Data Management
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Opinion
26 Aug 2026
Why anonymization alone no longer protects sensitive data
Anonymized data is still valuable, but organizations that rely on it alone can expose their business and customers to privacy, regulatory and reputational risk. Continue Reading
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News
26 Aug 2026
CIOs say data engineers, AI architects hardest roles to fill
CIOs face a growing talent gap as AI changes IT roles. Seven IT leaders explain which skills are hardest to find and what hiring teams should look for. Continue Reading
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News
21 Sep 2021
Nutanix boosts data management services in the cloud
Nutanix is aiming to make it easier to manage, deploy and protect data and databases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a series of product updates. Continue Reading
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News
15 Sep 2021
Kafka streaming data gets governance from Confluent
Apache Kafka event streaming from Confluent helps online grocery provider Instacart deliver milk to customers when they need it, by helping to power real-time inventory updates. Continue Reading
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News
15 Sep 2021
StreamNative raises $23M for Apache Pulsar data streaming
Leading vendor behind the open source event streaming project raised new funds to help build out a cloud platform for event data and message streaming. Continue Reading
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News
14 Sep 2021
Snowflake aims at financial services with data cloud
Snowflake launches its new Data Cloud offering as it continues to expand the range of applications and capabilities for its customers, including Western Union and Capital One. Continue Reading
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News
14 Sep 2021
Alation boosts platform with new data governance application
The new Alation service provides a series of capabilities to improve governance, including a centralized dashboard and data steward workbench for managing workflow. Continue Reading
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News
13 Sep 2021
Materialize brings streaming SQL database to the cloud
To date, streaming database startup Materialize has not had a managed cloud service -- but that's changing, with a preview of the company's cloud DBaaS platform. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Sep 2021
How VMware's CDO views data management
The chief data officer of the virtualization vendor details her views on the increasing challenges of dealing with growing volumes of data and the critical importance of data governance. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Sep 2021
How to choose exactly the right data story for your audience
A data practitioner has two jobs: tell the right data story and in the right way to win over project stakeholders, data expert Larry Burns says in his latest book. Continue Reading
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News
31 Aug 2021
Databricks raises $1.6B more to boost data lakehouse
Investors are super confident in the growth potential for cloud data management and analytics as the impact of the Snowflake IPO continues to ripple through the industry. Continue Reading
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Quiz
31 Aug 2021
Quiz: Test your understanding of the Hadoop ecosystem
This quiz will test your knowledge of Hadoops basics including framework, capabilities and related technologies. Continue Reading
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News
31 Aug 2021
Apache Drill improves big data SQL query engine
Open source SQL query engine gets new release that will expand the number of data sources that can be queried, including Elasticsearch, Splunk and Apache Cassandra. Continue Reading
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News
27 Aug 2021
Rockset advances real-time streaming data SQL queries
Rockset previews new features in its cloud database platform to help organizations more easily use real-time data to support data analytics and business intelligence. Continue Reading
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News
25 Aug 2021
Cribl brings in $200M to advance data lake observability
Cribl looks to grow its LogStream platform capabilities with new funding that will help the vendor grow operations and advance its data lake visibility technology. Continue Reading
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Tip
24 Aug 2021
6 strategies to tap into data warehouse BI
Data warehouse BI benefits include data storage, summarization and transformation and can be unlocked with these six strategies leveraging cloud architectures. Continue Reading
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News
20 Aug 2021
With Amazon MemoryDB, AWS takes aim at Redis in the cloud
The tech giant is offering its users a new managed Redis-compatible in-memory database platform that will compete against services from Redis, Google and Microsoft. Continue Reading
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News
19 Aug 2021
Hitachi Vantara expands Lumada DataOps suite
Hitachi Vantara integrated its data management technologies into a new product suite intended to help organizations with data operations. Data governance is coming next. Continue Reading
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News
17 Aug 2021
Apollo GraphQL raises $130M to enable graph layer
The CEO and co-founder of a graph layer vendor provides insight into the growing need for the graph layer as a data technology to help connect the front end to the back end. Continue Reading
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Feature
17 Aug 2021
Bill Inmon's data warehouse approach tackles text analysis
Learn the fine points of a concept at the heart of 'The Textual Warehouse' a new book that aims to help organizations profit through textual analysis. Continue Reading
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News
17 Aug 2021
Confluent builds out Kafka event streaming platform
Confluent aims to make it easier for users to query data in motion coming from Apache Kafka, with the ksqlDB pull query capability in its cloud platform update. Continue Reading
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News
17 Aug 2021
Monte Carlo raises $60M to advance data observability
Vendor Monte Carlo brought in new funding as it builds out new capabilities to bring more data trust and visibility to both data warehouses and data lakes. Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Aug 2021
MongoDB CTO's view of data challenges
The database vendor CTO discusses cloud migration, organizational structure and collaboration, go-to-market challenges organizations face, and the value of a chief data officer. Continue Reading
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News
11 Aug 2021
Talend updates data fabric with more collaboration
With its summer 2021 update, data integration vendor Talend boosted its data sharing and integration features to help business users share trusted data sources. Continue Reading
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News
10 Aug 2021
Kyligence 4.5 adds Clickhouse to Intelligent Data Cloud
The open source Clickhouse OLAP database joins the Apache Kylin analytical data warehouse in a new update that provides a platform for different types of data queries. Continue Reading
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News
10 Aug 2021
Oracle puts MySQL HeatWave on Autopilot
Oracle updated its MySQL database cloud service with new capabilities designed to automate and optimize database operations and query execution. Continue Reading
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Tip
09 Aug 2021
Best practices for cloud database management systems
Learn best practices to streamline cloud database management to benefit business performance, compliance audits and business continuity. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Aug 2021
Why City Furniture embraced data virtualization
With data coming from on-premises and cloud sources and spanning legacy systems, databases and even flat files, City Furniture faced problems bringing all its data together. Continue Reading
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News
04 Aug 2021
Varada scales cloud data platform with new release
Varada realized it needed more flexibility to help its users scale its data lake query platform, so it added elasticity capabilities to help meet that demand. Continue Reading
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News
03 Aug 2021
Ahana raises $20M for Presto cloud data lake query tech
Ahana looks to grow the market for its open source-based cloud data query engine as the volume of stored data that organizations want to analyze continues to expand. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Aug 2021
The pros and cons of big data outsourcing
More companies are seeking outside help to capitalize on data's value. Examine the benefits and drawbacks that come with outsourcing big data processing projects. Continue Reading
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News
30 Jul 2021
Couchbase NoSQL database adds relational capabilities
With its latest update, Couchbase introduced features that bring the equivalent of tables and schema to its database to reduce friction for those moving from a relational database. Continue Reading
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News
28 Jul 2021
Trifacta moves beyond data wrangling to DataOps
'Data wrangling' is a term that Trifacta assigns to data preparation, but there is more than that to the concept as part of the vendor's Data Engineering Cloud platform. Continue Reading
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News
27 Jul 2021
Apache Cassandra 4.0 advances open source database
Among the new features in the open source Cassandra database update are virtual tables that help operators improve performance and optimize operations. Continue Reading
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Tip
23 Jul 2021
9 steps to a dynamic data architecture plan
Learn the nine steps to a comprehensive data architecture plan, including C-suite support, data personas, user needs, governance, catalogs, SWOT, lifecycles, blueprints and maps. Continue Reading
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News
22 Jul 2021
Couchbase IPO brings NoSQL database to the stock market
Couchbase makes a move into the public markets with a Nasdaq listing as it continues to develop its NoSQL database technology that runs on premises and in the cloud. Continue Reading
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News
22 Jul 2021
Observable expands enterprise data visualization platform
Observable expanded its platform for larger organizations to collaborate on data projects that make information more intuitive to understand and use. Continue Reading
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Tip
20 Jul 2021
5 principles of a well-designed data architecture
Here are five core data architecture principles to help organizations build a modern architecture that successfully meets their data management and analytics needs. Continue Reading
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News
20 Jul 2021
Monte Carlo Incident IQ looks to improve data observability
Various problems can cause data pipelines to break or contain inaccurate information. Monte Carlo aims to help its users figure out the root cause and fix it. Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Jul 2021
The value of PDF data extraction: Sifting for hidden data
During the process of data cleaning, there's a way to extract valuable hidden data. Learn how in this excerpt from 'Cleaning Data for Effective Data Science.' Continue Reading
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Tip
16 Jul 2021
How to build a successful cloud data architecture
As enterprises vacate the premises and migrate their operations skyward, a cloud data architecture can provide the long-term flexibility to improve workflows, costs and security. Continue Reading
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News
14 Jul 2021
Hazelcast Platform integrates data grid and event streaming
Hazelcast's new technology will provide a unified SQL query engine on a single cluster that will allow users to query both real-time data and data at rest. Continue Reading
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News
14 Jul 2021
Informatica brings data governance and data catalog to cloud
Informatica moves more of its on-premises capabilities into the cloud as it aims to provide an integrated data platform for multiple use cases, including analytics and AI. Continue Reading
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Tip
13 Jul 2021
Data modeling vs. data architecture: What's the difference?
Data modelers and data architects have distinctly different roles, but they work in a complementary fashion to help enterprises unlock and capitalize on data's business value. Continue Reading
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News
13 Jul 2021
MongoDB 5.0 expands open source document database operations
At the MongoDB.live 2021 virtual conference, the vendor unveiled its next-generation database platform with more time-series data support and live re-sharding capabilities. Continue Reading
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News
09 Jul 2021
Rockset adds MySQL connector to real-time indexing database
Rockset made a set of connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL generally available. The tools enable real-time data indexing for analytics on transactional data. Continue Reading
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News
08 Jul 2021
Silk advances cloud data migration with $55M funding round
Silk has developed a virtualized data system that abstracts cloud resources, helping organizations port their on-premises databases to the cloud. Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Jul 2021
Meltano spins out from GitLab to advance DataOps platform
Douwe Maan, founder and CEO of Meltano, outlines the new data startup's approach as it raises seed funding to advance an open source ELT system. Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Jul 2021
EY CTO outlines data governance challenges
Multinational professional services firm EY has taken a strategic view of how to manage and use data in a federated approach powered by a trusted data fabric. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Jun 2021
What an automated data integration implementation means
Automated data integration can reduce time spent by data professionals on repetitive tasks. Learn about strategies to help implement automated data integration. Continue Reading
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Feature
28 Jun 2021
Data governance and your master data management strategy
Strong data governance and master data management strategies typically go hand in hand. Read on to see how key factors of data governance can support your master data management. Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2021
Fivetran looks to Teleport Data for database replication
Fivetran is expanding its data integration capabilities with data validation technology that takes a different approach than change data capture for database replication. Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2021
Firebolt raises $127M to fuel cloud data warehouse efforts
Firebolt looks to grow in the cloud data warehouse market with a proprietary file format and a focus on enabling developers to build data-driven apps on top of cloud data lakes. Continue Reading
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News
24 Jun 2021
Confluent goes IPO as Kafka event streaming goes mainstream
The lead commercial vendor behind the open source Apache Kafka event streaming platform goes public as the market opportunity for data in motion grows. Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2021
SingleStore updates unified database platform
The database vendor formerly known as MemSQL is out with a major update that adds new storage and multicolumn key support functionality to its unified database platform. Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2021
PlanetScale CEO discusses $30M funding for cloud database
The CEO and co-founder of PlanetScale, Jiten Vaidya, outlines the challenges and opportunities for his firm's open source distributed SQL cloud database. Continue Reading
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Definition
22 Jun 2021
Db2
Db2 is a family of database management system (DBMS) products from IBM that serve a number of different operating system (OS) platforms. Continue Reading
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Guest Post
18 Jun 2021
Data governance strategies for today's evolving IT landscape
With remote work becoming part of the norm and as companies migrate more data into the cloud, it's imperative that companies review their data governance strategy. Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Jun 2021
How data governance and data quality work together
High-quality, reliable data is essential to the data governance process. Here are strategies to ensure data quality standards are ingrained in governance processes. Continue Reading
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News
17 Jun 2021
Neo4j raises $325M in funding to advance graph database
Emil Eifrem, CEO and co-founder of Neo4j, discusses how the graph database vendor is seeing growing demand for its technology, with applications for data science and supply chain. Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Jun 2021
Healthcare device maker boosts production with data quality
One of the world's biggest ventilator manufacturers ramped up production during the pandemic by improving its own data health to better understand and optimize operations. Continue Reading
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News
10 Jun 2021
Quest updates Erwin Data Modeling and Data Intelligence
Quest is looking to build out what it calls a data empowerment platform with the help of data modeling and other technology from its recently acquired Erwin business unit. Continue Reading
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Feature
10 Jun 2021
The enterprise advantages of automated data collection
Many organizations still rely on manual data entry that wastes time and results in low-quality data. Here are the latest automated data collection techniques and their benefits. Continue Reading
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News
10 Jun 2021
Prefect raises $32M for dataflow automation technology
Data startup Prefect is looking to grow its open source project and commercial business to help organizations manage automated data pipeline requirements. Continue Reading
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News
08 Jun 2021
Snowflake expands cloud data warehouse platform to Snowpark
Snowflake customer Instacart, the online grocery giant, uses the Snowpark cloud data warehouse to list all its services in a data catalog to improve the user experience. Continue Reading
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News
04 Jun 2021
Dremio accelerates data lake operations with Dart Initiative
The cloud data lake engine platform vendor looks to accelerate queries with its Dart Initiative, which uses a query cache plan to optimize SQL queries against data lakes. Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2021
Q&A: Inside data catalog vendor Alation's $110M in funding
Alation co-founder and CEO Satyen Sangani shares why his company is raising money, where the technology is headed, and challenges facing data intelligence and data catalog technology. Continue Reading
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News
03 Jun 2021
Cribl aims to ease data observability with LogStream update
LogStream 3.0 brings new configuration capabilities to Cribl's pipeline technology that can help organizations optimize log and metrics data. Continue Reading
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News
01 Jun 2021
After sluggish revenues, Cloudera goes private in $5.3B deal
Big data vendor Cloudera is looking to expand its SaaS capabilities by exiting the public markets and acquiring startups Cazena and Datacoral to bring new self-service features. Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Jun 2021
How automated metadata management improves business insights
Automating metadata management can cut down time spent on tasks such as data tagging and cataloging. Explore how automated metadata management is improving data quality. Continue Reading
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News
27 May 2021
Google Datastream advances change data capture in the cloud
At Google's Data Cloud Summit, a new service released in preview to enable users to capture data from other sources to bring into Google's cloud data and analytics services. Continue Reading
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News
26 May 2021
Databricks opens up data lakes for data sharing
At its virtual Data + AI Summit, the AI vendor detailed new capabilities to make information stored in cloud data lakes more accessible and secure. Continue Reading
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News
26 May 2021
Microsoft builds distributed ledger for Azure SQL database
The tech giant debuted new database services, including more security for Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL, and a distributed ledger for Azure SQL. Continue Reading
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News
21 May 2021
Superconductive raises $21M for open source data quality
The open source Great Expectations project is becoming increasingly popular, as the commercial vendor seeks to build out a cloud service to expand the project's reach. Continue Reading
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News
20 May 2021
CockroachDB version 21.1 simplifies distributed SQL database
Cockroach Labs updated its database platform with enhanced capabilities giving database administrators more control over where and how data is distributed around the world. Continue Reading
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News
19 May 2021
Syncari raises $17.3M for automated cloud data sync
Data synchronization vendor is looking to solve the challenge of keeping data updated and automated across multiple cloud systems in a unified data model. Continue Reading
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News
18 May 2021
PlanetScale launches new database-as-a-service platform
The main vendor behind the open source Vitess distributed SQL cloud platform for MySQL is out with a new cloud platform that will integrate well with developer-based workflows. Continue Reading
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News
13 May 2021
ChaosSearch brings SQL to cloud data lake platform
The cloud data lake engine provider expands beyond log search, with a multi-model API that now includes SQL query execution for analytics and BI. Continue Reading
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News
12 May 2021
Kafka users detail real-time data benefits
Confluent introduces a series of new real-time data efforts as users of the open source data-streaming technology outline real-world deployment applications. Continue Reading
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News
11 May 2021
K2View updates DataOps platform with data fabric automation
A data operations platform vendor is bringing new capabilities to its data platform that will help organizations more easily integrate and automate the movement of data. Continue Reading
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News
06 May 2021
MariaDB expands SkySQL cloud database for high availability
The Xpand distributed SQL capability is now generally available on the MariaDB SkySQL DBaaS, providing users with more performance and scalability. Continue Reading
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News
05 May 2021
Future of data management is in the cloud
Organizations are increasingly moving their data management efforts to the cloud with cloud database systems set to produce the majority of revenue by 2022. Continue Reading
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News
04 May 2021
Syniti boosts DataOps chops with DMR merger
The CEO of an enterprise data management vendor explains why his firm is merging with Data Migration Resources to expand their reach and data quality offerings. Continue Reading
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News
27 Apr 2021
Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 unifies database management
The updated tool introduces a database workload analyzer feature to help administrators optimize operation on premises and in the cloud. Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Apr 2021
Data quality for big data: Why it's a must and how to improve it
As data volumes increase exponentially, methods to improve and ensure big data quality are critical in making accurate, effective and trusted business decisions. Continue Reading
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News
22 Apr 2021
Redis Labs previews future database and caching features
Open source database vendor previews a series of upcoming improvements as Redis users at RedisConf 2021 provide insights into how they are using the technology today. Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Apr 2021
Enterprise augmented data management benefits and growth
Gartner predicts plenty of growth in the booming augmented data management market, which helps data professionals focus on insights over administrative tasks. Continue Reading
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News
21 Apr 2021
Oracle brings GoldenGate data integration service to cloud
Oracle is making its GoldenGate real-time data technology available on its second-generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform, as well as enabling multi-cloud operations. Continue Reading
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News
20 Apr 2021
Era Software raises $15.25M for enterprise data management
The startup that began as the EraDB time series database is advancing its efforts with new funding and a cloud service for its EraSearch data management platform. Continue Reading
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News
20 Apr 2021
Dgraph GraphQL database users detail graph use cases
Graph DB vendor Dgraph Labs is expanding its AWS cloud footprint with new regions and adding change data capture capabilities in its latest open source release. Continue Reading
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Feature
19 Apr 2021
Pandemic triggered data security movement to DBaaS
Database-as-a-service technology has aided enterprises tasked with keeping data secure with IT professionals working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue Reading
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News
15 Apr 2021
Soda launches cloud service to improve data observability
Data quality vendor Soda has had a busy 2021, building out new services and raising funding to help organizations identify and remediate data quality problems. Continue Reading
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News
15 Apr 2021
Bigeye raises $17M Series A funding to boost data quality
The former Uber product manager and current CEO and co-founder of a startup outlines the challenges and opportunities of enabling a new data trust platform with data quality at its foundation. Continue Reading
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News
13 Apr 2021
Informatica pulls together cloud data management in the cloud
Informatica rolls out its Intelligent Data Management Cloud, as customers provide insight into cloud data management challenges and opportunities at Informatica World 2021. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Apr 2021
Why consider an augmented data catalog?
Automated and augmented data catalogs have been around for a few years, but adoption is still lagging. Find out why an enterprise may consider investing in the technology. Continue Reading
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News
07 Apr 2021
Alation brings data catalog technology to the public cloud
Alation's data intelligence technology is getting easier for organizations to use, with a new managed service that can help enterprises better use the data they have. Continue Reading
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News
07 Apr 2021
Yellowbrick Manager embraces Kubernetes for data warehouse
Yellowbrick is building out a new unified control plane to help users manage distributed cloud data warehouse deployments. The vendor also advanced its data lake integration. Continue Reading
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News
07 Apr 2021
Trifacta unveils new integrations to enable data wrangling
Trifacta on Wednesday unveiled an updated tool to enable customers to work with their directly in Google BigQuery along with two new integrations designed to improve data preparation. Continue Reading
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News
06 Apr 2021
Upsolver raises $25M for no-code data lake platform
Upsolver's CEO discusses why the vendor is raising new money to advance its cloud data lake go-to-market efforts, and technologies such as the open source Presto query engine. Continue Reading
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Tip
05 Apr 2021
Data warehouse environment modernization tools and tips
A data warehouse environment is made up of many tools and systems. Read on to learn the history of the modern data warehouse and how they're currently evolving. Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Apr 2021
Vaccination data poses data management challenges for firms
If companies are considering the use of vaccination credentials to reopen offices, IT teams should start planning now. Continue Reading
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Feature
31 Mar 2021
Why consider an open source data catalog
Enterprise data catalogs offer organizations plenty of benefits with metadata management and data organization. Find out why some enterprises choose open source data catalogs. Continue Reading