Database Security Articles
Alation, Inc., the data intelligence company, is offering the major release of the Alation Data Intelligence Platform, introducing a next-generation user interface and business lineage capabilities built for data and analytics teams. Additionally, a new Alation Expert Services offering empowers both business and data leaders to measure and strengthen their organization's data culture with an emphasis on four foundational pillars: data search and discovery, data governance, data literacy, and data leadership.
Posted March 11, 2024
DC BLOX, a premier provider of secure and reliable data centers and fiber network solutions throughout the Southeast, announced the completed expansion of its Birmingham, Alabama data center. This expansion entails a new data hall design, tailored to meet the burgeoning demand for High-Performance Compute (HPC) applications, and marks a significant milestone in DC BLOX's commitment to foster technological growth and innovation in Birmingham and the surrounding region, according to the company.
Posted March 11, 2024
IBM debuted the Mainframe Skills Council during this week's SHARE conference in Orlando, providing a forum where global organizations will foster a skilled, diverse, sustainable workforce for the mainframe platform. In addition to IBM, the council includes organizations spanning IBM clients, IBM partners, academia, user groups, non-profits, and open communities that will collaborate to implement mainframe skills development solutions.
Posted March 11, 2024
To help clients counter threats with earlier and more accurate detection, IBM is announcing new AI-enhanced versions of the IBM FlashCore Module technology available inside new IBM Storage FlashSystem products and a new version of IBM Storage Defender software. These features will help organizations improve their ability to detect and respond to ransomware and other cyberattacks that threaten their data, according to IBM.
Posted March 11, 2024
In far too many organizations, processes become automatic. Requests are made, and requests are fulfilled. People wish to please; they like to show how fast they can respond or how agile they are. The same is true when addressing database design. This delivery-focused desire comes from a good place. However, regardless of how well-intended, blindly fulfilling requests is dangerous and harmful to one's overall results. Optimization of processes, especially processes involving database design, should never remove the step where questions are asked and rationale is provided.
Posted March 11, 2024
Cayosoft Inc., a leader in Microsoft Active Directory management, monitoring, and recovery, announced it has received a $22.5 million minority investment, enabling the company to bring its patent-pending, instant Active Directory (AD) forest recovery, management, and governance solutions to a wider audience, including international expansion.
Posted March 08, 2024
SecurityPal, a leader in customer assurance technology, unveiled the creation of the SecurityPal Council, an initiative bringing together top thought leaders and industry experts in cybersecurity to foster collaboration, share insights, and shape the future of cybersecurity in an ever-evolving digital landscape. The SecurityPal Council consists of select members who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and expertise in the cybersecurity field, and includes leaders from some of the world's most innovative companies like OpenAI, MongoDB, Perforce, Snap, and Orum, among others.
Posted March 08, 2024
WSO2 is releasing WSO2 Identity Server 7.0 to address the demand for trusted digital experiences for all users. According to the company, version 7.0 optimizes the developer experience via a new authentication API for native, in-app, browser-less authentication; new visual editor that enables side-by-side graphical and code views; and new one-click access to application templates and authentication methods.
Posted March 07, 2024
John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, and Abhilash Mula, senior manager of product management at Informatica, joined DBTA's webinar, Mastering Generative AI With Intelligent Data Engineering, to explore how to best support GenAI and LLM projects with cost-efficient, precise, and effortless data engineering practices.
Posted March 07, 2024
CrowdStrike is acquiring Flow Security, a cloud data runtime security solution, enabling the company to offer modern cloud security with comprehensive real-time data protection spanning endpoint and cloud environments. According to the company, with the acquisition of Flow Security and by bringing data security posture management (DSPM) to the CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform, CrowdStrike is setting a new standard for modern cloud security with data security innovations that discover, classify, and protect data in all states from the risk of exposure, wherever it moves or resides.
Posted March 07, 2024
Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technologies and services, is debuting new self-service capabilities that propel the company on its strategic shift towards delivering modern, autonomous Storage-as-a-Service (StaaS) and SaaS experiences.
Posted March 07, 2024
Skybox Security, a provider of Exposure Management solutions, is unveiling Skybox 13.2, the latest iteration of the company's Vulnerability and Threat Management solution. Skybox 13.2 delivers effective vulnerability prioritization that leverages customer-specific context to address prioritization and remediation processes with more nuances, according to the company.
Posted March 06, 2024
Alation, Inc., the data intelligence company, is offering new integrations with leading technical partners to further increase the breadth and depth of the Alation Data Intelligence Platform. The new integrations with Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka, Elasticsearch, Fivetran, MongoDB, TIBCO Data Virtualization, and TIBCO Spotfire build on the open and extensible Alation Open Connector Framework, integrating with a global network of over 100 enterprise connectors, allowing organizations to access trusted data across their data ecosystem, according to Alation.
Posted March 06, 2024
Mexican retailer Waldo's Dollar Mart is using Oracle Cloud finance and merchandising applications to manage its complex, multi-format business model while continuing to offer customers more choices in products and buying channels. Waldo's operates more than 800 grocery and clothing stores throughout Mexico, with many of its clothing options coming from overseas.
Posted March 06, 2024
Oracle is releasing its Globally Distributed Autonomous Database, a fully managed Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service that offers built-in, cutting-edge capabilities that redefine how enterprises manage and process distributed data. According to the company, with Autonomous Database's automated management and ease of use users don't have to have an extensive staff of experts to take advantage of the power of a distributed database.
Posted March 06, 2024
Onna Technologies, a provider helping companies manage unstructured data from cloud-based collaboration tools and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that its data management platform has achieved Powered by Oracle Cloud Expertise and is now available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
Posted March 06, 2024
AttackIQ, the leading independent vendor of breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions and founding research partner of MITRE Ingenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense (CTID), is unveiling the AttackIQ MSSP Partner Program, a partner-centric initiative that allows MSSPs to become trusted advisors in breach and attack simulation, according to the company.
Posted March 05, 2024
Civo, a pure-play cloud-native service provider, is acquiring Kubefirst, a renowned open-source GitOps powered platform for Kubernetes, from its parent company Kubeshop—enhancing Civo's portfolio and forwarding its commitment to simplifying cloud computing complexities. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Posted March 05, 2024
Dell Technologies and CrowdStrike are expanding their partnership to deliver Dell's Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services with the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform, helping customers defend against increasingly complex cyberattacks.
Posted March 05, 2024
NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, is announcing a myriad of new capabilities, spanning both cyber-resiliency and generative AI (GenAI) implementation with NVIDIA. With these latest features, NetApp upholds a commitment to holistically protecting data as well as maximizing its value in the realm of GenAI.
Posted March 05, 2024
The nominations period for the 2024 DBTA Readers' Choice Awards is now extended through March 15, 2024 - followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers. Votes can only be cast for nominated products, so be sure to make your nominations now!
Posted March 05, 2024
DataOps.live, the Data Products company, is releasing its Professional Edition of the DataOps.live Data Products Platform in response to a critical market demand: a fully managed and supported SaaS platform for dbt Core users on the Snowflake Data Cloud.
Posted March 04, 2024
MongoDB, Inc. announced that its multi-cloud developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is now available in six additional cloud regions in Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Poland—now making it the most widely available developer data platform in the world. With this expansion, MongoDB Atlas is now available in 117 cloud regions across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to meet the demands of more customers with data residency, availability, and latency-sensitive application requirements.
Posted March 04, 2024
Neon, the startup giving Postgres databases serverless capabilities, is enhancing its partnership program, further achieving its mission of bringing Postgres to as many developers as possible across the globe. The company, which recently announced it secured a $46M investment, continues its growth with this latest update, according to the company.
Posted March 04, 2024
Kerlink, an international specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), and Actility, a recognized global provider in low-power industrial IoT connectivity solutions, are forming a strategic partnership that builds on complementary strengths of their products, along with supporting a plug-and-play, edge computing LoRaWAN ecosystem in a single solution.
Posted March 01, 2024
Veeam Software, the data protection and ransomware recovery provider, is debuting its Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure—the Veeam Data Cloud.
Posted March 01, 2024
Seeq, a provider of industrial analytics and AI solutions, is debuting the Seeq AI Assistant, a generative AI (GenAI) resource embedded across its industrial analytics platform that provides real-time assistance to users across the enterprise. The Seeq AI Assistant empowers users to accelerate mastery of the Seeq platform, build advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI skills and knowledge, and accelerate insights to improve decision making in pursuit of operational excellence and sustainability, according to the company.
Posted March 01, 2024
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Succeeding with Generative AI and LLMs in the Enterprise, to discuss how organizations can effectively adopt GenAI and LLM initiatives with key technologies, strategies, and best practices.
Posted February 29, 2024
Informatica is unveiling Informatica Cloud Data Access Management (CDAM), a solution based on Informatica's 2023 acquisition of Privitar, offering an AI-powered solution that is a key component of data access governance, leveraging IDMC's common metadata foundation. According to the company, CDAM revolutionizes how organizations manage, share, and use their data by ensuring compliance with policies and fostering customer trust. It integrates with IDMC to offer secure and automated AI and analytics use cases.
Posted February 29, 2024
Airbyte, creator of an open-source data movement infrastructure, is offering PyAirbyte, an open-source Python library that makes it easy to move data across API sources and destinations. According to the company, the solution enables Airbyte resources to be created and managed using code, rather than the user interface (UI).
Posted February 29, 2024
OVHcloud US, a leading global cloud provider, is introducing OVHcloud Managed Databases, offering clients a "configure-and-forget" solution to simplify the set-up and management of cloud databases. With OVHcloud US Managed Database services, the solution takes care of the database infrastructure and administration, including set-up, backup, scalability, and security.
Posted February 29, 2024
Flexera announced that it has completed the acquisition of Snow Software, giving customers the ability to derive more value from their technology investments with unprecedented visibility into their hybrid IT estate.
Posted February 29, 2024
Synadia Communications, Inc., creator and maintainer of NATS.io (NATS), announced it has closed a $25 million Series B financing round, further validating the company's holistic approach to solving the increasingly complex and pervasive challenges of distributed computing, which is driving rapid growth in edge computing investments.
Posted February 29, 2024
Prosimo, a provider of multi-cloud networking software, is releasing an AI Suite for Multi-Cloud Networking, empowering teams to bring AI workloads to market faster and supercharging AI readiness. Prosimo AI Suite for Multi-Cloud Networking is a full-stack, cloud-native platform that understands connectivity needs across L3 to L7 and enables enterprises to take advantage of cloud-native connectivity designed for AI, according to the company.
Posted February 29, 2024
Semgrep, a code security solution designed for engineering-centric security programs, announced general availability and support for C and C++ programming languages in Semgrep Code, aiming to set a new standard for rapidly securing C and C++ codebases without compromising on accuracy or efficiency. Semgrep Code is a fast, customizable, and developer-oriented static application security testing (SAST) solution.
Posted February 28, 2024
Entro, a cybersecurity startup offering machine identity secrets security and management, is adding Machine Identity Lifecycle Management to its platform along with new integrations designed to further assist organizations that are shifting to the cloud. According to the company, Entro's new Machine Identity Lifecycle Management capabilities provide security teams with tools to manage, actively monitor, and control the entire lifecycle of a secret from creation, to use, to retirement, and everything in between.
Posted February 28, 2024
SAP announced the successful launch of SAP S/4HANA and the SAP BW/4HANA solution for Seagate Technology Holdings plc, a leading provider of mass-capacity data storage solutions. According to the companies, the solution deployments will modernize the organization's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and benefit nearly 30,000 global employees through integrating advanced functionalities, such as enabling global manufacturing, supply chain, and finance business processes.
Posted February 28, 2024
SAP has created a new end-to-end growth area focused on AI, overseeing the entire value chain for SAP Business AI, from product development and research through to customer implementation. The new unit will fall under the leadership of Dr. Philipp Herzig in the newly created role of chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). In this new role, effective January 2024, Herzig reports directly to CEO Christian Klein.
Posted February 28, 2024
Syniti, a global leader in enterprise data management, announced it has acquired Proceed Group's Rightsizer software, a tool for identifying archiving opportunities and determining infrastructure sizing as organizations embark on their SAP S/4HANA transformations. The acquisition will expand and complement Syniti's current portfolio of solutions and build on the company's Data First approach to digital strategy of prioritizing data work at the start of any business transformation project.
Posted February 28, 2024
Ikigai Labs announced its AI platform is now available on SAP Store, integrating with SAP to deliver AI-enabled data reconciliation, time series forecasting, and scenario planning across a broad range of industry and horizontal use cases. With the Ikigai platform, business users can merge disparate sources of time series data and utilize APIs or no-code AI/ML to build enterprise-wide AI apps in just a few clicks.
Posted February 28, 2024
Zumasys recently held an informational webinar about modernizing PICK MultiValue applications with the Rover Business Suite by Zumasys. Learn how Rover Business Suite maintains the integrity and functionality of your current PICK MultiValue applications while bringing them into the modern era.
Posted February 28, 2024
Rocket Software is enhancing the Rocket Product Documentation Portal, giving customers the ability to quickly find and understand the answers to their questions. Rocket Software, as it continues to improve the customer experience when accessing critical information, recently implemented three AI-based features to the Rocket Documentation Portal.
Posted February 28, 2024
Flashpoint is introducing new capabilities and enhancements to its signature platform, Ignite, that are designed to provide a holistic view of risk. Flashpoint Fraud Intelligence and Vulnerability Intelligence offer a new range of intelligence possibilities, allowing CTI teams to connect disparate intelligence and eliminate data silos, according to the company.
Posted February 27, 2024
Enkrypt AI, the company driving the safe adoption of generative AI (GenAI) within enterprises, is announcing the completion of a $2.35 million funding round which will aid in its mission to ensure the use of GenAI and LLMs is safe, secure, and compliant.
Posted February 27, 2024
Reltio, a leading data unification and management company, is introducing its latest product enhancements presenting Reltio's LLM-powered, pre-trained machine learning (ML) feature for entity resolution, along with providing a new AI capability designed to simplify matching and make digital content searches easier.
Posted February 26, 2024
IBM is expanding its enterprise networking portfolio with new offerings for Cisco networking with limited regional availability, including IBM Support and Implementation Services for Software Defined Networking as well as IBM Network Health Check, to help clients build a more integrated networking environment.
Posted February 26, 2024
IBM is releasing the 2024 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index underscoring an emerging global identity crisis as cybercriminals double down on exploiting user identities to compromise enterprises. According to IBM X-Force, IBM Consulting's offensive and defensive security services arm, in 2023, cybercriminals saw more opportunities to "log in" versus hack into corporate networks through valid accounts—making this tactic a preferred weapon of choice for threat actors.
Posted February 26, 2024
Wipro Limited, a leading technology services and consulting company, is launching the Wipro Enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Ready Platform, a new service that will allow clients to create their enterprise-level, fully integrated and customized AI environments. The Wipro Enterprise AI-Ready Platform leverages the IBM watsonx AI and data platform, including watsonx.ai, watsonx.data, and watsonx.governance and AI assistants, to deliver to clients an interoperable service that helps accelerate AI adoption.
Posted February 26, 2024