Cloud Computing Articles
Syncsort is partnering Databricks to support cloud initiatives for critical mainframe and IBM i data, enabling enterprises to leverage Syncsort Connect products to access, transform, and deliver mainframe data to Delta Lake.
Posted March 09, 2020
CloudBolt Software, a cloud management platform provider for the enterprise, is releasing CloudBolt 9.2, helping enterprise IT accelerate their hybrid cloud journey with less effort. This new release features comprehensive lifecycle management for Kubernetes, empowers developers through deep Terraform integration, and expands CloudBolt's support with new integrations for IBM Cloud, IBM Cloud for Government, VMware Cloud on AWS, and Red Hat OpenShift.
Posted March 09, 2020
One of the primary objectives of any high-availability architecture is to ensure that any single points of failure are eliminated, such as cluster nodes connecting to a single SAN. If you are running SAP in the cloud, you can take advantage of your cloud provider's availability zones, which may exist in different geographic regions. Although a high-availability cluster can be deployed within a single zone, the zone itself is a single-point-of-failure. If the zone becomes unavailable, end users may lose access to the entire cluster.
Posted March 05, 2020
With a new year and a new decade just beginning, MultiValue leaders are anticipating new opportunities for this well-established technology. There are many issues to consider, including what customers are currently looking for in their MV solutions, whether MV is ready for AI, and the impact of cloud, security, and privacy concerns. In this annual MultiValue Special Report, DBTA asks MV executives this two pronged question: As we enter 2020, what will spark the next set of trends in the MultiValue space for the decade ahead, and is your MV platform ready to address new demands?
Posted March 05, 2020
Organizations have progressively pushed more infrastructure from on-premise data centers into cloud data centers. Some of this is driven by the desire to reduce costs, but more often than not, organizations are realizing that the infrastructure required for the level of connectivity, data growth, and analytics needed for success in a modern organization is well beyond the reach of homegrown infrastructure.
Posted March 05, 2020
VAST is deepening its partnership with Cohesity, receiving a Partner Support Program (PSP) certification for the Cohesity DataPlatform and all of its data management software.
Posted March 05, 2020
Oracle recently announced the availability of the Oracle Cloud Data Science Platform with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science at the core, helping enterprises to collaboratively build, train, manage, and deploy machine learning models. The goal with Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure Data Science is to improve the collaboration and effectiveness of data science teams with capabilities such as shared projects, model catalogs, team security policies, reproducibility, and auditability.
Posted March 04, 2020
Apps Associates, an Oracle cloud migration and managed services provider, is releasing Apps Pack, a proprietary suite of diagnostic and management tools for comprehensive control over the entire IT environment.
Posted March 04, 2020
With three recent acquisitions under its belt and more than 2 decades of experience helping thousands of companies modernize their IT operations, Navisite says it is ready to meet the service and support requirements of enterprises looking to transform their IT investment and operations from cost-center to business driver.
Posted March 03, 2020
BMC, a KKR portfolio company and a provider of IT solutions for the digital enterprise, has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to purchase Compuware, a Thoma Bravo company and provider of mainframe application development, delivery, and support solutions.
Posted March 02, 2020
Pure Storage, a data solutions provider delivering a modern data experience, is releasing its third-generation all-NVMe FlashArray//X, providing customers with higher performance. With Pure Storage's Evergreen Storage model, customers can enjoy access to continuous innovation from Pure Storage that includes these and future updates to its product and solutions suite.
Posted February 28, 2020
Talend, a provider of cloud data integration and data integrity, is introducing the Winter ‘20 release of Talend Data Fabric, unveiling the new Talend Cloud Data Inventory. Talend Cloud Data Inventory automatically calculates the Data Intelligence Score of all data across an organization and presents it in a service-self cloud app for every user.
Posted February 27, 2020
Eficode, a devOps company, is joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and is now a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP).
Posted February 27, 2020
IBM inventors received 9,262 U.S. patents in 2019, achieving a milestone of most patents ever awarded to a U.S. company, and marking the company's 27th consecutive year of U.S. patent leadership. In 2019, IBM led the industry in the number of U.S. patents granted across key technology areas such as AI, blockchain, cloud computing, quantum computing and security.
Posted February 27, 2020
InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, InfluxDB Cloud is now on Google Cloud, offering developers and businesses unified billing, support, and integration with other Google Cloud services. InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud is a serverless, purpose-built time series database-as-a-service with advanced analytics that provide real-time observability into IoT and DevOps workloads.
Posted February 27, 2020
Rockset, a real-time database built for the cloud, is ushering in new growth with several industry partnerships and continued product innovation. The company is entering several new partnerships and implementing technology integrations, including adding DynamoDB to search and analyze database change streams, Apache Kafka to analyze raw events in real time, and Tableau to visualize live data from a variety of sources.
Posted February 27, 2020
BitLaunch, an anonymous VPS and Bitcoin VPS provider, is unveiling 3 new datacenter locations in Los Angeles, US, Amsterdam, NL, and London, UK. BitLaunch has been growing by offering straight-forward on-demand cloud computing in exchange for cryptocurrency.
Posted February 26, 2020
Unravel Data, a data operations platform providing full-stack visibility and AI-powered recommendations, is releasing new migration, cost analytics, and architectural mapping capabilities for Unravel for Azure Databricks.
Posted February 26, 2020
SAP is releasing the latest version of the S/4HANA Cloud, introducing new innovations and features across line-of-business editions. SAP S/4HANA Cloud 2002 brings more integration into the fold. Sourcing and procurement customers can realize better contract management from integration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud with the SAP Ariba Contracts solution.
Posted February 26, 2020
SAP's co-innovation project with reinsurance company Swiss Re is adding new features, providing new reporting capabilities to its solution to help financial companies meet upcoming accounting standards, streamline accounting flows, and increase transparency and control.
Posted February 26, 2020
SAP is moving toward more customer-centric operations and introducing processes to successfully support customers in their digital transformation. To deliver both best-of-breed and best-of-suite, SAP is establishing six primary solution areas: SAP Customer Experience, SAP S/4HANA, People (SAP SuccessFactors), Intelligent Spend (inclusive of SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, and SAP Concur), SAP HANA & Analytics, and Qualtrics. SAP Cloud Platform will serve as the underlying technology platform for all these areas.
Posted February 26, 2020
Rocket Software is in the midst of a growing period and to better meet the needs of its customers the company is reorganizing to better scale the business. The databases and connectivity team includes the MultiValue businesses and other NoSQL databases, said Gary Gregory, general manager, database business unit.
Posted February 26, 2020
Zadara Storage, a provider of in enterprise storage-as-a-service platforms, is increasing security for object data stored in Zadara Storage through a partnership with Veeam.
Posted February 25, 2020
IBM has announced that the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is generally available for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE. According to IBM, the availability of OpenShift for Z and LinuxONE is a major milestone for both hybrid multi-cloud and for enterprise computing. OpenShift supports cloud-native applications being built once and deployed anywhere—and now extends this to on-premise enterprise servers such as IBM Z and LinuxONE. The offering is the result of the collaboration between the IBM and Red Hat development teams and discussions with early adopter clients.
Posted February 24, 2020
Infoworks.io, a provider of enterprise data operations and orchestration (EDO2) systems, is being selected by Databricks for its Data Ingestion Network. Databricks selected Infoworks DataFoundry for Databricks' Data Ingestion Network, an ecosystem of data integrations launched today featuring partner solutions for the Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform.
Posted February 24, 2020
Gurucul, a provider of unified security and risk analytics technology, is introducing automated intelligent threat hunting that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to detect behaviors associated with cyber attacks and data breaches.
Posted February 21, 2020
Attivo Networks, a provider of cybersecurity threat detection, is integrating with Microsoft to further enhance detection and response for Azure IoT Edge with the ThreatDefend platform. The integration provides customers a reliable way to quickly and confidently detect, redirect, and respond to in-network attackers.
Posted February 20, 2020
Kinetica, the provider of the Kinetica Active Analytics Platform for the modern digital economy, is releasing Kinetica Cloud, allowing users to utilize the full capabilities of the Kinetica platform in an optimal cloud environment.
Posted February 20, 2020
Cloudian is releasing a new solution based on its HyperStore object storage and the new Veeam Availability Suite v10 that provides ransomware protection. The Cloudian-Veeam solution supports S3 Object Lock, enabling customers to make backup data copies immutable and, therefore, invulnerable to hacker encryption or deletion.
Posted February 19, 2020
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, is adding Database Performance Monitor (DPM) to its IT operations management (ITOM) portfolio, enabling customers to manage on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-native databases through a single provider, and with both on-premises and SaaS delivery.
Posted February 19, 2020
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is generally available for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE, reinforcing the agile cloud-native world of containers and Kubernetes with the security features, scalability, and reliability of IBM's enterprise servers.
Posted February 13, 2020
Clumio's, provider of authentic SaaS for enterprise backup, Enterprise Backup as a Service solution has attained VMware Partner Ready for VMware Cloud on AWS validation, allowing users to scale or move workloads to the cloud.
Posted February 13, 2020
Dun & Bradstreet, a provider of business decisioning data and analytics, is releasing the D&B Analytics Studio. The platform is a secure, cloud-based analytics platform that will provide clients with a single, integrated solution to explore, synthesize, and operationalize data and analytics in order to remain competitive in the era of digital transformation.
Posted February 12, 2020
GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, has announced that InsightEdge as a managed service is available on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Using InsightEdge on GigaSpaces Cloud, services and applications can query data from any source for a real-time 360 view; quickly connecting all structured, semi-structured and unstructured data to gain a holistic view of the business.
Posted February 12, 2020
Domo is launching next generation of the Domo Appstore, which includes a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This new collaboration with AWS further enhances the ability to leverage data to modernize business processes, according to Domo.
Posted February 12, 2020
Hazelcast, an open source in-memory computing platform, has announced an additional $28.5 million in funding, bringing its total Series D round to $50 million. Hazelcast raised an initial $21.5 million in Series D funding in June but, given the interest from the investor community, the company said, it expanded the round.
Posted February 11, 2020
Xerox Holdings Corp. has announced its intention to launch a tender offer on or around March 2, 2020, for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of HP Inc. at a price of $24 per share, which will be comprised of $18.40 in cash and 0.149 Xerox shares for each HP share.
Posted February 10, 2020
While organizations are adopting cloud for some areas of their database estate, very few are migrating totally. DBAs now need to manage hybrid estates that combine on-premise and cloud deployments. No wonder that 23% of respondents see migrating to the cloud and integrating with the cloud as their biggest challenge over the next 12 months. Ensuring they have the ability to monitor their entire estate from a single tool is therefore vital if DBAs are to remain on top of their workloads.
Posted February 10, 2020
For data managers, AI and machine learning not only offer new ways of delivering rapid insights to business users but also the promise of improving and adding intelligence to their own operations. While many AI and machine learning efforts are still works in progress, the technologies hold the potential to deliver more enhanced analytic capabilities throughout enterprises.
Posted February 10, 2020
For years, if not decades, database managers have been struggling with the challenges of providing as much access as possible to corporate information assets while at the same time protecting these crown jewels. All of this work, of course, has had to take place within the confines of relatively tight budget and resource constraints. Now, a new generation of solutions and platforms holds great promise in releasing professionals from the more mundane aspects of their jobs to devote more time to the activities that matter to their businesses. However, even with database automation and cloud resources abundantly available on the market, many database managers still spend inordinate amounts of time on low-level tasks.
Posted February 10, 2020
As part of Quest Experience Week 2019, Richard Evans, database security product management at Oracle, spoke about the top 10 security features you might not be using.
Posted February 10, 2020
Kore Technologies is releasing version 4.7 of the Kourier Integrator platform, increasing performance times across the board. This latest release includes the Package Execution Manager (PEM), improving the overall performance, execution, and transparency of Kourier generated Microsoft SSIS packages, and provides a stable and fault tolerant environment in which to run them.
Posted February 10, 2020
CHO, a producer of olive oil, is using IBM Blockchain to provide traceability for its Terra Delyssa extra virgin olive oil across eight quality assurance checkpoints, including the orchard where the olives were grown, the mill where olives were crushed, and the facilities where the oil was filtered, bottled, distributed, and more.
Posted February 10, 2020