Data Integration Articles
Airbyte, the creators of the fastest-growing, open source data movement platform, are debuting its latest set of connectors—for the Milvus, Qdrant, and Weaviate vector databases—amid customer requests for more vector database support.
Posted October 18, 2023
United Medical, LLC, a multi-specialty ambulatory network with more than 225 full-service healthcare providers, has expanded its 20-year relationship with Oracle Health by another seven years. United Medical plans to deploy Oracle Health electronic health record (EHR) at additional outpatient surgery centers and accountable care organizations within its network, providing a more intuitive platform to streamline workflows and processes for health practitioners.
Posted October 18, 2023
Oracle announced it has acquired Next Technik, a leading provider of field service management solutions for NetSuite customers which is now part of the Oracle NetSuite organization. This acquisition provides field service management capabilities for NetSuite customers, which enables businesses to digitize and streamline scheduling and dispatch.
Posted October 18, 2023
Oracle NetSuite is introducing a series of new product innovations to help organizations reduce costs and run more efficiently. The latest NetSuite innovations include both traditional and generative AI-powered capabilities across the entire suite; new field service management and enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions; and new capabilities that help finance and customer experience professionals improve the speed and accuracy of business processes.
Posted October 18, 2023
GridGain, provider of a leading unified real-time data platform, is offering GridGain Platform v8.9, strengthening its data integration and data hub capabilities. This latest version helps enterprises make their increasingly disparate, diverse, and distributed data more accessible for real-time processing and analytics, all at ultra-low latencies, according to the company.
Posted October 17, 2023
Databricks, the data and AI company, is debuting the launch of the Databricks platform on the AWS Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC).
Posted October 16, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Powering Modern Applications: Data Management for Speed, Scale, and Flexibility, to discuss key solutions and emerging best practices that properly underpin successful applications that are fast, agile, and easy to use.
Posted October 13, 2023
TDengine, the next-generation data historian, is unveiling several new connectors designed to support OPC-UA, OPC-DA, and MQTT protocols, ultimately forwarding zero-code, streamlined ingestion of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data into the TDengine platform.
Posted October 12, 2023
Camunda is expanding its ability to orchestrate complex, resilient, and flexible business processes from end to end with the release of Camunda 8.3. The updated platform includes multi-tenancy on Camunda Self-Managed to scale to the highest enterprise automation level and access to the new marketplace for Camunda Connectors to integrate third-party endpoints.
Posted October 12, 2023
It may be well-understood that cybersecurity needs to be front and center in all technology projects, but organizations are still slow or hesitant to fully commit to it. This is becoming a problem for data-intensive organizations, which need to brace for an onslaught of both external and internal threats. Only about one-half of organizations are beginning to recognize how important cybersecurity is from the start in any transformation effort, an Accenture survey of 3,000 executives shows.
Posted October 12, 2023
For most enterprises these days, hyperscale data workloads and AI have become the norm and are driving data strategies. However, while conventional wisdom dictates that this means greater reliance on cloud services and cutting-edge approaches to manage data pipelines, there's a place for more well-tread approaches as well. Many data managers intend to beef up their data warehouse capabilities and even return to on-prem systems in the near future.
Posted October 12, 2023
Today's applications—including enterprise applications—need to be always on and always available and often must serve a global base of users who expect almost instantaneous response times regardless of where they are located. Meeting these challenges doesn't just mean happier users: There are direct bottom-line benefits for every business able to tackle the underlying issues of low latency and ultra-high availability. Because of the fundamental role the database plays in every application tech stack, the most logical place to tackle these issues is at the database layer. One of the best and most cost-effective ways to do this is by deploying applications on top of a distributed relational database.
Posted October 12, 2023
What if you could free up 1% of your day? Would one small improvement make a difference in the life of your business?With Oracle Autonomous Database even the smallest tweaks in efficiency (powered by data) can lead to huge advancements. At Quest's BLUEPRINT 4D Conference in May 2023, Sean Stacey, director of database product development at Oracle, shared how Oracle Autonomous Database can complete and simplify your data management.
Posted October 12, 2023
Mankind has long dreamed of the promise of automation. Our earliest ancestors imagined it as something the gods could wield. In Homer's The Odyssey, Hephaestus, the Greek god of smithing and craft, uses automation to complete simple repetitive labor. Buddhist legends speak of automated guards who watched over the Buddha's relics.
Posted October 12, 2023
Many people seem to become filled with anxiety over the word "normalization." Mentioning the word causes folks to slowly back away toward the exits. Why? What might have caused this data modeling phobia? Do people have images flashing through their minds of data modelers running around wearing a hockey mask and carrying a chainsaw screaming, "Give me your primary keys"? I hope not.
Posted October 12, 2023
TileDB, Inc., the modern database provider, is announcing its recent financial milestone, having raised $34 million in its Series B funding round, led by AlleyCorp. The funding will serve to advance TileDB's "modern database" mission, including support for product development, growth endeavors, and accelerating go-to-market initiatives.
Posted October 11, 2023
insightsoftware, a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, is debuting new capabilities that will be integrated with the Logi Symphony software suite, the flexible, purpose-built BI and analytics platform for embedding into other applications. This latest release enables Logi Symphony to easily embed self-service, end-to-end business intelligence and analytics (ABI), amplified by AI, into any web-based application.
Posted October 10, 2023
iboss, a leader in Zero Trust Security, is debuting a new feature, the Splunk Enterprise Security capability, redefining the paradigms of data log collection, visibility, and processing. By adeptly decrypting and inspecting HTTPS data and all traffic from all users, devices, and resources, the Splunk Enterprise Security feature assures a thorough and consistent data log collection of traffic, local or global.
Posted October 10, 2023
Solace, a provider of event-driven architecture for real-time enterprises, is releasing a new version of its Solace Event Portal solution, giving organizations with Apache Kafka deployments better visibility into, and control over, their Kafka event streams, brokers, and associated assets.
Posted October 10, 2023
Market research, strategic planning, research and development (R&D), and proactively researching and strategizing for the future are commonplace components of business operations. The exception is the case of governance teams who are far too often recipients of, rather than participants in, strategic planning. As a result, existing policies and practices quickly stagnate or deviate from current usage.
Posted October 10, 2023
The "big data" world is pervasive—to the point in which every organization is now a big data organization. As AI, machine learning, and other high-end analytics become mainstream parts of business operations, new ways of handling data assets are coming to the fore. Industry leaders and experts recently shared their views with Big Data Quarterly on the latest technology developments shaping today's big data world.
Posted October 10, 2023
HumanFirst, the low-code data productivity suite, is announcing a new Google Cloud alliance aimed at enabling enterprises all over the world to enhance data insight discovery and AI application performance based on unstructured, text-based data.
Posted October 09, 2023
New AI toolkits, machine learning (ML) frameworks, and AI-based private cloud tools are coming to IBM Z-series mainframe users, as the company looks to preserve its share of the fast-growing AI marketplace. The company announced that its newest offerings, meant to help organizations get to work on the latest and greatest in AI frameworks, will be available for IBM Z, LinuxOne, z/OS, and Cloud Pak architectures.
Posted October 09, 2023
Vantage Data Centers has raised $1.35 billion in securitized notes, enabling the company to refinance the existing loans in place for three of Vantage's data centers in Northern Virginia and five data centers in Quebec, Canada. The remaining funds will be used for "general corporate needs."
Posted October 09, 2023
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), the Center for Digital Government (CDG), and IBM released a report entitled, "Preparing for Future Shocks in State Government," aiming to help frame what future disruptions may look like for state chief information officers (CIOs) and how they can effectively tackle them.
Posted October 09, 2023
IonQ, a leader in the quantum computing industry, is debuting two rack-mounted solutions that introduce quantum capabilities to existing infrastructures: IonQ Forte Enterprise and IonQ Tempo.
Posted October 09, 2023
Retool, the leading development platform for business software, is launching the GA of Retool Workflows, a building block-based automation tool engineered to help developers accelerate their business processes.
Posted October 06, 2023
Docker is partnering with Neo4j, LangChain, and Ollama to create a new GenAI Stack designed to help developers get a running start with generative AI applications. Eliminating the need to search for and cobble together and configure technologies from different sources, the GenAI Stack is pre-configured, ready-to-code, and secure with large language models (LLMs) from Ollama, vector and graph databases from Neo4j, and the LangChain framework. Docker also announced its first AI-powered product, Docker AI.
Posted October 06, 2023
Azion, a leader in edge computing, is introducing new Real-Time Metrics features through its Observe product suite, providing seamless insights with powerful real-time visualization into application performance, availability, and security for better observability within organizations.
Posted October 05, 2023
Cockroach Labs, the company behind the cloud-native distributed SQL database CockroachDB, announced CockroachDB dedicated is now generally available on-demand across all three major cloud providers Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform.
Posted October 05, 2023
Boomi, the intelligent connectivity and automation leader, is unveiling the first solution within its Boomi AI suite, Boomi GPT, a generative AI (genAI) solution that enables enterprises to integrate and automate faster and easier than ever before.
Posted October 04, 2023
Akeneo, the Product Experience (PX) Company and provider of product information management (PIM) solutions, is acquiring Unifai, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform for data collection, cleansing, categorization, and enrichment pioneered by leading experts in AI and machine learning (ML).
Posted October 04, 2023
Cloud experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, Modernizing Your Data and Analytics in the Cloud, to discuss the ways a cloud-first strategy can successfully manifest to meet the data demands of modern business.
Posted October 04, 2023
SnapLogic, a leader in generative integration, announced it is collaborating Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expand the capabilities of SnapGPT, SnapLogic's generative integration interface. As part of this collaboration, SnapLogic will make Anthropic's cutting-edge Large Language Model (LLM), Claude 2, offered by Amazon Bedrock, available within the SnapGPT platform that was made generally available earlier this year. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides access to industry-leading foundation models via an API to build and scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Posted October 04, 2023
Oracle is introducing the Fusion Data Intelligence Platform, a next-generation data, analytics, and AI platform that will help Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications customers achieve better business outcomes by combining data-driven insights with intelligent decisions and actions. This new platform, an evolution of the Oracle Fusion Analytics Warehouse product, will deliver business data-as-a-service with automated data pipelines, 360-degree data models for key business entities, rich interactive analytics, AI/ML models, and intelligent applications, according to the company.
Posted October 04, 2023
Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, and Oracle are expanding their collaboration to offer customers more choice in deploying applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). As part of the expanded collaboration, Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes for architecting, building, and deploying cloud-native applications, will be supported and certified to run on OCI.
Posted October 04, 2023
Oracle is expanding its distributed cloud offerings to meet organizations' diverse needs and the growing worldwide demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services. The latest additions to OCI's distributed cloud include Oracle Database@Azure and MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse on AWS. As a result, organizations gain even more flexibility to deploy cloud services anywhere while addressing a variety of data privacy, data sovereignty, and low latency requirements, as well as access to more than 100 services designed to run any workload, according to the company.
Posted October 04, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is offering a solution for securing private data for use in generative AI (GenAI) projects that integrates seamlessly with existing data pipelines. With Baffle Data Protection for AI, companies can accelerate GenAI projects knowing their regulated data is cryptographically secure and remain compliant, while minimizing risk and gaining the benefits of a breakthrough technology, according to the company.
Posted October 03, 2023
Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, is unveiling the LLM Mesh, addressing the need for an effective, scalable, and secure platform for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) in the enterprise. In addition, Dataiku is partnering with Snowflake, Pinecone, and AI21 Labs on LLM Mesh and its features represent several of the key components of the LLM Mesh: containerized data and compute capabilities, vector databases, and LLM builders.
Posted October 03, 2023
Sisense, an analytics platform provider that empowers companies to build and embed analytics into data products, is unveiling the public preview of Compose SDK for Fusion, a flexible development toolkit that gives developers and product leaders tools to embed context-aware analytics in a code-first, scalable, and modular way.
Posted October 03, 2023
Nextdata, the provider of a data-mesh-native platform to build and share data products at scale, announced it has secured a total of $12 million in seed investment, enabling the company to advance the development of its proprietary data mesh technology and expand the hiring of critical talent across product, engineering, and go-to-market teams.
Posted October 02, 2023
Rajeev Srinivasan, director of technical alliance, strategic ecosystem at Informatica, and Stefan Manns, principal solutions consultant at Informatica, joined DBTA's webinar, Modernize Your Data Management Strategy on Snowflake With Informatica, to present the ways in which joint Informatica and Snowflake customers are building modern, cloud-native data platforms that forward comprehensive, incremental, and successful data management strategies.
Posted September 29, 2023
Timescale, the cloud database company, is debuting Timescale Vector, a robust platform for building production AI applications at scale with PostgreSQL. Developed as a response to the ever-evolving nature of AI, Timescale Vector manages relational data, vector embeddings, time-series data, analytics, and event data from a single platform.
Posted September 29, 2023
Innovators at ArangoDB joined DBTA's webinar, Unleash the Future of Data Management: Transitioning from Legacy Graphs to a Modern, Complete, and Scalable Solution, to expose the way graph technology has been transformed by ArangoDB, debunking data management myths and addressing various tech challenges.
Posted September 28, 2023
Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, is launching Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and the general availability of Universal Profiling, providing site reliability engineers (SREs), at all levels of expertise, with context-aware, relevant, and actionable operational insights that are specific to their IT environment. While Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) has helped to translate, streamline, and automate problem resolution, Elastic AI Assistant for Observability, powered by the advances of generative AI, makes it faster and easier, according to the company.
Posted September 28, 2023
Starburst, the data lake analytics platform, is adding enhancements to both Starburst Galaxy and Starburst Enterprise, supporting customers at every stage of their cloud journeys. According to the company, as the data lake analytics platform built for optionality, Starburst is committed to meeting customers where they are and supporting those journeys regardless of the stage.
Posted September 28, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, Data Security and Governance in the Cloud Era, to explore the latest technologies and best practices for navigating the cloud with security and governance in mind.
Posted September 28, 2023
CloudBees, the software delivery platform provider, is unveiling two major updates to the CloudBees environment, featuring a new cloud native DevSecOps platform and significant performance and scalability improvements for Jenkins—the most widely used CI/CD software, globally—within CloudBees CI, a fully featured cloud native capability for continuous integration (CI).
Posted September 28, 2023
Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, is announcing Gigamon Precryption, an automated solution that grants unobscured visibility into encrypted traffic across virtual machine (VM) or container workloads.
Posted September 28, 2023