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IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of StreamSets and webMethods from Software AG after receiving all required regulatory approvals—bringing together leading capabilities in integration, API management, and data ingestion. The acquisition builds on IBM's extensive software portfolio, with StreamSets adding new data ingestion capabilities to IBM's AI and data platform, and webMethods bringing Integration Platform as a Service (iPaas) capabilities to IBM's Automation solutions.
Posted July 15, 2024
Soda, the AI-enabled data quality company, announced it has secured $14 million investment from strategic partners and existing investors including Singular and Point Nine—enabling the company to continue its expansion across North America. The additional investment also empowers Soda to continue building a sustainable business model where company and market growth are tightly aligned, and further build Soda's global team, significantly expanding its New York city headquarters with experienced go-to-market talent to continue its growth in North America.
Posted July 12, 2024
GridGain is releasing version 9 of the GridGain Unified Real-Time Data Platform, building on the multi-dimensional data processing and analytics capabilities of version 8 to deliver the most stable, resilient, and high-performant solution for ultra-low latency data applications. Version 9 powers the extreme speed, scale, durability, and reliability critical to modern enterprise use cases and AI, according to the company.
Posted July 11, 2024
SAP platforms, used by 99 of the Fortune 100 companies and with over 280 million cloud subscribers worldwide, are among the most reliable business applications. As SAP administrators, your role in maintaining the security of these platforms is crucial. However, the platform's popularity makes it a prime target for hackers to exploit Structured Query Language (SQL) injections and directory traversal vulnerabilities, which are only two specific risks in a much larger group.
Posted July 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2024
Rocket Software recently announced a special 4-part series on the Importance of APIs for Modernizing Your MV App. Rocket principal product manager Hernando Borda is the host for this MultiValue (MV) roundtable event—delving into the transformative power of APIs and how they can bring significant value to MV applications.
Posted July 11, 2024
Entrinsik Informer Cloud has been pivotal in higher education, where transparency and accessibility are paramount. Public Facing Dashboards in Informer Cloud are designed to meet these needs, offering numerous benefits that enhance the educational experience for students, parents, staff, and executive leadership, according to Entrinsik.
Posted July 11, 2024
SPHERE, a leading provider of identity hygiene solutions, is introducing its latest offering, Intelligent Discovery—an innovative SaaS solution designed to support CyberArk PAM Solutions, both SaaS and Self-Hosted deployments to provide comprehensive and insightful discovery capabilities for privileged accounts.
Posted July 10, 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 10, 2024
While AI has been the talk of science fiction-aficionados and tech-enthusiasts for many years, it wasn't until the tail-end of 2022 that AI entered the mainstream conversation with generative AI and the popularity of ChatGPT technologies. To help readers gain a greater understanding about this complex area of information technology, the solutions available, and their role in handling real-world challenges, DBTA and Big Data Quarterly present the list of Awesome Companies in AI.
Posted July 10, 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 08, 2024
Cybersixgill, the global cyber threat intelligence data provider, is partnering with ThreatQuotient, a leading threat intelligence platform innovator, to enhance defenses for ThreatQuotient customers with access to Cybersixgill's threat intelligence and actionable insights.
Posted July 08, 2024
Cognizant is introducing Cognizant Neuro Edge, a new platform in the Cognizant Neuro suite, empowering businesses across industries to leverage artificial intelligence and generative AI at the edge. Neuro Edge is designed to power the entire value chain of edge AI, from chips and devices to applications and business solution deployments, shortening the path to business value, according to Cognizant.
Posted July 08, 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 03, 2024
Denodo, a leader in data management, is releasing Denodo Platform 9.0, enabling intelligent data delivery through AI-driven support for queries delivered in natural language while eliminating the need to know SQL. Denodo Platform 9.0 also provides large language models (LLMs) with real-time, governed data from across the enterprise, powering retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for trusted, insightful results from generative AI applications, as well as offers a set of powerful new features to further enhance data management.
Posted July 03, 2024
Oracle is introducing HeatWave GenAI, offering in-database large language models (LLMs), an automated in-database vector store, scale-out vector processing, and the ability to have contextual conversations in natural language informed by unstructured content. According to Oracle, these new capabilities enable customers to bring the power of generative AI to their enterprise data—without requiring AI expertise or having to move data to a separate vector database.
Posted July 03, 2024
Oracle Autonomous Database is now generally available on Oracle Database@Azure in the Microsoft Azure East U.S. region. Oracle will operate and manage the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Service, the second Oracle database service to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Azure data centers, according to the company.
Posted July 03, 2024
To meet the rapidly growing demand for its AI and cloud services in Spain, Oracle announced plans to invest more than $1 billion to open a third cloud region in Madrid and drive AI skills development across the country. The new public cloud region will enable Oracle customers and partners across all industries in Spain, including its prominent financial services sector, to migrate mission-critical workloads from their data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) while helping them address regulations like the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the European Outsourcing Guidelines (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA), according to Oracle.
Posted July 03, 2024
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is releasing the latest update of the MicroStrategy ONE platform, enabling enterprises to layer contextual, bite-sized AI insights into any application within a no-code environment. According to the company, this capability builds on HyperIntelligence, a long-time feature within MicroStrategy ONE that pioneered contextual BI.
Posted July 02, 2024
Hydrolix, a streaming data lake company disrupting the economics of big data, is introducing its Powered by Hydrolix Partner Program to create new revenue streams for partners whose customers collect massive amounts of log data. By building products powered by the Hydrolix streaming data lake, partners can offer their customers hot access to four times more data at one fourth the cost, according to the company.
Posted July 01, 2024
ZincFive, a provider of nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery-based solutions for immediate power applications, announced it has surpassed 1 gigawatt (GW) in power delivered and contracted across multiple continents, underscoring the industry's demand for safe, reliable, and sustainable energy solutions. NiZn is rapidly gaining traction over incumbent technologies like lead-acid and lithium-ion due to its compact industry-leading footprint, unmatched safety features, leading sustainability, and unparalleled reliability, according to the vendor.
Posted July 01, 2024
IBM is unveiling a major upgrade to Db2 Warehouse on IBM Cloud, introducing several new capabilities that make Db2 Warehouse even more performant, capable, and cost-effective. The next generation of Db2 Warehouse introduces support for Db2 column-organized tables in Cloud Object Storage. Db2 Warehouse on IBM Cloud customers can now store massive datasets on a resilient, highly scalable storage tier, costing up to 34x less.
Posted July 01, 2024
IBM is unveiling IBM Concert, providing generative AI driven insights for applications and putting site reliability engineers (SREs) and developers in control of simplifying and optimizing their operations across any environment. IBM Concert is now generally available.
Posted July 01, 2024
DevOps is now the most prevalent software development methodology in use. Since 2009, it has spread beyond development teams into other functional areas. One of the earlier DevOps extensions was into DevTestOps, which emphasized continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle. This was followed several years later by the emergence of QAOps, which built on that model with a focus on improved quality assurance (QA). At first glance, these terms refer to the same methodology. But when you dig deeper, QAOps represents a significant departure from the purpose and process of DevOps. Let's explore.
Posted July 01, 2024
Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, is releasing AllegroGraph 8.2 with enhancements to ChatStream, offering users a natural language query interface that provides accurate and contextually relevant responses.
Posted June 28, 2024
Broadcom is introducing its latest updates to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the company's flagship private cloud platform, supporting customers' digital innovation with faster infrastructure modernization, improved developer productivity, and better cyber resiliency and security.
Posted June 27, 2024
Data migrations can be a big undertaking for almost any organization. That's why it's so important that organizations set themselves up for long-term success. This means being able to ensure they'll enable their desired outcomes—such as compliance, data accuracy, and performance—for the long haul.
Posted June 27, 2024
Datadobi, a global leader in hybrid cloud data services, is releasing StorageMAP 7.0, offering new features that provide deeper insights into unstructured data environments, facilitate informed decision-making, and enable policy driven data placement. These advancements are in direct response to the urgent need for businesses to manage the acute risk, cost, and opportunity associated with the rapidly increasing volume of unstructured data that is inundating most enterprises, according to Datadobi.
Posted June 27, 2024
SnapLogic, a leader in generative integration, is offering new connectivity and support for Snowflake vector data types, Snowflake Cortex, and Streamlit, assisting companies modernize their businesses and accelerate the creation of generative AI applications.
Posted June 27, 2024
Daytona, an open source development environment manager, announced that it has secured $5 million in a seed funding round to spearhead its mission of democratizing development for developers globally. The seed round was led by Upfront Ventures with participation from existing investor 500 EE, enabling Daytona to accelerate the expansion of streamlined development environments to developers worldwide. The company will further use the funds for product development and hiring for new marketing, sales, and engineering roles.
Posted June 26, 2024
Microsoft-backed OpenAI is acquiring search and database analytics startup Rockset to improve infrastructure for its enterprise products. "Rockset's infrastructure empowers companies to transform their data into actionable intelligence. We're excited to bring these benefits to our customers by integrating Rockset's foundation into OpenAI products," said Brad Lightcap, OpenAI COO.
Posted June 26, 2024
At its annual SAP Sapphire conference, SAP unveiled a variety of generative AI innovations and partnerships that showcase how the company is taking business to the next level. According to SAP, by infusing Business AI across an enterprise cloud portfolio that powers the world's most mission-critical processes and partnering with companies pushing the edge of what's possible with AI, the company is igniting a new wave of insight and ingenuity in global business.
Posted June 26, 2024
XM Cyber, a leader in hybrid cloud exposure management, is offering new capabilities that will provide enhanced exposure management for SAP deployments. XM Cyber delivers continuous visibility into attack paths targeting SAP systems and the guidance to resolve these exposures. With SAP Exposure Management, organizations can better defend and ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability for the SAP systems they rely upon to perform core business functions, according to the company.
Posted June 26, 2024
SAP Emarsys Customer Engagement unveiled its June 2024 product release, featuring a host of omnichannel additions, enterprise enhancements, and AI-infused features that build on the platform's long-standing legacy in artificial intelligence. According to the company, the recent updates reflect the desire and urgency of marketers to use AI to supercharge personalized campaigns and productivity, strengthening the platform's AI features and functions, and enabling marketers to benefit from the time-saving powers of generative AI.
Posted June 26, 2024
SecurityBridge, a global provider of SAP security solutions, is releasing the SecurityBridge Platform for SAP BTP, offering unparalleled security coverage for the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and setting a new standard for safeguarding enterprise SAP cloud environments.
Posted June 26, 2024
In today's tumultuous computing landscape, the DBMS (database management system) remains core and central to the IT infrastructure. And, as such, it is central to the applications used by modern organizations to conduct business and service their customers. So, it stands to reason that a core competency for a DBA is to be able to keep their organization's databases up and operational. This requires resilience.
Posted June 26, 2024
Cleo, the pioneer and global leader of the Ecosystem Integration software category and provider of the Cleo Integration Cloud (CIC) platform, together with goVirtualOffice, one of the top Oracle NetSuite Partners, are partnering to help companies enhance productivity, improve efficiency, drive revenue, and grow profits by unifying, simplifying, and automating supply chain business processes.
Posted June 26, 2024
Panasonic Information Systems Co., Ltd., the IT subsidiary of Panasonic Holdings Corporation, announced it has selected Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the cloud database platform to support the internal systems used by all companies within the Panasonic Group. This entails migrating more than 2,000 database environments from hundreds of internal systems to Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI.
Posted June 26, 2024
Oracle is adding new AI innovations in the latest release of the Oracle APEX low-code development platform—introducing the new APEX AI Assistant that simplifies application development and helps developers quickly build feature-rich, mission-critical applications at scale. According to Oracle, developers now can create applications by using natural language prompts to specify desired capabilities and components and automatically generate SQL statements, perform one-click debug correction, eliminate the need to remember table names, and easily add an out-of-the-box conversational interface to their applications.
Posted June 26, 2024
Spanning the wide range of established legacy technologies from MultiValue to cutting-edge breakthroughs such as the data lakehouse, data mesh, and data fabric, the DBTA 100 is a list of hardware, software, and service providers working to enable their customers' data-driven future. Several top MultiValue companies land on the list again this year, including Kore Technologies, Revelation Software, and Rocket Software.
Posted June 26, 2024
Substrate Labs, an AI infrastructure startup, has received $8 million in a seed round to deliver elegant APIs that enable developers to build more modular AI systems and accelerate a new era of software development. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from South Park Commons, Craft Ventures, Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Immad Akhund (Mercury), Will Gaybrick (Stripe), and others. Led by co-founder and CEO Rob Cheung and co-founder Ben Guo, the company also announced the official launch of its API optimized for running ensembles of models.
Posted June 25, 2024
Abstract Security, crafted by category creators who redefined the cybersecurity landscape, announced the general availability (GA) of its platform designed for the future of security operations. Already in use by customers, Abstract's platform helps security analysts and operations teams navigate the complexities of data pipelines, increase security effectiveness, and lower costs, according to the company.
Posted June 25, 2024