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• August 24, 2022 24 Aug'22

  New SAS, SingleStore integration boosts speed, efficiency

  The integration between the longtime data and analytics vendor and the upstart database vendor enables users to work with data in-database, which increases speed-to-insight.

• August 23, 2022 23 Aug'22

  InfluxData eases event streaming data collection

  The new Native Collectors service in the cloud is an attempt by the time series database vendor to let users connect to message broker services and event streaming data.

• August 19, 2022 19 Aug'22

  PlanetScale reaches to the edge with serverless driver

  The vendor continues to build out its database-as-a-service platform and is now aiming to make it easier for developers to connect to edge services.

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  Geospatial data a key means of combating climate change

  By pinpointing when and where fires, floods and other natural disasters caused by climate change might occur, the damage from such events can be drastically reduced.

• August 18, 2022 18 Aug'22

  MariaDB set to expand geospatial database capabilities

  With the purchase of CubeWerx, the database vendor will add geospatial capabilities to its SkySQL database service that will enable satellite imagery analysis in applications.

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• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  Scenario planning fertile ground for analytics vendors

  Despite enabling organizations to explore what might happen based on different decisions and to prepare for potential problems, many BI vendors don't offer such tools.

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  Arcion data pipeline updates for schema evolution

  The vendor added new database support to its change data capture platform including for BigQuery and Imply, as well as features for schema update and data column transformations.

• August 17, 2022 17 Aug'22

  Cloudera users get fully managed data lakehouse platform

  The vendor is expanding its set of offerings with the launch of CDP One, a service initially available only on AWS that enables serverless deployment in the cloud.

• August 12, 2022 12 Aug'22

  Free tool from Collibra tests data maturity against peers

  The assessment tool is free to anyone and is designed to help organizations better understand the evolution of their data and analytics systems relative to others.

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  GridGain, Apache Ignite founder talks in-memory databases

  Nikita Ivanov details the origin of his company and discusses the growing need organizations have for real-time database processing capabilities to complete modern transactions.

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Cloud-agnostic ethos key for Qlik as an independent vendor

  The vendor has developed relationships with many of the key cloud providers and is intent on enabling its users to house their data on the cloud of their choice.

• August 09, 2022 09 Aug'22

  A look at Presto, Trino SQL query engines

  The co-creator of the open source project at Facebook reflects on 10 years of growth as he helps lead one of its resulting tools into the future.

• August 05, 2022 05 Aug'22

  Intersport boosts analytics, marketing efficiency with Knime

  Using the BI vendor's platform, the sporting goods retailer has reduced staff needed to attend to data, decreased time to build data workflows and improved marketing campaigns.

• August 04, 2022 04 Aug'22

  MicroStrategy adds more governance to analytics platform

  The longtime independent vendor's latest platform update features tools to help system administrators and application developers easily add data governance and security guardrails.

• August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

  Saylor to step down as MicroStrategy CEO after 33 years

  The vendor's co-founder will leave the role he's held since the company was founded to become executive chairman, with President Phong Le to take over as CEO.

• August 03, 2022 03 Aug'22

  Metrics upgrades, AR tool highlight Power BI platform update

  The July update includes over 20 features, with highlights including new capabilities for Metrics, a tool that uses AR to add context to data and new embedded BI capabilities.

• July 28, 2022 28 Jul'22

  Truist chief data officer on data management challenges

  The CDO of bank holding company Truist outlines what she sees as an optimal data management culture as the demand for data skills continues to grow.

• July 22, 2022 22 Jul'22

  Druva's enhanced backup aims to fortify user security

  Druva's enhanced backup platform aims to boost user security with more granular observability, rollback features and holistic views.

• July 22, 2022 22 Jul'22

  Apache Beam users detail stream data processing applications

  At a Beam conference, users detail how they're using the open source data processing technology at large scale in support of a growing number of data pipelines.

• July 21, 2022 21 Jul'22

  Automation, more security and governance next big BI trends

  As many data preparation and management tasks get automated, insight generation and action are the next likely targets for automation. Another key trend is more data governance.

• July 20, 2022 20 Jul'22

  Oracle Database Service for Azure connects Microsoft to OCI

  Oracle and Microsoft are extending their partnership to enable Microsoft cloud users to directly provision and access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure database services.

• July 19, 2022 19 Jul'22

  5 business analytics trends that shaped the start of 2022

  While AI and machine learning capabilities continue to evolve, another major movement in BI so far in 2022 has been to enable users to take action directly from insights.

• July 19, 2022 19 Jul'22

  Confluent update eases multi-cloud event data streaming

  The event data streaming vendor's new update introduces features to make it easier to integrate into a multi-cloud data stack deployment with the debut of a Terraform provider.

• July 19, 2022 19 Jul'22

  Calamu Protect defends data through sharding, encryption

  Calamu Protect 1.2 expands data protection capabilities for its data harbor through multi-tenancy features and support for protecting Microsoft 365 data.

• July 18, 2022 18 Jul'22

  Tibco adds SaaS version of MDM platform, updates TCI

  The analytics vendor unveiled Cloud EBX as it continues to add cloud-native versions of its tools. In addition, it launched an updated version of its cloud integration suite.

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  StarRocks brings open source OLAP database to the cloud

  The open source online analytical transaction processing DBaaS startup takes a different approach to accelerate queries as it moves to the cloud.

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  Catalogic adds to ransomware detection trend with GuardMode

  Catalogic has joined the ranks of data backup vendors that are providing ransomware detection and recovery tools to the backup admin.

• July 14, 2022 14 Jul'22

  ScyllaDB V open source NoSQL database embraces WebAssembly

  New release of the open source NoSQL database adds an optimized I/O scheduler to accelerate read/write operations and improve workload scalability.

• July 13, 2022 13 Jul'22

  New CEO not likely to change Tibco once merged with Citrix

  The analytics vendor's product leaders all remain in place, so while it will have a new company leader, its product development capabilities are expected to remain unchanged.

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  SingleStore secures $116M in funding to fuel growth

  The data management vendor has secured $278 million in financing since December 2020 and plans to use the new funds to fuel product development and expand marketing efforts.

• July 12, 2022 12 Jul'22

  Tibco targets data model deployment with ModelOps launch

  The analytics vendor designed the no-code platform, a sort of operating system for AI, to simplify the deployment of AI and machine learning models by users across organizations.

• July 08, 2022 08 Jul'22

  Databricks platform fuels analytics at State Department

  The vendor's AI and machine learning capabilities have enabled the government agency to improve the effectiveness of its data analysis technology and its overall efficiency.

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  LA County modernizes hiring with Azure and Databricks

  The HR department of the largest U.S. county revamped its analytics stack in order to help reduce hiring times that often took more than a year.

• July 06, 2022 06 Jul'22

  TigerGraph Cloud update enables easier adoption, deployment

  With enterprise customers adding more users as graph technology gains popularity, the vendor added features to make wide use of its SaaS platform easier and more secure.

• 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.

• 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.