Power of spreadsheets across industries
Thursday, November 7, 2024 by Austin Harris
In an era where digital tools are evolving at an unprecedented pace, the humble spreadsheet remains a steadfast ally in various fields. Despite the proliferation of specialized software designed to cater to specific needs, spreadsheets continue to be an indispensable part of the professional toolkit. Frederick O’Brien eloquently captures this sentiment, noting tha...
AI hallucinations could be problematic in 2024 says Couchbase
Thursday, December 7, 2023 by Richard Harris
Rahul Pradhan, VP, Product & Strategy, Couchbase discusses predictions including how Real-time data will become the standard for businesses to power generative experiences with AI. How data layers should support both transactional and real-time analytics, why multimodal LLMs and databases will enable a new frontier of AI apps across industries, what paradigm shift t...
App development to improve with insights from behavioral data
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 by Richard Harris
One of the most exciting developments in 2022 was the introduction of Data Creation as an approach. This is the process of intentionally creating data to power AI and advanced data applications, as opposed to data exhaust, which is the byproduct of data emitted from existing systems.
Organizations will seek to build better apps with granular insights from behavioral ...
Couchbase accelerates enterprise applications for customers
Thursday, July 29, 2021 by Richard Harris
Couchbase, Inc., provider of a modern database for enterprise applications, announced the general availability of Couchbase Server 7. This landmark release bridges the best aspects of relational databases like ACID transactions with the flexibility of a modern database, allowing enterprises to confidently accelerate strategic initiatives such as more quickly moving busi...
Couchbase improves Kubernetes operator to deliver cloud native
Thursday, April 30, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Couchbase announced Version 2.0 of the Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes (“Autonomous Operator”), the most mature and advanced operator in the industry. As enterprises continue to move to the cloud, DevOps, and microservices architectures, Autonomous Operator Version 2.0 helps to:
Empower Developers: Unlocks developers’ productivity wi...
Neo4j the graph database
Tuesday, January 14, 2020 by Richard Harris
ADM: What is Neo4j?
Hunger: Neo4j is an open-source, native graph database that provides an ACID-compliant transactional backend for your applications. Initial development began in 2003, but it has been publicly available since 2007. Neo4j is referred to as a native graph database because it efficiently implements the property graph model down to the storage level. T...
Realm and serverless platform MongoDB Stitch combine
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 by Austin Harris
MongoDB World 2019 kicked off at the beautiful Hilton Midtown in New York City yesterday. The day was full of technical talks and interactive presentations. The event offers conference-goers the ability to interface with MongoDB experts in free one-on-one consultations and to learn the technology in a hands-on way. They have some big announcements coming out of the conf...
Build streaming data apps faster on Furnace
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
Furnace Ignite Ltd announced the launch of Furnace that aims to enable data-organizations, to build highly sophisticated applications quickly, easily and cost-effectively. Early users have praised Furnace as the ideal platform for innovative and advanced streaming data applications serving; security, smart cities, IoT, finance, marketing and other data intensi...
New APM platform uses AI and runs on Amazon EMR
Monday, December 10, 2018 by Richard Harris
Unravel Data, the application performance management (APM) platform designed for big data workloads, has introduced a full-stack, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven solution for big data workloads running on Amazon EMR. Amazon EMR is a cloud service that enables big data processing using Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Impala, Hive, and other big data components across dynamical...
Diffusion data streaming platform gets an update
Friday, November 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Push Technology released new functionality in their Diffusion Intelligent Data Platform to increase security authentication and authorization handling, facilitate easy transitioning from REST-based applications to streaming data applications, simplify development of multi-user and collaborative applications, and enhance data compression for large payload distribution ap...
Simplifying digital transformation with VANTIQ Modelo 3.0
Friday, October 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
VANTIQ announced new capabilities in its VANTIQ Modelo application development platform that help companies gain maximum value from their event-driven, real-time business application initiatives that span from cloud to edge. VANTIQ Modelo 3.0 users can quickly build and deploy cloud-to-edge business applications that deliver improved business agility.
"Digi...
Machine data and SQL database release from Crate.io
Thursday, June 21, 2018 by Richard Harris
Crate.io announced $11 million in series A funding, along with the commercially-available Crate Machine Data Platform and version 3.0 of the open source CrateDB. The new funding was led by Zetta Venture Partners and Deutsche Invest Equity with participation from Mike Chalfen, Momenta Partners and Charlie Songhurst. Existing investors Draper Esprit, Vito Ventures and Sol...
Azure and Unravel boost Big Data in the Cloud
Monday, May 7, 2018 by Austin Harris
Unravel Data announced that it has integrated with Microsoft Azure to improve performance and reliability for Big Data workloads in the cloud. Unravel’s APM platform will be available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, enabling Azure customers to analyze, troubleshoot and optimize their Big Data deployments with a full-stack solution. As a result, enterprises will gain...
New software security guide from SAFECode publishes
Monday, April 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
The Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode) announced the publication of the Fundamental Practices for Secure Software Development: Essential Elements of a Secure Development Life Cycle Program (Third Edition).The guide was written by SAFECode members to help software developers, development organizations and technology users initiate or improve their...
Stateful data stream processing launches to GA
Monday, April 2, 2018 by Austin Harris
data Artisans announced the general availability of dA Platform - a stream processing platform that enables enterprises to get insights from data in milliseconds and power next-generation service-centric applications and business models. The new release productionizes stream processing and enables companies to provide live data applications as a centralized enterprise s...
The impact of fast data on the modern application stack
Monday, October 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
Lightbend has announced its Fast Data Platform to help operationalize applications built for streaming data use cases. The new distribution aims to support how organizations design, build and run fast data applications, as new use cases like Real-Time Decisioning, Real-Time Personalization, IoT and others evolve the big data requirements from its legacy batch/Hadoop roo...
MapD tech open sources their Core Database
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
MapD Technologies, a GPU-powered analytics company, has released their Core database to the open source community under the Apache 2 license, seeding a new generation of data applications. By open sourcing the MapD Core database and associated visualization libraries, they are making their analytics platform available to everyone."MapD's decision to open source its Core...
Quali's CloudShell version 8 is now generally availability
Friday, April 28, 2017 by Austin Harris
OpenStack adoption in enterprises is becoming increasingly embraced as revenues grow at 35% CAGR, according to 451 Research. Adoption of OpenStack is increasing among organizations with over 1,000 employees both with on-premise and hosted OpenStack deployments. The 451 Research team predicts a growing number of use-cases across enterprise and service provider deployment...
DevOps for Big Data with Pepperdata
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
Despite huge investments in big data applications, there’s still a bottleneck as developers and operators try to find effective and efficient ways to adjust and correct their big data applications’ code. As a result, companies deploying applications suffer from decreased developer productivity and cluster efficiency - a critical flaw to keep up with today’s big data inf...
Alooma service launches to secure pipelines that stream data in realtime
Friday, January 27, 2017 by Austin Harris
Alooma, a data pipeline company, has announced the general availability of their newest service which creates secure pipelines that stream data in real-time from any source including databases, applications, APIs, etc. to cloud data warehouse platforms for faster business decision-making. Their solution replaces the decades-old batch uploading approach to data integrati...
A tech brief for 2017 and beyond
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
IEEE Computer Society, a source for technology information in the computing industry and career development, offers a comprehensive list of industry-recognized products, services and professional opportunities. They've recently released their latest report in an attempt to highlight some of the up and coming technological advances that could take hold. As technology rap...
MapR Ecosystem Pack program gets an update
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 by Richard Harris
MapR Technologies, Inc. has announced the next major release of the MapR Ecosystem Pack program, a broad set of open source ecosystem projects that enable big data applications running on the MapR Converged Data Platform while ensuring inter-project compatibility. These latest enhancements also add flexible access and provide new capabilities for streaming applications....
Unravel Data Launches Performance Intelligence Platform
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Unravel Data, provider of a full-stack performance intelligence platform for optimizing Big Data operations (DataOps), has emerged from stealth, announcing the first-ever platform to accelerate Big Data applications, optimize resource usage, and provide operations intelligence, all from a single platform. Addressing the larger Big Data market, which analysts at IDC...
BlueData EPIC Software Platform on AWS for Enterprise Is Here
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
BlueData has released the enterprise edition of its BlueData EPIC software platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other public clouds in the coming months including Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.BlueData facilitates the deployment of Big Data infrastructure and applications, leveraging embedded Docker container technology. The BlueData EPIC software platf...
Optimizing Developers Time With Adaptive Databases
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently took a deep dive into adaptive databases with Chad Jones, the Chief Strategy Officer at Deep Information Sciences, whose deepSQL platform offers an adaptive, application-aware database that unifies operational transactions and real-time analytics while using machine learning to automatically adapt to application demands at cloud scale.ADM: How do database li...
BlueData Updates Platform to Deploy Big Data Infrastructure and Applications
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
BlueData has released updates to its BlueData EPIC software platform provides enterprise-class security and quality of service (QoS) for multi-tenant Big Data deployments. With the release BlueData continues to add support for new applications and frameworks to provide a Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) environment on-premises.BlueData’s EPIC platform provides the ability ...
BlueData Facilitates RealTime Data Pipelines with Spark, Kafka, and Cassandra
Sunday, February 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
BlueData has launched a new Real-time Pipeline Accelerator solution for building real-time data pipelines with Spark Streaming, Kafka and Cassandra. The new platform provides the ability to develop and test applications for analyzing “Fast Data,” facilitating real-time or near real-time data that requires instant awareness, faster decision-making, and immediate action.B...
Why Privileged Identity Management is Critical for Secure IT Outsourcing
Thursday, January 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
We visited with David McNeely, VP of Product Strategy at Centrify, to talk about why secure privileged identity management is critical as more of today’s businesses are outsourcing IT functions and relying on vendors to troubleshoot systems and applications. Centrify recently released a new privileged identity management solution supporting federated privileg...
In the Year Ahead, Enterprise Mobility Will Hinge on the Back End
Saturday, September 12, 2015 by Cathal McGloin
This year demand for enterprise mobility has escalated. With increasing volume and sophistication of mobile app projects, organizations must now pay special attention to how they integrate mobile apps with back-end systems in an efficient and affordable way. According to a recent survey of global customers at Red Hat, back-end integration and security ranked at the...
Concurrent and Analytics Inside Team Up for Hadoop Enterprise Data Applications
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Concurrent and Analytics Inside have announced a partnership to facilitate development of Hadoop-based enterprise data applications.Concurrent brings to the table its Cascading platform and Driven solution which help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale; and Analytics Inside provides advanced analytical technologies using machine learnin...
Logentries Community Pack Promises Server Metrics And Application Log Data
Saturday, December 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
It's apparent that developers want to gain from areas such as instant visibility. Logentries new Community Pack delivers to users server monitoring and allows for instant service performance visibility. The cloud service company’s Community Pack offering makes sense by delivering all-in-one real-time monitoring, correlating important server metrics and analyzing intelli...
NetScout Systems Announces New Capabilities with It's Application and Network Performance Management Solutions
Monday, November 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
NetScout Systems has released the latest version of its nGenius UC Performance Management Solution, consisting of the nGeniusONE platform with a specialized unified communications (UC) service monitor and a fully integrated, add-on UC server module. The nGenius UC Performance Management Solution takes a systems approach to complicated issues by monitoring all depen...
InterSystems Introduces Zen Mojo for Enterprise Mobile Web App Development
Sunday, July 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
InterSystems has announced Zen Mojo, a new technology for the development of Web-based apps for mobile and desktop environments. According to InterSystems, Zen Mojo was designed take advantage of the functionality and responsive user interfaces of mobile devices, when creating data-rich, enterprise-class Web apps. The open source plugin framework allows adopti...
Spring Releases Spring XD Milestone 7
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Spring XD is a unified, distributed, and extensible system for data ingestion, real time analytics, batch processing, and data export. The project's goal is to simplify the development of big data applications providing a lightweight runtime environment that is easily configured and assembled via a simple DSL.Spring XD features include: - High throughput distr...
Espresso Logic Offers Live Browser Platform to Quickly Create Data Driven Apps
Thursday, April 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Espresso Logic has launched a new product, Live Browser, which allows companies to quickly create data-driven apps. The platform provides the ability to explore, interact with and modify data from any enterprise database without programming. Live Browser is an out-of-the-box HTML5 user interface for navigating an entire database in a master/detail format....
