Data Warehousing Articles
Oracle Autonomous Database is now generally available on Oracle Database@Azure in the Microsoft Azure East U.S. region. Oracle will operate and manage the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Service, the second Oracle database service to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Azure data centers, according to the company.
Posted July 03, 2024
Data engineering experts joined DBTA's webinar, The Future of Data Engineering: AI, Automation, and the Cloud, to examine key technologies and best practices that are playing significant roles in how data engineering can best manifest in the enterprise.
Posted July 01, 2024
Gearset, the leading Salesforce DevOps platform, is debuting a new suite of capabilities designed to accelerate and enhance reliable release management for its Salesforce DevOps platform. Prompted by user feedback, the new features—Archiving, expansions to Compare and Deploy, and Flow Navigator—deliver data optimization and visibility tools that empower Salesforce teams across the DevOps lifecycle.
Posted July 01, 2024
DevOps is now the most prevalent software development methodology in use. Since 2009, it has spread beyond development teams into other functional areas. One of the earlier DevOps extensions was into DevTestOps, which emphasized continuous testing throughout the software development lifecycle. This was followed several years later by the emergence of QAOps, which built on that model with a focus on improved quality assurance (QA). At first glance, these terms refer to the same methodology. But when you dig deeper, QAOps represents a significant departure from the purpose and process of DevOps. Let's explore.
Posted July 01, 2024
Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, is announcing two new services for the Precisely Data Integrity Suite—the modular, interoperable suite for delivering accurate, consistent, contextual data to your business. This release introduces Spatial Analytics and Data Enrichment services to Precisely's suite, offering location-aware capabilities that enhance data management in increasingly complex data estates. This announcement also debuts a new private API for mainframe replication, providing more flexible deployment options to help meet business and IT rules.
Posted June 28, 2024
DBTA gathered experts from Microsoft and Informatica for the webinar, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud as an Azure Native ISV Service, to discuss the nuance of leveraging cloud capabilities for data management within the Azure ecosystem, helping to cultivate greater understanding around Informatica and Microsoft's collaborative software.
Posted June 27, 2024
Broadcom is introducing its latest updates to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the company's flagship private cloud platform, supporting customers' digital innovation with faster infrastructure modernization, improved developer productivity, and better cyber resiliency and security.
Posted June 27, 2024
Data migrations can be a big undertaking for almost any organization. That's why it's so important that organizations set themselves up for long-term success. This means being able to ensure they'll enable their desired outcomes—such as compliance, data accuracy, and performance—for the long haul.
Posted June 27, 2024
Teradata is debuting the availability of Teradata VantageCloud Lake on Google Cloud, merging the powers of Teradata and Google Cloud—with additional new enhancements—to deliver trusted AI at scale. This announcement seamlessly integrates key Teradata components with an array of Google Cloud AI technologies and models, offering a modern data platform designed to support and scale a variety of AI types—from predictive AI to generative AI (GenAI).
Posted June 27, 2024
Datadobi, a global leader in hybrid cloud data services, is releasing StorageMAP 7.0, offering new features that provide deeper insights into unstructured data environments, facilitate informed decision-making, and enable policy driven data placement. These advancements are in direct response to the urgent need for businesses to manage the acute risk, cost, and opportunity associated with the rapidly increasing volume of unstructured data that is inundating most enterprises, according to Datadobi.
Posted June 27, 2024
Krishna Raman, vice president, ISM R&D at Quest, and Aaron Sonntag, senior software development engineer at EDB, joined DBTA's webinar, Ensuring Performance, Scalability, and Security in the Cloud, to examine today's best practices for cloud adoption and management, discussing various factors that can derail success.
Posted June 27, 2024
SnapLogic, a leader in generative integration, is offering new connectivity and support for Snowflake vector data types, Snowflake Cortex, and Streamlit, assisting companies modernize their businesses and accelerate the creation of generative AI applications.
Posted June 27, 2024
CData Software, a leading provider of data connectivity solutions, is announcing a recent boom in capital, concluding a funding round that garnered $350 million from Warburg Pincus, a leading global growth investor, with participation from Accel.
Posted June 26, 2024
Abstract Security, crafted by category creators who redefined the cybersecurity landscape, announced the general availability (GA) of its platform designed for the future of security operations. Already in use by customers, Abstract's platform helps security analysts and operations teams navigate the complexities of data pipelines, increase security effectiveness, and lower costs, according to the company.
Posted June 25, 2024
Databricks, the Data and AI company, is introducing Databricks LakeFlow, a new solution that unifies and simplifies all aspects of data engineering—from data ingestion to transformation and orchestration. According to Databricks, with LakeFlow, data teams can now simply and efficiently ingest data at scale from databases such as MySQL, Postgres, and Oracle, and enterprise applications such as Salesforce, Dynamics, Sharepoint, Workday, NetSuite, and Google Analytics.
Posted June 24, 2024
DigitalOcean is introducing Managed OpenSearch, a comprehensive solution designed for in-depth log analysis, simplifying troubleshooting, and optimizing application performance. According to the company, traditional log management solutions can be complex, costly, and time-consuming. That's where Managed OpenSearch comes in. It's a powerful, user-friendly platform that makes it easy to gather and analyze application logs.
Posted June 24, 2024
DiffusionData, a pioneer and leader in real-time data streaming, is collaborating with Technaura, a Germany-based IT consultancy specializing in the provision of real-time data solutions and services—combining their offerings to provide markets such as financial services, IoT, telco, and healthcare with reliable and secure real-time data distribution at Internet scale.
Posted June 21, 2024
To examine enabling technologies and best practices for adopting a data fabric architecture, experts from TimeXtender and Acceldata joined DBTA's webinar, Moving to a Data Fabric: Key Challenges and Enabling Technologies, offering an amalgamation of strategies for navigating this otherwise elusive—yet vitally modern—infrastructure.
Posted June 20, 2024
Siren, the all-in-one investigation company, is releasing the latest version of its software, presenting investigators with a pre-built intelligence graph that hastens the investigation process. Siren 14.2 automatically makes complex connections from large volumes of disparate data, surfacing previously inaccessible intelligence and improving effectiveness, according to the company.
Posted June 19, 2024
Tigera, the creator of Project Calico, is introducing Calico Cluster Mesh, delivering on its approach to secure microservices communication. According to the company, Calico Cluster Mesh delivers the benefits of a service mesh without the added complexity and latency of a traditional service mesh solution.
Posted June 19, 2024
DataBee, from Comcast Technology Solutions (CTS), is offering new capabilities in its DataBee Hive security, risk, and compliance data fabric platform—introducing DataBee EntityViews. DataBee EntityViews, powered by a patent-pending entity resolution technology, brings automated detection chaining that improves threat hunting, security detection fidelity, and insider risk monitoring, according to the company.
Posted June 18, 2024
DataStrike, a leader in data infrastructure services, has completed the acquisition of database and cloud management pioneer MiCORE, forming one of the largest managed service providers (MSP) specializing in data infrastructure services for small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).
Posted June 17, 2024
Gretel, a provider of synthetic data generation, is releasing Gretel Navigator, an agent-based, compound generative AI system built to automate data creation and curation processes for AI development. With simple natural language or SQL prompts, Gretel Navigator enables users to create, edit, and augment tabular data, and design realistic, high-quality test and training datasets from scratch, according to the company.
Posted June 17, 2024
Alation, Inc., the data intelligence company, is deepening its integration with Databricks to offer trusted data for AI initiatives to the enterprise—strengthening the partnership through the Alation Open Data Quality Initiative improves data reliability, streamlines compliance, and facilitates effective decision-making.
Posted June 17, 2024
Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, is adding the S3 interface to its Global Data Platform, advancing the orchestration of existing data sets to available compute resources. With this announcement, Hammerspace continues to offer organizations new, advantageous ways to manage and leverage data, according to the company.
Posted June 17, 2024
Qumulo, the simple way to manage exabyte-scale data anywhere, is joining the Ultra Ethernet Consortium—becoming one of the first Networked Storage suppliers to enlist. Additionally, Qumulo announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation and Arista Networks to advance the state-of-the-art in IT infrastructure at the intersection of networking, storage, and data management.
Posted June 17, 2024
Keebo is introducing Workload Intelligence, Powered by Snowflake on the Snowflake Marketplace, enabling joint customers to gain full visibility into their costs, identify their performance bottlenecks, identify their inefficient queries, and advise their data teams to take advantage of optimization opportunities.
Posted June 13, 2024
Never before has the business spotlight been on database managers and professionals as it is at this time. Every business leader now wants a data-driven organization, as they recognize this is the key to competitive differentiation. Data monetization is seen as a vast new revenue source. AI—both operational and generative—relies on effective data management and quality. The ongoing transition to digital business demands real-time delivery of insights to end users and applications.
Posted June 13, 2024
Two surveys show that many executives are skeptical they can move forward with AI demands, which include the right data, at the right time. AI is a high priority, and is in production at most sites, but supplying trustworthy data is still a challenge at the back end.
Posted June 13, 2024
The world of open source has moved from being a niche interest that was the province of academics and self-described geeks to the mainstream. From being the purview of free software interest groups, open source is now ubiquitous. According to OpenUK, open source is used by 78% of private enterprises, and open source components and code are present in roughly 97% of all applications, proprietary or otherwise.
Posted June 13, 2024
Most times, if asked, I will rattle off, without hesitation, a list of ways AI is being applied along with all the ways it can go wrong. You may also get bit of a diatribe about why speaking of AI in the royal sense (i.e., "the AI") is always a bad idea. It's practically a (bad) party trick. Yet recently, when asked to characterize the primary ethical issues in AI, I had a perfect moment of mental blankness. It was an uncomfortable and instructive moment on many fronts.
Posted June 12, 2024
Ben Slater, CPO, Instaclustr by NetApp, joined DBTA's webinar, The World's Largest Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra Migration: Lessons Learned and Best Practices, shared their firsthand experience in managing a migration project of colossal scale, delivering valuable insights in areas such as planning, security, performance optimization, monitoring, and more.
Posted June 12, 2024
Apica, the leader in data management and active observability, is debuting version 2.0 of the Apica Ascent Platform, acting as a culmination of Apica's recently acquired entities—LOGIQ.AI, a data fabric innovator, and Circonus, a telemetry data management provider. Incorporating the features from both acquired companies' platforms, Ascent platform 2.0 empowers organizations with deeper, more enriched insights into data management, further simplifying how customers gather and apply their data to systems and platforms.
Posted June 12, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is developing of high-performance and energy-efficient hybrid cloud and database solutions. The new, highly-performant AMD EPYC CPU-powered Hitachi Vantara hybrid cloud solutions combine converged and hyperconverged solutions, including Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP), with 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors.
Posted June 12, 2024
StorMagic, the company solving the world's edge data problems, is unveiling SvHCI, an innovative response to the spike in costs of hypervisors—namely, by VMware and its recent acquisition by Broadcom. SvHCI is the world's most inexpensive, full-stack, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution—offering both a hypervisor and a storage layer—purpose-built for edge and small to medium-sized business (SMB) environments, according to StorMagic.
Posted June 11, 2024
To gain insight on the adoption and maturity of data management technologies and practices, DBTA and Radiant Advisors surveyed more than 250 IT leaders and professionals at organizations across North America to identify the key perceptions, priorities, challenges, and technology plans underlying modernization efforts today.
Posted June 11, 2024
DBI Software, a provider of performance monitoring, tuning, and trending tools for IBM Db2 LUW and SQL Server databases, is releasing version 10 of the DBI Web Performance Suite.
Posted June 07, 2024
Bigeye, the enterprise-grade data observability platform for modern and legacy data stacks, is announcing support for column-level lineage for ETL platforms, bringing extended visibility to enterprises' hybrid data environments. This release empowers organizations with both on-prem sources and cloud data warehouses to map the entire lineage of their data analytics pipeline, ushering in more holistic insights on data quality.
Posted June 07, 2024
CloudZero, a globally trusted leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency, announced that the company is now a validated Databricks partner, making it one of the first and only cloud cost optimization platforms accepted into the Databricks partner program. As part of the newly announced partnership, CloudZero developed a new in-platform Databricks cost adaptor that helps customers to visualize and explore 100% of their Databricks spend.
Posted June 06, 2024
Guiding enterprises through the thicket of the latest database technologies and strategies, experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, New Database Technologies and Strategies for the AI Era, to offer their expertise on the market's best solutions for supporting AI projects.
Posted June 06, 2024
Oracle is releasing Oracle Linux 8 Update 10 for the 64-bit Intel and AMD (x86_64) and 64-bit Arm (aarch64) platforms is designed for distributed computing environments. Oracle Linux sources, binaries, ISOs, and errata continue to be readily accessible and freely available from the Oracle Linux yum server, without any restrictions.
Posted June 05, 2024
A first and important step in being successful at almost any job or task is understanding oneself. This is true for engineers, modelers, or even architects. Do you know how to perform your tasks? Are you faster or slower than others doing the same tasks? Do you have more or less errors in your output than others? It seems that a rising number of people are so uncomfortable with competing that they may even avoid asking these kinds of questions of themselves; but this is not about competition, it is about understanding oneself, it is about being responsible, it is about holding oneself accountable.
Posted June 05, 2024
Neo4j, the graph database and analytics leader, is announcing a partnership with Snowflake that brings Neo4j's fully integrated, native graph data science solution to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. This news—which was announced at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024—empowers enterprises to leverage advanced, graph-enabled insights without moving their data from the Snowflake environment.
Posted June 04, 2024