SAP is enhancing its enterprise information management portfolio with updated support and connectivity for big data sources, improved data stewardship and metadata management capabilities.
Posted February 03, 2017
Pick Cloud, Inc. has joined the Google Cloud Compute Platform Technology Partner program to continue to provide rich cloud services to MultiValue customers. This program includes partners such as systems integrators, IT consultant firms, developers and other professional services companies that help their clients design, develop, and manage new cloud-based solutions.
Posted February 02, 2017
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has acquired Niara Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based provider of software for the user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) market segment. Niara will operate within HPE Aruba to enhance the company's ClearPass network security portfolio for wired and wireless network infrastructure. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Posted February 02, 2017
Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications and PwC have formed a global collaboration to offer technology, implementation and consulting solutions to help financial institutions meet compliance with the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB) new IFRS9 and FASB's proposed CECL reporting standards.
Posted February 01, 2017
Oracle is opening new centers in Bristol, Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, and Tel Aviv as part of its expanding Startup Cloud Accelerator program to spur cloud-enabled innovation.
Posted February 01, 2017
Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Apiary, whose APIFlow solution provides the framework and tools for developing application programming interfaces (APIs) that share enterprise services and data and help create modern, cloud-based applications and experiences.
Posted February 01, 2017
VoltDB is launching the latest version of its flagship solution, VoltDB v7.0, offering the flexibility to deploy in the cloud or on-premise. This provides enterprises, mid-sized businesses, and developers with independent software vendors (ISVs) with a wide range of choices for their use of VoltDB, and future-proof capabilities to update or evolve their applications for rapidly-changing markets.
Posted February 01, 2017
Carbonite, a provider of data protection solutions for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), has acquired Double-Take Software, enhancing Carbonite's its existing suite of data protection solutions with high availability technology that minimizes downtime. The aggregate purchase price for Double-Take Software was $65.25 million.
Posted January 31, 2017
As the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) gears up for COLLABORATE 17 in early April, the group's new president, Alyssa Johnson, shared her goals and objectives for the OAUG in 2017, as well as thelatest initiatives being planned for this year's conference.
Posted January 31, 2017
Alooma is releasing the Alooma service, creating secure pipelines that stream data in real-time from any source including databases, applications, APIs, etc. The Alooma platform enables organizations to connect disparate data silos within minutes to AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Snowflake.
Posted January 31, 2017
Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications and PwC have formed a global collaboration to offer technology, implementation and consulting solutions to help financial institutions meet compliance with the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB) new IFRS9 and FASB's proposed CECL reporting standards.
Posted January 31, 2017
IBM announced its second-quarter 2016 earnings results, and its cloud business continues to accelerate. Overall, revenue was $20.2 billion for the quarter, and "strategic imperatives"—which include cloud and data analytics—were $8.3 billion in the quarter, up 12% year to year. Cloud revenues (public, private and hybrid) for the quarter increased 30%. Cloud as-a-service revenues saw an annual run rate of $6.7 billion in the quarter, up 50% year to year.
Posted January 30, 2017
HPE announced a definitive agreement to acquire Cloud Cruiser, a provider of cloud consumption analytics software that enables customers to manage and optimize public, private and hybrid cloud usage and spend.
Posted January 30, 2017
Pure Storage, a solid-state array vendor, announced that FlashBlade, the company's second product built for high-performance unstructured workloads, is now shipping in both 8.8TB and 52TB blade capacities with the Elasticity 1.2 software. FlashBlade was first announced in March 2016.
Posted January 30, 2017
Trifacta has announced updates to Trifacta Wrangler, which was first launched in 2015. A freely available community version of Trifacta's enterprise product, the company says, it is often the first interaction individuals have with Trifacta technology and its team.
Posted January 30, 2017
Surprising market watchers last week, Cisco announced it is snapping up AppDynamics, a privately held application intelligence software company based in San Francisco.
Posted January 30, 2017
Learning How to Manage Hybrid Databases
Posted January 30, 2017
Oracle is opening new centers in Bristol, Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, and Tel Aviv as part of its expanding Startup Cloud Accelerator program to spur cloud-enabled innovation.
Posted January 26, 2017
SS8, which provides breach detection software, has announced the latest version of its BreachDetect technology which makes advanced threat detection and investigation capabilities accessible to enterprise security and IT administrators.
Posted January 26, 2017
SAP has released SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management solution — an industry-specific version of the SAP S/4HANA product line. The solution is targeted at helping retailers meet the demands of a digital economy and omnichannel retailing end-to-end.
Posted January 25, 2017
Now that 2016 has come and gone several experts at SAP are foreseeing a handful of trends that enterprises need to watch out for as 2017 unfolds. They offered up five predictions for 2017 that include immersive experiences, blockchains, application programming interfaces, the gig economy, and rise of the cyborg.
Posted January 25, 2017
TriCore Solutions is has achieved the Partner Center of Expertise (PCoE) certification from SAP SE, recognizing the company's outstanding support of SAP platforms. Following an extensive audit of its service and support organization, TriCore has been verified as offering support to its customers in accordance with SAP's current technical and organizational standards.
Posted January 25, 2017
Dell Boomi is releasing an enhanced version of its integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) to help organizations rapidly and cost-effectively integrate data across applications in hybrid IT environments. The latest release enables Boomi customers to build a connected business at scale through new features to increase user productivity, speed up implementation, and provide unparalleled control of integrations.
Posted January 25, 2017
Understanding New Capabilities in SQL Server
Posted January 25, 2017
As Entrinsik gears up for the next release of the latest update to its Informer platform, the company will be attending the TUG Conference to show off the beta version. The new version enables companies to make fact-based decisions about revenue, margin, and other key metrics by analyzing and visualizing real-time data within core business systems.
Posted January 25, 2017
No matter what kind of business you're in, or how large your organization is, protecting your valuable data is a top priority. Failure to do so could put your reputation - and even the future of your operations - at risk.
Posted January 25, 2017
Qlik, a provider of visual analytics software, has announced that Qlik Sense Cloud Business, a SaaS-based visual analytics solution is now available for SMBs, groups, and teams to create, manage, and share analytics in the cloud.
Posted January 25, 2017
Hazelcast, provider of an open source in-memory data grid (IMDG), has announced that Hazelcast is now available as a tile on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).
Posted January 25, 2017
Knoa Software provides in-depth visibility into how employees use their SAP applications both before and after migration, enabling enterprises to flag issues that hamper adoption, user experience and productivity. Its powerful analytics ease migration, solve problems, pinpoint training requirements, and enhance adoption.
Posted January 25, 2017
Kinetica, a provider of an in-memory database accelerated by GPUs, has announced the availability of in-database analytics via user-defined functions (UDFs). "What we are offering are UDFs that are accelerated by GPUs. This enables us to benefit from the magic that comes from some of the deep learning and AI libraries that are out there, as well as taking the UDFs that customers have been using for years and moving them into a distributed model with GPUs," said Eric Mizell, VP, Global Solutions Engineering, Kinetica.
Posted January 24, 2017
Collibra, a provider of data governance software for business users, has closed $50 million in Series C financing led by San Francisco-based ICONIQ Capital with participation from investment firm Battery Ventures and existing backers Dawn Capital, Index Ventures, and Newion Investments.
Posted January 20, 2017
Oracle has signed an agreement to acquire Apiary, whose APIFlow solution provides the framework and tools for developing application programming interfaces (APIs) that share enterprise services and data and help create modern, cloud-based applications and experiences.
Posted January 20, 2017
CA Completes Acquisition of Automic for $640 Million
Posted January 20, 2017
MapR Technologies, Inc has been granted a patent (US9,501,483) from the United States Patent and Trademark Office to protect file, table and stream processing for convergence, security, and more. This patent, in particular, covers key technology underpinning components of the MapR Converged Data Platform, including the multi-modal NoSQL database (MapR-DB) and global streaming engine (MapR Streams).
Posted January 18, 2017
At Oracle CloudWorld in New York City, Oracle unveiled new enhancements to the Oracle Cloud Platform to help customers move business-critical applications to the cloud. Describing the industry's move to the cloud as an "irresistible force," Oracle CEO Mark Hurd said, "This is not a what-if; this is the way things are going to go. The sooner you get on board with that the better."
Posted January 18, 2017
Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Retail Release 16, which allows retailers to deliver unified consumer experiences across e-commerce and brick and mortar locations.
Posted January 18, 2017
With the rise of smartphones, laptops, sensors on machines, vehicles, and appliances, massive amounts of data are being generated, according to Balaji Thiagarajan, group vice president of big data at Oracle. For companies that can transform and manage it, he notes, data represents a huge opportunity as a source of competitive advantage and should be leveraged as such. Big data and cloud are two technologies driving dramatic transformations, and, says Thiagarajan, organizations must be ready to react and take advantage of important new trends and technologies to make sure that they come out ahead next year. Here, Thiagarajan shares 10 key predictions for big data in 2017.
Posted January 18, 2017
ScaleOut Software, a provider of in-memory computing software, is releasing version 5.5 of its in-memory data grid (IMDG) and in-memory computing platform, adding several new features that will boost capabilities for .NET developers.
Posted January 17, 2017
NuoDB is releasing NuoDB 2.6, an update that will enable customers to elastically scale out their modern cloud applications as part of their digital transformation efforts. NuoDB 2.6 enables organizations to maximize their AWS investments including better availability, utilization, performance, and resiliency.
Posted January 17, 2017
Vanguard Integrity Professionals has introduced enhanced Multifactor Authentication solution across its enterprise-wide cybersecurity software suite.
Posted January 17, 2017
At Oracle CloudWorld in New York City, Oracle unveiled new enhancements to the Oracle Cloud Platform to help customers move business-critical applications to the cloud. Describing the industry's move to the cloud as an "irresistible force," Oracle CEO Mark Hurd said, "This is not a what-if; this is the way things are going to go. The sooner you get on board with that the better."
Posted January 17, 2017
IBM has introduced all-flash storage solutions designed for mid-range and large enterprises, intended to provide the speed and reliability needed for workloads ranging from enterprise resource planning and financial transactions to cognitive applications such as machine learning and natural language processing.
Posted January 16, 2017
VMware, a provider of cloud infrastructure and business mobility solutions, is collaborating with Adaptiva to optimize enterprise-wide software deployments for managed PCs.
Posted January 16, 2017
IBM broke the U.S. patent record with 8,088 patents granted to its inventors in 2016. IBM's 2016 patent output covers inventions in artificial intelligence and cognitive computing, cognitive health, cloud, cybersecurity and other strategic growth areas for the company.
Posted January 16, 2017
Compuware announced it has acquired MVS Solutions and its ThruPut Manager mainframe batch automation technology. Compuware's acquisition of MVS Solutions follows three acquisitions made in 2016: ISPW's source code management (SCM) and deployment technology, Itegration's SCM migration practice, and most recently, COPE IMS virtualization technology from Standardware.
Posted January 16, 2017
Talend is releasing the Winter '17 version of Talend Data Fabric, focusing on enhancing several different areas including data preparation, data cleansing, and self-service data stewardship. Talend's integrated platform now includes new data preparation features for big data that enable all employees to access, cleanse, and collaborate on the analysis of massive data sets.
Posted January 12, 2017
The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) has announced Alyssa Johnson as its 2017 president. An active member of the OAUG since 2003, Johnson has served as a member of the organization's board of directors since 2011 and previously as the OAUG president in 2014.
Posted January 12, 2017
Tableau is partnering with the United States Department of Commerce and operational data management and intelligence provider Enigma to help the general public see and understand government data.
Posted January 11, 2017
Clustrix, a provider of a distributed SQL database, and Zettaset, a provider of big data security, are partnering on data protection and privacy for companies that rely on large-scale OLTP databases.
Posted January 11, 2017
VMware, a provider of cloud infrastructure and business mobility solutions, is collaborating with Adaptiva to optimize enterprise-wide software deployments for managed PCs.
Posted January 11, 2017