Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
November 19, 2018
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: November 19, 2018. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Data Summit 2019 Call for Speakers is OPEN
Oracle Database Management and the Future
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Talari Networks, a provider of software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology. According to Oracle, Talari's proprietary Failsafe technology enhances the benefits of SD-WAN by adding greater reliability and predictability while maintaining security for site-to-site and site-to-cloud connectivity and application access over any IP network.
Sigma Computing is launching a better way explore and understand data stored in cloud data warehouses, providing access to Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift and other cloud data warehouses. Despite billions of dollars invested in data analytics tools in recent years, two-thirds of people still use Microsoft Excel to manipulate data. Sigma aims to change that with a better cloud analytics solution.