Big Data Articles
Scamnetic, a company dedicated to protecting individuals and businesses from digital threats using advanced AI, is debuting its AI-based scam-detection solution—helping consumers detect every type of scam including deepfake video and audio across any channel in real time, removing human error from the process.
Posted August 07, 2024
Ampere and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are releasing second-generation Ampere-based compute instances, OCI Ampere A2 Compute, based on the AmpereOne family of processors. The new offering builds upon the success of OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances, which have been adopted by OCI customers and deployed across over 100 OCI services, including Oracle Database services like HeatWave, MySQL, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications.
Posted August 07, 2024
Advanced Info Service (AIS), one of Thailand's largest mobile network operators, announced plans to deploy Oracle Alloy and launch AIS Cloud, the country's first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud. Oracle Alloy will provide AIS' customers and all enterprises in Thailand, including the public sector, access to more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including the latest artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to meet the increased demands for generative AI, large language models (LLMs), advanced graphics, and digital twins to hasten operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) announced the release of NVIDIA L40S GPU bare-metal instances, available to order and the upcoming availability of a new virtual machine accelerated by a single NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU.
Posted August 07, 2024
AvePoint, a global leader in data management and data governance, is releasing AvePoint Cloud Backup Express, designed to use Microsoft 365 Backup Storage for rapid and more efficient data protection.
Posted August 06, 2024
Polyhedra Network (Polyhedra), the team pioneering the next generation of secure and scalable zero-knowledge (ZK) proof infrastructure, announced that Proof Cloud has launched in an open beta to meet the growing demand for efficient, fast, and cost-effective ZK-proof technology. Proof Cloud was created in collaboration with Google Cloud and will be utilized by Polygon, Linea, and Lita at launch.
Posted August 06, 2024
Logz.io, provider of Open 360, is releasing Explore, a faster, more intuitive and responsive user interface (UI) for the Logz.io Open 360 observability platform—improving the ability of users to access, query, and visualize their logs. Explore is now the default log management interface for Logz.io, replacing the previous version based on OpenSearch Dashboards (OSD).
Posted August 05, 2024
Index Engines, a cybersecurity company, is providing new comprehensive data integrity reporting within the CyberSense product—empowering data protection and security teams to quickly understand and explain the health status of protected data to support their cyber resiliency strategies.
Posted August 02, 2024
Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams, is releasing a new version of its static analysis tools, providing enhanced security and maximum CI/CD process flexibility for safety-critical development projects. Perforce static analysis engines ensure software quality, safety and security, and offer continuous compliance throughout the development process by alerting developers to defects, vulnerabilities, and standards rule violations as the code is being written, according to the company.
Posted August 01, 2024
Weaviate, an AI-native vector database company, is releasing a developer "workbench" of tools and apps along with flexible tiered storage to help organizations put AI into production. Inspired by Weaviate's vibrant open source community, Weaviate's new developer offerings accelerate AI application development and provide end-to-end solutions for some of the most common AI use cases, helping organizations make the leap from AI prototypes to production, according to the company.
Posted July 31, 2024
Fireproof, developer of open-source database technology, announced it has closed its pre-seed funding round, enabling the company to further support the launch of Fireproof Cloud—a platform designed to make database management easy for everyone, while offering industry leading data integrity and portability.
Posted July 31, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is releasing the general availability of the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services. Including NVIDIA DGX BasePOD certification, the first Hitachi iQ infrastructure offering meets the highest standards of performance and reliability and helps customers seamlessly power their most critical AI applications. Featuring the Hitachi Content Software for File solution, Hitachi iQ provides customers the speed, efficiency, and processing to accelerate and optimize their time to insights so that they can drive transformative outcomes for their business, according to the company.
Posted July 29, 2024
Baffle, a company that protects sensitive data, is offering new capabilities designed to secure multi-tenant applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—giving AWS customers the ability to secure data in databases as well as S3 object storage with simplicity and ease by protecting each tenant within the multi-tenant application.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM announced it is a new partner of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, as approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a major national and international research center, SQMS is dedicated to advancing critical quantum technologies, with a focus on superconducting quantum systems.
Posted July 29, 2024
According to IBM's CFO, the company's z16 mainframe is outperforming previous generations of the system, as reflected in recent quarterly financial results. The financial results for the past three months to the end of June 2024 showed it brought in $15.77 billion in revenue, up 1.9% year-on-year and more than the $15.62 billion predicted by analysts.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM is introducing two new IBM SkillsBuild certificates in cybersecurity and data analytics, designed and piloted with community colleges. These new IBM SkillsBuild certificates will be available to students across the Alabama Community College System, Bay Area Community College Consortium, Colorado Community College System, and Louisiana Community and Technical College System this fall.
Posted July 29, 2024
365 Data Centers (365), a leading provider of network-centric colocation, network, cloud, and other managed services, is expanding its partnership with Megaport, a global leading Network-as-a-Service provider (NaaS). Megaport has broadened its 365 footprint by adding a Point-of-Presence at 365's Boca Raton, Florida data center, further enhancing public cloud and other connectivity solutions available to 365's Southeast customers.
Posted July 29, 2024
Eventually the day comes when an existing data mart or warehouse needs to be re-examined. Maybe new workloads are desired, new business models arise, a new platform is considered, or new supporting tools in the environment are wanted. Especially when a new platform is part of the equation, many in charge think first of "lift and shift" as the approach. Taking as much existing data and processes as possible and keeping them virtually unchanged as things are moved onto new foundations is almost always the cost-saving approach—for the immediate short term.
Posted July 29, 2024
Privacera, the AI and data security governance company founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, is offering a private preview of Posture Manager, expanding on its ability to deliver active Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). The solution is designed to transform data security with enhanced visualization, mapping, and data risk analytical capabilities, according to the vendor.
Posted July 26, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is releasing Qlik Talend Cloud, a streamlined integrated solution designed to enhance data trust and accessibility for AI value creation. Underpinned by trusted Qlik and Talend technologies, trusted by some of the world's largest brands, Qlik Talend Cloud is designed to facilitate responsible enterprise AI adoption, according to the company.
Posted July 25, 2024
SUSE, a global leader in innovative, open and secure enterprise-grade solutions, is acquiring the full stack observability platform StackState, enabling SUSE to accelerate cloud-native observability for the enterprise by integrating the platform into Rancher Prime, its premium container management service.
Posted July 25, 2024
Pure Storage, an IT pioneer that delivers advanced data storage technologies and services, is introducing new capabilities to the Pure Storage platform that change how IT and business leaders can improve their ability to deploy AI, support cyber resilience, and modernize applications.
Posted July 25, 2024
Kyndryl, one of the world's largest IT infrastructure services providers, is selecting the RISE with SAP solution to accelerate its journey to the cloud, along with expanding its strategic alliance with SAP. As part of the expansion, Kyndryl will provide SAP services for the delivery of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition to help customers move to the cloud and continue solving their most complex digital transformation challenges, according to the company.
Posted July 24, 2024
Globant, a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help customers leverage RISE with SAP to modernize their on-premises SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) and migrate to the cloud. Globant and AWS are helping their joint customers leverage RISE with SAP—a managed cloud offering of solutions, infrastructure, and services—to streamline migration of their legacy SAP ERP to AWS with more speed and confidence, according to the companies.
Posted July 24, 2024
Tricentis, a global leader in AI-powered continuous testing and quality engineering, is acquiring SeaLights, a SaaS-based, software quality intelligence platform. SeaLights further increases Tricentis' market leadership in quality intelligence by adding expanded capabilities for unparalleled visibility and insights into code and tests throughout the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, according to the companies.
Posted July 24, 2024
Following a series of mergers and acquisitions in Europe, CENIT Group is now expanding its presence in North America with a 60% stake in U.S. company Analysis Prime—a global leader in SAP planning and analytics. With this acquisition, CENIT Group is diversifying its SAP business and achieves a major input of expertise in the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) field, according to the vendor.
Posted July 24, 2024
Rocket Software's MultiValue (MV) platform is engineered to help its customers pivot their legacy systems into the future, ensuring that modernization is not just integrated but a driving force for growth. Patrick Payne, a Rocket MultiValue evangelist, addresses cloud enablement, specifically transitioning to the cloud with confidence in a newly released report.
Posted July 24, 2024
Kore Tech, formally known as Kore Technologies, is launching a new brand and website—focusing not just on MultiValue but continuing to expand its ERP reach. "We are proud to announce the launch of our new brand and website as we evolve in a new phase of growth for Kore. This is more than a fresh look; it's a commitment to innovation and excellence in providing technology solutions that help clients drive growth and profitability," said Kore.
Posted July 24, 2024
After the successful launch of Entrinsik Informer AI earlier this year, the company is looking ahead to the future of AI Assistants. Informer AI offers real-time assistance with Help Center AI, enhances scripting and querying capabilities through Copilot AI, and empowers users to create digital assistants in seconds.
Posted July 24, 2024
Database administration is a demanding career that is constantly morphing to include more and different job requirements. Being a DBA requires technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage multiple, detailed tasks at the same time. This means that in the world of database administration, stress is an unwelcome, yet common companion.
Posted July 24, 2024
Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, is offering the general availability of Identity Continuity, an addition to its Maverics Identity Orchestration platform that ensures business continuity and uninterrupted application access. The solution seamlessly fails over from a primary cloud Identity Provider (IDP) to a secondary IDP, using an on-premises IDP or cloud-to-cloud failover capabilities, according to Strata.
Posted July 23, 2024
Backed by its majority owner STG, Alveo, a leading provider of cloud-based market data management software, has completed its merger with Gresham Technologies (Gresham)—creating a market leading provider for data automation and optimization of mission-critical data, post-trade processes, and external reporting.
Posted July 22, 2024
After a system update pushed by CrowdStrike on Friday upended government services, emergency call centers, banks, airlines, hospitals, and other businesses, most systems are up and running as normal now. CrowdStrike is actively assisting customers affected by a defect in a recent content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts were not impacted. The issue has been identified and isolated, and a fix has been deployed. This was not a cyberattack, the company stressed.
Posted July 22, 2024
A faulty update to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor caused a global IT outage on Microsoft systems Friday, causing international flights to be grounded, knocking banks offline and media outlets off air. Further compounding the situation, several states in the U.S. are reporting disruptions to emergency services. The bug has affected many stock exchanges, supermarkets, government services, and even hospital and healthcare systems. Users are experiencing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error, which is causing their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly.
Posted July 19, 2024
Infragistics, a leading global provider of tools and solutions to accelerate design and development, is introducing an array of new features in App Builder, the essential cloud-based WYSIWYG drag and drop low-code software tool. Known for its flexibility and efficiency, React is growing in popularity within the development community. With this added feature, App Builder now provides users the ability to generate production ready code across every major web framework, Infragistics said.
Posted July 18, 2024
CTERA, a leader in hybrid cloud data management, announced it has raised $80 million in primary and secondary funding that will enable the company to double down on hybrid cloud and expand into data intelligence.
Posted July 18, 2024
OpenText is launching a solution to speed the triage and remediation of vulnerabilities throughout the stages of code development—dubbed OpenText Fortify Aviator. The platform is an AI-powered code security solution that saves developers significant time by enabling faster and easier auditing and remediation of static application security testing (SAST) vulnerabilities—all within a single solution. Fortify Aviator empowers teams to release secure software faster and with greater confidence, according to OpenText.
Posted July 17, 2024
In our last article, we discussed several great companies of Western civilization and why a poignant few of them, that were building game-changing technology, disappeared. Metaphorically they can be envisioned as having been buried in the proverbial Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse, never to be seen again.
Posted July 17, 2024
The Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) announced it has launched an automated process to make new enterprise Linux sources available almost immediately after each release of new versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). OpenELA's rapid response demonstrates the utility of the organization as a resource for independent software vendors (ISVs), independent hardware vendors (IHVs), processor manufacturers, independent developers, and others who need rapid, reliable, and secure access to enterprise Linux sources to create their downstream builds, according to the vendor.
Posted July 17, 2024
Oracle announced that Palantir's Foundry Platform and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) are certified on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), along with being generally available across all Oracle's distributed cloud deployment options. Oracle's distributed cloud, AI infrastructure, and sovereign AI capabilities, combined with Palantir's leading AI and decision acceleration platforms, help businesses and governments accelerate their AI initiatives, according to the vendors.
Posted July 17, 2024
Oracle is releasing Exadata Exascale, an intelligent data architecture for the cloud that provides extreme performance for all Oracle Database workloads—including AI vector processing, analytics, and transactions—at any scale. According to Oracle, Exadata Exascale reduces costs for organizations of any size to take advantage of Oracle Exadata's e built-in performance, reliability, availability, and security capabilities.
Posted July 17, 2024
Deloitte and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are collaborating on a multi-year strategic agreement to help clients around the world scale their generative Artificial Intelligence, data and analytics, and quantum computing capabilities by using AWS services.
Posted July 16, 2024
As a product manager, I have worked closely with data engineering teams and witnessed the fantastic ways to transform raw web data into insights, products, data models, and more. Data cleaning consistently stands out as a vital component of this transformation.
Posted July 16, 2024
Intel is unveiling a new tank design along with immersion cooling solutions for data centers, signifying a potential leap in cooling efficiency for powering data centers. Through its ongoing collaboration with Intel, ExxonMobil's Data Center immersion fluids have played a crucial role in enabling Intel's solution to overcome technical limitations showcasing the potential use of hydrocarbon based single phase immersion cooling for future chip designs.
Posted July 15, 2024
IBM and Microsoft are strengthening their cybersecurity collaboration to help clients simplify and modernize their security operations and manage and protect their hybrid cloud identities. As organizations embrace hybrid cloud and AI to drive innovation, they require advanced security capabilities to protect their most valuable data, according to the companies.
Posted July 15, 2024
Storj is acquiring Vald, ushering in a "new era" in distributed cloud innovation to seize the opportunity to accelerate innovation at-scale with integrated cloud storage and GPU solutions. According to the vendors, just as Storj disrupted the storage industry by enabling customers to use underutilized storage capacity in data centers in 100-plus countries worldwide, Valdi is disrupting the GPU industry, enabling customers to use available GPU compute cycles in data centers worldwide.
Posted July 15, 2024