Database Security Articles
Splice Machine, a provider of a scalable SQL database, is partnering with Heirloom Computing to enable enterprises to modernize legacy, mission-critical, mainframe applications with Splice Machine's intelligent SQL database.
Posted February 05, 2020
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, is adding Database Performance Monitor (DPM) to its IT operations management (ITOM) portfolio, enabling customers to manage on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-native databases through a single provider, and with both on-premises and SaaS delivery.
Posted February 05, 2020
Aiven, a startup that combines the open source technologies with cloud infrastructure, has raised $40 million in Series B funding, enabling the company to add new integrations and innovations.
Posted February 05, 2020
Oracle has announced the addition of five new cloud regions in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), Australia (Melbourne), Japan (Osaka), Canada (Montreal), and The Netherlands (Amsterdam).
Posted February 05, 2020
As part of Quest Experience Week 2019, Richard Evans, database security product management at Oracle, spoke about the top 10 security features you might not be using.
Posted February 05, 2020
One of the great challenges with catastrophic events is that they can come from any number of sources, so business owners must make sure they're prepared for all types of disasters. Preparation is the only way to avert disasters and ensure your operations will continue without significant disruption.
Posted February 05, 2020
Looker, a data platform company, is introducing the Looker Certification program for people to get "Looker Certified." The program is launching with two exams that are available now - a LookML Developer Certification and a Business Analyst Certification - with additional exams to be rolled out over time.
Posted February 04, 2020
dotData, focused on delivering full-cycle data science automation and operationalization for the enterprise, has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning (ML) Competency status, reaching the milestone after 8 months of joining the AWS Partner Network.
Posted February 04, 2020
IBM inventors received 9,262 U.S. patents in 2019, achieving a milestone of most patents ever awarded to a U.S. company, and marking the company's 27th consecutive year of U.S. patent leadership. In 2019, IBM led the industry in the number of U.S. patents granted across key technology areas such as AI, blockchain, cloud computing, quantum computing and security.
Posted February 04, 2020
InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, InfluxDB Cloud is now on Google Cloud, offering developers and businesses unified billing, support, and integration with other Google Cloud services. InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud is a serverless, purpose-built time series database-as-a-service with advanced analytics that provide real-time observability into IoT and DevOps workloads.
Posted February 04, 2020
Neo4j, a provider of graph technology, is releasing Neo4j 4.0, addressing unlimited scalability, intelligent data context, and enterprise-grade security.
Posted February 04, 2020
Rockset, a real-time database built for the cloud, is ushering in new growth with several industry partnerships and continued product innovation. The company is entering several new partnerships and implementing technology integrations, including adding DynamoDB to search and analyze database change streams, Apache Kafka to analyze raw events in real time, and Tableau to visualize live data from a variety of sources.
Posted February 03, 2020
StreamSets, provider of a DataOps platform, is supporting and integrating its platform for Microsoft's recently announced SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters. With this integration, SQL users are empowered to design and operationalize data pipelines for big data workloads without the complexities of coding for big data systems.
Posted January 30, 2020
Yellowbrick Data, provider of a modern analytical data warehouse built for the hybrid cloud, is partnering with MicroStrategy, enabling a new integration of a Yellowbrick Data warehouse and MicroStrategy 2020, MicroStrategy's flagship enterprise analytics platform.
Posted January 30, 2020
Vapor IO, creators of the Kinetic Edge platform and Kinetic Edge Exchange (KEX), announced Cloudflare will be rolling out its cloud services on the Kinetic Edge platform, nationwide. Additionally, Vapor IO has completed its Series C financing, raising a total of $90 million to build out its Kinetic Edge platform in 36 U.S. markets by the end of 2021.
Posted January 30, 2020
Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., has announced plans to acquire the business of privately held Waterline Data, Inc. Waterline Data's patented "fingerprinting" technology uses AI- and rule-based systems to automate the discovery, classification, and analysis of distributed and diverse data assets to accurately and efficiently tag large volumes of data based on common characteristics.
Posted January 30, 2020
Dynatrace, a software intelligence company, is collaborating with Google and Microsoft on the OpenTelemetry project to shape the future of open standards-based observability.
Posted January 30, 2020
Insight Partners has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Veeam Software, a provider of in backup solutions that deliver data management for the cloud. Under the ownership of Insight Partners, Veeam will become a U.S. company, with a U.S.-based leadership team, while continuing its global expansion from offices in 30 countries and with customers in over 160 countries.
Posted January 30, 2020
Today's enterprise clouds are evolving, and businesses need to evolve with them by embracing the next-generation cloud model. As a new year—and a new decade—unfolds, here are 5 predictions from Oracle on how new technologies and business models are changing.
Posted January 30, 2020
LightStep, a provider of observability software, today announced the release of its Service Health for Deployments solution to help developers quickly and easily identify and remediate service health issues during and after a deployment. With LightStep's solution, developers can monitor performance regressions to their services during and after a deployment, gaining visibility into the latency, error ratio, and throughput changes to their operations.
Posted January 29, 2020
Portshift, a provider of identity-based workload protection for cloud-native applications, today introduced a simplified and intuitive pod security policy (PSP) implementation for Kubernetes.
Posted January 29, 2020
The PICK MultiValue community recently celebrated another milestone as PICK date, a count of days since December 31, 1967, turned over to 19000. Developers using any of the MultiValue products will now start seeing current dates starting with 19 rather than 18 as they peruse raw data.
Posted January 29, 2020
The Aerospace Systems Company, a division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) and Japanese manufacturer of aircraft, has chosen the SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing solution for production engineering and operations. SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for production engineering and operations can help KHI streamline processes by centrally managing design and manufacturing bills of material (BOMs) for aircraft as well as reflect changes at the design stage.
Posted January 29, 2020
Accenture is acquiring maihiro, a provider of customer experience and customer relationship management consulting, optimization, and ongoing enhancement services. This acquisition strengthens Accenture's SAP capabilities.
Posted January 29, 2020
Pepperdata, a provider of Analytics Stack Performance (ASP) tools, is releasing Query Spotlight, making it easy for operators and developers to understand the detailed performance characteristics of their query workload along with infrastructure-wide issues that impact these workloads.
Posted January 28, 2020
Mphasis, an IT solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, is partnering with Israeli-based QEDIT, an enterprise solution provider that uses Privacy-Enhancing Technology and Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography, to help companies transact and leverage their business data in a privacy-compliant manner.
Posted January 28, 2020
Collibra, the Data Intelligence company, is launching Collibra Lineage, enabling organizations to better understand where data comes from and how it flows and transforms as it moves across the enterprise. The launch also marks the integration of SQLdep, the automated technical lineage provider that Collibra acquired in July 2019.
Posted January 27, 2020
Compuware, a provider of software for mainframe DevOps, has completed its acquisition of the assets of INNOVATION Data Processing. The acquisition marks Compuware's sixth mainframe software or services acquisition in the last 4 years, and continues its mission to modernize every aspect of mainframe software delivery.
Posted January 23, 2020
Confluent, Inc., an event streaming platform provider, is releasing Confluent Platform 5.4, helping organizations make event streaming the central nervous system of their business. With Confluent Platform 5.4, organizations now have the security, resilience, and storage they need to extend what's possible with their event streaming platform for their business and customers.
Posted January 23, 2020
Oracle is making enhancements to its enterprise management platform in order to help customers easily move Oracle Databases to the cloud and simplify management of hybrid cloud environments. The new release adds functionality that automates database migration and provides a single dashboard that improves visibility, control, and management for hybrid IT environments.
Posted January 22, 2020
AtScale, the intelligent data virtualization provider for advanced analytics, is launching its Adaptive Analytics 2020.1, providing a leap in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud analytics, data platform flexibility and more. Delivering on the promise of a single enterprise view of all analytics data, AtScale's enhanced autonomous data engineering alleviates the performance and scale challenges of traditional data federation, manual data engineering and reliance on query caches.
Posted January 15, 2020
Splice Machine, provider of a scalable SQL database, is releasing Splice Machine 3.0, introducing disaster recovery capabilities, enhanced SQL coverage, and more.
Posted January 15, 2020
GroupSense, a digital risk management company, and Cybraics, a security analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) company, are forming a strategic technology partnership to provide end-to-end security to prevent and remediate cyberattacks.
Posted January 14, 2020
Accenture has agreed to acquire Symantec's Cyber Security Services business from Broadcom. Completion of the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in March 2020.
Posted January 13, 2020
We are at the start of a new year and a new decade and technology is poised for fast change. Recently, Ram Chakravarti, CTO at BMC Software offered his predictions for an autonomous digital enterprise, edge computing and IoT solutions, ITSM, AIOps—and more.
Posted January 09, 2020
erwin, the data governance company, is releasing an updated version of erwin Data Modeler (erwin DM), introducing new innovation across its enterprise modeling and data governance suites.
Posted January 08, 2020
The big data space is constantly in flux. New and emerging technologies plan to disrupt reliable legacy solutions while others hope to work in harmony with tools in the market. What are the next explosive trends for 2020?
Posted January 03, 2020
When I was a young man—a long, long time ago now—I worked as an Oracle DBA (Oracle version 6, if you must know). I remember my astonishment at finding out that information in the database was stored in plain text within the database files. That meant if I could gain read access just to those files, I could read all the information in the database. It didn't matter what security controls I, as the DBA implemented at the database level—an attacker who could gain read access to the files on disk could read everything.
Posted January 02, 2020