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Mainframes continue to represent the strong core of Data Center technology, while Virtualization and Cloud are also emerging as important technologies to support efficiency, scalability, and cost containment. Topics critical to Data Center Operations and Computing including hardware and software for Storage, Consolidation, High Availability, Backup & Recovery, and IT Optimization, as well as automated tools that help compensate for the growing Mainframe Skills Shortage.



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Informatica experts joined DBTA's latest webinar, Drive Seamless App Modernization & AI Integration with iPaaS, to uncover crucial strategies for large-scale app modernization initiatives, examining digital transformation's various nuances.

Posted March 24, 2025

Auvik, an award-winning IT solutions provider, is debuting several new capabilities for its SaaS automation, endpoint network visibility, and server monitoring solutions, aiming to grant IT teams and MSPs greater visibility and control.

Posted March 21, 2025

Experts joined DBTA's latest webinar, Mitigating AI Risks: Governance, Security and Compliance Strategies, to examine how the right mix of governance, security, and compliance technologies and best practices can ensure AI success. 

Posted March 21, 2025

Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, is announcing new updates to its Automate SAP Data API that streamline complex SAP ERP integrations while helping accelerate enterprises' digital transformations.

Posted March 19, 2025

LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based platform for AI-powered data center transformation, is unveiling new AI enhancements designed to empower IT teams with full visibility into AI workloads and applications underpinned by high performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Posted March 19, 2025

VAST Data, the AI data platform company, is debuting the VAST InsightEngine with a NVIDIA DGX integration, aiming to eliminate common AI infrastructure bottlenecks while deploying high-performance AI at scale, with simplicity.

Posted March 19, 2025

Oracle announced plans to invest $5 billion over the next five years to meet growing demand for its cloud services in the U.K. The company said the investment will expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) footprint in the U.K. and help the U.K. Government "deliver on its vision for AI innovation and adoption."

Posted March 19, 2025

Parallel Works, provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for AI and HPC resources, is debuting a new OpenStack integration for its ACTIVATE platform, further unlocking new levels of efficiency, cost savings, and resource optimization for the cloud, centered around simplicity. 

Posted March 18, 2025

OneTrust, the market-defining platform helping organizations use data and AI responsibly, is debuting several key innovations centered around scaling compliance initiatives across complex business operations.

Posted March 14, 2025

DBTA's latest webinar, The Role of the DBA in 2025: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities, featured experts from Pythian, Informatica, and NetApp by Instaclustr, offering guidance for IT decision-makers and database professionals as they approach a new—yet somewhat familiar—year in data.

Posted March 11, 2025

PEAK:AIO, a fast-scaling AI infrastructure provider redefining AI and GPU data storage, is releasing a new version of its AI Data Server, setting a new standard for performance, density, and sustainability. Engineered with Dell Technologies' enterprise-grade precision and powered by PEAK:AIO's cutting-edge software, this compact 2U solution provides 1.5PB of storage and 120GB/sec RDMA NFS and NVMe-oF performance.

Posted March 10, 2025

Nebius Group N.V. (Nebius), a leading AI infrastructure company, is upgrading its U.S.-based cloud computing capacity with the planned construction of a new data center in New Jersey, with capacity of up to 300 MW. The data center that Nebius has commissioned in New Jersey will be built to Nebius's own design, enabling the company to achieve maximum efficiency and offer superlative performance to customers.

Posted March 10, 2025

IBM is debuting the latest version of its Granite large language model (LLM) family, Granite 3.2—continuing to deliver small, efficient, practical enterprise AI for real-world impact.

Posted March 10, 2025

Qdrant, the high-performance, open source vector database, is unveiling new capabilities for Qdrant Cloud that address various operational bottlenecks associated with powering large-scale AI deployments.

Posted March 07, 2025

HarperDB, the Distributed Systems Platform provider, is announcing its recent rebrand to Harper, reflecting its movement beyond just a performance-focused database vendor. Evolving as a full-stack application delivery platform offering speed and scale for data-intensive workloads, Harper touts a new brand identity that highlights the company's long-term vision as a performant, future-forward application platform.

Posted March 07, 2025

Rik Tamm-Daniels, GVP of ecosystems and technology, Informatica, and Manish Dalwadi, director of product management, Databricks, joined DBTA's webinar, Build a GenAI-Ready Enterprise with Informatica & Databricks, offering their guidance on strategies and tools for preparing data infrastructures for enterprise-grade AI.

Posted March 06, 2025

vFunction, the pioneer of AI-driven architectural observability (AO), is announcing that it has been selected as a member of the AWS Independent Service Vendor (ISV) Workload Migration Program (WMP), a program that helps Software Partners accelerate workload migrations to SaaS.

Posted March 05, 2025

All of the hype and high hopes around AI in recent years has focused on compelling use cases—from creating new medicines to taking over customer service. However, all AI efforts will be nonstarters without well-governed, well-sourced data. That is the leading challenge for enterprises going forward in the competitive economy of 2025.

Posted March 05, 2025

Immuta, the data security expert, is debuting a new foundational layer that uses the power of AI to enhance data governance and scale within the Immuta Platform, dubbed Immuta AI.

Posted March 03, 2025

Juniper Networks, a leader in secure AI-native networking, is introducing a new round of innovations for its routing portfolio that expedite deployment and enhance routing troubleshooting at scale.

Posted March 03, 2025

Deepwatch, the leading AI+Human cyber resilience platform, has acquired Dassana, a leading provider of security intelligence solutions. Enabling Deepwatch to deliver end-to-end security lifecycle management, this acquisition enhances customers' security posture with new AI-powered risk and threat exposure management technology.

Posted February 28, 2025

Acceldata, the market leader in enterprise data observability, is debuting its new, AI-first data management platform—Agentic Data Management (Agentic DM)—which is engineered to better prepare enterprises for their AI initiatives.

Posted February 27, 2025

IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI. The closing comes two days after U.K.'s antitrust regulator accepted the deal.

Posted February 27, 2025

Hydrolix, the company transforming the economics of log data with its streaming data lake platform, is announcing it has joined the AWS Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a global co-sell program for AWS Partners that provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS and sell through the AWS Marketplace. By connecting to the AWS Sales organization, Hydrolix will significantly expand its product reach through AWS' co-selling support.

Posted February 26, 2025

In DBTA's latest webinar, Building a Microservices Architecture for the Edge and AI Era, experts discussed key technologies and best practices crucial for implementing a microservices architecture capable of supporting AI and edge use cases.

Posted February 25, 2025

Bloom Energy, a global leader in power solutions, is expanding its longstanding relationship with Equinix, the world's digital infrastructure company, to exceed 100MW of electricity capacity to support Equinix's International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers across the United States.

Posted February 24, 2025

Triton Consulting, the independent data management and digital transformation service provider, announced the addition of ZMARS to its portfolio of client services. Z Mainframe Availability and Resiliency Service (ZMARS), Triton Consulting's newly launched service, ensures the Db2 for z/OS environment stays resilient, recovers fast, and performs at its best, according to the vendor.

Posted February 24, 2025

Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is partnering with BMC Software, a global leader in software solutions, to innovate and optimize on mainframe and open systems environments. According to the companies, this collaboration will combine Hitachi Vantara's advanced storage platforms with BMC's software offerings, enabling enterprises to improve their IT operations while maximizing the value of their data.

Posted February 24, 2025

The Modern Data Company, a pioneer in data products that radically simplify how enterprises activate their data, is announcing a collaboration with Acies Global, a global consulting firm specializing in solving complex data challenges, aiming to assist clients make their complex, proprietary data into business-ready data products.

Posted February 21, 2025

StorMagic, solving the world's edge data problems, is announcing that StorMagic SvHCI—the company's full-stack HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) software solution—has been tested and validated with three Supermicro IoT SuperServers.

Posted February 20, 2025

VAST Data, the AI data platform company, is announcing two significant advancements for the VAST Data Platform, unveiling Block storage functionality for the VAST DataStore, as well as the new VAST Event Broker. These latest capabilities aim to better accommodate the complex data needs of today's technology—such as analytics and AI—while delivering a universal, multiprotocol storage platform.

Posted February 20, 2025

Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration company, is announcing the general availability of its Apollo Connectors for REST APIs, as well as new GraphOS platform enhancements, designed around optimizing enterprises' API strategies.

Posted February 19, 2025

As part of Oracle's distributed cloud strategy, the company is launching Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer with NVIDIA GPU configurations and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance with GPU configurations (available in March), featuring NVIDIA L40S GPUs to bring enterprise-grade AI, graphics, and high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities directly into any location—including data centers.

Posted February 19, 2025

IBM announced its intent to acquire Applications Software Technology LLC, a global Oracle consultancy—which would bring deep expertise driving business transformations with Oracle Cloud Applications, including for clients in the public sector such as local government and K-12 education.

Posted February 19, 2025

To help break down the latest and greatest of GenAI, experts joined DBTA's webinar—in partnership with Enterprise AI World—Top Trends in GenAI for 2025, offering the necessary expertise and strategies for navigating the fast-paced AI era.

Posted February 18, 2025

Airbyte, the leading open source data movement platform company, is announcing that its open data movement technology will offer predictable pricing based on capacity, not data volume—an industry first, according to Airbyte.

Posted February 13, 2025

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in unveiling eight new HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers, the latest additions to a new generation of enterprise servers that introduce new security capabilities, optimize performance for complex workloads, and boost productivity with management features enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI).

Posted February 13, 2025

The "data deluge" is as familiar to IT professionals as it is cliché, but what we are encountering today is very different. Will our typical response be enough? Often hyped, the data deluge has been an omnipresent theme in IT circles for years as enterprises struggled to manage an ever-increasing barrage of data.

Posted February 13, 2025

Normalization clusters data items together based on functional dependencies within the data items. This normalized arrangement expresses the semantics of the business items being presented. Denormalization means that, for some reason, grouping the data strictly by functional dependencies has been ignored. Why might one cast aside reasonable designs for something less rational? There are many reasons for denormalizing.

Posted February 13, 2025

Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Top Trends in Data Engineering for 2025, to explore the new trends and best practices shaping the future of engineering, from AI-driven tools to real-time data processing, new data architecture patterns, and more.

Posted February 10, 2025

Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is introducing a new co-engineered solution with Cisco designed for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes.

Posted February 10, 2025

Mainframes are ubiquitous. They handle critical applications for top airlines, retailers, banks, and government agencies. In a recent blog post, by Greg Lotko at Broadcom, SHARE offers 5 reasons why the mainframe is more relevant than ever. Those peer-to-peer payments you make from your phone? Mainframe. All those lines you avoided by shopping online this holiday? Mainframe. Those flights you booked for spring break? Mainframe. Even your government services are likely to have mainframes behind the scenes doing the heavy lifting. It's all mainframe.

Posted February 10, 2025

Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, is unveiling the Spectra OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch, a groundbreaking innovation in data center tape storage connectivity. Using active optical cables, the OSW-2400 switch enables connection distances up to 100 meters, enabling SAS fabrics to cover data center floor spaces up to 10,000 m2 (107,639 sq ft), connect between building floors, or extend to nearby buildings, increasing deployment flexibility and simplifying connectivity between servers and tape storage systems.

Posted February 10, 2025

Emerald, a global venture capital leader in industrial innovation, is investing in NLM Photonics to help bring energy-efficient, high performance electro-optic modulation technology to AI, data centers, quantum computing, and more. NLM, a semiconductor technology company, has developed breakthrough hybrid electro-optic photonic modulators that can enable up to a 30% reduction in data center network power consumption.

Posted February 10, 2025

BMC is releasing a variety of updates to the BMC AMI portfolio, breaking new ground in enabling what is possible on the mainframe from a new approach to secondary data storage to the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances productivity and efficiency.

Posted February 10, 2025

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 is open and extended through March 21, 2025, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.

Posted February 07, 2025

Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, is debuting end-to-end, secure access service edge (SASE) services to help enterprises navigate the constantly evolving technological and threat landscape. Launched to drive adoption of Palo Alto Networks' Prisma SASE, Kyndryl's SASE services aim to bring cloud-first, zero-trust security to today's organizations with ease.

Posted February 05, 2025

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