Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
September 20, 2017
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: September 20, 2017. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
The "world's first autonomous self-driving database" was announced by Oracle executive chairman of the board and CTO Larry Ellison during a live event at the company's Redwood City headquarters. In addition to the database, which he said he plans to showcase in an Oracle OpenWorld presentation in October, Ellison also discussed Oracle's emphasis on automation in platform services, and the decision to be much more aggressive in simplifying and lowering the pricing of automation around those platform services with two programs—Bring Your Own License to PaaS and Universal Credits.
TigerGraph is emerging from stealth, securing of $31M in Series A funding and launching TigerGraph - a native parallel graph database platform for enterprise applications along with the availability of both its Cloud Service and GraphStudio, TigerGraph's visual software development kit (SDK).