Database Security Articles
AuditBoard, the cloud-based platform transforming how businesses manage risk, is debuting AuditBoard ITRM, an IT risk management solution that accelerates threat detection, strengthens cyber resilience, and drives strategic investments within an enterprise's IT landscape.
Posted July 28, 2023
Tenable, the exposure management company, is debuting new Tenable Cloud Security features that target OS vulnerability prevention through threat detection across container images, registries, and pipelines.
Posted July 27, 2023
BMC is releasing a variety of innovations for the BMC AMI portfolio centered on hybrid cloud integration with an open borders approach to mainframe computing, creating consistent, complementary experiences not only for mainframe professionals, but for the customers they serve, too. The new BMC AMI Cloud suite of solutions empowers organizations to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy for mainframe data management. Integration of mainframe data with the hybrid cloud enables organizations to choose the on-premises, private cloud, or public cloud strategy that is best suited for their needs. This provides an efficient and high-preforming alternative to replace or augment proprietary mainframe virtual tape library (VTL) systems.
Posted July 27, 2023
Teradata is acquiring Stemma Technologies (Stemma), a cloud-native, fully managed, data catalog solution, adding AI to accelerate transformative analytics value for customers. Stemma's robust data catalog solution will strengthen Teradata's data fabric and accelerate the analytic productivity of the Vantage platform, according to Teradata.
Posted July 26, 2023
Rafay Systems, the platform provider for Kubernetes management and operations, is announcing the integration of a brand new capability designed for the company's Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) which eases the management burden of large Kubernetes clusters throughout various environments—including data centers, popular public clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, as well as at the edge.
Posted July 26, 2023
DataGrail, the Privacy Control Center enterprise, is unveiling DataGrail Managed Services, a privacy management offering that alleviates the heavy load of day-to-day privacy tasks, handling processes such as DSR fulfillment and data mapping.
Posted July 26, 2023
Vertex, Inc., a global provider of tax technology solutions, announced that its Vertex Indirect Tax Determination for SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA is now an SAP Endorsed App for the North American region. As businesses grow and evolve on a global scale, so do their tax needs. Navigating the ever-changing tax landscape doesn't need to be complicated, according to the company.
Posted July 26, 2023
Cosmo Tech announced that its Supply Chain Vulnerability Scan is now available on the SAP Store, arming SAP Integrated Business Planning software with an AI-Simulation add-on to deliver supply chain resilience at all levels of planning to customers.
Posted July 26, 2023
SAP announced it is making strategic direct investments in three leading generative AI companies, furthering its commitment to deliver Business AI that's relevant, reliable, and responsible. The investments in Aleph Alpha GmbH, Anthropic PBC, and Cohere reinforce SAP's open ecosystem approach to AI, leveraging the best technology to embed AI across the SAP portfolio, according to the company.
Posted July 26, 2023
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA, a global healthcare company, announced it has reached an important milestone in its IT transformation, successfully migrating its key SAP software systems to the cloud with the RISE with SAP offering. This strategic move lays the foundation for future innovation targets and enables Fresenius to improve scalability, enhance application security, and drive the digitalization of its global business processes, according to the company.
Posted July 26, 2023
RDM Infinity, a provider of MultiValue software solutions, announced that John Bramley will join its fast-growing team to extend and enhance the firm's custom programming practice. As the MultiValue Strategist at RDM, he will play a key role in building, training and managing a growing team of young MultiValue developers.
Posted July 26, 2023
DBI Software, a provider of performance monitoring, tuning, and trending tools for IBM Db2 LUW and SQL Server databases, is releasing version 9 of the DBI Performance Web Suite. Version 9 of the Web Suite, collector, and classic tools includes many new features and enhancements such as a top query resource and degradation analyzer, historical locks, recommendations with links to the relevant views, a Linux version of the Web Suite, and support for Edge.
Posted July 25, 2023
Graylog, a global provider of SIEM and log management solutions, is acquiring Resurface.io's data-driven API security platform, broadening Graylog's security portfolio and delivering a comprehensive API security Threat Detection and Incident Response platform.
Posted July 21, 2023
Danny Higgins, global practice lead for Oracle databases at Pure Storage, joined DBTA's webinar, Modern Non-Disruptive Approaches to Oracle Disaster Recovery Drills, to discuss the ways in which Oracle teams can adopt certain best practices and technologies to reduce the time, complexity, cost, and risk of Oracle disaster recovery drills.
Posted July 21, 2023
Fortanix, the multi-cloud data security company and the pioneer of confidential computing, is announcing the launch of the Fortanix Data Masking and Tokenization solution, an extension of Fortanix's Data Security Manager (DSM) platform that addresses the threat of data breaches, powered by confidential computing and deployed as SaaS.
Posted July 20, 2023
When it comes to acquiring and licensing datasets, assessing the utility and value of the data resources and tools is critical, and it's also complex. At Data Summit 2023, FDIC chief, library and public information Richard Huffine outlined best practices for evaluating licensed datasets.
Posted July 20, 2023
Digital.ai, a leading AI-powered DevSecOps platform, is adding AI capabilities across its solutions that provide customers with enhanced software delivery capabilities and insights for better decision making. Digital.ai's AI-Powered DevSecOps Platform reflects enterprise demand to use AI to improve decision making, help govern and orchestrate the release of software created and optimized by generative AI tools, and automate software delivery workflows further with AI, according to the company.
Posted July 19, 2023
Oracle NetSuite is introducing Guided Learning to help customers maximize the value of the suite and accelerate adoption of the platform. NetSuite Guided Learning provides step-by-step guidance embedded in NetSuite to help educate users about system functionality and features. Available to all NetSuite licensed customers at no additional cost, the contextual learning guides help businesses leverage the full capabilities of the suite and reduce time spent on training, according to the company.
Posted July 19, 2023
Experts in next-generation solutions and architectures joined DBTA's webinar, The Race to Unified Analytics: Next-Gen Data Platforms and Architectures, to examine both the business potential of new technologies, as well as its common hurdles—such as data silos, complex data and analytic systems, remaining legacy technologies, integration, and governance and security—that prevent the fruition of a modern, data-accessible enterprise.
Posted July 18, 2023
Redis, Inc. announced the company achieved certification for compliance with ISO 27017:2015 for cloud services and ISO 27018:2019 for privacy protections, adding to Redis Enterprise Cloud‘s existing ISO 27001:2013 certification further boosting security.
Posted July 18, 2023
PrivacyHawk, a pioneer in personal data protection, is receiving $2.7 million in funding, enabling the company to support growth in sales, marketing, and product development in its mission to protect personal data and reduce everyone's risk of being targeted by fraud and cybercrimes.
Posted July 17, 2023
IBM announced it is rolling out IBM watsonx—the enterprise-ready AI and data platform. watsonx comprises three products to help organizations accelerate and scale AI—the watsonx.ai studio for new foundation models, generative AI and machine learning (now available); the watsonx.data fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture (now available); and the watsonx.governance toolkit to help enable AI workflows to be built with responsibility, transparency and explainability (coming later this year).
Posted July 17, 2023
IBM announced that it is one of four organizations selected to support the Internal Revenue Services' (IRS) seven-year, $2.6B Enterprise Development Operations Services (EDOS) contract vehicle—modernizing existing IRS IT systems, improving cybersecurity, and expanding advanced analytics capabilities.
Posted July 17, 2023
JFrog is launching JFrog Curation, an automated DevSecOps solution that checks and validates open source or third-party software packages to ensure overall security when leveraging these technologies within a software development environment.
Posted July 14, 2023
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, is adding OpenAI observability as a native capability to Site24x7, its comprehensive cloud-based observability platform, to enable application owners to monitor the utilization of different OpenAI models seamlessly while tracking real-time performance and cost metrics.
Posted July 13, 2023
Zluri, a SaaS operations (SaaSOps) platform, announced the company received $20 million in a recent funding round, enabling the company to help organizations manage their SaaS estates and mitigate risks. The Series B funding round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from existing investors including MassMutual Ventures, Endiya Partners, and Kalaari Capital. The company has now raised $32 million in total venture funding since 2020.
Posted July 13, 2023
According to PWC's "Future of Experience" survey, 73% of respondents view customer experience as an important factor in their purchasing decisions. Nevertheless, understanding the customer journey can be a difficult and lengthy process for many product developers. Outdated software, the lack of a customer-focused culture, and data silos all contribute to a negative experience.
Posted July 13, 2023
OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) provides integrated foundational and advanced services that work together to accomplish more faster in categories of compute, storage, network, and security. Foundational services include metric, log/logging analytics, alarms, traces, and Ops insights repository. As metrics, logs, and traces are popular discussion topics for today's world, these services are especially significant.
Posted July 13, 2023
Traditionally, MongoDB has held its signature event—MongoDB World—in June in New York City. MongoDB usually announces significant releases of their flagship database product at this event. However, this year, the company has transitioned to a global tour of "local" events that start in New York and then proceed to a few dozen regional events across five continents.
Posted July 13, 2023
As a database administrator, you know that the field is constantly evolving. New technologies are emerging all the time, and it can be difficult to keep up with the latest trends. And almost every new technical trend and advancement tends to interact with data. So, DBAs need to be "in the know" and regularly update their knowledge of what's new. That's where industry conferences come in.
Posted July 13, 2023
Now that we're emerging from the pandemic and the dust is starting to settle, organizations are taking a good, hard look at their digital transformation and modernization priorities moving forward. To shed light on the adoption and maturity of trending data architectures and where the industry is headed, Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, partnered with Radiant Advisors to field the latest survey, "Market Study: 2023 Modern Data Architecture Trends," sponsored by Cambridge Semantics, Informatica, Kinetica, Teradata, and Vertica.
Posted July 13, 2023
Baffle, Inc. is unveiling Data Protection for Analytics, offering a single data security solution that provides end-to-end controls for data ingestion and consumption to make it easier for analytics and data science professionals to meet compliance requirements. According to the company, Baffle Data Protection for Analytics promises to secure analytics while meeting increasingly stringent compliance mandates.
Posted July 12, 2023
Bionic, the Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform, is debuting two new product features that enable its platform to further aid engineers in dealing with the abundance of security vulnerabilities facing them today.
Posted July 12, 2023
Deci, the deep learning company harnessing AI to build AI, is releasing DataGradients, a free, open-source tool for profiling computer vision datasets and distilling critical insights. According to the company, using DataGradients, data scientists can easily analyze the health of their data with one line of code, swiftly identifying problems such as corrupted data, distributional shifts between train and test sets, duplicate annotations, among many others.
Posted July 12, 2023
Landing AI, the data-centric AI company, is unveiling its newfound partnership with Snowflake, bringing AI models and compute closer to data. By extending the power of computer vision to unstructured data located within a Snowflake account, models can now be trained within the Landing AI platform to then be deployed into Snowflake as User-Defined Functions (UDFs), along with pre-trained, industry-standard models offered by Landing AI.
Posted July 11, 2023
Honeywell is acquiring SCADAfence, a provider of operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity solutions for monitoring large-scale networks, bringing capabilities in asset discovery, threat detection, and security governance which are key to industrial and buildings management cybersecurity programs.
Posted July 11, 2023
Matillion, a provider of data productivity solutions, is offering a Productivity Platform for Data Teams, empowering the entire data team to move, transform, and orchestrate data pipelines, regardless of technical capability. The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted July 10, 2023
Keepit is debuting its latest data protection solution, the Azure DevOps backup and recovery service, engineered to centralize team culture around protection by safeguarding workloads against massively detrimental disasters.
Posted July 10, 2023
New Relic, the all-in-one observability platform for every engineer, is releasing New Relic APM 360, the industry's next evolution of application performance monitoring (APM). APM 360 correlates all essential telemetry data across the application stack and development cycle, such as deployment changes, key transactions, service-level objects (SLOs), logs, infrastructure, errors, security, debugging, and more.
Posted July 06, 2023
Leostream, a leading Remote Desktop Access Platform provider, is offering features designed to improve high-performance computing (HPC) and sophisticated imaging/video workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The move aims to deliver secure, performant, cost-effective resources to users of virtual machines, according to the vendor.
Posted July 06, 2023
Yugabyte is unveiling the public availability of YugabyteDB Managed on Microsoft Azure, enabling the deployment of YugabyteDB as a fully managed Database-as-a-Service on all three major public cloud vendors—AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure.
Posted July 06, 2023
Brad Culberson, principal architect of data apps and field CTO office at Snowflake, join DBTA's webinar, Terraform 101: How To Manage Snowflake Account Objects With Code, to explore basic Terraform usage, how to create users, roles, databases, and more, enabling anyone to build a repository containing a Terraform project that manages Snowflake account objects through code.
Posted July 05, 2023
Many companies have been focusing on AI this year as new technologies and solutions have emerged that promise to leave organizations in the dust if they aren't paying attention. Behind all the wonders that AI brings, however, is the workhorse that must be attended behind the scenes—databases and associated data environments.
Posted July 05, 2023
SAS, a leader in analytics, announced it can now provision SAS Viya AI and decisioning capabilities securely in the Snowflake Data Cloud with Snowpark Container Services (private preview). The announcement was made at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023.
Posted July 03, 2023
According to a report published by Allied Market Research, the global mainframe market was estimated at $2.09 billion in 2017, and is expected to hit $2.90 billion by 2025, registering a CAGR of 4.3% from 2018-2025. Growth in demand for high-performance computing, development of IoT landscape, and rise in adoption of the mainframe as a service fuel the growth of the global mainframe market. On the other hand, lack of mainframe skilled professionals and high costs restrain the growth to certain extent.
Posted July 03, 2023
IBM announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Vista Equity Partners to purchase Apptio Inc., a leader in financial and operational IT management and optimization (FinOps) software, accelerating the advancement of IBM's IT automation capabilities and enable enterprise leaders to deliver enhanced business value across technology investments.
Posted July 03, 2023