Database Management Articles
Amplifi, a leading strategy and information management consultancy, is acquiring Comma Group, an award-winning London-based international management consultancy exclusively focused on connecting people and data to improve commercial results.
Posted March 19, 2021
BigPanda, Inc., a provider of Event Correlation and Automation solutions powered by AIOps, is releasing Automatic Incident Triage, a new platform component that significantly reduces the manual toil associated with the triage phase of incident management.
Posted March 18, 2021
Instaclustr, delivering reliability at scale through fully managed open source data technologies, is acquiring credativ, adding a rich collection of open source software and services to Instaclustr's portfolio.
Posted March 17, 2021
Teleport, a provider of software for environment-free computing, has announced that Teleport 6.0—introducing Teleport Database Access—is now available. The newest features included in Teleport 6.0 were designed to provide PostgreSQL and MySQL users with convenient access to databases running on private networks, while preventing data exfiltration, and enabling compliance enforcement and visibility into access and behavior.
Posted March 17, 2021
EdgeMicro, a leading edge colocation company, is releasing Edge Anywhere in response to heightened capacity requirements and custom location demands stemming from the pandemic.
Posted March 17, 2021
New Relic, Inc., the observability company, is offering new capabilities in New Relic Applied Intelligence to help engineers detect, understand, and resolve incidents faster than before. This latest update to New Relic One allows engineers to uncover anomalies automatically, now enabled by default and available for free to all users.
Posted March 17, 2021
Global cloud-led, data-centric software company, NetApp is releasing Spot Wave and extending Spot Ocean's support of Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. Together, these products provide customers with leading solutions for simple, scalable, and efficient infrastructure for cloud-native applications.
Posted March 17, 2021
MathWorks has introduced the newest release of the MATLAB and Simulink product families. Release 2021a (R2021a) offers hundreds of new and updated features and functions in MATLAB and Simulink, along with three new products and 12 major updates.
Posted March 16, 2021
Our new industrial era poses a paradox for every manufacturer. The increased revenues driven by high consumer demand often conceal the pressure felt on margins due to rising material costs and constant labor shortages. Consequently, many manufacturers seek supply-chain innovations to optimize their asset utilization, reduce production waste, minimize re-work, and produce reliable lead times. However, none of these efficiencies are possible without a modern data infrastructure.
Posted March 16, 2021
Software intelligence company Dynatrace is expanding its strategic collaboration with Microsoft, now delivering its observability platform for purchase through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
Posted March 16, 2021
Datadobi, a provider of unstructured data management software, has added support for Azure Blob storage in DobiProtect 5.11. Using Datadobi, organizations can now maintain protection copies of their file data in Azure Blob Storage, to address the risk of data loss from cyberthreats, ransomware, accidental deletions, and software vulnerabilities.
Posted March 16, 2021
Accedian, a provider of performance analytics, cybersecurity threat detection, and end user experience solutions, is adding new decryption technology to its cloud-native performance monitoring and analytics platform, Skylight. The technology supports all Transport Layer Security versions, including TLS 1.3, allowing customers to maintain the privacy and security of encryption while still gaining valuable insight into network traffic for performance monitoring and threat detection.
Posted March 15, 2021
Machine learning is becoming the go-to solution for greater automation and intelligence. A recent study fielded amongst the subscribers of DBTA found that 48% currently have machine learning initiatives underway with another 20% considering adoption. At the same time, most projects are still in the early phases. DBTA recently held a roundtable webinar with Gaurav Deshpande, VP of marketing, TigerGraph; Santiago Giraldo, director of product marketing data engineering and machine learning, Cloudera; and Paige Roberts, open source relations manager, Vertica, who discussed key technologies and strategies for maximizing machine learning's impact.
Posted March 12, 2021
The latest product release from Panzura, CloudFS 8 Defend, is now available, providing seamless integration with the Varonis Data Security Platform, which protects enterprise data from unauthorized access and cyber-threats both on-premises and in the cloud.
Posted March 12, 2021
WANdisco, the LiveData company, is forming a partnership with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, to automate, accelerate, and simplify the migration of on-premises Hadoop analytics workloads to Snowflake's data platform.
Posted March 12, 2021
IntegrationWorks Australia, the company that specializes in data connectivity for enterprise applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments, is forming a new partnership with SnapLogic, providing IntegrationWorks customers with the ease and self-service nature of SnapLogic.
Posted March 11, 2021
A new book called "MongoDB Performance Tuning" takes a deep dive into MongoDB performance optimization. "We wanted to bring a 'floor-to-ceiling' approach to tuning, covering every aspect from the design of the document schema," said database expert Guy Harrison, who co-authored the book with Michael Harrison.
Posted March 11, 2021
Ben Sharma, co-founder and chief product officer of Zaloni, spoke with BDQ about the challenges companies are facing in their efforts to gain value from data.
Posted March 11, 2021
ionir is expanding the availability of its Kubernetes native storage platform, eliminating complexity in Kubernetes data and storage management. Based on a simple yet revolutionary concept, ionir gives data the same agility that Kubernetes offers applications.
Posted March 10, 2021
The Open Mainframe Project (OMP), an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, has announced the addition of ASG Technologies, BMC Software, and High School Technical Services, as well as COBOL Check and ConzoleZ to its global community.
Posted March 09, 2021
Navisite announced it is now a Google Cloud Partner, a designation that recognizes the company as an authorized managed services provider on Google Cloud. As a Google Cloud Partner, Navisite not only demonstrates the required knowledge and expertise to successfully migrate customers to Google Cloud but also the commitment and partnership with Google Cloud to help customers maximize business growth, innovation, and profitability.
Posted March 09, 2021
VMware is making a variety of portfolio updates to help customers modernize their applications and infrastructure along with boosting its partnership with NVIDIA. The new releases of vSphere 7 and vSAN 7 will help IT teams support new and existing applications with infrastructure that is developer and AI-ready; scales without compromise; boosts infrastructure and data security; and simplifies operations.
Posted March 09, 2021
Kinetica, the streaming data warehouse, is releasing the Kinetica Developer Edition, giving developers, data engineers, and data architects the ability to create ideas and small-scale proof-of-concepts without worrying about license expiration.
Posted March 09, 2021
Splice Machine, provider of the real-time AI platform built on a scale-out SQL database with built-in machine learning, is releasing version 3.1 of its database, introducing new features and functionality to support enterprises with real-time AI projects.
Posted March 09, 2021
In 2020, companies across every industry were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, many new business models emerged, including curbside deliveries, contactless-service, and virtual fitness training, to name a few. With 2021 well underway, let's take a look at the new business and technology habits that we can expect to endure even after the pandemic is over.
Posted March 08, 2021
Elastic and Grafana Labs are forming a partnership to deliver the best possible experience of both Elasticsearch and Grafana. Through joint development of the official Grafana Elasticsearch plugin, users can combine the benefits of Grafana's visualization platform with the full capabilities of Elasticsearch.
Posted March 08, 2021
Akash Network, a project out of Overclock Labs, is releasing Akash MAINNET 2, an open-source and viable decentralized cloud alternative to centralized cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
Posted March 08, 2021
There are many new and intriguing possibilities for analytics that require an investment in learning and new technology. But the return on the investment can be sizable in terms of gaining insight into your business, and in better servicing your customers.
Posted March 08, 2021
TrustPlace Technologies, is forming a partnership with Monnit—a leading IoT solution company, to offer integration of Monnit's IoT Remote Monitoring Solutions with its powerful digital frontline operations platform.
Posted March 05, 2021
ScaleOut Software is joining the Digital Twin Consortium to help define and advance the use of digital twin technologies across various industries.
Posted March 05, 2021
Kin + Carta (KTC), the global digital transformation consultancy, is launching Kin + Carta Data Labs, a statically conceived hub of data-related innovation and expertise.
Posted March 04, 2021
Strata, the distributed multi-cloud identity orchestration company, is releasing its Maverics Identity Orchestrator platform for Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), enabling organizations to migrate applications to the cloud without rewriting them. In addition, Strata allows companies to modernize on-premises apps by extending Azure AD authentication and access control capabilities to them with no code changes.
Posted March 04, 2021
Precisely, a leader in data integrity, is being acquired by Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, "Clearlake") and TA Associates.
Posted March 03, 2021
Kaskada, a machine learning company, is releasing its feature engineering platform, enabling data science teams to use the solution for a wide variety of use cases, including fraud, personalization, and recommendation engines. Kaskada's feature engineering platform is an ML platform for data scientists that focuses on the feature engineering and feature serving experience.
Posted March 03, 2021
Cloudera, the enterprise data cloud company, is releasing the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Operational Database on both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. CDP Operational Database is a fully managed cloud-native operational database that offers unparalleled scale, performance, and reliability. Optimized to be deployed anywhere, on any cloud platform, CDP Operational Database aligns with the cloud infrastructure strategy best suited for the business, according to the vendor.
Posted March 03, 2021
LogicMonitor, a cloud-based infrastructure monitoring and observability platform, is acquiring Airbrake, a developer-centric application error and performance monitoring company.The acquisition will extend LogicMonitor's ITIM platform into developer environments and will enable customers to gain visibility into continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) workflows to ensure that every code release delivers a flawless customer experience.
Posted March 03, 2021
Kalypso, a professional services firm helping clients discover, create, make and sell better products with digital, is partnering with AVATA, a services provider for Oracle Cloud, ERP, SCM, and ERP solutions. The partnership is aimed at helping clients to accelerate digital transformation initiatives with Oracle's suite of cloud applications.
Posted March 03, 2021
Dashboard users doing unsophisticated, largely repetitive, operational reports and analyses ask their IT support personnel to provide data in a simple way; they demand fast performance from their queries; and they demand new functionality be provided quickly. While often not stated explicitly, the "simple" data presentation implies several characteristics.
Posted March 03, 2021
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open and composable observability platform, is releasing the unified Grafana Enterprise Stack. Enterprise Stack includes data source plugins for visualizing other commercial tools in Grafana, such as Oracle, Splunk, New Relic, MongoDB, ServiceNow, Snowflake, and more.
Posted March 03, 2021
Today's organizations often have more information at their disposal than they know what to do with. From products and apps to processes, departments, data, and more, there's so much that should be considered every time a business takes on a new change project, considers a new solution, or begins a major digital transformation. Before organizations embark on any of those journeys, they must understand how to get from their current state to where they ultimately want to end up.
Posted March 02, 2021
DataStax is introducing Astra serverless, an open, multi-cloud serverless database-as-a-service (DBaaS) that delivers a combination of pay-as-you-go data together with the freedom and agility of multi-cloud and open source.DataStax Astra builds upon the Apache Cassandra open source database and introduces a modern, microservices-based architecture that separates compute from storage, enabling database resources to scale up and down on demand to match application requirements and traffic independent of compute resources.
Posted March 02, 2021
Ataccama, a provider of self-driving data management and governance solutions, is acquiring Tellstory, an innovative startup and easy-to-use data visualization platform that provides an engaging way to tell data-driven stories. The acquisition advances Ataccama's vision of giving businesses and data teams the ability to innovate at unprecedented speed while maintaining trust, security, and governance of their data.
Posted March 02, 2021
Itential, a provider of network and cloud automation, is releasing the latest updates to its low-code automation platform, including new configuration management capabilities for simplifying device configuration, compliance, and remediation across physical, virtual, and cloud-native networks.
Posted March 01, 2021
Sisu, providers of an augmented intelligence solution, is introducing a new analytics experience designed to accelerate the exploration of cloud-scale data. Informed by months of research, the redesigned product enables data teams to streamline their workflow, answer critical questions quickly, and get the complete picture behind changing metrics without cumbersome manual exploration, according to the vendor.
Posted March 01, 2021
In 2020, we endured the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on health and life, and we also saw multitudes of businesses and organizations collapse. One of those casualties was PASS, also known as the Professional Association for SQL Server.
Posted March 01, 2021
It's hard to overstate the impact WiredTiger technology has had on MongoDB. When MongoDB announced its storage engine API in 2014, the WiredTiger team immediately saw the opportunity and raced to provide the best solution. The rest, as they say, is history.
Posted March 01, 2021
The first step to defending against both privileged credential hijacking and insider threats is using role-based access control (RBAC). RBAC enables companies to grant privileges that are absolutely needed, and only for a specific time. However, not all RBAC is created equal and it's imperative to take security to the next level with functional access control (FAC).
Posted March 01, 2021
It's been 5 years and Royal Papers is still going strong after switching to a Pick Cloud MultiValue system. Royal's MultiValue application is mission-critical and the lifeblood of its business. It handles inventory control, accounts payable, and receivables (and more) and is used for everything except payroll. If it is disrupted in any way, or down for any long period of time, it would be catastrophic.
Posted March 01, 2021