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Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Data Security and Governance for the AI Era, to showcase top solutions and best practices for navigating the space of data security and governance, especially as it faces increasing investment in cloud and AI technologies.
Posted September 09, 2024
Scala Data Centers, the leading Latin American platform of sustainable data centers in the Hyperscale market, and Serena, a global leader in clean energy investments, are announcing one of the largest renewable energy supply agreements in Latin America.
Posted September 09, 2024
Blue Owl Capital Inc. (Blue Owl), Chirisa Technology Parks (CTP), and PowerHouse Data Centers (PowerHouse) are announcing the first phase of a $5 billion joint venture (JV) development partnership focused on the development of large-scale AI/HPC data centers for CoreWeave, Inc. (CoreWeave).
Posted September 09, 2024
IBM is adding a new feature update to watsonx.ai that delivers an open framework, giving users access to a catalogue of built-in models and patterns that can be seamlessly extended through a "build your own model" capability. Users can now do even more with IBM's enterprise AI studio; they can upload and deploy their own custom foundation models across software and SaaS environments.
Posted September 09, 2024
CloudCasa by Catalogic, a leader in multi-cloud application resilience and mobility for Kubernetes, is introducing significant enhancements to its CloudCasa platform, focusing on advanced backup capabilities, extended Azure support, and comprehensive Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) features. According to Catalogic, these capabilities address the complex needs of diverse Kubernetes environments.
Posted September 06, 2024
DiffusionData, a pioneer and leader in real-time data streaming and messaging solutions, is releasing Diffusion 6.11, incorporating the latest developer-centric enhancements to the framework to speed and simplify development, reduce operational costs, and ensure reliable and efficient delivery of real-time data.
Posted September 06, 2024
InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, is providing new capabilities in the InfluxDB 3.0 product suite, simplifying time series data management at scale. InfluxData also announced the general availability of InfluxDB Clustered, its self-managed time series database for on-premises or private cloud deployments.
Posted September 05, 2024
In DBTA's webinar, Modern Data Architecture for AI, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, led experts through a thorough discussion of how to cultivate the right data infrastructure to support AI initiatives, from leading best practices to key technologies.
Posted September 04, 2024
Rubrik and Cisco are partnering to enhance organizations' cyber resilience and protect mission-critical data against cyberattacks. Rubrik will join Cisco's SolutionsPlus program, a strategic move where all of Rubrik's products—including its Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) offering—are added to Cisco's Global Price List.
Posted September 04, 2024
The Oracle Financial Services Risk and Finance solution has been deployed in one of the largest life insurers in the Australasian region to deliver the automation, data insights, and reporting capabilities it needed to be more efficient and achieve IFRS 17 compliance.
Posted September 04, 2024
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Communications Digital Business Experience, designed to help meet the unique needs of Communications Service Providers (CSPs). According to the company, the pre-integrated business support system (BSS) provides a comprehensive solution to help manage customer experiences and drive revenue at every stage of the customer journey.
Posted September 04, 2024
Tabnine, the originators of the AI code assistant category, is announcing several ecosystem updates that forward Tabnine's mission to help developers maintain control over code while future-proofing AI investments. These announcements—which include a new platform partnership with Broadcom Inc., an integration with IBM, and an extension of existing partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)—culminate in driving controlled, flexible, AI-powered coding for enterprises' infrastructures of choice.
Posted September 04, 2024
In Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, various alien races were able to communicate with each other thanks to the Babel Fish, which, when placed in one's ear, decoded brainwave emanations from one species to provide instantaneous translation to the other. In Star Trek, a "universal translator" allowed instantaneous translation between any alien species and humans. Until recently, these universal translators have existed only in the domain of science fiction.
Posted September 04, 2024
Couchbase, Inc., the cloud database platform company, is announcing the official launch of Capella Columnar on AWS, bringing real-time operational and analytic workload enablement to AWS. Additionally, Couchbase is also debuting Couchbase Mobile with vector search, as well as Capella Free Tier, expanding the way Couchbase serves developers while reducing costs and simplifying operations.
Posted September 03, 2024
Tigera, the creator of Project Calico, is introducing universal microsegmentation capabilities to Calico designed to support a diverse range of workloads, including virtual machines (VM), containers, and bare metals. Calico provides a robust, dynamic, and high-performance network policy engine to perform segmentation across both on-premises and cloud deployments, according to the company.
Posted September 03, 2024
Experts from Quest Software joined DBTA's webinar, APM and DB Monitoring: Necessity or Overkill?, to offer key insights regarding the APM and DB monitoring spheres, illustrating how IT strategies can be reshaped to best accommodate the modern application and its business.
Posted September 03, 2024
Veeam Software, a leader by market share in Data Resilience, is releasing Veeam Data Platform v12.2 to broaden support for protecting data on an extensive range of new platforms while continuing to advance end-to-end cybersecurity. According to the company, this latest release combines data backup, recovery, and security capabilities with the ability to empower customers to migrate and secure data across new platforms.
Posted August 30, 2024
Anomali, an AI-Powered Security Operations Platform, is offering powerful new capabilities for Anomali Copilot to help security, and now IT departments, use the latest AI abilities to successfully defend, protect, and propel their organizations forward.
Posted August 30, 2024
Rezonate, a provider of identity-centric security solutions, is offering a new identity security solution for mid-market companies that proactively reduces the identity attack surface and improves compliance efforts in a fraction of the time of legacy IAM tools or manual methods.
Posted August 30, 2024
The consistent throughline of any business looking to stay competitive in an evolving market is extracting value from data—from key trends to relevant insights, prescriptive actions, and more. This is done through data applications, acting as enablers of productivity, efficiency, and innovation across the enterprise. However, due to the dichotomy of legacy systems, data silos, and poor data quality and the demands for real-time, scalable data, building effective data apps is a challenging—yet rewarding—feat.
Posted August 29, 2024
Broadcom Inc. unveiled VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9, the future of VCF that will accelerate customers' transition from siloed IT architectures to a unified and integrated private cloud platform. VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will radically simplify the deployment, consumption, and operations of a secure and cost-effective private cloud, according to the vendor.
Posted August 29, 2024
Broadcom Inc is releasing Rally Anywhere, the on-premises offering of Rally, its enterprise agility platform designed to meet the unique needs of global organizations. According to the company, Rally Anywhere enables teams to plan, prioritize, manage, track, and measure at every level of the organization to deliver maximum customer value while remaining compliant with strict data sovereignty policies and heightened security demands.
Posted August 29, 2024
In many organizations, microservices have become the default method of application building and deployment, leveraging containers and Kubernetes. The resulting architecture has been a flexible network of services that provide resiliency by operating independently, unaffected by potential failures in other parts of the system. Recently, however, some technology leaders have been questioning if this is the best way to build.
Posted August 29, 2024
Bigleaf Networks, a leading provider of network optimization solutions, is introducing Bigleaf Cloud Connect, a web dashboard aimed at redefining how businesses optimize and manage their network connectivity and cloud performance. According to the company, this platform represents a significant leap forward in the industry, offering a comprehensive suite of tools and insights that empower organizations to take full control of their network infrastructure and drive business growth.
Posted August 29, 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 29, 2024
DataOps.live, the Data Products company, is releasing its Professional Edition of the DataOps.live Data Products Platform in response to a critical market demand: a fully managed and supported SaaS platform for dbt Core users on the Snowflake Data Cloud.
Posted August 29, 2024
Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security, announced it has closed a $319 million oversubscribed Series E round, empowering the company to broaden its footprint, accelerate product development, and strengthen its infrastructure to support its rapid expansion.
Posted August 28, 2024
Dremio, the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI, is offering a "breakthrough" in data lake analytics performance capabilities, extending its position as the premier company in self-optimizing, autonomous Iceberg data management.
Posted August 28, 2024
SAP is releasing new process AI capabilities for SAP Signavio—process recommender and performance indicators recommender. Embedded into SAP Signavio Process Transformation Suite, these novel capabilities deliver instant, tailored process and metrics recommendations that will help process owners and process analysts accelerate process model design, more readily define their process monitoring strategy, and improve the quality of business outcomes, according to SAP.
Posted August 28, 2024
SAP SE is offering new cloud capabilities for SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) solutions. In a strategic co-innovation with Hilti AG, a leading global provider of products and services for the construction industry, SAP is helping customers connect their business data to both engineering and research and development departments, enabling businesses to be more efficient and save money.
Posted August 28, 2024
SAP announced that Xerox Holdings Corp. has chosen multiple SAP solutions to transform its enterprise architecture as part of its multi-year Reinvention. Xerox's Reinvention involves aligning its resources to improve and stabilize its core print businesses, increase productivity and efficiency, and focus on its emerging digital services and IT services capabilities to improve business outcomes for its clients.
Posted August 28, 2024
Collibra, the Data Intelligence company, is offering the general availability of its initial integration with SAP Datasphere, a comprehensive data service that delivers seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. The first phase of integration between Collibra and SAP Datasphere is for SAP Analytics Cloud. In addition, Collibra also announced the public launch of its integration support of SAP Datasphere models with general availability to follow next month.
Posted August 28, 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 August 28, 2024
Rocket Software released Rocket UniVerse 14.1.1, featuring enhanced performance, security, and modernization. Emma Breslin from the Rocket Software MultiValue (MV) team offered an inside look at what makes this version a must-have upgrade for current users.
Posted August 28, 2024
RDM Infinity is now an official U.S. reseller partner of Prosol Group, a nearly 40-year veteran in the MultiValue software industry—marking a major milestone for both companies, as it brings Prosol's innovative MultiValue platform, MVsharp, to businesses across the United States. MVsharp is designed to modernize legacy MultiValue systems, offering a straightforward path to upgrade without requiring a complete system overhaul.
Posted August 28, 2024
To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers. MultiValue software vendors continue to address emerging challenges and opportunities that are affecting the IT landscape by frequently adding new features and integrations with other platforms and services, helping their loyal and committed customers to stay up-to-date with the latest technology trends.
Posted August 28, 2024
Regular readers of this column are aware that I am a proponent of getting rid of bad database standards. But sometimes it can be difficult to determine if a particular standard is bad, or just a lot of trouble to comply with! Well, what am I getting at here? Have you ever been thwarted by a global fiat from management? Of course you have, we all have. But I'm talking about a particular type of dictum from above. Something like this: "New software installations, including updated versions and releases, must be supported by current tooling before they can be installed."
Posted August 28, 2024
Quest Software, a global leader in systems management, is announcing the latest version of erwin Data Intelligence and erwin Data Modeler, forwarding comprehensive, end-to-end data lifecycle management that prepares enterprises for the challenges of AI and other technological advancements. Offering enhanced data intelligence, quality, and modeling capabilities, enterprises benefit from a consistent view of their data architectures while maintaining high quality, reliable data.
Posted August 27, 2024
Airbyte, a leading open data movement platform, announced that its PyAirbyte open-source Python library, that was introduced in late-February, has helped more than 10,000 AI and data engineers to sync over 6 billion records of data. Users have completed more than 221,000 PyAirbyte sync jobs, or over 10,000 syncs per week. PyAirbyte now boasts an average of 25,000 monthly downloads, according to metrics from the popular PyPi Python package repository.
Posted August 27, 2024
Lineaje, a leader and force in continuous software supply chain security management, announced a landmark $20 million Series A funding round led by Prosperity7 Ventures, Neotribe, and Hitachi Ventures, alongside existing investor Tenable Ventures—underscoring the escalating global demand for robust software supply chain security solutions and recognizing Lineaje's innovative approach to addressing the critical challenges faced by enterprises across diverse industries.
Posted August 26, 2024
Pathlock announced the availability of Pathlock Cloud in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure, to enable Pathlock customers to take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.
Posted August 26, 2024
We decided this Sourcebook was timely, given how enterprise AI has caught mainstream attention and triggered the imaginations of those working in IT, knowledge management, and a score of other areas within the enterprise. AI is dominating headlines, and people want to know how they can best apply the various technologies under the AI banner.
Posted August 26, 2024
Apheros announced it has received $1.85 million in a recent funding round to introduce its innovative metal foam technology, offering a superior solution to cooling data centers. The pre-seed funding round, led by venture capital firm Founderful, will accelerate development and deployment of Apheros' revolutionary metal foam-based cooling solutions.
Posted August 26, 2024
IBM announced that two IBM-developed algorithms have been officially formalized within the world's first three post-quantum cryptography standards, which were published by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The official publication of these algorithms marks a crucial milestone to advancing the protection of the world's encrypted data from cyberattacks that could be attempted through the unique power of quantum computers, which are rapidly progressing to cryptographic relevancy.
Posted August 26, 2024
IBM is releasing Qiskit SDK v1.2, introducing several important new features and improvements, all aimed at boosting the Qiskit SDK's industry-leading performance and functionality. Since transitioning to the v1.x era with the release of its first major version earlier this year, IBM has been laser-focused on making the Qiskit SDK the most powerful, high-performant quantum SDK in the world.
Posted August 26, 2024
Apica, a leader in telemetry, data management, and active observability, is debuting Fleet Data Management, the "first mile" of the telemetry pipeline that standardizes data collection across large telemetry fleets with a dynamic, adaptable framework. Featuring seamless integrations and comprehensive observability, Fleet Data Management transforms traditional, static telemetry with extensive automation and customization capabilities.
Posted August 22, 2024