Big Data Articles
Bluwhale, an AI Web3 start-up, announced that it has topped its funding to $100 million, enabling the company to further expand its Web3 intelligence layer across multiple L1 and L2 blockchains. This total amount of funding includes its Seed/Series A round as well as a $75 million token purchase commitment, grants, and node sale proceeds.
Posted January 29, 2025
Abstract Security announced it has added Google Cloud Marketplace to support comprehensive multi-cloud security data operations. This move is in addition to the support it already offers for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
Posted January 29, 2025
NinjaOne, the automated endpoint management platform, is on track to acquire Dropsuite, a leader in cloud data backup, archiving, and recovery solutions for a total transaction value of approximately $252 million.
Posted January 28, 2025
Qt Group is launching Qt AI Assistant, an experimental tool for streamlining cross-platform user interface (UI) development with the goal of reducing repetitive UI development tasks that often do not involve coding.
Posted January 28, 2025
Sonar, a leading provider of code quality and code security solutions, is offering its latest Long-Term Active (LTA) version, SonarQube Server 2025 Release 1 (2025.1), introducing a range of advanced features and enhancements designed to integrate the use of AI in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), enhance code security, and improve overall software quality.
Posted January 27, 2025
The DeepSeek app, which was launched last week by a Chinese startup, has overtaken rivals including ChatGPT to become the most downloaded free app in the United States. It is powered by the open-source DeepSeek-V3 model, which its researchers claim was developed for less than $6M—significantly less than the billions spent by rivals, BBC reports.
Posted January 27, 2025
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Connectivity Link, a hybrid multi-cloud application connectivity solution that provides a modern approach to connecting disparate applications and infrastructure.
Posted January 24, 2025
Deep Instinct, the zero-day data security company built on an AI-based deep learning framework for cybersecurity, is releasing DSX for Cloud - Amazon FSx NetApp, delivering real-time prevention and explainability of zero-day attacks for NetApp workloads, wherever they reside.
Posted January 24, 2025
Dataiku, the Universal AI Platform, is launching Dataiku Optimizer for Snowflake, a Snowflake Native App that empowers joint customers to monitor and improve their usage of Snowflake services while working within their Dataiku solutions.
Posted January 23, 2025
Given the criticality of understanding the breadth and depth of software audits, and the consequential costs, this survey, "The Rising Cost of Software Compliance: 2025 Survey on Software Audits," has been conducted by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc. to gain a better understanding of the current state of software licensing and audit trends.
Posted January 22, 2025
OpenAI is partnering with Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle to form the Stargate Project—a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. According to an announcement by OpenAI, the project will begin deploying $100 billion immediately.
Posted January 22, 2025
Indeavor announced the availability of its workforce management solution, Indeavor Operate, on SAP Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. Indeavor's solution integrates with SAP S/4 Hana, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Timesheet, and delivers advanced workforce management capabilities, enabling customers to streamline scheduling, improve compliance, and enhance productivity across facilities to customers.
Posted January 22, 2025
Panaya, a leader in AI powered change intelligence and smart testing for business applications, is collaborating with Cognizant, an SAP Global Strategic Services Partner. According to the companies, this collaboration aims to accelerate organizations' SAP S/4HANA transformation journey, enabling seamless migration and unlocking the untapped potential of digital transformation.
Posted January 22, 2025
Recognizing the need to empower partners to set the right foundation for the cloud, SAP is revamping SAP PartnerEdge—its flagship, global program to engage with partners, no matter their route to market. The program, now 100% cloud-focused, is designed to help recognize and elevate partners that are ready to support customers in the cloud-powered AI economy.
Posted January 22, 2025
IBM and SAP announced the upcoming release of RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server, designed to make it the fastest and easiest path for IBM Power customers to accelerate their ERP transformation. Together, IBM and SAP aim to help organizations more seamlessly transition and modernize their on-premises ERP environments to the cloud and support AI-powered business processes, the companies said.
Posted January 22, 2025
A day in the life of a DBA (database administrator) can be quite hectic. The DBA is required to maintain production and test environments while at the same time keeping an eye on active application development projects, attending strategy and design meetings, helping to select and evaluate new products, and keeping legacy systems robust and stable, while ensuring access from new systems.
Posted January 22, 2025
Oracle announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. Oracle's converged database architecture enables customers to leverage multiple data and application development models to support enterprise data and AI workloads.
Posted January 22, 2025
Atlas Salt, Inc., a new developer in Canada's mining industry, is using Oracle's project and financial management solutions to support the development of the Great Atlantic Salt (GAS) deposit. The GAS project, which is set to initially produce up to 2.5 million tons of rock salt annually, represents North America's first new salt mine in nearly three decades.
Posted January 22, 2025
Oracle and Adarga, a leader in AI-driven information intelligence, are partnering to bring Adarga's Vantage software to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle's distributed cloud. Together, Adarga and Oracle will help defense and security organizations deliver mission-critical data and insights to the U.K. and its allies.
Posted January 22, 2025
For enterprises already leveraging the Oracle footprint, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents both an exciting opportunity and a challenge. Many organizations find themselves asking: How can AI enhance the systems we've already invested in? Is it a seamless addition, or will it disrupt established workflows?
Posted January 22, 2025
Entrinsik's annual Entrinsicon 2025 is arriving earlier than expected due to demand and venue availability. The new dates are Tuesday, September 16th through Thursday, September 18th, 2025, in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the Marriott Crabtree Valley. It's an opportunity to receive cost-effective, in-depth education delivered by Entrinsik's developers, support teams, and customers, and the most advantageous way to remain up-to-date with the latest upgrades and functionality.
Posted January 22, 2025
Rocket Software announced the latest enhancements to the Rocket U2 System Builder Extensible Architecture version 6.6.2. This release brings a host of improvements and fixes that enhance the functionality and reliability of the platform.
Posted January 22, 2025
Kore Integrate is the perfect platform to improve Data Quality Management, said Maxwell Dallinga in a recent blog post by Kore Tech. Data quality management is a process to ensure that data is reliable and effective. It's the pillar upon which AI sits in order to give accurate information.
Posted January 22, 2025
A surrogate is, "One appointed to act in place of another." A surrogate key is appointed to act in place of a natural key. Why? Well, one could argue that surrogate keys existed since the beginning of the computer. As the computer uses internal addresses for finding everything, and in the early days that usage had to be explicitly managed by those programming. It wasn't until relational theory came along that the concept of using data values as identifiers arose and were functionally implemented.
Posted January 22, 2025
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, announced general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engine, a new edition of Red Hat OpenShift that provides a dedicated way for organizations to access the virtualization functionality already available within Red Hat OpenShift.
Posted January 21, 2025
Appfire, a leading global provider of software that enhances, extends, and connects the world's leading platforms, announced that 7pace Timetracker for Jira is live in the Atlassian Marketplace—giving Atlassian customers using the app an advanced time-tracking solution for teams that have outgrown legacy time tracking solutions.
Posted January 21, 2025
BMC is releasing a variety of updates to the BMC AMI portfolio, breaking new ground in enabling what is possible on the mainframe from a new approach to secondary data storage to the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances productivity and efficiency.
Posted January 21, 2025
Exabeam, a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations, is introducing LogRhythm Intelligence Copilot, a generative AI-powered feature delivering actionable insights to empower security teams and accelerate workflows. According to the company, this release solidifies Exabeam as a trusted innovator, providing real AI to automate cybersecurity while competitors under-deliver.
Posted January 20, 2025
Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technology and services, is expanding its strategic collaboration with Micron Technology, Inc., a global leader in memory and storage solutions, to enable high-capacity and energy-efficient solutions that hyperscalers require using Micron G9 QLC NAND for future DirectFlash Module products.
Posted January 20, 2025
President Joe Biden issued an executive order to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence data centers, calling for leasing federal sites owned by Defense and Energy departments to host gigawatt-scale AI data centers and new clean power facilities. The move aims to address enormous power needs in a short time frame.
Posted January 20, 2025
365 Data Centers, a leading provider of network-centric colocation, network, cloud, and other managed services, is announcing a strategic partnership with InterServer, a renowned web hosting and managed services provider, aiming to expand each company's existing IT capabilities while growing its New Jersey market presence.
Posted January 20, 2025
Orchid Security, an emerging leader in identity-first security orchestration, announced it has raised $36 million in seed funding, enabling the company to continue its work using Large Language Models (LLMs) to address the longstanding challenge of managing fragmented identity systems in large enterprises.
Posted January 17, 2025
MariaDB announced the general availability of MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2025, the latest major release of its enterprise database solution that now supports AI applications in addition to a full range of transactional, analytical, and semi-structured tools.
Posted January 16, 2025
The Data Group is unveiling Omega, a breakthrough solution designed to address fragmented and scattered data across multiple cloud-based SaaS applications. According to the vendor, Omega reimagines how businesses manage their data, providing a streamlined, central data hub that brings all their critical information together, making it easily accessible, secure, and under their full control.
Posted January 16, 2025
Since the early days of hardware and software, major vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, SAP, and others have leveraged vendor lock-in as a strategic approach to gain customer advantage. This tactic shifts the balance of power to vendors, enabling them to expand and retain their business base.
Posted January 16, 2025
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and AI, is acquiring Upsolver, a pioneer in real-time data streaming and Apache Iceberg optimization, deepening Qlik's ability to provide enterprises with end-to-end, open, and scalable solutions that unify data integration, analytics, and AI under a single platform.
Posted January 15, 2025
The interest surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has never been higher, but AI agents are the next wave of innovation enterprises need to prepare for. An AI agent is a fully automated program with complex reasoning capabilities and memory that uses an LLM to solve problems, creates its own plan to do so, and executes that plan.
Posted January 15, 2025
dbt Labs, a pioneer in analytics engineering, is acquiring SDF Labs, the team of former Meta and Microsoft engineering leaders behind SDF, a next-generation data transformation technology—enabling dbt Labs to integrate SDF's powerful multi-dialect, dbt-native SQL comprehension capabilities into dbt.
Posted January 14, 2025
Thoras.ai announced the successful closure of a $5 million seed funding round, enabling the company to scale its AI-driven platform to redefine how enterprises achieve reliability, uncover root causes, and prevent costly downtime—offering a bold new vision for scalable, adaptive observability.
Posted January 14, 2025
The months and years ahead promise to be an interesting time in the data analytics space.AI and machine learning are already making their mark, elevating analytics—and its front-end sibling, business intelligence. End users are seeing their capabilities expand in new directions, with an ability to ask questions they did not even consider with earlier technology iterations. Industry leaders are tracking a range of developments that are defining analytics and BI in the year ahead.
Posted January 13, 2025
AppOmni, a leader in SaaS security, announced new policy compliance checks to help U.S. Federal Government agencies comply with the mandate from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA's) Binding Operational Directive, or BOD 25-01, to secure cloud applications.
Posted January 13, 2025
Articul8 AI (Articul8), a generative AI (GenAI) enterprise software company, is releasing A8 Essential, an innovative self-service GenAI product that empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their data. According to the company, A8 Essential fills the unmet need in the market to build complex, domain-specific, enterprise-grade GenAI applications.
Posted January 13, 2025
Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud through the availability of its Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) on Google Cloud. Built on the foundation of Informatica's AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), CDGC provides customers with a robust data governance and catalog solution that helps increase data trust, data democratization, and data delivery for Google Cloud customers.
Posted January 09, 2025
A lot of SAP customers and consultants look at SAP BW/4HANA as a "lower-class" SAP system. Something for "someone else" to worry about. They forget about all the work that went into setting up their company's data warehouse in SAP BW/4HANA, or further back, like some of my early SAP consulting projects on BW7 and BW3.5.
Posted January 09, 2025
While the generative AI (GenAI) revolution is rolling forward at full steam, it's not without its share of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The great promises that can be delivered through large language models (LLMs) are tainted by concerns over hallucinations, bias, data security, "black-box" decisioning, and outdated information.
Posted January 09, 2025