Organizations are getting squeezed, said Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, in his Monday morning keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015. They have old infrastructure; there is the need for innovation but also great pressure to do things such as increase security and adhere to governance mandates which are not innovative; and also pressure to keep costs flat, without increasing IT costs. "This is why the cloud is such a big deal," said Hurd, sharing his list of top 5 predictions for 2025.
Posted November 04, 2015
To kick off Oracle Open World 2015, Oracle's annual user conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CTO and executive chairman Larry Ellison detailed the steps that led Oracle be positioned in "every layer of the cloud." Ellison outlined the top design goals for the company in all three layers of the cloud - SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. These are cost, reliability, performance, standards, compatibility - as well as security, which he said is increasingly becoming a more critical concern.
Posted November 04, 2015
Dell is releasing a free version of its Statistica advanced analytics software to all U.S. college students and professors, helping to boost interest in and preparedness for data analytics careers. "Today's organizations, including institutions of higher education, depend on advanced technologies in security, data analytics and mobility to stay ahead of student and faculty needs," said Jon Phillips, managing director of worldwide education strategy at Dell.
Posted November 03, 2015
Alteryx Inc., which specializes in blending and advanced analytics, is receiving $85 million from an investment round led by firms Iconiq Capital and Insight Venture Partners, along with Meritech Capital Partners. "Tools like Alteryx are really democratizing the way people work particularly when it comes to doing predicative statistical capabilities and be able to complement that with the data prep blending that is naturally happening in Alteryx today," said George Mathew, president and COO of Alteryx. "This generational shift is something that we are most excited by."
Posted November 03, 2015
Pivotal is releasing an update to its cloud platform that will expand support for Spring Cloud Services, Microsoft Azure, .NET applications, Docker images, and application lifecycle management.
Posted November 03, 2015
MongoDB is releasing an enhanced version of its platform, giving the company the opportunity to expand its capabilities to more users. "We're opening up MongoDB to a bigger audience in the enterprise, which is to say that traditionally the people that have used MongoDB were developers building modern applications and, with this release, we are building specific tools and capabilities targeted at data scientists, business analysts, and the C suite in terms of integration to business intelligence and visualization tools," said Kelly Stirman, vice president of strategy and product marketing at MongoDB. "We're also expanding MongoDB to DBAs and operations teams with specialized interfaces that make it easier to run MongoDB at any scale."
Posted November 03, 2015
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Launches Today
Posted November 02, 2015
Bradmark Technologies, Inc., a provider of monitoring and performance management software for big data and enterprise databases, and mLogica, Inc. are entering a strategic partner agreement to expand and deliver integrated IT solutions and services worldwide. mLogica provides enterprise business intelligence and big data analytic solutions and services and will integrate Bradmark software in its database managed services, Big Data analytic solutions, database migration, and expert database services.
Posted October 28, 2015
Nutanix, an enterprise computing company, is partnering with SAP, allowing customers to leverage the Nutanix web-scale infrastructure solution to run their business-critical SAP applications. Nutanix and SAP have entered into a collaborative technical support agreement designed to help give customers a more seamless support experience when optimizing their environment and resolving issues.
Posted October 28, 2015
Independent software vendor FPX has signed a strategic partnership agreement with ECENTA, a global SAP partner and consulting firm specializing in SAP's Customer Engagement and Commerce application suite. The agreement certifies ECENTA to resell and implement FPX's Smart CPQ solution within the SAP market.
Posted October 28, 2015
NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a technology integrator of advanced IT, communications, and networking solutions, has been certified for a variety of SAP services. NEC is now an SAP-certified provider of hosting, operations services, and application management services for the SAP HANA platform.
Posted October 28, 2015
SAP is ushering in a new way to master analytics in the cloud with the SAP Cloud for Analytics solution. The planned software as a service (SaaS) offering aims to bring all analytics capabilities into one solution for an unparalleled user experience.
Posted October 28, 2015
Informatica has introduced a new data management platform designed to handle data at any speed across today's hybrid IT environments, both cloud and on-premise. The new release, Informatica 10, provides enhancements across three core components - Informatica PowerCenter 10, Informatica Data Quality 10 and Informatica Data Integration Hub 10, and offers specific certified optimizations for Oracle Exadata, Oracle SuperCluster, SAP HANA, and HP Vertica.
Posted October 28, 2015
SearchYourCloud (SYC), a provider of a patented federated search and security application, is entering an OEM agreement with SAP, allowing SYC to integrate and offer the capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud Platform with the SearchYourCloud Server.
Posted October 28, 2015
Kore Technologies recently participated in MVU, Rocket Software's conference focused on MultiValue databases and solutions.
Posted October 28, 2015
Entrinsik has formed a partnership with Odigia, an education software company that aims to simplify education for students and teachers through technology. Odigia personalizes education for students by assessing how they perform in comparison to their peers.
Posted October 28, 2015
BlueFinity has introduced upgrades to its mv.NET and mv.SSIS products. BlueFinity supplies development tools for the MultiValue industry for multi-platform business application deployment.
Posted October 28, 2015
Revelation Software has announced Universal Driver NUL 5.0 for use with OpenInsight 9.4. Version 5.0 will be included with the purchase of OpenInsight 10 licenses.
Posted October 28, 2015
Rocket Software has introduced Rocket Mobile for MultiValue, an enterprise mobile application development and deployment platform for customers that rely on Rocket MultiValue systems.
Posted October 28, 2015
Oracle has announced new services - Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service, Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service, Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud Service and Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service - that complement Oracle's Big Data Cloud Service and Big Data SQL Cloud Service, to form a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for big data in the cloud.
Posted October 28, 2015
The DBA's role is becoming increasingly complex and now often involves managing data both on premise and in the cloud, and in a variety of database management systems including not only traditional relational systems such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and others, but also new open source and NoSQL technologies, according to Gerardo Dada, vice president of product marketing, at SolarWinds.
Posted October 28, 2015
Each year at Oracle OpenWorld, new products are introduced and existing ones updated during keynotes and presentations. Along the way, top executives make observations about how IT is changing overall and at customer deployments. This year, the impact of cloud is being felt strongly.
Posted October 28, 2015
TeamQuest, a global leader in IT capacity planning and performance monitoring, is adding advanced capacity management and application health capabilities for the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. The TeamQuest solution is already available for Amazon EC2, and with the addition of Azure, TeamQuest software will now cover the two most popular infrastructure-as-a-service providers, the company said.
Posted October 27, 2015
At Oracle OpenWorld today Oracle announced a suite of integrated monitoring, management and analytics solutions for IT organizations. "There is unprecedented pressure to deliver features, functionality, and updates much faster than they have ever been done before," said Prakash Ramamurthy, Oracle senior vice president, Systems & Cloud Management, in an interview. But, at the same time there is less patience than ever for slow-performing applications. As a result, there is a greater need to reduce critical errors and reduce the time to troubleshoot problems when they occur.
Posted October 27, 2015
IBM said it had a tough third-quarter, with net income of $3.0 billion, down from $3.5 billion during the same period a year ago, a decrease of 14%. Total revenues for the third quarter were $19.3 billion, down 14% from the third quarter of 2014.
Posted October 26, 2015
IBM is collaborating with Twitter and The Weather Company to help companies cut through the noise of unstructured data, turn streaming data into insights and change critical business outcomes across industries such as retail, insurance, and media & entertainment. The solution, IBM Insight Cloud Services, employs open data sets and business-owned data.
Posted October 26, 2015
IBM has redesigned more than 15 of the company's core analytics and commerce solutions with Apache Spark - helping to accelerate their real-time processing capabilities. IBM also announced the availability of its Spark-as-a-Service offering - IBM Analytics on Apache Spark - on IBM Bluemix following a successful 13-week beta program with more than 4,600 developers using it to build intelligent business and consumer apps fueled by data.
Posted October 26, 2015
Digital Performance software company Dynatrace has announced a series of new solutions and services that offer performance, competitive and user analytics powered by collective intelligence; new automation for cloud and continuous delivery environment; support for next-generation virtual network environments; and a complimentary version of Dynatrace Application Monitoring and User Experience Management (UEM) for developers and testers.
Posted October 26, 2015
Cirba Inc., a provider of software-defined infrastructure control solutions, announced its integration to IBM Cloud Orchestrator. IBM Cloud Orchestrator customers will now be able to leverage Cirba's predictive, policy-based analytics to gain software-defined control over their environments, in order to automate and safely optimize application hosting, workload placement and VM sizing decisions.
Posted October 26, 2015
During the Sunday keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd and Brian Krzanich CEO, Intel, introduced the new Exa Your Power Program to help customers migrate Oracle Database from IBM Power systems to Oracle Engineered Systems using Intel technology.
Posted October 26, 2015
Oracle kicked off the beta program for an updated release Oracle Database 12c which provides a multitenant architecture and dual format in-memory database technology. According to Oracle, Oracle Database 12c Release 2 further simplifies the journey to the cloud and enables efficient delivery of database services, with greater consolidation density and more administrative agility at cloud scale.
Posted October 26, 2015
New Services for Oracle Databases in the Cloud Announced at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
Posted October 26, 2015
Attunity Ltd., a provider of data management software solutions, has introduced the latest version of its data replication and loading solution. Designed to accelerate enterprise big data analytics initiatives, Attunity Replicate 5.0 automates big data movement to, from and between databases, data warehouses, Hadoop and the cloud, reducing the time and labor, and ultimately the cost of making big data analytics available in real time.
Posted October 26, 2015
Organizations are getting squeezed, said Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, in his Monday morning keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015. They have old infrastructure; there is the need for innovation but also great pressure to do things such as increase security and adhere to governance mandates which are not innovative; and also pressure to keep costs flat, without increasing IT costs. "This is why the cloud is such a big deal," said Hurd, sharing his list of top 5 predictions for 2025.
Posted October 26, 2015
To kick off Oracle Open World 2015, Oracle's annual user conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CTO and executive chairman Larry Ellison detailed the steps that led Oracle be positioned in "every layer of the cloud." Ellison outlined the top design goals for the company in all three layers of the cloud - SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. These are cost, reliability, performance, standards, compatibility - as well as security, which he said is increasingly becoming a more critical concern.
Posted October 26, 2015
Enterprise data security provider Protegrity has announced that it has earned Oracle Exadata Optimized status through the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), demonstrating that Protegrity Database Protector for Oracle Exadata is recognized as having been tested and tuned on Oracle Exadata Database Machine to deliver speed, scalability and reliability to customers.
Posted October 21, 2015
Oracle today announced the general availability of MySQL 5.7, the latest version of the open source database. According to Tomas Ulin, vice president, MySQL Engineering, Oracle, the new version delivers greater performance, scalability, manageability, plus enhanced NoSQL capabilities with JSON support and MySQL Router, which makes it easy to connect applications to multiple MySQL databases.
Posted October 21, 2015
Ever since Linux became a viable server operating system, organizations have been looking to all kinds of open source software (OSS) to save on license and maintenance costs and to enjoy the benefits of an open platform that invites innovation. If you're considering MySQL or another open source DBMS as either your primary database or to, perhaps, operate alongside your existing commercial systems, such as Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, for one reason or another, here are seven things to keep in mind.
Posted October 21, 2015
AtScale, a company specializing in connecting business users to their data in Hadoop, is releasing a new version of its platform, introducing a new tool that will enhance performance of big data on Hadoop.
Posted October 21, 2015
To help companies evolve and make faster and more secure decisions based on their data insights, Dell is introducing a series of new big data and analytics solutions and services.
Posted October 21, 2015
Michael Dell Looks at the Future of IT at Dell World 2015
Posted October 21, 2015
Attivio is releasing a self-service solution designed to radically reduce the time usually required to provision the right data for analysis in Tableau.
Posted October 20, 2015
Yellowfin, a global business intelligence and analytics software company, is launching a new browser based application that will make it faster and easier to create customized analytical applications.
Posted October 20, 2015
Thales, a French multi-national company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vormetric, a provider of data protection solutions in physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, for $400 million. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2016.
Posted October 20, 2015
Teradata is introducing a series of platforms that will capture streaming IoT data, land that data in Hadoop, and use advanced Aster machine learning natively in Hadoop to analyze data.
Posted October 20, 2015
Ensuring Database Performance in an Ever-Changing Environment
Posted October 20, 2015
Concurrent is releasing the next version of its Driven platform, enabling application performance monitoring and management across heterogeneous Hadoop and Spark environments within a single, comprehensive solution.
Posted October 20, 2015
Tableau is making data analysis more easily accessible with a new application designed to help people see and understand data with just an iPad. "We're all about helping people see and understand their data and with this product what we're doing is extending our reach to even more people. We're also advancing the state of the art of touching your data," said Dave Story, vice president of mobile and strategic growth at Tableau.
Posted October 20, 2015
Trifacta is bringing its Wrangler solution to users' desktops, putting intuitive, self-service data wrangling immediately into the hands of workers everywhere. "We're allowing any user to download and be able to start using Trifacta's approach to exploring and transforming data themselves in a free desktop application," said Will Davis, director of product marketing at Trifacta.
Posted October 20, 2015
After partnering with Statistica earlier this year, Dell is making headway on several predictive analytics projects, enabling a broader audience to be data modelers. "Statistica is much easier to use so there's a broader group inside the Department of Financial Services that can become analysts without specialized training so that lowers our total cost of ownership and also increases our speed at which we can generate new models and refresh older models," said John K. Thompson, general manager of advanced analytics at Dell Software "It has also enabled us to do modeling at a much more granular level."
Posted October 19, 2015