Apache Fineract Open-Source Financial Services Application Graduates
The open-source Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has many different processes, including one for how a new project can…
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Portworx Raises $20M Series B to Advance Container Data Services
Container data services vendor Portworx announced on April 5 that it has raised $20 million in a new…
Mashape Raises $18M for API Gateway Tech
Application Programming Interface (API) gateway vendor Mashape announced a new $18 million Series B round of funding on…
ScyllaDB Raises $16M to Advance NoSQL Database Technology
Back in September 2015, Cloudius Systems pivoted, rebranding itself as ScyllaDB. When Cloudius Systems was founded, the company…
Confluent Streams $50M in Series C Funding to Help Advance Apache Kafka
Confluent announced on March 7 that it has raised a new $50 million Series C round of funding…
Rackspace Shoots Mailgun Off On Its Own
Mailgun is once again on its own. Cloud and hosting services vendor Rackspace acquired email platform vendor Mailgun…
Linux Foundation Takes Ownership of RethinkDB Code
A basic promise of open-source code is that even if a company goes out of business, the source…
Tricentis Raises $165M to Advance Software Application Testing Technology
In the modern world of DevOps, in which application code is constantly being written and re-written in an…
Databricks Sparks Growth with $60M Series C
Databricks announced on December 15 that it has raised $60 million in Series C funding to help grow…
CrateDB 1.0 Delivers New Stable Open-Source Database Option
The open-source CrateDB database hit a major milestone on December 14 with the debut of its 1.0 release.…
Apache Zeppelin Gets Commercial Backing from ZEPL
The open-source Apache Zeppelin project is an increasingly popular, web-based notebook for interactive data analytics that directly integrates…
SnapLogic Raises $40M in Series F Funding Round
Building modern applications is not about building a monolith, but rather is about using the right building blocks…
Node.js Moves to a Stable, VM-Neutral Future
On November 29, 2016 the Node.js Foundation announced a major effort to help further grow and stabilize node.js…
Sauce Labs Raises $70M for Application Testing
Before any company deploys any web or mobile app, it needs to test, and that’s where Sauce Labs…
Neo Technology Raises $36M to Boost Graph Database App Tech
Graph database developer Neo Technology announced on November 10 that it has raised a $36 million Series D…
Tibco Intros Cloud Task Automation Tool
While process automation has long been the purview of IT organizations, Tibco Software is rolling out Simplr, a…
How BPM Improves Information Governance
By James Maniscalco, BackOffice Associates The promise of business process management (BPM) has been long predicted to become…
Is Data Governance the CDO’s Responsibility?
Data governance was a hot topic at the recent MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality (CDOIQ) Symposium.…
Is a Container Database Right for Your Organization?
Containers and databases seem like an odd mix. Containers offer a lightweight way to run applications, but databases…
Vendors Pile on Big Data News at Strata
Vendors big and small are making news at this week’s Strata + Hadoop event as they try to…
Do You Need Master Data Management?
Master data management (MDM) is quickly becoming the driving force behind organizing data that is shared across the…
Evolving Beyond Traditional Data Governance
by Tyler Warden, BackOffice Associates Starting with its origins in master data management, data governance has traditionally focused…
Teradata Expands Database Deployment Options
Teradata rolled out several new cloud-friendly deployment options for its analytic database at this week’s Teradata Partners Conference.…
Startup Spotlight: MemSQL’s Database Platform for Real-time Analytics
Technology companies often have unusual names that have little to do with the company’s actual business. Hulu, for…
How to Avoid Application Chaos
By Mark Field, QuickBase “We’ve got an app for that.” Once a memorable advertising catch-phrase, this is now…
How HTAP Database Technology Can Help You
What does hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP), a database technology that uses in-memory capabilities to perform OLAP (online analytical…
Chief Data Officer Role Continues to Evolve
Chief data officers (CDOs) are playing a strategic role in many — though not all — organizations, thanks…
How Lyft Built Its App (and Business) on AWS
Lyft knows a thing or two about how to scale a company, growing from zero to a global…
5 Steps to Boosting Big Data’s Value through Data Governance
By Dan Sholler Big Data represents one of the biggest opportunities and biggest challenges facing organizations today. There…
Investment in Fast Data Processing Growing: Survey
While Big Data still garners the lion’s share of attention, companies are increasingly looking to so-called fast data…
Why Open Source Graph Databases Are Catching on
Graph databases, which use graph structures for semantic queries, came into prominence through social networks like Facebook and…
4 Best Practices for Data Lakes
Data lakes sound simple: Pool data or information into a Big Data system that combines processing speed with…
SQL Server 2016 Stretch Database: What Can It Do?
By John Hughes, ManageForce When Microsoft released SQL Server 2016, the release was accompanied by a slew of…
Hadoop Summit Brings Big Data News
It was a big week for Big Data, with multiple vendors making announcements at this week’s Hadoop Summit…
Want Big Data ROI? Start with a Strategy
When it comes to Big Data, it is hard to overstate the importance of having a clear business…
Holberton School Wakes Students up to IT Operations
The Holberton School got its start in 2015, offering the promise of a new way to teach students…
Tesora Positions OpenStack Trove Database-as-a-Service for the Future
The OpenStack Mitaka release debuted back in April of this year and with it came a series of…
Summit Sparks Flurry of New Products
At the center of this week’s Spark Summit is the open source Apache Spark technology, which has emerged…
Business Apps: It’s the Application Lifecycle, Stupid!
Many enterprise leaders today understand the imperative of embracing digital transformation in the Information Age. A recent study…
Can DBaaS Cure Your Data Management Ills?
Thanks to huge growth in data volume, as well as a proliferation of new data sources and data…
Hadoop Evolution: What You Need to Know
It’s been a decade since Hadoop became an Apache software project and released version 0.1.0. The open source…
MarkLogic 9 Boosts NoSQL Database [PODCAST]
The world of NoSQL database technology has many entrants, among them MarkLogic. This week the company announced some…
Dell SharePlex Supports Replication for More Databases
The explosion in different data types – including structured and unstructured, Big Data and Fast Data – has…
Using NoSQL Databases to Handle Fast Data
NoSQL databases have grown markedly in popularity over the last few years, and for good reasons. Broadly speaking,…
Easier Data Prep Is Focus of Datawatch’s Software Update
Business intelligence expert Howard Dresner, of Dresner Advisory Services, is bullish on the market for self-service data preparation.…
Your Next Big Data Project? Operational Analytics
If Big Data has a killer application, it is operational analytics. Companies using Big Data initially focused on…
14 Game Changing Database Trends for 2016
Databases are proliferating like, well, cockroaches. The overall database market is expected to reach $50 billion by 2017,…
Puppet, Orchestration and the Source of Truth [PODCAST]
In the world of DevOps, Luke Kanies and his company Puppet are well known for helping enable configuration,…
Startup Spotlight: StreamSets’ Big Data Integration
Girish Pancha is a data integration veteran who spent the better part of two decades working at integration…
Cloudera Gives Hadoop a Spark
The open source Hadoop platform has emerged in recent years as the defacto standard tool for Big Data.…