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Incorta, provider of a platform for real-time operational analytics on raw business data, has announced new capabilities and enhancements, including Delta Sharing compatibility and several new data apps to make it easier for customers to get operational data from source systems and make it ready for…

Everstream Analytics, a global supply chain insights and risk analytics company, has announced the close of a $24M Series A round. In addition, it said that with existing partners, including Oracle, SAP, Accenture, and others, Andy McGuire, the company’s newly appointed head of global alliances, wil…

Okera has announced the immediate availability of Okera on Snowflake,, a new software as a service (SaaS) offering for the Snowflake Data Cloud. Leveraging the new SaaS solution, non-technical data stakeholders in business, security, and compliance can collaborate with a significantly smaller data e…

Aqua Security, a pure-play cloud-native security provider, has announced general availability of runtime security for customers using Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Systems to drive infrastructure and application modernization. With Aqua’s runtime technology, IBM Power customers can now protect the…

SCB has announced the adoption of IBM zSystems, bringing the platform to its core-banking applications to support the agile microservice development of new services and products in response to today’s fast-paced digital consumer era.

Following the close of Oracle’s acquisition of Cerner Corp. for $28.3 billion, Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison presented Oracle’s views on how the two companies will work together to transform healthcare data management, integration, and sharing during a live web event. ’Better information is…

MongoDB unveiled its developer data platform vision with a series of new capabilities at its annual conference held at the Javits Center in New York City. With these announcements, MongoDB aims to help development teams to innovate faster by addressing a wider set of use cases, servicing more of the…

BMC has announced the launch of the BMC Innovation Labs Preferred Partner Program, a collaborative co-innovation program built for, and with, BMC partners and customers. The program is focused on ideation and experimentation to design and ultimately commercialize modern technology solutions to suppo…

Oracle has announced that its deal to acquire Cerner Corp. will close on June 8, 2022. Cerner is a provider of digital information systems used within hospitals and health systems by medical professionals. Oracle previously announced on June 1 that all required antitrust approvals have been obtained…

Vertica, a Micro Focus line of business, has released version 12 of the Vertica analytical database, which includes new features and enhancements for analytics and machine learning across multi-cloud, hybrid on-prem and cloud, and multi-regional deployments.

DryvIQ, an enterprise data management (EDM) provider, has announced the availability of its latest migration and governance solutions that enable organizations to intelligently understand and protect enterprise content. ’Enterprises have massive volumes of unstructured data, and many of them struggl…

Clumio, a cloud data protection vendor, has introduced a new air gap ransomware protection solution, Clumio SecureVault Lite for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

IBM is introducing education initiatives with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Specialisterne Foundation, and six Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) to provide no-cost STEM job training to U.S. military veterans, neurodivergent learners worldwide, and university students…

IBM has announced the expansion of its road map for achieving large-scale, practical quantum computing. IBM originally announced its quantum road map in 2020, and, since then, the company said, it has delivered on each of the targets on its timeline. ’In just 2 years, our team has made incredible pr…

Imply Data, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, announced its $100 million Series D financing, which values the company at $1.1 billion. This investment round was led by Thoma Bravo with participation from OMERS Growth Equity, both new investors. Existing investors Bessemer Venture Funds, Andreessen Horowitz, and Khosla Ventures also participated in the financing.

Modern data analytics platforms that fuel enterprise-wide data hubs are critical for decision making and information sharing. The problem? Integrating legacy data stores into these hubs is just plain hard, and there is no magic bullet. However, the best data hubs include all enterprise data.

According to Kathy Schneider, chief marketing officer, Kx, the definition of ‘real time’ is changing as the window of opportunity for making decisions is shrinking. It is widely accepted that insights-driven businesses perform better than others, and how fast they can use those insights is more crit…

At Data Summit 2022, Chris Bergh, CEO and head chef of DataKitchen, shared how to build an internal business case and ways to collect small wins that illustrate the benefits of DataOps at your organization. DataOps focuses on people and processes, said Bergh who explained that the only thing that ma…

Franz, a supplier of graph database technology for entity-event knowledge graph solutions, has announced AllegroGraph 7.3 with enhanced GraphQL query capabilities for distributed knowledge graphs and enterprise data fabrics. ’Now when organizations need to integrate multiple systems from large legac…

Broadcom is expanding the opportunities for organizations to gain greater value from the company’s advanced AI, security, and hybrid cloud solutions with support for IBM’s new z16. As a member of the z16 Early Ship Program, Broadcom collaborated with IBM to ensure clients can capitalize on the full…