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• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Disaster recovery planning on readers' minds in 2021

  New disaster recovery products attracted the site's most page views in 2021, indicating disaster recovery planning is top of mind with cloud-native protection.

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  Data forecast for 2022: Data quality and cloud convergence

  Expect data quality to be a top area of investment and activity next year as the need to trust data for operations, insight and machine learning will only continue to grow.

• December 17, 2021 17 Dec'21

  Cloud maturation, data mesh among 2021 top analytics trends

  After years of slow growth, this was the year analytics in the cloud became the norm and on-premises BI receded to the background. It was also the year data mesh emerged.

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Tableau completes acquisition of Narrative Science

  With the closing of the purchase, the analytics vendor added automated data storytelling capabilities to its existing cache of natural language processing tools.

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Data management trends in 2021: More money, more cloud

  In 2021, interest in the cloud data lakehouse model helped to propel multiple vendors forward as new serverless database-as-a-service systems emerged as well.

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• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  Cockroach Labs raises $278M for distributed SQL database

  The cloud database vendor has appealed to enterprises with its data capabilities and continues to attract investors as the market opportunity expands.

• December 16, 2021 16 Dec'21

  New Veeam CEO sets $10B revenue goal, potential IPO

  Veeam has had several CEOs in the last five years. Its latest leader aims for a massive increase in revenue, an IPO and acquisitions to continue its growth trajectory.

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Sisense analytics platform update aids data scientists

  Though Sisense's platform is largely geared toward business users, the latest addition to the vendor's suite is a tool aimed at helping code-first users build data assets.

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  SnapLogic raises $165M to fund AI data integration

  The data integration vendor's fundraising success shows the growth the iPaaS and RPA markets have seen in recent years, with a steady pace of investment and acquisitions.

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Tableau platform update adds governance, security tools

  With many organizations enabling more employees to work with data, Tableau 2021.4 includes three new features aimed at improving data governance and increasing data security.

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  8 analytics startups to watch over the next year

  Differentiation is key to the success of any new enterprise, and a crop of analytics vendors are delivering new capabilities to try to distinguish themselves.

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  Data catalogs fuel increased efficiency, speed-to-insight

  By collecting and arranging data assets in a single environment, organizations are able to reduce the time to reach the insights that lead to data-driven decisions.

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  Vendia expands serverless blockchain data sharing platform

  The Vendia Share service gets new features that enable more database-type capabilities, alongside smart contracts to support complex business rules.

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  Rubrik's ransomware tools put detection in line with protection

  To better protect against ransomware, Rubrik has expanded the capabilities of its core platform and added new features including cyber threat hunting and Rubrik Cloud Vault.

• December 09, 2021 09 Dec'21

  Why Criteo chose Aerospike real-time database

  Criteo is in the process of migrating to Aerospike Database to reduce the number of servers it needs to power its global advertising marketplace from 5,000 to 600.

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  Calyptia spurs observability data with Fluent Bit Enterprise

  Collecting first-mile log data that is as close to the source as possible is the open source startup's goal as it builds out new commercial services.

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  NFL's Raiders use analytics to engage new customer base

  The franchise's move to Las Vegas forced it to modernize its analytics stack as it engaged a new fan base and cultivated the unique opportunities present in Sin City.

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  HYCU Protégé adds AWS protection for outages, cyber attacks

  When cloud providers like AWS go down, business apps go down with them. Data protection tools from Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam and now HYCU Protégé for AWS prevent downtime.

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Backups for Microsoft 365 expands Rewind's portfolio

  Rewind expands its SaaS protection with Backups for Microsoft 365. The new service is the first from Rewind in support of a major SaaS platform.

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  Yellowfin analytics platform update adds NLQ capabilities

  Yellowfin 9.7, the vendor's latest platform update, includes Guided Natural Language Query, a tool that enables users to explore and analyze data without writing code.

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  NetSpring raises $13M to fuel operational intelligence suite

  The startup offers a real-time analytics platform designed to enable agile decision-making. It plans to use its funding for product development and to expand its go-to-market efforts.

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  LogDNA raises $50M for observability data

  The LogDNA CEO discusses challenges and the need for organizations to collect and analyze log data to enable operations, DevOps and security applications.

• December 06, 2021 06 Dec'21

  Qlik integration with UiPath boosts automation capabilities

  Although the analytics vendor's platform already has automation capabilities, the integration with the RPA vendor will extend those capabilities to new use cases.

• December 03, 2021 03 Dec'21

  AWS Snowball Edge adds offline tape migration capabilities

  With AWS Snowball Edge, users can now migrate tape libraries to the cloud, even doing so offline to save on bandwidth.

• December 03, 2021 03 Dec'21

  AWS cloud database users detail applications

  AWS has more than one database to choose from, as the cloud provider aims to provide users like eHealth and HBO Max with technologies to meet different use cases.

• December 02, 2021 02 Dec'21

  AWS disaster recovery service now available

  AWS disaster recovery services now feature a first-party option with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery alongside a new Recycling Bin service for data snapshot recovery.

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  AWS aims to ease cloud database management and migration

  The tech giant is looking to help its users to better migrate to, manage and operate cloud databases with a series of new data management product releases and updates.

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  Dell extends Cyber Recovery ransomware protection to AWS

  Dell EMC's PowerProtect Cyber Recovery launched in AWS Marketplace, providing customers with a way to isolate their data in AWS-based storage instead of on premises.

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  Cloud, self-service BI capabilities fuel agile analytics

  The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of agile data-driven decision-making, and key to that agility are a deployment in the cloud and self-service BI capabilities.

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  AWS Lake Formation advances cloud data lake control

  AWS added new features to its cloud data lake service, featuring Governed Tables to manage consistency of data and row-level access control for security.

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  Zerto launches DR orchestration tool for AWS EC2

  The new Zerto In-Cloud is standalone DR automation and orchestration software that uses EBS snapshots and AWS APIs instead of Zerto's continuous data protection technology.

• November 23, 2021 23 Nov'21

  American Airlines flies its data warehouse to the cloud

  The pandemic hit American Airlines hard, but its management took an optimistic view, seeing at as an opportunity to use data more effectively to improve operations.

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  LogicMonitor introduces centralized log management platform

  The data observability platform vendor's new platform enables enterprises to use AIOps and automation to find anomalies with their IT system, report them and head off widespread problems.

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  Starburst Enterprise brings Apache Iceberg to data lakehouse

  A new Starburst Enterprise release brings in new capabilities to help organizations use the Trino SQL query engine to analyze data stored on premises and in the cloud.

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  JetStream's Azure-native DR finally takes off

  JetStream DR for Azure VMware Solution offers DRaaS for VMware VMs and is deeply integrated with Azure, including using Azure Blob Storage to minimize storage costs.

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  Hightouch raises $40M for reverse ETL data platform

  Co-founder Kashish Gupta provides insight into the data challenges that led Hightouch to develop a new approach to getting data out of data warehouses and into operational tools.

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  CockroachDB update scales distributed SQL database

  The latest database release from Cockroach Labs focuses on providing optimized capabilities for large deployments that can handle up to a petabyte of data.

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  StorOne unveils S1 Backup for ransomware protection

  StorOne expands its reach with S1 Backup to combat ransomware attacks. The new software emphasizes an all-flash backup tier and immutability as part of its strategy.

• November 16, 2021 16 Nov'21

  Salesforce to buy Narrative Science, roll it into Tableau

  The data storytelling vendor revealed that it has reached an agreement to be acquired by Salesforce and will then become part of the Tableau subsidiary.

• November 10, 2021 10 Nov'21

  Clumio extends protection to SQL Server on Amazon EC2

  Clumio Protect now covers Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2, enabling customers to protect SQL Server data in the cloud instead of manual scripts or on-premises backup.

• October 26, 2021 26 Oct'21

  Qlik adds Forts to analytics suite, enabling faster analysis

  Qlik Forts, a tool that enables customers to access and analyze data where it resides rather than forcing them to first import it into Qlik, is now generally available.

• October 21, 2021 21 Oct'21

  Cloudian provides object storage backup target for Kasten

  Cloudian HyperStore can serve as both secondary and primary storage for Kubernetes with its Kasten K10 by Veeam integration and support for Red Hat OpenShift.

• October 19, 2021 19 Oct'21

  Backup vendors aid ransomware recovery with data vaults

  Veritas and Cohesity introduced offerings that enable customers to put their data in air-gapped, vendor-managed storage vaults, providing an extra layer of ransomware defense.

• October 14, 2021 14 Oct'21

  MLB Statcast delivering real-time insights with Google Cloud

  With Google Cloud to process and transform data collected during games by its tracking technology, Major League Baseball is delivering real-time insights to both fans and teams.

• October 13, 2021 13 Oct'21

  Veeam Backup for Salesforce seeks to protect user data

  Veeam's Backup for Salesforce enters a market that has become busier in the last couple of years. Its features include comparison of data and metadata.

• October 12, 2021 12 Oct'21

  Google Cloud unveils integration between Looker and Tableau

  Two analytics vendors unveiled an integration Tuesday that enables users to benefit from the semantic modeling strength of one and the data visualization capabilities of the other.

• October 12, 2021 12 Oct'21

  Google expands Cloud Spanner database with PostgreSQL

  A year after it was first introduced, Google's BigQuery Omni multi-cloud data platform is now generally available as Google continues to push its data agenda in the cloud.

• October 11, 2021 11 Oct'21

  New Balance managing the pandemic with Tibco Spotfire

  New Balance, a manufacturer and seller of athletic shoes and apparel whose in-store sales plummeted due to the pandemic, used Tibco's BI tools to develop its e-commerce strategy.

• October 07, 2021 07 Oct'21

  How DataOps can improve healthcare outcomes

  DataOps is more than just DevOps for data. It's a set of data orchestration, operations and management tools and principles that help organizations improve data pipelines.

• October 07, 2021 07 Oct'21

  Alteryx acquisition of Hyper Anna adds AI capabilities

  The data management vendor has acquired Hyper Anna, an Australian startup, to add automated augmented intelligence capabilities to its data management and analytics platform.

• October 07, 2021 07 Oct'21

  InsightSoftware acquires Exago to fold into Logi Analytics

  InsightSoftware, which acquired embedded BI vendor Logi in April, has acquired fellow embedded BI vendor Exago and plans to integrate Exago into Logi.

• October 06, 2021 06 Oct'21

  Cohesity backup integrates with Cisco SecureX

  Cohesity's anomaly detection and recovery functions can be accessed in Cisco SecureX, allowing greater visibility and quicker response time during a ransomware attack.

• October 06, 2021 06 Oct'21

  ArangoDB advances graph database fortunes with new funding

  Claudius Weinberger, co-founder and CEO of ArangoDB, discusses why the vendor is raising money to meet the growing demand for graph database technology.

• October 05, 2021 05 Oct'21

  Gartner predicts exponential growth of graph technology

  As both organizations and their databases struggle to manage growing amounts of data, experts see dramatic growth in the use of graph databases by 2025.

• October 05, 2021 05 Oct'21

  Veeam backup updates focus on cloud, containers

  Veeam Software seeks simplified management with its latest batch of updates. In addition, Kasten by Veeam enhanced support for its Kubernetes data protection.

• October 05, 2021 05 Oct'21

  TigerGraph 3.2 targets platform's performance, ease of use

  Enterprise-grade performance and ease of use are the key areas of the latest platform update from the startup graph database vendor as it looks to attract more enterprise customers.

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  Qlik acquisition of Big Squid adds autoML capabilities

  Qlik has acquired Big Squid to add automated machine learning capabilities to its platform. In addition, the analytics vendor recently unveiled a new automated workflow tool.

• September 30, 2021 30 Sep'21

  Ascend extends flex-code data connectors

  The data platform vendor looks to enable organizations to more easily read and write data from different data sources with a new low-code connector framework.

• September 30, 2021 30 Sep'21

  PostgreSQL 14 improves open source database performance

  The open source database has extended its JSON unstructured data support and enhanced its stored procedures capabilities to give users more database power.

• September 30, 2021 30 Sep'21

  Clumio extends backup as a service to Amazon S3

  Clumio Protect for Amazon S3 provides point-in-time recovery and anti-ransomware features to a storage environment that is increasingly becoming mission-critical.

• September 30, 2021 30 Sep'21

  New Tibco Spotfire capabilities add interoperability

  The new capabilities added to Tibco's Predict portfolio of BI tools focus on ease of use and their interoperability with other parts of the Tibco platform.

• September 29, 2021 29 Sep'21

  ThoughtSpot reports cloud growth, but IPO still not imminent

  ThoughtSpot, which made a strategic shift to prioritize the cloud in 2020 in anticipation of eventually going public, reported substantial year-over-year SaaS revenue growth.

• September 29, 2021 29 Sep'21

  Vista plans to acquire Blue Prism and roll it into Tibco

  Vista Equity Partners, the parent company of analytics vendor Tibco, has revealed its intent to acquire a leading robotic process automation vendor and plans to roll it into Tibco once the deal closes.

• September 28, 2021 28 Sep'21

  Catalogic CloudCasa charges for Kubernetes backup storage

  Catalogic introduced paid subscription tiers for customers using its CloudCasa Kubernetes backup-as-a-service platform to store persistent volume backups.

• September 28, 2021 28 Sep'21

  HPE intros GreenLake data lakehouse fabric for analytics

  HPE taps multiple open source technologies, including Kubernetes, Apache Spark and Delta Lake, for developing new data fabric services on its GreenLake cloud platform.

• September 28, 2021 28 Sep'21

  Alteryx partnership with UiPath adds automation capabilities

  Alteryx expanded its partnership agreement with a robotic process automation vendor as Alteryx continues to make automation a central part of its analytics platform.

• September 27, 2021 27 Sep'21

  Hyperconverged Analytics continues to guide Tibco strategy

  A year after unveiling a new analytics environment that blends data science, visualization and streaming, interoperability continues to guide the vendor's development strategy.

• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  New Salesforce native backup may not be enterprise ready

  Salesforce unveiled a new way to natively back up and recover data within the platform, but it doesn't compare to the enterprise-grade features backup vendors offer.

• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  New Tableau integrations with Slack aim to increase speed

  Tableau unveiled a series of tools during Salesforce's Dreamforce 2021 user conference that blend Tableau's analytics capabilities with the collaboration capabilities of Slack.

• September 23, 2021 23 Sep'21

  Qumulo consolidates data protection features into Recover Q

  Qumulo Core's snapshotting, replication, recovery and access control have been packed into Recover Q to give customers a one-stop shop for anti-ransomware capabilities.

• September 22, 2021 22 Sep'21

  Modern data strategy includes cloud, domain federation

  Analytics strategies should include overarching organizational best practices blended with teams empowered to build interoperable data assets, according to one industry expert.

• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  Druva hastens ransomware recovery with curated snapshots

  Druva's new Curated Recovery feature creates a recovery-ready snapshot containing the latest untampered data from previous snapshots, reducing recovery time.

• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  Pandemic continues to highlight importance of analytics

  Organizations with successful analytics programs have weathered the economic crisis caused by the pandemic far better than those who have not prioritized BI, according to research.

• September 21, 2021 21 Sep'21

  Nutanix boosts data management services in the cloud

  Nutanix is aiming to make it easier to manage, deploy and protect data and databases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a series of product updates.

• September 16, 2021 16 Sep'21

  Backup startup Rewind raises $65M in Series B funding

  Rewind closed a $65 million funding round led by Insight Partners. The investment will be used to grow employee headcount and expand the backup platform to cover more SaaS applications.

• September 16, 2021 16 Sep'21

  Domo adds collaborative development tool to analytics suite

  Domo has unveiled Sandbox, a new portal for developing and testing data assets that enables collaboration and provides safety and governance measures.

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  Kafka streaming data gets governance from Confluent

  Apache Kafka event streaming from Confluent helps online grocery provider Instacart deliver milk to customers when they need it, by helping to power real-time inventory updates.

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  TrilioVault update focuses on securing Kubernetes backup

  Anti-ransomware features in TrilioVault for Kubernetes v2.5 include application-level immutability and encryption to help ensure Kubernetes backup data is recoverable.

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  Uplevel analytics tools lift software engineering efficiency

  Uplevel, a startup vendor whose focus is on improving the efficiency of software engineers, unveiled a set of new capabilities that use data to monitor software design projects.

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  StreamNative raises $23M for Apache Pulsar data streaming

  Leading vendor behind the open source event streaming project raised new funds to help build out a cloud platform for event data and message streaming.

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Snowflake aims at financial services with data cloud

  Snowflake launches its new Data Cloud offering as it continues to expand the range of applications and capabilities for its customers, including Western Union and Capital One.

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Future of analytics will close gap between data, decisions

  As data increases in complexity and volume, a gap is growing between data intake and data-driven decision-making that analytics tools will need to address and aim to close.

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Alation boosts platform with new data governance application

  The new Alation service provides a series of capabilities to improve governance, including a centralized dashboard and data steward workbench for managing workflow.

• September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21

  Materialize brings streaming SQL database to the cloud

  To date, streaming database startup Materialize has not had a managed cloud service -- but that's changing, with a preview of the company's cloud DBaaS platform.

• September 10, 2021 10 Sep'21

  Time is now for enterprises to deploy analytics in the cloud

  Speed and security now make cloud analytics preferable to on-premises deployments, along with advantages such as collaboration for a distributed workforce and agility to scale.

• September 09, 2021 09 Sep'21

  Dell EMC tunes PowerProtect for data protection at scale

  Dell EMC updated PowerProtect with faster snapshots, new software to manage multiple appliances and a managed service for recovery to help scale data protection functions.

• September 09, 2021 09 Sep'21

  How VMware's CDO views data management

  The chief data officer of the virtualization vendor details her views on the increasing challenges of dealing with growing volumes of data and the critical importance of data governance.

• September 08, 2021 08 Sep'21

  Oracle Analytics helps Northwell Health meet staffing needs

  In need of an efficient way to determine staffing needs when the pandemic struck, Northwell Health got help with an Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management dashboard.

• September 08, 2021 08 Sep'21

  Analytics trends include a surge in app development

  As more organizations have recognized the value of data during the pandemic, a surge in application development is among the top business intelligence trends.

• September 02, 2021 02 Sep'21

  Dresner: Top analytics trend remains rate of adoption

  Increased investment in analytics and proliferation of data science capabilities are among the most significant ongoing trends in BI as the pandemic stretches into late 2021.

• September 02, 2021 02 Sep'21

  Tableau platform update focuses on broad analytics adoption

  Tableau 2021.3 doesn't include fancy new AI or machine learning features, instead focusing on capabilities that enable enterprises to scale their analytics programs to more users.

• August 31, 2021 31 Aug'21

  Databricks raises $1.6B more to boost data lakehouse

  Investors are super confident in the growth potential for cloud data management and analytics as the impact of the Snowflake IPO continues to ripple through the industry.

• August 31, 2021 31 Aug'21

  TigerGraph aims to take graph technology mainstream

  As relational databases struggle with scale, one graph database vendor says a paradigm shift is underway and aims to make graph technology the standard approach for data storage.

• August 31, 2021 31 Aug'21

  Apache Drill improves big data SQL query engine

  Open source SQL query engine gets new release that will expand the number of data sources that can be queried, including Elasticsearch, Splunk and Apache Cassandra.

• August 27, 2021 27 Aug'21

  Rockset advances real-time streaming data SQL queries

  Rockset previews new features in its cloud database platform to help organizations more easily use real-time data to support data analytics and business intelligence.

• August 25, 2021 25 Aug'21

  AWS launches Backup Audit Manager compliance tool

  A new AWS Backup feature, the Audit Manager, tracks backup activities to help customers determine if they are meeting business and regulatory compliance requirements.

• August 25, 2021 25 Aug'21

  Cribl brings in $200M to advance data lake observability

  Cribl looks to grow its LogStream platform capabilities with new funding that will help the vendor grow operations and advance its data lake visibility technology.

• August 20, 2021 20 Aug'21

  Alteryx platform update includes automated recommendations

  Automation is an ongoing focus for Alteryx. The vendor's latest update adds an automated recommendation feature that suggests tools to connect as users build workflows.

• August 20, 2021 20 Aug'21

  With Amazon MemoryDB, AWS takes aim at Redis in the cloud

  The tech giant is offering its users a new managed Redis-compatible in-memory database platform that will compete against services from Redis, Google and Microsoft.

• August 19, 2021 19 Aug'21

  Hitachi Vantara expands Lumada DataOps suite

  Hitachi Vantara integrated its data management technologies into a new product suite intended to help organizations with data operations. Data governance is coming next.