Cloud Computing Articles
Oracle is now offering Oracle Database@Google Cloud to customers in Canada, customers can now run Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, and Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in the North America-Northeast 1 (Montreal) and North America-Northeast 2 (Toronto) Google Cloud regions.
Posted December 17, 2025
Oracle announced the Oracle Key Vault (OKV) is now available on Oracle Database Appliance, centralizing and securing keys for TDE and SSH. Most organizations already encrypt their sensitive data, but encryption alone is not enough to stop a breach. That is why robust, centralized key management is just as critical as strong encryption.
Posted December 17, 2025
It is an unfortunate result of being human that we are biased by our first impressions. For example, we are often blinded when we encounter a subject area's data for the first time. The initial data structures we analyze and learn to understand set our internal paradigms. Once we understand that initial structure, we tend to believe that the way that structure is configured is the best, or the only way, that a specific data set of that kind of data should be presented.
Posted December 17, 2025
AWS announced that Amazon Relation Database Service (Amazon RDS) is offering 4 new capabilities to help customers optimize their costs as well as improve efficiency and scalability for their Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for SQL Server databases.
Posted December 17, 2025
SAP announced that AUMOVIO, the newly launched global technology company focused on future mobility, has selected a comprehensive suite of cloud solutions from SAP to help build its digital foundation. These include SAP Cloud ERP Private, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Integrated Business Planning, and SAP Signavio solutions.
Posted December 17, 2025
Sovos, the always-on tax compliance company, announced a series of Sovos products that have achieved SAP certification and listings on SAP Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. Sovos has expanded its Indirect Tax Suite for SAP and enhanced support for multinational corporation's global indirect tax compliance across Brazil, Europe, Turkey, and the United States.
Posted December 17, 2025
SecurityBridge, the Cybersecurity Command Center for SAP, is introducing the SecurityBridge AI Companion, the first AI-powered security assistant of its kind for SAP systems. According to the company, this innovative AI Security Companion is designed to help SecurityBridge customers navigate the Platform's insights and the broader SAP security domain with ease.
Posted December 17, 2025
SAP SE announced the next stage of its vision for European digital sovereignty with the launch of EU AI Cloud. According to the company, SAP now unites all existing milestones under a single strategic framework: a sovereign AI and cloud offering designed for Europe.
Posted December 17, 2025
For the past decade, the industry mantra has been "move to the cloud." Vendors, analysts, and executives have pushed relentlessly toward cloud-first strategies, promising agility, elasticity, and cost savings. Many organizations followed suit—often quickly—migrating databases and applications out of their data centers. But it was never a sustainable goal to move everything to the cloud, even if industry pundits predicted that outcome.
Posted December 17, 2025
With 2026 right around the corner, organizations are planning to make strategic moves that will position the company for a successful 2026. Kathy Larson, senior manager, product marketing at Rocket Software, outlined several key areas to watch out for.
Posted December 17, 2025
Traditional reporting demands a significant level of manual effort that slows decisions, delays strategy, and drains resources. The future of planning isn't built on heavy lifting, instead it's built on AI that not only removes the manual work but also gives agencies the ability to anticipate trends, spot patterns, and forecast what's coming next, according to Entrinsik.
Posted December 17, 2025
The increasing adoption of AI-driven analytics, cloud, rising data volumes from Internet of Things devices, and the demand for real-time business insights is contributing to an even larger demand for big data. MV leaders including Kore Tech and Revelation Software continue to make an impact and again top this list.
Posted December 17, 2025
Progress Software, a provider of AI-powered digital experience and infrastructure software, announced the Q4 2025 release of its developer toolsets Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI—introducing Agentic AI as an active development partner through a Progress Agentic UI Generator along with a powerful set of new AI-driven features.
Posted December 16, 2025
Commvault, a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, is partnering with Delinea, a leader in privileged access management (PAM) to connect the Commvault Cloud platform with Delinea's Secret Server—helping joint customers strengthen credential security, support compliance initiatives, and streamline data recovery.
Posted December 16, 2025
Infragistics, the software company responsible for the UI and UX solutions, announced that Ignite UI—its library of enterprise-ready data charts, grids, and user interface (UI) components—is now open source across Angular, Blazor, React and Web Components.
Posted December 16, 2025
As companies chase efficiency, it's no surprise that today's customer service call is more likely to be answered by a bot than by the much-maligned, outsourced operators of the past. Executives celebrate this shift with near-religious zeal. AI doesn't ask for vacation days, sick leave, or overtime pay. It's a one-time investment that trims expenses and inflates margins—pure gold for companies chasing acquisitions or juiced valuations.
Posted December 15, 2025
Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, is introducing new capabilities to its Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution—designed to give enterprises greater flexibility to deploy and govern their infrastructure across distributed environments running traditional, modern, and AI applications, including fully disconnected environments, with cloud providers that offer sovereign services.
Posted December 15, 2025
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, is forming the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), and announced the founding contributions of three leading projects driving innovation in open source AI; Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block's goose, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md.
Posted December 15, 2025
The cloud industry is entering a stage of hypergrowth driven by generative AI, hybrid and multi-cloud adoption, and global data acceleration. In 2025, global cloud infrastructure (IaaS) spending reached $90.9 billion in Q1 2025 alone—a 21% year-over-year increase, according to Omdia. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2026.
Posted December 15, 2025
Cofense, a leader in intelligence-driven phishing defense, is enhancing its portfolio, introducing Smart Reinforcement within its Security Awareness Training solution, and unveiling the latest release of Triage 1.30 within its Phishing Detection and Response (PDR) solution.
Posted December 11, 2025
CloudCasa by Catalogic, a leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, is debuting its latest enhancements to the CloudCasa platform, adding support for accessing backup storage using SMB (Server Message Block) file-sharing protocol and support for user-selectable compression of backup data.
Posted December 11, 2025
In an era of dynamic and uneven requirements, regulatory compliance is strategic enabler for growth, competitive advantage, and mastering AI governance. Organizations should aim to not only keep pace with regulations but also unlock tangible business value from their compliance investments.
Posted December 11, 2025
Ad-blockers and privacy-focused browser protections are eroding business analytics at the precise moment when organizations must sharpen their understanding of user behavior to remain competitive. This silent, pervasive shift is creating a profound analytics blind spot, especially for SaaS organizations whose primary users are software engineers.
Posted December 11, 2025
The daily routine of an IT professional remains largely reactive. A lot of time and budget is spent responding to tickets, limiting the time that we spend creating systems that drive growth and improve business value. I've long said, "the tyranny of the urgent leaves little time for the truly important."
Posted December 11, 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, the modern workplace remains anything but predictable—but that doesn't mean you can't move forward with clarity and intention. For database professionals—especially those in leadership or management roles—the pressure to evolve is constant. From AI-driven automation to evolving compliance demands and growing data complexity, you're tasked with delivering results while navigating near-constant change.
Posted December 11, 2025
BeyondTrust, a global leader in privilege-centric identity security, and Ping Identity, a leader in securing digital identities for the world's largest enterprises, are partnering to deliver a unified, end-to-end identity security solution that helps customers maintain good identity hygiene by integrating Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA).
Posted December 10, 2025
Neo4j, a leading graph intelligence platform, is releasing Neo4j Fleet Manager—a unified control plane for managing and monitoring graph databases across any environment including cloud, hybrid, and on-premises.
Posted December 10, 2025
Salesforce is integrating its Data360 platform with Informatica to improve the quality and clarity of core business data, and MuleSoft to enrich it with operational signals.
Posted December 10, 2025
Enterprise IT compliance needs are constantly evolving. New regulations pass every year, and internal policies change. Disruptive new technology trends, such as generative AI, create additional concerns and requirements. The risk of fines, legal exposure, or breaches from unmanaged unstructured data is massive and growing, and all hands across IT and the business need to help reduce the risks.
Posted December 10, 2025
Coralogix, a leading provider of modern observability solutions, is releasing Olly, an autonomous observability agent that independently investigates and surfaces production issues in real time.
Posted December 09, 2025
SIOS Technology Corp., a leading provider of application high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, is releasing LifeKeeper v10, featuring the new LifeKeeper Web Management Console (LKWMC) management console that provides a unified, intuitive user interface across both Linux and Windows environments.
Posted December 09, 2025
Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, is entering into a new strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS)—helping customers de-risk cloud migrations, accelerate modernization, secure AWS and multi-cloud environments, and confidently deploy GenAI capabilities on AWS.
Posted December 08, 2025
IBM announced its intention to acquire Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, signing a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all the issued and outstanding common shares of Confluent for $31 per share, representing an enterprise value of $11 billion.
Posted December 08, 2025
Vultr, one of the largest privately-held cloud infrastructure companies, is marking a major milestone in its long-standing strategic collaboration with AMD to advance and scale AI workloads worldwide. Vultr will launch an AI supercluster, powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs deployed in its new Springfield, Ohio cloud data center location. This 50 MW expansion delivers unprecedented performance per dollar for AI training and inference.
Posted December 08, 2025
This year has seen a variety of changes in the AI landscape, from the proliferation of agents to major questions around AI's true return on investment. In the end, it's all about the data.
Posted December 08, 2025
One of the largest power grid operators in the U.S. is asking Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to only allow large data centers to connect to the grid if there's enough capacity available to serve them reliably, according to Utility Dive. The infrastructure underlying big data processing, typically large-scale data centers, is starting to receive pushback as more residents in the U.S. see climbing energy costs.
Posted December 08, 2025
Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power enterprise-grade generative AI (gen AI) on AWS with Red Hat AI and AWS AI silicon.
Posted December 08, 2025
IBM and Cisco are partnering on the groundwork for networked distributed quantum computing, to be realized as soon as the early 2030s.
Posted December 08, 2025
Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, is making significant updates to its solution that provides customers with faster data transfers, as well as predictable pricing, to enable accurate and secure data for AI and analytics.
Posted December 05, 2025
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is introducing new capabilities in Qlik Open Lakehouse that bring streaming ingestion and real-time transformations to its managed, Apache Iceberg-based lakehouse.
Posted December 04, 2025
Seagate Technology Holdings plc, a global leader in mass-capacity data storage, is introducing its new Seagate Exos 4U100 and 4U74 JBOD systems, setting a new standard for enterprise storage ahead of the SuperComputing (SC25) conference.
Posted December 04, 2025
Poor-quality test data leads to poor production applications, compliance risks, and inefficiencies that will be costing the organization time, money, and very soon its competitive edge.
Posted December 04, 2025
As AI continues to dominate the technology landscape, the data underlying the information these artificial intelligence solutions train on is under more scrutiny than ever. Here, data professionals share their big data and database/infrastructure predictions for 2026.
Posted December 03, 2025