Databases

BigID Introduces Native Data Access and Masking Control for Snowflake

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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Organizations can now natively enforce data access and masking within Snowflake's Data Cloud based on data discovery and policy controls inside BigID.

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  • Organizations can now natively enforce data access and masking within Snowflake's Data Cloud based on data discovery and policy controls inside BigID.
  • Joint customers can get even more value from their Snowflake data with BigID providing an extra layer of protection to identify and secure personal, sensitive and privileged data.
  • "The BigID Data Access Application for Snowflake allows our joint customers to discover, classify, and automate protection of sensitive and regulated data using Snowflake's native security and governance policies.
  • By applying advanced machine learning and deep data insight, BigID transforms data discovery and data intelligence to address data privacy, security, and governance challenges across all types of data, in any language, at petabyte-scale, across the data center and the cloud.

Dataiku Introduces Integration With Snowflake to Enable Support for Advanced Data Functions

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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Dataiku , the world's most advanced Enterprise AI platform, today announced an integration with Snowflake s Snowpark and Java user defined functions (UDFs), a new developer experience for Snowflake, following the announcement of both at Snowflake Summit.

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  • Dataiku , the world's most advanced Enterprise AI platform, today announced an integration with Snowflake s Snowpark and Java user defined functions (UDFs), a new developer experience for Snowflake, following the announcement of both at Snowflake Summit.
  • By adding support for Java user defined functions (UDFs) now supported by Snowflake, Dataiku continues to lead in push down computation; with Snowpark, Snowflake and Dataiku will enable data engineers, data scientists, and developers who prefer other languages to take advantage of Snowflakes powerful platform capabilities and the benefits of Snowflakes Data Cloud.
  • Pushdown also minimizes data movement so data stays in Snowflake, which enhances data security and relieves compliance concerns.
  • The release of Snowflake's Snowpark & Java UDFs allows us to expand our existing pushdown support from SQL to more advanced functions in both data preparation and predictive scoring directly in Snowflake.

New Research Finds 96% of Data Professionals Are at or Over Capacity

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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Ascend.io , the data engineering company, today announced results from its second annual research study, The 2021 DataAware Pulse Survey , about the work capacity and priorities of data teams, including data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and enterprise architects.

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  • Ascend.io , the data engineering company, today announced results from its second annual research study, The 2021 DataAware Pulse Survey , about the work capacity and priorities of data teams, including data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and enterprise architects.
  • Demonstrating the current pressures many data teams face, the research found that 96% of teams are at or over capacity down only 1% from the 2020 study .
  • Amid the significant increase in the number of data pipelines across their organization, 74% of data professionals indicated their organizations need for data products is growing faster than their team size.
  • Combined with our data that highlights almost every data professional today is already at capacity, this leaves little room for strategic work and innovation.

World’s Biggest Open Source Database Conference, Percona Live Sessions Now Available Online

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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Over two days, Percona Live ONLINE 2021 attracted thousands of attendees who wanted to discover more about the vast ecosystem of open source database technologies.

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  • Over two days, Percona Live ONLINE 2021 attracted thousands of attendees who wanted to discover more about the vast ecosystem of open source database technologies.
  • Percona Live ONLINE 2021 was our biggest and best conference yet, said Peter Zaitsev, CEO of Percona.
  • Many businesses are turning to open source database software to achieve this, as it allows them to reduce costs and avoid vendor lock-in.
  • Well established as thought leaders, Percona experts author content for the Percona Database Performance Blog , and the Percona Live Open Source Database Conferences draws attendees and expert technical speakers from around the world.

Rockset Expands Regions, Delivering Highly Available Real-Time Analytics on a Global Scale

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Thursday, June 3, 2021

As Rockset welcomes more enterprise customers with deployments in multiple regions, there is growing demand for coverage around the world.

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  • As Rockset welcomes more enterprise customers with deployments in multiple regions, there is growing demand for coverage around the world.
  • Built by the creators of RocksDB , Rockset automatically builds a Converged Index on any data including structured, semi-structured, geographical, and time series data for real-time analytics at scale.
  • Benefits to Rockset customers include:
    When it comes to embedding real-time analytics in applications, there is no tolerance for lag time and outages.
  • To meet the increasingly global demand for Rockset, we are expanding our offerings to new AWS regions around the world so companies everywhere can benefit from a low-latency, highly available real-time analytics service.

Bairong, a Leading Chinese AI-Tech Platform, Joins "Zhuoxin Big Data Program" to Improve Big Data Security

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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Since its inception, Bairong has been spearheading technologies in the field and providing financial institutions with state-of-the-art AI technologies and data analytical tools.

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  • Since its inception, Bairong has been spearheading technologies in the field and providing financial institutions with state-of-the-art AI technologies and data analytical tools.
  • Bairong is the largest independent financial big data analytics solutions provider in China by revenue in 2019.
  • Bairong also provides big data marketing and distribution services that enable FSP clients to reach and serve their target customers more effectively.
  • [2]Bairong - China's Leading Financial Big Data Analyics Service Provider, China International Capital Corporation, May 2021.

IMDb Launches Monthly Live Virtual Trivia Game

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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

IMDb ( www.imdb.com ), the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content, today announced the launch of IMDb Trivia, a live monthly virtual game that lets entertainment fans connect with each other and put their knowledge of movies and TV shows to the test.

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  • IMDb ( www.imdb.com ), the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content, today announced the launch of IMDb Trivia, a live monthly virtual game that lets entertainment fans connect with each other and put their knowledge of movies and TV shows to the test.
  • Each IMDb Trivia game will last approximately 30 minutes, with three rounds of questions, and players can keep track of their scores on the live leaderboard.
  • The trivia section on IMDb is one of our most popular features, said Nikki Santoro, Head of IMDb Consumer.
  • IMDb also offers a free streaming channel, IMDb TV , and produces IMDb original video series and podcasts .

Ackroo completes acquisition of InterActive DMS

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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

HAMILTON, Ontario, June 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ackroo Inc. (the Company or Ackroo) (TSX-V: AKR) (OTC: AKRFF), a loyalty marketing, payments and point-of-sale technology and services provider, is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of InterActive DMS (IDMS) through its wholly-owned subsidiary Ackroo Canada Inc. IDMS provides cloud-based and on-premise dealer management software and web solutions to independent car, motorcycle and boat dealers across the United States.

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  • HAMILTON, Ontario, June 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ackroo Inc. (the Company or Ackroo) (TSX-V: AKR) (OTC: AKRFF), a loyalty marketing, payments and point-of-sale technology and services provider, is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of InterActive DMS (IDMS) through its wholly-owned subsidiary Ackroo Canada Inc. IDMS provides cloud-based and on-premise dealer management software and web solutions to independent car, motorcycle and boat dealers across the United States.
  • Under the terms of the acquisition, Ackroo acquired all customer contracts and related IP adding over 150 clients to their AckrooPOS business.
  • In consideration for the acquisition, the Company has paid $600,000 on closing and will make a final $300,000 payment less pre-paid adjustments on or before August 31, 2021.
  • Through vendor and industry consolidation, Ackroo provides marketing, payment and point-of-sale solutions for merchants of all sizes.

ProPhase Labs to Present at LD Micro Invitational XI Virtual Conference

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Friday, May 28, 2021

CEO Ted Karkus to Present at Conference on Thursday, June 10th, 2021

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  • CEO Ted Karkus to Present at Conference on Thursday, June 10th, 2021
    GARDEN CITY, NY, May 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ProPhase Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRPH), a diversified medical science and technology company, today announced that CEO Ted Karkus will present at the LD Micro Invitational XI virtual conference taking place June 8-10, 2021.
  • For more information on the LD Micro Invitational XI, or to register for the event, please visit https://ldmicrojune2021.mysequire.com .
  • ProPhase Labs (NASDAQ: PRPH) is a diversified medical science and technology company.
  • ProPhase Labs researches, develops, manufactures, distributes, markets, and sells OTC consumer healthcare products and dietary supplements, including dietary supplements under the TK Supplements brand.

Kick-Start Your Health With Exercise, Healthy Eating, and a Regimen of Dietary Supplements

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Friday, May 21, 2021

We eat a lot of processed foods with high sugar, fat, and salt content,\xe2\x80\x9d Marcus said.

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  • We eat a lot of processed foods with high sugar, fat, and salt content,\xe2\x80\x9d Marcus said.
  • Many people don\xe2\x80\x99t even find the time to walk several times a week.\xe2\x80\x9d\nThe strains of modern society, which keep many people from choosing healthy lifestyle choices, are a major reason why Marcus and Health Addiction developed functional dietary supplements.\n\xe2\x80\x9cWe have dietary supplements that address the health of the entire body,\xe2\x80\x9d Marcus said.
  • Still, they eat fast foods and live life as couch potatoes.\nTo help people stay on the path to good health, Health Addiction plans to introduce eight popular functional supplements to American consumers:\nESSENTIAL 5 addresses the five most important health pillars: nervous system, gut health, immune system, and cardiovascular system.
  • And learn about dietary supplements that can bolster your healthy lifestyle choices,\xe2\x80\x9d Marcus said.\n'