Data Warehousing Articles
President Joe Biden issued an executive order to provide federal support to address massive energy needs for fast-growing advanced artificial intelligence data centers, calling for leasing federal sites owned by Defense and Energy departments to host gigawatt-scale AI data centers and new clean power facilities. The move aims to address enormous power needs in a short time frame.
Posted January 14, 2025
The months and years ahead promise to be an interesting time in the data analytics space.AI and machine learning are already making their mark, elevating analytics—and its front-end sibling, business intelligence. End users are seeing their capabilities expand in new directions, with an ability to ask questions they did not even consider with earlier technology iterations. Industry leaders are tracking a range of developments that are defining analytics and BI in the year ahead.
Posted January 13, 2025
Articul8 AI (Articul8), a generative AI (GenAI) enterprise software company, is releasing A8 Essential, an innovative self-service GenAI product that empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their data. According to the company, A8 Essential fills the unmet need in the market to build complex, domain-specific, enterprise-grade GenAI applications.
Posted January 13, 2025
A lot of SAP customers and consultants look at SAP BW/4HANA as a "lower-class" SAP system. Something for "someone else" to worry about. They forget about all the work that went into setting up their company's data warehouse in SAP BW/4HANA, or further back, like some of my early SAP consulting projects on BW7 and BW3.5.
Posted January 09, 2025
While the generative AI (GenAI) revolution is rolling forward at full steam, it's not without its share of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The great promises that can be delivered through large language models (LLMs) are tainted by concerns over hallucinations, bias, data security, "black-box" decisioning, and outdated information.
Posted January 09, 2025
A surrogate is, "One appointed to act in place of another." A surrogate key is appointed to act in place of a natural key. Why? Well, one could argue that surrogate keys existed since the beginning of the computer. As the computer uses internal addresses for finding everything, and in the early days that usage had to be explicitly managed by those programming. It wasn't until relational theory came along that the concept of using data values as identifiers arose and were functionally implemented.
Posted January 09, 2025
A day in the life of a DBA (database administrator) can be quite hectic. The DBA is required to maintain production and test environments while at the same time keeping an eye on active application development projects, attending strategy and design meetings, helping to select and evaluate new products, and keeping legacy systems robust and stable, while ensuring access from new systems.
Posted January 09, 2025
In 2025, preventing risks from both cybercriminals and AI use will be top mandates for most CIOs. Ransomware, in particular, continues to vex enterprises, and unstructured data is a vast, largely unprotected asset. AI solutions have moved from experimental to mainstream, with all the major tech companies and cloud providers making significant investments in building turnkey generative (GenAI) and AI solutions for enterprise customers.
Posted January 09, 2025
Throughout 2024, data managers and professionals were at the locus of the new waves of innovation driven by AI and analytics—and the activity was frenetic and intense. As the year 2025 progresses, this intense and frenetic activity will only continue. Cloud services, AI, AI agents, and cybersecurity are top areas of interest that industry leaders are watching. The following are several prominent trends mentioned that are shaping data management.
Posted January 09, 2025
Oracle is introducing Oracle Exadata X11M, the latest generation of the Oracle Exadata platform, delivering a variety of performance improvements across AI, analytics, and online transaction processing (OLTP). Combining intelligent power management with the ability to run mission-critical workloads faster and on fewer systems helps customers achieve their energy efficiency and sustainability goals.
Posted January 08, 2025
Ireckonu, a leading provider of hospitality digital solutions, and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that Ireckonu CORE Middleware and Customer Data Platform (CDP) is now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and can be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and integrated with OPERA Cloud via the Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP).
Posted January 08, 2025
Cybersecurity continues to be top of mind for organizations everywhere as 2025 begins. In 2024 alone, hackers attacked hospitals and other health care organizations, telecom giants, supply chains, and more. Even government entities haven't been spared in these attacks. Here, security experts share their predictions for incoming threats in 2025.
Posted January 07, 2025
Yondr Group, a leading global developer, owner, and operator of hyperscale data centers, announced it secured a 4.5-acre site in Toronto to develop its first Canadian data center. The three-story 27MW data center is planned to bring its first megawatts online in mid- 2026. The development sits strategically within an emerging Canadian corridor for data center infrastructure.
Posted January 06, 2025
Quantum Corporation, the provider of technology, software, and services that today's organizations need to make video and other unstructured data smarter, is announcing the availability of Scalar i7 RAPTOR, the latest version of Quantum's efficient, dense, low-cost solution for AI data lakes. Engineered for hyperscale customers, managed service providers (MSPs), and large enterprises, Scalar i7 RAPTOR solidifies its position as the densest, most scalable tape solution available, according to Quantum.
Posted January 02, 2025
Peer Software is now offering advanced capabilities in the latest version of its flagship solution Peer Global File Service (PeerGFS), designed to meet data management requirements of complex globally distributed storage environments.
Posted January 02, 2025
Vectra AI, Inc., a leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), is partnering with Lumifi, a leading managed detection and response (MDR) technology company, now integrating Vectra AI Network Detection and Response (NDR) into Lumifi's service offerings to provide customers with greater visibility into their networks, insights into attacker behavior, and the ability to stop network-based attacks early in their progression.
Posted December 23, 2024
BattleFin Group, Inc, a market leader and pioneer in the alternative data discovery industry, is acquiring Exabel, an alternative data analytics platform, solidifying BattleFin's global leadership in both data discovery and data intelligence markets.
Posted December 20, 2024
Kurrent, the event-native data platform innovator, is announcing $12 million in funding, accompanied by two other major company milestones: a rebrand from its previous moniker, Event Store, and the launch of Kurrent Enterprise Edition.
Posted December 20, 2024
AI innovation in the big data space shows no signs of slowing down, with companies rushing to adopt or create their own solutions based on AI, automating redundant tasks, and spinning up all kinds of use cases to justify spending big bucks in the area. Here, tech experts share their predictions for AI in 2025.
Posted December 20, 2024
LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based hybrid observability platform powered by AI, is unveiling "Veeue powered by AppDirect," an integrated solution born from LogicMonitor's partnership with AppDirect. Designed to extend LogicMonitor's hybrid observability to over 1,500 managed service provider (MSP) businesses, "Veeue powered by AppDirect" empowers these enterprises to streamline operations and enhance service delivery.
Posted December 19, 2024
KNIME, the open source data analytics and AI company, is releasing its AI companion, K-AI, enabling users to co-create powerful data workflows with AI. According to the company, K-AI will answer questions, make recommendations, and extend or build whole data workflows based on user prompts. The AI companion speeds up the time to insight, while giving users complete transparency into and control over what AI is doing.
Posted December 19, 2024
Nuon Inc. announced it has secured $16.5 million in funding and is providing an early access release of its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) platform. Nuon is currently powering a few dozen AI and data infrastructure companies already using the platform to deliver BYOC solutions. The company plans to launch general availability by late Q1 2025.
Posted December 19, 2024
I once wrote an article titled "Do Your Metrics Matter?" It was inspired by the joy of sitting in an airplane, at the gate, going nowhere fast for close to 2 hours. All the while the airline app was proclaiming an on-time departure. Having ample time to discuss this perceived error with the crew, I learned that the closed aircraft door equaled departure. Departed, it turned out, was not an indication of a flight in motion but a process gone awry (a circumstance that may persist to this day, for what it's worth).
Posted December 19, 2024
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading Postgres data and AI company, is adding a variety of enhancements to EDB Postgres AI, empowering enterprises to deploy secure, flexible AI-driven applications in a sovereign, hybrid environment.
Posted December 19, 2024
Cirata, the company that automates Hadoop data transfer and integration to modern cloud analytics and AI platforms, is announcing an expansion of its partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company, with the aim of accelerating data migration and modernization in the cloud. By leveraging Cirata's professional services and Data Migration as a Service (DMaaS) solution, enterprises benefit from the ability to seamlessly transition to Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform, propelling their data and AI initiatives.
Posted December 19, 2024
Linkerd, created by Buoyant, is releasing Linkerd 2.17, a new version of Linkerd that introduces several major new features to the project: egress traffic visibility and control; rate limiting; and federated services, a powerful new multicluster primitive that combines services running in multiple clusters into a single logical service. This release also updates Linkerd to support OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing.
Posted December 18, 2024
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), and SAP announced GROW with SAP on AWS, which will allow customers of all sizes to rapidly deploy SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution while leveraging the reliability, security, and scalability of the world's most broadly adopted cloud.
Posted December 18, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is expanding its AI-ready data integration capabilities, delivering new enhancements across SAP, Databricks, and Snowflake. According to the company, these advancements empower enterprises to streamline data workflows, accelerate AI deployment, and gain faster insights, ensuring that business intelligence is built and scaled on quality, real-time data running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Posted December 18, 2024
Avantra, a leading provider of AIOps for SAP, is releasing Avantra 25, the latest edition of its renowned observability and automation platform. Poised to transform SAP systems with new levels of efficiency and flexibility, Avantra 25 is the first edition to integrate fully with the Avantra AIR cloud product and brings a wealth of new features and functionality, according to the company.
Posted December 18, 2024
DBTA's latest webinar, The Next Era of Database Management: Emerging Technologies and Best Practices, featured the viewpoints of database experts from Datavail and Oracle, covering topics such as cloud native databases, database types, vendor lock-in, AI, optimization, and more.
Posted December 18, 2024
Airbyte, a leading open data movement platform, is releasing data connectors for Oracle databases and Workday for large-scale, high-performance, secure and reliable movement of data for users of Airbyte Self-Managed Enterprise and Airbyte Teams.
Posted December 18, 2024
In today's competitive business environment, empowering your teams with data-driven decision-making is essential. However, amid an organization's vast sea of data, the process of effectively navigating through this abundance of information is daunting. In fact, the likelihood of human error while sorting through such data volumes for key insights is virtually guaranteed, further complicating the already daunting task at hand.
Posted December 18, 2024
The MultiValue skills gap can be a growing challenge for businesses relying on MultiValue technology. However, there are practical solutions to address this issue. In a recently released two-part roundtable discussion, industry experts share valuable strategies for attracting, hiring, training, and retaining new developers in the MultiValue space.
Posted December 18, 2024
Solace, a leader in powering real-time, event-driven enterprises, is adding micro-integrations to its event-driven integration and streaming platform, the Solace PubSub+ Platform, enabling lightweight event-driven integration modules that connect enterprise technologies—including legacy and SaaS applications, messaging services, databases, files, AI agents, etc—to an event-driven distribution layer, called an event mesh for information exchange in real-time.
Posted December 17, 2024
RapidCanvas, democratizing AI-driven business transformation, announced it has secured $16 million in a funding round for its AI agents, empowering the company to further support the automation of complex tasks traditionally performed by data scientists and engineers.
Posted December 17, 2024
Back in July, CrowdStrike pushed out a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor that caused worldwide outages on Microsoft operating systems. Users experienced the BlueScreen of Death (BSOD) error, which caused their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly. The effects were immediately wide reaching: Doctors weren't able to diagnose patients, airports abruptly paused travel, and there were also disruptions to emergency services and responses. Government services, banks, and other businesses had to shut down.
Posted December 17, 2024
Experts joined DBTA's special roundtable webinar, The Future of Analytics: Cloud Data Warehouses, Data Lakehouses, and More, to discuss how better, faster insights can be achieved through an assortment of modern systems that emphasize flexibility, scalability, and agility.
Posted December 13, 2024
Cloud remains important as ever as AI makes gains in the industry. Other key factors leading to the continued importance of the cloud include the increasing adoption of cloud services by businesses for cost-efficiency and scalability, advancements in cloud technologies, the growth of big data and analytics, and the rising need for remote work solutions. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2025.
Posted December 13, 2024
Aerospike Inc., the real-time database built for infinite scale, speed, and savings, is debuting the latest version of Aerospike Vector Search, equipped with new indexing and storage capabilities. Centering flexibility, performance, and streamlined operations, Vector Search addresses current customer problems with new engineering techniques and innovations in the vector space.
Posted December 12, 2024
The beauty and joy of a relational database is the concept of relational closure—everything is a table. Beyond the eponymous table, query results are also "tables." Any query serves as a table to be queried by any other query, which is why queries may be nested almost infinitely within queries.
Posted December 12, 2024
Kore Integrate is perfect for implementing ERP integration effectively. Many manufacturers, distributors, and supply chain organizations use data integration tools to gain meaningful insights from their ERPs. In the latest blog post, Kore Tech explains how Kore Integrate is the perfect tool to integrate disparate systems.
Posted December 12, 2024
StorMagic, solving the world's edge data problems, is introducing version 2.0 of its SvHCI full-stack HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) solution, which is purpose-built for enterprise edge and small to medium-sized business (SMB) environments.
Posted December 11, 2024
Cockroach Labs is releasing CockroachDB 24.3, improving resilience and performance, while adding enterprise capabilities such as support of Microsoft's Active Directory and database triggers. According to the company, CockroachDB 24.3 also delivers a solution that enables customers with two data centers to experience the resilience benefits of distributed SQL that were formerly limited to three data center implementations.
Posted December 09, 2024
Syncari, a leader in data unification and automation, is announcing the general availability of powerful new capabilities in its Syncari Autonomous Data Management (ADM) platform that includes Unified Insights for real-time business intelligence (BI) and Auto Field Mapping for swift, consistent configuration.
Posted December 06, 2024
As AI technologies and services have accelerated their own proliferation throughout the market, the data that trains these machines is more important than ever. The global big data and analytics industry is expected to experience significant growth in the next few years. It is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 14.9% between 2024 and 2032 and reach $1.088 trillion by 2032. Here, data professionals share their big data and database/infrastructure predictions for 2025.
Posted December 06, 2024
Big data is continuing to proliferate at organizations, this time spurred by AI and machine learning within enterprise software tools, followed by advancements in software for managing unstructured data, and the substantial increase in data volume. To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products, highlighting a commitment to innovation and to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements.
Posted December 05, 2024