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Posted February 10, 2016
COLLABORATE 16 - IOUG Forum includes real-world training presented by fellow Oracle users and industry experts, dedicated networking opportunities with professionals who share your business needs, and Oracle experts sharing solutions.
Posted February 10, 2016
IOUG has always been your trusted source for technical information and user insight, and we're continuing to bring you new ways to learn about Oracle Database 12c as we continue our 12 Months of Database 12cSeries.
Posted February 10, 2016
This COLLABORATE 16 advance guide will give you a glimpse into the wealth of Oracle experts, technical content and opportunities to make connections that will last a lifetime.
Posted February 10, 2016
Oracle has a new PartnerNetwork (OPN) Cloud Program that is aimed at helping organizations accelerate the growth of their Oracle Cloud business. Providing technical and go-to-market support, Oracle says the new four-tier program will provide Oracle partners with the tools they need to help Oracle customers navigate their transition to the cloud.
Posted February 10, 2016
Oracle has introduced a new Big Data Preparation Cloud Service. Despite the increasing talk about the need for companies to become "data-driven," and the perception that people who work with business data spend most of their time on analytics, Oracle contends that in reality many organizations devote much more time and effort on importing, profiling, cleansing, repairing, standardizing, and enriching their data.
Posted February 10, 2016
Database performance tuning is a complex but extremely important task. However, it can be difficult to effectively optimize databases when there are other "fires" to put out, limited resources, and an increasing number of databases to look after. But that doesn't mean it's impossible, especially with the right approach.
Posted February 10, 2016
Looker, provider of a BI platform, has added support for Presto and Spark SQL as well as updates to its support for Impala and Hive.
Posted February 09, 2016
Talend is introducing Talend Data Preparation, an open source self-service tool to help business users to speed up the time-consuming process of data wrangling or spreadsheet management.
Posted February 09, 2016
Trifacta, provider of a self-service data preparation platform, is receiving $35 million in growth-stage financing that will be used to continue expanding the company globally and allow for additional projects. "The multi-billion-dollar big data and IoT revolution requires a modern, innovative approach to preparing data and empowering end users," said Ping Li, partner at Accel and director of the company's Big Data Fund. "Trifacta delivers that platform. We've backed Trifacta's incredible team from the beginning and are excited to help the company scale to take advantage of this significant market opportunity."
Posted February 09, 2016
Franz Inc. is releasing an updated version of its AllegroGraph platform along with receiving certification on the latest release of Cloudera Enterprise through the Cloudera Certified Technology Program (CCTP).
Posted February 08, 2016
There are no young professionals in the mainframe community, right? Wrong! It's time you meet Connor Krukosky, an 18-year-old college student who bought an IBM z890 from an online auction and is now busy getting it up and running.
Posted February 08, 2016
IBM has expanded its Cloud Data Services portfolio with 25 new services now available on the IBM Cloud that are designed to help developers build, deploy, and manage web and mobile applications and enable data scientists to discover hidden trends using data and analytics in the cloud.
Posted February 08, 2016
Currently, the IT industry is the midst of a major transition as it moves from the last generation - the internet generation - to the new generation of cloud and big data, said Andy Mendelsohn, Oracle's EVP of Database Server Technologies, who recently talked with DBTA about database products that Oracle is bringing to market to support customers' cloud initiatives. "Oracle has been around a long time. This is not the first big transition we have gone through," said Mendelsohn.
Posted February 05, 2016
Deep Information Sciences is unveiling a new solution that combines a MySQL-compliant database with cloud- and resource-awareness.
Posted February 04, 2016
Couchbase has rolled out Couchbase Mobile 1.2. The new release makes it easier for professional developers to build and deploy mobile applications with improvements in administration, simplified in-place upgrades, as well as security and performance enhancements.
Posted February 04, 2016
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Posted February 03, 2016
IOUG offers webcasts on a range of topics including big data, security, cloud, and many more.
Posted February 03, 2016
Every month IOUG shines the spotlight on one of our members! This month we are spotlighting Sam Brunacini, DB Platform Services Manager at Paychex, Inc.
Posted February 03, 2016
The Large Tape User Group's (LTUG) Annual Spring conference is coming up around the corner on April 25-28 just outside of Denver, Colorado. Anyone interested in large Oracle StorageTek robotic tape libraries and storage devices cannot afford to miss out on this educational and networking event.
Posted February 03, 2016
Cloud; Internet of Things; Mobile analytics; Cyber attacks; Security: disruptive technologies are significantly impacting IT professionals. Are you and your organization doing everything it takes to learn, assess and keep up?
Posted February 03, 2016
With Hadoop marking its 10th anniversary this year, Sean Suchter, CEO of Pepperdata, recently reflected on his experience with the platform and speculated on what the next 10 years may bring.
Posted February 03, 2016
Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company, is integrating Pentaho Labs with Python, increasing productivity and data governance, while allowing users to focus on predictive analytics and machine learning.
Posted February 02, 2016
To address a growing need for data professionals with graph database expertise, Neo4j is offering a certification exam online through its GraphAcademy.
Posted February 02, 2016
Redis Labs, is integrating with Spark SQL, and releasing a Spark-Redis connector package that promises to accelerate processing time.
Posted February 02, 2016
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the availability of HPE Investigative Analytics, a new software solution to enable financial institutions and other organizations in highly regulated industries to use big data technologies to detect patterns, relationships, behaviors, and anomalies across structured and unstructured data stores. The software is aimed at helping companies reduce risk by proactively preventing fraudulent actions.
Posted February 02, 2016
Attunity Ltd. is releasing an enhanced version of its Attunity Compose platform to eliminate pitfalls in data warehousing and accelerate big data analytics.
Posted February 02, 2016
Snowflake Computing, a cloud data warehousing company, has formed a technology and go-to-market partnership with Looker, which provides a data exploration and business intelligence platform.
Posted February 01, 2016
The combination of location data with high speed data in VoltDB version 6.0 will allow VoltDB to better support businesses that need to maximize the value of real-time data streams including location data to make personalized offers to customers and improve decision making.
Posted January 28, 2016
To address increasing demands posed by modern applications, Aerospike has released version 3.7 of its NoSQL database with new features that enable more personalized applications, more efficient operations, and greater stability across public and private clouds.
Posted January 28, 2016
Paxata's Winter '15 release allows administrators to deploy the data prep platform in heterogeneous environments including the Hortonworks Data Platform on YARN and with multiple versions of Apache Spark. The latest release also improves the way business analysts find, access, and apply data by delivering additional ease of use capabilities supported by machine learning innovations, and provides enterprise-grade security and a multi-tenant governance model.
Posted January 27, 2016
The North Carolina PowerBuilder User Group (NCPBUG) and Appeon Corporation are pleased to announce that the Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference will be held from May 16 through May20, 2016. The Center City Campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte will again be the venue for the event.
Posted January 27, 2016
CenturyLink is signing a global premium supplier partnership agreement with SAP to offer premium supplier services for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, providing an avenue to expand the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud offering. Through this agreement, the companies say, CenturyLink's infrastructure and IT services capabilities will help expand the platform and help customers achieve faster time to market for their transformation projects based on the SAP HANA platform.
Posted January 27, 2016
Rosslyn Analytics Ltd's RAPid Extract Studio 2.0 is now SAP-certified to integrate with the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, providing users a rapid approach to obtain data from SAP software. The pre-built solution integrates with SAP solutions, allowing business and IT teams to cut the time and cost of accessing data for analytics projects by enabling them to start to automatically extract SAP data more quickly, according to Rosslyn Analytics.
Posted January 27, 2016
SAP SE and Accenture are teaming up to provide inclusive solutions for Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA). This collaboration aims to accelerate development of SAP S/4HANA as well as business solutions, with a view to simplifying and fast-tracking customers' journeys to digital businesses.
Posted January 27, 2016
Rocket Software has announced upgrades to both Rocket SystemBuilder Extensible Architecture (SB/XA) and Rocket CorVu NG.
Posted January 27, 2016
Kore Technologies is excited to announce the release of Kourier REST Gateway along with the upcoming release of Kourier 4.3. Both are scheduled for release early 2nd quarter of 2016.
Posted January 27, 2016
ClearStory Data is making advancements and core improvements in the upcoming release of its native Apache Spark platform. With Apache Spark 1.6, ClearStory further speeds exploration on big, diverse data when business users need unrestricted data discovery and free-form exploration to answer new questions.
Posted January 26, 2016
SHARE events are known for their robust education for enterprise IT professionals. On February 28, SHARE in San Antonio will be upping the ante with the addition of the DevOps in the Enterprise track, which features presentations from members of TechBeacon's 100 DevOps "ones to watch.
Posted January 25, 2016
With the shortage of data scientists, today's modern business analysts are being challenged to become "citizen data scientists" and use predictive analytics to find hidden value within big and disparate data. However, the problem is that these business analysts often lack the statistical programming skills to navigate the data.
Posted January 25, 2016
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Posted January 20, 2016
IOUG is seeking passionate leaders and #IOUGeniuses to serve on the IOUG Board of Directors. All paid, voting members of IOUG are eligible to run for the Board of Directors with terms beginning May 2016. The deadline for submitting applications is Monday, January 25, 2016.
Posted January 20, 2016
COLLABORATE 16 - IOUG Forum is your clear path to master Oracle technologist status.
Posted January 20, 2016
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Posted January 20, 2016
Exponential data growth is hitting organizations of all sizes hard. It's not enough to merely add more capacity; recovery point objectives must be met, and time is money when it comes to data recovery. The simple truth is that to be effectively managed, adequately protected and completely recovered, your data size must be shrunk.
Posted January 20, 2016
JFrog has secured $50 million from an investment round that will assist in growing the company and focus on its goals for the DevOps market. The investment round was led by Scale Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Battery Ventures, Vintage Investment Partners and Qumra Capital, as well as participation from existing investors.
Posted January 20, 2016