Data Integration Articles
Couchbase is releasing the latest version of Couchbase Mobile, an embedded NoSQL database, enabling developers to create mobile applications and manage data securely.
Posted May 02, 2019
Will the DBA disappear? No, far from it. But specific skills needed by DBAs and certain job roles fulfilled by DBAs will certainly change as we move to the cloud.
Posted May 01, 2019
Data pipelines speed IoT, predictive analytics, and machine learning projects to their final destination. The new generation of data pipelines also supports governance, which is sure to be in the spotlight during 2019. Enterprises will need to be much more stringent about their data usage and lineage, based on new regulations such as GDPR and consumers' higher expectations of security and privacy.
Posted May 01, 2019
The new suite of services incorporates Aerospike's expertise amassed over the past decade in helping companies around the world build and deploy mission-critical applications that demand "five nine-plus-level uptime."
Posted May 01, 2019
Striim, provider of an enterprise-grade platform for streaming data integration, is forming a strategic partnership with Snowflake, Inc., the data warehouse built for the cloud. The partnership aims to simplify and speed loading of real-time data to Snowflake, accelerating data-driven analytics in the cloud.
Posted May 01, 2019
Dynatrace, a software intelligence company, is extending its AI-powered platform to include IBM Z support for CICS, IMS, and middleware. The aim is to give customers precise information about the performance of digital services across hybrid environments; from modern cloud applications to the mainframe.
Posted April 29, 2019
Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, is releasing Foglight Container Management, a solution that provides real-time and historical analytics of containers. Foglight Container Management supports business's container initiative by empowering IT infrastructure teams to quickly identify incidents and proactively prevent issues from happening.
Posted April 26, 2019
Snowflake is partnering with Anodot, the autonomous analytics company, allowing Snowflake customers to access Anodot's real-time anomaly detection. With Anodot and Snowflake's emerging partnership, customers will have access to Snowflake's built-for-the-cloud data warehouse and can receive instant alerts and insights from Anodot for potential issues before they cost customers significant ROI.
Posted April 26, 2019
TigerGraph, a scalable graph database for the enterprise, is accelerating its cloud strategy by offering its platform as a pay-as-you-go service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With the launch of the pay-as-you-go offering, customers will be able to enjoy a friction-free experience for using TigerGraph's fast and powerful graph database, without cumbersome acquisition and deployment processes.
Posted April 25, 2019
Qubole, provider of a cloud-native data platform for analytics and machine learning, has expanded its partnership and product integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Posted April 25, 2019
Kubeflow is a workflow tool which prides itself on making machine learning workflows simple to build, scalable, and portable. It provides graphical end-user tools to set up and define the steps in a pipeline. Most importantly, as data scientists build out their use cases, they add more and more steps and, when using Kubeflow, they end up with a documented, repeatable process.
Posted April 24, 2019
SAP is introducing manufacturing technology innovations, including augmented reality, AI-powered management systems, 3D visualization and self-guided vehicles, to the SAP Manufacturing Suite and the SAP Startup Accelerator for Digital Supply Chain program. With SAP's manufacturing execution software, operators with any smart device can access 3D visual work instructions to help navigate complex assembly steps, raising output, reducing waste and improving on-time delivery.
Posted April 24, 2019
SAP is making enhancements to the SAP HANA database in the cloud and on premise, providing instant access to critical data and extreme performance to democratize in-memory computing. Updates include enhanced cloud support, persistent memory support with Intel, intelligent recommendations for efficient database management, new machine learning (ML) capabilities, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) certification, improved cost-effective data tiering, and data security enhancements.
Posted April 24, 2019
MongoDB has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Realm, the company behind the Realm mobile database and Synchronization Platform, for $39 million in cash, subject to certain adjustments.
Posted April 24, 2019
Attunity has introduced a new solution designed to automate streaming data pipelines for machine learning, AI, and data science initiatives. The software provides continuous change data capture, delivery, and automated refinement for creating analytic ready datasets in the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform.
Posted April 24, 2019
Tenable, Inc., the cyber exposure company, is integrating with Google Cloud Security Command Center, providing organizations with enhanced visibility into their cloud assets on a single dashboard. Tenable.io will now enable cloud-focused organizations to confidently manage Cyber Exposure across the entire modern attack surface and reduce cyber risk in their environments.
Posted April 22, 2019
SHARE is introducing digital badges for technical session presenters selected by event attendees as the best in user, vendor, and IBM categories. These digital badges, the first offered by SHARE, allow those presenters to immediately display a secure and verifiable digital badge on social networks, resumes, email signatures, and websites.
Posted April 22, 2019
Platform9, a provider of a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, is introducing Klusterkit - a set of three open source Kubernetes tools that enable organizations to easily deploy and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
Posted April 18, 2019
Quobyte Inc., a developer of modern storage system software, will be offering a TensorFlow plug-in for its distributed file system, providing increased throughput performance and linear scalability for ML-powered applications. Using Quobyte storage with TensorFlow helps to simplify and streamline the operation of machine learning.
Posted April 18, 2019
Navigating Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database Services can be a little overwhelming at first. However, creating Compute and Database Instances in OCI is relatively easy as Oracle has limited many of the options available when configuring an Oracle Database system. Some of the terminology may be unfamiliar but it should not be difficult to master for a seasoned Oracle DBA transitioning to a cloud database architect.
Posted April 17, 2019
Talend, a provider of cloud data integration and data integrity, is introducing Pipeline Designer to Talend Cloud, a unified, comprehensive, and highly scalable integration platform as-a-service (iPaaS). Talend's new web-based graphical designer dramatically simplifies the creation of end-to-end data pipelines, giving customers the ability to preview live data and transform it with ease.
Posted April 16, 2019
A new survey report on mainframe security reveals that organizations know that mainframe security is important, but they're not taking actions that reflect their priorities. Even though 95% of respondents say they're concerned about the potential of customer data breaches on the mainframe, 67% admit that only sometimes or rarely are they factoring security into mainframe decisions, putting the most critical IT systems at significant risk.
Posted April 15, 2019
"In a recent survey, Syncsort found security is the number-one priority for IT pros with IBM i systems. Given the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks, it's not surprising 41% of respondents reported that their company experienced a security breach and 20% more were unsure if they had been breached," said David Hodgson, CPO, Syncsort. To address these concerns, Syncsort says, Assure Security brings together IBM i security capabilities into an all-in-one solution, with the flexibility for customers to license individual modules.
Posted April 15, 2019
Kx, a division of First Derivatives plc, and Magnitude Software are releasing a new driver to enhance Kx's support for accessing large volumes of external enterprise data via the industry-standard ODBC. Using the Magnitude Simba ODBC driver, custom-built for the kdb+ time-series database, kdb+ users will now have a high-performance interface to seamlessly connect to third-party business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Microsoft Power BI and Excel, as well as other data visualization applications.
Posted April 11, 2019
VoltDB has announced a Smart Stream Processing Architecture to help organizations drive better monetization of their real-time data which is being accelerated by 5G, AI, and machine learning trends.
Posted April 11, 2019
Cloudian, an object storage provider, is releasing a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) for Cloudian HyperStore on the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform. The CVD reflects the companies' expanded collaboration in providing best-of-breed infrastructure solutions for modernizing enterprise data centers, including accelerating the transition to hybrid cloud.
Posted April 11, 2019
Sumo Logic, a cloud-native, machine data analytics platform, is releasing a new bi-directional integration for Atlassian Opsgenie. This new offering provides DevOps teams with full visibility across the entire incident management lifecycle for improved monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting when responding to service interruptions.
Posted April 11, 2019
Fauna, provider of a distributed OLTP database, FaunaDB, has announced expansion of its query interface with standard APIs to further boost developer productivity. Developers using FaunaDB will now be able to manipulate data directly using query languages such as GraphQL for web applications, as well as CQL for key-value access and SQL for relational workloads.
Posted April 10, 2019
RDX, an independent provider of managed database and cloud services, is expanding its clckwrk Ltd., an RDX company, to provide more Oracle-database-to-AWS-Cloud migration tools. Clckwrk is an online marketplace for Oracle database to AWS Cloud migration tools.
Posted April 10, 2019
There's not a business out there that wouldn't want to defend itself against fraudulent activities, hacking attempts, and operations disruptions. And with cases of fraud and cyberattacks on the rise—$16 billion was stolen from 15.4 million U.S. consumers in 2017—businesses need to pay attention to solutions that can help them identify this kind of behavior. Here's where anomaly detection comes in.
Posted April 09, 2019
The implications of CAP Theorem, more than anything else, led to the schism in modern database management systems. With the rise of global applications with extremely high uptime requirements, it became unthinkable to sacrifice availability for perfect consistency. Almost in unison, the leading Web 2.0 companies such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook introduced new database services that were only "eventually" consistent but globally and highly available. Google has tried to resolve this database schism with its Spanner SQL database.
Posted April 09, 2019
Many companies and government organizations have jumped on the data bandwagon and are hoping to analyze as much data as possible to discover something that might give them a competitive edge or change their operations. Instead of big insights, they have petabytes of big data. They've become compulsive data hoarders while struggling to develop an actionable plan for that data.
Posted April 09, 2019
Enterprise agility isn't a single initiative but rather a collection of activities and technologies that lead toward that goal. This includes adoption of microservices, containers, and Kubernetes to increase the flexibility of systems, applications, and data by releasing them from underlying hardware. In addition, practices such as DevOps are helping to increase the level of collaboration possible for fast-moving enterprises.
Posted April 09, 2019
To ease the transition for Google customers wishing to move applications to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Softwatch, a provider of application usage analytics, is launching OptimizeIT Enterprise for GCP. The new OptimizeIT Enterprise for GCP leverages the patented Softwatch technology that allows companies to obtain in-depth usage information for any application and enhances this offering by including additional layers of actionable data, such as CPU and bandwidth analysis on every user for every application in every location.
Posted April 09, 2019
SentryOne is releasing SentryOne Test, an automated framework for testing and validating business-critical data. Available as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, SentryOne Test helps companies ensure that the data underlying business decisions is accurate and current.
Posted April 09, 2019
Teradata, the Pervasive Data Intelligence company, is adding three new offerings for its Teradata Vantage platform, reflecting Teradata's commitment to offering as-a-service capabilities to meet the needs of their customers. These capabilities provide choice and flexibility for customers operating on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, private cloud, or hybrid cloud environments.
Posted April 08, 2019
RackWare, Inc., a provider of cloud computing management in the enterprise, is releasing a hybrid cloud platform designed to unify functionality and leverage it across three solution areas: cloud migration, disaster recovery and backup, and hybrid cloud management. RackWare's Hybrid Cloud Platform is a distributed software solution that helps cloud service providers enable enterprises to increase and maximize cloud use.
Posted April 08, 2019
Qumulo, a provider of hybrid cloud file storage, is expanding its cloud portfolio by including the two new products Qumulo CloudStudio and Qumulo CloudContinuity. Media and entertainment organizations of any size can scale production into the public cloud with Qumulo CloudStudio.
Posted April 04, 2019
Redis Labs, the home of Redis and provider of Redis Enterprise, is introducing a solution, RedisEdge, for Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing applications. RedisEdge delivers fast performance, with a lean footprint to analyze millions of data streams in less than a millisecond, meeting the stringent latency requirements of any edge environment including devices, sensors, actuators, and even in "cloud edge" and micro data centers.
Posted April 04, 2019
Competitive business strategy increasingly relies on data analytics. The core techniques of data analysis are increasingly accessible thanks to commodity Business Intelligence packages, modern open source AI tools, and cloud services. Given this level playing field for software and algorithms, competitive advantage typically lies in the unique data that a business can gather and feed into its analytics pipelines.
Posted April 03, 2019
Your mileage may vary, but there is an allegorical household phenomenon that provides some lessons in understanding the data lake—the coffee can that often ends up in the garage or tool space of a home to collect all the stray, old-project hardware someone in the household cannot bear to part with.
Posted April 02, 2019
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is releasing two new offerings to help enterprise customers simplify the adoption of IoT. First, Aruba ClearPass Device Insight delivers a single pane of glass for device visibility employing automated device discovery, machine learning (ML) based fingerprinting, and identification.
Posted April 02, 2019