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Conquering ‘shadow IT’: How enterprises are trying to tame the cloud software beast
Like many companies, high-performance sporting equipment maker Catapult Sports Pty Ltd. used to give its employees wide latitude to choose their own software-as-a-service applications. But as its information technology department prepared a campaign to achieve compliance with a key security standard, its lack of visibility into the services employees was using became a liability. “There ...
Oracle introduces lower-cost version of its full on-premises cloud stack
Saying its Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer offering has been an unqualified success with large customers, Oracle Corp. today is introducing a lower-cost version of the on-premises cloud stack along with a rack-level package that delivers an assortment of cloud services customers can deploy in their data centers. Announced nearly two years ago, Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer delivers ...
Ahana rolls out “forever free” managed Presto service and takes $7.2M in additional funding
Ahana Cloud Inc., which offers managed and commercial versions of the Presto open-source distributed query engine, today announced an additional investment of $7.2 million from Liberty Global Ventures BV with participation from existing investor GV Management Co LLC. The funding expands the company’s Series A financing to $27.2 million and total funding to $32 million. At ...
Snowflake bids for transactional and data science workloads in broad set of enhancements
Snowflake Inc. is leading off its Snowflake Summit 2022 conference today with a brace of announcements aimed at making its platform more programmable, flexible and accommodating of a greater variety of workloads, including transactions. The company, which has been chastened by slowing growth and a nearly 66% decline in its stock price since the beginning of ...
Data mesh creator: Standards needed to avoid ‘potential for abuse and misuse’
Having fired the imagination of the data analytics industry with her concept of a data mesh, Zhamak Dehghani has taken the natural next step and written a book about it. “Data Mesh: Delivering data-driven value at scale” covers not just the technology and architectural aspects of the distributed and federated alternative to data warehousing Dehghani ...
Databricks adds data lineage feature to its catalog with support for nontraditional uses
Databricks Inc. today is adding data lineage features to its Unity Catalog governance platform, a move that it says significantly expands data governance capabilities on the hybrid data warehouse or data lake that it calls a lakehouse. Data lineage describes how data flows throughout an organization, giving customers the ability to see where lakehouse data ...
Immuta scoops up $100M for its data-level security technology
Data security startup Immuta Inc. today said it has raised a $100 million late-stage funding round that pegs the company’s valuation at $1 billion. The maker of software that secures access at the data level said the Series E round brings the total amount it has raised to $267 million. Immuta’s software prevents unauthorized access ...
Stellate raises $25M to build a global CDN network based on GraphQL
GraphCDN Inc. today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A funding round and is changing its name to Stellate Inc., a word meaning star-shaped. The series A round brings the total the company has raised to $30 million. The new funding comes from Tiger Global Management LLC following a seed round led by ...
Software AG set to raise growth targets, CEO says
As he nears the four-year anniversary of his appointment as chief executive of Software AG, Sanjay Brahmawar is spending little time looking back at his accomplishments. There’s a new five-year plan to prepare. It has been an eventful six months for the 53-year-old company that, until the arrival of Brahmawar (pictured), was known mainly for ...
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CIOs welcome users’ bid for more IT budget control – mostly
When Richard Wiedenbeck became chief information officer of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. 12 years ago, he encountered a siloed business structure in which each business unit fulfilled its own information technology needs. “IT was treated as back-office order-taking operation to an unhealthy level,” he said. “Businesspeople were making software application and design decisions who had ...