Data Integration Articles
DataStax and Databricks are partnering to integrate Cassandra and Spark. "More and more, we see customers in the community wanting to do analytics on data in as real time as possible. That is what this is really about," said Martin Van Ryswyk, executive vice president of engineering, DataStax.
Posted May 12, 2014
The value proposition for the Splice Machine database, according to Monte Zweben, CEO and cofounder of Splice Machine, is that it enables companies to replace traditional RDBMSs when they hit a wall, either from a performance or cost perspective, with a full-featured, transactional SQL database on Hadoop, to power both operational applications and real-time analytics.
Posted May 12, 2014
More than 30 new cloud services have been added to IBM's BlueMix Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), which is designed to help developers more quickly integrate applications and speed deployment of new cloud services. IBM is leveraging BlueMix's foundation on SoftLayer for this expansion.
Posted May 12, 2014
New offerings from IBM are intended to help enterprise developers more rapidly design, deliver and deploy secure mobile apps. The new offerings include additions to IBM's MobileFirst Application Development portfolio, new industry-specific IBM Ready Apps, and the opening of 18 IBM MobileFirst studios around the world to help businesses accelerate mobile initiatives.
Posted May 12, 2014
TIBCO Software Inc. says its acquisition of Jaspersoft Corp. accelerates its expansion into embedded business intelligence and reporting, giving the company the portfolio needed to address two fast-growing segments of the business intelligence market.
Posted May 12, 2014
It's an inevitable fact that every software system will have problems, but an enterprise-grade Hadoop infrastructure puts minimizing and managing these system errors at the forefront. When considering a distribution's dependability, you should evaluate a Hadoop distribution's position in five foundational necessities.
Posted May 08, 2014
The Internet of Things is resulting in more customer data at executives' fingertips than ever before. In 2009, there were 2.5 billion things connected to the internet, creating data. That number will explode to 30 billion things by 2020. So how can businesses harness the power of all that customer data being generated by this new networked reality to create insights that help build lifelong customer relationships? And how can they keep from being overwhelmed by all that noise?
Posted May 08, 2014
The "Internet of Things" (IoT) is shifting from aspirational buzzword to a concrete and lucrative market. New-generation computing devices require new types of operating systems and networks. While many have been initially based on some variation of the Linux OS and connect using existing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless protocols, new operating systems and networking protocols are emerging.
Posted May 08, 2014
Finding the means to harmonize conflicting processing requirements is where a design comes alive. When done well, providing symmetry to a suite of processes greatly empowers those who develop and maintain those processes; changes and enhancement arise seemingly in the blink of an eye. In ETL, there are three key principles to driving exceptional design.
Posted May 08, 2014
MongoDB's Kelly Stirman and Cloudera's Yuri Bukhan recently talked with DBTA about the companies' new partnership and what it will mean for the big data ecosystem in the future. There is a need to demistify big data, they say, so that organizations can understand what technologies are right for their individual needs.
Posted May 08, 2014
At an event in NYC, Oracle president Mark Hurd and EVP John Fowler unveiled Solaris 11.2, which represents an evolution from operating system to a complete platform, they said. The phenomena of cloud and engineered systems are driven by the same requirement, which is the need to transfer work from the IT budget to the R&D budget to make things work more efficiently, observed Hurd, who asked, "Who really wants to glue an operating system to a server?"
Posted May 08, 2014
Supporting a ‘develop once, deploy anywhere' approach, BlueFinity International has launched Evoke, a new product that provides developers with a toolset for all application delivery platforms.
Posted May 08, 2014
Entrinsik, developer of Informer agile operational reporting and business intelligence software, has formed a partnership with SugarCRM, provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Delivered with pre-configured mappings and sample reports, Informer software provides real-time reporting, data analysis and interactive dashboards to extend the value of customers' SugarCRM systems.
Posted May 08, 2014
Varonis Systems has announced the upcoming beta release of DatAnswers, a new solution for secure, relevant search for NAS, Windows file servers and SharePoint.
Posted May 06, 2014
Ariba, an SAP company that provides cloud-based procurement solutions, is moving to SAP HANA, the company's in-memory platform for real-time computing. The initial step, involving the transition of Ariba Spend Visibility has been completed and the company is now shifting the Ariba Network to the platform. "We have been running cloud operations here for 15 years at Ariba, and we have a mature cloud platform, said SAP Ariba engineering vice president Mark Dao.
Posted May 06, 2014
Providing expanded cloud services and enhanced compute and storage, the latest release of Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance - X4-2 - has been introduced. In order to save customers hours of labor and decrease the risk of physical and software configuration errors, the system arrives ready to run production workloads with little software-defined configuration, according to Oracle.
Posted April 30, 2014
Just after data is created, there is high value attached to it. As data begins to age, its value does not diminish, but the nature of that value begins to change. For many enterprises that are dealing with large data volumes, timely data access can be a major issue, especially when customers demand quick response times. Let's examine the challenge of processing data in real time reliably and meeting customers' expectations for quick responses.
Posted April 30, 2014
BackOffice Associates' HiT Software division has announced that DBMoto version 8.2 includes support for SAP Sybase IQ, and support for Oracle Database 12c as a multitenant database with one or many pluggable databases;
Posted April 30, 2014
Melissa Data has introduced advancements in de-duplication of customer data. Based on the company's proprietary logic, Melissa Data's MatchUp Component for SQL Server Integration Services helps DBAs retain the best pieces of information from two or more duplicate records into a single, golden record
Posted April 29, 2014
TIBCO Spotfire Spotfire 6.5 provides support for Esri Arc-GIS and WMS/WFS location data, making it easier to blend an organization's WMS and analytics strategies. The new release provides access to a range of demographic, climate, geographic, and other data sources, as well as map projections to support greater insight to location-based analyses.
Posted April 29, 2014
Dell and DataMotion have formed a partnership that will allow users of Dell SonicWALL email security solutions to exceed privacy standards with compliance-grade encryption capabilities for all emails and file attachments, right from their Outlook client.
Posted April 29, 2014
Splunk is shipping a new version of its virtual environment reporting app. Version 3.1 of the Splunk App for VMware includes 200 out-of-the-box reports, the ability to identify outliers for real-time triage, and built-in correlation into storage systems including a direct drill-down into data from NetApp Data ONTAP.
Posted April 28, 2014
Leveraging Dell Boomi AtomSphere's single-instance, multi-tenant architecture to gain deep insight into customer usage metrics, the spring 2014 release of the integration platform offers new features, including Boomi Resolve, which helps users solve common errors quickly by automatically listing possible solutions in order of relevancy, and Predictive Assistance, which integrates near-real-time customer usage metrics, to support optimization of the use of the Boomi integration platform.
Posted April 28, 2014
Helping data analysts and business users make better data-driven decisions, Alteryx Analytics 9.0 enables the blending of new and established sources of data such as social media feeds, Google Analytics, Marketo, and SAS Analytics.
Posted April 24, 2014
The Dell PowerEdge R920 server, the company's highest performing server, has achieved certification for SAP HANA, and initial SAP workload testing shows a world record 4-socket Linux benchmark.
Posted April 24, 2014
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud now offers applications such as SAP Business Suite, the SAP Business Warehouse application and the SAP HANA platform on a subscription model. New subscription offerings not only emphasize the company's commitment but also increase the choice and simplicity for customers to deploy HANA, according to SAP.
Posted April 24, 2014
The latest version of Rocket Aldon LM has built-in U2 Support for Rocket UniData and Rocket UniVerse including Programs, Data Dictionary Items, Schema Changes, TCL, wIntegrate, AE, and ED. Aldon LM simplifies audit compliance, facilitates task and backlog management, enforces quality standards, and secures and manages access to software assets. Rocket is hosting a one-hour webinar to showcase the product features on Thursday, April 24, 2014, at 8 am PT / 9 am MT / 10 am CT / 11 am ET.
Posted April 23, 2014
In recent years, PostgreSQL has become the default back-end choice of developers for many web and enterprise applications. PostgreSQL recently became available as one of the managed database offerings provided by Amazon RDS alongside MySQL, Oracle and SQL Server. If you haven't tried it already, RDS provides a great platform for those getting started with PostgreSQL. Here's what you need to know.
Posted April 23, 2014
Quality Assurance testing is a critical component of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), and failing to allow sufficient time for thorough testing can mean the difference between a successful, revenue-driving application and a costly, reputation-damaging outage. The importance of comprehensive QA testing has been hammered into the brains of developers since the beginning of modern-day application development, but traditional approaches to QA are no longer viable. There are three things shaking up QA today.
Posted April 23, 2014
Centerprise Rt, cloud-based data integration software from Astera Software can integrate complex, hierarchical and unstructured data. The software can be used by companies to businesses to create web services that integrate and share data of any complexity with their partners, customers and vendors, and suppliers, making important data accessible via the web on a 24/7 basis.
Posted April 22, 2014
Datawatch's visual data discovery solution has added new capabilities to make developing and deploying visualizations faster and more effective. Among the key new features in the Datawatch 12.3 release of the Datawatch solution are predictive and advanced analytics with built-in support for R and Python execution and transforms; and high-performance, in-memory caching of data to support big data and sub-optimized databases.
Posted April 22, 2014
Twitter is acquiring Gnip, a provider of social data and a long-standing Twitter data partner. "Together we plan to offer more sophisticated data sets and better data enrichments, so that even more developers and businesses big and small around the world can drive innovation using the unique content that is shared on Twitter," said Jana Messerschmidt, Twitter VP, Global Business Development & Platform, in a blog announcing the acquisition.
Posted April 15, 2014
Embarcadero Technologies, a provider of software solutions for application and database development, has launched Embarcadero RAD Studio XE6, a multi-device, natively compiled app development platform for Windows, Android, iOS, and Mac.
Posted April 15, 2014
IBM's latest enterprise cloud offerings for the mainframe include the first System z-based integrated system offering, the IBM Enterprise Cloud System. There is also a new flexible utility pricing model to give service providers the ability to pay for Linux-based mainframe cloud infrastructure over time based on compute consumption, rather than system capacity.
Posted April 14, 2014
New offerings for IBM System z are aimed at helping customers with rapid development and deployment of mobile applications as well as the ability to integrate them with core business processes, applications, and data. As part of this effort, As part IBM is enabling the industry's first commercial Hadoop for Linux on System z - zDoop software - provided through through Veristorm, an IBM partner.
Posted April 14, 2014
With cloud, outsourcing and BYOD posing new challenges to ensuring authorized access to data, Oracle introduced enhancements to Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2 that are aimed at helping organizations extend access policies and controls beyond enterprise applications and systems to cloud-based systems and mobile devices.
Posted April 14, 2014
To accommodate its expanding customer base, the safety science organization UL overhauled its IT infrastructure, implementing Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle E-Business Suite. The result? The new IT environment runs up to 10 times faster than UL's previous environment, allowing UL to more quickly deliver information to its customers and drive better decision-making.
Posted April 10, 2014
A new product in the Enterprise PPM space has been introduced by Oracle. Primavera Prime is a fully integrated modular solution built on Oracle's Red Stack. The product platform is mobile ready, offers embedded analytics and has built in workflows.
Posted April 10, 2014
IBM, which marked the 50th anniversary of the mainframe today, looked to the future by rolling out new mobile, storage, cloud, and Hadoop for Big Data offerings for System z. According to IBM, as it celebrates this landmark occasion, more than 70% of enterprise data resides on a mainframe and 71% of all Fortune 500 companies have their core businesses on a mainframe
Posted April 08, 2014
Today, at COLLABORATE 14 in Las Vegas, Oracle announced two key new mobile capabilities to its Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System. The new capabilities are available on iOS and Android mobile devices.
Posted April 08, 2014
Teradata has introduced the Teradata Database 15 with a new software product called Teradata QueryGrid that provides virtual compute capability within and beyond the Teradata Unified Data Architecture. The company also announced Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse 6750 platform with new capabilities to support customers' most demanding real-time workloads.
Posted April 07, 2014