capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day. The new system also introduces a breakthrough encryption engine that, for the first time, makes it possible to pervasively encrypt data associated with any application, cloud service or database all the time.
Posted July 31, 2017
IBM announced solutions that connect mainframes to IBM's DS8880 family of primary all-flash storage systems, provide data encryption to ensure transactional, business intelligence and machine learning workloads used for businesses running IBM Z environments are protected if data is lost or compromised. IBM's DS8880 all flash helps clients deliver hybrid cloud environments by adding additional clouds supported.
Posted July 31, 2017
IBM reported revenue from continuing operations of $19.3 billion, as well as strategic imperatives revenue - including cloud and mobile technologies - of $34.1 billion over the trailing 12 months, up 11%. Overall revenue for the first half was up 8%, and up 5% for the second quarter.
Posted July 31, 2017
Thales, a provider of critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, is boosting its data security portfolio by making it easier for organizations to manage and secure their data in multi-cloud environments. Its advanced data security solutions integrate with the leading cloud service provider platforms from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Microsoft and Salesforce, allowing users to establish strong safeguards around their sensitive data and applications in the cloud, satisfying compliance requirements and giving them greater control and flexibility.
Posted July 31, 2017
Pricchaa, a Chicago-based company that provides solutions for detecting and protecting sensitive data, has released a free solution for detecting, encrypting, and monitoring sensitive data housed in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Pricchaa offers solutions to detect and protect sensitive information, when large volume of data in a variety of format moves at a very high speed.
Posted July 27, 2017
Continuing toward architecting a single cloud platform that is tuned for AI and data, IBM announced that it is expanding its network of cloud data centers with four new ones, including two in the UK (London), one in Australia (Sydney) and one in the U.S. (San Jose). The new facilities are designed to help clients build next-generation IoT, blockchain and AI applications by providing cloud infrastructure that is tuned for cognitive and big data.
Posted July 27, 2017
Oracle has expanded the services available through Oracle Cloud at Customer so the portfolio now spans all of the major Oracle PaaS categories and, for the first time, also features Oracle SaaS services.
Posted July 27, 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 27, 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 27, 2017
EnterpriseDB has released EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager 7. Part of the EDB Postgres Platform, EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager 7 provides a new web client and tools to give DBAs greater ability to improve database performance across large installations.
Posted July 27, 2017