Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
September 12, 2018
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: September 12, 2018. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Actian, provider of hybrid data management, is releasing the Actian Zen Core database for Android, giving developers the ability to create more intelligent apps. Actian Zen Core database for Android focuses squarely on the needs of Edge and IoT application developers, providing persistent local and distributed data across intelligent applications embedded in smart devices.
Pure Storage, provider of an all-flash storage platform, has introduced a data hub to modernize storage architecture for unstructured, data-intensive workloads. Organizational data silos are a universal problem across every industry, but businesses need to realize value from all data, which is impossible without insight into the full picture, explained Matt Burr, GM of FlashBlade, Pure Storage. With the data hub, he noted, Pure Storage has created a central storage system that addresses current and future application requirements with a modern platform.
SAP is boosting SAP Analytics Cloud with new machine learning features to uncover correlations in an organization's data and help users make faster and more confident decisions. The announcement was made at the Strata Data Conference held September 12-14 in New York City.