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September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19
Yellowfin analytics platform gets upgraded mobile app

Yellowfin upgraded its business intelligence platform with a revamp of its mobile app that will enable users to have more complete functionality while away from their desktops.
September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19
Ascend releases Queryable Dataflows for building data pipelines

Ascend releases a technology preview of a capability that will enable data engineers to directly query dataflows, without the need for data to first be in a data warehouse.
September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19
Data integration problems a hurdle companies must overcome

Relevant data is hard for organizations to find, Talend CEO Mike Tuchen says. So is mining the right data amid the complexity that large data stores have created.
September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19
Talend CEO discusses importance of mining relevant data

Enterprises can't do good business intelligence without good data. In the first part of a two-part Q&A Talend CEO Mike Tuchen talks about how hard mining the right data can be.
August 30, 2019 30 Aug'19
Domain-specific BI vendors gain foothold with expertise

While leading BI vendors target large audiences with their analytics tools, many other companies target a single specialized industry and use their expertise to best serve users.
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August 29, 2019 29 Aug'19
Clumio backup seeks to simplify with SaaS

Clumio has come out of stealth to try to make its mark in a crowded backup market. The cloud-based vendor claims to make it easier to install and manage backups.
August 29, 2019 29 Aug'19
Tibco analytics platform keeps pace through innovation

Tibco has remained one of the more active business intelligence vendors while some of its competitors have lost some momentum.
August 29, 2019 29 Aug'19
Align enterprise data architecture, governance for 'quick wins'

Data management consultant Donna Burbank outlines how effective data governance hinges on the deployment of a comprehensive enterprise data architecture.
August 29, 2019 29 Aug'19
Druva backup user highlights importance of data searchability

Regeneron saved money by switching from on-premises Data Domain to cloud-based Druva backup. But the real value came from creating a searchable data lake for all its research data.
August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19
Cohesity backup users share cloud data protection stories

Cohesity backup customers told tales both good and bad while offering advice about their journey to cloud-based data protection during a panel at VMworld 2019.
August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19
ThoughtSpot BI platform gets financial boost, IPO may be near

With its latest round of venture capital funding, ThoughtSpot is planning to invest heavily in product improvement while also pondering a potential initial public offering.
August 26, 2019 26 Aug'19
Smart cloud storage tier management added to Druva cloud

The new Druva cloud tiering capability saves customers money by automatically optimizing data stored in Glacier Deep Archive, Glacier and S3 based on usage patterns.
August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19
Museums and data: A powerful combination

With more and more museums using data to inform their decision-making processes, visitors are reaping the benefits by enjoying a better user experience.
August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19
Acronis automates '3-2-1' rule for small business backup

Acronis True Image 2020 improved its small business backup capabilities with simultaneous replication to local storage and the cloud, automating the '3-2-1' backup rule.
August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19
New Everbridge CEO talks education, NC4 acquisition

Every company needs to be ready to respond in the event of a crisis. Everbridge's new CEO details why that's important and what a proper platform entails.
August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19
ArangoDB 3.5 update improves multi-model database platform

ArangoDB 3.5 accelerates its database platform with improved query performance and enhanced data security capabilities, as market demand for multi-model platforms builds.
August 21, 2019 21 Aug'19
SnapLogic boosts its data integration technology with AI

SnapLogic's latest update for its Intelligent Integration Platform aims to make it easier for users to benefit from data integration.
August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19
Phocas BI tool proves its value for manufacturers, wholesalers

With its focus on the manufacturing and wholesale distribution industries, Phocas Software has carved out a niche for itself among other BI software vendors.
August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19
DigitalOcean Managed Databases add MySQL, Redis support

Expanding its database management system offerings, cloud computing vendor DigitalOcean added Managed Databases support for MySQL and Redis.
August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19
Enterprise data marketplace aims to ease self-service chaos

Self-service data preparation can duplicate work and slow down analytics. One possible fix: an internal marketplace where users can 'shop' for data assets.
August 16, 2019 16 Aug'19
The Salesforce acquisition of Tableau complements Einstein Analytics

Given the different strengths of Salesforce's Einstein Analytics platform and Tableau, the BI tools could prove complementary now that Tableau is part of Salesforce.
August 16, 2019 16 Aug'19
Actifio GO 'SaaSifies' copy data management in GCP

The new Actifio GO for GCP has expanded from backup as a service to include copy data management and disaster recovery, putting it on par with the vendor's on-premises product.
August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19
AWS Lake Formation goes GA, as cloud data lake market grows

First released in late 2018, AWS Lake Formation is now generally available and it could be the force that helps to accelerate adoption in the cloud data lake market.
August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19
Domo management expansion signals strategic shift

Five months after it stated it would be pursuing strategic partnerships, Domo appears to be making a move toward implementing that strategy with the hiring of three new executives.
August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19
Rubrik adds data governance tool in Andes 5.1 update

With capabilities providing data governance, automated disaster recovery failover and failback and continuous data protection, Rubrik Andes 5.1 seeks to consolidate tools and silos.
August 13, 2019 13 Aug'19
Apollo data graph brings managed federation to enterprises

The new Apollo update is intended to enable organizations to federate multiple enterprise data sets more easily and use APIs to tap into disparate data sources.
August 13, 2019 13 Aug'19
Reveal moves Infragistics BI platform into embedded analytics

With the release of Reveal, an embedded business intelligence platform, longtime software vendor Infragistics is expanding its presence in the analytics space.
August 09, 2019 09 Aug'19
Deal boosts MicroStrategy platform's foray into government

Through its new deal with ImmixGroup, a distributor of enterprise software to the public sector, MicroStrategy aims to increase sales of its BI platform to government agencies.
August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19
Pyramid sees opportunity in staying an independent BI company

As competitors merge forces, Pyramid Analytics not only chooses to stay independent but also sees an opportunity to grow into the space left behind by the wave of consolidation.
August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19
Elastic Stack 7.3 adds new features to expand data analysis

Elastic Stack, in a new update, adds data frames capabilities to enable new forms of analysis, as well as integrating more data sources that can be searched and analyzed.
August 07, 2019 07 Aug'19
Splunk Business Flow evidences company's heightened focus on BI

Long known as a data security and IT monitoring vendor, Splunk is honing its data analytics tools and making the foray into business intelligence.
August 06, 2019 06 Aug'19
HPE buys MapR assets to fuel AI applications

Longtime independent big data vendor MapR goes out of business, selling technology and intellectual property to HPE. The move marks the continuing decline of the Hadoop market.
August 02, 2019 02 Aug'19
Merger and acquisition activity is altering the BI landscape

From Qlik's acquisition of Podium Data in July 2018 through Salesforce's purchase of Tableau Software in June 2019, the last year in BI has been characterized by a wave of consolidation.
August 02, 2019 02 Aug'19
Cohesity CyberScan scans backup copies for security risks

Cohesity CyberScan uses Tenable.io to find security vulnerabilities in backup copies. Because the app is scanning backups, it doesn't affect performance of production environments.
August 02, 2019 02 Aug'19
Data ethics issues create minefields for analytics teams

Organizations have to map out ethical boundaries for data mining and analytics applications, according to participants in a roundtable discussion on data and ethics.
August 01, 2019 01 Aug'19
Startup Dgraph Labs growing graph database technology

Dgraph Labs looks expand its graph database platform, which offers the promise of reducing isolated data sources and speeding up queries.
August 01, 2019 01 Aug'19
Asigra appliance uses Zadara technology

Asigra partnered with Zadara to release a purpose-built backup appliance with a subscription-based pricing model. It's aimed at service providers who would rather rent than buy.
July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19
Naveego launches tool for analyzing data quality and health

Naveego Accelerator enables users to check for inaccurate data, incomplete data or improperly formatted data to prevent inconsistencies that could cost businesses money.
July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19
NuoDB 4.0 improves cloud-native database capabilities

Support for multiple clouds, tighter integration with Kubernetes and indexing enhancements that accelerate database performance highlight the new NuoDB release.
July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19
Backup trends of 2019: Acquisitions, funding and CEO changes

The acquisitions, funding rounds and CEO changes among backup vendors so far this year hint that even more changes are coming. Experts weigh in on the trends in backup we've already seen in 2019.
July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19
Hitachi Vantara updates Pentaho 8.3 to expand DataOps vision

Hitachi Vantara's new Pentaho update brings DataOps capabilities for data management to help organizations derive better data insights.
July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19
Carbonite CEO joins IDG, interim CEO steps in

Former Carbonite CEO Mohamad Ali joined tech media company International Data Group as Steve Munford stepped in to become interim CEO.
July 29, 2019 29 Jul'19
Looker's acquisition by Google seen in a good light for users

Overshadowed at the time by Salesforce's acquisition of Tableau, a few months later, Google's acquisition of Looker is still seen as a major positive for Looker's users.
July 26, 2019 26 Jul'19
Cloudera open source route seeks to keep big data alive

Inspired by the IBM-Red Hat model, Cloudera goes the open source route to broaden its market as demand for Hadoop weakens and the vendor takes on big competitors like AWS.
July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19
Analyst forecasts the next big things in BI

In a Q&A, Wayne Eckerson looks at the state of the business intelligence industry, and self-service analytics, and discusses what new innovations excite him about the future.
July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19
Enterprises that use data will thrive; those that don't, won't

A data divide is growing between enterprises that embrace business intelligence and those that don't. It's the data elite that will survive, analyst Wayne Eckerson says in a Q&A.
July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19
Acronis CEO: 'Backup is dead'

Backup alone is not enough, according to Acronis CEO Serguei Beloussov. True data protection involves a combination of security, privacy and accessibility on top of backup.
July 19, 2019 19 Jul'19
Cohesity Runbook simplifies DR failover

Cohesity Runbook is billed as a simple way to orchestrate disaster recovery failover and create best practices, but it can be used to automate workflows beyond DR.
July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19
Carbonite Endpoint 360 protects and backs up Office 365 apps

Carbonite Endpoint 360 brings data protection to Microsoft Office 365 applications and emphasizes the need to protect SaaS applications and cloud-stored data.
July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19
ThoughtSpot strategic partnerships help add capabilities

Through its partnership strategy, ThoughtSpot is adding to its capabilities as a BI software vendor the same way others are improving theirs by mergers and acquisitions.
July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19
Druva cloud migration enhanced by CloudLanes acquisition

Druva plans to add CloudLanes' data ingestion technology to Druva Cloud Platform. Unlike with the 2018 CloudRanger purchase, CloudLanes will not be its own business.
July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19
HYCU Protégé offers multi-cloud disaster recovery, migration

HYCU is seeking to make the process of multi-cloud data protection and migration more seamless. While many organizations use multiple clouds, they can lead to complexity issues.
July 11, 2019 11 Jul'19
IBM battling to change perception of Cognos Analytics BI platform

While some see IBM's BI suite as being too complicated and expensive for citizen data scientists, the company is adding updates to try and attract the modern user.
July 11, 2019 11 Jul'19
Howard Dresner talks business intelligence trends

In this Q&A, analyst Howard Dresner talks about trends in the business intelligence software market, industry consolidation and what excites him about analytics.
July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19
As public cloud adoption grows, new drawbacks discovered

Public cloud adoption has grown, but some companies find benefits are offset by high egress charges, hidden and complicated bills and added IT complexity.
July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19
AI in digital marketing powers hidden advertisements

With AI in advertising and marketing, companies can provide potential customers with more personalized results, while also increasing engagement rates.
July 08, 2019 08 Jul'19
Cohesity CEO: We're more than a backup company

Cohesity CEO Mohit Aron says the company is focused on secondary storage and becoming software-only, relying on strategic partnerships for covering hardware and technology gaps.
July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19
Snowflake product VP expounds on data warehouse for the cloud

In this Q&A, Christian Kleinerman, vice president of product development at cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake, talks about the fast-moving company's plans for the next year.
July 03, 2019 03 Jul'19
RavenDB Cloud automates database management

RavenDB's managed cloud database service, RavenDB Cloud, intends to automate security processes, reduce overhead and cater to businesses of all sizes.
July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19
TierPoint introduces cloud-based disaster recovery as a service

TierPoint's Cloud-to-Cloud Recovery with vCloud Availability disaster recovery-as-a-service offering is now generally available to protect data centers across multi-tenant clouds.
July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19
Independent vendors Qlik, MicroStrategy upgrade BI platforms

Independent business intelligence and analytics vendors Qlik and MicroStrategy update their platforms in a move to stay ahead of their competition.
June 28, 2019 28 Jun'19
PostgreSQL database specialist EnterpriseDB gets new backing

EnterpriseDB is looking to push its database further with help from new financial backers. The deal sees Postgres originator Michael Stonebraker coming onboard as technical adviser.
June 27, 2019 27 Jun'19
Cloud data management finding its place as volumes soar sky high

Is a cloud data management platform right for your organization? Experts discuss its benefits and drawbacks as more data moves to the cloud for a variety of uses.
June 27, 2019 27 Jun'19
Music data visualization comes to life in Tableau collection

With its new collection of visualizations about music, Tableau demonstrates how users are using its platform to understand the information behind the music.
June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19
Immuta Automated Data Governance Platform comes to AWS

Immuta's Automated Data Governance Platform, providing data visibility, accessibility and protection, is now available as a managed service on AWS Marketplace.
June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19
Blacktip uses AvePoint for Office 365 backup

Serving users who are mobile and not highly technical, MSP Blacktip turns to SaaS apps such as Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite. But those apps need protection.
June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19
Storage startup StorCentric takes flier on Retrospect backup

Retrospect backup software has survived a series of owners ranging from EMC to Dantz, and now is part of StorCentric's plan of acquiring storage vendors for midsize enterprises.
June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19
Power BI update firms up Microsoft analytics market

With its latest update to Power BI, Microsoft showed its commitment to its business intelligence platform and maintained its position as an industry leader.
June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19
NetBackup at core of Veritas services platform

The Veritas services platform addresses protection, availability and data intelligence by unifying multiple products around NetBackup and its metadata catalog.
June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19
MicroStrategy product development advances after Voice.com sale

Analytics and BI vendor MicroStrategy sells the Voice.com domain name and moves forward with product R&D in a competitive market that is consolidating quickly.
June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19
Intelligent data management drives smarter use of copy data

Intelligent data management has turned copies of backup data into tools for analytics, test/dev and other use cases. But company culture prevents some organizations from adoption.
June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19
Sunny skies for Druva cloud plans: $130M in new investment

Druva's cloud backup and disaster recovery are built natively for Amazon Web Services. A big cash infusion from investors has the startup contemplating a possible IPO.
June 18, 2019 18 Jun'19
Actifio multi-cloud support extends DR to AWS, Azure

Actifio Multi-Cloud Mobility and Automation brings multi-cloud disaster recovery to Sky, along with flexible migration capabilities for companies that want to stay agile.
June 18, 2019 18 Jun'19
MongoDB Atlas cloud service adds data lake, touts multi-cloud

MongoDB released an S3-compatible data lake its developer legions can quickly query. But, word of MongoDB Atlas use on Google's cloud shows there are clouds to sow beyond AWS.
June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19
How the Salesforce acquisition will affect Tableau users

In the wake of Salesforce's acquisition of Tableau, it remains to be seen whether Tableau users will be pushed to the cloud and how Tableau's pace of innovation might be affected.
June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19
Window and door manufacturer picks Zerto for DR replication

Weaning itself off of Veritas Backup Exec, AmesburyTruth tapped Zerto for DR replication, ready to fail over 80 critical servers into the Microsoft Azure cloud.
June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19
Asigra FreeNAS plugin brings open source data protection

The Asigra FreeNAS plugin covers up to ten physical machines, ten virtual machines and ten cloud accounts for free. Customers wanting more must get Asigra on TrueNAS.
June 10, 2019 10 Jun'19
Rubrik backup, Compellent SAN power MoA data center

Mall of America IT director says she'd rather have her staff working on other things -- such as data analytics -- than managing storage and data backup.
June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19
Iland DRaaS goes under automatic control

The new Iland DRaaS product targets customers with limited DR resources or expertise. The goal of Iland Autopilot is to make deployment, DR testing and failover simple.
June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19
Veeam roadmap features cloud focus, possible IPO

Analysts noted more of a backup emphasis at VeeamON 2019, as Veeam plans to tackle the hybrid cloud market. Will acquisitions be part of the Veeam strategy?
June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19
Google acquisition of Looker to boost Google Cloud analytics

By acquiring Looker, Google will enhance its analytics and BI capabilities available through Google Cloud, while becoming a formidable force in the enterprise-level BI space.
June 05, 2019 05 Jun'19
AtScale updates its data warehouse virtualization platform

AtScale 2019.1 comes with many new capabilities, including extended database support, increased security and advanced analytical query capabilities.
June 05, 2019 05 Jun'19
Latest update takes Arcserve RHA to the cloud

Arcserve enhances its RHA disaster recovery software, enabling cloud-to-cloud failback, as well as the ability to continuously replicate from on premises to a public cloud.
June 04, 2019 04 Jun'19
IBM Db2 update aims to simplify use with AI

IBM's new Db2 release adds a host of AI-powered enhancements, including a range of automated error reporting capabilities and tools to more easily create AI algorithms.
June 04, 2019 04 Jun'19
Vendor unveils Snowflake Data Exchange, Google Cloud integration

Snowflake Computing's data exchange marketplace aims to make data easily shared between users and providers, enable users to innovate and give providers an opportunity to monetize data.
June 03, 2019 03 Jun'19
Lyftron launches universal data access platform

Lyftron launched a data access platform that uses a data hub, data insights, enterprise-wide data catalogs and lineage, and hybrid cloud management and migration to unify data.
May 31, 2019 31 May'19
MapR's future in jeopardy, layoffs loom

It's right there in a MapR letter to California's labor department: A leader in the Hadoop market is desperately seeking funding after poor sales of its promising data platform.
May 31, 2019 31 May'19
ShadowXafe 2 supports Hyper-V, network tunneling

StorageCraft wants to bring its ShadowXafe data protection software to midsize enterprises and managed service providers, rather than only small and medium-sized businesses.
May 30, 2019 30 May'19
IT resilience requires simpler tools, survey says

A survey on the state of IT resilience concluded backup, DR and BC fall on a continuum of data availability, and many organizations want to merge them.
May 28, 2019 28 May'19
What's coming to Zerto backup in 2019

ZertoCon 2019 revealed tidbits about Zerto backup's roadmap, including a new pricing option, further integration with technology partners and upcoming product features.
May 23, 2019 23 May'19
Ransomware protection tips include offline storage, user education

Ransomware resilience continues to be important because the problem isn't going away. Explore these backup and education tips to help stay out in front of the issue.
May 23, 2019 23 May'19
Zerto CEO: 'Zero downtime is new normal'

Zerto CEO says you should have zero tolerance for downtime, and the convergence of disaster recovery, backup, data migration and other processes need not complicate matters.
May 22, 2019 22 May'19
Latest Tableau BI software update upgrades map technology

Tableau Software has released Tableau 2019.2, an update to previous BI software. It includes upgrades to location data, new vector maps and other requested upgrades.
May 22, 2019 22 May'19
VeeamON 2019: Veeam enhances orchestrator, promises NAS support

Veeam has hit its long-term $1 billion revenue goal. The vendor updated its DR orchestration and now aims to finish off the awaited Availability Suite v10, with NAS backup.
May 20, 2019 20 May'19
StorageCraft president talks of modernizing DR

StorageCraft President Douglas Brockett sees a future in which disaster recovery software is used to help customers flexibly migrate data to where it's most cost-efficient.
May 20, 2019 20 May'19
Lumina launches Radiance, a data risk management platform

In an effort to prevent data loss, Lumina launched Radiance, a SaaS data risk management platform. It collects and analyzes data to help prevent risks and threats.
May 15, 2019 15 May'19
Sisense acquisition of Periscope yields versatile BI platform

The Sisense merger with Periscope Data is expected to create a new, combined BI product that will cater to casual business users and advanced data scientists alike.
May 15, 2019 15 May'19
Datrium DVX storage adds ControlShift cloud DR option

The Datrium cloud DR SaaS app, formerly known as Project CloudShift, is now called ControlShift and GA, but the first version only supports Datrium on premises and Cloud DVX hosts.
May 15, 2019 15 May'19
Kaseya acquisition trail continues with ID Agent -- is DR next?

ID Agent, the latest Kaseya acquisition, adds its identity protection capabilities to IT Complete and will be integrating with Spanning and Unitrends products.
May 15, 2019 15 May'19
Qlik multi-cloud, Kubernetes options drive cloud-first vision

Qlik advances its plan to be a cloud- and SaaS-first analytics vendor with new multi-cloud and Kubernetes deployment options. But on prem still is a priority -- for now.

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