Database Management Articles
Database administration is a demanding career that is constantly morphing to include more and different job requirements. Being a DBA requires technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage multiple, detailed tasks at the same time. This means that in the world of database administration, stress is an unwelcome, yet common companion.
Posted July 24, 2024
Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, is offering the general availability of Identity Continuity, an addition to its Maverics Identity Orchestration platform that ensures business continuity and uninterrupted application access. The solution seamlessly fails over from a primary cloud Identity Provider (IDP) to a secondary IDP, using an on-premises IDP or cloud-to-cloud failover capabilities, according to Strata.
Posted July 23, 2024
Backed by its majority owner STG, Alveo, a leading provider of cloud-based market data management software, has completed its merger with Gresham Technologies (Gresham)—creating a market leading provider for data automation and optimization of mission-critical data, post-trade processes, and external reporting.
Posted July 22, 2024
After a system update pushed by CrowdStrike on Friday upended government services, emergency call centers, banks, airlines, hospitals, and other businesses, most systems are up and running as normal now. CrowdStrike is actively assisting customers affected by a defect in a recent content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts were not impacted. The issue has been identified and isolated, and a fix has been deployed. This was not a cyberattack, the company stressed.
Posted July 22, 2024
Semarchy, a master data management and data integration leader, is announcing that it has become a technology partner for master data management (MDM) in Microsoft Purview—a comprehensive set of solutions that can help organizations govern, protect, and manage data wherever it lives. With this technology partnership comes a powerful integration that brings Semarchy's platform—which unifies MDM, data intelligence, and data integration into a single application—to Microsoft Purview, extending its value, according to the company.
Posted July 19, 2024
Momento, the real-time data platform founded by the engineering team that built DynamoDB, is announcing the completion of its Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, having raised $15 million. Emboldened by its mission to both streamline and increase the efficacy of developers, Momento's funding will enable the company to continue to deliver hassle-free infrastructure at a global scale. This release also announces the GA of Momento Topics, a massively scalable pub/sub messaging service optimized for real-time, many-to-many communication, according to the vendor.
Posted July 19, 2024
A faulty update to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor caused a global IT outage on Microsoft systems Friday, causing international flights to be grounded, knocking banks offline and media outlets off air. Further compounding the situation, several states in the U.S. are reporting disruptions to emergency services. The bug has affected many stock exchanges, supermarkets, government services, and even hospital and healthcare systems. Users are experiencing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error, which is causing their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly.
Posted July 19, 2024
Infragistics, a leading global provider of tools and solutions to accelerate design and development, is introducing an array of new features in App Builder, the essential cloud-based WYSIWYG drag and drop low-code software tool. Known for its flexibility and efficiency, React is growing in popularity within the development community. With this added feature, App Builder now provides users the ability to generate production ready code across every major web framework, Infragistics said.
Posted July 18, 2024
CTERA, a leader in hybrid cloud data management, announced it has raised $80 million in primary and secondary funding that will enable the company to double down on hybrid cloud and expand into data intelligence.
Posted July 18, 2024
OpenText is launching a solution to speed the triage and remediation of vulnerabilities throughout the stages of code development—dubbed OpenText Fortify Aviator. The platform is an AI-powered code security solution that saves developers significant time by enabling faster and easier auditing and remediation of static application security testing (SAST) vulnerabilities—all within a single solution. Fortify Aviator empowers teams to release secure software faster and with greater confidence, according to OpenText.
Posted July 17, 2024
In our last article, we discussed several great companies of Western civilization and why a poignant few of them, that were building game-changing technology, disappeared. Metaphorically they can be envisioned as having been buried in the proverbial Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse, never to be seen again.
Posted July 17, 2024
The Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) announced it has launched an automated process to make new enterprise Linux sources available almost immediately after each release of new versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). OpenELA's rapid response demonstrates the utility of the organization as a resource for independent software vendors (ISVs), independent hardware vendors (IHVs), processor manufacturers, independent developers, and others who need rapid, reliable, and secure access to enterprise Linux sources to create their downstream builds, according to the vendor.
Posted July 17, 2024
Oracle announced that Palantir's Foundry Platform and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) are certified on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), along with being generally available across all Oracle's distributed cloud deployment options. Oracle's distributed cloud, AI infrastructure, and sovereign AI capabilities, combined with Palantir's leading AI and decision acceleration platforms, help businesses and governments accelerate their AI initiatives, according to the vendors.
Posted July 17, 2024
Oracle is releasing Exadata Exascale, an intelligent data architecture for the cloud that provides extreme performance for all Oracle Database workloads—including AI vector processing, analytics, and transactions—at any scale. According to Oracle, Exadata Exascale reduces costs for organizations of any size to take advantage of Oracle Exadata's e built-in performance, reliability, availability, and security capabilities.
Posted July 17, 2024
Deloitte and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are collaborating on a multi-year strategic agreement to help clients around the world scale their generative Artificial Intelligence, data and analytics, and quantum computing capabilities by using AWS services.
Posted July 16, 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 16, 2024
As a product manager, I have worked closely with data engineering teams and witnessed the fantastic ways to transform raw web data into insights, products, data models, and more. Data cleaning consistently stands out as a vital component of this transformation.
Posted July 16, 2024
IBM and Microsoft are strengthening their cybersecurity collaboration to help clients simplify and modernize their security operations and manage and protect their hybrid cloud identities. As organizations embrace hybrid cloud and AI to drive innovation, they require advanced security capabilities to protect their most valuable data, according to the companies.
Posted July 15, 2024
Storj is acquiring Vald, ushering in a "new era" in distributed cloud innovation to seize the opportunity to accelerate innovation at-scale with integrated cloud storage and GPU solutions. According to the vendors, just as Storj disrupted the storage industry by enabling customers to use underutilized storage capacity in data centers in 100-plus countries worldwide, Valdi is disrupting the GPU industry, enabling customers to use available GPU compute cycles in data centers worldwide.
Posted July 15, 2024
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of StreamSets and webMethods from Software AG after receiving all required regulatory approvals—bringing together leading capabilities in integration, API management, and data ingestion. The acquisition builds on IBM's extensive software portfolio, with StreamSets adding new data ingestion capabilities to IBM's AI and data platform, and webMethods bringing Integration Platform as a Service (iPaas) capabilities to IBM's Automation solutions.
Posted July 15, 2024
To help shed light on the ways organizations can overcome these continuing obstacles, experts joined DBTA's webinar, Achieving Unified Analytics: Next-Generation Data Platforms, to examine the latest and greatest solutions that promise to effectively modernize and unify enterprise analytics.
Posted July 12, 2024
Soda, the AI-enabled data quality company, announced it has secured $14 million investment from strategic partners and existing investors including Singular and Point Nine—enabling the company to continue its expansion across North America. The additional investment also empowers Soda to continue building a sustainable business model where company and market growth are tightly aligned, and further build Soda's global team, significantly expanding its New York city headquarters with experienced go-to-market talent to continue its growth in North America.
Posted July 12, 2024
GridGain is releasing version 9 of the GridGain Unified Real-Time Data Platform, building on the multi-dimensional data processing and analytics capabilities of version 8 to deliver the most stable, resilient, and high-performant solution for ultra-low latency data applications. Version 9 powers the extreme speed, scale, durability, and reliability critical to modern enterprise use cases and AI, according to the company.
Posted July 11, 2024
SAP platforms, used by 99 of the Fortune 100 companies and with over 280 million cloud subscribers worldwide, are among the most reliable business applications. As SAP administrators, your role in maintaining the security of these platforms is crucial. However, the platform's popularity makes it a prime target for hackers to exploit Structured Query Language (SQL) injections and directory traversal vulnerabilities, which are only two specific risks in a much larger group.
Posted July 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2024
Rocket Software recently announced a special 4-part series on the Importance of APIs for Modernizing Your MV App. Rocket principal product manager Hernando Borda is the host for this MultiValue (MV) roundtable event—delving into the transformative power of APIs and how they can bring significant value to MV applications.
Posted July 11, 2024
SPHERE, a leading provider of identity hygiene solutions, is introducing its latest offering, Intelligent Discovery—an innovative SaaS solution designed to support CyberArk PAM Solutions, both SaaS and Self-Hosted deployments to provide comprehensive and insightful discovery capabilities for privileged accounts.
Posted July 10, 2024
CHOROLOGY, a cutting-edge innovator in compliance and security posture management, is emerging from stealth—backed by $9 million in Series A funding—to deliver comprehensive, robust data governance designed with Deep Artificial Intelligence technology. CHOROLOGY's aim is to bring best of breed compliance and security posture management solutions to the market that focus on ease-of-use, intuitiveness, and zero-learning overhead.
Posted July 10, 2024
appCD, the leading provider of generative Infrastructure from Code, is announcing that its generative Infrastructure from Code solution now supports AWS Lambda, effectively alleviating the pains of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) from developers and allowing them to focus on the development tasks that matter most. AWS Lambda developers now benefit from appCD's auto-generated IaC files—which are derived directly from application source code—easing the development process while integrating compliance and industry best practices from the very start.
Posted July 10, 2024
While AI has been the talk of science fiction-aficionados and tech-enthusiasts for many years, it wasn't until the tail-end of 2022 that AI entered the mainstream conversation with generative AI and the popularity of ChatGPT technologies. To help readers gain a greater understanding about this complex area of information technology, the solutions available, and their role in handling real-world challenges, DBTA and Big Data Quarterly present the list of Awesome Companies in AI.
Posted July 10, 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 08, 2024
Cybersixgill, the global cyber threat intelligence data provider, is partnering with ThreatQuotient, a leading threat intelligence platform innovator, to enhance defenses for ThreatQuotient customers with access to Cybersixgill's threat intelligence and actionable insights.
Posted July 08, 2024
Cognizant is introducing Cognizant Neuro Edge, a new platform in the Cognizant Neuro suite, empowering businesses across industries to leverage artificial intelligence and generative AI at the edge. Neuro Edge is designed to power the entire value chain of edge AI, from chips and devices to applications and business solution deployments, shortening the path to business value, according to Cognizant.
Posted July 08, 2024
SingleStore, the real-time data platform for you to transact, analyze, and contextualize, is debuting bi-directional compatibility with Apache Iceberg, enabling enterprises to take advantage of the data "frozen" in their lakehouses. Additionally, SingleStore is announcing an array of new capabilities, including enhanced full-text search, autoscaling, and more.
Posted July 03, 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 03, 2024
Denodo, a leader in data management, is releasing Denodo Platform 9.0, enabling intelligent data delivery through AI-driven support for queries delivered in natural language while eliminating the need to know SQL. Denodo Platform 9.0 also provides large language models (LLMs) with real-time, governed data from across the enterprise, powering retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for trusted, insightful results from generative AI applications, as well as offers a set of powerful new features to further enhance data management.
Posted July 03, 2024
Oracle is introducing HeatWave GenAI, offering in-database large language models (LLMs), an automated in-database vector store, scale-out vector processing, and the ability to have contextual conversations in natural language informed by unstructured content. According to Oracle, these new capabilities enable customers to bring the power of generative AI to their enterprise data—without requiring AI expertise or having to move data to a separate vector database.
Posted July 03, 2024
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
To meet the rapidly growing demand for its AI and cloud services in Spain, Oracle announced plans to invest more than $1 billion to open a third cloud region in Madrid and drive AI skills development across the country. The new public cloud region will enable Oracle customers and partners across all industries in Spain, including its prominent financial services sector, to migrate mission-critical workloads from their data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) while helping them address regulations like the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the European Outsourcing Guidelines (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA), according to Oracle.
Posted July 03, 2024
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is releasing the latest update of the MicroStrategy ONE platform, enabling enterprises to layer contextual, bite-sized AI insights into any application within a no-code environment. According to the company, this capability builds on HyperIntelligence, a long-time feature within MicroStrategy ONE that pioneered contextual BI.
Posted July 02, 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
Hydrolix, a streaming data lake company disrupting the economics of big data, is introducing its Powered by Hydrolix Partner Program to create new revenue streams for partners whose customers collect massive amounts of log data. By building products powered by the Hydrolix streaming data lake, partners can offer their customers hot access to four times more data at one fourth the cost, according to the company.
Posted July 01, 2024