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Satori, the industry's leading data security platform, announced further integrations with Collibra, a leading data intelligence platform, providing users with unified and cohesive data management and governance, compliance, and security so that organizations are AI-ready. Integrating Satori and Collibra accelerates secure data access for Collibra users and relieves the burden on data teams by automating tasks such as locating sensitive data and applying security policies, according to the companies.
Posted April 25, 2024
Cisco, the leader in security and networking, revealed a new approach to securing data centers and clouds in response to the increasing demands the AI revolution has put on IT infrastructure—introducing Cisco Hypershield. According to the company, with this unprecedented innovation, Cisco is tipping the scales in favor of defenders, building on its recent announcements to accelerate AI infrastructure with Cisco's ethernet switching, silicon, and compute portfolio.
Posted April 25, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is introducing a strategic realignment of the organization designed to accelerate the company's growth plan, including its ability to respond to market opportunities with a focus on hybrid cloud and generative AI.
Posted April 25, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, in an effort to make AI more approachable, is launching the AI Accelerator, designed as an introduction for companies looking to explore the possibilities AI and AI-driven analytics can offer. Qlik's AI Accelerator, available to new and existing customers, offers a direct path for rapid integration, simplifying businesses' initial forays into AI.
Posted April 24, 2024
ScienceLogic, a leader in automated IT operations, is introducing updates to its SL1 AIOps platform that enable operations teams to rapidly identify and respond to issues within hybrid cloud application stacks, accelerating mean time to repair (MTTR). Fueled by customer requests for a more streamlined and customizable operator experience than currently available on the market, the updated SL1 interface brings mission-critical information front and center to streamline operations in high-pressure situations, according to the company.
Posted April 24, 2024
SAP announced that Churchill Downs Incorporated has selected the GROW with SAP solution to support the company's financial technology transformation. CDI has chosen cloud solutions from SAP to serve as its technology foundation for the financial systems across its portfolio of 27 properties in 14 states, including Churchill Downs Racetrack, the home of the Kentucky Derby.
Posted April 24, 2024
SAP is deploying AI advancements in its supply chain solutions that will unleash a transformative wave of productivity, efficiency, and precision in manufacturing. AI-driven insights from real-time data will help companies use their own data to make better decisions across supply chains, streamline product development, and improve manufacturing efficiency, according to SAP.
Posted April 24, 2024
Protera Technologies (Protera), a global provider of SAP and cloud managed services, is acquiring Managecore, deepening Protera's commitment to SAP and bringing strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform to complement Protera's long-standing partnerships with AWS and Azure.
Posted April 24, 2024
Avantra, provider of a leading AIOps platform for automating SAP operations, is releasing Avantra 24.1, providing greater operational efficiency through expanded automation and monitoring options to further improve the transparency of SAP operations.
Posted April 24, 2024
AI talent is in high demand; AI reveals brain oscillations for memory and disease; AI may allow us to talk to whales; AI can help plan meals and other tasks; an AI platform for dentistry just raised $53 million. That was the tip of the AI news iceberg—in one day. Has technology ever garnered so much interest, so widely, so fast? Amid the hype lies the incalculable promise of AI—and the fear of getting left behind by competitors that figure it out first. It's no wonder that organizations are rushing to implement AI, ready or not. The trouble is, many are not ready.
Posted April 24, 2024
Kore Technologies is now offering webPayment, a fully-branded online payments solution designed to help you get paid faster. Previously only offered as a part of Kore's KommerceServer eCommerce Suite, webPayment has now been repackaged to allow it to operate as a stand-alone, fully-operational solution. Additional features have also been added such as support for multiple credit card gateways and ACH transactions.
Posted April 24, 2024
With the latest version of Informer on the horizon, Entrinsik is holding a webinar on May 7 with Randall Williams, director of Informer training and curriculum development, to highlight the new features. Whether you're looking to enhance security, improve integration, streamline your workflow, or gain more control over your data environment, these features represent significant strides forward for Informer users, according to the company.
Posted April 24, 2024
Rocket Software announced it has published a new paper titled, "Protecting Your Business, A Practical Guide to System Recovery using Rocket jBASE Transaction Journaling" after recognizing a pressing need for resilience and recoverability. With businesses relying heavily on digital systems for operations, finance, and customer engagement, any disruption can have far-reaching consequences.
Posted April 24, 2024
Crowdbotics, the pioneer of CodeOps as a new standard methodology for software development, is announcing a new collaboration with Microsoft, aiming to merge Microsoft's expertise in cloud services and AI with Crowdbotics' leadership in CodeOps—an AI-based approach designed to accelerate app development through systematic code reuse. Additionally, Crowdbotics is announcing the general availability of its CodeOps platform, an AI-powered solution enabling systematic code reuse by building on top of a customer's existing DevSecOps processes.
Posted April 23, 2024
Keeper Security, a provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software, is adding a passphrase generator to Keeper Web Vault—with support on mobile and for the browser extension coming soon—along with an update to the existing password generator to provide users with new options to meet specific password requirements.
Posted April 23, 2024
Tricentis, a global provider of continuous testing and quality engineering, is updating the company's AI offerings with the launch of Tricentis Copilot, a suite of solutions leveraging generative AI to enhance productivity throughout the entire testing lifecycle.
Posted April 23, 2024
Clazar, the company powering software businesses to sell and grow revenue through cloud marketplaces (AWS, Azure, and GCP), announced it has raised a $10 million Series A funding round, enabling the company to expand its GTM teams and continue driving new customer growth. Clazar follows a philosophy of building not just for but also with its customers. Fresh funds will enable the business to invest in R&D and product innovation, helping it continue to expand offerings alongside a rapidly growing customer base and meet its demands.
Posted April 22, 2024
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through Monday, June 3.
Posted April 22, 2024
OmniOn Power is expanding its Edge data center power architecture (Edge) with a new three-phase, 200/208/240-volt (V) low-line version to help address the power demands of data center companies around the world. Combined with the company's 480V Edge power architecture, OmniOn can now provide a comprehensive offering for global data center companies, regardless of region or available AC utility power feed.
Posted April 22, 2024
CIQ, the company building the next generation of software infrastructure for enterprises, is releasing fully supported, upstream stable kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform—providing enhanced performance, hardware compatibility, and security. The new offering from CIQ was built to meet the ultra-high performance, compatibility, and security needs of the most advanced customers, and is now available to everyone.
Posted April 22, 2024
SAS is expanding the capabilities of the SAS Viya flagship data and AI platform, also making SAS Viya Workbench generally available. Targeted to developers and modelers, Viya Workbench is a self-service, on-demand compute environment for conducting data preparation, exploratory data analysis, and developing analytical and machine learning models.
Posted April 19, 2024
VMware is releasing VMware Telco Cloud Platform 4.0—a major milestone for the company—solidifying numerous capabilities into a unified platform that gives users the flexibility to modernize their telecommunications network as they see fit. To streamline the process of adoption and modernization, VMware by Broadcom is simplifying the implementation and deployment of VMware Telco Cloud products.
Posted April 19, 2024
CAST, the software intelligence leader, is debuting a new generative AI (GenAI)-based capability to CAST Highlight, the automated observability and governance solution for custom-built software. This AI functionality, AI Advisor (currently in beta), puts IT executives closer to insights regarding their complex custom application portfolios, surfacing key strategic data relating to cloud, technical debt, compliance, costs, and sustainability.
Posted April 18, 2024
Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security, is introducing Cribl Lake, a turnkey data lake solution designed to empower IT and security teams to have complete control and flexibility over their data. Provisioned directly from Cribl.Cloud, organizations collect, analyze, and route a complete view of all IT and security data across the enterprise, streamlining workflows and providing value within minutes, according to the company.
Posted April 18, 2024
Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence, is acquiring Cambridge Semantics, a modern data fabric provider and creator of an analytical graph database that accelerates the creation of comprehensive enterprise knowledge graphs. Bringing together Cambridge Semantics' transformational knowledge graph technology with Altair's leading tools for data analytics and data science offers organizations a solid foundation for building advanced analytics ecosystems that inject artificial intelligence (AI) into day-to-day business operations, according to Altair.
Posted April 18, 2024
Digital Equipment Corporation, known as DEC; Peoplesoft; Sun; and now VMware all have something dark in common. At one point, they were all great American companies leading the path toward innovation in the Six Cities of Silicon Valley. They were magnificent leaders in computing innovation, each at different stages of the evolution of Silicon Valley-based technology.
Posted April 18, 2024
In 2023, the integration of generative AI (GenAI) into the constantly evolving landscape of data management emerged as a game changer, promising to reshape the way organizations interact with databases, data, and metadata. In 2024, as enterprises hamstrung by hiring and budget woes continue to be judged by their productivity and efficiency, they'll also be judged by their ability to do two things: deliver actionable insights and provide guidance in an easily consumable format and empower users of all skill levels to interact with key data and drive insights.
Posted April 17, 2024
BMC, a global leader in software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, is acquiring the Netreo, a provider of smart and secure IT network and application observability solutions enabling the BMC Helix platform to provide customers with a full-stack, open observability, and AIOps solution. With this acquisition, BMC continues to invest in innovation—from IT operations management to service management, data and application workflow automation, and mainframe management, according to the company.
Posted April 17, 2024
Innovation in the big data and analytics space continues to blossom, with more companies than ever before riding the high of generative AI. Along with the myriad possibilities of this new sphere of artificial intelligence comes some questions and concerns. Startups are emerging to address challenges and leverage opportunities this new area may bring. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2024.
Posted April 17, 2024
Oracle NetSuite is introducing a series of new product innovations to help businesses in the U.K. optimize finance processes, expand insights, and increase efficiency. The latest updates for customers in the U.K. include new generative AI, enterprise performance management (EPM) and e-invoicing capabilities, and the ability to combine insights from multiple NetSuite instances into a single NetSuite Analytics Warehouse environment.
Posted April 17, 2024
Qdrant and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Cloud Engineering are partnering to enable the ability to deploy Qdrant Hybrid Cloud as a managed service on OCI. This release marks the next step in the collaboration between Qdrant and OCI, which enables enterprises to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence powered through scalable vector search, according to the companies.
Posted April 17, 2024
Oracle and Palantir are partnering to provide secure cloud and AI solutions with the aim to power businesses and governments around the world. Oracle's distributed cloud and AI infrastructure, combined with Palantir's leading AI and decision acceleration platforms, will help organizations maximize the value of their data—which will contribute to increasing efficiency, addressing sovereignty requirements, and help them outpace adversaries, according to the companies.
Posted April 17, 2024
There is much ado these days regarding the language facility popular AI tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Microsoft Copilot, and Gemini Connected appear to display. What do these systems comprehend? Do they understand? Are the underlying architectures a big leap toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) or an entertaining dead end? This article is not about that. This is a loosely related thread on how the language we use to describe AI systems affects our ability to govern them effectively.
Posted April 16, 2024
ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corp. and leading provider of enterprise IT management solutions, is extending support for CloudSpend, its cloud cost management tool, has extended to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—now covering the three largest public cloud computing platforms worldwide by market share, enabling enterprises with a multi-cloud setup to streamline their operational expenses.
Posted April 16, 2024
Starburst, the open data lakehouse company, is introducing its fully managed Icehouse implementation on Starburst's multi-cloud data lakehouse service, Galaxy. According to the company, with the Galaxy Icehouse, customers can benefit from the scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of a combined Trino and Iceberg architecture (Icehouse) without the burden and cost of building and maintaining a custom solution themselves.
Posted April 15, 2024
LimaCharlie, creator of the Security Operations (SecOps) Cloud Platform, is offering a new bi-directional integration platform enhancement, allowing for two-way data flows that streamline detection and response processes while eliminating reliance on third-party automation applications.
Posted April 12, 2024
David Loshin, principal consultant at Knowledge Integrity and James Goodfellow, director of product marketing at Progress joined DBTA's webinar, 6 Challenges of Managing Information in a Modernized Hybrid Data Architecture to explore several major roadblocks that enterprises should consider when adapting to a hybrid data landscape and architecture.
Posted April 12, 2024
Postman, a leading API collaboration company, is acquiring Orbit, the community growth platform for developer companies, integrating Orbit's technology and deploying its expertise in support of Postman's vision of empowering 100 million developers through API collaboration.
Posted April 12, 2024
Syntax Systems, a leading global technology solutions and services provider for cloud application implementation and management, is partnering with Cogniac Corporation, a global leader in enterprise-grade computer vision, to accelerate the development of industrial AI applications—enhancing the automation of manufacturing processes through the integration of advanced computer vision capabilities.
Posted April 11, 2024
Earlier this year, I had the privilege of serving on the organizing committee for the DataTune conference in my hometown of Nashville, Tenn. Unlike many database-specific or platform-specific conferences, which tend to focus on analytics and data science, DataTune covers a wide variety of topics such as database engineering, development, administration, and analytics. I was delighted to be joined on the committee by two friends, Dustin Dorsey and Cameron Cyr, authors of Unlocking dbt: Design and Deploy Transformations in Your Cloud Data Warehouse.
Posted April 11, 2024
Data insights have never been more vital to business operations than they are today. Line-of-business (LOB) teams rely on data insights to drive sustainable growth, lead business operations, and understand customer behaviors and needs. The growing demand for data analytics has spurred a flourishing $31 billion-plus industry of established and emerging tech companies—but is the data analytics tech stack working for enterprises? Despite years of investment and effort, research indicates that 95% of businesses still struggle with operational challenges around data and analytics, leaving only 5% with the competitive advantage data-driven decision making delivers.
Posted April 11, 2024
Data management needs AI and machine learning (ML), and, just as important, AI/ML needs data management. As of now, the two are connected, with the path to successful AI "intrinsically linked to modern data management practices," said Dan Soceanu, senior product manager for AI and data management at SAS. Blazing this path requires "prioritizing data quality, accessibility, and governance."
Posted April 11, 2024
Every DBA knows that a test platform is required to properly enable application development. Indeed, testing has always been crucial, but it has become more complicated with the advent of new technologies, platforms, and devices, not to mention the impact of regulatory compliance. One of the biggest challenges faced by DBAs and developers is managing test data.
Posted April 11, 2024
Data makes the world go round, but there are gaps in the data needed to make the products and raw materials that move around the world. Unforeseen events around the globe—such as weather, wars, ships running aground, or infrastructure issues such as the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse that closed the main shipping lane in and out of the Port of Baltimore—can wreak havoc with even the most carefully planned supply chains.
Posted April 11, 2024
The impact of generative AI (GenAI) is massive and is only going to increase. One area most immediately affected is journalism. Any job that involves the processing and production of the written word is a job that could be impacted by GenAI, which—at the end of the day—is designed to process language inputs and produce convincing output.
Posted April 11, 2024
There is an old quote attributed to various origins that says, "When I hear the word ‘culture,' I reach for my gun." The saying expresses frustration at a term, in this case "culture" being used, abused, and politicized beyond all forbearance. Even when it was first popularized, it was a line meant to draw laughter from the audience of a play, rather than suggesting anyone carry an actual firearm. And no one is suggesting anyone do so now. "Relational" is a term that, over the last few decades, has undergone its own level of use, abuse, and politicization.
Posted April 11, 2024