Cloud Computing Articles
Veritas Technologies, a provider of enterprise data protection solutions, has introduced Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 with an improved user interface that simplifies how employees can protect data and modern workloads. The new Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 provides an intuitive interface that enables authorized employees to protect and monitor their own data, on premise or in multi-cloud environments, enabling employees to play an important data management role in their department.
Posted August 21, 2018
C3 IoT is partnering with Google Cloud to accelerate AI and IoT application development for enterprise digital transformation. The companies have developed an integrated solution that delivers the C3 IoT Platform—a platform as a service (PaaS) for developing and operating big data, predictive analytics, AI, and IoT software applications—on the Google Cloud Platform, leveraging its infrastructure and AI services.
Posted August 21, 2018
Envorso, a provider of business transformation solutions, is entering a strategic partnership with Signafire Technologies, an industry-leading fusion and content analysis company. The partnership will allow Envorso to offer enterprise data fusion solutions.
Posted August 17, 2018
SnapLogic is introducing dedicated DevOps and automation capabilities, including new integration with GitHub and support for Mesosphere in its latest platform update. These new enhancements to the SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud provide the company's growing customer base with self-service application and data integration to streamline and accelerate the software development lifecycle.
Posted August 15, 2018
SAP is updating its cloud platform, boosting the solution with the ability to extend and customize applications with multicloud and mobilization choices. The enhancements include SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain, which will enable enterprises to build and extend business solutions with blockchain technologies.
Posted August 15, 2018
The hype around blockchain technology as it relates to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin is reaching an all-time high, but enterprise organizations are taking a longer-term, more measured approach.
Posted August 15, 2018
During a presentation at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, in which Oracle CTO and chairman Larry Ellison unveiled the company's latest Autonomous Database Cloud Service, Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, he also sought to alleviate concerns that database automation will eliminate the jobs of longstanding Oracle database administrators. "I have got some bad news for you: No early retirement," he said. "A lot of the tedious things you were doing—allocating disk storage and upgrading the OS—you don't have to do. However, there is a lot more to do."
Posted August 15, 2018
EnterpriseDB, developer of a Postgres-based database platform, is releasing the beta version of its EDB Postgres Migration Portal, an automated online tool for moving Oracle databases to the EDB Postgres Platform.
Posted August 13, 2018
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, unveiled Amazon Aurora Serverless., a new deployment option for Amazon Aurora that automatically starts, scales, and shuts down database capacity with per-second billing for applications with less predictable usage patterns. Amazon Aurora Serverless offers database capacity without the need to provision, scale, and manage any servers.
Posted August 10, 2018
This year is an expansive one for the database ecosystems that have evolved around the major platforms. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud computing are now mainstream offerings seen within the constellations of database vendors, partners, and integrators.
Posted August 08, 2018
Still a relatively new solution coming into its own streaming platforms allow individuals to see data in real-time batches. Streaming solutions can help businesses analyze data in motion, simplify the development of applications, and extend the value of existing systems by integrating with already implemented applications along with supporting both structured and unstructured data.
Posted August 08, 2018
Database downtime can inflict a fatal wound on the life of a business and having a trusted backup solution that can ensure that databases can be back up and running quickly in the event of an outage is critical. With long downtimes simply unacceptable, organizations seek solutions with capabilities such as the ability to manage backups seamlessly, manage and monitor backups, ensure data integrity, scale efficiently restore quickly to any point in time, and provide security features to stay in compliance with local geographic and industry mandates.
Posted August 08, 2018
Companies are increasingly looking for the right database for the data storage need at hand. That might mean NoSQL, NewSQL, in-memory databases, and cloud databases—also known as database as a service—approaches.
Posted August 08, 2018
Today's data visualization tools go beyond the standard charts and graphs used in Excel spreadsheets, displaying data in more sophisticated ways such as infographics, dials and gauges, geographic maps, sparklines, heat maps, and detailed bar, pie and fever charts. The images may include interactive capabilities, enabling users to manipulate them or drill into the data for querying and analysis.
Posted August 08, 2018
Today, data quality solutions are available in the cloud as software as a service as well as on premise, and support the necessary data integrity for critical systems such as customer relationship management, master data management, data governance initiatives, and database management, as well as for regulatory compliance initiatives—including the E.U.'s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Posted August 08, 2018
Pick Cloud, Inc. and 3phi Solutions Inc. are forming a strategic partnership to sell phiReport Cloud edition exclusively in North America. phiReport is a suite of reporting tools based on the PICK/MultiValue DBMS. The application is built using AccuTerm GUI, allowing any Windows user with a current AccuTerm terminal emulator to define and generate attractive Excel worksheets from a graphical user interface.
Posted August 08, 2018
At the close of a presentation in which he announced general availability of the company's latest Autonomous Database Cloud Service, Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, Oracle CTO and chairman Larry Ellison also previewed new capabilities of Oracle Database 19c. With the upcoming 19c release, machine learning eliminates performance regression testing, and Oracle will offer an additional deployment option.
Posted August 08, 2018
SAP is making improvements to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, delivering dozens of new AI-powered scenarios that further power the intelligent enterprise. Building on SAP's industry domain expertise to help every customer become a best-run business, these updates will increase customer agility and flexibility, as they adapt to rapidly changing business conditions.
Posted August 07, 2018
OneLogin, provider of Unified Access Management solutions, is making platform enhancements that advance Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) adoption in the enterprise. The updates include a new login experience and the release of OneLogin Protect 4.0 authenticator, providing increased security and customization for both administrators and end users.
Posted August 06, 2018
The way that many organizations approach the backup process has failed them, as evidenced by the hundreds of millions of dollars they have spent on ransomware to retrieve their data.
Posted August 02, 2018
Oracle Responsys has introduced the SMS Public Aggregator Network (SPAN), a new self-service application within Oracle Marketing Cloud that makes it easier for customers to find, order, and manage SMS services directly from the mobile aggregator of their choice.
Posted August 01, 2018
Kentik, a provider of network analytics, is releasing a product expansion that adds deep visibility into the Google Cloud Platform. With Kentik Detect, enterprises can now get real-time insights from VPC Flow Logs for their Google Cloud Platform environments to optimize network performance, security, and user experience.
Posted July 30, 2018
Iron Mountain Incorporated, a provider of storage and information management services, is partnering with Google Cloud to develop new AI-powered SaaS solutions. The new solutions on GCP will help organizations analyze their vast physical and digital information and data repositories, unlock insights, improve decision making, and create new revenue streams. Iron Mountain expects to deliver these new subscription services built on GCP this September.
Posted July 30, 2018
Hitachi Vantara plans to acquire REAN Cloud LLC, a global cloud systems integrator, managed services provider, and solutions developer of cloud-native applications across big data, machine learning, and emerging internet of things (IoT) spaces.
Posted July 30, 2018
Looker is integrating its platform with Google Cloud BigQuery ML (BQML), accelerating the time-to-value of data science workflows. With Looker and BigQuery ML, data teams can now save time and eliminate unnecessary processes by creating machine learning (ML) models directly in BigQuery via Looker - without the need to transfer data into additional ML tools.
Posted July 27, 2018
Datawatch has announced that Datawatch Swarm, its enterprise data intelligence platform, is offering new deployment options to fuel self-service analytics. The new release aligns with enterprises' needs for collaborative infrastructure and also provides multi-tenancy and SaaS deployment options for Datawatch partners.
Posted July 27, 2018
Insight Engines is launching the company's version 3.0 product, combining two key components: Insight Investigator and Insight Analyzer. Together, these offerings use natural language processing, machine learning, and expert knowledge to detect data gaps, ask high-value questions, and give recommendations based on industry intelligence and activities.
Posted July 27, 2018
Informatica is partnering with Google Cloud's Apigee product group to provide enterprises with a unified API management and integration solution. The collaboration is intended to allow organizations to leverage data and applications that are deployed in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, creating a continuously connected business to drive agility through innovations in AI-driven integrations and APIs.
Posted July 26, 2018
Splice Machine is releasing its intelligent application platform on the Microsoft Azure cloud service, giving customers another way to use the data platform while have the choice to deploy on-prem, AWS, or Azure. Splice Machine is a scale-out SQL data platform that can run fast OLTP and in-memory OLAP on the same platform, along with machine learning and streaming.
Posted July 26, 2018
OpenText, a provider of enterprise information management (EIM), is releasing a next-generation hybrid-cloud platform that brings together intelligent automation, security, and EIM applications. OpenText OT2 enables developers to rapidly build SaaS applications in the OpenText Cloud.
Posted July 26, 2018
A distributed cloud database is a database in which operational data is spread across different physical locations—for example, across different data centers, across hybrid clouds (such as private and/or public clouds), different public cloud regions of a public cloud, or even different public clouds.
Posted July 26, 2018
Navigator Business Solutions, an SAP Gold Partner, is releasing turnkey ERP solutions designed specifically for manufacturers and distributors in the consumer packaged goods industry. Built on SAP's cloud-based Business ByDesign platform and based on guidance from industry experts and Navigator's more than 10 years experience implementing consumer packaged goods (CPG) solutions, the CPG Distributors and CPG Manufacturers ERP solutions are intended to serve as a complete suite-in-a-box that enables CPG companies of all sizes to adapt to rapidly changing distribution models, dynamic product lifecycles, and increasingly complex global supply chains.
Posted July 25, 2018
SAP is introducing new financial planning and analysis (FP&A) capabilities in SAP Analytics Cloud that are embedded with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. This complete solution for finance includes support for profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow planning and allows for easy data collection with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and analytics with SAP Analytics Cloud.
Posted July 25, 2018
Magnitude Software, Inc., a provider of unified application data management, is acquiring Every Angle Software Solutions, a provider that enables users of SAP-run organizations to optimize their operational performance. Every Angle's self-service solution works on any SAP system (ECC and HANA) and hides the complexity of SAP's data structure, allowing end users to quickly identify and resolve key business issues.
Posted July 25, 2018
Syncsort has introduced new additions to its Syncsort Assure family of products that can be used to help address compliance challenges faced by IT leaders. The new capabilities in Syncsort's IBM i security products can help IT leaders streamline compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and strengthen security with multi-factor authentication.
Posted July 24, 2018
DH2i, a provider of multi-platform availability, disaster recovery (DR), and cost improvement solutions for Windows, Linux, and Oracle databases, and Docker containers, has extended its Technology Partnership Program. For end clients and channel partners, the company says, this assures that DH2i's DxEnterprise software will deploy and operate successfully in increasingly heterogeneous environments.
Posted July 24, 2018
Panzura, a provider of enterprise hybrid cloud NAS and multi-cloud data management, has launched Panzura Freedom Cloud NAS on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace. According to the vendor, Panzura Freedom replaces traditional NAS with scalable and durable cloud attached storage (CAS) without sacrificing performance or re-writing applications running in the data center, allowing customers to consolidate their unstructured data across data islands into "a single source of truth" in GCP.
Posted July 23, 2018
Sumo Logic, provider of a cloud-native, machine data analytics platform is unveiling 11 new Google Cloud Platform (GCP) applications as well as integration with Google Cloud's open source machine learning library, TensorFlow. The applications will enable real-time collection and analytics of machine data emitted by all major GCP services.
Posted July 23, 2018
Reltio Cloud, a native cloud platform that organizes enterprise data for continuous self-learning, is now available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Reltio's Self-Learning Data Platform enables companies' digital transformation initiatives with personalized customer experiences while meeting regulatory compliance standards such as GDPR. The journey starts with the organizing data of all types and from all sources, at scale, to form a trusted data foundation.
Posted July 19, 2018
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, is extending its log management capabilities of its security information and event management (SIEM) solution to the cloud. Available immediately, Log360 Cloud allows IT administrators to store and manage log data collected from on-premises environments on Zoho's secure cloud platform, giving enterprises insight on critical aspects of their network without having to worry about storage infrastructure.
Posted July 18, 2018
Dell EMC has announced its newest Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA), the Dell EMC IDPA DP4400, providing converged data protection to help mid-size organizations transform IT while alleviating data sprawl and complexity. In addition, integration with VMware native tools, Oracle RMAN, and SQL Server Management Studio enables application administrators to leverage protection features within familiar user interfaces.
Posted July 18, 2018
BlueData, provider container-based software for AI and Big Data workloads, will undertake a new open source Kubernetes initiative: BlueK8s. The company also introduced the first open source project in the BlueK8s initiative, Kubernetes Director (aka KubeDirector), for deploying and managing distributed stateful applications with Kubernetes.
Posted July 17, 2018
Splice Machine is releasing a plugin for Apache Ranger to provide centralized security administration for its customers on Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). The Apache Ranger plugin will provide Splice Machine customers with a framework for central administration of security policies, and the monitoring of user access and security-related administrative actions within all of the components of Splice Machine. It also provides enhanced support for various authorization methods, such as role-based access control, attribute-based access control and more.
Posted July 17, 2018