Author: Joyce Wells

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. IBM is boosting its data governance and data science initiatives to help developers and analysts tap into the power of cognitive computing to gain greater understanding and control of their data, while improving their ability to comply with data regulations such as the European Union’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).As part of the enhancements, IBM announced new data governance solutions and tools, data science and machine learning advances, and the formation of the Open Data Governance Consortium for Apache Atlas, dedicated to advancing the open framework for data governance.GDPR is a ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. MongoDB has announced MongoDB Stitch, a new service to make it easier for developers to integrate the services they need to build applications. The company has also expanded the availability of MongoDB Atlas, its database as a service, to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).According to MongoDB, as application and user interface logic continues to move into the front end, the remaining back end is often dominated by “plumbing” to handle storing and retrieving data, security, data privacy, or integrating and composing various services. The new Stitch backend as a service ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Attunity Ltd., a provider of data integration and big data management software solutions, is launching a new solution, Attunity Compose for Hive, which automates the process of creation and continuous loading of operational and historical data stores in a data lake.Integrated with Attunity Replicate to support large-scale and real-time data ingestion, Attunity Compose for Hive eliminates the hard work of manual and time-consuming ETL development help companies get value from Hadoop more quickly and cost-effectively.Part of Attunity’s Compose family of products, which is designed to help organizations automate the creation of analytics-ready datasets, ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. New England Water Heater is a plumbing services company specializing in water heater repair and installation based in North Waltham, MA. The company provides a centralized service through a network of geographically dispersed plumbing companies in the surrounding region, including its own company, Home Services of New England (HSNE) Plumbing.NEWH’s services include the sale, lease, installation, and repair of water heaters for non-commercial customers in the New England states, as well as other plumbing services, ranging from fixing leaking faucets to handling oil-to-gas conversions.To support this work, the company provides a customer ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Having access to data that can be trusted is essential for effective decision making and, ultimately, for business success.  But, just because a DBMS supports ACID does not guarantee that your data will be correct, cautions Craig S. Mullins,president and principal consultant, Mullins Consulting, Inc., who spoke at Data Summit 2017.Data integrity in an operational DBMS that entails making sure that the data is always accurate and correct, according to Mullins, who is also a DBTA columnist and IBM Gold consultant.With the advance of NoSQL database systems that may not support true ACID, ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. With data increasingly recognized as a highly valuable enterprise asset, data protection is understandably becoming a higher priority.To explore the issues surrounding data protection, including the role of people, processes, and technology in creating a proactive security stance, Database Trends and Applications is introducing the Cybersecurity Sourcebook.The relentless stream of data breaches has elevated security as a concern. It’s not just cybercriminals with nefarious intent that pose a threat or even privileged users seeking to take advantage of their authority. Data breaches can happen in endless innocent ways—a conscientious employee sending assignments ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Tableau Software, a provider of software for visual analytics, has announced new features in Tableau 10.3, which will be released next week.“One of the things that we are really focused on is making sure that our innovation serves the breadth of our customer base from the smallest smart shops to enterprise organizations that have hundreds of thousands of employees," said Tableau's Dustin Smith.The new release is designed to help organizations achieve insights faster with four key areas of innovation.  First, automated table and join recommendations enabled by machine learning algorithms simplify the ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. 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,” said Greg Davoll, software products leader, Quest Software. Quest as a company is focused on three sets of capabilities for customers: database performance monitoring; database replication; and database development and management tooling, and these new product enhancements reflect that focus, he added.While this round of enhancements is focused on the Microsoft community, Davoll ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. This year at Data Summit 2017, Michael Corey, director, cloud computing evangelist, Spectrum Enterprise Navisite, and Don Sullivan, product line marketing manager for Business Critical Applications, VMware, discussed cloud myths and realities in a session titled, “The Cloud Landscape Today.”In the Wild west of public cloud services, companies need a trusted advisor, said Sullivan and Corey, who advised cloud users that fork lifting applications to the cloud is not the same as architecting for the cloud, one size does not fit all, and the cloud is not always cheaper.While it is not wise ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. This year at Data Summit 2017, Michael Corey, director, cloud computing evangelist, Spectrum Enterprise Navisite, and Don Sullivan, product line marketing manager for Business Critical Applications, VMware, discussed cloud myths and realities in a session titled, “The Cloud Landscape Today.”In the Wild west of public cloud services, companies need a trusted advisor, said Sullivan and Corey, who advised cloud users that fork lifting applications to the cloud is not the same as architecting for the cloud, one size does not fit all, and the cloud is not always cheaper.While it is not wise ... Read More