Category: Online Tools

August 28, 2017

NTT DATA, a global IT-services provider headquartered in Tokyo, has made a strategic capital investment in enterprise NoSQL database provider, MarkLogic Corp. The companies say they will also be expanding their existing strategic business alliance to develop new go-to-market strategies […]

July 5, 2017

Quest Software, a global systems management and security software provider, is announcing enhancements to its portfolio of SQL Server database management and performance monitoring solutions. “We are announcing multiple enhancements to address the Microsoft SQL Server community and customer base,” […]

May 15, 2017

CockroachDB, an open source, fault-tolerant SQL database with horizontal scaling and strong consistency across nodes—and a name few people will likely forget—is now officially available. Cockroach Labs, the company behind its development, touts CockroachDB as a “cloud native” database solution—a […]

May 8, 2017

Hadoop and NoSQL databases have emerged as leading choices to capture and analyze big data by bringing new capabilities to the field of data management and analysis. At the same time, the relational database, firmly entrenched in most enterprises, continues […]

May 4, 2017

Internet search engine Shodan provides enterprise security teams a wealth of information about open ports on servers and other internet-connected devices. Now, as part of a partnership with threat intelligence company Recorded Future, security analysts and researchers can work with […]

May 1, 2017

Managing the health of the corporate network will directly affect the productivity of every user of that network. So network administrators need a robust network monitoring tool that helps them manage the network, identify problems before they cause downtime, and […]

April 27, 2017

Amazon Web Services wants to make infrastructure invisible to software developers so they don’t have to worry about it when writing application code. Nothing against software architects and infrastructure experts, but when app devs are unburdened by details of where […]

April 25, 2017

It’s been nearly 20 years since I wrote the book “Enterprise Application Integration,” yet after all that time data integration remains an afterthought when it comes to cloud deployments. I guess that’s par for the course, since security, governance, monitoring, […]

April 3, 2017

Information security is of paramount importance these days, and there is no better place to start securing systems and data than in the software development process itself. Lapses in coding can leave systems vulnerable to attackers. But examining thousands and […]

March 30, 2017

Apache Spark, the extremely popular data analytics execution engine, was initially released in 2012. It wasn’t until 2015 that Spark really saw an uptick in support, but by November 2015, Spark saw 50 percent more activity than the core Apache […]

March 30, 2017

The days of simple endpoint protection are over. Scanning and screening for malware has become a very complex process, and most traditional anti-malware tools only find a small fraction of potential infections. Nowadays there are numerous advanced endpoint detection and […]

March 24, 2017

With the shift to the client-server architecture in the mid-90s, databases became more centralized and the procedures for interacting with them became more formal. In response, a new category of tooling emerged under the moniker of ETL – extract, transform, […]

March 23, 2017

Progress now provides day one support for Hadoop Hive, Spark SQL, MongoDB and more with latest update to its DataDirect suite of connectivity tools. With this new upgrade, Progress DataDirect on-premises ODBC and JDBC drivers will support any new versions […]

March 22, 2017

Hadoop, an Apache open source software framework for storing and crunching big data sets across clusters of machines, is hitting the big time.Transparency Market Research forecasted in March 2016 that the Hadoop market could grow from $4 billion USD (2014 […]

March 21, 2017

In a blog last year we discussed database archaeology, which is another name for database reverse engineering. Database reverse engineering is the inverse to normal development. We start with an application and work backwards to understand the software and infer […]

March 20, 2017

In economies where the role of big data and open data are ever-increasing, where do we turn in order to have our data analysed and presented in a precise and readable format? This list covers tools which help to solve […]

March 16, 2017

Marketers can tap virtually limitless volumes of data about customers’ online activities, but the offline world isn’t nearly as forthcoming. That’s where SAP aims to help. The company on Thursday unveiled a new service that offers demographic data in near […]

March 15, 2017

Along with an increasing flow of big data that needs to be captured and analyzed, IT departments today also have more solution choices than ever before. However, before making a solution selection, organizations need to understand their requirements and also […]

March 13, 2017

With a theme of “Giant Ideas,” MongoDB is breaking new ground as a hot NoSQL database. This week at its MongoDB World conference, the company declared that its database enables developers to launch their giant ideas and create big things. […]

March 10, 2017

Sysdig, which makes monitoring solutions for containers, has released an open source project that watches containers — and the rest of a Linux system as well — for unwanted activity. Sysdig’s Falco project scans Linux system calls and compares them […]