Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
March 29, 2017
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: March 29, 2017. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Hackolade, a Belgium-based provider of data modeling software for NoSQL and multi-model databases, has introduced a data modeling software tool for the Couchbase NoSQL database community. With this offering the standard features of Hackolade, used by NoSQL database users, have been adapted to support the specifications of Couchbase, and the release is compatible with Couchbase versions 4.0 through the latest 4.6 release.
Hazelcast, provider of an open source in-memory data grid (IMDG), has joined the Confluent Partner Program as a Technology Partner. Confluent provides a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, and designed its partner program to foster ecosystem around Apache Kafka and Confluent.
Kinetica, provider of in-memory analytics database accelerated by GPUs, is partnering with Safe Software and created FME connectors that read and write data from Kinetica into and out of FME workspaces.
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, is adding two-factor authentication (2FA) support in ADManager Plus, its Active Directory (AD) management, and reporting solution, making its platforms much more secure. The addition of 2FA support establishes an extra layer of security around ADManager Plus logins while user provisioning support makes the iOS app a complete user life cycle management tool for on-the-go AD admins.
Oracle has unveiled its Cloud Converged Storage, which, it says, represents the first time a public cloud provider at scale has integrated its cloud services with its on-premises, high performance NAS storage systems.
Talend, a provider of cloud and big data integration software, has announced that the newest version of its Talend Data Fabric integration solution has been certified on the MapR Converged Data Platform, which includes MapR-FS, MapR-DB and MapR Streams.
TIBCO Software Inc., a provider of software for integration, API management, and analytics, has announced availability of a new API management offering, TIBCO Mashery Professional, which is targeted at helping to speed up digital transformation activities.