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Posted April 10, 2026
Everyone wants AI, and they want it now—from the C-suite to the production floor. But are their data environments ready to support a full-bore AI effort? Data industry leaders and experts we spoke with say there has been a lot of progress fulfilling AI needs, but there's still a lot of work that needs to be done before today's data platforms are capable of supporting robust, AI-driven organizations.
Posted April 09, 2026
If you aspire to be a chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) or a leader of your data team, you will be pleased to know these roles are gaining influence and meeting the challenges of the AI evolution. These are some of the insights from Deloitte's 2026 CDAO Survey, which asked data and AI leaders about how their influence is changing amid the AI revolution: 94% expect their influence to grow within the next 12 months, and 36% say this influence will expand significantly.
Posted April 09, 2026
Artificial intelligence has shifted from an emerging technology to a core component of modern data ecosystems. For data and database professionals, AI now powers analytics platforms, cloud services, automation tools, and development workflows. This rapid integration is transforming how teams operate—accelerating productivity while raising new expectations around governance, ethics, and strategic alignment.
Posted April 09, 2026
Data has become the most valuable resource for modern enterprises. However, the people tasked with managing this valuable resource have one foot out the door. According to the recent State of Database report by SolarWinds, more than 1 in 3 database administrators (DBAs) are considering leaving their role due to burnout. This statistic points to consequences that affect multiple core business functions. Moreover, as a database expert for more than 3 decades, I fear these consequences can create a cascading effect that could limit future innovation, shrink the DBA workforce, and reduce operational resilience.
Posted April 09, 2026
AWS is announcing the release of Amazon S3 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With S3 Files, Amazon S3 is the first and only cloud object store that offers fully-featured, high-performance file system access to your data, the company said.
Posted April 08, 2026
Data Summit 2026 is rapidly approaching on May 6 - 7 in Boston, with pre-conference workshops on May 5, delivering a high-impact learning experience for data and AI professionals at every level. Attendees will gain practical strategies and forward-looking perspectives from industry leaders who are addressing the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of data. DBTA recently spoke to John O'Brien, program chair for the event and principal advisor, industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, about what to expect at this year's event.
Posted April 08, 2026
Vectra AI, a leader in modern network observability, signal, and control, is making major advancements to the Vectra AI Platform to provide exposure management built for AI enterprises.
Posted April 06, 2026
IBM announced that 11 of its artificial intelligence (AI) and automation software solutions—including several products from the watsonx portfolio—have received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization. The 11 solutions are deployed exclusively on AWS GovCloud (U.S.), giving agencies secure access to these capabilities without having to manage the underlying infrastructure, and while meeting government compliance requirements, according to IBM.
Posted April 06, 2026
For modern enterprises, regulatory compliance means financial management, data protection, AI governance, sustainability, resilience, and more. It calls for a tight grip on data to meet regulatory requirements, report efficiently, avoid disruption to business, and satisfy customers. Leaders build trust with regulators and customers through ethical and transparent practices.
Posted April 06, 2026
Kestra, the open-source orchestration platform unifying data, AI, infrastructure and business workflows, announced $25 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to continue to grow its open-source orchestration platform with the launch of Kestra 2.0.
Posted April 03, 2026
AI initiatives rarely fail because of model quality. They fail because the underlying data systems were never designed for reliability, context retrieval, or operational consistency.
Posted April 02, 2026
Profisee, a leader in cloud-native master data management (MDM), is introducing the general availability of Profisee 2026 R1—establishing comprehensive AI leadership across the MDM category with capabilities spanning automated agents, semantic matching, and natural language data interaction through the new MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server.
Posted March 31, 2026
Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, announced it is donating SQLMesh, its open source data transformation framework, to the Linux Foundation to support a community-governed approach to developing and maintaining SQLMesh as part of the modern data stack.
Posted March 30, 2026
Panzura is launching the latest release of the Panzura CloudFS hybrid cloud file platform—offering capabilities that lower both infrastructure and management costs as firms scale across offices, transfer control to customer IT teams, and begin to deploy agentic AI across their enterprise.
Posted March 26, 2026
MariaDB plc announced the successful completion of its acquisition of GridGain Systems, Inc., a pioneer of in-memory computing and the force behind Apache Ignite—marking MariaDB's move toward delivery of an AI-Ready Operating Platform, a unified system designed to handle the extreme-velocity data requirements of autonomous AI agents.
Posted March 25, 2026
Many longtime MySQL contributors, engineers, and ecosystem leaders are coming together to voice support for establishing a vendor-neutral foundation for the MySQL ecosystem. In an open letter to Oracle, these experts urge the formation of a vendor-neutral, nonprofit foundation for MySQL that would serve as a shared home for the ecosystem, independent of any single company's commercial interests.
Posted March 23, 2026
"I've never felt this much behind as a programmer," confessed Andrej Karpathy, Tesla's former director of AI, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), on Dec. 26, 2025. It sent shockwaves through the tech community. "The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between," he continued. Karpathy's words capture a profound moment of transformation—not just for developers, but for the entire digital landscape.
Posted March 16, 2026
Success now depends on achieving the right balance between automation and human expertise—maintaining governance without sacrificing agility and ensuring security at scale. As data ecosystems stretch across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, DBA teams must step up by embracing new tools, expanding their scope, and driving the shift toward intelligent, proactive, and cost-efficient data operations.
Posted March 13, 2026
Artificial agents, applications, and bots are popping up across every enterprise landscape, and data is rolling through at a fast and furious pace. While there has been plenty of hype, excitement, and fear about AI's possibilities, there has been scant attention regarding the data infrastructure needed to make it all work—especially at the enterprise level. AI requires a strong and well-considered data foundation, whether it's extended out of legacy infrastructures or part of the next generation of data technology.
Posted March 13, 2026
CTERA, a leader in intelligent data management, is introducing CTERA Fusion Direct, a transformative federated data architecture that eliminates the historical trade-off between enterprise file systems and object storage.
Posted March 12, 2026
When organizations think about green IT, they usually consider data center efficiency, server consolidation, or cloud energy metrics. And yes, those are important areas, but they overlook one of the biggest contributors to an organization's energy footprint: its data architecture. Every table, index, column, backup, replication stream, and query consumes resources, and therefore energy. Poor data design doesn't just slow performance or inflate costs, it also increases the organization's environmental footprint.
Posted March 12, 2026
In today's data landscape, organizations often default to complex, expensive data stacks when simpler, more specialized solutions could deliver better results at a fraction of the cost. InfluxData senior developer advocate Cole Bowden joined DBTA's webinar, Choosing the Right Data Tools: When to Use a Time Series Database, cutting through the noise to help attendees make smarter database decisions.
Posted March 12, 2026
DataStrike, a leader in database, cloud, and business intelligence managed services, is expanding its Microsoft Fabric services to support organizations adopting Microsoft's unified analytics platform.
Posted March 11, 2026
AI-assisted tools are now integrated across the delivery lifecycle—accelerating code generation, improving test coverage, and enhancing observability and incident response. As AI transforms how software is built, deployed, and operated, DevOps is evolving through targeted, intelligent automation.
Posted March 09, 2026
MinIO, the data foundation for enterprise analytics and AI, is debuting AIStor Table Sharing, a capability built into MinIO AIStor that allows enterprises to securely share their on-premises data directly with the Databricks platform for instant access to fresh data for real-time analytics and intelligence. AIStor natively integrates Delta Sharing open protocol.
Posted March 06, 2026
Nasuni Corporation, a leading unstructured data management company, today announced it has acquired Resilio, Inc, a pioneer in high-performance file synchronization and edge acceleration technology—strengthening Nasuni's ability to help enterprises improve end-user file access by removing friction from how distributed teams access and collaborate on shared content.
Posted March 05, 2026
The evolution of data architecture is accelerating. In 2025, 85% of DBTA subscribers reported plans to modernize their data platforms—driven largely by the explosive rise of GenAI and large language models. Modernization has shifted from a strategic advantage to a business necessity. To power AI-driven innovation, organizations need intelligent, interconnected data platforms that unify information, enable real-time insights and scale with agility.
Posted March 02, 2026
Versa, a global leader in unified security and networking, is releasing Sovereign SASE-as-a-Service, a fully cloud-delivered SaaS offering in which the data, control, and management planes operate entirely within a region's legal jurisdiction.
Posted March 02, 2026
Pure Storage, the company revolutionizing storage and data management, is announcing its new name: Everpure—reflecting the company's mission from reshaping storage to defining the future of data management. The company also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 1touch, an innovator in data intelligence and orchestration that provides a comprehensive, unified view of an enterprise's information.
Posted February 26, 2026
Etleap, a provider of cloud-native data pipeline software, is launching the Iceberg pipeline platform, a new kind of pipeline system designed specifically for Apache Iceberg.
Posted February 26, 2026
SAP opened its defense innovation hub in Munich, Germany, underscoring its long-term commitment to strengthening digital readiness as a core element of modern defense capability. The hub is launched as armed forces and security institutions face increasing pressure to manage complex missions across allies, domains, and supply chains while maintaining resilience, transparency, and control.
Posted February 25, 2026
Zenarmor, Inc., offering secure access and network security, is rolling out its Zenarmor SASE Channel Partner Program—a program designed to enable MSPs, MSSPs, ISPs, and security-focused partners to deliver, operate, and monetize SASE services without centralized cloud PoPs, service chaining, or architectural lock-in.
Posted February 24, 2026
Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, announced that Cortex Code CLI, Snowflake's AI coding agent for local development environments, is expanding beyond Snowflake-native workflows to support any data source across systems, starting with dbt and Apache Airflow (now generally available).
Posted February 23, 2026
LicenseFortress, a global leader in independent software asset management (SAM) and licensing optimization, announced a new milestone—the company has been awarded its 2025 Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 83.3%, as independently validated by ClearlyRated.
Posted February 20, 2026
Call it the great shift for database professionals. Many a "doomer-and-gloomer" has suggested that data professionals may be seeing their roles usurped by automation and skills appropriation to other technology professionals such as developers. However, this may be the early stages of a new era for those in the profession—the rise of the renaissance data manager.
Posted February 12, 2026
The role of the database administrator (DBA) has never been static. From the early days of punch cards and mainframes to today's cloud-native, AI-assisted environments, DBAs have always had to evolve. But as we step into 2026, the definition of a "great DBA" is shifting in ways that go beyond technical prowess.
Posted February 12, 2026
For decades, every major technological breakthrough has sparked fear about job loss. From steam engines to computers, new tools were once seen as threats to human work. But each wave of innovation brought transformation, not extinction. Work did not disappear—it evolved. Today, AI and digital technologies are raising similar concerns. Headlines often focus on what machines can replace, rather than what they enable.
Posted February 12, 2026
In 2026, data engineering isn't just about managing data—it's about building intelligent systems that power business strategy. Companies are moving beyond batch warehouses to real-time, cloud-native ecosystems that deliver insights instantly.
Posted February 11, 2026
Datadog, Inc., the AI-powered observability and security platform for cloud applications, is introducing Feature Flags—unifying feature management with observability to help engineering teams release new functionalities fast without compromising reliability. The product is now generally available and integrates natively across Datadog APM and RUM.
Posted February 10, 2026
Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, is launching StreetPro Discover, a new dataset designed to help organizations unlock the value of street data for conversational AI systems.
Posted February 10, 2026
SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability, and IT management software, is revitalizing its partner program—introducing new benefits, enablement, and demand generation investments designed to help partners scale, compete more effectively, and deliver stronger customer outcomes. The announcement was made at SolarWinds' 2026 Partner Summit.
Posted February 06, 2026
Submissions for nominations are now open for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users. The nominations period has been extended through March 20, 2026, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted February 06, 2026
Halcyon, a leading anti-ransomware platform, announced a collaboration to create commercial PCs equipped for ransomware resilience and bring them to market.
Posted February 05, 2026
Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, announced it is entering into a definitive agreement to acquire the Vertica analytics database from OpenText.
Posted February 02, 2026