Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
September 21, 2016
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: September 21, 2016. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Blue Medora, a provider of enterprise cloud and data center management, is unveiling SelectStar, a new IT operational analytics (ITOA) platform. The solution combines comprehensive database and cloud infrastructure monitoring to help organizations track and optimize critical database performance and availability metrics.
data Artisans, founded by the original creators of Apache Flink, is releasing a platform that will help extend distribution of Flink and assist users with their streaming application deployments.
Informatica is expanding its Data Lake Management solution to strengthen and deepen its overall platforms, enabling data analysts to easily find, prepare, govern, and protect data of any size and velocity to more efficiently and confidently drive business value from Hadoop-based data lakes.
Oracle CTO Larry Ellison Drills Down on Database and IaaS Capabilities in Second OpenWorld 2016 Keynote
SnapLogic is extending its pre-built intelligent connectors - called Snaps - to the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Store, providing fast, self-service data ingestion, and transformation from virtually any to Microsoft's cloud-based repository for big data analytics workloads. This latest integration between SnapLogic and Microsoft Azure helps enterprise customers gain new insights and unlock business value from their cloud-based big data initiatives, according to SnapLogic.
Talend is releasing a pre-configured, easy-to-use, virtual environment that gives companies a no-risk, zero-cost way to experiment with the latest big data technologies. Talend's new Big Data Sandbox provides an intuitive, drag-and-drop, visual design environment that makes it easy to build integration workflows, with pre-built, big data use cases, and a step-by-step ‘cookbook' that allows those with limited expertise to get up and running on Hadoop in minutes.