COMPANY NEWS: Major new advancements delivered on secure-by-design, unified agent unleash power of industry-leading AI-security technology, turbocharging protection across every endpoint, identity and cloud workload

Data and AI platform Databricks has announced its agreement to acquire data management company Tabular. This deal is particularly significant because of both what it means, and the people involved.

How many of the threats flagged by your security vendors are actually false positives? Which software teams introduce the most vulnerabilities into your production environment? How quickly do your remediation teams roll out critical patches — and how does that vary across different clouds?

GUEST INTERVIEW: Cloudera CTO Ram Venkatesh visited Australia this month and took time from his schedule to speak exclusively with iTWireTV about the changing data revolution, in which organisations want to increase the velocity in which they realise value from their data.

Cloudera CTO Ram Venkatesh visited Australia this month and took time from his schedule to speak exclusively with iTWireTV about the changing data revolution, in which organisations want to increase the velocity in which they realise value from their data.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Zetaris lets you instantly join and access data silos virtually, across your whole data ecosystem, whilst ensuring data governance and security by removing the need to move data, analysing it at its source. Whether it's in the cloud, on-premise, or multiple devices or anywhere, you get a single, unified view of your data, and Zetaris founder and CEO Vinay Samuel joins iTWireTV to explain the benefits - and more!

GUEST INTERVIEW: Zetaris lets you instantly join and access data silos virtually, across your whole data ecosystem, whilst ensuring data governance and security by removing the need to move data, analysing it at its source. Whether it's in the cloud, on-premise, or multiple devices or anywhere, you get a single, unified view of your data, and Zetaris founder and CEO Vinay Samuel joins iTWireTV to explain the benefits - and more!

COMPANY NEWS: Cloudian has announced a partnership with Vertica, a Micro Focus line of business, providing organisations with a public cloud-like modern data warehousing solution, on-premises, for managing their artificial intelligence/machine learning and other analytics workloads securely behind their firewall. Vertica’s separation of compute and storage scaling of its underlying analytical database allows customers to use Cloudian’s HyperStore native S3-compatible object storage as a single location to store all their data. As a result, users can capitalise on HyperStore’s many benefits, including exabyte-level scalability, military-grade security and cost savings of up to 70% compared to public cloud and traditional storage alternatives.

Businesses of all sizes recognise there is valuable information hidden within their troves of data, yet AWS research identified 62% of ANZ organisations have a basic or beginner level of data maturity. AWS wants to help and today announced it has brought its free Data Lab program to this region. iTWire has already tested it out and can tell you what to expect.

Bryan Campbell, data and analytics platform manager, Mercury NZ presented today at the Databricks Data and AI tour about the gentailer’s journey from costly data to an agile, versatile, objective-meeting data lakehouse.

Microsoft announced today it is supporting Lifeline, Australia's leading suicide prevention service, to securely analyse and share curated, anonymised data with mental health researchers. The solution was implemented by Microsoft partner, Data Addiction.

Dr Jonathan Gray, the CEO and Chief Data Scientist at Catapult BI will present a free 30 minute webinar on Data Governance and its importance for organisations in regulated industries and the Public Sector, at 1pm AEDT on Thursday, November 19, 2020.

Our analytics ambitions may have taken a temporary hit, but a cleaner environment brings us closer to realising value

VENDOR NEWS:  When the world embraced data science, it was hooked on the promise of data - or perhaps, more accurately, on the promise of unrealised insights within that data.

iTWire talks to Pure Storage vice-president of strategy Matt Kixmoeller about the company's recently introduced Data Hub.

Forthcoming changes to EMC's Isilon Scale-out NAS Data Lake family include support for public cloud storage.

EMC's Federation Business Data Lake is a pre-integrated big data system that can be installed and running in just seven days for a 1PB configuration.

EMC and its spin-off company Pivotal have announced a new version of their data analytics product which incorporates EMC’s storage hardware.

The 'data lake' concept - storing as much as possible of an organisation's data in one system - seems to be gaining traction. The idea is that it provides economies of scale through consolidation thanks to better utilisation and simpler management, as well as allowing the data to be used for more purposes without duplication.