Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
September 1, 2015
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: September 1, 2015. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Magnitude Software, a provider of enterprise information management solutions, is introducing new additions to its technology suite designed to assist users in making informed business decisions faster and easier. The release of its Kalido Information Engine 9.1 SP2 makes a variety of advancements in data warehouse automation capabilities including increasing automation that accelerates the migration process and reduces overhead tasks when moving from development to production.
Syncsort, a provider of specialized solutions for big data, is making a major open source contribution to the IBM z Systems mainframe with a connector for Apache Spark. Syncsort's mainframe connector conforms to Spark's Data Sources API specification, and because of Spark's ability operate on data in memory, the connector will allow queries to access mainframe data without offloading the data first.
Think About It
Just before VMworld, which is going on now, Mathew Lodge, vice president of product marketing, Cloud Services, VMware, discussed the conference whose theme is "Ready for Any," as well as best practices for cloud strategies and the changes taking place today in IT infrastructure.