Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions, is releasing its new Scenario Simulation and Intelligence suite—enabling companies to simulate thousands of possible scenarios against their resilience plans and strategies to identify points of weakness at scale.
Posted August 14, 2024
Ridge Security Enhances Proactive Exposure Management with RidgeBot 4.3.3
Ridge Security Technology Inc. is releasing RidgeBot version 4.3.3, introducing a powerful integration that enhances proactive exposure management for organizations—combining RidgeBot’s automated vulnerability detection and validation capabilities with leading vulnerability management (VM) solutions.
Posted August 14, 2024
DBTA Readers’ Choice Award Winners (2024)
With the recent AI boom, data is being created and generated at unprecedented rates. Per the latest estimates, 402.74 million terabytes of data are created each day. This increase calls for a paradigm shift in company efficiency—quickly enabling enterprises to uncover quality insights and effective organization of this data. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers’ Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers!
Posted August 13, 2024
Rubrik and Mandiant Collaborate to Drive Robust Threat Recovery and Response
Rubrik, Inc., the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is unveiling a new partnership with Mandiant, a cyber defense provider which is now part of Google Cloud. This collaboration—which is shaped by three key pillars—serves to help enterprises quickly control their risk against diverse, rampant threats.
Posted August 13, 2024
Cribl Partners with 4 Key Players in the Security Space
Cribl, the data engine for IT and security, announced four key partnerships with Vijilan, Anvilogic, Securonix, and Anomali, to address growing enterprise IT and security data management challenges. Cribl Stream and Edge products are now integrated with Anvilogic’s innovative security information and event management (SIEM) platform, providing security operations centers (SOC) with best-in-class flexibility, cost efficiency, and control over their security data, according to the vendors.
Posted August 12, 2024
Global Edge Data Center Market Predicted to Cross $300B By 2026
Analysis by global real estate consulting firm JLL predicts edge IT infrastructure and data centers will become a $317 billion market globally by 2026, representing a 107% growth from the 2020 market valued at $153 billion. Globally, the growth of edge computing will be influenced by not only the emergence of several technology-based megatrends but also the need for faster data transfer and high computation, as well as factors such as policies and regulations.
Posted August 12, 2024
IBM Provides Generative AI-Powered Cybersecurity Assistant
IBM is adding generative AI capabilities to its managed Threat Detection and Response Services utilized by IBM Consulting analysts to advance and streamline security operations for clients. Built on IBM’s watsonx data and AI platform, the new IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant is designed to accelerate and improve the identification, investigation, and response to critical security threats, according to the company.
Posted August 12, 2024
Upgrading the DBMS: Poking a House of Cards
Regular readers of this column are aware that I am a proponent of getting rid of bad database standards. But sometimes it can be difficult to determine if a particular standard is bad, or just a lot of trouble to comply with! Well, what am I getting at here? Have you ever been thwarted by a global fiat from management? Of course you have, we all have. But I’m talking about a particular type of dictum from above. Something like this: “New software installations, including updated versions and releases, must be supported by current tooling before they can be installed.”
Posted August 12, 2024
Advanced Info Service Selects Oracle Alloy to Build Thailand’s Locally Owned and Operated Hyperscale Cloud
Advanced Info Service (AIS), one of Thailand’s largest mobile network operators, announced plans to deploy Oracle Alloy and launch AIS Cloud, the country’s first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud. Oracle Alloy will provide AIS’ customers and all enterprises in Thailand, including the public sector, access to more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including the latest artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Posted August 12, 2024
Supply Wisdom and Fusion Collaborate to Enhance Third-Party Risk Management Effectiveness
Supply Wisdom, the market’s full-stack, real-time risk intelligence SaaS platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), is partnering with Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a leading provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions—offering Fusion customers a seamless integration for enhanced third-party risk management (TPRM) and operational risk and resilience program needs.
Posted August 09, 2024
Cloudera Boosts Metadata Management with New Solution Capabilities
Cloudera, a hybrid platform for data, analytics and AI, is introducing two key enhancements to its metadata management solutions, boosting open interoperability within the open data lakehouse and addressing increasing demands for security and governance across the entire data lifecycle.
Posted August 08, 2024
Navigating The Good and Bad Of AI
Despite the overwhelming promise of AI, its rapid proliferation has been accompanied by some unwanted side effects, including a dramatic uptick in cyberattacks— particularly social engineering attacks like phishing, which have grown 1,265% since late 2022. As a result, organizations across industries are faced with an ever-evolving challenge: balancing the positive use cases associated with AI, such as automated monitoring and streamlined workflows, with its very real risks.
Posted August 08, 2024
Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear, Or Was He/She a Diagram?
Everyone likes a diagram. Diagrams often help make an issue clear—except when they don’t. There are plenty of diagrams that really do not convey information to the viewer, and that is a sad state for any diagram to find itself in. Maybe, just maybe, not everyone has the proper temperament to create a useful diagram? Before composing a diagram, the diagram-builder needs to be clear about what viewers of the created diagram should gain from viewing it.
Posted August 08, 2024
Generative AI: The Universal Translator
In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, various alien races were able to communicate with each other thanks to the Babel Fish, which, when placed in one’s ear, decoded brainwave emanations from one species to provide instantaneous translation to the other. In Star Trek, a “universal translator” allowed instantaneous translation between any alien species and humans. Until recently, these universal translators have existed only in the domain of science fiction.
Posted August 08, 2024
Will AI Become Our Friend or Foe? Technology Professionals Weigh In.
Picture this: there’s a new face in the IT department, ready to step in to help tackle the increasingly complex challenges caused by modern hybrid on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Overstretched technology teams always appreciate an extra set of helping hands, but what happens when this new team member isn’t human—but artificial intelligence (AI)?
Posted August 08, 2024
Commvault Strengthens Cyber Resilience Offerings through New Integrations
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is continuing to advance its cyber resilience offerings with a recent expansion of its cyber and data security ecosystem. Manifesting as strategic, bi-directional integrations with Acante, Dasera, Splunk, and Wiz, Commvault works to equip its users with the robust security necessary for today’s threat landscape.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and Ampere Unveil Next-Generation Arm-Based Cloud Compute
Ampere and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are releasing second-generation Ampere-based compute instances, OCI Ampere A2 Compute, based on the AmpereOne family of processors. The new offering builds upon the success of OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances, which have been adopted by OCI customers and deployed across over 100 OCI services, including Oracle Database services like HeatWave, MySQL, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA Meet the Demands for GenAI with Latest Infrastructure Releases
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to meet the increased demands for generative AI, large language models (LLMs), advanced graphics, and digital twins to hasten operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) announced the release of NVIDIA L40S GPU bare-metal instances, available to order and the upcoming availability of a new virtual machine accelerated by a single NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU.
Posted August 07, 2024
Modernizing Infrastructures with Open Source Platform Engineering
Bassam Chahine, professional services consultant, Instaclustr, joined DBTA’s webinar, Enterprise Platform Engineering, the Open Source Way, to discuss the ways platform engineering can modernize application infrastructure—and do so with the multitude of advantages that open source has to offer.
Posted August 06, 2024
Polyhedra Offers Proof Cloud Open Beta, Further Supercharging Zero-Knowledge Proof Infrastructure
Polyhedra Network (Polyhedra), the team pioneering the next generation of secure and scalable zero-knowledge (ZK) proof infrastructure, announced that Proof Cloud has launched in an open beta to meet the growing demand for efficient, fast, and cost-effective ZK-proof technology. Proof Cloud was created in collaboration with Google Cloud and will be utilized by Polygon, Linea, and Lita at launch.
Posted August 06, 2024
Logz.io Offers New UI for Open 360 Observability Platform to Redefine Log Management
Logz.io, provider of Open 360, is releasing Explore, a faster, more intuitive and responsive user interface (UI) for the Logz.io Open 360 observability platform—improving the ability of users to access, query, and visualize their logs. Explore is now the default log management interface for Logz.io, replacing the previous version based on OpenSearch Dashboards (OSD).
Posted August 05, 2024
Abstract Security Operationalizes Threat Intelligence with Abstract Intelligence Gallery
Abstract Security, building the future of AI enabled security operations, is unveiling Abstract Intelligence Gallery (AIG), a solution that “puts threat intelligence to work” and unlocks new use cases for enhancing security posture. Built atop Abstract Security’s streaming analytics platform, AIG serves to boost detection and analytics workflows without requiring specialized, complex platforms.
Posted August 05, 2024
Index Engines Adds Data Integrity Insights to its CyberSense Platform
Index Engines, a cybersecurity company, is providing new comprehensive data integrity reporting within the CyberSense product—empowering data protection and security teams to quickly understand and explain the health status of protected data to support their cyber resiliency strategies.
Posted August 02, 2024
Perforce Provides Enhanced Security and Maximum CI/CD Process Flexibility with Latest Release
Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams, is releasing a new version of its static analysis tools, providing enhanced security and maximum CI/CD process flexibility for safety-critical development projects. Perforce static analysis engines ensure software quality, safety and security, and offer continuous compliance throughout the development process by alerting developers to defects, vulnerabilities, and standards rule violations as the code is being written, according to the company.
Posted August 01, 2024
Weaviate Offers Suite of Solutions to Fast-Track AI Applications into Their ‘Production Era’
Weaviate, an AI-native vector database company, is releasing a developer “workbench” of tools and apps along with flexible tiered storage to help organizations put AI into production. Inspired by Weaviate’s vibrant open source community, Weaviate’s new developer offerings accelerate AI application development and provide end-to-end solutions for some of the most common AI use cases, helping organizations make the leap from AI prototypes to production, according to the company.
Posted July 31, 2024
Devo Launches Series of Enhancements for Complete Data Control
Devo Technology, the security data analytics company, is unveiling a series of data orchestration, data analytics, and security operations center (SOC) workflow enhancements designed to bring data control, cost efficiency, and automation to security teams. With data volumes increasing while team budgets remain the same, Devo’s latest offerings aim to ease the pressures of security while delivering robust data control.
Posted July 30, 2024
Census Bridges the Gap between Data and Business User with Universal Data Platform
Census, the leading data activation and reverse ETL platform, is debuting its expanded focus in data transformation and governance tooling, manifested as the Universal Data Platform (UDP). This approach is grounded in breaking down data silos that prevent effective collaboration between data and business teams, offering a centralized platform for teams to create, contribute, and validate datasets.
Posted July 29, 2024
Hitachi Vantara Announces General Availability of Hitachi iQ to Support the Most Advanced AI Workloads
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is releasing the general availability of the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services. Including NVIDIA DGX BasePOD certification, the first Hitachi iQ infrastructure offering meets the highest standards of performance and reliability and helps customers seamlessly power their most critical AI applications. Featuring the Hitachi Content Software for File solution, Hitachi iQ provides customers the speed, efficiency, and processing to accelerate and optimize their time to insights so that they can drive transformative outcomes for their business, according to the company.
Posted July 29, 2024
Baffle Offers Data Security for Multi-Tenant Applications on AWS
Baffle, a company that protects sensitive data, is offering new capabilities designed to secure multi-tenant applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—giving AWS customers the ability to secure data in databases as well as S3 object storage with simplicity and ease by protecting each tenant within the multi-tenant application.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM Aims to Partner with Fermilab’s SQMS Center to Forward Critical Quantum Information Science Initiatives
IBM announced it is a new partner of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, as approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a major national and international research center, SQMS is dedicated to advancing critical quantum technologies, with a focus on superconducting quantum systems.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM Introduces IBM SkillsBuild Cybersecurity and Data Analytics Certificates
IBM is introducing two new IBM SkillsBuild certificates in cybersecurity and data analytics, designed and piloted with community colleges. These new IBM SkillsBuild certificates will be available to students across the Alabama Community College System, Bay Area Community College Consortium, Colorado Community College System, and Louisiana Community and Technical College System this fall.
Posted July 29, 2024
365 Data Centers Expands Partnership with Megaport
365 Data Centers (365), a leading provider of network-centric colocation, network, cloud, and other managed services, is expanding its partnership with Megaport, a global leading Network-as-a-Service provider (NaaS). Megaport has broadened its 365 footprint by adding a Point-of-Presence at 365’s Boca Raton, Florida data center, further enhancing public cloud and other connectivity solutions available to 365’s Southeast customers.
Posted July 29, 2024
Remake/Remodel
Eventually the day comes when an existing data mart or warehouse needs to be re-examined. Maybe new workloads are desired, new business models arise, a new platform is considered, or new supporting tools in the environment are wanted. Especially when a new platform is part of the equation, many in charge think first of “lift and shift” as the approach. Taking as much existing data and processes as possible and keeping them virtually unchanged as things are moved onto new foundations is almost always the cost-saving approach—for the immediate short term.
Posted July 29, 2024
Privacera Posture Manager Bridges Security and Data Access Controls for Comprehensive Protection
Privacera, the AI and data security governance company founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, is offering a private preview of Posture Manager, expanding on its ability to deliver active Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). The solution is designed to transform data security with enhanced visualization, mapping, and data risk analytical capabilities, according to the vendor.
Posted July 26, 2024
Qlik Talend Cloud Combines Advanced AI with Trusted Data Foundations
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is releasing Qlik Talend Cloud, a streamlined integrated solution designed to enhance data trust and accessibility for AI value creation. Underpinned by trusted Qlik and Talend technologies, trusted by some of the world’s largest brands, Qlik Talend Cloud is designed to facilitate responsible enterprise AI adoption, according to the company.
Posted July 25, 2024
SUSE Acquires StackState to Enrich Cloud-Native Observability Capabilities
SUSE, a global leader in innovative, open and secure enterprise-grade solutions, is acquiring the full stack observability platform StackState, enabling SUSE to accelerate cloud-native observability for the enterprise by integrating the platform into Rancher Prime, its premium container management service.
Posted July 25, 2024
Kyndryl Expands Partnership with SAP to Simplify Customers’ Cloud Transformations
Kyndryl, one of the world’s largest IT infrastructure services providers, is selecting the RISE with SAP solution to accelerate its journey to the cloud, along with expanding its strategic alliance with SAP. As part of the expansion, Kyndryl will provide SAP services for the delivery of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition to help customers move to the cloud and continue solving their most complex digital transformation challenges, according to the company.
Posted July 24, 2024
Globant to Help Customers Leverage RISE with SAP to Modernize
Globant, a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help customers leverage RISE with SAP to modernize their on-premises SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) and migrate to the cloud. Globant and AWS are helping their joint customers leverage RISE with SAP—a managed cloud offering of solutions, infrastructure, and services—to streamline migration of their legacy SAP ERP to AWS with more speed and confidence, according to the companies.
Posted July 24, 2024
AI has the power to unlock skills-first hiring
A number of employers are making the shift to “skills-first hiring.”
Skills-first hiring focuses on sourcing and evaluating candidates based on skills rather than proxy requirements like degrees, prior positions, or years of industry experience.
“What’s exciting about skills-first hiring is that it has the potential to solve core employer challenges and open up new opportunities for job seekers who are too often screened out despite having the skills to do the job,” Liz Voigt, senior manager of Social Impact at Indeed, said. “When you look at the challenges that employers are facing — not finding quality talent, hiring taking too long, troubles with retention, difficulty diversifying their workforce — skills-first hiring can help them address those challenges today and in the future.”
The term “skills-first” also acknowledges that in some industries, a formal education and certifications are required. There’s good reason to adopt a skills-first strategy: Hiring managers who practice skills-first hiring find it twice as easy to find qualified candidates than hiring managers who do not.
While many employers are open to the philosophical shift to skills-first hiring, it can be challenging to execute at scale, largely because it’s difficult to identify the skills required for the job, glean applicants’ skillsets from their resumes, and assess those skills. But the advancement of generative AI has the potential to change that.
“AI gives us the opportunity to analyze both job descriptions and resumes to find out what key skills are needed to succeed,” Hannah Calhoon, vice president of Product at Indeed, said.
Use AI to uncover skills-based matches
Generative AI can digest, organize, and formulate conclusions from large amounts of unstructured data. In the past, applicants would have to include the exact language used in a job description to be recognized as a potential match. Now, if a job seeker describes their skills well in a qualitative way, generative AI has the potential to understand what capabilities are being described and translate them into whatever taxonomy the employer is looking for. For example, an applicant might note their background working the register at a café while an employer is looking for “retail point-of-sale” experience.
“That’s promising for job seekers without as much practice describing their work experience and skills in very particular corporate language,” Calhoon said.
Expand your definition of a quality candidate
The use of AI to enable skills-first hiring is a potential sea change for employers and job seekers alike, especially in tight labor markets. Byron Auguste, founder and CEO of Opportunity@Work, an organization that helps people without bachelor’s degrees get hired into better-paying jobs based on their skills, said that 69% of new jobs created between 2012 and 2019 were in occupations that require a bachelor’s degree or higher. However, only 35% of Americans meet that requirement. “That’s a huge math problem,” Auguste said.
Seventy million people in the US — half the nation’s workforce — are what Auguste calls STARs, or “skilled through alternative routes” such as through military service, workforce training programs, or on-the-job experience rather than a four-year degree. STARs can be screened out of talent searches because they lack what employers commonly use as proxies for skills, like bachelor’s or advanced degrees, even if they have the capabilities needed to do the job.
“What a waste it is to overlook millions of people who can do the jobs you need filled, earn more money, be committed employees, build their communities, and drive success and competitiveness,” Auguste said. “If you don’t have a STARs-based talent strategy, you don’t have a talent strategy — you have half a talent strategy.”
Skills-first hiring is also a compelling tool for pursuing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB+) in your organization. As Auguste pointed out, people of color, rural workers, and veterans are disproportionately STARs. Skills-first hiring can help employers “screen in” these job seekers and others who are underrepresented in the workforce, but just as able to succeed if given the chance. Generative AI can help employers recognize the capabilities STARs bring to the table.
69% of new jobs created between 2012 and 2019 were in occupations that require a bachelor’s degree or higher, but only 35% of Americans meet that requirement.
Take a proactive approach to responsible AI and mitigating bias
AI has the potential to make the entire labor market more equitable and effective — but bias remains a risk. “Intention matters, and AI is amplified intention,” Auguste said. “If you’re trying to find the best fit based on skills, regardless of how those skills were acquired, AI will help you do that better.”
To use AI effectively for skills-first hiring, talent professionals need to understand how models have been developed and trained, and audit and monitor those models for bias. “As folks are thinking about integrating AI tools into their hiring processes, it’s important that the technology isn’t perpetuating those same things that make it hard for job seekers in the first place,” Calhoon said.
Use a skills-first approach to reimagine hiring and upskilling
Models become more capable of identifying skills as they are fed more data and given more feedback about what constitutes a quality match. That, in turn, gives employers the opportunity to take a proactive approach to hiring.
Rather than posting a job and waiting for applicants to respond, employers can search the millions of profiles on Indeed for a specific set of job criteria based on information collected from the job seeker. Indeed’s Smart Sourcing generative AI provides an explanation of the candidate’s potential overlapping qualifications with the employer’s job description. This helps hiring managers sift through candidate resumes more efficiently.
A skills-first strategy doesn’t stop with hiring. It’s also important for upskilling, which is increasingly critical in a rapidly changing labor market. According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report, 50% of workers will need to learn new skills by 2025. Organizations with a skills-first hiring strategy will have a better view of employees’ capabilities and how they can be adapted, augmented, and transferred. And they’ll have a mindset and culture that supports employees’ potential to learn and grow as the economy and the labor market change over time.
“Skills-first hiring that’s fully implemented — from dropping degree requirements all the way through skills-based evaluation and upskilling on the job — can translate into significant cost savings,” Voigt said. “It makes sense, it’s better for business, and when it’s done right with efforts to remove other biases from the hiring process, it can be more equitable.”
Keep hiring human
Nobody wants to be hired by a computer. They want to be hired by a human who is part of a company with a culture, purpose, and mission. As crucial as AI will be to skills-first hiring, talent acquisition and management always start and end with humans.
“What AI allows us to do is to help recruiters and talent professionals take a broader view of what a high-quality candidate looks like, and to do that in a really data-driven way, so that it doesn’t feel like a risk to consider candidates they might not have considered before,” Calhoon said.
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Qlik Introduces Qlik Answers to Transform Unstructured Data into Business Insights
PHILADELPHIA, July 30, 2024 — Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced the general availability of Qlik Answers, its newest self-service AI solution designed to help organizations harness the power of AI by removing the risk, embracing the complexity, and scaling the impact of AI. Qlik Answers transforms unstructured data into actionable results through generative AI, offering full explainability—a common obstacle in enterprise AI adoption.
Qlik Answers combines generative AI with Qlik’s trusted data analytics capabilities to deliver precise, contextually relevant results from extensive unstructured data sources. This solution enables customers to seamlessly integrate AI into their existing Qlik business intelligence workflows, ensuring efficient use of resources and avoiding technical debt.
“Qlik Answers is designed to help businesses use their unstructured data to make better decisions,” said Brendan Grady, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Qlik’s Analytics Business Unit. “This solution integrates our strengths in analytics and data with generative AI, providing users with precise answers to their questions. With Qlik Answers, we are offering a tool that supports the direct translation of unstructured data into tangible business outcomes.”
Key Benefits of Qlik Answers:
AI-Powered Responses: Delivers relevant answers from curated knowledge bases, enhancing the utility of unstructured data. Rapid Deployment: Offers a ready-to-use solution, reducing the time and complexity of deployment. Transparency: Ensures full explainability with answers linked to their source documents, fostering trust and consistency. Broad Connectivity: Integrates with existing systems and platforms, using Qlik’s enterprise connectors to access a variety of unstructured data sources. Enhanced Efficiency: Supports real-time business activities and decisions, enabling users to quickly access relevant information.
“We’re excited to see Qlik focus on unlocking business outcomes from unstructured data with Qlik Answers,” said Stefan Heinz, Senior BI & Analytics Manager at Bystronic Group. “The full explainability and integration with Qlik’s trusted analytics platform promise to drive responsible and effective use of AI at an enterprise level.”
Qlik Answers combines technologies to deliver reliable and efficient access to unstructured data. At its core, the solution uses Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), which merges retrieval-based and generative AI methods. This technique dynamically retrieves relevant documents from pre-indexed knowledge bases and generates precise, contextually relevant responses. By leveraging modern generative models, Qlik Answers can interpret and synthesize information from diverse sources, providing users with concise and actionable answers.
To ensure seamless integration with existing systems, Qlik Answers utilizes Qlik’s trusted enterprise connectors. These connectors allow the solution to access a wide range of unstructured data sources without requiring extensive data movement or reconfiguration. This approach not only simplifies deployment but also maintains data integrity and accessibility. Additionally, Qlik Answers is designed with full explainability and transparency in mind. All AI-generated answers are traceable back to their original sources, enabling users to verify and trust the information presented.
Qlik Answers is also self-service oriented, allowing business users to deploy and manage AI-driven knowledge assistants without needing extensive technical expertise or custom development. This ease of use ensures that organizations can quickly benefit from the solution, supporting real-time business activities and enhancing decision-making processes.
To learn more about Qlik Answers and how it can improve your business operations by unlocking the potential of unstructured data, visit Qlik Answers.
About Qlik
Qlik converts complex data landscapes into actionable insights, driving strategic business outcomes. Serving over 40,000 global customers, our portfolio provides advanced, enterprise-grade AI/ML and data management. We excel in data integration and governance, offering comprehensive solutions that work with diverse data sources. Intuitive analytics from Qlik uncover hidden patterns, empowering teams to address complex challenges and seize new opportunities. Our AI/ML tools, both practical and scalable, lead to better decisions, faster. As strategic partners, our platform-agnostic technology and expertise make our customers more competitive.
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Business Intelligence and Analytics Fusion Introduces New AI-Powered Scenario Simulation and Intelligence Suite
Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions, is releasing its new Scenario Simulation and Intelligence suite—enabling companies to simulate thousands of possible scenarios against their resilience plans and strategies to identify points of weakness at scale.
Posted August 14, 2024
Ridge Security Enhances Proactive Exposure Management with RidgeBot 4.3.3
Ridge Security Technology Inc. is releasing RidgeBot version 4.3.3, introducing a powerful integration that enhances proactive exposure management for organizations—combining RidgeBot’s automated vulnerability detection and validation capabilities with leading vulnerability management (VM) solutions.
Posted August 14, 2024
DBTA Readers’ Choice Award Winners (2024)
With the recent AI boom, data is being created and generated at unprecedented rates. Per the latest estimates, 402.74 million terabytes of data are created each day. This increase calls for a paradigm shift in company efficiency—quickly enabling enterprises to uncover quality insights and effective organization of this data. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers’ Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers!
Posted August 13, 2024
Rubrik and Mandiant Collaborate to Drive Robust Threat Recovery and Response
Rubrik, Inc., the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is unveiling a new partnership with Mandiant, a cyber defense provider which is now part of Google Cloud. This collaboration—which is shaped by three key pillars—serves to help enterprises quickly control their risk against diverse, rampant threats.
Posted August 13, 2024
Cribl Partners with 4 Key Players in the Security Space
Cribl, the data engine for IT and security, announced four key partnerships with Vijilan, Anvilogic, Securonix, and Anomali, to address growing enterprise IT and security data management challenges. Cribl Stream and Edge products are now integrated with Anvilogic’s innovative security information and event management (SIEM) platform, providing security operations centers (SOC) with best-in-class flexibility, cost efficiency, and control over their security data, according to the vendors.
Posted August 12, 2024
Global Edge Data Center Market Predicted to Cross $300B By 2026
Analysis by global real estate consulting firm JLL predicts edge IT infrastructure and data centers will become a $317 billion market globally by 2026, representing a 107% growth from the 2020 market valued at $153 billion. Globally, the growth of edge computing will be influenced by not only the emergence of several technology-based megatrends but also the need for faster data transfer and high computation, as well as factors such as policies and regulations.
Posted August 12, 2024
IBM Provides Generative AI-Powered Cybersecurity Assistant
IBM is adding generative AI capabilities to its managed Threat Detection and Response Services utilized by IBM Consulting analysts to advance and streamline security operations for clients. Built on IBM’s watsonx data and AI platform, the new IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant is designed to accelerate and improve the identification, investigation, and response to critical security threats, according to the company.
Posted August 12, 2024
Upgrading the DBMS: Poking a House of Cards
Regular readers of this column are aware that I am a proponent of getting rid of bad database standards. But sometimes it can be difficult to determine if a particular standard is bad, or just a lot of trouble to comply with! Well, what am I getting at here? Have you ever been thwarted by a global fiat from management? Of course you have, we all have. But I’m talking about a particular type of dictum from above. Something like this: “New software installations, including updated versions and releases, must be supported by current tooling before they can be installed.”
Posted August 12, 2024
Advanced Info Service Selects Oracle Alloy to Build Thailand’s Locally Owned and Operated Hyperscale Cloud
Advanced Info Service (AIS), one of Thailand’s largest mobile network operators, announced plans to deploy Oracle Alloy and launch AIS Cloud, the country’s first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud. Oracle Alloy will provide AIS’ customers and all enterprises in Thailand, including the public sector, access to more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including the latest artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Posted August 12, 2024
Supply Wisdom and Fusion Collaborate to Enhance Third-Party Risk Management Effectiveness
Supply Wisdom, the market’s full-stack, real-time risk intelligence SaaS platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), is partnering with Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a leading provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions—offering Fusion customers a seamless integration for enhanced third-party risk management (TPRM) and operational risk and resilience program needs.
Posted August 09, 2024
Cloudera Boosts Metadata Management with New Solution Capabilities
Cloudera, a hybrid platform for data, analytics and AI, is introducing two key enhancements to its metadata management solutions, boosting open interoperability within the open data lakehouse and addressing increasing demands for security and governance across the entire data lifecycle.
Posted August 08, 2024
Navigating The Good and Bad Of AI
Despite the overwhelming promise of AI, its rapid proliferation has been accompanied by some unwanted side effects, including a dramatic uptick in cyberattacks— particularly social engineering attacks like phishing, which have grown 1,265% since late 2022. As a result, organizations across industries are faced with an ever-evolving challenge: balancing the positive use cases associated with AI, such as automated monitoring and streamlined workflows, with its very real risks.
Posted August 08, 2024
Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear, Or Was He/She a Diagram?
Everyone likes a diagram. Diagrams often help make an issue clear—except when they don’t. There are plenty of diagrams that really do not convey information to the viewer, and that is a sad state for any diagram to find itself in. Maybe, just maybe, not everyone has the proper temperament to create a useful diagram? Before composing a diagram, the diagram-builder needs to be clear about what viewers of the created diagram should gain from viewing it.
Posted August 08, 2024
Generative AI: The Universal Translator
In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, various alien races were able to communicate with each other thanks to the Babel Fish, which, when placed in one’s ear, decoded brainwave emanations from one species to provide instantaneous translation to the other. In Star Trek, a “universal translator” allowed instantaneous translation between any alien species and humans. Until recently, these universal translators have existed only in the domain of science fiction.
Posted August 08, 2024
Will AI Become Our Friend or Foe? Technology Professionals Weigh In.
Picture this: there’s a new face in the IT department, ready to step in to help tackle the increasingly complex challenges caused by modern hybrid on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Overstretched technology teams always appreciate an extra set of helping hands, but what happens when this new team member isn’t human—but artificial intelligence (AI)?
Posted August 08, 2024
Commvault Strengthens Cyber Resilience Offerings through New Integrations
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is continuing to advance its cyber resilience offerings with a recent expansion of its cyber and data security ecosystem. Manifesting as strategic, bi-directional integrations with Acante, Dasera, Splunk, and Wiz, Commvault works to equip its users with the robust security necessary for today’s threat landscape.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and Ampere Unveil Next-Generation Arm-Based Cloud Compute
Ampere and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are releasing second-generation Ampere-based compute instances, OCI Ampere A2 Compute, based on the AmpereOne family of processors. The new offering builds upon the success of OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances, which have been adopted by OCI customers and deployed across over 100 OCI services, including Oracle Database services like HeatWave, MySQL, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA Meet the Demands for GenAI with Latest Infrastructure Releases
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to meet the increased demands for generative AI, large language models (LLMs), advanced graphics, and digital twins to hasten operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) announced the release of NVIDIA L40S GPU bare-metal instances, available to order and the upcoming availability of a new virtual machine accelerated by a single NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU.
Posted August 07, 2024
Modernizing Infrastructures with Open Source Platform Engineering
Bassam Chahine, professional services consultant, Instaclustr, joined DBTA’s webinar, Enterprise Platform Engineering, the Open Source Way, to discuss the ways platform engineering can modernize application infrastructure—and do so with the multitude of advantages that open source has to offer.
Posted August 06, 2024
Polyhedra Offers Proof Cloud Open Beta, Further Supercharging Zero-Knowledge Proof Infrastructure
Polyhedra Network (Polyhedra), the team pioneering the next generation of secure and scalable zero-knowledge (ZK) proof infrastructure, announced that Proof Cloud has launched in an open beta to meet the growing demand for efficient, fast, and cost-effective ZK-proof technology. Proof Cloud was created in collaboration with Google Cloud and will be utilized by Polygon, Linea, and Lita at launch.
Posted August 06, 2024
Logz.io Offers New UI for Open 360 Observability Platform to Redefine Log Management
Logz.io, provider of Open 360, is releasing Explore, a faster, more intuitive and responsive user interface (UI) for the Logz.io Open 360 observability platform—improving the ability of users to access, query, and visualize their logs. Explore is now the default log management interface for Logz.io, replacing the previous version based on OpenSearch Dashboards (OSD).
Posted August 05, 2024
Abstract Security Operationalizes Threat Intelligence with Abstract Intelligence Gallery
Abstract Security, building the future of AI enabled security operations, is unveiling Abstract Intelligence Gallery (AIG), a solution that “puts threat intelligence to work” and unlocks new use cases for enhancing security posture. Built atop Abstract Security’s streaming analytics platform, AIG serves to boost detection and analytics workflows without requiring specialized, complex platforms.
Posted August 05, 2024
Index Engines Adds Data Integrity Insights to its CyberSense Platform
Index Engines, a cybersecurity company, is providing new comprehensive data integrity reporting within the CyberSense product—empowering data protection and security teams to quickly understand and explain the health status of protected data to support their cyber resiliency strategies.
Posted August 02, 2024
Perforce Provides Enhanced Security and Maximum CI/CD Process Flexibility with Latest Release
Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams, is releasing a new version of its static analysis tools, providing enhanced security and maximum CI/CD process flexibility for safety-critical development projects. Perforce static analysis engines ensure software quality, safety and security, and offer continuous compliance throughout the development process by alerting developers to defects, vulnerabilities, and standards rule violations as the code is being written, according to the company.
Posted August 01, 2024
Weaviate Offers Suite of Solutions to Fast-Track AI Applications into Their ‘Production Era’
Weaviate, an AI-native vector database company, is releasing a developer “workbench” of tools and apps along with flexible tiered storage to help organizations put AI into production. Inspired by Weaviate’s vibrant open source community, Weaviate’s new developer offerings accelerate AI application development and provide end-to-end solutions for some of the most common AI use cases, helping organizations make the leap from AI prototypes to production, according to the company.
Posted July 31, 2024
Devo Launches Series of Enhancements for Complete Data Control
Devo Technology, the security data analytics company, is unveiling a series of data orchestration, data analytics, and security operations center (SOC) workflow enhancements designed to bring data control, cost efficiency, and automation to security teams. With data volumes increasing while team budgets remain the same, Devo’s latest offerings aim to ease the pressures of security while delivering robust data control.
Posted July 30, 2024
Census Bridges the Gap between Data and Business User with Universal Data Platform
Census, the leading data activation and reverse ETL platform, is debuting its expanded focus in data transformation and governance tooling, manifested as the Universal Data Platform (UDP). This approach is grounded in breaking down data silos that prevent effective collaboration between data and business teams, offering a centralized platform for teams to create, contribute, and validate datasets.
Posted July 29, 2024
Hitachi Vantara Announces General Availability of Hitachi iQ to Support the Most Advanced AI Workloads
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is releasing the general availability of the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services. Including NVIDIA DGX BasePOD certification, the first Hitachi iQ infrastructure offering meets the highest standards of performance and reliability and helps customers seamlessly power their most critical AI applications. Featuring the Hitachi Content Software for File solution, Hitachi iQ provides customers the speed, efficiency, and processing to accelerate and optimize their time to insights so that they can drive transformative outcomes for their business, according to the company.
Posted July 29, 2024
Baffle Offers Data Security for Multi-Tenant Applications on AWS
Baffle, a company that protects sensitive data, is offering new capabilities designed to secure multi-tenant applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—giving AWS customers the ability to secure data in databases as well as S3 object storage with simplicity and ease by protecting each tenant within the multi-tenant application.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM Aims to Partner with Fermilab’s SQMS Center to Forward Critical Quantum Information Science Initiatives
IBM announced it is a new partner of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, as approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a major national and international research center, SQMS is dedicated to advancing critical quantum technologies, with a focus on superconducting quantum systems.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM Introduces IBM SkillsBuild Cybersecurity and Data Analytics Certificates
IBM is introducing two new IBM SkillsBuild certificates in cybersecurity and data analytics, designed and piloted with community colleges. These new IBM SkillsBuild certificates will be available to students across the Alabama Community College System, Bay Area Community College Consortium, Colorado Community College System, and Louisiana Community and Technical College System this fall.
Posted July 29, 2024
365 Data Centers Expands Partnership with Megaport
365 Data Centers (365), a leading provider of network-centric colocation, network, cloud, and other managed services, is expanding its partnership with Megaport, a global leading Network-as-a-Service provider (NaaS). Megaport has broadened its 365 footprint by adding a Point-of-Presence at 365’s Boca Raton, Florida data center, further enhancing public cloud and other connectivity solutions available to 365’s Southeast customers.
Posted July 29, 2024
Remake/Remodel
Eventually the day comes when an existing data mart or warehouse needs to be re-examined. Maybe new workloads are desired, new business models arise, a new platform is considered, or new supporting tools in the environment are wanted. Especially when a new platform is part of the equation, many in charge think first of “lift and shift” as the approach. Taking as much existing data and processes as possible and keeping them virtually unchanged as things are moved onto new foundations is almost always the cost-saving approach—for the immediate short term.
Posted July 29, 2024
Privacera Posture Manager Bridges Security and Data Access Controls for Comprehensive Protection
Privacera, the AI and data security governance company founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, is offering a private preview of Posture Manager, expanding on its ability to deliver active Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). The solution is designed to transform data security with enhanced visualization, mapping, and data risk analytical capabilities, according to the vendor.
Posted July 26, 2024
Qlik Talend Cloud Combines Advanced AI with Trusted Data Foundations
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is releasing Qlik Talend Cloud, a streamlined integrated solution designed to enhance data trust and accessibility for AI value creation. Underpinned by trusted Qlik and Talend technologies, trusted by some of the world’s largest brands, Qlik Talend Cloud is designed to facilitate responsible enterprise AI adoption, according to the company.
Posted July 25, 2024
SUSE Acquires StackState to Enrich Cloud-Native Observability Capabilities
SUSE, a global leader in innovative, open and secure enterprise-grade solutions, is acquiring the full stack observability platform StackState, enabling SUSE to accelerate cloud-native observability for the enterprise by integrating the platform into Rancher Prime, its premium container management service.
Posted July 25, 2024
Kyndryl Expands Partnership with SAP to Simplify Customers’ Cloud Transformations
Kyndryl, one of the world’s largest IT infrastructure services providers, is selecting the RISE with SAP solution to accelerate its journey to the cloud, along with expanding its strategic alliance with SAP. As part of the expansion, Kyndryl will provide SAP services for the delivery of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition to help customers move to the cloud and continue solving their most complex digital transformation challenges, according to the company.
Posted July 24, 2024
Globant to Help Customers Leverage RISE with SAP to Modernize
Globant, a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help customers leverage RISE with SAP to modernize their on-premises SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) and migrate to the cloud. Globant and AWS are helping their joint customers leverage RISE with SAP—a managed cloud offering of solutions, infrastructure, and services—to streamline migration of their legacy SAP ERP to AWS with more speed and confidence, according to the companies.
Posted July 24, 2024
AT&T powers IoT for Oracle enterprise communications
Enabling its industry cloud application customers to connect and manage their internet of things (IoT) devices on the comms provider’s network through a single platform, Oracle announced that it is incorporating AT&T IoT connectivity and network APIs into its Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP).
Oracle sees the move as potentially positively affecting the future of 5G network deployments and applications through “seamless” IoT integration and enhanced communication capabilities, representing a “crucial” next step toward bringing real-time communications to its suite of cloud applications.
Supported by AT&T, ECP is now delivering IoT connectivity and near real-time communications to Oracle’s suite of industry cloud applications. With integrated capabilities such as IoT edge application management, the tech firm and telco said the all-in-one offering removes the customer burden of managing complex integrations and network contracts.
Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the unified communication and edge architecture is designed to give businesses the connectivity and real-time data intelligence they need to power critical new services and experiences. The integration with AT&T IoT connectivity and network API’s is available across OCI regions in the US.
ECP supported by AT&T, is said to be capable of providing a foundation for new industry applications – from consumer to industrial business – delivering high-performing, reliable connectivity enabling innovation and new services, such as a turnkey; communications-enabled restaurant operation; automated utility grid management; or enriched telehealth capabilities.
An example cited by the firms is FirstNet, the US nationwide high-speed Public Safety Network purpose-built for first responders. With ECP, it is now providing the foundation for Oracle’s Public Safety suite, helping to deliver secure communications that enable critical components such as dispatch command centres and near real-time camera feeds for first responders actively engaging in incidents.
“Our mission has always been to help improve the way the world communicates, and with ECP supported by AT&T and FirstNet, we’re taking a massive step toward that vision,” said Andrew Morawski, executive vice-president and general manager at Oracle Communications.
“Together, we can help organisations across industries benefit from the full potential of 5G, by building a new generation of vertical applications offering endless opportunities to innovate.”
Sarita Rao, senior vice-president at AT&T Partner Solutions, said: “AT&T is committed to empowering our ecosystem partners to build solutions that integrate AT&T programmable connectivity, whether using our IoT API’s or our emerging network API’s.
“By teaming with Oracle to incorporate IoT connectivity and programmable APIs into Oracle industry applications, we are providing businesses and organisations a tighter level of integration between the network and application, driving performance and reliability gains, while also eliminating integration requirements and separate contracting events. It’s co-creation at its best.”
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AT&T powers IoT for Oracle enterprise communications
Enabling its industry cloud application customers to connect and manage their internet of things (IoT) devices on the comms provider’s network through a single platform, Oracle announced that it is incorporating AT&T IoT connectivity and network APIs into its Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP).
Oracle sees the move as potentially positively affecting the future of 5G network deployments and applications through “seamless” IoT integration and enhanced communication capabilities, representing a “crucial” next step toward bringing real-time communications to its suite of cloud applications.
Supported by AT&T, ECP is now delivering IoT connectivity and near real-time communications to Oracle’s suite of industry cloud applications. With integrated capabilities such as IoT edge application management, the tech firm and telco said the all-in-one offering removes the customer burden of managing complex integrations and network contracts.
Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the unified communication and edge architecture is designed to give businesses the connectivity and real-time data intelligence they need to power critical new services and experiences. The integration with AT&T IoT connectivity and network API’s is available across OCI regions in the US.
ECP supported by AT&T, is said to be capable of providing a foundation for new industry applications – from consumer to industrial business – delivering high-performing, reliable connectivity enabling innovation and new services, such as a turnkey; communications-enabled restaurant operation; automated utility grid management; or enriched telehealth capabilities.
An example cited by the firms is FirstNet, the US nationwide high-speed Public Safety Network purpose-built for first responders. With ECP, it is now providing the foundation for Oracle’s Public Safety suite, helping to deliver secure communications that enable critical components such as dispatch command centres and near real-time camera feeds for first responders actively engaging in incidents.
“Our mission has always been to help improve the way the world communicates, and with ECP supported by AT&T and FirstNet, we’re taking a massive step toward that vision,” said Andrew Morawski, executive vice-president and general manager at Oracle Communications.
“Together, we can help organisations across industries benefit from the full potential of 5G, by building a new generation of vertical applications offering endless opportunities to innovate.”
Sarita Rao, senior vice-president at AT&T Partner Solutions, said: “AT&T is committed to empowering our ecosystem partners to build solutions that integrate AT&T programmable connectivity, whether using our IoT API’s or our emerging network API’s.
“By teaming with Oracle to incorporate IoT connectivity and programmable APIs into Oracle industry applications, we are providing businesses and organisations a tighter level of integration between the network and application, driving performance and reliability gains, while also eliminating integration requirements and separate contracting events. It’s co-creation at its best.”
Business Intelligence and Analytics Fusion Introduces New AI-Powered Scenario Simulation and Intelligence Suite
Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions, is releasing its new Scenario Simulation and Intelligence suite—enabling companies to simulate thousands of possible scenarios against their resilience plans and strategies to identify points of weakness at scale.
Posted August 14, 2024
Ridge Security Enhances Proactive Exposure Management with RidgeBot 4.3.3
Ridge Security Technology Inc. is releasing RidgeBot version 4.3.3, introducing a powerful integration that enhances proactive exposure management for organizations—combining RidgeBot’s automated vulnerability detection and validation capabilities with leading vulnerability management (VM) solutions.
Posted August 14, 2024
DBTA Readers’ Choice Award Winners (2024)
With the recent AI boom, data is being created and generated at unprecedented rates. Per the latest estimates, 402.74 million terabytes of data are created each day. This increase calls for a paradigm shift in company efficiency—quickly enabling enterprises to uncover quality insights and effective organization of this data. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers’ Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers!
Posted August 13, 2024
Rubrik and Mandiant Collaborate to Drive Robust Threat Recovery and Response
Rubrik, Inc., the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is unveiling a new partnership with Mandiant, a cyber defense provider which is now part of Google Cloud. This collaboration—which is shaped by three key pillars—serves to help enterprises quickly control their risk against diverse, rampant threats.
Posted August 13, 2024
Cribl Partners with 4 Key Players in the Security Space
Cribl, the data engine for IT and security, announced four key partnerships with Vijilan, Anvilogic, Securonix, and Anomali, to address growing enterprise IT and security data management challenges. Cribl Stream and Edge products are now integrated with Anvilogic’s innovative security information and event management (SIEM) platform, providing security operations centers (SOC) with best-in-class flexibility, cost efficiency, and control over their security data, according to the vendors.
Posted August 12, 2024
Global Edge Data Center Market Predicted to Cross $300B By 2026
Analysis by global real estate consulting firm JLL predicts edge IT infrastructure and data centers will become a $317 billion market globally by 2026, representing a 107% growth from the 2020 market valued at $153 billion. Globally, the growth of edge computing will be influenced by not only the emergence of several technology-based megatrends but also the need for faster data transfer and high computation, as well as factors such as policies and regulations.
Posted August 12, 2024
IBM Provides Generative AI-Powered Cybersecurity Assistant
IBM is adding generative AI capabilities to its managed Threat Detection and Response Services utilized by IBM Consulting analysts to advance and streamline security operations for clients. Built on IBM’s watsonx data and AI platform, the new IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant is designed to accelerate and improve the identification, investigation, and response to critical security threats, according to the company.
Posted August 12, 2024
Upgrading the DBMS: Poking a House of Cards
Regular readers of this column are aware that I am a proponent of getting rid of bad database standards. But sometimes it can be difficult to determine if a particular standard is bad, or just a lot of trouble to comply with! Well, what am I getting at here? Have you ever been thwarted by a global fiat from management? Of course you have, we all have. But I’m talking about a particular type of dictum from above. Something like this: “New software installations, including updated versions and releases, must be supported by current tooling before they can be installed.”
Posted August 12, 2024
Advanced Info Service Selects Oracle Alloy to Build Thailand’s Locally Owned and Operated Hyperscale Cloud
Advanced Info Service (AIS), one of Thailand’s largest mobile network operators, announced plans to deploy Oracle Alloy and launch AIS Cloud, the country’s first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud. Oracle Alloy will provide AIS’ customers and all enterprises in Thailand, including the public sector, access to more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including the latest artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Posted August 12, 2024
Supply Wisdom and Fusion Collaborate to Enhance Third-Party Risk Management Effectiveness
Supply Wisdom, the market’s full-stack, real-time risk intelligence SaaS platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), is partnering with Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a leading provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions—offering Fusion customers a seamless integration for enhanced third-party risk management (TPRM) and operational risk and resilience program needs.
Posted August 09, 2024
Cloudera Boosts Metadata Management with New Solution Capabilities
Cloudera, a hybrid platform for data, analytics and AI, is introducing two key enhancements to its metadata management solutions, boosting open interoperability within the open data lakehouse and addressing increasing demands for security and governance across the entire data lifecycle.
Posted August 08, 2024
Navigating The Good and Bad Of AI
Despite the overwhelming promise of AI, its rapid proliferation has been accompanied by some unwanted side effects, including a dramatic uptick in cyberattacks— particularly social engineering attacks like phishing, which have grown 1,265% since late 2022. As a result, organizations across industries are faced with an ever-evolving challenge: balancing the positive use cases associated with AI, such as automated monitoring and streamlined workflows, with its very real risks.
Posted August 08, 2024
Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear, Or Was He/She a Diagram?
Everyone likes a diagram. Diagrams often help make an issue clear—except when they don’t. There are plenty of diagrams that really do not convey information to the viewer, and that is a sad state for any diagram to find itself in. Maybe, just maybe, not everyone has the proper temperament to create a useful diagram? Before composing a diagram, the diagram-builder needs to be clear about what viewers of the created diagram should gain from viewing it.
Posted August 08, 2024
Generative AI: The Universal Translator
In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, various alien races were able to communicate with each other thanks to the Babel Fish, which, when placed in one’s ear, decoded brainwave emanations from one species to provide instantaneous translation to the other. In Star Trek, a “universal translator” allowed instantaneous translation between any alien species and humans. Until recently, these universal translators have existed only in the domain of science fiction.
Posted August 08, 2024
Will AI Become Our Friend or Foe? Technology Professionals Weigh In.
Picture this: there’s a new face in the IT department, ready to step in to help tackle the increasingly complex challenges caused by modern hybrid on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Overstretched technology teams always appreciate an extra set of helping hands, but what happens when this new team member isn’t human—but artificial intelligence (AI)?
Posted August 08, 2024
Commvault Strengthens Cyber Resilience Offerings through New Integrations
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is continuing to advance its cyber resilience offerings with a recent expansion of its cyber and data security ecosystem. Manifesting as strategic, bi-directional integrations with Acante, Dasera, Splunk, and Wiz, Commvault works to equip its users with the robust security necessary for today’s threat landscape.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and Ampere Unveil Next-Generation Arm-Based Cloud Compute
Ampere and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are releasing second-generation Ampere-based compute instances, OCI Ampere A2 Compute, based on the AmpereOne family of processors. The new offering builds upon the success of OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances, which have been adopted by OCI customers and deployed across over 100 OCI services, including Oracle Database services like HeatWave, MySQL, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA Meet the Demands for GenAI with Latest Infrastructure Releases
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to meet the increased demands for generative AI, large language models (LLMs), advanced graphics, and digital twins to hasten operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) announced the release of NVIDIA L40S GPU bare-metal instances, available to order and the upcoming availability of a new virtual machine accelerated by a single NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU.
Posted August 07, 2024
Modernizing Infrastructures with Open Source Platform Engineering
Bassam Chahine, professional services consultant, Instaclustr, joined DBTA’s webinar, Enterprise Platform Engineering, the Open Source Way, to discuss the ways platform engineering can modernize application infrastructure—and do so with the multitude of advantages that open source has to offer.
Posted August 06, 2024
Polyhedra Offers Proof Cloud Open Beta, Further Supercharging Zero-Knowledge Proof Infrastructure
Polyhedra Network (Polyhedra), the team pioneering the next generation of secure and scalable zero-knowledge (ZK) proof infrastructure, announced that Proof Cloud has launched in an open beta to meet the growing demand for efficient, fast, and cost-effective ZK-proof technology. Proof Cloud was created in collaboration with Google Cloud and will be utilized by Polygon, Linea, and Lita at launch.
Posted August 06, 2024
Logz.io Offers New UI for Open 360 Observability Platform to Redefine Log Management
Logz.io, provider of Open 360, is releasing Explore, a faster, more intuitive and responsive user interface (UI) for the Logz.io Open 360 observability platform—improving the ability of users to access, query, and visualize their logs. Explore is now the default log management interface for Logz.io, replacing the previous version based on OpenSearch Dashboards (OSD).
Posted August 05, 2024
Abstract Security Operationalizes Threat Intelligence with Abstract Intelligence Gallery
Abstract Security, building the future of AI enabled security operations, is unveiling Abstract Intelligence Gallery (AIG), a solution that “puts threat intelligence to work” and unlocks new use cases for enhancing security posture. Built atop Abstract Security’s streaming analytics platform, AIG serves to boost detection and analytics workflows without requiring specialized, complex platforms.
Posted August 05, 2024
Index Engines Adds Data Integrity Insights to its CyberSense Platform
Index Engines, a cybersecurity company, is providing new comprehensive data integrity reporting within the CyberSense product—empowering data protection and security teams to quickly understand and explain the health status of protected data to support their cyber resiliency strategies.
Posted August 02, 2024
Perforce Provides Enhanced Security and Maximum CI/CD Process Flexibility with Latest Release
Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams, is releasing a new version of its static analysis tools, providing enhanced security and maximum CI/CD process flexibility for safety-critical development projects. Perforce static analysis engines ensure software quality, safety and security, and offer continuous compliance throughout the development process by alerting developers to defects, vulnerabilities, and standards rule violations as the code is being written, according to the company.
Posted August 01, 2024
Weaviate Offers Suite of Solutions to Fast-Track AI Applications into Their ‘Production Era’
Weaviate, an AI-native vector database company, is releasing a developer “workbench” of tools and apps along with flexible tiered storage to help organizations put AI into production. Inspired by Weaviate’s vibrant open source community, Weaviate’s new developer offerings accelerate AI application development and provide end-to-end solutions for some of the most common AI use cases, helping organizations make the leap from AI prototypes to production, according to the company.
Posted July 31, 2024
Devo Launches Series of Enhancements for Complete Data Control
Devo Technology, the security data analytics company, is unveiling a series of data orchestration, data analytics, and security operations center (SOC) workflow enhancements designed to bring data control, cost efficiency, and automation to security teams. With data volumes increasing while team budgets remain the same, Devo’s latest offerings aim to ease the pressures of security while delivering robust data control.
Posted July 30, 2024
Census Bridges the Gap between Data and Business User with Universal Data Platform
Census, the leading data activation and reverse ETL platform, is debuting its expanded focus in data transformation and governance tooling, manifested as the Universal Data Platform (UDP). This approach is grounded in breaking down data silos that prevent effective collaboration between data and business teams, offering a centralized platform for teams to create, contribute, and validate datasets.
Posted July 29, 2024
Hitachi Vantara Announces General Availability of Hitachi iQ to Support the Most Advanced AI Workloads
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is releasing the general availability of the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services. Including NVIDIA DGX BasePOD certification, the first Hitachi iQ infrastructure offering meets the highest standards of performance and reliability and helps customers seamlessly power their most critical AI applications. Featuring the Hitachi Content Software for File solution, Hitachi iQ provides customers the speed, efficiency, and processing to accelerate and optimize their time to insights so that they can drive transformative outcomes for their business, according to the company.
Posted July 29, 2024
Baffle Offers Data Security for Multi-Tenant Applications on AWS
Baffle, a company that protects sensitive data, is offering new capabilities designed to secure multi-tenant applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—giving AWS customers the ability to secure data in databases as well as S3 object storage with simplicity and ease by protecting each tenant within the multi-tenant application.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM Aims to Partner with Fermilab’s SQMS Center to Forward Critical Quantum Information Science Initiatives
IBM announced it is a new partner of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, as approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a major national and international research center, SQMS is dedicated to advancing critical quantum technologies, with a focus on superconducting quantum systems.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM Introduces IBM SkillsBuild Cybersecurity and Data Analytics Certificates
IBM is introducing two new IBM SkillsBuild certificates in cybersecurity and data analytics, designed and piloted with community colleges. These new IBM SkillsBuild certificates will be available to students across the Alabama Community College System, Bay Area Community College Consortium, Colorado Community College System, and Louisiana Community and Technical College System this fall.
Posted July 29, 2024
365 Data Centers Expands Partnership with Megaport
365 Data Centers (365), a leading provider of network-centric colocation, network, cloud, and other managed services, is expanding its partnership with Megaport, a global leading Network-as-a-Service provider (NaaS). Megaport has broadened its 365 footprint by adding a Point-of-Presence at 365’s Boca Raton, Florida data center, further enhancing public cloud and other connectivity solutions available to 365’s Southeast customers.
Posted July 29, 2024
Remake/Remodel
Eventually the day comes when an existing data mart or warehouse needs to be re-examined. Maybe new workloads are desired, new business models arise, a new platform is considered, or new supporting tools in the environment are wanted. Especially when a new platform is part of the equation, many in charge think first of “lift and shift” as the approach. Taking as much existing data and processes as possible and keeping them virtually unchanged as things are moved onto new foundations is almost always the cost-saving approach—for the immediate short term.
Posted July 29, 2024
Privacera Posture Manager Bridges Security and Data Access Controls for Comprehensive Protection
Privacera, the AI and data security governance company founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, is offering a private preview of Posture Manager, expanding on its ability to deliver active Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). The solution is designed to transform data security with enhanced visualization, mapping, and data risk analytical capabilities, according to the vendor.
Posted July 26, 2024
Qlik Talend Cloud Combines Advanced AI with Trusted Data Foundations
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is releasing Qlik Talend Cloud, a streamlined integrated solution designed to enhance data trust and accessibility for AI value creation. Underpinned by trusted Qlik and Talend technologies, trusted by some of the world’s largest brands, Qlik Talend Cloud is designed to facilitate responsible enterprise AI adoption, according to the company.
Posted July 25, 2024
SUSE Acquires StackState to Enrich Cloud-Native Observability Capabilities
SUSE, a global leader in innovative, open and secure enterprise-grade solutions, is acquiring the full stack observability platform StackState, enabling SUSE to accelerate cloud-native observability for the enterprise by integrating the platform into Rancher Prime, its premium container management service.
Posted July 25, 2024
Kyndryl Expands Partnership with SAP to Simplify Customers’ Cloud Transformations
Kyndryl, one of the world’s largest IT infrastructure services providers, is selecting the RISE with SAP solution to accelerate its journey to the cloud, along with expanding its strategic alliance with SAP. As part of the expansion, Kyndryl will provide SAP services for the delivery of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition to help customers move to the cloud and continue solving their most complex digital transformation challenges, according to the company.
Posted July 24, 2024
Globant to Help Customers Leverage RISE with SAP to Modernize
Globant, a digitally native company focused on reinventing businesses through innovative technology solutions, announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help customers leverage RISE with SAP to modernize their on-premises SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) and migrate to the cloud. Globant and AWS are helping their joint customers leverage RISE with SAP—a managed cloud offering of solutions, infrastructure, and services—to streamline migration of their legacy SAP ERP to AWS with more speed and confidence, according to the companies.
Posted July 24, 2024