IBM Cloud Pak for Data 3.5.0 is available now and boasts simpler navigation, a customizable home page, improved platform and production workload management, and broader support for connections from the platform with easier connection management. The release also includes support for zLinux, a vault to store sensitive data, several new services, and numerous updates to existing services.

Here are some highlights from Cloud Pak for Data 3.5:

• Cloud Pak for Data “Operator” automates installation and lifecycle management
• Automated discovery and quick scan improvements, enhancements to governance workflows
• Automated query optimization in data virtualization for better performance

• Platform management with advanced resource quotas
• Manage production workloads with Deployment spaces
• CLI commands and APIs to manage services, back up, restore projects, export/import metadata and access data virtualization data

• Guided product tours to get started
• Navigation improvements and customization to enhance productivity
• Platform Connections to streamline data access
• A console to manage your integrated databases

• Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
• Federated Machine Learning (Tech Preview)

• User groups for more granular access management
• A secret vault to store security secrets: Tokens, API Keys, etc.