Enterprises struggle to manage growing volumes of data
A suite of surveys find that companies are having trouble coping with the amount of data they need to manage and protect.
Dell has released its 2021 Global Data Protection Index. The survey spotlights the challenges organizations face arising from the threat of ransomware and complexities around... Read more
Dell: companies manage 10x more data than they did five years ago
The company leveraged the report's publication to announce a suite of new security products and services.
This week Dell released its 2021 Global Data Protection Index (GDPI). The report shows that organizations face several data protection challenges driven by the constant threat of ransomware ... Read more
Tableau’s newest release helps organizations scale up data analytics
Tableau, now owned by Salesforce, is adding new capabilities to its platform to help companies better scale up their data analytics operations. The company is calling Tableau 2021.3 a major new release meant to help organizations manage the 'data chaos' present in today's world. It should also ensu... Read more
Databricks raises $1.6 billion in funding at a $38 billion valuation
Databricks, the Data & AI company, announced a $1.6 billion round of funding to speed up innovation and adoption of the data lakehouse as the data architecture's popularity grows rapidly across data-driven organizations.
Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley) led the Series H funding to put Da... Read more
Epicor introduces Predii intelligence to automotive aftermarket data
Epicor plans to use the Predii AI solution to surface insights from the vast caches of data it collects from its solutions. The data, which is both structured and unstructured, will be fed to Predii Intelligence for analysis to gain business insights.
Predii delivers upstream analytics capabilit... Read more
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... Read more
SAP acquires SwoopTalent to augment its people analytics offering
SAP SE is venturing into people analytics following the acquisition of intellectual property and talent from SwoopTalent. The terms of the deal are still under wraps.
SwoopTalent is behind a platform with automation capabilities that connect talent systems and data for analytics, machine learnin... Read more
SAP and IBM partner to encourage financial institutions to move to the hybrid cloud
SAP has partnered with IBM to offer its finance and data management tools on the latter's Cloud for Financial Services platform. The announcement came on Wednesday as part of an ongoing effort to get industries to move to the hybrid cloud.
IBM's Cloud for Financial Services became generally avai... Read more
AWS announces general availability for Amazon HealthLake
The service will help healthcare providers to pool information from disparate data sources.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced the general availability of Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible offering that helps healthcare and life sciences entities collect and generate insights from l... Read more
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.
Veea... Read more