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• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  Alluxio brings data catalog to data orchestration platform

  The newly released Alluxio 2.2 adds new data catalog and transformation capabilities to help organizations bridge the gap between data and analytics.

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Natural language query tools offer answers within limits

  Natural language query tools could one day allow end users to do all their data analysis without the aid of data scientists, but at this point the capabilities remain limited.

• March 09, 2020 09 Mar'20

  Matillion Data Loader goes GA: No-code tool addresses data ingestion

  Matillion's new tool debuts a SaaS approach to help connect and load data from disparate sources without requiring organizations to conduct data transformations.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Splice Machine 3.0 integrates machine learning capabilities, database

  Monte Zweben, co-founder and CEO of Splice Machine, provides insight into what his distributed SQL database company is doing and where it's headed with its new 3.0 update.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  DataStax takes aim at open source Cassandra challenges

  DataStax has acquired open source Cassandra services firm The Last Pickle, adding in key tools that could help overcome enterprise database adoption challenges.

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• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Alteryx 2020.1 highlighted by new data profiling tool

  Holistic Data Profiling, a new tool to give users an overall view of their data during modeling, highlighted the latest platform update from the data management and analytics vendor.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Small business analytics success hinges on resources, skills

  A new report from IT services vendor Onepath reveals that 86% of SMBs are unable to fully take advantage of their data. Those that do are better able to grow and succeed.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  SMBs struggle with data utilization, analytics

  SMBs know they need data and analytics tools to support business decisions, but few small and midsize firms are able to fully realize the benefits.

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Talend Data Fabric Winter '20 update brings data inventory

  Talend's Winter '20 Data Fabric milestone update integrates a new data inventory capability alongside enhanced data pipeline designer capabilities.

• March 03, 2020 03 Mar'20

  Retrospect backup wants to get more ROBOs on board

  Retrospect version 17 makes deploying its backup software easier. The new onboarding feature focuses on simplicity, which is demanded regardless of customer size.

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  New coronavirus wreaking havoc on tech conference calendar

  As the coronavirus continues to spread, the organizers of some technology conferences have decided to alter or cancel their events for the safety of attendees.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Gartner's Sallam: Top BI vendors poised for next disruption

  Leading analytics vendors appear poised to remain innovative as AI becomes pervasive in BI, Gartner's Rita Sallam explains in a discussion about BI's present and future.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Gartner's Sallam: Top analytics platforms share common traits

  In an interview, Gartner analyst Rita Sallam discusses what separates the top BI vendors from the rest as well as the trends that will shape the future of analytics.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Rubrik acquisition enhances vendor's artificial intelligence

  Rubrik, which uses artificial intelligence in ransomware detection and governance offerings, bought additional AI technology for more proactive data management assistance.

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Birst analytics key to partnership between Infor, Snowflake

  A new partnership between Infor and Snowflake will use BI tools from Birst, acquired by Infor in 2017, to enable users to build automated data warehouses on Snowflake.

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Backup is evolving into intelligent data management

  A study found that more businesses are recognizing the need for intelligent data management. But pervasive data classification and education in the market are still needed.

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  Tableau 2020.1 highlighted by Viz Animations, Dynamic Parameters

  Dynamic Parameters and Viz Animations highlight Tableau's first 2020 platform update and comes nearly four months after Salesforce's acquisition of Tableau closed.

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Databricks Data Ingestion Network brings data to lakehouse

  Databricks Ingest entered a public preview in a move by Databricks to enable a lakehouse that combines the best features of the data lake and data warehouse models.

• February 24, 2020 24 Feb'20

  Lessons learned from Credit Karma GraphQL architecture

  Credit Karma's vice president of engineering explains why and how the personal finance service is using the GraphQL data query technology to support its growing business.

• February 21, 2020 21 Feb'20

  EnterpriseDB looks to grow market for PostgreSQL

  Enterprises are increasingly using the open source PostgreSQL database. Read in this Q&A where the growth is coming from and how some of it is from users in the cloud.

• February 21, 2020 21 Feb'20

  Nakivo dives into SaaS backup with Office 365 protection

  Version 9.2 isn't as features-heavy as Nakivo's previous releases, but Office 365 backup is a significant step. The vendor plans to delve deeper into SaaS application data backup.

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Cobalt Iron rolls out Compass NAS backup system extension

  The new extension offers file-level backups on one integrated system that removes the use of NDMP silos to make the process less time-consuming for users.

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Dell EMC Streaming Data Platform integrates open source technology

  Dell combines several open source streaming data technologies, including Apache Kafka, Apache Flink and Pravega, to create a new streaming data platform.

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Cohesity backup software targets ROBOs on Cisco, HPE hardware

  The new Cohesity appliance is designed to provide backup at a branch location without IT expertise. The software runs on Cisco or HPE servers, and the central office manages backups.

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Research points to IT skills shortage in data protection

  It's getting harder to recruit and replace IT personnel with backup expertise, but simpler products and more automation can help companies compensate for the skills gap.

• February 18, 2020 18 Feb'20

  Veeam Availability Suite v10 enhances NAS, ransomware support

  Veeam released the much-anticipated Version 10 of its Availability Suite software, a product that executives have promised for years. NAS support headlines the key additions.

• February 17, 2020 17 Feb'20

  MicroStrategy analytics suite fosters insurance co-op's growth

  Using MicroStrategy's BI platform, a Canada-based insurance co-operative has been able to spread analytics to end users throughout the organization.

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  Yellowbrick Data, MicroStrategy partnership aims to enhance analytics

  The new partnership will enable flexible scalability, support for mixed workloads and multi-cloud support. The goal is to provide actionable insights into data.

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  Oracle Data Science efforts advance with new services

  Oracle adds news new services to its cloud infrastructure platform in a bid to provide data scientists, as well as data analysts, with data management and query functionality.

• February 13, 2020 13 Feb'20

  Regulatory approval allows Google acquisition of Looker to close

  Google's purchase of analytics vendor Looker was approved by a United Kingdom regulatory agency, more than eight months after the acquisition was revealed.

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  AWS collaboration highlights Domo analytics platform update

  The new Domo BI platform update features a new collaboration with AWS to enable users to work with third-party data and a low-code tool for developers.

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  New Infrascale CEO outlines multi-cloud backup and recovery vision

  Infrascale's new CEO has his eyes on the 'multi-cloud' sky. The vendor plans to roll out updated backup and disaster recovery technology to its SMB base over the next year.

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  Zerto CEO: DR has become something real

  DR is no longer just about compliance, as enterprises find maintaining infrastructure uptime is critical to their business. This means DR for containers and SaaS, as well.

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  Multi-cloud strategy becoming a necessity for BI vendors

  Multi-cloud capabilities are becoming a necessity for BI and analytics vendors as their customers migrate to the cloud and want the flexibility to use the cloud service provider of their choice.

• February 11, 2020 11 Feb'20

  Snowflake raises $479 million to boost cloud data warehouse

  Snowflake is looking to grow its data warehouse platform with new funding and a partnership with Salesforce that could differentiate its platform from rivals.

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  GoodData says it is CCPA compliant

  GoodData says it is complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act. Meanwhile, founder and CEO Roman Stanek talks about why complexity is a key challenge for data analytics.

• February 10, 2020 10 Feb'20

  Disaster recovery automation tools gaining traction

  As new disaster recovery automation tools emerge, vendors and industry analysts recognize a growing demand for simplifying what can be a tedious process.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  Embedded BI the future of analytics

  Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, discusses HyperIntelligence, the vendor's zero-click embedded analytics tool, as well as the trend of embedded analytics.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  HyperIntelligence improvements a focus for MicroStrategy

  Since MicroStrategy introduced HyperIntelligence a year ago, the embedded BI tool has received an overwhelmingly positive response, CEO Michael Saylor said in an interview.

• February 06, 2020 06 Feb'20

  Innovation inspires user loyalty to MicroStrategy analytics suite

  As some longtime vendors struggle to keep up with the pace of innovation, customers stay loyal to longtime vendor MicroStrategy and its continually evolving platform.

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  Couchbase Cloud takes a new approach to database delivery

  Open source NoSQL database vendor Couchbase enters the cloud database market with a database as a service that lets users choose which public cloud vendor they want to use.

• February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20

  HyperIntelligence upgrades highlight MicroStrategy 2020

  MicroStrategy 2020, the latest version of MicroStrategy's analytics platform, was released Wednesday and includes updates to the vendor's embedded analytics tool.

• February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20

  Neo4j 4.0 major update boosts graph database security, scalability

  Major milestone release of open source graph database platform enhances security with controls to limit the risk of data traversal and add multi-database support.

• February 03, 2020 03 Feb'20

  Pepperdata Query Spotlight provides insight into data queries

  New Query Spotlight tool looks to provide visibility across a data analysis cluster into how a query performs over time and why it might have degraded performance.

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Data confidence a problem data wrangling aims to resolve

  Joe Hellerstein, co-founder and CSO of Trifacta, talks about data wrangling and the ongoing trend of migration to the cloud, among other data management topics.

• January 31, 2020 31 Jan'20

  Data wrangling software helps access, interpret relevant info

  Joe Hellerstein, co-founder and CSO of data wrangling software vendor Trifacta, discussed the benefits of data wrangling and the cloud migration trend, among other topics, in a Q&A.

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  How will Veeam customers be affected by vendor's sale?

  As Veeam takes aim at the U.S. market and the world of hybrid cloud, users could see enhanced products and technology now that it's under the ownership of Insight Partners.

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  Survey: Many businesses neglecting disaster recovery testing

  Even though DR testing is a low-cost way to ensure readiness, businesses don't do it enough. Roadblocks include limited time, stretched IT teams and basic human nature.

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  New funding fuels startup analytics vendor Kloud.io's growth

  Armed with $4 million in new seed funding, startup Kloud.io aims to expand its engineering and marketing efforts to fuel the growth of its no-code analytics platform.

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  Tibco analytics platform gets NLG boost from new integration

  Tibco Spotfire's natural language generation capabilities received an upgrade as Tibco revealed an integration with Arria NLG Studio for BI.

• January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20

  Informatica data management sets a new direction

  Five years after going private, Informatica has a new CEO and an updated data platform with new data management capabilities to better enable business users.

• January 27, 2020 27 Jan'20

  Sigma analytics platform's interface simplifies queries

  Featuring a spreadsheet interface designed to make queries simple for citizen data scientists, Sigma Computing is trying to make analytics available to all business users.

• January 23, 2020 23 Jan'20

  Hitachi Vantara acquires data catalog vendor Waterline Data

  With the acquisition of Waterline Data, Hitachi Vantara is bringing new data catalog capabilities that will expand the Lumada Data Services and DataOps portfolio.

• January 23, 2020 23 Jan'20

  Veeam acquisition puts heat on rivals

  Backup vendors Druva and Commvault say the multi-billion-dollar Veeam acquisition validates the strategies they've been executing and proves the importance of the backup market.

• January 22, 2020 22 Jan'20

  New Confluent Platform release boosts event streaming quality

  Based on the open-source Kafka event streaming platform, the Confluent Platform 5.4 update adds new capabilities to help meet enterprise data management requirements.

• January 22, 2020 22 Jan'20

  ThoughtSpot IPO could be coming after vendor adds first CFO

  Hiring of a CFO for the first time signals that ThoughtSpot may be positioning itself for an IPO and comes six months after what was likely the vendor's final round of funding.

• January 21, 2020 21 Jan'20

  Where InfluxDB time series database is going

  Users need more than SQL for querying databases, according to Paul Dix, co-founder and CTO of InfluxData. That's why the vendor created the Flux data scripting and query language.

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  Catalogic launches KubeDR to protect etcd data

  Catalogic's new KubeDR tool protects cluster configurations, metadata and certificates, which is data often overlooked by Kubernetes protection tools.

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  Veeam's Timashev discusses selling company, next steps

  Veeam co-founder Ratmir Timashev discusses why now is the right time to sell the data protection company, which shifts its focus to hybrid cloud after it 'won the VMware market.'

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  Storytelling using data makes information easy to digest

  In a Q&A, Nate Nichols and Anna Schena Walsh of AI-based analytics vendor Narrative Science talk about how data storytelling can make analytics accessible to business users.

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  Data-driven storytelling makes data accessible

  In a Q&A, Nate Nichols and Anna Schena Walsh of data storytelling vendor Narrative Science discuss their book on storytelling and how narratives can make analytics more accessible.

• January 16, 2020 16 Jan'20

  MariaDB X4 brings smart transactions to open source database

  Open source database vendor MariaDB updates its flagship platform with new features to enable the convergence of transactional and analytical databases.

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  New Oracle Enterprise Manager release advances hybrid cloud

  Oracle updates its Enterprise Manager platform to version 13.4, bringing new hybrid management capabilities to database users across on-premises and cloud deployments.

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Startup Uplevel targets software engineering efficiency

  Startup vendor Uplevel emerged from stealth on Wednesday touting a platform aimed at improving the efficiency of software engineers by using data analysis.

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  AtScale's Adaptive Analytics 2020.1 a big step for vendor

  AtScale's new update is centered around data virtualization for analytics and marks a significant overhaul of the data engineering vendor's platform.

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  Backup focus in 2020: Data at the edge and in containers

  Storage and backup industry analysts say as data grows at the edge and inside containers, those areas will require more attention from backup products in 2020.

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  Former Hortonworks leader named new Cloudera CEO

  Cloudera finds a new leader, pulling the former CEO of Hortonworks back into the fold to help set the direction for the big data Hadoop vendor as it moves forward in 2020.

• January 13, 2020 13 Jan'20

  Boomi acquisition of Unifi Software nets data management

  Dell Boomi expands its data integration software portfolio by acquiring Unifi Software, providing data preparation and data catalog capabilities.

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  Power BI platform remains a vibrant, respected suite

  With the ability to update on a nearly constant basis, Microsoft's Power BI remains a strong analytics product despite not necessarily being at the forefront of innovation.

• January 10, 2020 10 Jan'20

  ArangoDB 3.6 accelerates performance of multi-model database

  New release of multi-model database platform from ArangoDB introduces OneShard feature, along with other query optimization capabilities to help improve overall performance.

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  Former SAP Concur exec Christal Bemont named Talend CEO

  Talend named Christal Bemont its new CEO on Thursday after Mike Tuchen stepped down after six years in the role. Bemont comes to Talend following 15 years at SAP Concur.

• January 09, 2020 09 Jan'20

  Veeam Software bought by private equity firm at $5B valuation

  Veeam is under new ownership. Insight Partners acquired the data protection company for an undisclosed sum. With the acquisition comes a modified leadership team.

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  NuoDB set to improve distributed SQL performance

  Ariff Kassam, CTO of distributed SQL database vendor NuoDB, outlines how his company has embraced cloud native and hints about what's to come in the year ahead.

• December 30, 2019 30 Dec'19

  Vendors detail cloud-based backup past, present, future

  As part of TechTarget's 20th anniversary, we're looking at some of the top trends and technologies over those years. Here, vendors that offer cloud backup discuss this newer trend.

• December 23, 2019 23 Dec'19

  Investing in tech startups an act of trust for VC firms

  Investing in tech startups, including BI vendors, is about finding that quality that makes a company special, according to Vanessa Larco, a partner at New Enterprise Associates.

• December 23, 2019 23 Dec'19

  Differentiation key for BI startups when attracting investors

  A strong value proposition is crucial to attracting venture capital investments, said Vanessa Larco, a partner at New Enterprise Associates, in a Q&A about startup BI vendors.

• December 20, 2019 20 Dec'19

  NLP, embedded BI and data literacy top 2020 analytics trends

  Improved natural language processing tools, more embedded BI applications and an increase in data literacy are among the analytics trends to watch in 2020.

• December 20, 2019 20 Dec'19

  SolarWinds advances cloud native database monitoring

  SolarWinds grows its product portfolio with the acquisition of cloud native database monitoring vendor VividCortex, in a bid to help organizations deal with the challenges of cloud.

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  Actifio 10c adds container support and DR orchestration

  Actifio's 10c update added some significant new capabilities that further take advantage of the cloud. Backup, disaster recovery, migration all got a boost in this update.

• December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19

  2019 BI trends included reality check for AI, consolidation

  AI features in BI products improved in 2019, but not at the pace predicted before the year began. Instead, advancement was incremental and consolidation was a dominant theme.

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  Q&A: The challenges of cloud-native data management

  Cloud native data management isn't usually the first thing on anyone's mind, acknowledges Portworx co-founder and CTO Goutham Rao -- but find out how it's become part of organizations' journey.

• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  Up-and-coming BI vendors to watch in 2020

  Promising BI startups look to gain a foothold in 2020 by focusing on underserved markets and embracing next-gen technologies not available in traditional analytics tools.

• December 13, 2019 13 Dec'19

  Amazon Managed Apache Cassandra Service stokes competition

  Vendors in the open source Cassandra NoSQL database market voice their concerns about AWS' entry into the field, as the cloud giant looks to expand its database portfolio.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Government IT pros: Hiring data scientists isn't an exact science

  There's no such thing as a data science unicorn, U.S. government experts caution. You'll need more than programmers and technical expertise on your data science team.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Major funding, SaaS trends top data backup news in 2019

  Several data backup vendors, including Carbonite, Commvault and Clumio, had a bustling 2019. The backup market continues to develop with acquisitions and more cloud-based products.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Tableau 2020.1 unveiled for beta testing

  Featuring improvements to Explain Data, an AI product that aims to explain the reasons behind data points, the update is made up of 21 features.

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  Aerospike 4.8 advances database persistent memory support

  Aerospike 4.8 adds full support for Intel's Optane persistent memory, enabling the NoSQL database to run both the index and data in memory for better overall performance.

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  Easy-to-use coding tools a new opportunity for BI vendors

  In a Q&A, Yellowfin CTO Brad Scarff talks about why analytics software vendors have recently introduced low-code tools for developers as part of their offerings.

• December 11, 2019 11 Dec'19

  Low-code tools serve BI customer needs

  With easy-to-use tools for application development a growing trend among BI vendors, Yellowfin CTO Brad Scarff discusses the motivation behind them in part one of a two-part Q&A.

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  Alteryx 2019.4 highlighted by new integration with Tableau

  New integrations with Tableau that enable easier data management and Mapbox to provide street-level map views come with the latest platform update from Alteryx.

• December 09, 2019 09 Dec'19

  BI vendors jump into low-code/no-code tools for developers

  A spate of BI vendors included easy-to-use tools for developers in their recent updates, perhaps marking the start of a new trend in the analytics software market.

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Amazon cloud database and data analytics expand

  AWS expands its Redshift data warehouse capabilities including managed storage and query acceleration at the re:Invent 2019 conference, alongside a new managed Cassandra database service.

• December 04, 2019 04 Dec'19

  Druva expands on AWS backup, moves S3 snaps across regions

  In response to customers' expanding AWS footprint, Druva added new backup features to CloudRanger, which it acquired in 2018 for protection of data stored in AWS.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  Sisense analytics platform update features AI, data prep tool

  Augmented intelligence features and an in-warehouse data prep tool highlight Sisense's latest update, its second since acquiring Periscope Data in May.

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Operation Fistula uses data to treat childbirth injuries

  Aided by an analytics stack developed by Exasol, nonprofit Operation Fistula is working to end obstetric fistula in targeted regions around the world.

• December 02, 2019 02 Dec'19

  Vendors move away from open source database software licensing

  While open source is a key to success for many database vendors, it can also potentially lead to a competitive threat from a cloud scale provider.

• November 27, 2019 27 Nov'19

  Container backup grows, following container adoption

  Although demand for container backup remains low, vendors anticipate growth in this area. Containers have shifted from being lightweight throwaways to persistent mini-VMs.

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Kasten backup aims for secure Kubernetes protection

  Container storage backup is an emerging trend. Kasten K10, which launched in 2017 and provides backup for Kubernetes, takes on security in its major 2.0 update.

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Startup Sisu's data analytics tool aims to answer, 'Why?'

  With the ability to answer, 'Why?' at the core of its diagnostic tool, startup analytics vendor Sisu recently entered the market with aims of competing against established vendors.

• November 26, 2019 26 Nov'19

  Oracle looks to grow multi-model database features

  Decade after decade, Oracle continues to be relevant in the database market as it pivots to include an expanding list of capabilities to serve users, notably cloud.