Oracle scales up hard with Exadata X9M
Yesterday Oracle announced the latest version of The Oracle Exadata Database Machine, better known as Exadata. The latest version goes by the name of X9M and is the successor to 2019's X8M. The performance improvements are impressive, compared to its predecessor. This while the price has not change...
Wil van der Aalst joins Celonis: “Automation and object-centric process mining crucial trends”
The 'godfather of process mining' Wil van der Aalst joins Celonis as Chief Scientist. The Dutch professor, who is considered the founder of the discipline, will play a major role in the strategy within the company. Where exactly is the product going? According to Van der Aalst, there are two trends...
Rubrik gets investment from Microsoft in fight against ransomware
Rubrik and Microsoft have entered into a strategic agreement. This agreement primarily consists of an investment from Microsoft in Rubrik. This investment will allow Rubrik to bring specific products to market faster and better. In addition, it can work with Microsoft to develop solutions for Azure...
Nutanix Era aims to simplify the life of database administrators
Companies often have dozens or hundreds of databases in use, usually based on different technologies. Managing these databases is extremely time-consuming. Database administrators have to deal with repetitive, lengthy and time-consuming processes, which actually prevents them from doing what they d...
What you need to know about Google’s Page Experience Update
If you are managing a website, chances are that you've already implemented several strategies to enhance the effectiveness of your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. This also includes staying on top of the latest Google updates that are released unannounced and hold power to bury websites i...
Do more with your Accounts Payable data
Thinking about Accounts Payable (AP) may not make your innovation heart skip a beat. Yet according to Basware, you would do well to take a good look at it. What does the company mean by this? We talked to a representative from the company to find out.
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Veeam wants to dominate the world of data
Veeam's goals and ambitions are sky-high. Initially focusing on backup and virtualisation, it now aims for the leading and dominant position in the data and infrastructure strategy of companies. We spoke with Veeam about how its focus on 'modern data protection' led to its current platform.
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Staples Solutions structures its data protection strategy with Veeam
We write about the importance of having a backup and disaster recovery policy on a regular basis. But what does that mean in practice? We spoke to Aleh Sadaunichy, Infrastructure Solutions Architect at Staples Solutions, who fairly recently implemented a new approach using Veeam.
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Cohesity Backup-as-a-Service available in Europe now, aims to remove complexity
In October last year Cohesity announced a close collaboration with AWS. Data Management-as-a-Service (DMaaS) should eventually make everything Cohesity has developed available as a service in the AWS cloud. The first component is DataProtect delivered as service. That is available in Europe from no...
Snowflake CEO Slootman talks about industry focus and growth
This week we spoke with the CEO of Snowflake, Frank Slootman, about the latest developments at the data company and the developments towards the future. Snowflake has been positioning itself as a data cloud platform, as opposed to a data warehouse, for some time now. Slootman's focus is now fully o...
SAS shapes the future of analytics in the cloud
SAS will discuss the future of analytics at its Global Forum in the coming days. The cloud plays an increasingly prominent role in this, according to the analytics giant. This is where real benefits can be realised, so SAS invests in this transition to the cloud. We spoke with the new CTO, Bryan Ha...
Tableau and Salesforce bring data science to the business user
Tableau has released the new version of its Business Intelligence (BI) platform. Version 2021.1 comes with new features. The most notable is, without a doubt, the far-reaching integration of Salesforce's Einstein Discovery, which brings data science techniques to the business user without technical...