Data Center Management Articles
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is releasing two new offerings to help enterprise customers simplify the adoption of IoT. First, Aruba ClearPass Device Insight delivers a single pane of glass for device visibility employing automated device discovery, machine learning (ML) based fingerprinting, and identification.
Posted April 02, 2019
Rancher Labs, a provider of container management software, has announced general availability of Rancher 2.2, introducing new features to simplify the provisioning of Kubernetes by IT operators and giving developers more control over their applications.
Posted April 02, 2019
Applitools, a provider of AI Powered end-to-end Visual Testing and monitoring, is releasing Applitools Ultrafast Visual Grid, providing a testing platform to drive enterprise-wide management of both functional and visual app quality. With the release of the Ultrafast Visual Grid, Applitools now delivers a low-code, super reliable, ultrafast, and easy-to-use testing and monitoring platform to support developers, test automation engineers, manual QA, marketing, and digital transformation teams for any size company.
Posted April 02, 2019
IBM has announced enhancements and new features across its Storwize storage systems. According to Eric Herzog, VP, product marketing and management, IBM Storage Systems, the systems are designed to address customers' need for higher levels of performance, security, flexibility, and functionality from their IT infrastructure, despite limited IT budgets.
Posted April 02, 2019
MapR Technologies, Inc., a provider of a data platform for AI and Analytics, is introducing new innovations in the MapR Data Platform. The new updates accelerate the compute journey with new, deep integrations with Kubernetes core components for primary workloads on Spark and Drill.
Posted April 02, 2019
Keeper Technology, a provider of integrated data management solutions, and Seagate Government Solutions, a subsidiary of Seagate Technology, provider of data storage solutions, have announced a strategic partnership to provide software-defined storage (SDS) solutions for the federal government and commercial sectors.
Posted April 01, 2019
BMC has formed a strategic partnership with Automation Anywhere, a provider robotic process automation (RPA) software, to extend the BMC Helix cognitive automation's capabilities to include RPA across service desk processes.
Posted April 01, 2019
IBM has announced that IBM Blockchain World Wire, a real-time global payments network for regulated financial institutions, is officially accessible in a growing number of markets. Designed to optimize and accelerate foreign exchange, cross border payments and remittances, IBM says that World Wire is the first blockchain network of its kind to integrate payment messaging, clearing and settlement on a single unified network, while allowing participants to dynamically choose from a variety of digital assets for settlement
Posted April 01, 2019
Dell EMC has announced the results of the third Global Data Protection Index revealing an explosive growth rate of data of 569% and a jump in data protection "adopters" of nearly 50 percentage points since 2016.
Posted April 01, 2019
Pepperdata, a provider of big data Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, is partnering with Cloudwick, a provider of digital business services and solutions, to offer a platform migrating big data to Amazon Web Services (AWS).Pepperdata provides Cloudwick with a baseline of on-premises performance, maps workloads to optimal static and on-demand instances, diagnoses any issues that arise during migration, and assesses performance after the move to ensure the same or better performance and SLAs.
Posted March 29, 2019
Unravel Data, a data operations platform providing full-stack visibility and AI-powered recommendations, is releasing a new portfolio of capabilities that help customers plan, migrate, and manage modern data applications running on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. This release leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics to baseline on-premises big data deployments. It can then determine which apps are the best candidates to move to the cloud based on customer defined criteria. Unravel can also help validate the success of a cloud migration and predict capacity based on the customers' application workloads.
Posted March 28, 2019
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is releasing HPE Right Mix Advisor, a platform that helps businesses develop their hybrid cloud strategies. HPE Right Mix Advisor recommends which workloads and applications are ideal to move to public clouds, or keep in private clouds, and how to migrate those workloads to achieve the right mix of hybrid cloud according to each business's specific need.
Posted March 28, 2019
NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox after reaching a definitive agreement, uniting two high-profile companies in high-performance computing (HPC). With the addition of Mellanox, NVIDIA says, it will optimize data center-scale workloads across the entire computing, networking, and storage stack to achieve higher performance, greater utilization, and lower operating cost for customers.
Posted March 28, 2019
RDX, an independent provider of managed database and cloud services, is acquiring ClearDB, further expanding RDX's Database-as-a-Service platform capabilities. Based in Plano, Texas, ClearDB is a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider that has deployed and managed more than one million cloud-based databases worldwide through its software platform, and is a private MySQL-as-a-Service provider.
Posted March 28, 2019
SAP is partnering with Camelot ITLab GmbH to co-develop a solution to bring the demand-driven adaptive enterprise (DDAE) model into the SAP Integrated Business Planning solution. This offering will aim to help companies drive a more nimble and adaptive supply chain management process to directly address the challenges of increasingly volatile business landscapes.
Posted March 27, 2019
SAP has chosen Widener University's School of Business Administration and Small Business Development Center (SBDC) SBDC's Success Lab as a SAP Next-Gen Lab for design thinking and analytics. The lab is an innovative space where students, faculty and business consultants gather to find solutions to help clients start or grow their businesses.
Posted March 27, 2019
SAP is making enhancements to the SAP Analytics Cloud solution, boosting augmented analytics, business intelligence (BI), enterprise planning workflows, and data integration capabilities. Building on the augmented analytics capabilities already available, users can add new machine learning and artificial intelligent capabilities to existing business intelligence and planning workflows.
Posted March 27, 2019
Virtustream, the enterprise-class cloud company and a Dell Technologies Business, will assist the FMC Corporation to migrate and manage its mission critical, global suite of SAP applications. FMC turned to Virtustream to complete a multi-year effort to consolidate its infrastructure and migrate its SAP applications to a new S/4HANA environment on Virtustream Enterprise Cloud.
Posted March 27, 2019
DataBank, provider of an enterprise-class data center, connectivity, managed services, and cloud solutions, is expanding its data protection services through a partnership with Veeam Software. DataBank's Veeam Cloud Connect solution allows for compliant offsite data replication from on-premise locations to the DataBank cloud mitigating the risk of local storage or facility failure without the cost and complexity of building and maintaining offsite infrastructure.
Posted March 26, 2019
TigerGraph is releasing an updated version of its signature platform, combining graph pattern matching with real-time deep link analytics -- a unique mix ideal for fraud and money laundering detection, security analytics, personalized recommendation engines, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Posted March 25, 2019
Axway Software is acquiring Streamdata.io, a software publisher specializing in event-driven API Management, accelerating the execution of its strategy by strengthening both its API Management offer and the technological capabilities of its hybrid integration platform, AMPLIFY. Axway acquired 100% of the share capital of Streamdata.io, a software publisher based in France and the United States specializing in real-time data distribution. Streamdata.io's expertise strengthens the capabilities of Axway's AMPLIFY hybrid integration platform, notably the API Management offering, by providing new technology capabilities and methodology.
Posted March 25, 2019
Trifacta, a provider of data preparation solutions, is releasing a new set of capabilities specifically focused on making data quality assessment, remediation, and monitoring more intelligent and efficient. The new capabilities are designed to help organizations modernize their approach to addressing data quality issues that hinder the success of analytics, machine learning, and cloud data management initiatives.
Posted March 20, 2019
Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), is introducing Telit OneEdge, a new initiative developed to speed IoT deployments and reduce the time required to monetize the digitalization of businesses. OneEdge is a software suite that enables solutions for a new generation of Telit's cellular LPWA IoT modules.
Posted March 20, 2019
While much of the discussion around 5G has centered on consumer devices, enterprises are looking toward the impact the technology can have on their ability to serve customers and the bottom line. Not only are most companies aware of the benefits of 5G, but they are also already planning how they will take advantage of this next generation of wireless connectivity to power core business initiatives from new services, to IoT and smart ecosystems.
Posted March 20, 2019
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, is introducing machine learning-enabled database anomaly detection and an automated management API in the latest version of Database Performance Analyzer (DPA). The company is also refreshing its IT operations management portfolio, collectively designed to improve support for monitoring critical IT services and extend support for monitoring private cloud and converged infrastructures.
Posted March 20, 2019
Every day, more technology surrounds us. Things that were once fiction, are now everyday occurrences. None of this is by accident or happenstance, this is only through the work of many professionals and even amateurs in the fields of engineering, electronics, and computer science.
Posted March 20, 2019
Collibra, a provider of enterprise data governance and catalog software, is partnering with Tableau Software, allowing users to easily locate and analyze Tableau reports and dashboards within Collibra Catalog and Collibra On-the-Go. The partnership combines the efficiency of Tableau's self-service analytics with the transparency and trust Collibra's software brings to data.
Posted March 19, 2019
Rockset, the serverless search and analytics company, is releasing a cloud service that allows developers and data scientists to put complex data sets to use in minutes instead of weeks. Rockset's serverless data backend that continuously ingests raw data as it is generated and delivers real-time SQL queries at scale.
Posted March 19, 2019
Actian, a hybrid data management, analytics and integration company, is launching the Actian Avalanche cloud data warehouse, a fully managed service solution available on the AWS cloud platform. This third-generation, cloud data warehouse delivers breakthrough levels of speed, flexibility, and economics designed to make it easier for companies to deploy and scale data analytics services in the cloud.
Posted March 18, 2019
At the SHARE conference in Phoenix, Broadcom announced the introduction of enterprise-grade support for Zowe, the Open Mainframe Project's open source software framework that enables customers to securely develop and manage mainframe applications like any other cloud platform.
Posted March 18, 2019
Pepperdata, a provider of big data Application Performance Management (APM) solutions, is releasing its new Big Data Cloud Migration Cost Assessment for enterprises looking to migrate their big data workloads to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or IBM Cloud. By analyzing current workloads and service level agreements, the detailed, metrics-based assessment enables enterprises to make informed decisions, helping minimize risk while ensuring SLAs are maintained after cloud migration.
Posted March 18, 2019
This, in turn, offers different attack vectors than traditional applications and creates opportunities for cybercriminals seeking to manipulate or monetize the data being shared on the blockchain. X-Force Red is comprised of hackers who can break into blockchain networks using the same tools, techniques, practices and mindsets as criminals would use. Through vulnerability assessments, vulnerability management programs, adversary simulation exercises, and manual penetration testing, X-Force Red can help organizations identify and fix vulnerabilities before criminals find them.
Posted March 18, 2019
SUSE, a provider of enterprise-grade, open source software-defined infrastructure and application delivery solutions, has announced the completion of the company's acquisition from Micro Focus by growth investor EQT and its status as a standalone business.
Posted March 15, 2019
With COLLABORATE 2019 on the horizon the Oracle Applications Users Group is starting off the year with a new president at the helm who aims to take the group into a transformative period as they evolve with the needs of the Oracle market. The OAUG, an independent, global, member-led organization that maximizes customers' investment in Oracle and partner solutions, will be led by Douglas Manning who currently leads a section of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) technical and functional professionals at Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory.
Posted March 15, 2019
FileWave, a multi-platform endpoint management solution for apps, is launching its North American channel partner program, providing resellers with the ability to give customers technology for managing macOS, iOS, Windows, Chrome OS, and Android devices. Resellers can sign on in different tiers based on sales volume, geographies and vertical markets, enabling them to add FileWave's industry-leading solutions to their portfolios immediately.
Posted March 14, 2019
ArangoDB, an open source native multi-model database, has raised $10 million in a Series A financing, led by Bow Capital, that will allow it to accelerate product development and revenue growth by further expanding its engineering and sales teams to more heavily support its customers and community in the U.S. The company will continue to build-up community support, marketing, human resources as well as sales in Silicon Valley. The main software and product development will continue to be driven from Cologne, Germany.
Posted March 14, 2019
C3, an enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation, is introducing the C3 Integrated Development Studio (IDS), a low-code/no-code environment for developing, deploying, and operating enterprise AI applications. IDS provides data ingestion, data modeling, machine learning feature engineering and model lifecycle management, and a metadata-driven UI development tool. The hybrid, multi-cloud distributed architecture of C3 IDS enables secure, highly available, and rapidly scalable application development.
Posted March 13, 2019
Cohesity, a provider of hyperconverged secondary storage, is joining Cisco's SolutionsPlus program, giving Cisco's direct and channel sales network the ability to offer Cohesity's modern backup and recovery capabilities. The Cisco SolutionsPlus agreement includes joint sales, marketing, service and support investments, and alignment of product roadmaps.
Posted March 12, 2019
Aerospike Inc., developer of a NoSQL database, is launching the Aerospike Connect family of add-on modules, as well as a new REST API, to make it even easier to integrate the Aerospike Database into both new and existing enterprise infrastructure systems.
Posted March 12, 2019
dotData, delivering end-to-end data science automation and operationalization for the enterprise, is releasing Version 1.4 of its dotData Data Science Automation Platform, adding enhancements to the platform and providing users with deeper insights, increased flexibility, ease-of-use, and greater performance to meet their specific business goals.
Posted March 12, 2019
VAST is partnering with CloudHealth by VMware, provider of the leading multi-cloud management platform, enabling VAST customers to manage cloud and virtual resources across platforms and environments. VAST will use the CloudHealth platform to help customers optimize cloud costs and implement best practices and automation for security, compliance, and governance.
Posted March 12, 2019
From April 7-11th, Oracle users from across the world will gather in San Antonio for the largest user-led, user-focused event where they'll get the real story about Oracle products and experience in-depth education and networking to take their Oracle product impact to the next level.
Posted March 12, 2019
One week is all you need. One week at COLLABORATE 19: Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community equips Oracle users with expertise and insight to accelerate performance and maximize Oracle investments. At COLLABORATE 19, April 7-11 in San Antonio, Texas, the OAUG delivers expert on-prem Oracle Applications knowledge and the latest guidance for the Cloud so users can innovate with their current Oracle solutions and strategically plan for the future. Users share lessons learned from real-life implementations, and solutions providers offer a look at the latest, greatest new products.
Posted March 12, 2019
Vexata, a provider of accelerated data infrastructure, is unveiling VX-Cloud Data Acceleration Platform, transforming industry standard servers into hyper-scale data platforms that meet the extreme performance at scale demands. Powered by Vexata's patented Accelerated Data Architecture software and FPGA firmware, VX-Cloud eliminates the economic barriers for public cloud providers and on-premise private clouds to provide a unified, multi-petabyte, extreme performance tier allowing data to be flexibly provisioned across multiple consolidated applications.
Posted March 11, 2019