Tableau 2020.1 announced, includes animated visualisations
The new version of Tableau recently announced has a number of new features, including visualisation animations, dynamic parameters and a number of new management capabilities. The updates should provide users with deeper insights into their data.
In Tableau 2020.1, the company adds a number of n... Read more
Databricks Ingest platform simplifies data management for analytics
Databricks has announced a new Ingest platform to simplify data management for business intelligence (BI) and machine learning applications.
The provider of data science software describes its approach as a data lakehouse, referring to the unification of data lakes and data warehouses. In this w... Read more
Veeam releases version 10
Veeam announces the availability of Availability Suite v10, adding more than 150 new features. The new release should further support the company's Cloud Data Management message.
Veeam announced version 10 in 2017, promising a release in the same year. In the meantime, new features did appear, b... Read more
Financial dataset Tick History now available on Google Cloud
Refinitiv, provider of data on financial markets, will offer its dataset Tick History on Google Cloud Platform. Users will be able to use Google's BigQuery to search that dataset.
The dataset Tick History is a collection of historical day-to-day financial data dating back to January 1996. Think ... Read more
Dataiku creates a community for data scientists
Dataiku has told Techzine about the introduction of the Dataiku Community, which is intended for professionals in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).
With the Dataiku Community, the data science-unicorn brings different resources together. For example, users will hav... Read more
Acronis buys Microsoft specialist 5nine
Acronis has announced the acquisition of 5nine, a producer of software for Microsoft solutions. It has not been disclosed how much money is involved in the acquisition.
5nine is described by Acronis as a company offering end-to-end cloud solutions for Hyper-V as well as an "agentless and multi-l... Read more
Avast stops Jumpshot data collection after privacy scandal
Avast has
sold data of users through an intermediary called Jumpshot. That data should be
anonymous and not retraceable to the original user. Research has shown that it
was possible to trace the data back to individual users which let to a privacy
scandal. Now Avast CEO, Ondrej Vlcek has pulled the... Read more
Europe wants a European data market to break American dominance
The European Union has taken up the plan to develop a European data market, in which data from large European companies can be exchanged. The goal is to enable innovation and break the American dominance of Amazon, Facebook and Google.
The presentation of this plan will take place on 19 February... Read more
‘Use of data, development and security tools is on the rise’
Over the past year, data, development and security tools have become more popular. The number of apps per organization increased by six per cent compared to the previous year. That's what Okta told Techzine after analyzing anonymized customer data.
According to Okta's data, the use of tools to a... Read more
Facebook launches PyTorch 1.4 with library updates
Facebook recently launched a new version of its deep learning framework PyTorch. The update goes under the name PyTorch 1.4 and includes limited Java support, adjustments to the mobile version of the framework and various upgrades for the audio, vision and text libraries.
PyTorch is one of the m... Read more