Database Security Articles
As organizations accelerate cloud adoption and build diverse data stacks to maximize the value of best-of-breed cloud platforms like Databricks and Snowflake, one often overlooked challenge is managing access and privacy controls as systems scale.
Posted April 19, 2022
BMC has announced new capabilities and integrations across its BMC AMI (Automated Mainframe Intelligence) and BMC Compuware portfolios. These innovations are aimed at increasing developer productivity, helping to predict service impacts, and helping to prevent attackers from compromising mainframe environments. Separately, BMC also recently announced day one support for the IBM Db2 13 and IBM z16 releases.
Posted April 18, 2022
IBM has announced Db2 13 for z/OS, which, the company says, enhances the availability, security and resiliency of data and applications. According to IBM, Db2 13 for z/OS provides the ability to develop large-scale AI-insights through an innovative, database-integrated approach, infuse AI within any application to improve operations and reduce costs, and enhance resiliency, efficiency, and application stability for maximum availability. Availability is planned for May 31, 2022.
Posted April 18, 2022
IBM has unveiled the IBM z16, its next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator—delivering latency-optimized inferencing. This innovation is designed to enable clients to analyze real-time transactions, at scale—for mission-critical workloads such as credit card, healthcare and financial transactions.
Posted April 18, 2022
iboss, a Zero Trust Edge cloud security provider, is introducing a new Zero Trust Policy Manager (ZTPM), enabling organizations of to quickly and easily implement Zero Trust policies to secure their data and resources. The ZTPM, a new capability within iboss' platform, will enable organizations to implement Zero Trust according to the new federal NIST 800-207 guidelines. The ZTPM supports all major constructs within the NIST 800-207 Zero Trust Architecture publication to ensure organizations are protected from breaches and data loss.
Posted April 18, 2022
Absolute Software, a provider of self-healing endpoint and secure access solutions, is releasing Absolute Ransomware Response, enabling customers to strengthen preparedness and accelerate endpoint recovery in the face of the ever-growing threat of ransomware attacks.
Posted April 18, 2022
Startups are always emerging to address challenges and leverage opportunities in innovative ways. The companies bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with analytics, breaking down silos, and more. Here are 15 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2022.
Posted April 18, 2022
SADA, a business and technology consultancy and Google Cloud partner, announced a new three-year expansion of its relationship with Google Cloud—rolling out additional offerings and services that build upon Google Cloud solutions and capabilities.
Posted April 15, 2022
Kentik, the network observability company, is expanding its partnership with Cloudflare and offering a new security integration with the company, helping customers ensure network infrastructure availability and reduce operational costs. Now, network security teams can procure and use Kentik's DDoS detection and analytics, and Magic Transit, Cloudflare's industry-leading DDoS mitigation tool, as an integrated, on-demand solution.
Posted April 14, 2022
greymatter.io, an enterprise microservices platform provider based in Alexandria, Virginia, has closed a $7.1 million Series A round, led by Elsewhere Partners. Greymatter.io provides a microservices platform, which includes service mesh and API management for enterprise-scale IT environments.
Posted April 14, 2022
Oracle has announced that Oracle MySQL HeatWave now supports in-database machine learning (ML) in addition to the previously available transaction processing and analytics. MySQL HeatWave ML fully automates the ML lifecycle and stores all trained models inside the MySQL database, eliminating the need to move data or the model to a machine learning tool or service. Eliminating ETL reduces application complexity, lowers cost, and improves security of both the data and the model. HeatWave ML is included with the MySQL HeatWave database cloud service in all 37 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions.
Posted April 11, 2022
Teleport, a provider of Identity-based Infrastructure Access Management, is releasing Teleport 9, the latest edition of the open-source Teleport Access Plane, introducing the Teleport Machine ID which delivers identity-based access and audit for infrastructure resources like servers and databases, CI/CD automation, service accounts, and custom code in applications such as microservices.
Posted April 08, 2022
Atlassian is introducing two new capabilities to the Atlassian platform, offering the Atlassian Data Lake and Atlassian Analytics. The Atlassian Data Lake contains cross-product and cross-instance data for easy analysis with pre-modeled and enriched fields to speed up insight generation. Atlassian Data Lake is built on the enterprise-grade trusted Atlassian platform to ensure privacy and security.
Posted April 08, 2022
Stacklet, developers of a cloud governance as code platform based on the open source Cloud Custodian project, is offering the Stacklet Platform as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), making it easier and frictionless for organizations to shift to governance as code model.
Posted April 08, 2022
Data privacy regulations—coupled with the desire to protect sensitive data—impose requirements on organizations to protect production data. Since many organizations rely on production data as a source for test data, techniques are needed to mask sensitive data elements from unauthorized viewing.
Posted April 07, 2022
As everyone pushes for real-time analytics, more responsive online services, and more protection against cybercrime, data resiliency has moved front and center. Put simply, data must be available at all times. This requires a shift in conventional thinking toward data resiliency strategies in recognition of the fact that it is no longer a technical issue; it's a business issue.
Posted April 07, 2022
Airbyte, creators of an open-source data integration platform, is releasing its cloud service for data movement in the U.S. "With Airbyte Cloud, we remove the headache of building and maintaining custom data infrastructure by providing a simple, economical way for enterprises to move data as needed," said Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO, Airbyte.
Posted April 07, 2022
With data increasing at a rapid pace and more companies seeing the need to compete on analytics, there is also more awareness of the essential role of data literacy. As the amount of data created everyday continues to explode, businesses are looking for every advantage they can get to adapt to changing market headwinds
Posted April 07, 2022
Google unveiled a variety of new services and innovations that allow customers to work with limitless data, across all workloads, and extend access to everyone. These new enhancements were revealed during its Data Cloud Summit.
Posted April 06, 2022
Dagger, the DevOps platform that orchestrates the delivery of applications to the cloud, is launching the public beta of its product along with announcing the closing of a $20 million Series A funding round.
Posted April 04, 2022
LambdaTest, a leading end-to-end cloud-based test orchestration platform, announced it has closed a deal on $45 million in a venture round, enabling the company to further the innovation that will push the boundaries of cloud-based test orchestration in terms of execution speed, performance and reliability.
Posted April 01, 2022
The OpenNMS Group, Inc., a subsidiary of NantHealth, Inc., is releasing OpenNMS Meridian 2022 with improved features such as enhanced security and more.
Posted April 01, 2022
It is easy to attribute catastrophic outcomes and insidious, unintended side effects to failures of governance. Or, more often, to a lack of governance. In practice, however, all organizations are governed, either formally or informally. Formal governance involves discretely defined accountability and expectations encoded in principles, policies, and processes. Informally—and more influentially—organizations are governed by the behaviors and norms modeled and rewarded by their leadership and peers.
Posted April 01, 2022
IT executives are struggling to source skills that enable cloud and edge adoption, which has been the largest barrier to deploying cloud-based technologies. To help address the problem, Google announced in October that it will help more than 40 million people build cloud skills. With this pressing issue in mind, Rahul Pradhan, head of cloud products, engineering, Couchbase, recently reflected on the impact the skills shortage is having on DevOps teams, and how organizations can address this issue.
Posted March 31, 2022
Datafold, a data quality platform that automates the most tedious parts of data engineering workflows, is partnering with dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, to provide a new integration to deliver trusted data faster. Datafold has automated test coverage for analytics engineers which can now be added into a company's CI/CD workflow in one click with dbt Cloud or with a Python SDK for dbt Core.
Posted March 30, 2022
GoodData, a provider of data and analytics infrastructure, is offering new dashboard plugins that enable enhanced capabilities for dashboards customization without the need of GoodData support. With the creation of dashboard plugins, GoodData customers are able to tailor their default dashboards experience with custom code based on the low-code GoodData.UI SDK for custom application development.
Posted March 30, 2022
Talend, a provider in data integration and data governance, is offering Talend Data Catalog 8, an automated data catalog providing enhanced proactive data governance capabilities.
Posted March 29, 2022
ScaleOut Software is introducing support for Redis clients in ScaleOut StateServer Version 5.11, available as a community preview. With this release, Redis users can harness the company's flagship distributed caching product to connect to a cluster of ScaleOut servers and execute Redis commands.
Posted March 29, 2022
MarkLogic has won part of the new $240 million Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center's (JAIC) Data Readiness AI Development contract. MarkLogic will work with JAIC to help identify appropriate AI use cases, develop capabilities, and scale data impact across the defense AI marketplace.
Posted March 29, 2022
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through Wednesday, May 11. Winners will be showcased in a special section on the DBTA website and in the August 2022 issue of Database Trends and Applications magazine.
Posted March 28, 2022
PlanetScale, the serverless database powered by MySQL and Vitess, is introducing PlanetScale Rewind, an "Easy Button" to undo schema migrations that enables users to recover in seconds from changes that break production databases. PlanetScale Rewind lets users almost instantly revert changes to the previous healthy state without losing any of the data that was added, modified, or otherwise changed in the interim.
Posted March 28, 2022
Shoreline.io, the Incident Automation company, announced it has raised $35 million in Series B funding, enabling the company to expand the team and deliver prepackaged solutions for the many commonplace problems encountered by engineers in the public cloud.
Posted March 28, 2022
RapidAPI, provider of an API Hub that enables millions of developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs, announced it has raised $150 million in Series D funding, enabling the company to continue to scale its API Hub, adding more capabilities to help developers create and collaborate on APIs - following its release of API Testing tools and acquisition of API development tool, Paw. This recent round puts the company at a $1 billion valuation.
Posted March 24, 2022
Alluxio, the developer of the open source data orchestration platform for data driven workloads such as large-scale analytics and AI/ML, is now enabling the integration of NetApp StorageGRID with Alluxio's Data Orchestration Platform. The combined solution will help enterprises accelerate adoption of the cloud and optimize their resource spend for a modern data platform ready for enormous scale, according to the vendors.
Posted March 24, 2022
Domo is introducing several key enhancements to its cloud-based platform to make it easier than ever to put data to work for everyone, enhancing the speed, scale, and user experience (UX). Included in these platform enhancements are new functionality in Domo Multi-cloud, a new Governance Toolkit and updates to Universal Data Modeling, making it easier to understand, engage and leverage data across any organization, according to the vendor.
Posted March 24, 2022
NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, is collaborating with Cisco to release with FlexPod XCS, the evolution of FlexPod providing one automated platform for modern applications, data and hybrid cloud services.
Posted March 24, 2022
Druva has unveiled a software as a service (SaaS) data protection solution for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) that combines snapshots, backup, and cloud-native disaster recovery within a single platform. With these latest enhancements, Druva says it will help customers further strengthen security for critical cloud workloads, and drive down costs through storage efficiencies that eliminate traditional cross-account and cross-region requirements.
Posted March 24, 2022
After finding several vulnerabilities during a routine release, SAP has published 17 new and updated Security Notes on its March Patch Day (including the notes that were released or updated since last Patch Tuesday). This includes four HotNews Notes and one High Priority Note.
Posted March 23, 2022
Miracle Software Systems, Inc. announced it has achieved SAP gold partner status in the SAP PartnerEdge program, indicating the company's exceptional delivery capabilities, extensive competency working with SAP, and ability in driving business value to its customers.
Posted March 23, 2022
IBM has announced a multi-million-dollar investment in its resources to help businesses prepare for and manage the growing threat of cyberattacks to organizations across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The centerpiece of this investment is the new IBM Security Command Center for training cybersecurity response techniques through simulated cyberattacks—designed to prepare everyone from C-Suite through technical staff. According to new IBM global analysis, Asia is now the #1 most targeted region for cyberattacks—representing 26% of attacks analyzed in 2021.
Posted March 21, 2022
Micro Focus has released Host Access Analyzer 2.0, an enhanced asset management tool that provides a view of software deployment on host and mainframe systems. Host Access Manager 2.0 retrieves real-time usage data to enable organizations to assess exposure to risk and vulnerabilities, ensure compliance with regulations, gain insights into how well internal policies are followed, and control license usage.
Posted March 21, 2022
Rockset, the real-time analytics company, now supports real-time data ingestion from Azure Blob Storage, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Service Bus—enabling customers to ingest, transform, and analyze real-time data from their Azure data lake or event stream.
Posted March 16, 2022
Anyone investing in an SAP ERP solution running on Oracle Linux is clearly serious about ensuring that their critical line of business systems run smoothly, predictably, and efficiently. It should go without saying that those operations will be consistently accessible and run without unexpected interruption. Saying nothing, though, would be a mistake, for there's nothing magical about Oracle Linux that inherently guarantees high availability (HA) for an SAP landscape. Without proper planning and an infrastructure configured for HA, that big investment is vulnerable.
Posted March 16, 2022
Redis, the real-time data platform, is releasing RedisJSON 2.0, enabling customers to more easily modernize existing applications and create entirely new digital experiences requiring real-time access and processing of JSON document files.
Posted March 15, 2022
Catalogic Software, a provider of smart data protection solutions, is partnering with Backblaze, Inc., a leading storage cloud platform, to allow organizations managing backups of their enterprise environments and cloud native applications to utilize the Backblaze B2 platform.
Posted March 15, 2022
Thrive, a premier provider of NextGen Managed Services, is acquiring SouthTech, a managed technology solutions leader on the Florida West Coast, providing businesses throughout the region with enhanced IT support along with Thrive's next-generation managed cybersecurity, collaboration, and cloud services.
Posted March 11, 2022
MariaDB Corporation is releasing Xpand 6 with significant new features, maximizing performance with fast operational analytics. Xpand now has the smarts to eliminate the need and inconsistencies of loading data to operational data warehouses.
Posted March 11, 2022
Data center downtime and outages are undoubtedly costly—with 40% costing between $100,000 and $1 million each according to a 2020 Uptime Institute report. Ironically, data center management hasn't always been driven by much data. The good news is data center failures are largely avoidable. The bad news is most operators aren't employing the data center analytics solutions needed to proactively predict and prevent downtime.
Posted March 11, 2022