MANTA, the data lineage platform, is launching Release 37, offering new enhancements to data lineage platform that include modeling tool and scanner upgrades to offer efficient data lineage experiences for customers. With Release 37, MANTA further upgrades its platform to meet the modeling requirements of users scanning new properties into MANTA Flow to infer end-to-end data lineage.
Posted July 26, 2022
Schneider Electric announced it is making a series of updates to its vendor-agnostic and CPD-accredited digital education platform, Schneider Electric University, to address the data center sector skills gap. Available in 14 languages and accessible globally for free online, the dedicated professional development platform helps industry stakeholders upskill and stay up to date with the latest technology, sustainability, and energy efficiency initiatives affecting the data center sector.
Posted July 25, 2022
Augtera Networks, a provider of AI/ML-powered Network Operations platforms, is introducing a holistic Network AIOps Data Center solution, addressing the pain points, use cases APIs, ITSM integrations, equipment/vendor integrations, data types, and constructs specific to data centers.
Posted July 25, 2022
Model9, a provider of cloud data management for the IBM Z mainframe, announced it will participate in The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative with 20 programs and working groups that enable collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources.
Posted July 25, 2022
IBM is expanding its Power10 server line with the introduction of mid-range and scale-out systems to modernize, protect, and automate business applications and IT operations. The new Power10 servers combine performance, scalability, and flexibility with new pay-as-you-go consumption offerings for clients looking to deploy new services quickly across multiple environments.
Posted July 25, 2022
Pecan AI, a provider of AI-based predictive analytics for BI analysts and business teams, is adding one-click model deployment and integration with common CRMs, marketing automation, and other core business systems. Pecan's customers can now take immediate actions based on the highly accurate predictions for future churn, lifetime value, demand and other customer-conversion metrics generated by Pecan, according to the vendor.
Posted July 21, 2022
Oracle and Microsoft announced the general availability of Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure, allowing Microsoft Azure customers to easily provision, access, and monitor enterprise-grade Oracle Database services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with a familiar experience.
Posted July 21, 2022
Dataiku is releasing Dataiku 11, a pivotal update of the company's data science and AI platform that helps organizations deliver on the promise of Everyday AI. This packed release provides new capabilities for expert teams to deliver more value at scale, enables tech-savvy workers to take on more expansive challenges, helps non-technical workers more easily engage with AI, and provides strengthened AI Governance to ensure projects are robust, transparent, and ready for success at scale.
Posted July 20, 2022
CData Software, a provider of data connectivity and integration solutions, is offering an all-new AWS Glue client connector for CData Connect Cloud, expanding access to hundreds of data sources and destinations for AWS Glue customers. CData now offers cloud-native connectivity solutions that seamlessly integrate with the applications and systems previously unavailable within AWS Glue.
Posted July 20, 2022
Druva Inc. is expanding its cyber resilience portfolio with cyber-attack readiness innovations, including new capabilities for data posture assessment and observability. These advanced tools provide customers with a centralized view of their data security posture, deep visibility into data entropy changes, and the ability to assess data risks, according to the vendor.
Posted July 20, 2022
TIE Kinetix, a provider of supply chain digitalization and a current member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that TIE Kinetix FLOW Connector for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing is available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. TIE Kinetix FLOW Connector for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing now extends TIE Kinetix's cloud-native solution, EDI-2-FLOW, where Oracle Cloud SCM users have the opportunity to benefit from a fully integrated EDI solution via a standard connector.
Posted July 20, 2022
Oracle NetSuite is making updates to NetSuite Analytics Warehouse, helping organizations further enhance decision making and uncover new revenue streams. The latest updates boost the prebuilt data warehouse and analytics solution for NetSuite customers by making it easier for customers to blend relevant data sets and introducing new pre-built visualization capabilities.
Posted July 20, 2022
Oracle is introducing the Oracle Construction Intelligence Cloud Analytics platform, combing data from Oracle Smart Construction Platform applications to give owners and contractors a comprehensive understanding of performance throughout their operations. With this insight, organizations can quickly spot and correct issues and target ways to drive continuous improvement across project planning, construction, and asset operation, according to the vendor.
Posted July 20, 2022
D2iQ, an enterprise Kubernetes provider for smart cloud-native applications, is partnering with Aqua Security, a pure-play cloud-native security company, to enable organizations to create a seamless DevSecOps experience that accelerates the deployment of secure smart cloud-native applications.
Posted July 18, 2022
NVIDIA is releasing a unified computing platform for speeding breakthroughs in quantum research and development across AI, HPC, health, finance, and other disciplines. The NVIDIA Quantum Optimized Device Architecture, or QODA, aims to make quantum computing more accessible by creating a coherent hybrid quantum-classical programming model.
Posted July 18, 2022
Solace, an enabler of event-driven architecture for real-time enterprises, is joining the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners which provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS.
Posted July 18, 2022
Kyligence's Intelligent Cloud OLAP Platform now offers support for Amazon EMR Serverless, a serverless option from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easier for data analysts and engineers to run open source big data analytics frameworks. Using automatic on-demand provisioning and scaling capabilities available through Amazon EMR Serverless, Kyligence Cloud cost effectively meets the changing processing requirements across all data volumes, according to the vendor.
Posted July 15, 2022
Grafana Labs is introducing the Kubernetes Monitoring solution for Grafana Cloud, enabling all levels of Kubernetes usage within an organization. Kubernetes Monitoring is available to all Grafana Cloud users, including those on the generous free tier. Grafana Cloud users can install the Grafana Agent onto their Kubernetes cluster(s) and in minutes, the Kube-state metrics will be shipped to Prometheus and Grafana, according to the vendor.
Posted July 15, 2022
Deci, the deep learning company harnessing AI to solve the AI efficiency gap, announced it has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round, enabling the company to expand its go-to-market activities, as well as further accelerate the company's R&D efforts. The funding round was led by global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Square Peg, Emerge, Jibe Ventures, and Fort Ross Ventures, as well as new investor ICON. The investment comes just seven months after Deci secured $21 million in Series A funding, also led by Insight Partners, bringing Deci's total funding to $55.1 million.
Posted July 14, 2022
Ensono, an expert technology adviser and managed service provider, is acquiring AndPlus, a cloud native and data engineering firm. This acquisition continues Ensono's strategic investment in scaling its cloud and data engineering capabilities and reinforces the company's commitment to helping clients plan, build, migrate, and operate in the cloud, according to the vendor.
Posted July 14, 2022
Ermetic, the cloud infrastructure security company, is offering a new capability for the Ermetic Platform that enables organizations to automate the process of granting developers and DevOps teams "Just in Time" (JIT) access to cloud infrastructure environments.
Posted July 12, 2022
Striim, Inc. is expanding its existing agreement with Microsoft to meet increasing customer demand for real-time analytics and operations by enabling customers to leverage Striim Cloud on Microsoft Azure. This move allows for continuous, streaming data integration from on-premises and cloud enterprise sources to Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI, taking full advantage of the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform.
Posted July 12, 2022
Signal AI, a global External Intelligence company, is launching its External Intelligence Graph, a comprehensive view of an organization's external world built on real-time data and content. Signal AI's External Intelligence Graph maps the relationships between the things a modern organization needs to care about, like climate change, supply chain risk, or competitor intelligence, and highlights how an organization is "associated" to these important topics.
Posted July 12, 2022
Swimlane, the low-code security automation company, announced it has received $70 million in a growth funding round, accelerating the company's ongoing growth and operations on a global scale while continuing to advance its platform innovations in security automation ahead of the competition.
Posted July 11, 2022
SingleStore, the cloud-native database built for powering real-time data-intensive applications, announced it has been accepted as a Gold Status Partner in Intel's Disruptor Initiative. The program helps companies push the limits of innovation through technical enablement and multi-channel go-to-market activities. As a result, SingleStore customers will benefit by realizing enhanced database performance to address real-time data challenges while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).
Posted July 11, 2022
According to a new report by ResearchAndMarkets.com the "Hyperscale Data Center Market - Global Outlook and Forecast 2022-2027," the global data center support infrastructure market is set to reach $75.8 billion by 2024, registering a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.4% over the analysis period. Growth in the global market is being fueled by the rapidly rising volumes of data that needs to be stored and processed in a reliable and efficient manner.
Posted July 11, 2022
IBM announced it has entered a new 33-month work order under its contract with the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) to provide security services designed to enhance the Department of Defense's (DoD) microelectronics supply chain for critical mission platforms. As part of the Trusted Foundry Access II program, IBM Consulting will continue to establish secured microelectronics manufacturing flows at commercial state-of-the-art fabrication facilities.
Posted July 11, 2022
IBM is acquiring Databand.ai, a leading provider of data observability software that helps organizations fix issues with their data, including errors, pipeline failures, and poor quality. The acquisition further strengthens IBM's software portfolio across data, AI, and automation to address the full spectrum of observability.
Posted July 11, 2022
GigaSpaces is partnering with IBM and Wix to design a joint Digital Acceleration Hub (DAH), aiming to accelerate the pace at which enterprises and start-ups can build and deploy new digital services. The joint solution combines GigaSpaces' high-performance in-memory data platform with the capabilities and cutting-edge technologies of IBM and Wix.
Posted July 11, 2022
The traditional approach of providing data access to applications via remote database servers is not ideal for microservices. And while SQL provides standard access to relational databases, GraphQL can be used with any type of database—and it returns JSON documents.
Posted July 07, 2022
GigaSpaces is partnering with IBM and Wix to design a joint Digital Acceleration Hub (DAH), aiming to accelerate the pace at which enterprises and start-ups can build and deploy new digital services. The joint solution combines GigaSpaces' high-performance in-memory data platform with the capabilities and cutting-edge technologies of IBM and Wix.
Posted July 07, 2022
Most new initiatives in enterprise IT departments today involve the use of cloud solutions and services. The cloud has become a central component of corporate data strategies, and this is driving discussions not only around cloud brands, features, and migration strategies, but core IT issues like performance, flexibility, and security. It's no secret that many IT leaders look to the cloud as an opportunity to reduce infrastructure costs and improve their scalability and agility. At the same time, there are a variety of factors that impact the success of deployments and the benefits achieved.
Posted July 06, 2022
Scality announced that Scality ARTESCA lightweight object storage software is now officially supported on VMware virtual machines, providing production-level support for customers, equal to that on physical servers in terms of functionality, along with additional deployment flexibility.
Posted July 06, 2022
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is introducing a lower entry point for OCI Dedicated Region and providing a preview of Compute Cloud@Customer services, bringing more than 100 OCI public cloud services into customers' data centers. These new services will help customers meet strict latency, data residency, and data sovereignty requirements that are key to many IT modernization efforts.
Posted July 06, 2022
Commvault, an enterprise provider in intelligent data services across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments, is expanding its strategic partnership with Oracle to include Metallic DMaaS on Oracle Cloud. As part of Commvault's multi-cloud strategy, Metallic's industry-leading services will be offered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and available in all commercial OCI regions globally.
Posted July 06, 2022
Kyndryl, an IT infrastructure services provider, is partnering with Oracle to help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud by delivering managed cloud solutions to enterprises around the world. As part of the alliance, Kyndryl will become a key delivery partner for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), expanding upon its deep experience of working with and supporting customers using Oracle products and services.
Posted July 06, 2022
Relational databases are the cornerstone of many applications today, but users may hit some significant performance limitations imposed by disk-based storage. The most effective mitigation strategy is to add an in-memory cache to reduce latency, increase throughput, and improve scalability of your relational database.
Posted July 05, 2022
SADA announced it has developed POWERSTART Hadoop Migration Assessment, establishing a clear path to migrate specific workloads to Google Cloud, all customized to a users' unique technical requirements. "Hadoop is still the elephant in the room when dealing with large-scale data processing, and migrating these workloads to the cloud can deliver significant benefits to a wide variety of businesses," said SADA associate CTO Brian Suk.
Posted July 05, 2022
Crate.io, the enterprise data management company, is offering a new tier for CrateDB Cloud, offering the ability to deploy it with shared infrastructure resources and suspend compute power. With the deployment of this new tier of CrateDB Cloud, customers have access to more cost-effective options that enable use cases with changing requirements or smaller use cases with the flexibility to turn on and off compute power, according to the vendor.
Posted July 05, 2022
Retrospect, a StorCentric company, is introducing several platforms and updates across its security portfolio including Retrospect Cloud Storage, Retrospect Backup 19, and Retrospect Virtual 2022. "Ransomware is such a threat to businesses worldwide that Retrospect is focusing on providing tools for ransomware protection and detection to help defend crucial data from these cyber-security threats," said JG Heithcock, general manager, Retrospect, a StorCentric Company.
Posted June 30, 2022
Tellius, the AI-driven decision intelligence platform, is partnering with Databricks to give joint customers the ability to run Tellius natural language search queries and automated insights directly on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, powered by Delta Lake, without the need to move any data.
Posted June 30, 2022
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced its long-time partner, Red Hat, is joining the HPE GreenLake ecosystem, enabling the companies to work together to combine new service offerings with Red Hat's open source technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, all deployed on the HPE GreenLake platform.
Posted June 29, 2022
Kyligence is introducing Kyligence Zen, an intelligent metrics store platform that helps to align business goals and key metrics by automating data pipelines from data lakes or data warehouses to its multidimensional OLAP database to deliver metrics consistency and data trust in a cost-effective way.
Posted June 29, 2022
Starburst, the analytics anywhere company, is acquiring Varada, a data lake analytics accelerator, combining Varada's proprietary and patented indexing technology to transform data lake analytics. The combination empowers organizations to derive greater insights quickly and efficiently from their data, according to Starburst.
Posted June 28, 2022
Cloudflare, Inc., the security, performance, and reliability company, is introducing the Cloudflare One Partner Program, presenting a new way for the channel to integrate and extend Cloudflare One. By building on Cloudflare's comprehensive Zero Trust, Network-as-a-Service, and Cloud Email Security offerings, the Cloudflare One Partner Program enables partners to provide the architecture needed to keep today's organizations secure while speeding up their devices, applications, and entire networks, according to the vendor.
Posted June 28, 2022
Voltron Data, the company accelerating standards in data analytics and contributor to Apache Arrow, is expanding its Enterprise Support offering to include Ibis due to high customer demand. "With Ibis support, we are helping enterprises reduce the risk of vendor lock-in. No longer will customers have to rewrite their Python analytics code when they upgrade their databases or big data platforms. Write once, and let the systems underneath naturally evolve," said Rodrigo Aramburu, co-founder and CPO of Voltron Data.
Posted June 28, 2022
Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world's largest companies, is releasing the next version of its PRO/JCL, a job control language (JCL) management solution that includes a new interface through VS Code1 extension, Enhanced Directed Execution to include options for sending PROCs and PARMLIBs to remote LPARS, and improved visibility for NODE and LPAR in the primary panel. These updates help mainframe data centers achieve and operate a JCL environment that is error-free, standardized, and optimized.
Posted June 27, 2022
Object Management Group (OMG) announced Responsible Computing (RC), a new consortium comprised of technology innovators working together to address sustainable development goals. Responsible computing is a systemic approach aimed at addressing current and future challenges in computing, including sustainability, ethics, and professionalism, stemming from the belief that is needed to think about technology in terms of its impact on people and the planet.
Posted June 27, 2022
IBM plans to acquire Randori, a leading attack surface management (ASM) and offensive cybersecurity provider, further advancing IBM's Hybrid Cloud strategy and strengthening its portfolio of AI-powered cybersecurity products and services. Randori helps clients continuously identify external facing assets, both on-premise or in the cloud, that are visible to attackers—and prioritize exposures which pose the greatest risk.
Posted June 27, 2022
NVIDIA announced it is a founding member of the Linux Foundation's Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) project, while making its NVIDIA DOCA networking software APIs widely available to foster innovation in the data center. Businesses are embracing open data centers, which require applications and services that are easily integrated with other solutions for simplified, lower-cost and sustainable management. Moving to open NVIDIA DOCA will help develop and nurture broad and vibrant DPU ecosystems and power unprecedented data center transformation.
Posted June 27, 2022