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August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20
Cohesity gives DataPlatform an I/O Boost for flash storage

As enterprises demand faster backup and recovery, Cohesity adds software advances to DataPlatform that enable it to work better with all-flash appliances from Cisco and HPE.
August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20
Confluent Platform 6 brings cluster linking to Apache Kafka

Event streaming vendor Confluent adds new cluster linking capabilities in its latest platform update, bringing more scalability for deployments that span multiple clouds.
August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20
Snowflake IPO shows strength of cloud data warehouse

The cloud data warehouse services vendor files for an IPO as it looks to build out and expand its data portfolio to help organizations manage and analyze data assets.
August 26, 2020 26 Aug'20
Analytics startup Grid raises $12 million in funding

Armed with $12 million in Series A venture capital financing led by New Enterprise Associates, BI startup Grid is in position to take its platform to market.
August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20
Redis Labs looks to grow database with $100M funding

Redis Labs CEO Ofer Bengal gives insight into the state of the open source Redis database and caching layer, and where the vendor is headed, with a possible IPO on the horizon.
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August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20
BackupAssist ER offers a cheaper, slower path to DRaaS

BackupAssist ER offers disk-to-disk-to-cloud replication as a low-cost alternative to DRaaS, but lacks the recovery speed of DRaaS. It is suited for small enterprises willing to make that tradeoff.
August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20
Veeam backup software helps California city streamline IT

Rancho Cucamonga, a city in Southern California, moved from tape backup to Veeam software. Amid the pandemic and new protection needs, it's looking at other ways Veeam can help.
August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20
Acronis True Image 2021 is backup and antivirus in one

Acronis True Image 2021 added malware detection, monitoring and quarantining capabilities. It can now deliver both backup and security in one product, on one UI.
August 21, 2020 21 Aug'20
Customer location data leads to deeper level of insight

Behavioral analytics tell more about a person's true self than consumer data, according to Gravy Analytics CEO Jeff White, and are therefore key to data-driven decisions.
August 20, 2020 20 Aug'20
Google enhances Cloud Spanner and other databases

Google is adding a series of enhancements to its cloud database portfolio, with new capabilities for the Bigtable data store, Firestore mobile database and other platforms.
August 19, 2020 19 Aug'20
New Qubole Pipelines Service targets streaming data

Data lake vendor Qubole unveiled a data pipeline service, a new tool designed to enable organizations to manage their increasing amounts of streaming data.
August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20
Asigra Cloud Backup piles on extra layers of cyberdefense

As cybercriminals circumvent immutable backup by stealing admin credentials, Asigra 14.2 counters with Deep MFA, asking for permission whenever changes to backup policies are made.
August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20
Informatica CEO outlines digital transformation challenges

Informatica chief Amit Walia gives insight into what organizations need most to enable digital transformation and why enterprise data management is at the foundation.
August 18, 2020 18 Aug'20
Success of self-service BI depends on solid infrastructure

A clear data governance policy and effective training are critical to enabling self-service analytics users to make data-driven decisions for their organizations.
August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20
Scale Computing woos public sector with hardened backup

Scale Computing HC3 integrated Acronis SCS Cyber Backup 12.5 Hardened Edition to provide a strong ransomware defense offering for public sector customers.
August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20
'Data for good' movement spurs action in fight for causes

Though often associated with financial analysis, analytics is being used to aid nonprofit organizations in their fight for causes that improve society as well.
August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20
Oracle Autonomous JSON Database takes on MongoDB, Couchbase

The new Autonomous JSON Database is an attempt by Oracle to specifically support customers who only want document database capabilities and not a full multimodel database.
August 13, 2020 13 Aug'20
Pure Storage, Cohesity combine on all-flash backup appliance

Pure Storage's new FlashRecover appliance combines its FlashBlade hardware with Cohesity DataProtect backup software in response to customers' needs for faster restores.
August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20
K2View takes aim at DataOps with new funding

K2View CEO and co-founder talks about how his company's micro-database fabric approach to user data aims to improve data management by consolidating data in one place.
August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20
Tableau 2020.3 highlighted by new data prep capabilities

A new data preparation tool and enhanced predictive modeling capabilities highlight analytics software vendor Tableau's third-quarter platform update.
August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20
Importance of analytics heightened by COVID-19 pandemic

Business intelligence is needed when times are bad, and it's the organizations who have created a data-driven culture that are best poised to thrive amid the COVID-19 crisis.
August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20
How Riot Games upped its enterprise data governance game

Data governance product manager at Riot Games details how the game vendor dealt with data ownership challenges by embracing new processes and technologies for data management.
August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20
Baseball's Twins deploy Databricks to improve analytics power

With the amount of data used to make player personnel decisions in baseball growing exponentially, the Minnesota Twins began using Databricks to improve their modeling capabilities.
August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20
Flexible Metal bends toward Arcserve backup

Flexible Metal's IT manager was trying to do site-to-site replication for backup and DR using Veritas Backup Exec but found it too slow. Arcserve was faster and more reliable.
August 10, 2020 10 Aug'20
Gearset adds Salesforce backup to its toolbox

Gearset Data Backup takes backups more frequently than Salesforce's native tools and uses Gearset's deployment engine, normally used for DevOps, for recoveries.
August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20
Backup and recovery Magic Quadrant shows cloud significance

Representatives from vendor leaders Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam and Commvault give their impressions of Gartner's 2020 Magic Quadrant for backup and recovery products.
August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20
Maine state government modernizes with Oracle Analytics

Hampered by siloed data and a data warehouse constructed 25 years ago, Maine's state government used tools from Oracle to break down data barriers and improve BI capabilities.
August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20
TigerGraph adds cloud support, helps standardize graph coding

With democratization of graph databases in mind, TigerGraph recently added support for Microsoft Azure and took steps to help standardize graph query language.
August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20
Looker, Google unveil first collaboration since acquisition

Six months after Google's acquisition of Looker finally closed, the two unveiled their first collaboration during Google Cloud's virtual user conference.
August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20
Isima emerges with bi(OS) converged data platform

Startup launches with the general availability of a converged platform that offers the promise of integrating multiple data management and analysis steps into a single offering.
July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20
Subsurface event reveals what lies below the cloud data lake

Users at the Dremio-sponsored Subsurface virtual conference detail data lake efforts and trends, including the emerging Apache Iceberg project, originally created by Netflix.
July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20
Hasura Cloud launches GraphQL-as-a-service platform

Hasura made its GraphQL platform available as a managed service, enabling organizations to connect and query different data sources using the open source GraphQL language.
July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20
MinIO object storage supports Veeam backup

MinIO's partnership with Veeam promises it can make Veeam Backup and Replication run at primary storage speeds while also providing immutability for backup data.
July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20
Rockset updates real-time indexing cloud database

Technology based on the open source RocksDB project is helping cloud database vendor Rockset improve scalability for real-time data applications that don't benefit from data lakes.
July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20
NetBackup 8.3 adds cloud data protection, DR

NetBackup 8.3 folds in two other Veritas products, expanding its data protection into public clouds and providing resilience against ransomware attacks.
July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20
Data accuracy vendor boosts MDM data quality

Naveego's latest platform update introduces a new user interface that looks to make it easier for users to integrate different data sources while ensuring data quality.
July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20
Backblaze cloud offers free S3 migration service

Backblaze provides a point-and-click migration service out of Amazon S3. In related news, the Backblaze S3-compatible APIs became generally available.
July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20
Igneous Systems' new CEO talks about cloud and COVID-19

Igneous CEO Dean Darwin said COVID-19 and increased cloud adoption have increased the demand for unstructured data management. He sees a chance for Igneous to fill that demand.
July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20
Immuta adds automated data governance for Databricks

Immuta has extended its data governance with new features that help enterprises with data privacy compliance for Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform workloads.
July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20
AI, UX and embedded features all pillars of Power BI platform

As Microsoft adds new features to Power BI, augmented intelligence and embedded analytics will continue to be a focus, Microsoft revealed during its Inspire user conference.
July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20
Alteryx ADAPT a program for laid-off workers, recent grads

Alteryx is offering a free training program in data science to help people whose jobs have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as new graduates entering the workforce.
July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20
Starburst advances Presto to handle Hadoop data better

Enterprise Presto SQL vendor Starburst updated its data query platform with expanded support for legacy Hadoop workloads as well as modern cloud data lake deployments.
July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20
Nexsan Unity taps into cloud and Assureon archive

The third generation of Nexsan Unity appliances introduced interoperability with Assureon for extra ransomware defense and the ability to connect and migrate to 18 public clouds.
July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20
Commvault unveils Hyperscale X, Hedvig container support

Revealed during the keynote of Commvault's FutureReady virtual event, Hyperscale X marks the first time a Commvault product has integrated Hedvig technology.
July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20
Startup TileDB raises funds to advance universal data engine

A database technology project originally developed at MIT gets new funding that will help the startup database vendor grow and aim at a broader market.
July 21, 2020 21 Jul'20
ThoughtSpot, VoiceBase partner to provide complementary tools

The complementary capabilities of ThoughtSpot's BI platform and VoiceBase's speech analytics tools can now be combined due to a new strategic partnership between the vendors.
July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20
Prescriptive analytics in healthcare finds use amidst pandemic

Prescriptive analytics can provide organizations with actionable plans based on their gathered data and assist during a pandemic as well as in a post-pandemic world.
July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20
Catalogic copy data management supports HPE Nimble Storage

Catalogic is reacting to market appetite for putting copy data management on primary storage. Flash customers want to get more out of their arrays, and the hardware can handle it.
July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20
Distributed SQL database capabilities come to MariaDB X5

Open source database vendor updates its MariaDB platform with a new release that integrates improved Kafka support and a faster InnoDB storage engine to accelerate performance.
July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20
CEO: OwnBackup funding will power more SaaS platform support

The latest OwnBackup funding round is the SaaS backup vendor's largest. While Salesforce backup remains important, other top SaaS platforms are on the roadmap.
July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20
Datto quietly files for IPO

Industry analysts say despite economic uncertainty, the data protection market seems unfazed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Datto offered no comment on the IPO matter.
July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20
YugabyteDB 2.2 improves open source distributed SQL database

Yugabyte updates its open source database platform that is API compatible with both Apache Cassandra and PostgreSQL with improved scalability capabilities.
July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20
Howard Dresner talks current trends in analytics

In an interview on the state of business intelligence, longtime analyst Howard Dresner said cloud migration and AI features like natural language processing remain major trends.
July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20
Alteryx continues focus on ease of use in analytics platform

Ease of use is an ongoing focal point for Alteryx, which recently rebranded its suite of tools the Alteryx APA (Analytic Process Automation) Platform.
July 14, 2020 14 Jul'20
BigQuery Omni enables Google multi-cloud data analytics

Google BigQuery data analytics users can now query data across clouds from multiple providers, including AWS and Microsoft Azure, without the need to first move the data.
July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20
Geospatial data a means for deeper understanding

A presentation during Oracle's virtual user conference showed not only the value of spatial data but how it can be used with the vendor's tools.
July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20
Backup, security join forces for ransomware protection

Ransomware can take out backup systems, which are the last line of defense against data loss. To defend backups, data protection vendors are partnering with security companies.
July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20
AWS and Oracle battle for hybrid cloud database deployment

Oracle's Autonomous Database and the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) are coming down from the cloud and are now available for users to run on premises.
July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20
Tellius introduces SaaS version of its analytics platform

Tellius, an analytics startup whose platform is built on AI and machine learning, introduced a SaaS version of its tools to help customers reduce costs.
July 09, 2020 09 Jul'20
HubStor takes on Veeam, goes virtual with backup service

The HubStor backup and archive platform offers two types of models for its vSphere support. One customer called the platform an 'incredibly valuable' collection of functions.
July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20
Commvault partners with Microsoft for joint engineering

Chart Industries, which manufactures highly engineered cryogenic equipment, is early beneficiary of joint engineering partnership between Azure and Commvault's Metallic SaaS backup.
July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20
Information Builders rebranded IBI, updates analytics suite

Newly rebranded as IBI, the former Information Builders unveiled new features at its user conference in late June centered on AI and the cloud along with its new name.
July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20
SODA Foundation launches to unify open source data management

A new Linux Foundation-sponsored group will support open source data management and promote interoperability between applications and data sources, on premises or cloud-based.
July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20
Informatica expands enterprise data catalog capabilities

Informatica brought new features to its enterprise data catalog, including Data Asset Analytics, a tool to help organizations understand the value of their data.
July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20
Sisu adds new ways of answering 'Why?' to analytics platform

BI vendor Sisu on Tuesday revealed its second update since emerging from stealth in late 2019 featuring new tools aimed at quickly identifying why changes occur in data sets.
July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20
Actifio sues Rubrik for patent infringement

Actifio's complaint alleges Rubrik's products, including its 'Brik' appliances and Cloud Data Management software, infringes on four of Actifio's patents.
July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20
More AI, ease of use will shape Sisense analytics platform

After spending three years at Alteryx most recently, Ashley Kramer is now Sisense's new chief product officer. In an interview, she discusses her vision for the vendor's platform.
July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20
Veeam hybrid cloud, virtual VeeamON reflect tech changes

While Veeam is planning on a physical user conference next year, its virtual event in June drew tens of thousands. The company highlighted its advancements in cloud and CDP.
July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20
VMware reaches agreement to acquire Datrium DRaaS

Datrium will continue to operate independently post-acquisition, and the product will remain separate from VMware Site Recovery, but there is no word on any staff changes.
July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20
Ahana brings PrestoDB SQL query engine to the cloud

Soon after announcing its seed round of funding, Ahana launched commercial support services for the open source federated SQL data query technology.
July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20
Confluent enables infinite Kafka scalability in the cloud

Kafka gets data retention boost that can make it easier for users to store event streaming data for long periods of time, which can help with data analysis.
July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20
Lack of data literacy still a problem for many organizations

Organizations' lack of confidence in their ability to understand and use data to make decisions blocks their efforts to become data-driven.
July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20
Developer tools a key part of Yellowfin analytics platform

With embedded analytics as a central tenet, Yellowfin continues to focus on application developers by giving them new tools and updating existing ones in its platform updates.
June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20
Fivetran raises $100M to advance enterprise data integration

The co-founder and CEO of Fivetran talks about what the vendor is doing to help organizations meet the challenges of enterprise data integration.
June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20
End of Salesforce Recovery highlights need for SaaS backup

Experts say this retirement means little change for customers, because they should have been relying on third parties for Salesforce backup in the first place.
June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20
Databricks debuts Delta Engine built on top of Spark 3.0

At the Spark + AI Summit 2020, Starbucks and health IT vendor Cerner Corp. outlined how they use Databricks' Data Lake architecture to accelerate data analytics.
June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20
Concept of 'active intelligence' fuels Qlik's product roadmap

Qlik said augmented intelligence features and embedded BI will feature prominently in future updates, which are expected to include capabilities such as data integration.
June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20
Taking a practical approach to open source PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL database users including Ikea and Konica Minolta Healthcare detail how and why they chose to use the open source database at the Postgres Vision 2020 virtual conference.
June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20
HPE Cloud Volumes Backup consolidates data formats

HPE Cloud Volumes Backup provides common data format for Commvault, TrendMicro, Veeam and Veritas backups to serve secondary workloads in the public cloud.
June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20
IBM advances its Cloudant cloud database as DBaaS grows

Adam Kocoloski, VP and CTO of IBM cloud data services, details IBM's direction and strategy for cloud databases and explains why Cloudant is changing to boost scalability.
June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20
Ransomware resilience starts before cyberattacks hit

Ransomware is still common, especially in the coronavirus age, so you need to be ready. Explore ransomware recovery tips from an IT manager who dealt firsthand with an attack.
June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20
2020 analytics trends slowed by COVID-19 pandemic

The priorities of organizations have changed due to COVID-19, and with that Qlik's Dan Sommer says the evolution of expected BI trends has been temporarily delayed.
June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20
Collibra unveils Data Intelligence Cloud at user conference

Data management vendor Collibra rolled out its new data intelligence platform featuring four new tools on Tuesday during Data Citizens '20, the vendor's virtual user conference.
June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20
Zerto pockets $53M funding round to prove 'self-sufficiency'

Zerto CEO Ziv Kedem said the company is focused more on profit and self-sustainability than growth. The funding will go toward improving products, marketing and partnerships.
June 22, 2020 22 Jun'20
ThoughtSpot aims to enhance cloud-based analytics searches

The recently launched ThoughtSpot Embrace for AWS enables access to AI-driven analytics in Amazon Redshift, without requiring users to move or cache data.
June 22, 2020 22 Jun'20
Veeam CEO talks IPO, M&A, going virtual for VeeamON 2020

William Largent became Veeam CEO in January after a multibillion-dollar acquisition and before a pandemic. Here's his take on 2020 so far, and what lies ahead following VeeamON.
June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20
Yellowbrick CEO outlines hybrid path to cloud data warehouse

Neil Carson, co-founder and CEO of Yellowbrick, details the state of data warehouse market and outlines use cases for hybrid on-premises and cloud deployments.
June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20
SAS analytics platform used to fight opioid epidemic

As the opioid epidemic rages on, SAS has developed tools to help the healthcare and law enforcement agencies involved in the fight against opioid addiction.
June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20
Why the open source DBaaS market is hot

Open source database vendors face an array of challenges and opportunities as they flock to the cloud with new database-as-a-service platforms.
June 18, 2020 18 Jun'20
Veeam enhances Microsoft Teams backup, AWS protection

The latest update to Veeam's popular Microsoft 365 data protection product features native Teams backup and recovery. Veeam also launched other product updates at VeeamON 2020.
June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20
Flexential launches nationwide backup-as-a-service platform

Seeing an increasing trend of data protection buyers, Flexential has rolled out a new backup-as-a-service offering and introduced a cheaper, 'self-service' tier.
June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20
Alabama universities plan to share DRaaS, Nutanix HCI

One university's disaster recovery as a service can serve as a cloud for shared services with other schools in Alabama seeking to shrink their data center footprint.
June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20
SAS Viya gets architectural overhaul in latest update

SAS Viya 4, which SAS unveiled Tuesday during its virtual user conference, represents a total redesign of the platform to make it fully cloud-native.
June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20
Apache Hudi grows cloud data lake maturity

The open source Apache Hudi project helps large organizations like Uber with stream processing capabilities that handle billions of records on data lakes every day.
June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20
Druva integrates with FireEye Helix for secure backups

The partnership allows security admins to see access history and activity in Druva through FireEye Helix's console, enabling quicker responses to security anomalies.
June 15, 2020 15 Jun'20
SAS, Microsoft unveil new technology, go-to-market partnership

SAS revealed an enhanced product and marketing partnership agreement with Microsoft the day before the analytics vendor's user conference. Microsoft will be SAS' preferred cloud provider.
June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20
Data drives the decisions behind making movies

From the moment a script is submitted to the time a movie is released, analytics drive just about every decision made during the making of a feature film.
June 12, 2020 12 Jun'20
Survey finds BI and data analytics more important in pandemic

Respondents to a Sisense survey say they're relying on data analytics even more now than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, with small businesses taking the lead.
June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20
IFDS goes hands-on with Zerto's Kubernetes backup

Technology and services provider IFDS was one of the first to try the alpha build of Zerto's Kubernetes backup. The company relies on containers for greater resource efficiency.
June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20
Virtual VeeamON 2020 seeks interactivity, cloud focus

VeeamON seeks to overcome the challenges of virtual conferences that have become common in 2020. Veeam also released a report that details the challenges in data protection.

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