Artificial Intelligence Articles
The months and years ahead promise to be an interesting time in the data analytics space.AI and machine learning are already making their mark, elevating analytics—and its front-end sibling, business intelligence. End users are seeing their capabilities expand in new directions, with an ability to ask questions they did not even consider with earlier technology iterations. Industry leaders are tracking a range of developments that are defining analytics and BI in the year ahead.
Posted January 13, 2025
Articul8 AI (Articul8), a generative AI (GenAI) enterprise software company, is releasing A8 Essential, an innovative self-service GenAI product that empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their data. According to the company, A8 Essential fills the unmet need in the market to build complex, domain-specific, enterprise-grade GenAI applications.
Posted January 13, 2025
Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud through the availability of its Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) on Google Cloud. Built on the foundation of Informatica's AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), CDGC provides customers with a robust data governance and catalog solution that helps increase data trust, data democratization, and data delivery for Google Cloud customers.
Posted January 09, 2025
While the generative AI (GenAI) revolution is rolling forward at full steam, it's not without its share of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The great promises that can be delivered through large language models (LLMs) are tainted by concerns over hallucinations, bias, data security, "black-box" decisioning, and outdated information.
Posted January 09, 2025
A day in the life of a DBA (database administrator) can be quite hectic. The DBA is required to maintain production and test environments while at the same time keeping an eye on active application development projects, attending strategy and design meetings, helping to select and evaluate new products, and keeping legacy systems robust and stable, while ensuring access from new systems.
Posted January 09, 2025
After more than 2 decades of writing for DBTA, this will be my final column. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to engage with you on databases and emerging technologies. As with all good things, this journey must end, and I want to use this moment to reflect on the changes we've witnessed during the past 20 years and look ahead to the future.
Posted January 09, 2025
Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It's had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English Language in the mid-1970s. It's survived and thrived through the dot-com era and the proliferation of cloud technology. In essence, SQL is a technology that evolves.
Posted January 09, 2025
In 2025, preventing risks from both cybercriminals and AI use will be top mandates for most CIOs. Ransomware, in particular, continues to vex enterprises, and unstructured data is a vast, largely unprotected asset. AI solutions have moved from experimental to mainstream, with all the major tech companies and cloud providers making significant investments in building turnkey generative (GenAI) and AI solutions for enterprise customers.
Posted January 09, 2025
Throughout 2024, data managers and professionals were at the locus of the new waves of innovation driven by AI and analytics—and the activity was frenetic and intense. As the year 2025 progresses, this intense and frenetic activity will only continue. Cloud services, AI, AI agents, and cybersecurity are top areas of interest that industry leaders are watching. The following are several prominent trends mentioned that are shaping data management.
Posted January 09, 2025
To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products, highlighting a commitment to innovation and to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements. Several MV leaders including Kore Tech, Revelation Software, and Rocket Software continue to make an impact and again top this list.
Posted January 09, 2025
Oracle is introducing Oracle Exadata X11M, the latest generation of the Oracle Exadata platform, delivering a variety of performance improvements across AI, analytics, and online transaction processing (OLTP). Combining intelligent power management with the ability to run mission-critical workloads faster and on fewer systems helps customers achieve their energy efficiency and sustainability goals.
Posted January 08, 2025
Oracle Database 23ai is the next long-term support release and offers over 300 new features. Originally named Oracle Database 23i, it was rebranded to Oracle Database 23ai with a heavy focus on artificial intelligence (AI). To optimize many of the database's key functions, Oracle Database 23ai uses AI for improved timing estimates and resource costings. There are also new features such as AI Vector Search to allow data queries on semantics and not keywords.
Posted January 08, 2025
Cybersecurity continues to be top of mind for organizations everywhere as 2025 begins. In 2024 alone, hackers attacked hospitals and other health care organizations, telecom giants, supply chains, and more. Even government entities haven't been spared in these attacks. Here, security experts share their predictions for incoming threats in 2025.
Posted January 07, 2025
Blitzy, the emerging leader in System 2 AI, is announcing the launch of the Blitzy Platform, the company's agentic solution that promises to revolutionize the way enterprises build software applications.
Posted January 06, 2025
IBM's proposed plan to acquire HashiCorp, a leading cloud software company, is now under investigation by U.K.'s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA. The CMA is seeking to determine whether the acquisition could reduce market competition.
Posted January 06, 2025
NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. announced it has invested in Ayar Labs, Inc. through its managed fund with the aim of driving advancements in optical I/O technologies, accelerating practical applications of innovative solutions, and fostering the creation of new value in the field.
Posted January 03, 2025
Quantum Corporation, the provider of technology, software, and services that today's organizations need to make video and other unstructured data smarter, is announcing the availability of Scalar i7 RAPTOR, the latest version of Quantum's efficient, dense, low-cost solution for AI data lakes. Engineered for hyperscale customers, managed service providers (MSPs), and large enterprises, Scalar i7 RAPTOR solidifies its position as the densest, most scalable tape solution available, according to Quantum.
Posted January 02, 2025
Peer Software is now offering advanced capabilities in the latest version of its flagship solution Peer Global File Service (PeerGFS), designed to meet data management requirements of complex globally distributed storage environments.
Posted January 02, 2025
Vectra AI, Inc., a leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), is partnering with Lumifi, a leading managed detection and response (MDR) technology company, now integrating Vectra AI Network Detection and Response (NDR) into Lumifi's service offerings to provide customers with greater visibility into their networks, insights into attacker behavior, and the ability to stop network-based attacks early in their progression.
Posted December 23, 2024
BattleFin Group, Inc, a market leader and pioneer in the alternative data discovery industry, is acquiring Exabel, an alternative data analytics platform, solidifying BattleFin's global leadership in both data discovery and data intelligence markets.
Posted December 20, 2024
AI innovation in the big data space shows no signs of slowing down, with companies rushing to adopt or create their own solutions based on AI, automating redundant tasks, and spinning up all kinds of use cases to justify spending big bucks in the area. Here, tech experts share their predictions for AI in 2025.
Posted December 20, 2024
KNIME, the open source data analytics and AI company, is releasing its AI companion, K-AI, enabling users to co-create powerful data workflows with AI. According to the company, K-AI will answer questions, make recommendations, and extend or build whole data workflows based on user prompts. The AI companion speeds up the time to insight, while giving users complete transparency into and control over what AI is doing.
Posted December 19, 2024
Nuon Inc. announced it has secured $16.5 million in funding and is providing an early access release of its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) platform. Nuon is currently powering a few dozen AI and data infrastructure companies already using the platform to deliver BYOC solutions. The company plans to launch general availability by late Q1 2025.
Posted December 19, 2024
I once wrote an article titled "Do Your Metrics Matter?" It was inspired by the joy of sitting in an airplane, at the gate, going nowhere fast for close to 2 hours. All the while the airline app was proclaiming an on-time departure. Having ample time to discuss this perceived error with the crew, I learned that the closed aircraft door equaled departure. Departed, it turned out, was not an indication of a flight in motion but a process gone awry (a circumstance that may persist to this day, for what it's worth).
Posted December 19, 2024
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading Postgres data and AI company, is adding a variety of enhancements to EDB Postgres AI, empowering enterprises to deploy secure, flexible AI-driven applications in a sovereign, hybrid environment.
Posted December 19, 2024
Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, is announcing an expansion of its partnership with Nokia, aiming to bring advanced data center network services to enterprises around the world. Merging the powers of Kyndryl's enterprise knowledge and experience in designing, building, and managing hybrid cloud and data center environments with Nokia's high-performance, reliable data center networking infrastructure solution, the two companies address the present need for fortified, scalable, and secure data center network solutions.
Posted December 19, 2024
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), and SAP announced GROW with SAP on AWS, which will allow customers of all sizes to rapidly deploy SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution while leveraging the reliability, security, and scalability of the world's most broadly adopted cloud.
Posted December 18, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is expanding its AI-ready data integration capabilities, delivering new enhancements across SAP, Databricks, and Snowflake. According to the company, these advancements empower enterprises to streamline data workflows, accelerate AI deployment, and gain faster insights, ensuring that business intelligence is built and scaled on quality, real-time data running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Posted December 18, 2024
Avantra, a leading provider of AIOps for SAP, is releasing Avantra 25, the latest edition of its renowned observability and automation platform. Poised to transform SAP systems with new levels of efficiency and flexibility, Avantra 25 is the first edition to integrate fully with the Avantra AIR cloud product and brings a wealth of new features and functionality, according to the company.
Posted December 18, 2024
Acceldata, the leader in all-in-one enterprise data observability, is debuting its newly expanded AI-powered data reconciliation capabilities that fortifies enterprises with trusted data, at scale. Bringing the necessary data integrity for managing complex, modern data ecosystems, Acceldata's new capabilities ensure data is accurate, consistent, and audit-ready across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Posted December 18, 2024
DBTA's latest webinar, The Next Era of Database Management: Emerging Technologies and Best Practices, featured the viewpoints of database experts from Datavail and Oracle, covering topics such as cloud native databases, database types, vendor lock-in, AI, optimization, and more.
Posted December 18, 2024
In today's competitive business environment, empowering your teams with data-driven decision-making is essential. However, amid an organization's vast sea of data, the process of effectively navigating through this abundance of information is daunting. In fact, the likelihood of human error while sorting through such data volumes for key insights is virtually guaranteed, further complicating the already daunting task at hand.
Posted December 18, 2024
To achieve fundamental data quality, data integration is crucial for growing organizations. In a recent blog post by Kore Tech, Maxwell Dallinga, explains how the best data integration tool for the future is Kore Integrate. Integration processes provide huge organizational boosts, connecting disparate systems and ensuring sources of data are reliable and accurate. Doing so prevents redundant information and data silo backups, keeping tools and applications like AI from being hampered by poor data.
Posted December 18, 2024
Zilliz, the company behind the open-source vector database Milvus, is debuting the latest iteration of Milvus, which unites hybrid semantic and keyword search into a single, high-performance platform. This centralization dramatically boosts query processing speed—30x faster than traditional solutions—driving accessibility of AI-powered, advanced search to a variety of enterprises, according to Zilliz.
Posted December 17, 2024
RapidCanvas, democratizing AI-driven business transformation, announced it has secured $16 million in a funding round for its AI agents, empowering the company to further support the automation of complex tasks traditionally performed by data scientists and engineers.
Posted December 17, 2024
Back in July, CrowdStrike pushed out a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor that caused worldwide outages on Microsoft operating systems. Users experienced the BlueScreen of Death (BSOD) error, which caused their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly. The effects were immediately wide reaching: Doctors weren't able to diagnose patients, airports abruptly paused travel, and there were also disruptions to emergency services and responses. Government services, banks, and other businesses had to shut down.
Posted December 17, 2024
Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, announced it has closed a $600 million Series D funding round, enabling the company to advance its mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. With the latest fundraise, Crusoe will invest in expansion and growth across the value chain, including its data centers and Crusoe Cloud. Crusoe focuses on utilizing clean, abundant, and low-cost energy to power its computing resources and has over 15 gigawatts in development.
Posted December 16, 2024
Experts joined DBTA's special roundtable webinar, The Future of Analytics: Cloud Data Warehouses, Data Lakehouses, and More, to discuss how better, faster insights can be achieved through an assortment of modern systems that emphasize flexibility, scalability, and agility.
Posted December 13, 2024
Cloud remains important as ever as AI makes gains in the industry. Other key factors leading to the continued importance of the cloud include the increasing adoption of cloud services by businesses for cost-efficiency and scalability, advancements in cloud technologies, the growth of big data and analytics, and the rising need for remote work solutions. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2025.
Posted December 13, 2024
Quest Software, a global leader in systems management, data protection, and security software, is unveiling two updates designed to expedite PostgreSQL adoption. The solutions— a Performance Investigator for PostgreSQL add-on for Foglight and SharePlex—work to make PostgreSQL a reality for enterprises by streamlining migrations and optimizing performance and availability.
Posted December 12, 2024
Aerospike Inc., the real-time database built for infinite scale, speed, and savings, is debuting the latest version of Aerospike Vector Search, equipped with new indexing and storage capabilities. Centering flexibility, performance, and streamlined operations, Vector Search addresses current customer problems with new engineering techniques and innovations in the vector space.
Posted December 12, 2024
Blockchain is poised to underpin more and more financial transactions, as the traditional finance world (TradFi) starts to embrace decentralized finance (DeFi), opening them up to cryptocurrency transactions and more. Here, several experts in the field predict the next moves for the technology in 2025.
Posted December 11, 2024
Data Centers are the focus of increased scrutiny and renewed interest as more and more power consumption and resource statistics show eye-popping figures. A significant aspect of energy consumption is dedicated to data center cooling systems, which are crucial for maintaining optimal operating temperatures and preventing hardware failure. Current estimates suggest that data centers account for 3% of global electricity consumption, with predictions indicating a rise to a potential 10% by 2030.
Posted December 09, 2024