Database Management Articles
Rubrik, Inc., the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is unveiling a new partnership with Mandiant, a cyber defense provider which is now part of Google Cloud. This collaboration—which is shaped by three key pillars—serves to help enterprises quickly control their risk against diverse, rampant threats.
Posted August 13, 2024
Cribl, the data engine for IT and security, announced four key partnerships with Vijilan, Anvilogic, Securonix, and Anomali, to address growing enterprise IT and security data management challenges. Cribl Stream and Edge products are now integrated with Anvilogic's innovative security information and event management (SIEM) platform, providing security operations centers (SOC) with best-in-class flexibility, cost efficiency, and control over their security data, according to the vendors.
Posted August 12, 2024
Analysis by global real estate consulting firm JLL predicts edge IT infrastructure and data centers will become a $317 billion market globally by 2026, representing a 107% growth from the 2020 market valued at $153 billion. Globally, the growth of edge computing will be influenced by not only the emergence of several technology-based megatrends but also the need for faster data transfer and high computation, as well as factors such as policies and regulations.
Posted August 12, 2024
Lumen Technologies announced an agreement with Corning Incorporated for a substantial supply of next-generation optical cable, more than doubling Lumen's U.S. intercity fiber miles to provide significant capacity to major cloud data centers racing to stay ahead of AI workloads and high bandwidth applications fueled by massive amounts of data.
Posted August 12, 2024
IBM is adding generative AI capabilities to its managed Threat Detection and Response Services utilized by IBM Consulting analysts to advance and streamline security operations for clients. Built on IBM's watsonx data and AI platform, the new IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant is designed to accelerate and improve the identification, investigation, and response to critical security threats, according to the company.
Posted August 12, 2024
Regular readers of this column are aware that I am a proponent of getting rid of bad database standards. But sometimes it can be difficult to determine if a particular standard is bad, or just a lot of trouble to comply with! Well, what am I getting at here? Have you ever been thwarted by a global fiat from management? Of course you have, we all have. But I'm talking about a particular type of dictum from above. Something like this: "New software installations, including updated versions and releases, must be supported by current tooling before they can be installed."
Posted August 12, 2024
Advanced Info Service (AIS), one of Thailand's largest mobile network operators, announced plans to deploy Oracle Alloy and launch AIS Cloud, the country's first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud. Oracle Alloy will provide AIS' customers and all enterprises in Thailand, including the public sector, access to more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including the latest artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Posted August 12, 2024
Redpanda, the unified streaming data platform, is integrating its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) service with Microsoft Azure to expand its multi-cloud offerings for delivering mission-critical data. This limited availability release responds to growing user demand for flexible data infrastructure options, according to Redpanda.
Posted August 09, 2024
Supply Wisdom, the market's full-stack, real-time risk intelligence SaaS platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), is partnering with Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a leading provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions—offering Fusion customers a seamless integration for enhanced third-party risk management (TPRM) and operational risk and resilience program needs.
Posted August 09, 2024
Cloudera, a hybrid platform for data, analytics and AI, is introducing two key enhancements to its metadata management solutions, boosting open interoperability within the open data lakehouse and addressing increasing demands for security and governance across the entire data lifecycle.
Posted August 08, 2024
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. MultiValue software vendors continue to address emerging challenges and opportunities that are affecting the IT landscape by frequently adding new features and integrations with other platforms and services, helping their loyal and committed customers to stay up-to-date with the latest technology trends.
Posted August 08, 2024
In many organizations, microservices have become the default method of application building and deployment, leveraging containers and Kubernetes. The resulting architecture has been a flexible network of services that provide resiliency by operating independently, unaffected by potential failures in other parts of the system. Recently, however, some technology leaders have been questioning if this is the best way to build.
Posted August 08, 2024
There is a confluence of activity—including generative AI models, digital twins, and shared ledger capabilities—that are having a profound impact on helping enterprises meet their goal of becoming data driven. Capturing data, converting it into the right insights, and integrating those insights quickly and efficiently into business decisions and processes is generating a significant competitive advantage for those who do it right.
Posted August 08, 2024
With today's data-driven practices and AI demands, there has never been more pressure on data managers and professionals to deliver real-time, high-quality information when and where it is needed. Many organizations are struggling to achieve such a level of "data management maturity," in which data is provided on an agile, automated basis.
Posted August 08, 2024
Despite the overwhelming promise of AI, its rapid proliferation has been accompanied by some unwanted side effects, including a dramatic uptick in cyberattacks— particularly social engineering attacks like phishing, which have grown 1,265% since late 2022. As a result, organizations across industries are faced with an ever-evolving challenge: balancing the positive use cases associated with AI, such as automated monitoring and streamlined workflows, with its very real risks.
Posted August 08, 2024
Everyone likes a diagram. Diagrams often help make an issue clear—except when they don't. There are plenty of diagrams that really do not convey information to the viewer, and that is a sad state for any diagram to find itself in. Maybe, just maybe, not everyone has the proper temperament to create a useful diagram? Before composing a diagram, the diagram-builder needs to be clear about what viewers of the created diagram should gain from viewing it.
Posted August 08, 2024
In Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, various alien races were able to communicate with each other thanks to the Babel Fish, which, when placed in one's ear, decoded brainwave emanations from one species to provide instantaneous translation to the other. In Star Trek, a "universal translator" allowed instantaneous translation between any alien species and humans. Until recently, these universal translators have existed only in the domain of science fiction.
Posted August 08, 2024
Picture this: there's a new face in the IT department, ready to step in to help tackle the increasingly complex challenges caused by modern hybrid on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Overstretched technology teams always appreciate an extra set of helping hands, but what happens when this new team member isn't human—but artificial intelligence (AI)?
Posted August 08, 2024
Scamnetic, a company dedicated to protecting individuals and businesses from digital threats using advanced AI, is debuting its AI-based scam-detection solution—helping consumers detect every type of scam including deepfake video and audio across any channel in real time, removing human error from the process.
Posted August 07, 2024
Ampere and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are releasing second-generation Ampere-based compute instances, OCI Ampere A2 Compute, based on the AmpereOne family of processors. The new offering builds upon the success of OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances, which have been adopted by OCI customers and deployed across over 100 OCI services, including Oracle Database services like HeatWave, MySQL, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to meet the increased demands for generative AI, large language models (LLMs), advanced graphics, and digital twins to hasten operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) announced the release of NVIDIA L40S GPU bare-metal instances, available to order and the upcoming availability of a new virtual machine accelerated by a single NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU.
Posted August 07, 2024
AvePoint, a global leader in data management and data governance, is releasing AvePoint Cloud Backup Express, designed to use Microsoft 365 Backup Storage for rapid and more efficient data protection.
Posted August 06, 2024
Polyhedra Network (Polyhedra), the team pioneering the next generation of secure and scalable zero-knowledge (ZK) proof infrastructure, announced that Proof Cloud has launched in an open beta to meet the growing demand for efficient, fast, and cost-effective ZK-proof technology. Proof Cloud was created in collaboration with Google Cloud and will be utilized by Polygon, Linea, and Lita at launch.
Posted August 06, 2024
Logz.io, provider of Open 360, is releasing Explore, a faster, more intuitive and responsive user interface (UI) for the Logz.io Open 360 observability platform—improving the ability of users to access, query, and visualize their logs. Explore is now the default log management interface for Logz.io, replacing the previous version based on OpenSearch Dashboards (OSD).
Posted August 05, 2024
Hazelcast, Inc., a leading software provider powering mission-critical applications that move the economy, is debuting vector search capabilities for its flagship product, the Hazelcast Platform. Now providing the necessary tools for Hazelcast users to modernize for the AI era, Hazelcast Platform 5.5 enables a variety of new use cases—including semantic search, fraud detection, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG)—as well as additional advancements in compute, resilience, and continuity.
Posted August 02, 2024
Index Engines, a cybersecurity company, is providing new comprehensive data integrity reporting within the CyberSense product—empowering data protection and security teams to quickly understand and explain the health status of protected data to support their cyber resiliency strategies.
Posted August 02, 2024
Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams, is releasing a new version of its static analysis tools, providing enhanced security and maximum CI/CD process flexibility for safety-critical development projects. Perforce static analysis engines ensure software quality, safety and security, and offer continuous compliance throughout the development process by alerting developers to defects, vulnerabilities, and standards rule violations as the code is being written, according to the company.
Posted August 01, 2024
Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading fully-managed service for Apache Airflow, is unveiling its latest platform release, forwarding pipeline resilience, release velocity, and hardened security, as well as support for dbt on Astro—the platform's first foray outside of the Airflow universe.
Posted July 31, 2024
Weaviate, an AI-native vector database company, is releasing a developer "workbench" of tools and apps along with flexible tiered storage to help organizations put AI into production. Inspired by Weaviate's vibrant open source community, Weaviate's new developer offerings accelerate AI application development and provide end-to-end solutions for some of the most common AI use cases, helping organizations make the leap from AI prototypes to production, according to the company.
Posted July 31, 2024
Fireproof, developer of open-source database technology, announced it has closed its pre-seed funding round, enabling the company to further support the launch of Fireproof Cloud—a platform designed to make database management easy for everyone, while offering industry leading data integrity and portability.
Posted July 31, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is releasing the general availability of the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services. Including NVIDIA DGX BasePOD certification, the first Hitachi iQ infrastructure offering meets the highest standards of performance and reliability and helps customers seamlessly power their most critical AI applications. Featuring the Hitachi Content Software for File solution, Hitachi iQ provides customers the speed, efficiency, and processing to accelerate and optimize their time to insights so that they can drive transformative outcomes for their business, according to the company.
Posted July 29, 2024
Baffle, a company that protects sensitive data, is offering new capabilities designed to secure multi-tenant applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—giving AWS customers the ability to secure data in databases as well as S3 object storage with simplicity and ease by protecting each tenant within the multi-tenant application.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM announced it is a new partner of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, as approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a major national and international research center, SQMS is dedicated to advancing critical quantum technologies, with a focus on superconducting quantum systems.
Posted July 29, 2024
According to IBM's CFO, the company's z16 mainframe is outperforming previous generations of the system, as reflected in recent quarterly financial results. The financial results for the past three months to the end of June 2024 showed it brought in $15.77 billion in revenue, up 1.9% year-on-year and more than the $15.62 billion predicted by analysts.
Posted July 29, 2024
Eventually the day comes when an existing data mart or warehouse needs to be re-examined. Maybe new workloads are desired, new business models arise, a new platform is considered, or new supporting tools in the environment are wanted. Especially when a new platform is part of the equation, many in charge think first of "lift and shift" as the approach. Taking as much existing data and processes as possible and keeping them virtually unchanged as things are moved onto new foundations is almost always the cost-saving approach—for the immediate short term.
Posted July 29, 2024
Privacera, the AI and data security governance company founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, is offering a private preview of Posture Manager, expanding on its ability to deliver active Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). The solution is designed to transform data security with enhanced visualization, mapping, and data risk analytical capabilities, according to the vendor.
Posted July 26, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is releasing Qlik Talend Cloud, a streamlined integrated solution designed to enhance data trust and accessibility for AI value creation. Underpinned by trusted Qlik and Talend technologies, trusted by some of the world's largest brands, Qlik Talend Cloud is designed to facilitate responsible enterprise AI adoption, according to the company.
Posted July 25, 2024
SUSE, a global leader in innovative, open and secure enterprise-grade solutions, is acquiring the full stack observability platform StackState, enabling SUSE to accelerate cloud-native observability for the enterprise by integrating the platform into Rancher Prime, its premium container management service.
Posted July 25, 2024
Pure Storage, an IT pioneer that delivers advanced data storage technologies and services, is introducing new capabilities to the Pure Storage platform that change how IT and business leaders can improve their ability to deploy AI, support cyber resilience, and modernize applications.
Posted July 25, 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 25, 2024
Kyndryl, one of the world's largest IT infrastructure services providers, is selecting the RISE with SAP solution to accelerate its journey to the cloud, along with expanding its strategic alliance with SAP. As part of the expansion, Kyndryl will provide SAP services for the delivery of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition to help customers move to the cloud and continue solving their most complex digital transformation challenges, according to the company.
Posted July 24, 2024
Globant, a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help customers leverage RISE with SAP to modernize their on-premises SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) and migrate to the cloud. Globant and AWS are helping their joint customers leverage RISE with SAP—a managed cloud offering of solutions, infrastructure, and services—to streamline migration of their legacy SAP ERP to AWS with more speed and confidence, according to the companies.
Posted July 24, 2024
Tricentis, a global leader in AI-powered continuous testing and quality engineering, is acquiring SeaLights, a SaaS-based, software quality intelligence platform. SeaLights further increases Tricentis' market leadership in quality intelligence by adding expanded capabilities for unparalleled visibility and insights into code and tests throughout the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, according to the companies.
Posted July 24, 2024
Following a series of mergers and acquisitions in Europe, CENIT Group is now expanding its presence in North America with a 60% stake in U.S. company Analysis Prime—a global leader in SAP planning and analytics. With this acquisition, CENIT Group is diversifying its SAP business and achieves a major input of expertise in the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) field, according to the vendor.
Posted July 24, 2024
Rocket Software's MultiValue (MV) platform is engineered to help its customers pivot their legacy systems into the future, ensuring that modernization is not just integrated but a driving force for growth. Patrick Payne, a Rocket MultiValue evangelist, addresses cloud enablement, specifically transitioning to the cloud with confidence in a newly released report.
Posted July 24, 2024
Kore Tech, formally known as Kore Technologies, is launching a new brand and website—focusing not just on MultiValue but continuing to expand its ERP reach. "We are proud to announce the launch of our new brand and website as we evolve in a new phase of growth for Kore. This is more than a fresh look; it's a commitment to innovation and excellence in providing technology solutions that help clients drive growth and profitability," said Kore.
Posted July 24, 2024
After the successful launch of Entrinsik Informer AI earlier this year, the company is looking ahead to the future of AI Assistants. Informer AI offers real-time assistance with Help Center AI, enhances scripting and querying capabilities through Copilot AI, and empowers users to create digital assistants in seconds.
Posted July 24, 2024