Data Quality Articles
MongoDB, Inc. is offering MongoDB Queryable Encryption, a technology that helps organizations protect sensitive data when queried and in-use on MongoDB. According to the company, MongoDB Queryable Encryption significantly reduces the risk of data exposure for organizations and improves developer productivity by providing built-in encryption capabilities for highly sensitive application workflows—such as searching employee records, processing financial transactions, or analyzing medical records—with no cryptography expertise required.
Posted August 18, 2023
SpringML, a technology services company, is merging with Egen, a cloud migration, application modernization and platform engineering provider, creating a provider with end-to-end capabilities across the cloud, data, analytics, AI, and platform engineering spectrum. The combined business will have all the capabilities necessary to increase the value and accelerate the timeline of the data-driven digital journeys of private and public sector clients.
Posted August 17, 2023
XponentL Data (XponentL), a leading data products solution provider, and Tamr, Inc. (Tamr), a cloud-native data mastering solution, are partnering to deliver cutting-edge data product solutions. According to the companies, this collaboration brings together two industry-leading companies with a shared vision of empowering clients to unlock the full potential of their data.
Posted August 17, 2023
Vectra AI, a provider in AI-driven cyber threat detection and response, is offering the Vectra AI Platform with patented Attack Signal Intelligence, delivering the integrated signal enterprises need to make extended detection and response (XDR). With the Vectra AI Platform, enterprises can integrate Vectra AI's public cloud, identity, SaaS, and network signal with existing endpoint detection and response (EDR) signal to arm SOC teams to keep pace with the ever-growing sophistication, speed, and scale of hybrid attacks, according to the vendor.
Posted August 16, 2023
Apica, the synthetic monitoring and observability company, is announcing the achievement of several proprietary milestones, including the acquisition of observability data fabric start-up LOGIQ.AI and the conclusion of the company's most recent funding round—accumulating a total of $10 million.
Posted August 16, 2023
Peer Software is releasing a self-hosted analytics engine that enhances storage analytics, observability, and monitoring. PeerIQ provides organizations with a single pane of visibility into heterogeneous hybrid and multi-cloud storage environments—going beyond the limitations of singular vendor storage systems, according to the company.
Posted August 16, 2023
Redis, Inc. is introducing the unified release of Redis 7.2 across the company's complete portfolio, including open source, source-available, commercial cloud, software, and Kubernetes distributions. Redis Enterprise 7.2 cloud and software products preview a scalable search feature which delivers greater performance for query and search use cases, including vector similarity search (VSS).
Posted August 16, 2023
Oracle announced the U.S. Intelligence Community has authorized Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to host Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) missions. This new accreditation provides the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community access to Oracle Cloud innovations and expands Oracle's enterprise accreditations to support unclassified, controlled unclassified information (CUI), and top-secret workloads. Oracle also offers customers access to dedicated cloud regions authorized at FedRAMP High/DISA IL2-4, DISA IL 5, and FedRAMP+.
Posted August 16, 2023
Oracle announced that Wendy's has successfully implemented Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite and moved business-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to increase productivity, expand business insights, and improve the experience it delivers to its growing customer base.
Posted August 16, 2023
Oracle is introducing Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer, a rack-scale cloud infrastructure that enables organizations to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) compute services anywhere. According to the company, with Compute Cloud@Customer, customers can develop, deploy, secure, and manage workloads using the same software stack as OCI in deployments as small as a single rack.
Posted August 16, 2023
In the 1992 movie Sneakers, hackers discover a device that can break the encryption of virtually any computer system. At the time of release, the idea seemed far-fetched. But today, because of quantum computers, we may soon have a similar device. Quantum theory is now approaching its 100th anniversary, with the central tenants of the theory having been well-established by the mid-1920s. Together with general relativity, quantum theory is one of the foundational theories of modern science. Our modern world would not be possible without quantum theory: It's central to the design of semiconductors, lasers, MRIs, and even LEDs.
Posted August 16, 2023
Code42 Software, Inc., the Insider Risk Management (IRM) leader, is partnering with Tines—the no-code automation platform for security teams—to release Incydr Flows, powered by Tines to enable security teams to simplify manual, error-prone, and cross-functional workflows.
Posted August 15, 2023
MindsDB, an artificial intelligence virtual database enabling the creation of the next wave of AI-centered applications, announced it has received an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA's venture capital arm, bringing total seed funding raised to $46.5 million. The latest round—which includes existing investors Benchmark, Mayfield, Y Combinator, OpenOcean, and Walden Catalyst—will further advance MindsDB's mission, making AI more accessible to all businesses by enabling the world's 30 million software developers to implement AI capabilities in their products.
Posted August 15, 2023
PEAK:AIO, a provider of a transformative software defined storage platform, is partnering with Stormgrid, a provider of cutting-edge hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, offering state-of-the-art AI infrastructure to enhance performance and scalability for Stormgrid's burgeoning customer base.
Posted August 14, 2023
Virtualitics, Inc., an artificial intelligence and data exploration company, announced it has raised $37 million in a Series C financing round, empowering the company to invest in growth and innovation to drive even greater expansion. The funding will go toward ecosystem investments and investments to enhance its AI platform leadership by adding more machine learning and data analytics capabilities as well as self-serve prescriptive workflows to make it easy for customers to analyze and understand complex data and transform their business.
Posted August 14, 2023
IBM announced its expanded offering in collaboration with Cloudflare, the Internet security, performance, and reliability company, is now available to Enterprise Premier Plan users. Both IBM and Cloudflare continue to have a mission of delivering solutions that will address these potentially costly security threats, without hindering Internet speed or business innovation, according to the companies.
Posted August 14, 2023
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of Apptio Inc. after receiving all required regulatory approvals, giving clients the ability to derive additional value through the combination of Apptio and IBM. This acquisition brings together Apptio's FinOps offerings, including ApptioOne, Cloudability, and Targetprocess, and IBM's automation portfolio of Turbonomic, AIOps, and Instana to give clients a "virtual command center" for managing, optimizing, and automating technology spending decisions.
Posted August 14, 2023
Unravel Data, an AI-enabled data observability and FinOps platform, is releasing Unravel 4.8.1, enabling Google Cloud BigQuery customers to see and better manage their cloud data costs. This launch comes on the heels of the recent BigQuery pricing model change that replaced flat-rate and flex slot pricing with three new pricing tiers, and will help BigQuery customers to implement FinOps in real time to select the right new pricing plan based on their usage, and maximize workloads for greater return on cloud data investments.
Posted August 11, 2023
Quest Software, a global leader in systems management, data protection, and security software, is announcing the launch of erwin Data Modeler by Quest 12.5—an update to the data management solution engineered to support strategic efforts such as large language model (LLM) development, data intelligence, and data platform modernization.
Posted August 11, 2023
What are the liability and cost traps you need to watch out for when contracting for data ownership? Adler Law Group president and founder David Adler discussed these key legal considerations in his presentation at Data Summit 2023. Liability and cost traps fall into three areas including laws, rules, and regulations; IT integrations; and third parties, Adler explained.
Posted August 11, 2023
Data experts joined DBTA's webinar, Modernizing Data Integration and Governance for the Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Era, to discuss innovative approaches toward overcoming data silos while simultaneously ensuring both effective governance and access.
Posted August 10, 2023
CISO Global, Inc., a provider of managed cybersecurity and compliance solutions, is introducing Argo Edge, combining the most sought-after security technologies on the market with CISO's proprietary IP and threat feeds for a pre-built and easy-to-implement combined platform. This new solution has been independently valued at $49 million.
Posted August 10, 2023
Syxsense, a provider of unified security and endpoint management (USEM) solutions, is releasing Cortex Copilot, a new AI engine that allows IT and security administrators to simplify and speed up the process of creating endpoint management and security workflow automation.
Posted August 10, 2023
For more and more organizations, real time is not only the right time—it's the only time that matters. No longer can decision makers afford to only understand the material events affecting their businesses a month, a day, or even just a few hours after the fact. They need a sense of what is happening in the moment to be able to predict and adjust for events that are arising. The value of real-time data "is that it provides needed information to accelerate business insights so teams can make better informed decisions and avoid the issues around using older data," said Tarun Chopra, vice president of product management for data and AI at IBM.
Posted August 10, 2023
Existing data infrastructures are crumbling under the weight of data, leading to unsustainable energy consumption, increased management complexity, and declining security. That's the word from a recent survey of 1,288 executives, released by Hitachi Vantara. The survey also finds 76% feel their current data infrastructures "will be unable to scale to meet upcoming demands"—such as AI. Another 61% report they are simply "overwhelmed" by the amount of data they manage. By 2025, the report's authors predict, large organizations will be storing more than 65 petabytes (PB) of data.
Posted August 10, 2023
When Apple first released the iPhone, the company did something that was a bit wild, a bit innovative, especially for a new piece of technology. The iPhone did not come with a 500-page instruction manual explaining how everything worked. There was very little documentation for users. Apple worked hard designing the interface to allow users to apply their own intuitions and navigate around. While some grumbled, it was successful enough, and people adapted.
Posted August 10, 2023
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate and has fundamentally changed the role of database administrators (DBAs). Traditionally, DBAs have been responsible for the installation, maintenance, and management of on-prem databases. However, in the age of cloud computing, DBAs are required to adapt to new technologies, methodologies, and tools.
Posted August 10, 2023
Data is the cornerstone of the modern digital business. IT teams, database professionals, and business leaders use data to make informed decisions, increase efficiency, and stay ahead of business objectives. Applications also need data to run efficiently to ensure teams don't encounter any bottlenecks.
Posted August 10, 2023
At BLUEPRINT 4D 2023, in Dallas, Oracle's Alexandre Lima shared how Oracle's product, GoldenGate, can help manage data integration, availability, and migrations across multiple platforms. After acquiring the application, Oracle invested heavily in improving GoldenGate. This has made the GoldenGate family of products reliable, consistent, secure, and fast-moving.
Posted August 10, 2023
Rocket Software is releasing Rocket MV BASIC for Visual Studio Code (MVVS) v2.1.0, including a preview of the highly anticipated feature—Online Editing. In the latest MVVS v2.1.0 extension, the Online Editing feature takes center stage, enabling users to effortlessly view and edit program files either locally or remotely on a Rocket UniVerse or Rocket UniData server, according to the company.
Posted August 10, 2023
With more data than ever being created, making the right choices among the countless options for data management and analytics is a top priority for many organizations. 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.
Posted August 09, 2023
Synopsys, Inc is launching the Synopsys Software Risk Manager platform, a powerful new application security posture management (ASPM) solution that enables security and development teams to simplify, align, and streamline their application security testing across projects, teams, and application security testing (AST) tools.
Posted August 08, 2023
Edgio, the platform of choice for speed, security, and simplicity at the edge, is releasing a new API Security solution that uses machine learning (ML) to discover and protect enterprise Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from evolving threats. According to the company, the latest addition to Edgio's Security platform reduces the risk of API-specific attacks and through simple integration with developer workflows enables strong application performance and accelerated application release velocity.
Posted August 08, 2023
Ermetic, a cloud infrastructure security company, is introducing CNAPPgoat, an open source project that allows organizations to safely test their cloud security skills, processes, tools and posture in interactive sandbox environments. CNAPPgoat supports AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms for assessing the security capabilities included in Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP).
Posted August 07, 2023
AttackIQ is delivering "testing for everyone" via AttackIQ Flex, AttackIQ Ready! and AttackIQ Enterprise product offerings. Users anywhere in the world can now use AttackIQ's advanced adversary emulation capabilities to test with any budget, with a simplified testing experience, and with comprehensive risk visibility, in minutes, according to the company.
Posted August 04, 2023
Dell Technologies is dipping its feet into the generative AI space with new offerings to help customers quickly and securely build generative AI (GenAI) models on-premises, aiming to accelerate improved outcomes and drive new levels of intelligence.
Posted August 03, 2023
Earthly Technologies, the company behind the open source developer tool Earthly, is releasing a free tier of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) build automation platform, Earthly Cloud. This new, free offering provides developers with 6,000 minutes per month of Earthly Cloud's consistent, fast continuous integration (CI) and remote build runners that are compatible with any CI system, according to the vendor.
Posted August 02, 2023
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has introduced a new Secure Cloud Computing Architecture (SCCA) for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). According to Oracle, the solution helps make security compliance and cloud adoption for mission-critical workloads easier, faster, and more cost effective by using a framework of cloud native services.
Posted August 02, 2023
Oracle is releasing MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, enabling customers to query data in object storage as fast as querying data inside the database. MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse supports a variety of object store file formats such as CSV, Parquet, and export files from other databases, and can combine object storage file data and MySQL database transactional data together in the same query.
Posted August 02, 2023
Cleo, a leader of the Ecosystem Integration software category and provider of the Cleo Integration Cloud (CIC) platform, is expanding its Accelerator portfolio to bring new end-to-end integration solutions to the market. The new Accelerators, designed for Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, and SAP-powered enterprises, will help customers accelerate supply chain automation and optimize business processes between their systems of record and multi-enterprise B2B ecosystems.
Posted August 02, 2023
Dynatrace, the leader in unified observability and security, is expanding its Davis AI engine to create a hypermodal artificial intelligence (AI), converging fact-based, predictive- and causal-AI insights with new generative-AI capabilities. According to the company, the expanded Davis AI will boost productivity across business, development, security, and operations teams by delivering generative-AI recommendations fueled by precise context from predictive- and causal-AI techniques that reflect the unique attributes of each organization's hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystem.
Posted August 01, 2023
Protect AI, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security company, announced it has closed a $35M Series A round of funding, enabling the company to scale sales and marketing, go to market activities, R&D, and customer success initiatives.
Posted August 01, 2023
Bfore.AI, a predictive security solution, is releasing its signature PreCrime solution suite, expanding predictive threat intelligence and reinforcing proactive digital risk protection (DRP) to accelerate early identification and remediation, optimize security operations, and take preemptive actions against online fraud.
Posted July 31, 2023
LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based unified observability platform for hybrid IT infrastructure, announced it has expanded its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS), adding value to Amazon CloudWatch data and expanding monitoring coverage across an extensible array of AWS services to help customers quickly see meaningful insights, increase uptime, and gain faster visibility into business changes.
Posted July 31, 2023
IBM is introducing a new tool to help enterprises track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across cloud services along with the ability to advance sustainability performance throughout the hybrid, multi-cloud journey. Now generally available, the IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator—an AI-informed dashboard—can help clients access emissions data across a variety of IBM Cloud workloads such as AI, high performance computing (HPC), and financial services.
Posted July 31, 2023
IBM Consulting is collaborating with the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) to build Pulse by NABP, a new digital platform that is intended to bring visibility to the drug supply chain and help protect patients from counterfeit or substandard prescription medications.
Posted July 31, 2023
Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management, and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is announcing the continued expansion of its collaboration with Microsoft, manifesting as the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for Azure Stake HCI.
Posted July 31, 2023
IBM Security released its annual "Cost of a Data Breach Report," revealing that the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million in 2023—an all-time high for the report and a 15% increase over the last 3 years. Detection and escalation costs jumped 42% over this same time frame, representing the highest portion of breach costs, and indicating a shift towards more complex breach investigations.
Posted July 31, 2023