Data Quality Articles
IBM, as part of its continued efforts toward prioritizing its ecosystem partners, is announcing new SaaS offerings, consulting capabilities, and expanded mainframe application modernization in collaboration with AWS to enhance the experiences of both partner and client alike.
Posted December 12, 2022
TriggerMesh, a cloud native integration platform provider, is launching Shaker, its latest open-source AWS EventBridge alternative project. Shaker captures, transforms, and delivers events from many out-of-the-box and custom event sources within a single, unified experience.
Posted December 12, 2022
Taylor Riggan, senior graph architect at Amazon Web Services for Amazon Neptune, joined DBTA's webinar, "Deep Dive Into Amazon Neptune Serverless Database," to discuss Neptune's capabilities in-depth.
Posted December 12, 2022
MANTA brings intelligence to metadata management by providing a data lineage platform that automatically scans your data environment to build a powerful map of all data flows and deliver it through a native UI and other channels to both technical and non-technical users. With MANTA, everyone gets full visibility and control of their data pipeline.
Posted December 12, 2022
Today's data environments are highly diverse—residing on many platforms and requiring a variety of approaches to ensure data resiliency and availability. Delivering technology alone will not be enough in 2023. To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products. These products, platforms, and services range from long-established offerings that are evolving to meet the needs of their loyal constituents, to breakthrough technologies that may only be in the early stages of adoption.
Posted December 08, 2022
The British royal family safeguards its crown jewels—the treasures held by the English monarchy comprising more than 100 objects estimated to be worth billions—with world-class security systems, including two-ton steel doors and bomb-proof glass. When the crown jewels are transported or moved, such as for a royal wedding or the recent coronation ceremony, they are guarded closely by elite, ex-military members at all times—with access restricted to only a few security-cleared individuals.
Posted December 08, 2022
Modern applications have increasingly leveraged Kubernetes as the "OS of the cloud" because of its ability to abstract the underlying cloud platform and coordinate the activities of multiple docker containers. Kubernetes does indeed radically simplify the deployment and administration of multi-service distributed applications. However, it has a significant learning curve, and maintaining a largescale Kubernetes cluster can be daunting.
Posted December 08, 2022
Readers of this column sometimes ask me questions about databases and database administration, which I welcome. And at times I will take the opportunity to answer particularly intriguing questions in print. One intriguing question I have been asked more than once is: "What metrics and measurements are useful for managing how effective your DBA group is?"
Posted December 08, 2022
In the ever-shifting markets professionals work in today, companies must have the ability to remain agile and flexible throughout their business operations. To combat the uncertainties of the marketplace and customer demands for fast service, businesses have turned to open-source technology over the past decade. Open-source technologies provide IT and development teams with the agility to implement innovative tools and practices—such as DevOps and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
Posted December 08, 2022
Cybersecurity and threat detection continues to be top of mind moving into 2023. Data breaches and the capture of sensitive information remain concerns for organizations large and small. Here, data security leaders share their thoughts on what lies ahead as companies seek the best resources to secure data and thwart bad actors.
Posted December 07, 2022
DH2i, provider of multi-platform software-defined perimeter (SDP) and smart high availability (HA) clustering software for Windows and Linux, is announcing general availability of DxEnterprise (DxE) version 22. This launch, with its new container sidecar, allows application-level HA clustering for stateful containers in Kubernetes (K8s).
Posted December 07, 2022
Twelve Labs, the video search and understanding company, announced several product advances along with closing on a $12 million seed extension round, following its initial seed fundraise last spring. To help ensure that speed and quality are not compromised, Twelve Labs has chosen Oracle to provide the AI cloud infrastructure capacity required to bring its foundation AI model to market.
Posted December 07, 2022
Quest Software creates and manage software that makes the benefits of new technology real while empowering users and data, streamlining IT operations, and hardening cybersecurity from the inside out. Looking ahead to a new year several experts at Quest are offering their predictions for 2023.
Posted December 07, 2022
The call for speakers is open for the 10th annual Data Summit conference, to be held in Boston, May 10-11, 2023, with pre-conference workshops on May 9, 2023. The Data Summit conference focuses on the business and technical aspects of Data Management, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Architecture, and Emerging Technologies.
Posted December 06, 2022
Airbyte, an open-source integration provider, is unveiling its expanded partnership with dbt Labs, an analytics engineering company, accompanied by a new integration to enable dbt Cloud customers to schedule and initiate dbt jobs from within Airbyte Cloud.
Posted December 06, 2022
ClickHouse, Inc, creator of an online analytical processing (OLAP) database management system, announced the general availability of their newest offering, ClickHouse Cloud. The platform promises a lightning-fast cloud-based database that simplifies and accelerates insights and analytics for modern digital enterprises.
Posted December 06, 2022
Striim, Inc., announced the availability of Striim Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS), giving users access to a fully-managed, unified software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for real-time streaming data integration and analytics from both on-premise or hybrid cloud mission-critical applications.
Posted December 05, 2022
comforte AG is offering a new Secure Data Analytics solution designed to empower organizations to leverage cloud-based analytics tools without compromising security or compliance. Comforte's new Secure Data Analytics solution helps organizations to optimize their use of cloud-based analytics in a fully secure and compliant fashion.
Posted December 05, 2022
Equalum, provider of data integration and ingestion solutions, is announcing its strategic partnership with Yellowbrick Data, the hybrid multi-cloud data warehouse vendor. By streamlining the data migration process with Equalum's platform, data is moved from legacy environments to the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse—which is hosted in the user's commercial cloud environment of choice.
Posted December 02, 2022
A renewed interest in data-centric AI is driving increased model outcome accuracy and introducing the concept to new applications. Data-centric AI is gaining momentum as engineers working with AI shift their focus from models to data. Whereas engineers previously took a model-centered approach to improve the prediction outcomes and accuracy of a model, current dynamics are causing many to look to the quality of input data to improve outcomes.
Posted December 01, 2022
Fortanix Inc., the data-first multicloud security company, is unveiling its Data Security Manager's integration with AWS External Key Store, allowing users to segregate encryption keys from the data used and stored on AWS in order to run regulated data workloads on AWS.
Posted December 01, 2022
Tidal, the SaaS company providing organizational application migration to the cloud, is unveiling an enterprise software platform for cloud migration and modernization: Tidal Accelerator.
Posted November 30, 2022
AI continues to fuel a hotbed of activity from automating mundane tasks to enhancing decision making, and progress in this area looks to heat up even more in 2023. Here, IT leaders share their perspectives on where AI is headed and what can be expected to change in 2023.
Posted November 30, 2022
Synatic, a provider of data integration and automation, announced it has secured an additional $2.5 million in a seed extension funding round, enabling the company to expand its market reach in the United States in preparation for Series A funding early in 2023.
Posted November 30, 2022
Siren, provider of investigative intelligence analytics, is launching Siren 13, the latest iteration of the platform for accelerating investigations through better accessible and actionable data.
Posted November 29, 2022
NS1, a provider of smart network control solutions, is unveiling NetBox Cloud availability in the AWS Marketplace, granting accessibility for AWS customers to NS1 network infrastructure technology.
Posted November 29, 2022
Comet, provider of an MLOps platform for machine learning (ML) teams from startup to enterprise, is releasing a new product: Kangas, open sourced to democratize large scale visual dataset exploration and analysis for the computer vision and machine learning community. Kangas helps users understand and debug their data in a new and highly intuitive way, according to the company.
Posted November 29, 2022
Data wants to spread, and similarly, it wants to grow; Andrew Brust, research director at Gigaom, and Dan Potter, VP of product marketing at Qlik, made this statement during DBTA's webinar, "The Business Case for Data Fabric," further explaining that data requires going with the grain, not attempting to "fix" the nature of its existence.
Posted November 29, 2022
In a roundtable webinar hosted by DBTA, experts in data management and analytics joined to examine the best practices and tools for adapting to the needs of modern data while keeping in mind the needs of modern enterprises.
Posted November 29, 2022
Cameron O'Rourke, senior director of product strategy at Incorta, and Eldad Chai, CEO of Satori, gathered for a DBTA webinar, "Top Trends in Data Engineering," to discuss key patterns and methods that illuminate what areas of data and analytics need some technological TLC.
Posted November 22, 2022
Collibra is introducing a wave of new innovations designed to make data intelligence easy and accessible to more data users, including new capabilities for Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud that enhance search, collaboration, business process automation, and analytics as well as brand new products that support customers with data access governance and data quality and observability in the cloud.
Posted November 22, 2022
The provider of data integration and ingestion solutions, Equalum, is debuting its Equalum Competitive Replacement Program, re-envisioning the enterprise's CDC solution for customers of legacy solutions, including HVR, Striim, and StreamSets, both for on-premises and cloud environments.
Posted November 21, 2022
Noname Security, the provider of complete and proactive API security, is launching Noname Recon, aiding users in quickly locating and resolving issues through a cyber attack reconnaissance simulation.
Posted November 21, 2022
d-Matrix, a provider of high-efficiency AI-compute and inference, is partnering with Microsoft to use its low-code reinforcement learning (RL) platform, Project Bonsai, enabling an AI-trained compiler for d-Matrix's digital in memory compute (DIMC) products. The user-friendly Project Bonsai platform accelerates time to value, with a product-ready solution that cuts down on development efforts using an AI-based compiler that leverages ultra-efficient DIMC technology from d-Matrix, according to the vendor.
Posted November 21, 2022
Red Hat, Inc., a provider of open source solutions, is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1, the latest version of the enterprise Linux platform. Along with the recently announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7, these minor versions add and refine capabilities for a wide range of enterprise IT needs, from helping to streamline complex infrastructure environments to improving the security stance of containerized applications.
Posted November 21, 2022
Mission Critical Facilities International (MCFI), a leader in data center, power, and cooling infrastructure solutions, is collaborating with Iceotope, the global leader in precision immersion cooling, and nVent, a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. The alliance is beneficial to enterprise data centers, high-performance and edge computing, smart manufacturing, content delivery, telemedicine, AI, and virtual reality.
Posted November 21, 2022
IBM Research and PyTorch are partnering to enable foundation models with billions of parameters to easily run on standard cloud networking infrastructure, such as Ethernet networking. Researchers at IBM have been working with the distributed team within PyTorch, the open-source machine learning platform run by the Linux Foundation, to find a way to train large AI models on affordable networking hardware.
Posted November 21, 2022
When designing a data center, a recognized set of principles is typically followed. Scalability, resiliency, reliability, and sustainability are all essential, but the most important common feature for data center products may be flexibility. The equipment cabinet should likewise be flexible, but this has not always been the case. There has been a rethinking of the way IT infrastructure, power, and cooling converge—and the data center cabinet is starting to adapt.
Posted November 21, 2022
Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is releasing Rubrik Cyber Recovery to help organizations improve their cyber readiness and recover faster. Available as part of Rubrik Security Cloud, Rubrik Cyber Recovery delivers two new capabilities to help organizations better prepare for attacks and minimize operational downtime. It provides a simple way to test, validate, and document the success of an organization's cyber recovery plans. It also provides businesses a way to instantly recover the last known clean copy of data into production while performing forensic investigations out-of-band in an isolated recovery environment.
Posted November 17, 2022
Talend, a global provider of data integration and data management, it is partnering with Passerelle and Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, to provide new vertical solutions for delivering healthy data to organizations worldwide. Built on Talend Data Fabric and Snowflake's Data Cloud, Passerelle's Data Rocket provides a scalable architecture that delivers governed data ingestion, trusted stewardship, cloud-based storage, and on-demand visual analytics based on the foundation of healthy data. New Data Rocket vertical solutions will be tailored for key vertical markets, beginning with financial services.
Posted November 17, 2022
In the summer of 2010, I sat down with my son and had a serious conversation with him about what he wanted to become in life. He was at a point in his education where the classes he decided to take in the present would determine what kind of studies he could pursue in the future.
Posted November 17, 2022
Fortanix Inc. is releasing a "free tier" iteration of their Data Security Manager (DSM) SaaS offering, dubbed Fortanix DSM Explorer, to cater to enterprises with specific use cases and smaller budgets.
Posted November 17, 2022
TigerGraph, provider of an advanced analytics and ML platform for connected data, is unveiling updates to TigerGraph Cloud, the native parallel graph database-as-a-service: TigerGraph Insights and ML Workbench.
Posted November 17, 2022
Hammerspace is redefining unstructured data architectures with the latest performance capabilities to further empower organizations to leverage any server, storage system, and network that best benefits their decentralized workflows.
Posted November 17, 2022
When it comes to automation in the workplace, the initial natural tendency for many people is to avoid it out of fear that it will replace their jobs. However, this has turned out not to be the case. Automation instead has proven to aid people, helping them learn and develop new skills that are more valuable to their organizations and their own careers. The intent is not to replace jobs; the intent is to allow businesspeople to shift focus away from tedious tasks and more on rewarding and innovative tasks to help businesses excel and grow. Humans are meant to do innovative work, and automation is meant to do tedious and repetitive tasks.
Posted November 17, 2022
The enterprise that built the serverless, streamlined data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB, MotherDuck, is announcing a recent funding milestone of $47.5 million. The initial Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, garnered $35 million, further compounded with a $12.5 million seed round led by Redpoint—resulting in a total valuation of $175 million for the company.
Posted November 17, 2022
Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, is releasing Wasabi Cloud Sync Manager, a high performing cloud migration tool that allows businesses globally to move their data out of expensive hyperscale cloud environments to Wasabi without egress fees or downtime. The solution also delivers seamless replication and synchronization of data between different Wasabi regions to reduce latency, meet compliance requirements, and foster best practices for data backup and recovery, according to the vendor.
Posted November 17, 2022
Qlik is launching Qlik Cloud Data Integration, its Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (eiPaaS) offering to fuel enterprise data strategies through a real-time data integration fabric that connects all enterprise applications and data sources to the cloud.
Posted November 17, 2022