Artificial Intelligence Articles
Zilliz, the company behind the open-source vector database Milvus, is unveiling Milvus 2.6, the latest iteration of its database technology designed to accommodate the modern demands of AI workloads without a modern price tag.
Posted June 13, 2025
Informatica, an AI-powered enterprise cloud data management leader, is expanding its collaboration with Databricks—becoming a launch partner for two major innovations from Databricks: Managed Iceberg Tables and Databricks Lakebase, a first-of-its-kind, modern database built for AI. Informatica also unveiled GenAI-focused enhancements to its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform to accelerate data and AI at scale with Databricks.
Posted June 13, 2025
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is launching Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service, representing a fully managed, all-in-one infrastructure consumption service addressing AI data preparation challenges.
Posted June 13, 2025
Hirundo, specialists in "machine unlearning," announced it has raised $8M in a recent seed funding round, enabling the company to continue developing solutions to "make AI forget" poisoned, malicious, and confidential data from trained AI models, biases, as well as hallucinations that pump out misinformation.
Posted June 12, 2025
Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, is unveiling new advisory and implementation services to accelerate modernization and migration of mainframe applications and data to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Posted June 12, 2025
It's been said that AI is only as good as the data fueling it. And that's true—to an extent. Having good data is important, but it is also useless if it's inaccessible. This explains why building the Data Operating Fabric—an intelligent platform that oversees and controls real-time data ecosystems to help businesses run more smoothly and drive better ROI—has become a priority for organizations as AI adoption continues to accelerate and new solutions, such as AI agents, come online.
Posted June 12, 2025
As our lifespans stretch well beyond the traditional retirement horizon, the future of work is undergoing a profound transformation. With some individuals living well into their 110s—and babies born today potentially reaching 150—we're not just facing longer lives, but longer careers. Many of us may be working into our 80s or 90s. The implication is clear: technology must evolve to support not just the young and able but also the aging who will increasingly make up a significant portion of the global workforce.
Posted June 12, 2025
Pentaho, an industry leading data intelligence and integration platform utilized by 73% of the Fortune 100, is unveiling a series of enhancements to Pentaho Data Catalog, a solution that provides a single source of truth through trusted data for core operations and AI. The latest iteration of Pentaho Data Catalog focuses on empowering organizations to deliver AI with increased data quality, observability, and trust.
Posted June 11, 2025
Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, an open source PostgreSQL technology, to advance its vision to be the ultimate platform for data-driven innovation. This move will allow the company to deliver Snowflake Postgres, a new kind of Postgres designed to power the most demanding, mission-critical AI and transactional systems at enterprise scale and with enterprise confidence.
Posted June 06, 2025
Cockroach Labs, a pioneer in cloud-native distributed SQL databases, is introducing CockroachDB 25.2, a milestone release marking a decade of transformative innovation for the company that introduces performance, flexibility, and security enhancements to help businesses scale with confidence.
Posted June 05, 2025
Following the explosive growth of AI initiatives at all levels of various organizations last year, tech leaders have pinpointed digital trust as a crucial challenge in software development for 2025, according to the sixth annual "Reveal Survey Report: Top Software Development Challenges for 2025" survey from Infragistics. To help bring new resources and innovation to light, each year, Database Trends and Applications magazine presents the DBTA 100, a list of forward-thinking companies seeking to expand what's possible with data for their customers.
Posted June 04, 2025
RelationalAI, the pioneer of the relational knowledge graph coprocessor for data clouds, is announcing new capabilities for the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, expanding the potential of AI-powered intelligent apps.
Posted June 04, 2025
Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, is announcing a global strategic partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company, centered around supporting AI at scale underpinned by a data-driven foundation.
Posted June 04, 2025
Cribl, the data engine for IT and security, is debuting a new AI-powered capability for its telemetry management solution, easing the workloads of IT and security professionals.
Posted June 04, 2025
Pegasystems Inc., The Enterprise Transformation Company, is unveiling a variety of agentic AI enhancements to Pega Infinity App Studio and its entire portfolio, that intelligently guide developers through application development, enabling enterprises to innovate and to go to market faster. These announcements were made at PegaWorld 2025.
Posted June 04, 2025
Rubrik, a leading cyber security company, is unveiling its integration of AMD EPYC processors across the Rubrik data security platform, expanding cloud deployment options while supercharging Rubrik's capacity to deliver cost-effective, power-efficient, and AI-ready solutions.
Posted June 04, 2025
New AI-powered anomaly detection and in-memory processing capabilities in the Oracle Utilities Customer Platform are helping deliver fast, accurate meter data management (MDM) and streamlining utility operations. These enhancements simplify work for employees and improve performance across the platform, which powers metering, operations and billing, sales and account management, customer service, and customer engagement in a single solution, said the vendors.
Posted June 04, 2025
Lyntia Networks, a leading neutral operator in the wholesale telecom sector, announced it is relying on Oracle solutions to help meet its ambitious growth in the highly competitive infrastructure and connectivity markets.
Posted June 04, 2025
Oracle will spend approximately $40 billion on NVIDIA's higher-performance chips to power OpenAI's new U.S. data center, the Financial Times reported. The data center, situated in Abilene, Texas, is part of the U.S. Stargate Project, led by top AI firms, to boost America's lead in the artificial intelligence industry amid global competition.
Posted June 04, 2025
As today's database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database management. When DevOps teams and DBAs combine effective automation with Microsoft SQL Server use, it allows organizations to experience better server monitoring and increase server performance while removing common hurdles to software development.
Posted June 04, 2025
Ciroos, a pioneer in AI-powered operations, is announcing that it has raised $21 million in its latest funding round led by Energy Impact Partners LP (EIP). This investment will be utilized to fuel the company's go-to-market operations for its innovative AI SRE Teammate technology, an extensible, multi-domain and multi-agent AI "teammate" for easing operational burdens.
Posted June 03, 2025
CData Software, a leading provider of data connectivity and integration solutions, is debuting the CData Snowflake Integration Accelerator, a robust solution for accelerating data integration for Snowflake customers. Designed to address the ETL challenges of integrating data from diverse enterprise systems into Snowflake, the CData Snowflake Integration Accelerator can reduce integration build times by up to 90%, according to the company.
Posted June 03, 2025
Experts joined DBTA's latest webinar, New Database Technologies and Strategies for the AI Era, to offer their perspectives on AI-database relationship, examining best practices and new solutions.
Posted June 02, 2025
Cube, the leading provider of semantic layer technology for modern data stacks, is unveiling D3, the first agentic analytics platform built on Cube's universal semantic layer tech. As an agent-native platform, Cube merges its precise semantic layer with the productivity of agentic AI—rivaling traditional BI tools with bolted-on AI capabilities or a distinct lack of context.
Posted June 02, 2025
Infosys, a global leader in next generation digital services and consulting, is partnering with LogicMonitor, a leading SaaS-based hybrid observability platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the observability of IT operations.
Posted June 02, 2025
Anomalo, the company reinventing enterprise data quality, is adding a major innovation, Workflows, to its second product Unstructured Data Monitoring, introducing a hub for managing and monitoring unstructured data. Unstructured Data Monitoring lets enterprises extract insights and identify issues from the vast volumes of unstructured data stored in their data warehouses, data lake, and cloud storage locations.
Posted June 02, 2025
DataOps, an adaptation of what's traditionally known as DevOps, has evolved into an essential component of modern business operations. DataOps applies the concepts that have fostered more agility and value creation in software development to the data ecosystem. This adaptation enables organizations to bring the same efficiency and responsiveness to their data operations that DevOps brought to software delivery.
Posted June 02, 2025
IBM has updated its LinuxONE mainframes, using the same hardware as its new z17 mainframe platform but designed to run on Linux operating systems, with the focus on artificial intelligence. The LinuxONE Emperor 5 is the fifth generation of IBM LinuxONE iron and comes three years after the release of the last generation. The new Emperor has been updated for improved security, cost-efficiency, and AI acceleration of mission-critical enterprise workloads.
Posted June 02, 2025
Lumen Technologies and IBM are partnering to develop enterprise-grade AI solutions at the edge—integrating watsonx, IBM's portfolio of AI products, with Lumen's Edge Cloud infrastructure and network. Together, Lumen and IBM aim to bring powerful, real-time AI inferencing closer to where data is generated, helping companies overcome cost, latency, and security barriers as they scale AI adoption and enhance customer experiences, according to the companies.
Posted June 02, 2025
GridCARE, a new company "powering the AI revolution," is emerging from stealth to boost data center capacity. The company closed a highly oversubscribed $13.5 million Seed financing round led by Xora, a deep technology venture capital firm backed by Temasek.
Posted June 02, 2025
DataStax announced its acquisition by IBM is officially closed, allowing the companies to "scale to new heights" and accelerate production AI and NoSQL data at scale. With Astra DB, Hyper-Converged Database, and now watsonx.data, DataStax will provide seamless access to both unstructured and structured data for production AI, according to the company.
Posted June 02, 2025
ClickHouse, Inc., a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, is announcing that its Series C financing round—which was led by Khosla Ventures with participation from new investors BOND, IVP, Battery Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners—has raised $350 million.
Posted May 30, 2025
Apono, a leader in privileged access for the cloud, is making a significant update to the Apono Cloud Access Management Platform, introducing new capabilities for managing and securing Non-Human Identities (NHIs).
Posted May 30, 2025
Experts from Informatica joined DBTA's webinar, Emerging Data Management Foundations for AI Agent Success, to assess the implications that adopting AI agents has on data infrastructure, offering best practices, new strategies, and essential tips.
Posted May 30, 2025
Infragistics, a leading global provider of tools and solutions to accelerate application design and development, is releasing Infragistics Ultimate 25.1, the company's flagship UX and UI product with enhanced features offering a comprehensive library of enterprise-grade UI controls and including the exclusive low-code WYSIWYG App Builder for developing modern, high-performance, and engaging apps across major frameworks.
Posted May 30, 2025
MinIO, the leader in high-performance object storage for the exabyte AI era, is debuting new AIStor support for Amazon's S3 Express API, becoming the first and only AI data storage platform to adopt Amazon's S3 Express API, according to MinIO.
Posted May 29, 2025
In another installation of the new webinar series brought to you by DBTA and Radiant Advisors—also sponsored by Quest and TimeXtender—John O'Brien, principal advisor and CEO, Radiant Advisors, unveiled the results of a comprehensive study tracking enterprise adoption rates and maturity across key architectural patterns, highlighting how organizations are prepping for AI without sacrificing governance and security.
Posted May 29, 2025
Sisense, a leader in AI-driven analytics, is introducing Sisense Intelligence, a comprehensive suite of AI-powered tools that enable organizations to extract insights from their data. At its core is the assistant, an AI-first interface designed to simplify end-to-end analytics creation for all users. The assistant is complemented by a robust suite of GenAI capabilities that make analytics more accessible and actionable, according to Sisense.
Posted May 29, 2025
In the age when data is everything to a business, managers and analysts alike are looking to emerging forms of databases to paint a clear picture of how data is delivering to their businesses. The challenge is an insatiable demand from businesses for AI capabilities, which rely on access to data that has be reliably vetted and relevant to the prompts or queries at hand. Graph databases and knowledge graphs—especially when combined—fulfill this role.
Posted May 29, 2025
Red Hat, a worldwide leading provider of open source solutions, and Oracle are expanding their collaboration to break down barriers to hybrid cloud adoption, delivering a more consistent, cloud-native foundation that is critical for next-generation workloads including AI. This move brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift support to more deployment options on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including government, sovereign, and distributed cloud services.
Posted May 29, 2025
Salesforce, the world's leading AI CRM, is acquiring Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, for approximately $8 billion in equity value, net of Salesforce's current investment in Informatica. According to the companies, the planned acquisition will enhance Salesforce's trusted data foundation critical for deploying powerful and responsible agentic AI.
Posted May 28, 2025
SAP is introducing a bounty of innovations and partnerships that put the power of Business AI in every user's reach with the aim of revolutionizing the way work gets done. From a virtually omnipresent Joule assistant to an expanded network of Joule Agents that work across systems and lines of business, SAP is "heralding a new era" that democratizes access to Business AI and can drive productivity gains of up to 30%, according to the company.
Posted May 28, 2025
Syntax Systems, a leading global technology solutions and services provider for cloud application implementation and management, is launching Syntax FreeMigration+—a powerful new offer for businesses using SAP ECC that haven't yet made the move to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition.
Posted May 28, 2025
Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, announced a variety of powerful new innovations to its Skills and Efficiency solutions that are designed to help enterprises scale IT operations, close the IT skills gap, and improve developer experience with intelligence and precision. These updates include the introduction of Rocket MultiValue Developer Assistant which streamlines the generation, autocompletion, and explanation of MV BASIC code.
Posted May 28, 2025
In today's fast-evolving business landscape, leadership is no longer about traditional command and control. As the world shifts from classical methodologies to dynamic and modern practices, leaders must adapt, and so must their teams.
Posted May 28, 2025
Operant AI, provider of the Runtime AI Defense Platform, is introducing Woodpecker, an open-source, automated red teaming engine, that will make advanced security testing accessible to organizations. According to the company, Woodpecker is designed to help organizations proactively detect and address security vulnerabilities across AI systems, Kubernetes environments, and APIs.
Posted May 27, 2025
DataOps.live, The Data Products Company, is launching the Dynamic Suite, which includes two new Snowflake Native Apps designed to solve critical data engineering challenges faced by many Snowflake customers: continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) of Snowflake Objects, and the operationalization of dbt projects.
Posted May 27, 2025
In DBTA's webinar, Building a Modern Data Platform: Trends and Best Practices, experts from CData Software and Informatica offered their expertise on how to successfully navigate data platform modernization, examining its various nuances and paths to value.
Posted May 22, 2025
Ascend.io, the company on a mission to make data engineering delightful, is announcing the launch of Agentic Data Engineering, a platform centralizing AI-powered ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and observability into a single, seamless system.
Posted May 22, 2025