Internet of Things Articles
Google recently announced their "Simplicity Sprint" initiative, which focuses on improving efficiencies within their workforce during this uncertain economic environment impacted by the ongoing pandemic, supply chain issues, the war in Ukraine, inflation, and the Great Resignation. However, simplifying and creating a more productive workforce is about more than improving focus, it's about uncovering and solving for increased complexity, brought on by an explosion of data, digital transformation initiatives, and the new reality of hybrid work. It is important for businesses and leaders to understand where these complexities are and what the key drivers are before redefining a new strategy to reduce business complexity.
Posted September 14, 2022
HYCU, Inc., an enterprise backup as a service (BaaS) company specializing in hybrid and multi-cloud data protection as a service, and Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, are forming a new strategic relationship to combat the rise of ransomware attacks. Combined with HYCU, customers can protect their applications and achieve rapid, application centric recovery to avoid costly egress charges, according to Wasabi.
Posted September 12, 2022
Data observability is a relatively new discipline in the fields of data engineering and data management. While many are familiar with the longstanding concepts of observability and monitoring in enterprise IT networks and infrastructure, data observability has only really come into the spotlight in the last two years. However, it has managed to turn a lot of heads in that short time.
Posted September 08, 2022
In previous columns, we've noted that the SQL language is in the ascendant. New SQL native databases such as CockroachDB and Yugabyte are showing robust adoption, while non-relational (NoSQL) databases increasingly provide SQL interfaces to their data. In light of this increasing trend, it's no surprise to see the introduction of a new SQL capability within the latest release of MongoDB—the Atlas SQL framework.
Posted September 08, 2022
Establishing agreed upon services levels for database applications is of the utmost importance for assuring that performance meets required criteria. Without pre-determined, negotiated service level agreements in place, database and application performance can become a never-ending game of blind man's bluff, where DBAs blindly and constantly seek an unspoken goal. Instead, active service level management should be the standard.
Posted September 08, 2022
BMC, a global provider of software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, is introducing new cloud data services and open-source integrations for Control-M, providing IT operations with the ability to enable secure, automated self-service experiences for non-IT business partners.
Posted September 07, 2022
Rapid direct connections to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are now available to help Internet2 member institutions make a move to the cloud. Through an Internet2 Cloud Connect dedicated network connection, institutions can utilize their existing Internet2 connections to extend their data center to OCI in a matter of days for no additional fee from Internet2 for up to 5Gbps.
Posted September 07, 2022
Emplifi, a customer experience (CX) platform and member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that its Social Commerce Cloud now integrates with Oracle Commerce and is available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Emplifi's new integration with Oracle Commerce helps B2B and B2C brands achieve increased revenue across increasingly popular social media shops while leveraging an existing ecommerce ecosystem to increase return on investment.
Posted September 07, 2022
The cryptocurrency ecosystem strikes as being in a perpetual state of boom and bust, though the long-term trend is an increasing valuation for crypto assets. Within the crypto space, NFTs are particularly bubbly. Individual NFTs have sold for as much as $67 million, while total NFT sales reached $40 billion in 2021.
Posted September 07, 2022
InfStones and Oracle are collaborating on integrating InfStones' blockchain development platform with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to accelerate Web3 development. This collaboration will help deliver important insights that drive the evolution, development, and adoption of Web3 applications worldwide, according to the vendors.
Posted September 07, 2022
Today's enterprises need to be more agile to improve their customer's experience, respond to changes quickly, and have the freedom to innovate. As part of their digital transformation journey in the cloud, these businesses need the ability to connect more devices to their applications, faster than ever—from smartphones to connected cars, from manufacturing plants to smart devices in our homes. Therefore, these applications need to scale quickly to potentially millions of users, have global availability, manage large volumes of data, and provide ultra-fast response times for customers.
Posted August 25, 2022
Deloitte announced a new asset roadmap and suite of cross-business integrated sustainability solution offerings, leveraging SAP technologies. Deloitte's new cross-business sustainability offerings and roadmap for SAP provide the knowledge and resources to help businesses remain resilient and move as fast as the speed of transformation.
Posted August 24, 2022
Amid a rise in cybercrime and digital transformation, Xtel Communications, a provider of telecommunications, cloud and network security solutions, is launching its third data center in the New York market. The addition of this new facility allows Xtel to expand its serviceable footprint of Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) via fiber-optic connections.
Posted August 22, 2022
iM Data Centers, a manufacturer of modular data centers shaping the future of IT infrastructure, announced it is joining the Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) Climate Accord (ICA), becoming part of a historic cooperative of companies committed to reducing carbon in digital infrastructure materials, products, and power.
Posted August 22, 2022
Like Stephen Hawking's famous musings did for the laws of the universe, everything as a service (XaaS) is about to revolutionize the way you think about the world. Offering benefits like operational agility and efficiency, XaaS will be the business model for every equipment vendor in the future. And it will be big. According to Fortune Business Insights, the global XaaS market is projected to grow $2.3 trillion in 2028.
Posted August 18, 2022
AuditBoard, a cloud-based platform transforming audit, risk, and compliance management, is launching its Third-Party Risk Management solution, breaking down silos and engaging relevant stakeholders inside and outside the organization.
Posted August 17, 2022
Oracle has renewed a strategic agreement with AT&T that will help increase capacity and introduce capabilities for the company's database and application workloads running in Oracle Cloud. The new five-year deal will build on AT&T's use of Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and other Oracle Cloud services.
Posted August 17, 2022
IGEL, provider of the managed endpoint operating system for secure access to any digital workspace, announced it has created the IGEL Disaster Recovery Program, enabling organizations to quickly regain control of malware affected devices to mitigate the impact of an attack, including ransomware, and quickly restore end-user productivity.
Posted August 11, 2022
Thanks to significant innovation and recent disruption in the data management space, organizations are achieving unprecedented value from both internal and external data. Much emphasis has been placed on the importance of achieving digital transformation, yet thanks to these rich data assets, organizations are finding new ways to serve customers across both digital and physical boundaries.
Posted August 11, 2022
The data lakehouse, data fabric, and data mesh, are no longer just dreams shared by analysts at conference presentations. A new survey of more than 200 IT leaders by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc., finds considerable uptake of these modern data architectures. "The Move to Modern Data Architecture: 2022 Data Delivery and Consumption Patterns Survey," May 2022, was conducted in partnership with ChaosSearch and included input from directors/managers of IT, directors/managers of analytics, and data architects.
Posted August 11, 2022
In science fiction movies, the word "entity" pops up when discussing an as-yet-unseen but at least suspected alien presence, presumed evil (or sometimes evil presence, presumed alien). This entity is not named until half the cast has vanished, then we might hear, "It's Cthulhu's daughter and she's angry!" But not all entities are evil or angry.
Posted August 11, 2022
The challenge with modern supply chains is one of multiple pressures hitting all at once. These include pandemic-induced disruptions, cyber attacks targeting supply chains and the effect that financial and trade sanctions are having on Russia for its war in Ukraine. To be more resilient, many companies have opened the spigot on enterprise investment and technology innovation for supply chain modernization. But these efforts must be well-coordinated to be effective.
Posted August 11, 2022
These days, data managers have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the platforming, storage, and provisioning of data and associated analytics applications. However, selecting the right environment for pressing business needs can be confusing and overwhelming. The key is understanding how to map the right technologies to the business problems or opportunities at hand.
Posted August 11, 2022
Assuring data quality should be one of the most important goals for IT professionals. This is truer today than it has ever been as organizations rely on data to power their AI and machine learning algorithms. Accurate, quality data is required if you want to make accurate decisions. And that is true, whether the data is being analyzed by a human or a computer algorithm.
Posted August 11, 2022
Accelerated digital transformation has been felt in a variety of ways across all industry sectors for the past 2 years. Digital infrastructure resiliency and agility are crucial in periods of uncertainty and disruption, which many organizations are experiencing with the confluence of disrupted supply chains, rising inflation, geopolitical instability, energy price spikes, the ongoing global pandemic, and climate change.
Posted August 10, 2022
What's the hardest part of managing a merger, acquisition, or divestiture? The answer may seem to be getting lawyers and regulators to sign off on the deal or handling the business restructuring that follows. But here's another hairy M&A and divestiture challenge which executives too often underestimate: migrating massive amounts data, most of it unstructured, between entities.
Posted August 08, 2022
Telit, a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, and Thales, a global leader in Aerospace, Defense, Security and Digital Identity, have entered into an agreement under which Telit intends to acquire Thales' cellular IoT products. The intended transaction includes Thales' portfolio of cellular wireless communication modules, gateways, and data (modem) cards, ranging from 4G LTE, LPWAN to 5G.
Posted August 04, 2022
People.ai is joining Oracle Fusion Sales, enabling customers to drive revenue transformation. "Oracle and People.ai share a vision for how revenue intelligence can help transform B2B selling and drive stronger revenue operations performance. We are excited to partner with People.ai to bring action-oriented cross-functional revenue insights across the entire B2B lifecycle to our mutual customers," said Des Cahill, group vice president global product marketing, Oracle Customer Experience Cloud.
Posted August 03, 2022
Ask a data engineer why they got into the field, and they'll likely share how they looked forward to bringing concepts to life or solving complex challenges; or they wanted to share their expertise in a collaborative, agile environment; or they simply wanted to provide better visibility into the way products work for end users—and how it could be improved.
Posted August 03, 2022
Hazelcast, Inc., home of the real-time data platform, is introducing the beta release of a new serverless offering under its Viridian cloud portfolio, dubbed Hazelcast Viridian Serverless. The platform enables companies to take immediate action on real-time data by speeding app development, simplifying provisioning, and enabling flexible and robust integration of real-time data into applications, according to the vendor.
Posted August 02, 2022
Melissa, a provider of global data quality and address management solutions, is partnering with innoscale DATAROCKET to integrate Melissa's address validation, auto-completion, geocoding, and sanctions list checking capabilities into the innoscale DATAROCKET Core master data management (MDM) platform.
Posted July 29, 2022
Mason, innovator a fully managed infrastructure for developing and delivering dedicated smart devices, is debuting the Mason X-Ray, a fully integrated device management and observability platform for remote debugging and resolution of issues on IoT smart devices.
Posted July 29, 2022
SAP is acquiring Askdata, a startup focused on search-driven analytics, to help organizations make better-informed decisions by leveraging AI-driven natural language searches. With this acquisition, users are empowered to search, interact, and collaborate on live data to maximize business insights, according to the vendor.
Posted July 27, 2022
Dataiku is releasing Dataiku 11, a pivotal update of the company's data science and AI platform that helps organizations deliver on the promise of Everyday AI. This packed release provides new capabilities for expert teams to deliver more value at scale, enables tech-savvy workers to take on more expansive challenges, helps non-technical workers more easily engage with AI, and provides strengthened AI Governance to ensure projects are robust, transparent, and ready for success at scale.
Posted July 20, 2022
TIE Kinetix, a provider of supply chain digitalization and a current member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that TIE Kinetix FLOW Connector for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing is available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. TIE Kinetix FLOW Connector for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing now extends TIE Kinetix's cloud-native solution, EDI-2-FLOW, where Oracle Cloud SCM users have the opportunity to benefit from a fully integrated EDI solution via a standard connector.
Posted July 20, 2022
Oracle NetSuite is making updates to NetSuite Analytics Warehouse, helping organizations further enhance decision making and uncover new revenue streams. The latest updates boost the prebuilt data warehouse and analytics solution for NetSuite customers by making it easier for customers to blend relevant data sets and introducing new pre-built visualization capabilities.
Posted July 20, 2022
Oracle is introducing the Oracle Construction Intelligence Cloud Analytics platform, combing data from Oracle Smart Construction Platform applications to give owners and contractors a comprehensive understanding of performance throughout their operations. With this insight, organizations can quickly spot and correct issues and target ways to drive continuous improvement across project planning, construction, and asset operation, according to the vendor.
Posted July 20, 2022
NVIDIA is releasing a unified computing platform for speeding breakthroughs in quantum research and development across AI, HPC, health, finance, and other disciplines. The NVIDIA Quantum Optimized Device Architecture, or QODA, aims to make quantum computing more accessible by creating a coherent hybrid quantum-classical programming model.
Posted July 18, 2022
AI is delivering new benefits and efficiencies to organizations through greater automation capabilities, ease of use, and accessibility—across a variety of use cases. Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and a host of other compounding factors such as climate change and sustainability, supply chain delays, the Great Resignation, and the war in Ukraine, companies are scrambling to take advantage of what AI has to offer during this upheaval.
Posted July 13, 2022
MANTA, the data lineage platform, is partnering with IBM to drive data-driven success for enterprise-level customers by providing MANTA's data lineage platform with IBM Cloud Pak for Data to offer businesses historical, indirect, and technical data lineage capabilities. MANTA's automated data lineage platform is designed to provide a line of sight into data environments by building a powerful map of all data flows, sources, transformations, and dependencies to help improve data governance, streamline migration projects, and accelerate incident resolution.
Posted July 13, 2022
Signal AI, a global External Intelligence company, is launching its External Intelligence Graph, a comprehensive view of an organization's external world built on real-time data and content. Signal AI's External Intelligence Graph maps the relationships between the things a modern organization needs to care about, like climate change, supply chain risk, or competitor intelligence, and highlights how an organization is "associated" to these important topics.
Posted July 12, 2022
IBM announced it has entered a new 33-month work order under its contract with the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) to provide security services designed to enhance the Department of Defense's (DoD) microelectronics supply chain for critical mission platforms. As part of the Trusted Foundry Access II program, IBM Consulting will continue to establish secured microelectronics manufacturing flows at commercial state-of-the-art fabrication facilities.
Posted July 11, 2022
The traditional approach of providing data access to applications via remote database servers is not ideal for microservices. And while SQL provides standard access to relational databases, GraphQL can be used with any type of database—and it returns JSON documents.
Posted July 07, 2022
Object Management Group (OMG) announced Responsible Computing (RC), a new consortium comprised of technology innovators working together to address sustainable development goals. Responsible computing is a systemic approach aimed at addressing current and future challenges in computing, including sustainability, ethics, and professionalism, stemming from the belief that is needed to think about technology in terms of its impact on people and the planet.
Posted June 27, 2022
IBM plans to acquire Randori, a leading attack surface management (ASM) and offensive cybersecurity provider, further advancing IBM's Hybrid Cloud strategy and strengthening its portfolio of AI-powered cybersecurity products and services. Randori helps clients continuously identify external facing assets, both on-premise or in the cloud, that are visible to attackers—and prioritize exposures which pose the greatest risk.
Posted June 27, 2022