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• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  IBM acquires Databand for data observability technology

  The tech giant continued to build out its data fabric platform by acquiring a data startup with a platform that enables organizations to monitor and optimize data pipelines.

• June 30, 2022 30 Jun'22

  Cloudera embraces Apache Iceberg as cloud data lake evolves

  The Cloudera Data Platform now supports the open source cloud data lake table format as part of the continuing evolution of the broader Hadoop ecosystem.

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  Tableau adds data storytelling tool in latest update

  Six months after the analytics vendor's acquisition of Narrative Science comes Data Stories, a new tool aimed at enabling more employees within organizations to work with data.

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  New Collibra, Snowflake integration enhances data governance

  The new tool aims to enable customers to quickly put protections on sensitive data without requiring them to write code so that business users can securely work with data.

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  DataStax extends Astra Streaming event data platform

  The data platform vendor extended its Apache Pulsar-based Astra Streaming platform with support for more streaming protocols, including Kafka, JMS and RabbitMQ.

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• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  Yugabyte distributed SQL database adds migration service

  The YugabyteDB 2.15 distributed SQL database update introduces a table group feature to accelerate and optimize performance for different database workloads.

• June 29, 2022 29 Jun'22

  HPE GreenLake adds new Zerto disaster recovery services

  Two new SaaS data recovery services available in HPE GreenLake offer easier use of Zerto and other software to entice users familiar with public cloud offerings.

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Databricks accelerates data lakehouse at Data + AI Summit

  Databricks committed to making its Delta Lake technology fully open source as the vendor rolled out platform updates to accelerate data analytics and machine learning workloads.

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Object First launches with appliance for Veeam backup storage

  Veeam Software founders have launched a hardware appliance that targets Veeam backup storage and a specific type of user.

• June 23, 2022 23 Jun'22

  Starburst acquires Varada to accelerate data lake queries

  After a year of partnering, the data lake query vendor decided to acquire fellow Trino SQL query engine supporter Varada to help boost query performance.

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Treeverse set to launch LakeFS cloud data lake service

  The open source LakeFS technology gets a fully managed cloud service to help organization better iterate and version cloud data sources for development efforts.

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Reltio integrates data quality with cloud MDM platform

  The master data management vendor adds new capabilities to its cloud service to enable organizations to more easily integrate validated data with business operations.

• June 22, 2022 22 Jun'22

  Scottish EPA rebuilds with Tibco Spotfire after cyber attack

  After almost all of the agency's data and analytics tools were wiped out, it survived and then thrived using the analytics platform to fuel data-driven decision-making.

• June 20, 2022 20 Jun'22

  Knime adds new UI, tighter Snowflake bond to analytics suite

  The vendor's new platform update is aimed at end users and features a revamped user interface, more Snowflake integration and a dedicated Python environment for writing scripts.

• June 17, 2022 17 Jun'22

  Neon previews serverless PostgreSQL database service

  Startup emerges to launch a new developer-focused cloud database as a service based on open source PostgreSQL, with capabilities to enable branching for application development.

• June 16, 2022 16 Jun'22

  Tibco Spotfire 12 to enable direct actions from dashboards

  The platform's next update, which the vendor previewed during a recent virtual user conference, will enable customers to trigger data-driven actions directly from their dashboards.

• June 15, 2022 15 Jun'22

  SAS analytics and BI platform evolves toward cloud

  Though the analytics vendor has invested heavily in AI over the past few years, the most significant change to its platform has been its embrace of the cloud.

• June 15, 2022 15 Jun'22

  DataStax raises $115M to advance its data stack

  The CEO of the data platform vendor, which is a leading contributor to the open source Cassandra database, details why the vendor is looking to assemble a full data stack.

• June 14, 2022 14 Jun'22

  ThoughtSpot, Matillion partner to accelerate analytics

  The analytics vendor and data integration vendor both offer cloud-native tools and have joined forces to reduce the time it takes go from data ingestion to insight and action.

• June 14, 2022 14 Jun'22

  Yellowbrick 6 advances cloud data warehouse deployments

  The data warehouse vendor is growing its hybrid data warehouse capabilities with version 6.0 of its namesake platform that is now enabled to run on AWS.

• June 14, 2022 14 Jun'22

  Snowflake Data Cloud expands with Unistore Hybrid Tables

  Snowflake adds more capabilities, including support for Apache Iceberg data lake tables and both transactional and analytics workloads, with Hybrid Tables.

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Increasing importance of analytics an opportunity for ISVs

  With more organizations looking to data to inform decision-making, there's a growing need for the services of independent software vendors and data providers.

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Datamart a new self-service developer tool in Power BI

  The capability, now in in preview, will enable Premium customers to build small to midsize relational databases dedicated to a single subject, without requiring code.

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  Meltano 2.0 provides a superset of open source DataOps tools

  The startup and GitHub spinoff added the Apache Superset business intelligence technology to enable organizations to more easily build full data operations pipelines.

• June 09, 2022 09 Jun'22

  HYCU funding to aid multi-cloud data protection, management

  HYCU will add to its backup and recovery product line and workforce following a series B funding round. The company still has plans for an IPO as well.

• June 08, 2022 08 Jun'22

  Commvault CEO: We're a data protection, not security, company

  In this Q&A, Commvault CEO Sanjay Mirchandani talks about record revenue, the changing landscape of data protection and how Commvault is responding.

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  Qlik fuels solar equipment maker IronRidge's insights

  The manufacturer is using the analytics vendor's platform to harness both internal and external data and inform decision-making throughout the solar firm's partner network.

• June 07, 2022 07 Jun'22

  MongoDB 6.0 set to bring analytics to NoSQL database

  The vendor plans to update its database technology with new capabilities including queryable encryption and columnstore index to accelerate data analytics queries.

• June 03, 2022 03 Jun'22

  Data connectivity key to insight discovery

  With the economy in near constant flux over the past two years, connecting data points to fuel analytics has enabled many organizations to act and react as they need to.

• June 02, 2022 02 Jun'22

  Clumio selling cheaper AWS protection with SecureVault Lite

  The new Clumio SecureVault Lite provides backup and protection of Amazon EC2 and EBS data at a lower price point, but offers fewer granular recovery features.

• June 02, 2022 02 Jun'22

  Incorta integrates Delta Sharing with Direct Data Mapping

  Incorta looks to make it easier for users to collaborate and share data across different sources, to aid business intelligence and data analytics operations.

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  Analytics, automation and AI will fuel future of business

  Organizations that speed their decision intelligence abilities will be those that survive and thrive, while those that don't digitally transform will fail.

• June 01, 2022 01 Jun'22

  PlanetScale brings new insights to its database as a service

  The vendor expanded its cloud database service with new capabilities for integrated data observability with insights, as well as the ability to scale read-only replicas.

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  N2WS expands AWS backup service with OnTap and HANA targets

  N2WS adds to its AWS backup capabilities in the latest 4.1 update with support for NetApp OnTap and SAP HANA workloads, along with a handful of new features.

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Tech stock sell-off signals tough times for data vendors

  In addition to lowering the values of publicly traded data, analytics and AI vendors, the stock market's decline is making it difficult for companies still in their funding phase.

• May 26, 2022 26 May'22

  Alation boosts data intelligence with Open Data Quality

  The vendor's latest update brings users more integration options to connect with data quality tools and adds more capabilities for data governance to the data catalog platform.

• May 25, 2022 25 May'22

  CockroachDB boosts automation in distributed SQL database

  The database vendor has updated its CockroachDB platform with features to enable users to more reliably scale and control operations to meet data demands.

• May 25, 2022 25 May'22

  TigerGraph unveils new tool for machine learning modeling

  The vendor's new capability is a pipeline for developing and deploying machine learning models with graph technology and works with popular third-party machine learning platforms.

• May 24, 2022 24 May'22

  Informatica advances Intelligent Data Management Cloud

  The data management vendor added new services to its cloud data platform, including specific offerings for the financial services and healthcare industry verticals.

• May 24, 2022 24 May'22

  Monte Carlo set to boost data observability with $135M raise

  Monte Carlo's CTO provides insight into the state of the data market as the volume of data sources and pipelines continues to be a challenge for organizations to optimize.

• May 23, 2022 23 May'22

  Veeam data protection aids users with secure restores

  From 'nothing worked' to 'it just worked': How Veeam Software helped a Florida city out of a troublesome predicament with its legacy data backup platform.

• May 20, 2022 20 May'22

  Alteryx adds augmented analytics, more cloud capabilities

  The vendor's latest update includes increased connectivity to cloud data storage repositories and enhanced augmented intelligence features designed to increase speed-to-insight.

• May 19, 2022 19 May'22

  Rubrik's emphasis on security illustrates changing DR strategy

  At Rubrik Forward, the vendor company recast itself as a combined security and data protection company. It isn't the only vendor changing its approach.

• May 19, 2022 19 May'22

  Baseball's Rangers seek analytics edge with Tableau

  Although the game's governing body provides comprehensive stats, the franchise is using the analytics vendor's tools to deliver digestible daily reports to gain a competitive edge.

• May 19, 2022 19 May'22

  VeeamON 2022: Backup and security union emerges as top trend

  Veeam has seized an opportunity to make its products more secure amid the prevalence of cyber attacks. The vendor is also looking to expand its reach, potentially through acquisitions.

• May 19, 2022 19 May'22

  Rubrik expands protection for Microsoft 365 backups

  Microsoft 365 users can tap Rubrik to secure their backups in an air-gapped vault with multi-user authentication for security, but experts warn a more proactive approach is needed.

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Apollo GraphQL creates supergraph for connected data service

  Apollo is out with updates for its namesake GraphQL platform, including a new router technology and a data federation update to help organizations connect to data sources.

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Qlik unveils 2022 roadmap for its analytics platform

  Included in the vendor's product development plans are a new in-database query tool, stronger machine learning capabilities and enriched security and compliance features.

• May 18, 2022 18 May'22

  Veeam Backup & Replication v12 focuses on security, cloud

  At the first in-person VeeamON since 2019, Veeam reveals updates to its Backup & Replication and Microsoft 365 protection products. Backup for Salesforce is also on the horizon.

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Percona Platform aims to boost open source database support

  The open source database services provider is out with a new integrated offering that provides automated capabilities for organizations to manage and optimize database operations.

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  HP deriving value from data with ThoughtSpot

  After experimenting with a variety of BI platforms, the computer giant found success with the analytics vendor's platform given its ability to handle scale.

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Rubrik enhances data protection with machine learning

  In a repackaging of its primary data protection platform, Rubrik Security Cloud includes new features such as machine learning to better predict cyber attacks and recover faster.

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Imply raises $100M for analytics database technology

  The lead vendor behind the open source Apache Druid database raises new money to help grow its go-to-market efforts and build out new technology as it heads toward a possible IPO.

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Tableau adding new storytelling tool to analytics platform

  During its user conference, the vendor unveiled automated data storytelling capabilities, a new cloud version of its platform and more self-service data science tools.

• May 17, 2022 17 May'22

  Catalogic updates CloudCasa for Azure Kubernetes Service

  Catalogic's CloudCasa software now includes backups for Azure Kubernetes Service along with other enterprise functionality such as role-based access control and multi-tenancy.

• May 16, 2022 16 May'22

  Kasten backup adds Kubernetes ransomware detection, security

  As ransomware becomes a bigger concern for container admins, updates to the Kasten backup and disaster recovery platform for Kubernetes take a proactive security stance.

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Data storytelling, cloud in focus at Tableau Conference '22

  Following its 2021 acquisition of Narrative Science, data storytelling -- along with cloud capabilities -- will be prominent when the vendor hosts its upcoming user conference.

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  Zerto 9.5 update adds Linux support and multi-cloud storage

  Zerto's biannual update to its disaster recovery and data backup platform expands data protection features into Linux environments and adds features for Azure and GCP users.

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  ThoughtSpot roadmap aims to make analytics simple, efficient

  The vendor's product development philosophy is designed to give users more output from the platform while requiring less effort from the users themselves.

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Google introduces AlloyDB PostgreSQL-based cloud database

  The tech giant is growing its cloud database portfolio with a new service that add analytics query acceleration to and boosts performance of the PostgreSQL database.

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  ThoughtSpot demonstrates its evolution at Beyond 2022

  The vendor's first in-person user conference since 2019 has showcased its transformation. In an interview, ThoughtSpot CEO Sudheesh Nair discusses the company's modernization.

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Cohesity protects user data with FortKnox vault service

  FortKnox offers a managed, air-gapped data vault service in AWS to help protect data from ransomware and other digital disasters.

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  PingCap brings TiDB distributed SQL HTAP database to cloud

  The TiDB Cloud provides a fully managed deployment of the open source TiDB database, which provides both analytical and transactional processing functionality.

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  ThoughtSpot broadens analytics customer base, targets SMBs

  The analytics and BI vendor has added plug-in API apps to its natural language processing and embedded BI-friendly platform aimed at larger cloud-based enterprises and SMBs.

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  ThoughtSpot adds analytics app templates, more automation

  New capabilities included in the vendor's latest platform update include prebuilt applications, tools that automate insight delivery and a series of integrations with partners.

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  Talend Data Fabric updates data health functionality

  The data integration vendor is improving its data fabric with enhancements that strengthen its trust score for providing a metric for data quality and health.

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  Couchbase Server 7.1 advances enterprise NoSQL database

  The database vendor is updating its namesake platform with an optimized storage engine and new integrations to connect data sources including cloud data lakes.

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  Pyramid Analytics raises $120M, IPO could be next

  The vendor plans to use the influx of capital to fund product development, geographic expansion and add staff with an eye toward going public within three years.

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  Starburst boosts data lake connections and fault tolerance

  The data lake query vendor is bringing new features to its platform to optimize queries with the open source Trino query engine across multiple formats and sources.

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  Alluxio 2.8 improves data orchestration platform security

  Open source-based data platform provider Alluxio is updating its namesake technology with enhanced Amazon S3 support and improved security for cloud data access.

• May 02, 2022 02 May'22

  Dell Apex now offers managed cyber recovery service

  Dell Technologies releases a new managed cyber recovery service as part of its Apex portfolio and other cloud disaster recovery products, including a debut on Microsoft Azure.

• April 29, 2022 29 Apr'22

  Qlik wants analytics platform to lead to certainty, swagger

  The vendor has added capabilities through acquisitions in recent years, and at its user conference plans to demonstrate the full scope of its integrated, end-to-end platform.

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  Hasura enables GraphQL joins for data federation

  Connecting multiple GraphQL services is a new feature in the Hasura 2.6 update that helps organizations unify multiple data sources in a data federation.

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  Ocient Hyperscale Data Warehouse scales data operations

  The data warehouse vendor is targeting enterprises that need to use a trillion rows of data or more for analysis, with hyperscale technology that is now ready for broader adoption.

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Experts outline keys for strong data governance framework

  Developing guidelines that simultaneously protect organizations from risk while enabling and encouraging employees to work with data can be difficult, but not impossible.

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Tableau targets embedded analytics with new developer tools

  Unveiled during Salesforce's TrailblazerDX '22 developer conference, the new capabilities are aimed at enabling more business users to work with data in their everyday workflows.

• April 26, 2022 26 Apr'22

  Akamai goes DBaaS with Linode Managed Database service

  The Linode Managed Database service is set to debut, bringing support for the MySQL database and expanding support to include PostgreSQL, Redis and MongoDB in the coming months.

• April 26, 2022 26 Apr'22

  HYCU Protege updates focus on ransomware recovery

  HYCU sharpens its emphasis on WORM storage with more support and 'cloud dedupe.' The ransomware-focused product updates follow the recent release of a ransomware assessment tool.

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  Databricks aims data lakehouse at media and entertainment

  Gaming vendor Sega is using the data vendor's technology to unify its data for sales as well as game balancing to enable players to get the best experience.

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Self-service analytics key to agile decision-making

  With worldwide events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine causing economic uncertainty, organizations need to be able to make informed decisions in near real time.

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Oracle boosts Exadata Cloud Infrastructure with X9M

  New hardware is coming to the tech giant's cloud service for database workloads, with the Exadata X9M for more compute and storage to provide increased performance and scale.

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Confluent secures event data streaming in cloud update

  The vendor's Q2 2022 cloud update provides more precise security access control to help organizations better secure, scale and manage the Apache Kafka-based technology platform.

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Aparavi update focuses on managing, eliminating PII

  Aparavi Platform's new capabilities include automation tools to isolate personally identifiable information and other sensitive unstructured data.

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Tibco WebFocus update aims to make analytics accessible

  The platform update adds capabilities including a hub for analytics assets and natural language query designed to increase the number of potential users within organizations.

• April 18, 2022 18 Apr'22

  GoodData to launch fully managed analytics platform on AWS

  The vendor unveiled its overhauled suite in June 2021, and in July 2022 expects to make GoodData Cloud generally available to users who prefer not to manage their own deployments.

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Databricks fuels analytics for Spain's top soccer league

  After prioritizing data-driven decision-making over the last decade, LaLiga is now using Databricks to inform its clubs and fans about play on the field.

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  Arcion brings change data capture platform to the cloud

  Getting data out of one system and into another in the right format as quickly as possible is a challenge the Arcion Cloud service is aiming to address for organizations.

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  Infragistics targets better data-driven decision-making

  The vendor released Slingshot, a new platform that brings analytics, collaboration, a data catalog and project management capabilities into one environment.

• April 12, 2022 12 Apr'22

  Clumio adds DynamoDB to backup-as-a-service portfolio

  The number of AWS databases protected by Clumio grows with the addition of Amazon DynamoDB, providing air-gapped backups and more granular restorations for users.

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  Monte Carlo introduces Circuit Breakers for data pipelines

  In an effort to help improve data workflow reliability, Monte Carlo is rolling out a new feature that can help organizations stop inaccurate data flows from affecting operations.

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  NetApp acquires Instaclustr for database as a service

  Instaclustr is being acquired by NetApp in a bid to the help the vendor grow beyond its on-premises storage roots into the bustling market for cloud software as a service.

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  Gartner: Augmented analytics, ecosystem for BI now key

  While AI capabilities are now a must for BI vendors, it is becoming increasingly important that their capabilities fit into a larger ecosystem for users, according to Gartner.

• April 07, 2022 07 Apr'22

  Domo unveils integrations with Microsoft 365, Teams

  The new integrations will allow joint customers of the analytics vendor and the tech giant to access data assets while remaining in their everyday workflows.

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  Google grows cloud capabilities with BigLake data lakehouse

  Google is continuing to build out its cloud data services with a new approach that will serve as a central cloud service for unifying data across different clouds and formats.

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  StorageCraft DRaaS outage highlights layered protection need

  As a result of the StorageCraft outage, some of the vendor's DRaaS users lost the ability to fail over. Having a local backup is one method of protection against cloud outages.

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  MongoDB 5.3 enhances time series data capabilities

  MongoDB is continuing to grow its multimodel database capabilities, adding the ability to help users with gap filling for missing data sets, in the new 5.3 release.

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  New integrations unite Looker with other Google BI tools

  As part of a project the tech giant is calling Big BI, Google is unifying the analytics vendor's capabilities with those of Data Studio and Connected Sheets.

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  Databricks enables Delta Live Tables in data lakehouse

  Databricks is looking to make it easier for users to build data pipelines to extract, transform and load data from any source using a Spark SQL data query.

• April 05, 2022 05 Apr'22

  Redpanda expands event data streaming with more visibility

  Alex Gallego, founder and CEO of Redpanda, discusses why his company acquired Kafka user interface vendor CloudHut, as organizations deal with the challenges of real-time data.

• April 01, 2022 01 Apr'22

  ESPN improves app performance with Domo analytics tools

  The sports broadcasting giant is using a customer care application developed with the analytics vendor's tools to improve its app performance and streaming capabilities.