Master Data Management Articles
Verge.io, the company that virtualizes data centers, is adding new features to its Verge-OS software to give users the performance of GPUs as virtualized, shared resources. This move creates a cost-effective, simple, and flexible way to perform GPU-based machine learning, remote desktop, and other compute-intensive workloads within an agile, scalable, secure Verge-OS virtual data center, according to the vendor.
Posted August 16, 2022
Airbyte, producers of an open-source data integration platform, is launching the company's Postgres source connector, now generally available. Postgres connector support by Airbyte allows users to efficiently migrate data from Postgres storage to other locations, improving analytic capabilities.
Posted August 12, 2022
Equalum, a provider of data integration and ingestion solutions, announced it is receiving $14M in a Series C financing round, enabling the company to expand its global footprint, product development, and rapid growth trajectory. Equalum is defining the future of data integration by providing a solution that continuously and natively supports all use cases under a single unified platform without the need for custom coding.
Posted August 11, 2022
Thanks to significant innovation and recent disruption in the data management space, organizations are achieving unprecedented value from both internal and external data. Much emphasis has been placed on the importance of achieving digital transformation, yet thanks to these rich data assets, organizations are finding new ways to serve customers across both digital and physical boundaries.
Posted August 11, 2022
The data lakehouse, data fabric, and data mesh, are no longer just dreams shared by analysts at conference presentations. A new survey of more than 200 IT leaders by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc., finds considerable uptake of these modern data architectures. "The Move to Modern Data Architecture: 2022 Data Delivery and Consumption Patterns Survey," May 2022, was conducted in partnership with ChaosSearch and included input from directors/managers of IT, directors/managers of analytics, and data architects.
Posted August 11, 2022
Working with databases causes friction. On one side, nontechnical managers want data pros to skip the jargon and clearly describe their needs. On the other side, data pros wish their managers had a deeper understanding of the tech involved. Nontechnical managers may think they need to understand the technology better and get into the weeds to close this inherent trust gap. But this isn't the case—managers are busy tracking resource allocations, Gantt charts, project plans, and punch lists. They must also fill open slots, upskill employees, and keep people from falling prey to the Great Resignation.
Posted August 11, 2022
In science fiction movies, the word "entity" pops up when discussing an as-yet-unseen but at least suspected alien presence, presumed evil (or sometimes evil presence, presumed alien). This entity is not named until half the cast has vanished, then we might hear, "It's Cthulhu's daughter and she's angry!" But not all entities are evil or angry.
Posted August 11, 2022
The challenge with modern supply chains is one of multiple pressures hitting all at once. These include pandemic-induced disruptions, cyber attacks targeting supply chains and the effect that financial and trade sanctions are having on Russia for its war in Ukraine. To be more resilient, many companies have opened the spigot on enterprise investment and technology innovation for supply chain modernization. But these efforts must be well-coordinated to be effective.
Posted August 11, 2022
These days, data managers have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the platforming, storage, and provisioning of data and associated analytics applications. However, selecting the right environment for pressing business needs can be confusing and overwhelming. The key is understanding how to map the right technologies to the business problems or opportunities at hand.
Posted August 11, 2022
Assuring data quality should be one of the most important goals for IT professionals. This is truer today than it has ever been as organizations rely on data to power their AI and machine learning algorithms. Accurate, quality data is required if you want to make accurate decisions. And that is true, whether the data is being analyzed by a human or a computer algorithm.
Posted August 11, 2022
Oracle Database is a converged multi-model, multi-workload data platform. A converged database is a database that has native support for all modern data types and the latest development paradigms built into one product. Oracle Database an example of a converged database, as it provides support for Machine Learning, Blockchain, Graph, Spatial, JSON, REST, Events, Editions, and IoT Streaming as part of the core database.
Posted August 11, 2022
Accelerated digital transformation has been felt in a variety of ways across all industry sectors for the past 2 years. Digital infrastructure resiliency and agility are crucial in periods of uncertainty and disruption, which many organizations are experiencing with the confluence of disrupted supply chains, rising inflation, geopolitical instability, energy price spikes, the ongoing global pandemic, and climate change.
Posted August 10, 2022
Quali, a provider of Environments-as-a-Service infrastructure automation and management solutions, announced updates to its Torque platform for accelerated infrastructure delivery speeds, and increased cost accountability and management with limited risk. With enhanced end-to-end control plane capabilities for multi-cloud, laC, virtual, and container environments, Torque is able to prioritize and unify infrastructure orchestration for development operations practitioners within a single platform.
Posted August 10, 2022
Flexential, a provider of data center, colocation, cloud, and connectivity, is enhancing its FlexAnywhere hybrid IT solutions portfolio to maximize IT infrastructure scalability within organizations, as well as increasing business-wide adaptability for hybrid work environments. The updates coming to Flexential's Hosted Private Cloud (HPC) Advanced Access solution allow for accelerated migration of workloads, data, and applications in an industry that is becoming increasingly cloud-reliant.
Posted August 10, 2022
Kyligence, an open source Online Analytical Processing platform (OLAP) for big data, is announcing its completion of System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II certification, meaning it now adheres to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).This is preceded by their completion of SOC Type I in 2021, assuring Kyligence's continued compliance through third-party auditing office, Ernst & Young.
Posted August 09, 2022
IBM Security released the annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, finding costlier and higher-impact data breaches than ever before, with the global average cost of a data breach reaching an all-time high of $4.35 million for studied organizations. With breach costs increasing nearly 13% over the last two years of the report, the findings suggest these incidents may also be contributing to rising costs of goods and services.
Posted August 08, 2022
Tone Software Corporation, a global provider of management and productivity solutions for IBM Z mainframes, is acquiring the JES2Mail, JES2FTP, Mail2ZOS, and CICS2PDF host output transformation and delivery products from CASI Software, Inc. Effective June 1, 2022, the acquisition of the CASI JES2Mail suite will expand Tone's OMC z/OS Output Management offerings for mainframe shops seeking to deliver the right information to the right users, in the most cost effective format for the business.
Posted August 08, 2022
What's the hardest part of managing a merger, acquisition, or divestiture? The answer may seem to be getting lawyers and regulators to sign off on the deal or handling the business restructuring that follows. But here's another hairy M&A and divestiture challenge which executives too often underestimate: migrating massive amounts data, most of it unstructured, between entities.
Posted August 08, 2022
Dremio is extending its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), announcing that Dremio Cloud is now available to purchase in the AWS Marketplace. Dremio Cloud, being available to purchase in AWS Marketplace, provides businesses with the freedom and flexibility to use their preferred procurement vehicle to adopt the open lakehouse platform, according to the vendor.
Posted August 04, 2022
Traceable AI, a provider of API security and observability solutions, is adding extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) data to its platform, helping CISOs, DevSecOps, and DevOps teams obtain deeper observability and visibility into APIs without additional instrumentation or latency.
Posted August 03, 2022
ManageEngine is releasing Analytics Plus, an IT analytics product that is structured to consolidate analytics deployment onto a singular platform through a newly available SaaS option. Users will be able to easily deploy analytics on either public or private clouds in under 60 seconds, according to the vendor. The program will have the capability to be deployed in on-premises servers, Docker, or cloud platforms like Google Cloud and Azure.
Posted August 03, 2022
Oracle and Microsoft announced the general availability of Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure, allowing Microsoft Azure customers to easily provision, access, and monitor enterprise-grade Oracle Database services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with a familiar experience.
Posted August 03, 2022
Ask a data engineer why they got into the field, and they'll likely share how they looked forward to bringing concepts to life or solving complex challenges; or they wanted to share their expertise in a collaborative, agile environment; or they simply wanted to provide better visibility into the way products work for end users—and how it could be improved.
Posted August 03, 2022
Hazelcast, Inc., home of the real-time data platform, is introducing the beta release of a new serverless offering under its Viridian cloud portfolio, dubbed Hazelcast Viridian Serverless. The platform enables companies to take immediate action on real-time data by speeding app development, simplifying provisioning, and enabling flexible and robust integration of real-time data into applications, according to the vendor.
Posted August 02, 2022
Acceldata has announced an alternative method for long-term data platform independence that will be available for Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and Cloudera Data Hub (CDH) customers. This alternative choice will streamline data platform usage by offering customers the option to stay on-premises with the current Hadoop release or migrate to a selected cloud data platform, eliminating forced migration.
Posted August 01, 2022
Melissa, a provider of global data quality and address management solutions, is partnering with innoscale DATAROCKET to integrate Melissa's address validation, auto-completion, geocoding, and sanctions list checking capabilities into the innoscale DATAROCKET Core master data management (MDM) platform.
Posted July 29, 2022
NetApp, a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, is releasing Spot Security, delivering a solution for continuous assessment and analysis of cloud security posture. Spot Security enables DevOps and SecOps teams to easily collaborate to identify misconfigurations, reduce their potential attack surface, and ensure compliance.
Posted July 28, 2022
Snyk, a provider of developer security, is introducing Snyk Cloud, a comprehensive cloud Security Solution designed by and for developers. Thoughtfully designed with global DevSecOps teams in mind, Snyk's Cloud Security solution unites and extends existing products Snyk Infrastructure as Code and Snyk Container with Fugue's leading cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities, according to the vendor.
Posted July 28, 2022
CData Software, a provider of data connectivity and integration solutions, is offering an all-new AWS Glue client connector for CData Connect Cloud, expanding access to hundreds of data sources and destinations for AWS Glue customers. CData now offers cloud-native connectivity solutions that seamlessly integrate with the applications and systems previously unavailable within AWS Glue.
Posted July 28, 2022
D2iQ, an enterprise Kubernetes provider for smart cloud-native applications, is partnering with Aqua Security, a pure-play cloud-native security company, to enable organizations to create a seamless DevSecOps experience that accelerates the deployment of secure smart cloud-native applications.
Posted July 28, 2022
Striim, Inc. is expanding its existing agreement with Microsoft to meet increasing customer demand for real-time analytics and operations by enabling customers to leverage Striim Cloud on Microsoft Azure. This move allows for continuous, streaming data integration from on-premises and cloud enterprise sources to Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI, taking full advantage of the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform.
Posted July 28, 2022
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is introducing a lower entry point for OCI Dedicated Region and providing a preview of Compute Cloud@Customer services, bringing more than 100 OCI public cloud services into customers' data centers. These new services will help customers meet strict latency, data residency, and data sovereignty requirements that are key to many IT modernization efforts.
Posted July 28, 2022
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced its long-time partner, Red Hat, is joining the HPE GreenLake ecosystem, enabling the companies to work together to combine new service offerings with Red Hat's open source technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, all deployed on the HPE GreenLake platform.
Posted July 28, 2022
BigID, provider of a data intelligence platform, is introducing security and privacy aware access control for AWS Cloud infrastructure to reduce risk and automate role-based policies across AWS including S3, Redshift, Athena, EMR, and more with extended integrations. By using BigID, AWS customers can automate intelligent access control to enable and restrict access to their sensitive data—while creating business policies based on data sensitivity and context, according to the vendor.
Posted July 27, 2022
SAP released 27 new and updated Security Notes, including six High Priority notes, during its July patch release. Onapsis Research Labs (ORL) supported SAP in patching a Missing Authorization Check vulnerability in the highly sensitive SAP Enterprise Extension Defense Forces & Public Security application.
Posted July 27, 2022
GFOS mbH announced that its modular HR software, gfos 4.8, is certified by SAP to integrate with cloud solutions from SAP, helping organizations extract employee data from SAP SuccessFactors solutions to further process the information within the gfos software.
Posted July 27, 2022
OutSystems, a global leader in high-performance application development, announced it is now an official member of the SAP PartnerEdge program, with a Build focus, underscoring its commitment to providing high-value low-code to businesses using SAP solutions. While twice as many OutSystems customers connect to SAP technologies as any other system of record, the new relationship will make it even easier for additional businesses within the SAP ecosystem to discover and connect with OutSystems.
Posted July 27, 2022
The pandemic has expedited businesses' need to digitally transform. Surging digital demands paired with talent shortages while using legacy technologies have made it nearly impossible for businesses to keep pace with change, innovate, and stay ahead of the competition. To meet these challenges, organizations need technologies that make it easier to build applications and streamline workflows. The answer? Low code development.
Posted July 27, 2022
Cloudian announced that HyperStore object storage is now validated to work with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, giving Azure Stack HCI customers the scalability and flexibility benefits of public cloud in a secure and cost-effective, cloud-native storage platform within their own data centers.
Posted July 26, 2022
MANTA, the data lineage platform, is launching Release 37, offering new enhancements to data lineage platform that include modeling tool and scanner upgrades to offer efficient data lineage experiences for customers. With Release 37, MANTA further upgrades its platform to meet the modeling requirements of users scanning new properties into MANTA Flow to infer end-to-end data lineage.
Posted July 26, 2022
Model9, a provider of cloud data management for the IBM Z mainframe, announced it will participate in The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative with 20 programs and working groups that enable collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources.
Posted July 25, 2022
IBM is expanding its Power10 server line with the introduction of mid-range and scale-out systems to modernize, protect, and automate business applications and IT operations. The new Power10 servers combine performance, scalability, and flexibility with new pay-as-you-go consumption offerings for clients looking to deploy new services quickly across multiple environments.
Posted July 25, 2022
Pecan AI, a provider of AI-based predictive analytics for BI analysts and business teams, is adding one-click model deployment and integration with common CRMs, marketing automation, and other core business systems. Pecan's customers can now take immediate actions based on the highly accurate predictions for future churn, lifetime value, demand and other customer-conversion metrics generated by Pecan, according to the vendor.
Posted July 21, 2022
Dataiku is releasing Dataiku 11, a pivotal update of the company's data science and AI platform that helps organizations deliver on the promise of Everyday AI. This packed release provides new capabilities for expert teams to deliver more value at scale, enables tech-savvy workers to take on more expansive challenges, helps non-technical workers more easily engage with AI, and provides strengthened AI Governance to ensure projects are robust, transparent, and ready for success at scale.
Posted July 20, 2022
Druva Inc. is expanding its cyber resilience portfolio with cyber-attack readiness innovations, including new capabilities for data posture assessment and observability. These advanced tools provide customers with a centralized view of their data security posture, deep visibility into data entropy changes, and the ability to assess data risks, according to the vendor.
Posted July 20, 2022
TIE Kinetix, a provider of supply chain digitalization and a current member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that TIE Kinetix FLOW Connector for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing is available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. TIE Kinetix FLOW Connector for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing now extends TIE Kinetix's cloud-native solution, EDI-2-FLOW, where Oracle Cloud SCM users have the opportunity to benefit from a fully integrated EDI solution via a standard connector.
Posted July 20, 2022