Data Warehousing Articles
Avantra, provider of an AIOps platform for SAP operations automation, is releasing Avantra 23, delivering updates that improve service quality for SAP operations with ready-to-use workflow automation templates, including SAP system refresh, automated SAP security analysis, and much more.
Posted November 16, 2022
When designing a data center, a recognized set of principles is typically followed. Scalability, resiliency, reliability, and sustainability are all essential, but the most important common feature for data center products may be flexibility. The equipment cabinet should likewise be flexible, but this has not always been the case. There has been a rethinking of the way IT infrastructure, power, and cooling converge—and the data center cabinet is starting to adapt.
Posted November 16, 2022
The enterprise that built the serverless, streamlined data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB, MotherDuck, is announcing a recent funding milestone of $47.5 million. The initial Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, garnered $35 million, further compounded with a $12.5 million seed round led by Redpoint—resulting in a total valuation of $175 million for the company.
Posted November 15, 2022
IBM is unveiling the IBM Cloud for VMware as a Service, a direct result of the ongoing, 20-year partnership between IBM and VMware that elaborates upon their workload modernization and time-to-value acceleration ventures.
Posted November 14, 2022
Y42, the developers behind the Modern DataOps Cloud, is officially relaunching their product to accommodate critical needs for accessible, governed, and collaborative data operations.
Posted November 14, 2022
Apiiro, a provider of cloud-native application security, announced it has received $100 million in a significant Series B round, allowing the enterprise to accelerate the business and advance the company's mission to empower developers and application security engineers to proactively fix risks before releasing to the cloud. The funding round was led by General Catalyst with participation by Greylock and Kleiner Perkins.
Posted November 11, 2022
Last month we looked at various types of database recovery, how they work, and how DBAs need to prepare for recovery scenarios. This month, let's delve a little deeper into the issues and decisions that DBAs need to be prepared to address as they work on database recovery. The first thing that DBAs need to be aware of is the recovery time objectives, or RTOs, for the database objects in question. In an ideal world, RTOs would have been established for each object and the backup procedures would be in place to establish sufficient time for recovering to those objectives.
Posted November 10, 2022
Snyk, a provider of developer security, is offering its SnykLaunch Fall 2022, providing a number of significant innovations that extend the reach and power of the company's existing Developer Security Platform. This platform update allows more companies to maximize the benefits of DevSecOps and effective collaboration between their developer, operations, and security teams, according to the vendor.
Posted November 10, 2022
IBM is introducing new software designed to help enterprises break down data and analytics silos so they can make data-driven decisions fast and navigate unpredictable disturbances. IBM Business Analytics Enterprise is a suite of business intelligence planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and dashboard capabilities that provides users with a robust view of data sources across their entire business.
Posted November 07, 2022
Qlik is launching Qlik Cloud Data Integration, its Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (eiPaaS) offering to fuel enterprise data strategies through a real-time data integration fabric that connects all enterprise applications and data sources to the cloud.
Posted November 02, 2022
Cirrus Data Solutions Inc. (CDS) is announcing the availability of Cirrus Migrate Cloud on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, following its integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Posted November 02, 2022
Is it getting easier or more difficult to lock down data in today's digital enterprises? Industry leaders have mixed opinions on the state of that challenge. Cloud vendors promise industrial-grade security for backend applications and data, while at the same time the move to cloud increases complexity.
Posted November 02, 2022
To reconcile enterprises with the growing demands of modern applications, new technologies and strategies are necessary to successfully support applications in their respective hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Posted November 01, 2022
Pepperdata, provider of big data cloud and Kubernetes workloads performance products, is unveiling its Autonomous FinOps for Kubernetes (K8s) offering.
Posted November 01, 2022
Hazelcast Inc. is making additions to the platform's capabilities—notably in regards to joining multiple streams of live data, as well as merging them with large volumes of stored data.
Posted November 01, 2022
Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, is introducing Red Hat Device Edge, a solution for flexibly deploying traditional or containerized workloads on small devices such as robots, IoT gateways, points of sale, public transport, and more. This latest product in the Red Hat edge portfolio aims to provide a future-proof platform that allows organizations' architecture to evolve as their workload strategy changes, according to the company.
Posted October 31, 2022
Delve into the context and best practices of modern data lakehouse management and architecture, based on DBTA's webinar, "Building a Modern Lakehouse".
Posted October 27, 2022
InfluxData is deploying its next-generation time series engine designed to transform InfluxDB to a columnar, real-time data platform optimized for the full range of time series data, able to ingest data at high volumes with unbound cardinality, and support SQL-based queries.
Posted October 27, 2022
Chronosphere, provider of a cloud native observability platform, is offering a new release of its cloud native observability platform that includes new capabilities designed to improve cloud native engineering team efficiency. According to the company, the Chronosphere platform takes a new approach to cloud native observability with a reimagined user workflow tailored to the unique ways engineering and DevOps teams work in today's cloud native environment.
Posted October 27, 2022
Kyndryl is releasing Kyndryl Consult, a culmination of the enterprise's decades of mission critical experience paired with technology integration solutions for guiding existing customers.
Posted October 27, 2022
Oracle is introducing several new distributed cloud offerings to meet customers' diverse needs and the growing demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). These new options include Oracle Alloy, Oracle MySQL HeatWave for Microsoft Azure, and plans to open new public cloud regions in Chicago, Serbia, and Mexico.
Posted October 27, 2022
IBM announced it's extending the data-resilience capabilities of existing IBM data protection products and introducing new workload-specific solutions for SAP HANA and Salesforce. The IBM Safeguarded Copy capability, which currently enables IBM FlashSystem and IBM DS8000 clients to create cyber-resilient immutable snapshots, is now available to clients running IBM's Spectrum Scale high-performance global data platform, bringing logical air-gapping to unstructured data sets. This solution provides organizations with a consistent approach to safeguarding data, regardless of where it's located or how it scales up or out, according to IBM.
Posted October 26, 2022
Kasten by Veeam is unveiling the Kasten by Veeam K10 V5.5 Kubernetes data management platform, a solution geared toward bridging the gap between skill and user when employing Kubernetes.
Posted October 25, 2022
DBTA hosted a webinar, "Building a Real-time Document Data Store at Scale," featuring speakers Noel Yuhanna, VP and principal analyst at Forrester; George Demarest, director of product marketing at Aerospike; and Mario Ornelas, CEO of Zonetap, to explore the ways in which current document databases are ill-equipped to scale and perform at max efficiency, and how Aerospike rises to that challenge.
Posted October 20, 2022
DBTA hosted a webinar, sponsored by Melissa, titled "The Growing Challenge of Data Quality in the Era of Cloud and Analytics," featuring speakers Joe McKendrick, research analyst at Unisphere Research, and Bud Walker, VP of strategy and enterprise sales at Melissa, to discuss the issues with ensuring data quality among disparate and complex enterprise landscapes.
Posted October 20, 2022
Titan Data Solutions, a specialist distributor for end-to-end data management solutions and cybersecurity services, is announcing its distribution agreement with Hammerspace, the provider of Global Data Environments, expanding access to the U.K. and Europe.
Posted October 19, 2022
Redgate, the provider behind database DevOps solutions and developer tools, is unveiling Flyway Enterprise, an enhanced iteration of the Flyway tool to accommodate organizations and their efforts toward standardizing and automating database deployment throughout their teams and technologies.
Posted October 18, 2022
The world is increasingly online, and online is increasingly real-time. This presents interesting performance challenges for databases, and Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is purpose-built to address them. According to a recent statistic, more than 5.47 billion people have access to the Internet which is approximately 69% of the world's population. This number has increased by a staggering 1.1 billion since 2019 or approximately 12% of the world population is now accessing internet for the first time.
Posted October 17, 2022
Cloudera is announcing the general availability of DataFlow Functions (DFF) for Cloudera DataFlow within the Public Cloud on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, improving NiFi flow functions.
Posted October 17, 2022
BMC, a global provider of software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, announced findings from its annual mainframe survey that reinforce the mainframe as a key platform for innovation. Organizations are bringing the mainframe to more of the enterprise, and digital transformation is increasingly inclusive of the mainframe. The insights align with the company's focus on providing intelligence-driven solutions that span all IT and business environments from mainframe to the cloud.
Posted October 17, 2022
IBM announced it will add Red Hat storage product roadmaps and Red Hat associate teams to the IBM Storage business unit, bringing consistent application and data storage across on-premises infrastructure and cloud. With the move, IBM will integrate the storage technologies from Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) as the foundation for IBM Spectrum Fusion. This combines IBM and Red Hat's container storage technologies for data services and helps accelerate IBM's capabilities in the burgeoning Kubernetes platform market.
Posted October 17, 2022
Data observability is a relatively new discipline in the fields of data engineering and data management. While many are familiar with the longstanding concepts of observability and monitoring in enterprise IT networks and infrastructure, data observability has only really come into the spotlight in the last two years. However, it has managed to turn a lot of heads in that short time.
Posted October 17, 2022
Enterprise growth is a goal for most companies, yet it concurrently requires strategies in the event of data disaster or to maintain a regularly operable, productive system. With a cloud-native managed, multi-region infrastructure, enterprises can use their global presence as an advantage towards recovery methods.
Posted October 13, 2022
Kubernetes is an open source platform, upheld for its extensibility and portable quality for managing containerized workloads and services. While beneficial, there are areas that can be improved when employed—such as instances of deep technology stack troubleshooting, contrasting workload requirements, and efficient database management.
Posted October 13, 2022
Postman, supplier of an API platform, is partnering with Microsoft to further the embrace of API-first lifecycles and improve the lives of developers and Microsoft Azure customers alike.
Posted October 13, 2022
The nature of enterprise functions is diverse: various teams, tools, and systems form a successful enterprise, each taking on an individual area of expertise. This necessary miscellany of groups and functions makes for a gap in data handling, where opposing operations can confound and slow productivity. Enter the semantic layer: the business glue that connects BI tools, users, and data through a common language reflected throughout every inch of the enterprise.
Posted October 12, 2022
ArangoDB, the company behind a graph data and analytics platform, is releasing the ArangoGraph Insights Platform, a cloud-based graph data and analytics platform that uncovers insights in data that are difficult or impossible to obtain with traditional SQL, document, or even other graph databases.
Posted October 12, 2022
The launch of Cloud Seed by GitLab Inc., provider of the One DevOps Platform for software innovation, in collaboration with Google Cloud, announced it now streamlines migration to the cloud within a single platform.
Posted October 11, 2022
Provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT management software, SolarWinds, is launching the SolarWinds Transform Partner Program to empower their global channel partners to accelerate digital transformation for their respective customers via AI-powered SolarWinds observability solutions.
Posted October 07, 2022
Hammerspace, the provider of the Global Data Environment for on-premises data centers and public cloud infrastructures, is debuting their latest ameliorations to the Hammerspace Global Environment, enriching data value and collaboration with the Hammerspace Metadata Plugin, User Initiated File Protection, Automated File Reservation, and Global Audit functionality, each integrated with the Hammerspace Metadata Control Plane.
Posted October 07, 2022
Data, data, data—there's more of it every day, at greater complexity than ever before. While having the tools to manage and utilize that data is necessary, ensuring you are leveraging the maximum value from those systems and tools is critical.
Posted October 07, 2022