Master Data Management Articles
Appfire, a leading global provider of enterprise solutions that extend and connect the world's top platforms, is launching BigPicture Advanced, elevating the BigPicture product within the Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) category with advanced capabilities for enterprise organizations that need better alignment between strategy and execution.
Posted August 10, 2026
Progress Software, an AI infrastructure software leader, announced that it is entering into an agreement to acquire substantially all the assets and assume certain liabilities of Domo, including its AI and data products platform.
Posted August 10, 2026
IBM is releasing its latest data breach report, reporting that one in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled—a 56% increase over last year—and these breaches cost an average of $6 million, roughly $1 million more than the global breach average of $4.99 million. According to IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report, these attacks, compromised of mostly deepfake impersonation and AI-enabled malware, are reshaping breach economics.
Posted August 10, 2026
With every organization currently wondering if their data is sufficient for AI, closing the gap between data ambition and operational reality requires more than just a technical roadmap. It requires the strategic discipline to translate major pain points into a narrative leadership can fund.
Posted August 10, 2026
Sentra, the AI data readiness platform that secures sensitive data at petabyte scale, announced Shadow AI DLP, a new capability within the Sentra Platform for AI Data Readiness that helps organizations securely adopt AI while preventing sensitive data from being shared with generative AI applications.
Posted August 07, 2026
Qdrant is announcing the release of Qdrant 1.19.0, offering a new TurboQuant storage format that cuts vector storage. In version 1.19, Qdrant is introducing the new Turbo4 datatype that stores vectors using 4-bit TurboQuant compression as the only representation, with no full-precision copy kept.
Posted August 07, 2026
In this clip from Data Summit 2026, Fleur Levitz, principal consultant, FDL consulting NYC LLC, explores the shifting roles of information professionals and the need to reposition info pros to support and serve AI governance with an eye to fostering more responsible AI leadership.
Posted August 07, 2026
Zilliz, the company behind Milvus—an open-source vector database—recently announced the release of Milvus 3.0, a major architectural update that brings lake-native data access and a more expressive retrieval engine to developers building production AI applications.
Posted August 06, 2026
The influence of generative AI (GenAI) and decision intelligence continues to drive data-driven processes. While data quality and security remain essential, everyday components, organizations should also embrace AI/ machine language-driven automation and self-service analytics, while paying equal attention to the human element, thereby fostering a strong data culture, robust governance, and enhanced data literacy. With more data being created than ever before, making the right choices among the countless options for data management and analytics solutions is a top priority for many organizations. To help companies progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, offering the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers!
Posted August 05, 2026
Dell and Nutanix are partnering to simplify enterprise storage with PowerStore now supporting the Nutanix Cloud Platform, available with NCI 7.6, with validated deployment and managed through Dell Private Cloud.
Posted August 05, 2026
Organizations are adapting to a new era of IT virtualization and data center infrastructure management as VMware shifts to costly subscription models and ends support for vSphere 8 perpetual licenses in October 2027. DBTA recently held a webinar, 2026 IT Virtualization Survey: What's Next for VMware Users, with industry experts who broke down the findings of the new "2026 IT Virtualization Survey: What's Next for VMware Users," which gathered data from 269 global IT infrastructure and security leaders.
Posted August 04, 2026
Tricentis, a global leader in agentic quality engineering, is acquiring Tabnine, the AI-coding platform purpose-built for secure, context-aware enterprise software development—enabling Tricentis to integrate Tabnine's Enterprise Context Engine technology into the Tricentis Agentic Quality Engineering Platform, further enhancing its quality and testing agents for large enterprise environments they operate within.
Posted August 03, 2026
KIOXIA America, Inc. is announcing the launch of KIOXIA CM10 Series of solid-state drives (SSDs), featuring the company's latest BiCS FLASH generation 10 TLC memory.
Posted August 03, 2026
Halcyon, the ransomware resilience platform, is introducing File Resilience (FiRe), a new capability that prevents ransomware encryption before files are modified.
Posted July 31, 2026
Many data pipelines were never designed for the scale and reliability modern AI workloads demand. To keep pace with change, organizations are moving toward autonomous data pipelines that can automatically detect issues, adapt to changing conditions, and ensure reliable delivery of trusted data for AI and analytics.
Posted July 31, 2026
CTERA, a leader in intelligent data management, announced support for Microsoft Copilot, enabling organizations to securely extend Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams Copilot beyond Microsoft 365 repositories to governed enterprise file data managed by CTERA across edge locations, data centers, and cloud environments.
Posted July 30, 2026
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced that Broadcom has upgraded its membership to Platinum—reinforcing the company's mission to advance cloud native technologies that help organizations build resilient infrastructure for the AI era.
Posted July 30, 2026
How do you modernize and build next-gen financial applications when business and regulatory requirements keep your databases anchored on-premises or deployed across multiple clouds?
Posted July 29, 2026
In this clip from Data Summit 2026, Factor information architect Connor Cantrell explains what an MCP server is, how MCPs address age-old problems information architects face as AI takes on, and more.
Posted July 28, 2026
IBM announced IBM Power Autonomous Operations, an AI agent that can help continuously monitor Power systems and autonomously resolve issues to keep operations running smoothly. According to IBM, it complements the recently launched IBM Bob Premium Package for i, which brings agentic-driven software designed to accelerate application development on IBM i.
Posted July 27, 2026
SAP and IBM announced that global enterprises JYSK, GBM, DIFARE Group, and Plastilene Group have selected SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions on IBM Power Virtual Server to modernize enterprise resource planning (ERP) workloads in secure, reliable, and scalable cloud environments.
Posted July 27, 2026
Red Hat is announcing that OpenShift 4.22 is now available, introducing significant advancements across the board, from hardening zero-trust security and streamlining hybrid cloud virtualization to automating complex cluster operations and providing a robust, production-ready foundation for AI/ML workloads.
Posted July 23, 2026
AvePoint, a global leader in AI data protection, unifying data security, governance, and resilience, is adding new advancements to the AvePoint Confidence Platform that extend the trust layer—the connected layer of governance, security, recovery, and backup controls that sits across an organization's data—to agentic AI, new enterprise applications, and new multi-cloud infrastructure.
Posted July 22, 2026
SAP announced that Nokia, a global leader in connectivity for the AI era, has signed a new multi-year agreement with SAP to help accelerate its enterprise transformation using RISE with SAP Methodology, with its SAP S/4HANA software environment hosted on Microsoft Azure.
Posted July 22, 2026
Are data infrastructures ready to deliver insights at the speed of thought—or, for that matter, at the speed of an AI prompt? For decades, batch processing was the mode of data delivery—and organizations built their analytical environments in which information was several hours, or maybe a day, old. Then, as the digital economy evolved, certain parts of the data infrastructure moved to near real time, meaning results to queries were delivered within a half-hour to several hours.
Posted July 22, 2026
Rocket UniData 8.4.1 is now available, featuring enhanced updates designed to boost observability, application modernization, performance monitoring, security, and replication reliability. Gain deeper, actionable insights into UniData workloads with the initial release of OpenTelemetry (OTEL) support. This delivers immediate observability value and establishing a solid foundation for future monitoring and observability enhancements.
Posted July 22, 2026
In this clip from Data Summit 2026, Michael Vasicek, Airo Digital Labs SVP of sales and AI enablement, asks should information professionals believe the hype that they will all be reporting to AI agents one day soon, or that their jobs will disappear and be replaced by AI reporting to AI reporting to AI?
Posted July 21, 2026
Denodo, the AI data layer company, is releasing Denodo Platform 9.5, advancing its role in providing active context for agentic AI, analytics, and self-service data delivery.
Posted July 17, 2026
Oracle is introducing a new AI-powered coaching assistant within Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) to help managers lead with greater confidence, consistency, and effectiveness. According to the company, Oracle Manager Edge helps managers strengthen engagement, support employee growth, improve team performance, and drive retention by using insights from feedback, goals, performance reviews, team interactions, and other workforce signals across Oracle Cloud HCM to deliver personalized guidance in the moment.
Posted July 15, 2026
Since the sudden explosion of generative AI with OpenAI's debut of Chat-GPT in 2022, AI itself has quickly evolved to act as different things to different organizations and people—sometimes lacking alignment. Adoption of AI in some form is now widespread, with McKinsey research suggesting that 88% of organizations are deploying AI in at least parts of their organizations. However, just as many report no significant bottom-line impact. To help readers gain a greater understanding about this complex area of information technology, the solutions available, and their role in handling real-world challenges, DBTA and Big Data Quarterly present the list of Awesome Companies in AI.
Posted July 15, 2026
PDQ is releasing new capabilities that give IT teams more control across their environments without adding complexity—making PDQ more complete and easier to use, helping admins see Windows update status clearly, deploy and automate patching for macOS software, reboot devices directly, and enroll new devices faster.
Posted July 13, 2026
Lightrun, a leader in software reliability, is introducing the Runtime Aware PR Verifier, a solution that confirms how a new pull request (PR) will impact live production, before deployment.
Posted July 10, 2026
StorONE, a leader in real-time tiering architecture, announced StorONE Version 4.0, introducing an architecture that enables existing third-party All-Flash Arrays to immediately serve as the high-performance flash tier of StorONE Real-Time Tiering (RTT).
Posted July 09, 2026
In this clip from Data Summit 2026, Cal Al-Dhubaib, principal technologist at Rubrik, explores how data complexity and task complexity serve to increase uncertainty when working with AI systems and trusting the quality of the summaries they provide, the actionable code they generate, the biases they reproduce, and the resulting chaos they produce, and how these challenges multiply in the progression from generative to agentic AI.
Posted July 09, 2026
Analytics environments are more powerful than ever, but they're also more fragmented. Data now spans cloud platforms, warehouses, lakehouses, BI tools, and operational systems, making it difficult to deliver consistent insights, trusted metrics, and a unified view of the business.
Posted July 09, 2026
In the world of database management, there are a handful of phrases that make experienced DBAs uneasy. Statements such as "we'll fix it in production" or "the database can handle it" usually signal that trouble is coming. But there is another phrase that may be even more dangerous: "It's just data."
Posted July 09, 2026
RapidFort, a leader in software supply chain security with the largest distribution of curated truly open-source software, and ReversingLabs (RL), the trusted name in file and software security, announced a partnership to deliver RapidFort Open-Source Dependency Libraries—an open-source package catalog to combine RapidFort's proven curation and hardening process with independent third-party validation powered by ReversingLabs' Spectra Assure platform.
Posted July 08, 2026
AWS is introducing AWS Context, a new service that automatically maps the relationships across existing data into a knowledge graph and provides agentic search so AI agents in the organization can access governed data relationships, business rules, and domain knowledge at runtime.
Posted July 07, 2026
ScienceLogic, delivering intelligence that accelerates outcomes through service-centric observability, is introducing the latest updates to Skylar AI—enhancing Skylar Analytics and Skylar Advisor with agent capabilities to reason over operational knowledge while increasing transparency and usability across AI-driven workflows.
Posted July 06, 2026
MotherDuck is launching Flights, an agent-native data pipeline that enables users to choose the MCP server and AI agent of their choice to build and deploy data pipelines in minutes using a flexible, general-purpose Python runtime.
Posted July 02, 2026
Virtana, provider of the deepest and broadest observability platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, is introducing Agentic SLA Management—a new AI-native capability that transforms service-level agreements from static reporting metrics into an intelligent operational control plane for business outcomes.
Posted July 02, 2026
Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, is expanding its sovereignty solutioning through new capabilities and services with Microsoft.
Posted July 02, 2026
Percona, a provider of open source database software and services, is partnering with HexaCluster, a PostgreSQL migration and services specialist, to help organizations move off proprietary and legacy commercial databases.
Posted July 01, 2026