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Teradata announced the availability of its enterprise-grade Analyst Agent on Microsoft Marketplace, bringing AI-assisted, conversational analytics directly into customers' existing Azure environments.
Posted April 16, 2026
Quest Software, a global leader in data management, cybersecurity, and platform modernization, is releasing the Quest Security Management Platform—a unified, AI-powered platform for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and secure Microsoft identity modernization.
Posted April 16, 2026
Executives are betting on agentic AI to drive growth, yet many enterprises still struggle to move from pilot to production. The difficult part has never been about the models, it is about building trust in underlying data assets, human-AI workflows, and outcome accountability. At Data Summit 2026, on May 6 - 7 in Boston, with pre-conference workshops on May 5, Cal Al-Dhubaib, principal technologist at Rubrik, will dive into Trust Engineering—the emerging discipline needed to consistently scale AI beyond pilots—during his keynote speech.
Posted April 16, 2026
AI is capturing the market in the startup space in 2026, with Crunchbase reporting that AI landed 80% of venture dollars. That means $242 billion went to AI startups and four of the five largest venture capital rounds in history closed in Q1 of 2026. Startups continue to emerge that bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, introducing new types of databases, maintaining data at the edge, advancing Web3, and more. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2026.
Posted April 15, 2026
Looking back on a career in IT, I wanted to reflect on the 20-plus years I spent working in and running data centers for Fortune 500 companies in the New York and New Jersey area. This was an exciting time, leading both large and small teams through some of the most complex transformations in IT infrastructure.
Posted April 15, 2026
Adeptia, an AI-native platform for Intelligent Data Automation, is releasing Adeptia Automate 5.2, introducing updates that make enterprise integrations directly accessible to AI.
Posted April 14, 2026
Cloudflare, a leading connectivity cloud company, is expanding its Agent Cloud with new features to help developers build, deploy, and scale agents. According to the company, this suite of infrastructure, security, and developer tools is designed to move AI agents from experimental demos on local laptops to robust, production-grade workloads running across Cloudflare's global network.
Posted April 14, 2026
In April 2009, Larry Ellison said, as reported in The New York Times and The Guardian, that Java—then a freeware programming language—was "the single most important software asset we have ever acquired." Despite that bold praise, Oracle made no immediate effort to monetize Java, and that omission alone should raise eyebrows.
Posted April 14, 2026
Organizations are spending millions building data products that get used once and then are forgotten. It's a cycle that drains budgets, delays AI initiatives, and erodes trust in data. Experts recently convened for DBTA's webinar, Stop Rebuilding What You Already Have: Why Data Product Reusability Is the Key to AI-Ready Data, to make the case that reusability isn't just a "nice-to-have," it's the economic engine behind successful data strategy.
Posted April 13, 2026
Virtana announced AI Factory Observability for Nutanix Agentic AI environments, extending system-aware observability across Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and Nutanix Enterprise AI.
Posted April 13, 2026
Catalogic Software, a provider of secure data protection solutions, announced the release for Catalogic DPX 4.15, the latest version of its all-in-one enterprise backup and recovery solution.
Posted April 13, 2026
It's time to vote 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 readers. The voting period will be open through May 22.
Posted April 10, 2026
SOCRadar, a global leader in extended threat intelligence and cybersecurity, is debuting its new AI Agent Marketplace, an integrated hub where organizations can browse, purchase, and deploy specialized autonomous AI agents tailored for specific cybersecurity tasks and use cases in the SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence Platform—this includes phishing detection, brand abuse protection, and dark web monitoring.
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 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
Datadog, Inc., a leading AI-powered observability and security platform, is releasing Datadog Experiments to customers everywhere—enabling teams to design, launch, and measure product experiments and A/B tests directly within the Datadog platform.
Posted April 07, 2026
CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux, is releasing C3 (CIQ Compatibility Catalog), a free, publicly accessible resource where anyone in the Rocky Linux ecosystem, from hardware vendors, ISVs and AI platform providers to developers, hobbyists and community contributors, can verify and publish compatibility with Rocky Linux, RLC Pro, RLC Pro AI, and RLC Pro Hardened.
Posted April 07, 2026
Apiiro, a leading agentic application security platform, is introducing AI Threat Modeling, a new capability within Apiiro Guardian Agent that automatically generates architecture-aware threat models to identify security and compliance risks before code even exists.
Posted April 06, 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
Planon, a leading global provider of smart sustainable building management software, is introducing Planon for Data Centers, a solution to help operators safeguard uptime, reduce operational risk, and streamline mission critical operations across distributed facilities.
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
IBM is partnering with Arm to develop new dual-architecture hardware that helps enterprises run future AI and data intensive workloads with greater flexibility, reliability, and security.
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
Modern semantic search does not have to require a separate vector database. Data architects, database engineers, developers, or platform leaders can integrate Vertex AI and Cloud SQL vector indexes directly into their existing MySQL workflow.
Posted April 03, 2026
Aerospike Inc. is introducing LangGraph integration for NoSQL Database 8, delivering persistent memory to stateless AI agentic workflows struggling to move from prototype to production scale.
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
Relyance AI, an AI-native data security platform, is releasing Lyo, an autonomous data defense engineer designed to monitor and secure how AI agents interact with enterprise data.
Posted April 02, 2026
QuSecure, Inc., a market leader in post-quantum cybersecurity and cryptographic agility, announced it is collaborating with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in the Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography Project Consortium to bring awareness to the issues involved in migrating to post-quantum algorithms and to develop practices to ease migration from current public-key algorithms to replacement algorithms.
Posted April 02, 2026
Oracle is introducing the Oracle AI Data Platform for U.S. federal agencies—purpose-built to securely connect industry-leading generative AI models with agency data, applications, and workflows. According to Oracle, the platform enables civilian and defense agencies to unify critical information so they can move faster, reduce information silos, and make informed, mission-critical decisions at scale.
Posted April 01, 2026
Oracle is introducing Fusion Agentic Applications, a new class of enterprise applications powered by coordinated teams of specialized AI agents that are outcome-driven, proactive and reasoning based, and engineered for enterprise execution. Built into Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Fusion Agentic Applications can make and execute decisions within business processes by securely accessing unified enterprise data, workflows, policies, approval hierarchies, permissions, and transactional context, according to Oracle.
Posted April 01, 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
SentinelOne, an AI Security Leader, announced a multi-year collaboration with Google Cloud to develop solutions that strengthen cyber defense. According to the companies, the collaboration will deliver new solutions that integrate SentinelOne's leading EDR, security for AI apps and agents, and an AI-native platform with Google Cloud's global-scale infrastructure and threat intelligence.
Posted March 27, 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
For U.S. government organizations and their supporting companies, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is expanding its list of authorized services. With new DISA IL5 and FedRAMP High approvals, Oracle U.S. Government Cloud and Oracle U.S. Defense Cloud customers can move faster, modernize securely, and boost productivity with proven, compliant capabilities, Oracle said.
Posted March 26, 2026
Cloud-native databases are central to modern digital operations, supporting everything from global ecommerce platforms to real-time analytics and AI-driven applications. Every minute of database downtime can cost an enterprise thousands, or even millions, of dollars in lost revenue, missed transactions, and diminished customer trust.
Posted March 26, 2026
SAP is evolving its SAP Services and Support portfolio, introducing a streamlined, tiered engagement model designed to help businesses achieve greater transparency, speed, and flexibility in their transformation journeys. The reimagined portfolio, which includes the Foundational Success Plan, Advanced Success Plan, and Max Success Plan tiers, aims to deliver measurable results and a consistent, ongoing experience for customers.
Posted March 25, 2026
MultiValue World: The Future Unleashed, a global conference bringing together leaders, developers, and innovators in MultiValue database technology, is introducing its event sessions and agenda. The event will take place April 27-30, 2026, at the Saddlebrook Resort & Spa in Wesley Chapel, Florida. The conference is bringing together speakers with decades of real-world MultiValue experience alongside leaders driving modernization, AI, and next-generation development.
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
IBM is introducing the industry's first published quantum-centric supercomputing reference architecture, a new blueprint for integrating quantum computing into modern supercomputing environments. According to IBM, the architecture shows how quantum processors (QPUs) can work alongside GPUs and CPUs—across on-premises systems, research centers, and the cloud—to tackle scientific challenges that no single computing approach can solve on its own.
Posted March 23, 2026
IBM is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises operationalize AI at scale. Advancing efforts across GPU-native data analytics, intelligent document processing, on-premises and regulated infrastructure deployments, cloud, and consulting, the collaboration aims to give enterprises the data foundation, infrastructure, and expertise to move AI from pilot to production, according to the companies.
Posted March 23, 2026
Honeycomb.io, the creators of observability, announced a series of new AI capabilities and two major product milestones, including the general availability of Honeycomb Metrics and the expansion of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations across leading AI development tools.
Posted March 20, 2026
Keeper Security, the leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security and Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform, is offering KeeperDB, a new vault-embedded database access capability that enables secure, policy-controlled database interactions directly from the Keeper Vault.
Posted March 20, 2026
Druva, the leading provider of data security, announced Druva Identity Resilience, adding support for Okta and Microsoft Active Directory alongside Microsoft Entra ID.
Posted March 18, 2026
Flash pricing is rising, but cost is no longer the only variable storage leaders must consider. Reliability, availability, and continuity of supply are now central to infrastructure planning. A large share of global flash manufacturing remains geographically concentrated—meaning even temporary disruptions could quickly affect pricing, lead times, and an organization's ability to execute storage and AI initiatives on schedule.
Posted March 18, 2026
Oracle is releasing Java 26, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform. According to Oracle, Java 26 (Oracle JDK 26) delivers thousands of improvements that boost developer productivity, simplify the language, and help developers integrate AI and cryptography functionality into their applications.
Posted March 18, 2026