Database Management Articles
SambaNova Systems is releasing the new SambaNova Suite, a collection of accurate generative AI models optimized for the enterprise, deployed on-premises or in the cloud.
Posted March 17, 2023
LicenseFortress, Inc., an independent software asset management provider, is introducing Database Insight as an add-on to the ArxPlatform, further strengthening its partnership with Application Performance Ltd. The ArxPlatform leverages intelligent, real-time software license compliance monitoring and alerting for Oracle, Microsoft, and VMware. The addition of Database Insight will provide optimization for how database licenses are used, as well as unlocking hosting and cloud platform savings, according to the company.
Posted March 17, 2023
The world is becoming increasingly digital every day and, as a result, even more data-driven. The datasphere is experiencing stunning growth, with 90% of all data being created over just the past two years. This explosive growth is something that will only continue in the future, and it's clear that as companies begin to amass more and more data, they need to take a hard look at their data management practices.
Posted March 16, 2023
Altair, a global provider of computational science and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, is rebranding its entire data analytics and AI suite as Altair RapidMiner, uniting all data analytics technology into one platform, following the acquisitions of RapidMiner and World Programming. The Altair RapidMiner platform offers comprehensive end-to-end solutions from data ingestion and modeling to operationalization and visualization. Additionally, the platform is now available via Altair Units, delivering a new generation of frictionless AI capabilities to customers, according to the company.
Posted March 16, 2023
Census, provider of the Data Activation platform that syncs customer data from data warehouses to key business tools, announced a new integration and partnership with Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. By adding Datadog monitoring, Census customers can track the health of real-time reverse ETL syncs using custom alerts and dashboards, according to the vendor.
Posted March 16, 2023
AI is advancing at a faster clip this year with the debut of several technologies boosting its usage. Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), for example, is the large-scale natural language technology that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. AI expert and Erudit's chief science officer and co-founder, Ricardo Michel Reyes, discussed the growing use of AI in programming and whether or not its advancement is something that programmers should fear when it comes to their job security.
Posted March 15, 2023
Grafana Labs is announcing its recent acquisition of Pyroscope, the open source, continuous profiling project company.
Posted March 15, 2023
In IT, few names are more significant than SAP and AWS. Countless organizations rely on SAP's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for running their mission-critical systems, while AWS holds an astonishing 33% share of the cloud services hosting market.
Posted March 15, 2023
UiPath, an enterprise automation software company, announced that data science teams using Amazon SageMaker, an end-to-end machine learning (ML) service, can now connect to UiPath to quickly connect new ML models into business processes without the need for complex coding. The UiPath Business Automation Platform makes it simple for data scientists, ML engineers, and business analysts to automate deployment pipelines, reducing the cost of experimentation, and increasing the pace of innovation, according to the vendor.
Posted March 15, 2023
Globalstar Inc, a provider of connectivity to businesses and people worldwide, is working with Oracle NetSuite to support its vision to deliver the most reliable communication services. With NetSuite, Globalstar has been able to take advantage of an integrated business system to streamline and scale its international operations and reallocate time and resources to accelerate growth.
Posted March 15, 2023
Oracle announced that the University System of Georgia (USG) has joined Oracle Academy to advance technology education and help students develop career-ready expertise in cloud, software development, and business applications. Oracle Academy will work with USG to provide curriculum, cloud technology and professional development across the university system's 26 public colleges and universities serving over 334,000 students.
Posted March 15, 2023
AT&T Mexico is moving critical IT and business processes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to expand the benefits of mobile internet to more than 21 million subscribers and business customers. The move will impact customers in industries such as education, health, and banking nationwide. With OCI, the company will be able to manage OSS/BSS workloads, analytics, and databases more efficiently in the cloud, according to the company.
Posted March 15, 2023
This month, I want to take a higher-level view of database performance concepts and introduce a few themes that will likely follow you throughout your career working with database systems and applications. These themes should be viewed as guiding principles to keep in mind when confronted with database performance issues.
Posted March 15, 2023
Armory, the continuous deployment (CD) company, is releasing several plugins for Spinnaker that are designed to make the platform faster and more secure. Spinnaker can help teams deploy software quickly, safely, and reliably. However, the platform presents technical and cost challenges when managing the growing number of accounts, configurations, credentials, resources and infrastructure overhead required for deployments at scale.
Posted March 14, 2023
Datadobi, in collaboration with Climb Channel Solutions,4 is launching the StorageMAP File System Assessment Service, an intelligent unstructured data solution that equips users with a comprehensive understanding of their data environment to encourage more informed decision-making.
Posted March 14, 2023
Google Cloud and MongoDB significantly expanding their joint commitment to powering data-driven transformations with a multi-year extension of their partnership. The partnership expansion includes plans to double the scope of Google Cloud infrastructure that MongoDB needs to support accelerating adoption of Atlas.
Posted March 14, 2023
The EY organization (EY) and IBM are collaborating to focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions that aim to help organizations accelerate business transformation with value-led sustainability. EY and IBM teams will pursue innovative offerings that help integrate sustainability with business strategy, support the operationalization of their programs with speed and scale, and transform how value is created for their business, their stakeholders, their people, and the planet.
Posted March 13, 2023
Lonestar Data Holdings announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding for furthering its plan to establish lunar data centers. Lonestar's initial data center, the size of a hardback novel, will be followed by a series of larger data centers offering data storage and edge processing.
Posted March 13, 2023
IBM and Cohesity are collaborating to address the critical need organizations have for increased data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments. Combining data protection, cyber resilience, and data management capabilities from both companies, IBM will launch its new IBM Storage Defender solution which will include Cohesity's data protection as an integral part of the offering.
Posted March 13, 2023
Dremio, the easy and open data lakehouse, is offering key new features to enable customers to create their data lakehouses more easily by performantly loading data into Apache Iceberg tables, query and federate across more data sources with Dremio Sonar, automatically format SQL queries in the Dremio SQL Runner, and securely connect Microsoft PowerBI using single sign-on (SSO).
Posted March 13, 2023
SolarWinds, a provider of powerful and secure IT management software, announced SolarWinds Observability is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, empowering SolarWinds customers to take advantage of the Azure cloud platform. In addition, SolarWinds expanded customer availability across the Asia-Pacific region to the company's software as a service (SaaS)-delivered observability offering designed to help businesses gain visibility into modern and distributed digital services.
Posted March 10, 2023
Ontotext, a global provider of enterprise knowledge graph (EKG) technology and semantic database engines, is releasing GraphDB 10.2, empowering users to oversee system health and diagnose problems easier. The solution also includes support for X.509 client certificate authentication, which provides greater flexibility when accessing a secured GraphDB instance.
Posted March 10, 2023
pgEdge is emerging from stealth with the launch of its fully open, fully distributed database optimized for the network edge and based on the open source PostgreSQL database.
Posted March 09, 2023
Rocket Software will present its roadmap for Q2 2023 during an upcoming livestream highlighting its MultiValue products. The livestream will include updates on Rocket UniVerse, Rocket UniData, Rocket D3, jBASE, OpenQM, AccuTerm, and MultiValue tools including the MultiValue Integration Server (MVIS) and the MV Experiences (MVX) as well as new e-Learning.
Posted March 09, 2023
Organizations rely heavily on SAP systems and applications to run crucial business processes; securing these systems against cyber-attacks is vital. While several cybersecurity frameworks exist to manage cyber risks, they use generic wording that is hard to apply to application security and lack specific guidance to cover SAP environments. As a result, organizations must select the right frameworks to enhance their security posture and streamline complex security operations to safeguard critical assets from attacks.
Posted March 09, 2023
Evoke from BlueFinity allows MultiValue technologists to create native and web apps that are as modern as any app on a phone, tablet, or desktop. Evoke enables users to integrate MV data and legacy code, meaning faster to market with lower development cost and easier enhancement and modification, according to the vendor. Users can utilize tools such as chatbots, AI, ChatGPT, graphs, signature panels, retail card views, component libraries and much, much more without becoming a specialist in those technologies.
Posted March 09, 2023
Entrinsik is releasing Informer 5.7, adding a new user interface that simplifies Informer with intuitive ways to navigate, design, and utilize the tool from the home screen. Also, Informer 5.7 features an enhanced workflow which has been redesigned to feel natural and provide a consistent experience, increasing the ease and effectiveness of accessing, analyzing, sharing, and automating data.
Posted March 09, 2023
A long, long time ago—in the early 90s—I first worked as a DBA with responsibility for enterprise databases. I will never forget how surprised and disappointed I was to discover that the data in the database files were completely unencrypted. A system administrator with access to the database files could read the data in those files, even if they didn't have a database username and password.
Posted March 09, 2023
Across database structures, dates are ubiquitous: sales date; order date; shipment date; receipt date; created date; last updated date. You might think that with such an abundant presence, dates would be well understood. Sadly, dates hide in the shadows—and many are confused over how dates work. People run a query, get a result, and seem to expect that what one sees, is what one gets. If they see a two-digit year, they believe that is exactly how the data is stored.
Posted March 09, 2023
Rocket Software announced it will launch the first of its new MultiValue (MV) eLearning modules. Available in late February, the first module is an MV Foundation path that covers eight topics: querying files and records; editing records and fields; creating files; describing files, records, and fields with a dictionary; creating interactive (I-type) fields; manipulating selections of data with select lists; writing a simple program with prompts and conditional logic in a paragraph; and increasing performance with hashed files and indexes.
Posted March 09, 2023
The Rocket Software MV team announced the release of UniVerse 11.3.5, increasing supportability, stability, and performance. UniVerse 11.3.5 contains a total of 70 bug fixes and 15 enhancements encompassing audit logging, Python, replication, security, encryption, and more.
Posted March 09, 2023
Logpoint is releasing AgentX, an endpoint agent for Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Cloud deployments that accelerates threat detection and investigation on endpoints to ensure fast response capabilities. According to the company, in addition to gathering telemetry, AgentX adds interrogation, compliance checks, and vulnerability management capabilities to Logpoint's security operations platform, converging SIEM, SOAR, and UEBA technologies, to improve overall security posture significantly.
Posted March 08, 2023
Databricks is launching Databricks Model Serving, a solution aiming to streamline the management and scaling of production machine learning (ML) within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
Posted March 08, 2023
Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped carrying a wallet when leaving the house. Almost all shops supported—often insisted on—touchless payments, so there was no need to carry around paper money, and since my phone was fully able to perform touchless payments, my phone became all I needed to navigate the commercial world. I'm sure most of you have had a similar experience.
Posted March 08, 2023
MSRcosmos is launching an SAP modernization-in-a-box solution, powered by Microsoft Azure, the solution aims to transform the SAP landscape into an agile and intelligent enterprise architecture by extracting full capabilities of cloud, data and AI, and intelligent automation.
Posted March 08, 2023
Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is introducing the Rubrik Transform Partner Program to empower partners to become trusted data security advisors and help improve the cyber readiness, resilience, and recovery for their customers. Rubrik Transform leverages a points-based scoring system and customizable incentive plan to reward top-performing partners, equipping them with important resources to win in the ongoing battle against modern cyber threats, according to the vendor.
Posted March 07, 2023
Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity provider, is releasing its new Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) module for Cortex XSIAM, enabling customers to ingest user identity and behavior data and deploy state of the art AI technology to detect identity-driven attacks. The module further strengthens XSIAM's ability to consolidate multiple security operations capabilities into a unified, AI-driven security operations center (SOC) platform, according to the vendor.
Posted March 07, 2023
The OpenNMS Group, Inc., a subsidiary of NantHealth, Inc., is launching OpenNMS Meridian 2023, an open source Meridian product now updated with a myriad of new features and capabilities to assist in scaling workloads, consistent deployment, manage network device configuration, and more.
Posted March 06, 2023
Digibee, an enterprise integration platform as a service (eiPaaS) company, is partnering with Orasi, a DevSecOps innovator, joining Orasi's strong partner community that brings enterprise customers full development and delivery lifecycle support for market-driven products. Digibee will provide, through the Digibee Enterprise Integration Platform (eiPaaS), the ability to connect and integrate disparate legacy and cloud-based systems as part of Orasi's expert guidance, services, and tools that accelerate the maturation of secure, high quality applications.
Posted March 06, 2023
Ermetic, the cloud infrastructure security company, is offering automated capabilities that enable customers to discover and fix misconfigurations, compliance violations, and risky or excessive privileges in Kubernetes clusters through its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).
Posted March 06, 2023
Virtana, a provider of AI-driven solutions for hybrid cloud management and monitoring, is making enhancements to the the infrastructure performance management (IPM) capabilities of Virtana Platform, focusing on proactive enterprise IT management.
Posted March 03, 2023
Fivetran, the global leader in automated data movement, is releasing three new offerings that extend the Fivetran Data Movement Platform to give users options for all deployment types for secure, real-time, and high-volume database replication. Trusted by thousands of market-leading companies such as Autodesk, Conagra Brands, Lionsgate, Morgan Stanley and Ziff Davis, Fivetran's fully managed service helps companies power mission-critical workloads and drive data-informed business decisions.
Posted March 03, 2023
Qlik is launching Connector Factory, its strategy to continually expand access to and delivery of data from hundreds of SaaS applications and data sources for enterprise cloud analytics and data integration needs. Connector Factory is an evolution in Qlik's continued focus on connecting and unlocking data from key enterprise sources for analysis and action, according to the vendor.
Posted March 02, 2023
Rockset, the real-time analytics database built for the cloud, is launching compute-compute separation for real-time analytics, which splits streaming ingestion from low latency queries.
Posted March 02, 2023
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the accelerator of Postgres in the enterprise, is launching EDB Postgres Distributed (PGD) 5.0, introducing extreme high availability for PostgreSQL—up to 99.999%+ availability via active-active technology, according to the vendor.
Posted March 01, 2023
Aptum, a hybrid multi-cloud managed service provider, is releasing its Multi-Tenant Cloud (MTC), a powerful virtual data center solution providing the ability to deploy virtual machines, virtual appliances, and other services in a multi-tenant environment using a consumption-based billing model. According to the company, Aptum's MTC was designed with today's businesses' needs in mind, regardless of their size.
Posted March 01, 2023
It's time to submit nominations 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 users. The nominations period has been extended through Wednesday, March 15, 2023, followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted March 01, 2023
TigerGraph, provider of an advanced analytics and ML platform for connected data, is releasing the latest version (3.9) of TigerGraph Cloud, the native parallel graph database-as-a-service. TigerGraph Cloud 3.9 includes new security, advanced AI, and machine learning capabilities that meet the demands of its rapidly growing customer base and streamline the adoption, deployment, and management of the most scalable graph database platform, according to the company. The underlying parallel native graph database engine is also available for on-prem or self-managed cloud installation.
Posted March 01, 2023