The organisation hopes that the move will bring them closer to a European customer base and be able to offer more personal service by being physically closer to clients.

Redgate already has offices in Pasadena and Austin in the US, and late last year, the company also opened an office in Brisbane, Australia.

The main aim of the company, which has been named in Fortune 100, is to provide database development solutions for the growing DevOps community. The DevOps solution company also recently developed a partnership in Latin America as well as acquiring Flyway, an open source cross-platform database migration tool.

Berlin and the software industry

Fresh research from Kickstand and PSM&W suggests that Berlin is the fastest-growing centre for technology in Europe. A fund of €436 million is even available to start-ups for early-stage funding. This reflects on Germany currently counting for a quarter of the total software market value.

According to German business advisory, Gruenden, a new enterprise is founded every 20 minutes in Berlin. This could range from the creation of a new healthcare app to the start-up of the latest fin-tech company.

Cassi Roper, VP of Sales at Redgate spoke of her excitement of opening a new office in the German capital. She says, “In technology terms, Berlin is the most exciting place to be in Europe right now. A lot of our existing German customers are in the capital, talented people are being drawn to it, and it gives us easy access to other important countries in Europe.”

Spreading DevOps

Although the new office will start with just 5 members of staff, Redgate hopes this will quickly grow.

The database company believes that the move to Berlin will encourage DevOps to spread across wider parts of Europe.

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To deal with this, Redgate Software has upgraded its  SQL Clone to give quicker and simpler access to databases, allowing for a higher turnaround of copies.

The new design creates smaller database clones by using the virtualization technologies built into the Windows OS. These replicas are the same as the original but come at a much smaller size of around 40MB or 1TB.

Different needs

Redgate does say, however, that different teams will have different needs. So, depending on what they are working on, teams will require varying levels of data masking.

The firm adds that they deal with this issue by letting Database Administrators (DBAs) and Data Architects to have a higher level of access and power over images, clones, and instances. This not only creates more autonomy but also allows for higher levels of DevOps in a team.

They commented that this option also permits developers to fix their own problems with copies and refresh dedicated development environments when needed.

Responding to a need

James Murtagh, Redgate Product Marketing Manager, says: “With more database environments being created to drive dedicated development and continuous integration pipelines, there’s now a need to provision test data more efficiently. At the same time, though, the question of data privacy has to become business as usual and without the right tooling and approach, it will hamper digital transformation initiatives.”

He goes on to add: “SQL Clone’s new Teams feature enables DevOps teams to self-serve not only safe data, but the precise data related to their particular project. That helps them boost efficiency (it’s what DevOps is all about, after all), and progress DevOps and agile development methods hand-in-hand with privacy regulations.”

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A recent survey by NoSQL database and digital transformation company, Couchbase, has found that 51% of business’ and IT professionals rely solely on legacy database technology, despite facing issues that could limit their ability to compete.

• 24% of respondents reported the top issue they’re facing is that their legacy relational database is not flexible enough to enable them to react to changing business needs
• 20% said the biggest issue with their legacy database is its inability to scale.

These issues were also reflected in the fact a quarter of professionals cited improving scalability as their top priority for overall database management in the next 24 months.

Huw Owen, head of EMEA & APJ at Couchbase, said: “While traditional databases are still being relied upon by many organisations, the emphasis that business and IT professionals now place on scalability and flexibility is increasingly at odds with this.

“Without the ability to react in real-time to constantly changing data, scale-up at times of peak demand, or enable the wider digital goals of the business, organisations can’t be sure their database will help them reap the benefits of digital transformation. After all, data is at the heart of many of the sophisticated digital experiences that rival companies might well be delivering.”

While the findings highlight some of the key operational issues with traditional relational database technology, the survey also found many organisations haven’t yet realised the benefits of alternative approaches.

Despite NoSQL databases being hailed as a necessity to support next-generation applications by leading industry analysts as far back as 2016:

• 15% of respondents admitted they haven’t heard of NoSQL
• 34% do not currently use any open source databases in their organisation
• 51% do not use NoSQL with 28% of professionals believing it currently has limited use cases in the enterprise
• 8% of respondents, however, say their company has adopted a modern NoSQL database to support one or more of their mission-critical applications.

Owen says: “The pressure to digitally transform has accelerated substantially over the past 12 months. IT professionals are feeling the burden, but this survey suggests many are still unable to move past the limitations of their legacy databases.

“The pioneering 8% that are modernising their approach to databases are likely to gain an early edge on the competition, but there’s still time for the laggards to catch up. It’s broadly accepted that NoSQL has a place in the database stack, the question is which organisations will make the best use of it and how long it will take them to do so?”

Respondents worked in companies ranging in size from 500 to 5,000+ employees, across a broad range of sectors including IT, Financial Services, Public Sector and Healthcare.

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According to The State of Database Deployments in Application Delivery survey, 90% of enterprise application teams face pressure to release applications more quickly, 93% have application delivery challenges because of database deployments, and 71% reported more than 50% of all significant application changes require database changes.

Database release automation

Incredibly, a majority of enterprises admitted to still manually reviewing, validating and deploying database changes, with 93% reporting challenges accelerating their database deployments, and 91% saying that they need to rework database changes multiple times to make sure they are production-ready.

Without database release automation, updating a mission-critical database to support an application change is a laborious, risky and time-consuming process that relies too heavily on human intervention.

Robert Reeves, co-founder and CTO at Datical, commented: “Because data is the most valuable asset an enterprise has, database deployments are a real challenge and must be managed very carefully. Sadly, database deployments have been widely ignored, in large part due to the high complexity and risk.

Application delivery pipeline

“These survey findings validate that if we continue the status quo, we will fail. It is beyond time to automate the database release process, just as we’ve done for the infrastructure provisioning and application release processes, to create a seamless and unified application delivery pipeline.

“As software professionals, we must ensure innovation and great customer experiences are brought to market faster for our companies.”

As application teams feel the increased pressure to release new, high-quality application innovation faster, enterprises are realising the need to include the database in their overall application delivery strategy.

Reduced application downtime

Diane Hagglund, principal researcher at Dimensional Research, commented: “As the research reveals, database deployments are a bottleneck that slows down the business and put application performance at risk.

“The good news is that the data also shows that there are clear and tangible benefits for all teams when database release automation is adopted.”

The research was conducted by a total of 303 individuals from large organisations from a range of vertical sectors at the end of February 2018.

Written from press release by Leah Alger

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Gemalto’s SafeNet encryption and key management solutions help enterprises align data protection policies and business processes without compromising the integrity and security of their data through an easy-to-deploy, centrally managed solution.

Enterprise customers can maintain full control of encryption and key lifecycle management in either on premise or multi-cloud environments by extending the existing portfolio to Oracle Cloud, which helps improve:

• Security – Customers can store and manage keys in central, hardened appliances, and gain the visibility and control they need to consistently and effectively enforce security controls.
• Compliance auditing– The centralisation of all key management operations lets customers produce comprehensive logs that could be used to demonstrate compliance with stringent security policies and industry regulations
• Scalability – Customers can easily scale their key management and encryption to address the challenges of securing more data across numerous cloud environments
• Simplicity – Administrators have one comprehensive solution to enable a multi-cloud security strategy that is fast, easy and efficient.

Using Gemalto’s customer controlled encryption operations with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can help keep an organisation’s data safe from unauthorised access through the encryption of applications, databases, files, virtual machines, multi-cloud environments and physical servers.

Todd Moore, senior vice president of encryption products at Gemalto, said: “Companies moving to the cloud don’t want to have to rely solely on the cloud provider for security, instead many want to manage and maintain control over the security of their data.

“Working across multiple cloud services is becoming the ‘norm’. Using a single system helps companies have a holistic view into security operations instead of one with many silos and reduces the amount of configuration of the applications to meet existing and upcoming security models, compliance and regulations.”

Written from press release by Leah Alger

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The new Azure line-up product is designed to make picture and video uploads, database updates and button clicking “first-class” objects.

Developers will be able to use Event Grid to filter and route events to endpoints without the worry of infrastructure.

Microsoft director at Azure, Corey Sanders, said to Tech Crunch: “The goal here is to offer a first-class event object that customers can manage and manipulate.”

Event Grid also complements Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and Microsoft’s existing serverless offerings.

Written by Leah Alger

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