Cloud Computing Articles
SAP is boosting SAP Analytics Cloud with new machine learning features to uncover correlations in an organization's data and help users make faster and more confident decisions. The announcement was made at the Strata Data Conference held September 12-14 in New York City.
Posted September 12, 2018
StreamSets, provider a DataOps platform for modern data integration, is upgrading its platform with innovations that help companies efficiently build and continuously operate dataflows. New capabilities include data drift handling for cloud data stores for improved pipeline resiliency, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) automation that brings DevOps-style agility to dataflow pipelines, and the ability to centrally manage in-stream data protection policies for security and compliance.
Posted September 11, 2018
TIBCO Software Inc., a provider of integration, API management, and analytics solutions, is enhancing capabilities for the TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud (TCIC). The additions to TCIC are intended to provide users with highly customizable and simple-to-use functions, such as business event processing, full lifecycle APIs, and visual analytics.
Posted September 10, 2018
Cloudera, Inc., providing machine learning and analytics solutions optimized for the cloud, unveiled the launch of an end-to-end, open source Internet of Things (IoT) architecture in collaboration with Red Hat and Eurotech. This collaboration provides a modern IoT architecture that is scalable, secure, and technologically advanced without vendor lock-in, according to Cloudera.
Posted September 05, 2018
TIBCO Software Inc., a provider of integration, API management, and analytics solution, today is enhancing capabilities for the TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud (TCIC), further expanding its cloud offerings. The additions to TCIC will provide users with highly customizable and simple-to-use functions, such as business event processing, full lifecycle APIs, and visual analytics.
Posted September 05, 2018
TIBCO Software Inc., a provider of integration, API management, and analytics solutions, is debuting TIBCO Data Science on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. TIBCO Data Science, soon to be available in AWS Marketplace, allows data scientists to share and collaborate using big data, machine learning capabilities, while also providing data security and governance.
Posted September 05, 2018
Everyone wants to be part of a data-driven enterprise, and for good reason. Data analytics, when applied in a meaningful way, provides an enormous competitive advantage. There's a catch to this though that frequently gets overlooked amidst the glowing analyst projections and keynote speeches about a limitless future in which systems and machines do all the heavy lifting and thinking for businesses. Data—the right kind, in the right sequence, in the right context—doesn't just magically drop out of the cloud. It needs to be discovered, identified, transformed, and brought together for analysis, management, and eventual storage.
Posted September 04, 2018
Several MultiValue databases have been chosen as the best of the pack for this year's Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards. Each year, Database Trends and Applications magazine presents the Readers' Choice Awards, recognizing leading vendors across a variety of segments in the IT industry. Unlike any other awards programs conducted by DBTA, this one is special because the nominees are submitted and the winners are chosen by the experts—whose opinions carry more weight than all others—you, the readers.
Posted September 04, 2018
Informatica, a cloud data management provider, is launching new product innovations that will enhance customer engagement with trusted, governed, and secure data management. The updates transform Informatica Master Data Management (MDM), Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) and Data Privacy, and Protection, enabling enterprises with intelligent hybrid data management to transform customer experience.
Posted August 31, 2018
Cloudian has raised $94 million in a Series E funding, bringing the company's total funding to $173 million, to expand its worldwide sales and marketing efforts to meet the rising demand for its storage solutions. The round includes participation from investors Digital Alpha, Eight Roads Ventures, Goldman Sachs, INCJ, JPIC (Japan Post Investment Corporation), NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. and WS (Wilson Sonsini) Investments.
Posted August 31, 2018
JetStream Software Inc., a provider of cloud software development, is releasing JetStream Data Protection. The platform will offer cloud service providers an advanced solution to deliver data availability services to enterprise customers. The JetStream Data Protection software joins the already available solutions, JetStream Accelerate and JetStream Migrate, as part of the JetStream Cross-Cloud Data Management Platform.
Posted August 30, 2018
C3 IoT is partnering with Google Cloud to accelerate AI and IoT application development for enterprise digital transformation. The companies have developed an integrated solution that delivers the C3 IoT Platform—a platform as a service (PaaS) for developing and operating big data, predictive analytics, AI, and IoT software applications—on the Google Cloud Platform, leveraging its infrastructure and AI services.
Posted August 30, 2018
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, unveiled Amazon Aurora Serverless., a new deployment option for Amazon Aurora that automatically starts, scales, and shuts down database capacity with per-second billing for applications with less predictable usage patterns. Amazon Aurora Serverless offers database capacity without the need to provision, scale, and manage any servers.
Posted August 30, 2018
Asigra Inc., a cloud backup, recovery and restore software provide, is introducing Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance, at the VMworld conference in Las Vegas this week. In partnership with iXsystems, the new backup solution combines Asigra Cloud Backup V14 software with iXsystems' TrueNAS storage, featuring the OpenZFS open source file system and volume management for unprecedented flexibility and data integrity.
Posted August 29, 2018
SAP is making improvements to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, delivering dozens of new AI-powered scenarios that further power the intelligent enterprise. Building on SAP's industry domain expertise to help every customer become a best-run business, these updates will increase customer agility and flexibility, as they adapt to rapidly changing business conditions.
Posted August 29, 2018
VMware delivered a series of announcements on new and enhanced capabilities from the VMworld event taking place this week in Las Vegas. The company introduced new and enhanced VMware Cloud Services that will enable cloud operations, DevOps, and security and compliance teams to better manage cloud costs, operations, security, and compliance across clouds. The advancements to VMware's software-as-a-service (SaaS) based cloud operations platform included new cloud automation services, VMware Cloud Assembly, VMware Service Broker, and VMware Code Stream; a new cloud configuration security and compliance service, VMware Secure State; and significant enhancements to Wavefront by VMware.
Posted August 27, 2018
At the SHARE summer 2018 event in St. Louis, the new SHARE president and CEO Justin Bastin reflected on the significance of the new Zowe project, SHARE's leadership in blockchain, compliance, and DevOps, and what he hopes to accomplish during his tenure.
Posted August 27, 2018
Veritas Technologies, data protection leader, today unveiled Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 with a new and improved user interface that, simplifying access for employees across an organization.
Posted August 22, 2018
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has announced updates to the SolarWinds Orion Platform and its product portfolio. The enhancements span multiple products, including the latest versions of Server & Application Monitor (SAM), Virtualization Manager (VMAN), Storage Resource Monitor (SRM), and the new SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor (SCM).
Posted August 21, 2018
Veritas Technologies, a provider of enterprise data protection solutions, has introduced Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 with an improved user interface that simplifies how employees can protect data and modern workloads. The new Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 provides an intuitive interface that enables authorized employees to protect and monitor their own data, on premise or in multi-cloud environments, enabling employees to play an important data management role in their department.
Posted August 21, 2018
Envorso, a provider of business transformation solutions, is entering a strategic partnership with Signafire Technologies, an industry-leading fusion and content analysis company. The partnership will allow Envorso to offer enterprise data fusion solutions.
Posted August 17, 2018
SnapLogic is introducing dedicated DevOps and automation capabilities, including new integration with GitHub and support for Mesosphere in its latest platform update. These new enhancements to the SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud provide the company's growing customer base with self-service application and data integration to streamline and accelerate the software development lifecycle.
Posted August 15, 2018
SAP is updating its cloud platform, boosting the solution with the ability to extend and customize applications with multicloud and mobilization choices. The enhancements include SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain, which will enable enterprises to build and extend business solutions with blockchain technologies.
Posted August 15, 2018
The hype around blockchain technology as it relates to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin is reaching an all-time high, but enterprise organizations are taking a longer-term, more measured approach.
Posted August 15, 2018
During a presentation at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, in which Oracle CTO and chairman Larry Ellison unveiled the company's latest Autonomous Database Cloud Service, Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, he also sought to alleviate concerns that database automation will eliminate the jobs of longstanding Oracle database administrators. "I have got some bad news for you: No early retirement," he said. "A lot of the tedious things you were doing—allocating disk storage and upgrading the OS—you don't have to do. However, there is a lot more to do."
Posted August 15, 2018
EnterpriseDB, developer of a Postgres-based database platform, is releasing the beta version of its EDB Postgres Migration Portal, an automated online tool for moving Oracle databases to the EDB Postgres Platform.
Posted August 13, 2018
This year is an expansive one for the database ecosystems that have evolved around the major platforms. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud computing are now mainstream offerings seen within the constellations of database vendors, partners, and integrators.
Posted August 08, 2018
Still a relatively new solution coming into its own streaming platforms allow individuals to see data in real-time batches. Streaming solutions can help businesses analyze data in motion, simplify the development of applications, and extend the value of existing systems by integrating with already implemented applications along with supporting both structured and unstructured data.
Posted August 08, 2018
Database downtime can inflict a fatal wound on the life of a business and having a trusted backup solution that can ensure that databases can be back up and running quickly in the event of an outage is critical. With long downtimes simply unacceptable, organizations seek solutions with capabilities such as the ability to manage backups seamlessly, manage and monitor backups, ensure data integrity, scale efficiently restore quickly to any point in time, and provide security features to stay in compliance with local geographic and industry mandates.
Posted August 08, 2018
Companies are increasingly looking for the right database for the data storage need at hand. That might mean NoSQL, NewSQL, in-memory databases, and cloud databases—also known as database as a service—approaches.
Posted August 08, 2018
Today's data visualization tools go beyond the standard charts and graphs used in Excel spreadsheets, displaying data in more sophisticated ways such as infographics, dials and gauges, geographic maps, sparklines, heat maps, and detailed bar, pie and fever charts. The images may include interactive capabilities, enabling users to manipulate them or drill into the data for querying and analysis.
Posted August 08, 2018
Today, data quality solutions are available in the cloud as software as a service as well as on premise, and support the necessary data integrity for critical systems such as customer relationship management, master data management, data governance initiatives, and database management, as well as for regulatory compliance initiatives—including the E.U.'s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Posted August 08, 2018
Pick Cloud, Inc. and 3phi Solutions Inc. are forming a strategic partnership to sell phiReport Cloud edition exclusively in North America. phiReport is a suite of reporting tools based on the PICK/MultiValue DBMS. The application is built using AccuTerm GUI, allowing any Windows user with a current AccuTerm terminal emulator to define and generate attractive Excel worksheets from a graphical user interface.
Posted August 08, 2018
At the close of a presentation in which he announced general availability of the company's latest Autonomous Database Cloud Service, Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing, Oracle CTO and chairman Larry Ellison also previewed new capabilities of Oracle Database 19c. With the upcoming 19c release, machine learning eliminates performance regression testing, and Oracle will offer an additional deployment option.
Posted August 08, 2018
OneLogin, provider of Unified Access Management solutions, is making platform enhancements that advance Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) adoption in the enterprise. The updates include a new login experience and the release of OneLogin Protect 4.0 authenticator, providing increased security and customization for both administrators and end users.
Posted August 06, 2018
The way that many organizations approach the backup process has failed them, as evidenced by the hundreds of millions of dollars they have spent on ransomware to retrieve their data.
Posted August 02, 2018
Oracle Responsys has introduced the SMS Public Aggregator Network (SPAN), a new self-service application within Oracle Marketing Cloud that makes it easier for customers to find, order, and manage SMS services directly from the mobile aggregator of their choice.
Posted August 01, 2018
Kentik, a provider of network analytics, is releasing a product expansion that adds deep visibility into the Google Cloud Platform. With Kentik Detect, enterprises can now get real-time insights from VPC Flow Logs for their Google Cloud Platform environments to optimize network performance, security, and user experience.
Posted July 30, 2018
Iron Mountain Incorporated, a provider of storage and information management services, is partnering with Google Cloud to develop new AI-powered SaaS solutions. The new solutions on GCP will help organizations analyze their vast physical and digital information and data repositories, unlock insights, improve decision making, and create new revenue streams. Iron Mountain expects to deliver these new subscription services built on GCP this September.
Posted July 30, 2018
Hitachi Vantara plans to acquire REAN Cloud LLC, a global cloud systems integrator, managed services provider, and solutions developer of cloud-native applications across big data, machine learning, and emerging internet of things (IoT) spaces.
Posted July 30, 2018
Looker is integrating its platform with Google Cloud BigQuery ML (BQML), accelerating the time-to-value of data science workflows. With Looker and BigQuery ML, data teams can now save time and eliminate unnecessary processes by creating machine learning (ML) models directly in BigQuery via Looker - without the need to transfer data into additional ML tools.
Posted July 27, 2018
Datawatch has announced that Datawatch Swarm, its enterprise data intelligence platform, is offering new deployment options to fuel self-service analytics. The new release aligns with enterprises' needs for collaborative infrastructure and also provides multi-tenancy and SaaS deployment options for Datawatch partners.
Posted July 27, 2018