Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
May 27, 2020
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: May 27, 2020. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on organizations of all types. Recently, John Pocknell of Quest Software, talked with DBTA about trends in database management before and after the new crisis-forced shift to remote work and how DBAs' roles are being affected. As part of his responsibilities as senior market strategist at Quest, Pocknell looks at emerging challenges and speaks to customers to understand where future problems and opportunities may lie ahead to help map the company's database solutions to those needs. Before the crisis, DBA roles were undergoing radical change and that is only accelerating now, Pocknell says.
Datrium, a provider of cloud-native disaster recovery with ransomware protection solutions, has announced that Xello Australia is the newest reseller and first Melbourne-based company to join its growing Global Partner Network in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ).
DefinedCrowd, a data provider for artificial intelligence, is receiving $50.5 million in a Series B funding round, which will support DefinedCrowd's vision to create seamless interaction between people and machines. With this investment, DefinedCrowd plans to expand its existing solutions, launch new subscription-based offerings, and expand its global reach.
Docker has extended its strategic collaboration with Microsoft to simplify code to cloud application development for developers and development teams by more closely integrating with Azure Container Instances (ACI). The deeper collaboration, which also includes tighter integration with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), will allow developers to quickly start new language-specific projects (Node.js, Python, .NET Core/C#), leverage new functionality around the Compose Specification and streamline how they switch from local development to a serverless cloud container service while remaining in the Docker CLI user interface or from within VS Code.
PagerDuty, Inc., a provider of digital operations management, is introducing new automation and intelligence capabilities to its Dynamic Service Directory, Business Response and Intelligent Triage solutions. The advances in the PagerDuty platform are designed to equip teams with proactive response capabilities to prevent outages, and gain predictive insights so they can automate repetitive work and improve collaboration across virtual teams.
Redis Labs, the home of Redis and provider of Redis Enterprise, is releasing RedisAI and RedisGears, transforming Redis Enterprise into a low-latency, real-time data platform for infinite processing capabilities. RedisAI (co-developed by Redis Labs and Tenserwerk) is the answer to the challenge every architect or developer faces as they attempt to design and implement AI in their production applications: the time spent outside the AI inference engine to collect and prepare the reference data.