Tecton, the enterprise feature store company and primary contributor to Feast, is releasing Feast 0.10, the first feature store that can be deployed locally without dedicated infrastructure. The new release makes it possible for data scientists to reap the benefits of a functionally complete feature store with no infrastructure overhead or maintenance.
Posted April 16, 2021
Crate.io, developer and supplier of CrateDB, is releasing CrateDB Edge, allowing Crate.io customers to capture and analyze data at the data source, regardless of geographical location or whether there is cloud or internet accessibility. CrateDB Edge brings the capabilities of CrateDB Cloud—Crate.io's managed database-as-a-service8to edge locations for the first time.
Posted April 15, 2021
Dell Technologies has announced plans to spin off its 81% equity ownership interest in VMware, resulting in two standalone companies. Dell Technologies said it is poised to further capitalize on the rebound in infrastructure and PC spend, new cloud operating models driving as-a-service growth, compute moving to the edge, and customers' longer-term digital transformation initiatives.
Posted April 15, 2021
Alluxio, the developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, is releasing version 2.5 of its Data Orchestration Platform featuring access via POSIX and S3 interfaces, enabling data platform teams to accelerate data pipelines for both business intelligence and model training.
Posted April 15, 2021
Innovative enterprise tech startups are emerging to tackle both new and longstanding challenges and problems in ways never thought possible. Many of these companies have fresh approaches to accelerate digital transformation, expand AI and analytics initiatives, streamline DevOps, improve data observability, and more. Here are 16 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2021.
Posted April 15, 2021
As IoT devices and applications continue to proliferate, the centralized, cloud-based model used by many enterprises is taking a back seat in favor of moving data and processes closer to the edge to increase their flexibility, agility, and accessibility. With more and more organizations adopting real-time capabilities and 5G networks on the rise, 2021 is poised to be a banner year for digital transformation opportunities. However, challenges remain, from the well-tread issues of speed and scalability, to data security and governance.
Posted April 14, 2021
IBM has announced COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1, bringing IBM's COBOL compilation technologies and capabilities to the Linux on x86 environment. "COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1 is the latest addition to the IBM COBOL compiler family, which includes Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and COBOL for AIX. COBOL for Linux on x86 is a productive and powerful development environment for building and modernizing COBOL applications," IBM said.
Posted April 14, 2021
Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) today announced that QCI's Qatalyst constrained optimization is now available as a Software as a Service (SaaS) on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), for both classical and quantum computers. The SaaS service eliminates the need for complex quantum programming. It empowers subject matter experts (SMEs) to submit their complex optimization problems to Qatalyst, which leverages the power of quantum-ready computational software on classical processors to provide solutions.
Posted April 14, 2021
Privacera has announced a technology partnership with Dremio aimed at helping joint customers have rapid, self-service analytics across all cloud data lakes with consistent access control policies and rich audits of data usage to comply with industry and privacy regulations.
Posted April 13, 2021
Meroxa is releasing its real-time data Platform as a Service, the Meroxa platform, designed to empower data teams with the tools they need to build real-time infrastructure in minutes, not months. By reducing complexity and enabling self-service capabilities, Meroxa frees teams to spend less time on mundane tasks and more time focusing on impactful projects.
Posted April 13, 2021
With the 1-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown just behind us, there has been a lot of dialogue regarding what different industries have experienced over the past year. Acknowledging this dubious anniversary, we sat down to collect our thoughts and share a few advisements with respect to our small corner of the legal and tech industry.
Posted April 13, 2021
Streamlit, providers of the framework for machine learning and data science, is introducing Streamlit for Teams, the company's first commercial product, allowing data scientists to instantly deploy and share apps with teammates, clients and other stakeholders.
Posted April 12, 2021
Time-series databases show much promise for developers looking to collect, visualize, process, and alert time series data. Yet several questions remain such as: why do you need a specialized database for time-series data, what should you consider when looking for a time-series database, and how to get started with a minimal amount of time and effort? DBTA held a webinar with Al Sargent, senior director of product, InfluxData, who discussed how to evaluate the various time series databases on the market and get started fast.
Posted April 12, 2021
Kyndryl will be the name of the new, independent company that will be created following the separation of IBM's Managed Infrastructure Services business, which is expected to occur by the end of 2021. Kyndryl will be headquartered in New York City.
Posted April 12, 2021
Rocket Software, a provider of enterprise modernization and optimization solutions for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ASG Technologies. The acquisition expands Rocket's portfolio of enterprise software solutions focused on expanding the value of legacy platforms across the technology domains of core infrastructure, security, data & AI, application development, open source, and hybrid cloud.
Posted April 12, 2021
Digitate, an autonomous enterprise software provider, is releasing ignio AIOps for Azure in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, enabling customers to drive their digital transformation on cloud with Azure. ignio AIOps for Azure offers more efficiency and observability to Azure cloud, making it a necessity for managing activity and overall productivity, according to the vendor.
Posted April 12, 2021
In an era of rapid digital transformation, companies that fail to effectively manage and leverage their data assets will find themselves falling behind. Speed, scalability and flexibility are critical tenets of modern data strategies and require technologies and processes that are responsive to the business.
Posted April 09, 2021
Swarm64, a provider of database acceleration solutions for the PostgreSQL open source database, is forming a partnership with EDB, a leading contributor to PostgreSQL, to help companies reduce IT costs. Swarm64 DA has successfully completed the EDB GlobalConnect Technology Partner certification process for use with EDB Postgres Advanced.
Posted April 08, 2021
Securiti, a provider of AI-powered data privacy and security, is partnering with Cisco Investments to work with Cisco and help their customers solve the challenge of multi-cloud and edge security, privacy and compliance. The move comes after Cisco Investments gave funding to Securiti.
Posted April 08, 2021
Cloud adoption is accelerating, alongside automation, offering companies a path to increase their database capabilities in ways not possible before. Reducing infrastructure costs, improving systems agility, and supporting new use cases are all key drivers. Moreover, since heterogeneity still rules the day at most enterprises, it's no surprise that hybrid, mult-icloud architectures are quickly becoming the go-to strategy.
Posted April 08, 2021
Astadia has announced the Migration Factory to automate the assessment and transformation of mainframe applications and databases, with the goal of more rapidly moving these applications to any of the popular cloud platforms. The combination of Astadia's re-platforming and refactoring capabilities offers a complete mainframe migration roadmap.
Posted April 07, 2021
To ease the cost and effort of cloud migration. Oracle has announced new Oracle Cloud Lift Services that give Oracle customers expanded access to technical tools and cloud engineering resources to quickly migrate workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). "Our customers want a seamless path to the cloud with the right guidance, solution architecture, and hands-on help we can provide," said Vinay Kumar, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Posted April 07, 2021
Oracle has announced that it is launching the E4 platform based on third-generation AMD EPYC processors. The E4 platform includes both bare metal and flexible virtual machines (VMs). The announcement was made in an Oracle blog post by Rajan Panchapakesan, director of product management, OCI Compute.
Posted April 07, 2021
Katana Graph, a provider of software for high-performance scale-out graph processing, AI, and analytics, announced it has optimized its graph engine for the all-new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor and memory systems. According to the company, this means that Katana Graph can now take advantage of the latest generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane persistent memory technology to process massive graphs on much smaller clusters.
Posted April 07, 2021
Alluxio, a developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, has introduced a go-to-market solution in collaboration with Intel to offer an in-memory acceleration layer with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane persistent memory (PMem) 200 series. The solution enables high performance analytics and AI pipelines at a massive scale while minimizing the TCO by more seamlessly managing data in local storage tiers close to compute.
Posted April 07, 2021
Google Cloud has announced that Database Migration Service (DMS) is generally available to support enterprises migrating their business infrastructure, and their databases, to the cloud. "We're excited to announce that Google Cloud's Database Migration Service (DMS) is generally available, supporting MySQL and PostgreSQL migrations from on-premises and other clouds to Cloud SQL. Later this year we will introduce support for Microsoft SQL Server," said Shachar Guz, product manager.
Posted April 07, 2021
MarkLogic, a provider of cloud data integration and data management software, has announced the general availability of a custom connector for AWS Glue, a fully-managed, serverless data integration service to create, run, and monitor data integration pipelines.
Posted April 07, 2021
Redis Labs has closed $110 million in financing led by a new investor, Tiger Global, which brings the company's valuation to more than $2 billion. The company's Series G round also includes participation from another new investor, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and existing Redis Labs investor TCV. Additionally, Tiger, SoftBank, and TCV acquired additional ownership as part of a $200 million secondary transaction.
Posted April 07, 2021
ScaleOut Software is releasing the on-premises version of its ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service, providing all of the analytics and visualization tools available from its Azure-hosted cloud version. Dubbed ScaleOut StreamServer DT, this new software solution lets organizations develop and deploy streaming analytics applications on servers hosted within their infrastructure.
Posted April 07, 2021
WhiteSource, a provider in open source security and management, has raised $75 million in Series D funding, enabling the company to continue to grow its automated open source security solutions. This round of funding also reflects the pace and scale with which WhiteSource has been adopted globally, enabling it to become strategically self-sufficient in financing its own growth.
Posted April 07, 2021
Jumio, a provider of AI-powered end-to-end identity verification and eKYC solutions, is partnering with Microsoft for the rollout of its Azure Active Directory (Active AD) verifiable credentials to help provide self-service enrollment and fast onboarding of remote users.
Posted April 05, 2021
Since its emergence, many companies have made great strides with DevOps, advancing their development processes. However, for DevOps to continue transforming enterprises, it must evolve to address longstanding challenges, take advantage of new opportunities, and spread beyond its comfort zone.
Posted April 05, 2021
Matillion, a leading enterprise cloud data integration platform, is releasing Matillion ETL for Delta Lake on Databricks, enabling data professionals across the business to aggregate and share data in a single environment. Through the powerful, scalable combination of Matillion ETL and Databricks, enterprises access insights from large, dynamic datasets on a unified platform, empowering data teams to take full advantage of modern lakehouse architecture, according to the vendors.
Posted April 05, 2021
ASG Technologies, a provider of solutions for the information-powered enterprise, has unveiled new capabilities for its DevOps value stream management platform, ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator 4.2. The release further enables infrastructure and operations and DevOps teams to visualize, orchestrate, and automate development and operational value streams spanning mainframe to cloud.
Posted April 05, 2021
The latest release of Red Hat Integration is now available and includes an expanded list of target databases with a new connector for IBM Db2. The announcement was made in a Red Hat blog post.
Posted April 05, 2021
SunTec, a relationship-based pricing and billing company, has announced that its award-winning platform Xelerate is now available on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE, allowing large banks that host much of their applications and operational data on IBM Z to rapidly and non-intrusively enhance the capabilities of their legacy core systems, to deliver contextual and hyper-personalized customer experience and offerings.
Posted April 05, 2021
IBM has announced a series of new and updated capabilities for developers designed to deliver intelligent application analysis throughout the DevOps pipeline.
Posted April 05, 2021
Striim announced the company has received $50 million in Series C financing, allowing Striim to strengthen its go-to-market capabilities to meet the exploding global demand for transitioning data to the cloud.
Posted April 02, 2021
Denodo, a leader in data virtualization, is releasing Denodo Standard, a new data integration solution available on leading cloud marketplaces that leverages Denodo's modern data virtualization engine to deliver superior performance and productivity.
Posted April 02, 2021
BMC, a provider of software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, is introducing several new offerings and integrations within the BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and BMC Compuware portfolios.
Posted April 01, 2021
Spectra Logic, a leader in data storage and data management solutions, is releasing the publication of its annual "Data Storage Outlook" report, which explores how the world manages, accesses, uses, and preserves its ever-expanding data repositories.
Posted April 01, 2021
Sumo Logic is partnering with AWS for the launch of Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams, a fully managed, scalable, and low latency service that streams Amazon CloudWatch metrics to partners via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. AWS and Sumo Logic customers now have a fully managed and reliable solution for streaming CloudWatch metrics into Sumo Logic to help simplify the monitoring and troubleshooting of AWS infrastructure, services, and applications.
Posted April 01, 2021
Graylog, a global provider of next-generation log management solutions, is releasing Graylog Cloud, offering choices to customers who want seamless data collection, rapid search, flexible analysis, and greater affordability without the hassle of maintaining and updating the systems it runs on.
Posted March 31, 2021
Cloudera, the enterprise data cloud company, announced the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is now available on Google Cloud, allowing customers to get positive business results fast with instant access to quality data on a scalable, open source, enterprise data cloud platform.
Posted March 31, 2021
Platform9, a leading SaaS Managed Kubernetes provider, is releasing the latest version of the Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) product, now offering IPv6 support for 5G deployments that boast several advanced networking technologies and support capabilities.
Posted March 31, 2021
To ease the cost and effort of cloud migration. Oracle has announced new Oracle Cloud Lift Services that give Oracle customers expanded access to technical tools and cloud engineering resources to quickly migrate workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). "Our customers want a seamless path to the cloud with the right guidance, solution architecture, and hands-on help we can provide," said Vinay Kumar, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Posted March 31, 2021
Oracle has announced that it is launching the E4 platform based on third-generation AMD EPYC processors. The E4 platform includes both bare metal and flexible virtual machines (VMs). The announcement was made in an Oracle blog post by Rajan Panchapakesan, director of product management, OCI Compute.
Posted March 31, 2021
ASG Technologies, a provider of solutions for the information-powered enterprise, has unveiled new capabilities for its DevOps value stream management platform, ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator 4.2. The release further enables infrastructure and operations and DevOps teams to visualize, orchestrate, and automate development and operational value streams spanning mainframe to cloud.
Posted March 30, 2021
The latest release of Red Hat Integration is now available and includes an expanded list of target databases with a new connector for IBM Db2. The announcement was made in a Red Hat blog post.
Posted March 30, 2021
SunTec, a relationship-based pricing and billing company, has announced that its award-winning platform Xelerate is now available on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE, allowing large banks that host much of their applications and operational data on IBM Z to rapidly and non-intrusively enhance the capabilities of their legacy core systems, to deliver contextual and hyper-personalized customer experience and offerings.
Posted March 30, 2021