EU-US data flows could be disrupted severely
One of the most powerful regulators in the EU has warned that companies could face some massive transatlantic data flows, because of an EU court ruling from last year. Policymakers have taken some steps to avoid the outcome.
Last July, Europe’s highest court ruled an EU-US data transfer agreem...
France’s Macron tells Google and Microsoft to embrace EU rules
President Emmanuel Macron has a warning for some of the big tech companies. He wants them to get on board with the European Union’s efforts to regulate the tech industry.
In a call with Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, and Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday, Macron told them that any unfair...
UK and Italy account for 59% of GDPR fines collected in 2020
The data in the GDPR Fines 2020 Report, shows that 171 million euros in GDPR fines were collected in European countries in 2020. The fines were issued between January 1st, 2020, and January 1st, 2021.
According to the report by Findbold, Italy accounts for the highest fines with 58.16 million eu...
HelpSystems acquires Vera Security; a data security company
HelpSystems, the IT Management Software Solutions company, has acquired Vera Security, a data security platform. The details of the deal have not yet been disclosed.
Vera was founded in 2014 and offers users a platform they can use to secure, track, and revoke access to confidential data across...
Microsoft Power BI announced new Datasets Hub
On Monday, Microsoft announced a new Datasets hub in the Power BI personal app and Power BI service in Teams. The addition will allow users to find, explore and use datasets in their respective organizations. The datasets hub can be used in scenarios like:
For users to see dataset usage metrics,...
Google acquires Actifio for data backup and recovery on Google Cloud
Google is acquiring Actifio, a data management startup. With this acquisition, Google’s public cloud will benefit from better data recovery and data backup capabilities.
The data management platform by Actifio will reduce the amount of time it takes to back up information by a factor of 20 co...
AWS makes Graph Notebook open source to make graph database analysis easier
Amazon Web Services' latest open source project is called Graph Notebook, enabling data scientists to analyze and visualize information stored in their companies' databases. Graph Notebook is made using software components developed for Amazon Neptune, a managed graph database service.
The proje...
AWS unveals managed big data service of Apache Airflow
Amazon Web Services launched a new managed product to help its users conduct data processing workloads in the cloud. The new service is named Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow. Users can deploy the open-source Apache Airflow tool to author, schedule, and monitor data workflows.
The chi...
Snowflake allows adding own code to platform
Datawarehouse company Snowflake has released Snowpark. This software makes it possible for developers to add their own code to the Snowflake software.
With the new tool, customers can expand Snowflake with their own specific warehouse tasks. This allows them to perform their own specific informa...
Pandemic reveals that data is the most essential tool for businesses
Businesses leveraging data say that decision-making gives them a critical advantage over their competitors, especially during the pandemic. This fact comes from a new report penned by Tableau, who polled 3,500 senior managers and IT decision-makers in the UK and three European countries.
The mos...
TIBCO expands its enterprise reach by acquiring Information Builders
TIBCO Software is on the acquiring Information Builders in a move that will bring their combined 70 years of data management expertise under one roof. Information Builders was founded in 1975 in New York City. Since then, it has been providing tools for data analysis for upward of 45 years now.
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Microsoft adds a feature that makes Excel incredibly versatile
Microsoft announced new data management features for Excel. The features aim to make working with complex and regularly updated information on spreadsheets much easier. Up until now, Excel only allowed users to fill it with text, numbers, and formulas.
Microsoft decided to take the first step to...