Data Warehousing

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Canada integrator partners evolving to meet needs of changing AI market

March 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Microsoft Canada integrator partners evolving to meet needs of changing AI market
Systems integrators Adastra, Lixar and Shalom, all of whom had a major presence at Microsoft’s recent forum around AI, talked with ChannelBuzz at the event about what they are doing to be successful in the space.

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Cloud

Attunity unveils new solutions to automate the data pipeline to Azure

February 14, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Attunity unveils new solutions to automate the data pipeline to Azure
For channel partners, Attunity’s new level of automation of the data pipeline to the Azure cloud frees them from migration processes that took months, and lets them provide more strategic services to customers.

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Big Data

New plug and play applications highlight Looker 6 platform release

October 10, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on New plug and play applications highlight Looker 6 platform release
BI provider Looker is kicking off their JOIN 2018 event in San Francisco with the launch of the latest version of their platform

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Partnerships

Pure Storage highlights Cisco momentum with new Oracle Data Warehouse solution, and AIRI integrations

July 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage highlights Cisco momentum with new Oracle Data Warehouse solution, and AIRI integrations
Pure Storage channel chief Michael Sotnick also highlighted strong company momentum in the Canadian market.

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Cloud

Vena adds integrated planning functionality to corporate performance management software

February 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Vena adds integrated planning functionality to corporate performance management software
The new Vena capabilities are designed to facilitate efficiency by integrating operational departments much more fully into the CPM process.

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Cloud

Improving Time to Insight for Midsize Firms

December 8, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Improving Time to Insight for Midsize Firms
Kevin Nicholas, VP of Enterprise Product Management and Marketing at Sage and Bill Tennant, VP of Sales at ZAP report on their work together to improve business insight for midsize enterprises by helping them manage their data

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Big Data

Sensitive data governance provider Dataguise extends support to Google Cloud Storage

March 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sensitive data governance provider Dataguise extends support to Google Cloud Storage
Enterprise player Dataguise adds full integration with another major cloud player, as part of its strategy of broadening out beyond large enterprises.

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Hardware

Lenovo announces new SAP partnerships, offerings at SAPPHIRE NOW

May 20, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo announces new SAP partnerships, offerings at SAPPHIRE NOW
The Lenovo announcements included three joint offerings with integrators around SAP HANA, SAP-related data warehousing and memory announcements, and a hyper-converged sofolution r SAP Business suite applications stemming from their partnership with Nutanix.

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Big Data

Hadoop well past novelty stage: Syncsort survey

January 27, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hadoop well past novelty stage: Syncsort survey
Syncsort says the results from a recent survey dovetail with what they are seeing from their own customers — that customers are increasingly moving to Hadoop, and that while much of this to date has been for operational use cases, they expect to see more transformative uses that drive new business opportunities.

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Big Data

Dell broadens Big Data market, cuts customer costs, with new reference architecture

September 24, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell broadens Big Data market, cuts customer costs, with new reference architecture
A reference architecture co-designed with vendor partners Cloudera and Syncsort simplifies Big Data and analytics processes for new Hadoop users, and chops the expense of data transformation jobs.

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