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Performance, security, and availability

Dome9 Security Enhances Platform with Automatic Remediation

July 6, 2018

Via: Database Trends and Applications

Dome9 Security, the public cloud security company, is introducing new capabilities in the Dome9 Compliance Engine that extend the scope of the platform’s automation beyond security and compliance monitoring. Using this new Compliance Engine functionality, enterprises can accelerate the resolution […]


Online Tools, Performance, security, and availability

Artificial Intelligence Takes on Large-Scale Database Management

May 23, 2018

Via: Dataversity

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a clear impact on databases. Among the major players, Microsoft is applying AI to continuously monitor Azure SQL database workload patterns and apply automatic tuning when it recognizes opportunities to improve the database performance, for […]


Online Tools

The Love/Hate Relationship between IT and Data Quality Tools

May 21, 2018

Via: Dataversity

Anyone who has worked in Data Management knows the struggles that IT endures. They typically have limited resources around people and infrastructure. They have protocols and regulations that they must adhere to when handling data that is constantly changing and […]


Online Tools

Neo4j Democratizes Connected Data for Businesses and Users with 3.4 Release

May 3, 2018

Via: Dataversity

A recent press release reports, “Neo4j, the leading platform for connected data, today announced Neo4j 3.4, which includes horizontal scaling, performance improvements of more than 50 percent, 3D geospatial search, and numerous operational improvements. Delivering on the company’s vision to […]


Application areas, Other

How to Choose the Right NoSQL Database for Your Application?

April 13, 2018

Via: Dataversity

This is the second part of an on-going series on NoSQL Databases, the first part was NoSQL Data Architecture & Data Governance: Everything You Need to Know. In that first part, I explained different NoSQL Database types and provided a […]


Performance, security, and availability

Teradata Analytics Platform Makes IoT Edge Computing Smarter with Industry’s First ‘4D Analytics’

April 12, 2018

Via: Dataversity

According to a recent press release, “Teradata, the leading cloud-based data and analytics company, today announced the availability of ‘4D Analytics,’ a new capability in advanced analytics that combines 3-dimensional geospatial location data with the 4th dimension of time. This […]


Online Tools

Database decisions: AWS has changed the game for IT

April 10, 2018

Via: Info World Database

You may not have heard of OpenSCG, but Amazon Web Services has. A week ago, AWS quietly acquired the PostgreSQL migration services company founded by PostgreSQL veteran Denis Lussier. While some PostgreSQL fans weren’t happy about the move, the OpenSCG […]


Application areas, Finance, Other

ETF Investing: ETFs see first back-to-back monthly outflows since the financial crisis

April 5, 2018

Via: Market Watch - Financial Services

The seemingly unending growth of the ETF industry has hit a snag over the past two months, as turmoil in the U.S. stock market—the most popular area that ETFs offer exposure to—pushed investors to reallocate. Exchange-traded funds had negative flows […]


Application areas, Other

Performance-tuning a distributed NewSQL database

April 4, 2018

Via: Info World

Doing performance tuning on distributed systems is no joking matter. It’s much more complicated than on a single node server, and bottlenecks can pop up anywhere, from system resources in a single node or subcomponent, to cooperation between nodes, to […]


Application areas, Education

DataStax Enables Enterprises to Deliver Real-Time Applications Faster, More Easily at Cloud Scale

April 4, 2018

Via: Dataversity

DataStax, a leading provider of the always-on data layer for the Right-Now Enterprise, today announced the immediate availability of DataStax Managed Cloud on Microsoft Azure. DataStax Managed Cloud, a fully managed, white-glove service, on Azure eliminates the operational data management […]


Application areas, Other

Monitor Query Performance Using Query Store in SQL Server

April 3, 2018

Via: Database Journal

There are various methods to monitor query performance in SQL Server. One of the best ways is to analyze the query execution plan and identify the queries that can cause performance bottlenecks. Sometimes, query execution plans get changed during the […]


Performance, security, and availability

The Evolution of Smart Availability

April 3, 2018

Via: Dataversity

Regardless of computing environment, workload, or OS, availability is an essential part of operational success. Outages, system or application failures, and unplanned downtime are simply not acceptable for today’s pace of business in which even 10 minutes of inoperability translates […]


Application areas, Other

Cosmos DB review: Database for a small planet

April 2, 2018

Via: Info World

If you do business around the world, you may need a scalable, distributed, global database. You have several choices including Google Cloud Spanner, the open source CockroachDB, the graph database Neo4j, and the subject of this review, Azure Cosmos DB. […]


Application areas, Other

How PostgreSQL just might replace your Oracle database

April 2, 2018

Via: Info World

Despite being filled with Oracle veterans, Salesforce.com can’t seem to stop flirting with rival databases, with reports surfacing that the SaaS vendor has made “significant progress” to move away from Oracle with its own homegrown database. This comes on the […]


Performance, security, and availability

What is the State of My Transparent Data Encrypted Database?

March 30, 2018

Via: Database Journal

When using Transparent Data Encryption, you might wonder “What is the state of my transparent data encrypted database?”  There are many different states that a transparent data encrypted database might go through.  Those states go from not being encrypted to […]


Application areas, Education

IT and Data Education Predictions: Democratizing Tech Skills

March 30, 2018

Via: Dataversity

In five to ten years, said Johan den Haan, the CTO in charge of R&D and Cloud Operations at Mendix, the number of computer scientists and data professionals using 3gl programming languages (Java, BASIC, C+) “will not” grow that much. […]


Online Tools

How to choose the right data-integration tools

March 29, 2018

Via: Info World

Data doesn’t sit in one database, file system, data lake, or repository. To service many business needs, data must be integrated from a system of record with other data sources and then used for analytics, customer-facing applications, or internal workflows. […]


Application areas, Other

DDN and SQream Partner to Deliver the World’s Fastest Big Data Analytics

March 29, 2018

Via: Dataversity

DataDirect Networks (DDN®) today announced its strategic partnership with SQream to deliver real-time Big Data analytics solutions and to significantly accelerate business decision making. The combination of DDN’s SFA® and IME® NVMe SSD storage platforms with SQream DB’s GPU-based Big […]


Application areas, Other

How to choose the right NoSQL database

March 28, 2018

Via: Info World

NoSQL databases provide high operational speed and increased flexibility for software developers and other users when compared to traditional tabular (or SQL) databases. The data structures used by NoSQL databases—key-value, wide column, graph, or document—differ from those used by relational […]


Application areas, Other

Is serverless computing a game-changer for the relational database market?

March 28, 2018

Via: Info World

Serverless computing, a concept that has started gaining traction in the last two years, is all about shifting focus to applications that require no infrastructure management and consume resources only for the seconds for which they are active. In the […]