Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
March 1, 2017
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: March 1, 2017. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
The Simple Storage Service (S3) outage that took place on Feb. 28 prompted observations and reflections from industry experts about the need for proactive cloud services monitoring, the requirement to diversify with multi-cloud strategies, and even the possibility of "too-big-to-fail" safeguards for large cloud services providers.
Arcadia Data, provider of visual analytics software, is now certified to integrate with MapR technologies, allowing users to tap into converged data applications. Arcadia on MapR provides a catalyst for digital transformation in organizations by enabling data-centric applications in areas such as information security, customer intelligence, financial trade surveillance, and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Informatica is addressing the increasing need for data security intelligence with the addition of data-focused user behavioral analytics to detect higher sensitive data risk and protect by orchestration of remediation capabilities in its data security offering, Informatica Secure@Source.
IoT and the New Wave of Data-Based Decision Making at Data Summit 2017
Kinetica, provider in-memory analytics databases accelerated by GPUs, is joining the Confluent Partner Program and has completed the development and certification of its Apache Kafka Connector. Kinetica's Kafka Connector lets customers read and write data directly between Kafka and Kinetica, allowing organizations to ingest real-time data streams from Apache Kafka and provide a means for analysis and immediate action on incoming data.
SolarWinds, is unleashing its PerfStack dashboard, an entirely new way of visualizing and correlating IT monitoring data. The dashboard will improve troubleshooting of performance issues across the IT environment, from infrastructure to applications, according to the vendor.
Tableau Software has announced the general availability of Tableau 10.2, which adds advanced mapping capabilities to help make complex geospatial analysis easier, and simplifies data prep with new approaches to combine and clean data. Moreover, the company says, the new release will help enterprises deliver self-service analytics at scale.