Artificial Intelligence Articles
AI adoption is rapidly accelerating, but data quality and data governance remain two of the biggest challenges to successful implementation. While AI depends on vast amounts of data, the quality and accuracy of the information it processes directly determine its effectiveness. Strong data governance allows organizations to mitigate various threats, while poor data quality leads to inaccurate insights and inefficiencies.
Posted August 14, 2025
For the database world, the future looks extremely challenging—and, even more, exceedingly promising. Looking ahead over the next few years, organizations will be relying on their databases in ways never imagined, as leaders and decision makers look to their data resources for intelligence, real-time views, and adaptability to business changes.
Posted August 14, 2025
We are at a crossroads when it comes to expanding the role and potential of AI in organizations. Everybody wants it, but many see difficult-to-climb hurdles embedded within their organizations. And holding back may be costly.
Posted August 14, 2025
This summer, I traveled to Bordeaux to explore French wine straight from the source. Coming from the tech world—with limited knowledge of the region (Left Bank? Right Bank? I barely knew the difference)—I was eager to understand what makes Bordeaux wines so revered worldwide. One concept I kept hearing about was "terroir," a uniquely French term that refers to the combination of soil, climate, terrain, and even local traditions that give each vineyard its distinct character. I was curious to see how this intricate relationship between nature and human touch shapes the wines and how, in today's high-tech age, tradition and innovation intersect in Bordeaux.
Posted August 14, 2025
The role of the Database Administrator (DBA) has always been dynamic, evolving alongside shifts in technology, data strategies, and business needs. But in 2025, the DBA's responsibilities are transforming at an unprecedented pace. No longer just the custodian of databases, today's DBA must be a data strategist, an automation expert, a cloud integrator, and even a business enabler.
Posted August 14, 2025
If you've worked in any data-centric role, you've probably experienced the effects of the proverbial "mandate from on high." Someone in the C-suite decides it's time to hop on the latest shift in the tech landscape—whether generative AI, hybrid cloud infrastructure, or remote work—and now it's time for the entire tech department to make it happen.
Posted August 14, 2025
In partnership with Enterprise AI World, DBTA's latest webinar, Unlocking Enterprise Value: Making Strategic AI Investments That Deliver, featured the expertise of Shawn Isinhue, global head of business value services, Moveworks, exploring how to align AI initiatives with business impact through a potent mix of technical, operational, and human capabilities.
Posted August 13, 2025
Picus Security, a leading security validation company, is partnering with ThreatConnect to offer its Risk Quantification Module, aiming to deliver a transparent, validation-first approach to cyber risk measurement. At the heart of this new module is ThreatConnect's Risk Quantifier (RQ), which powers the financial modeling engine behind Picus' real-time risk insights.
Posted August 13, 2025
CyberHeed, the company redefining cybersecurity compliance with agentic AI, is introducing powerful new AI capabilities that reduce cybersecurity compliance workloads—designed to streamline critical tasks from documentation to evidence and actionable insights, the company's new AI system transforms how organizations manage Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) processes.
Posted August 13, 2025
MongoDB, Inc. is introducing a range of product innovations and AI partner ecosystem expansions to help customers build accurate, trustworthy, and reliable AI applications at scale. According to the company, by providing industry-leading embedding models and a fully integrated, AI-ready data platform—and by assembling a world-class ecosystem of AI partners—MongoDB is giving organizations everywhere the tools to deliver reliable, performant, cost-effective AI.
Posted August 12, 2025
Codien is introducing its new AI agent designed to simplify and accelerate the transition from legacy test automation frameworks, such as Protractor and Selenium, to the modern Playwright framework. Developed by the team at Cognida.ai, Codien also streamlines the creation of new Playwright tests using natural language, according to the company.
Posted August 12, 2025
Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security, is offering FinOps Center, a new capability in Cribl.Cloud that brings enterprises a clear, unified view of how data flows through their systems, what it costs, and what it's worth.
Posted August 11, 2025
Apiiro, a leading Agentic Application Security Platform, is introducing the AutoFix Agent, an AI Agent for AppSec that auto-fixes design and code risks using runtime context tailored to your environment. The agent operates natively in developers' integrated development environments (IDEs), agnostic to IDE via a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) connection, the company said.
Posted August 11, 2025
SpyCloud, a leader in identity threat protection, is making enhancements to its SaaS Investigations solution, introducing the integration of advanced AI-powered insights that mirror the tradecraft of SpyCloud's seasoned investigators.
Posted August 11, 2025
Flex announced a new power shelf system to fast-track 800 VDC power architectures and support the growing demands of AI infrastructure, AI factories, and data centers. The Flex power shelf system provides industry-leading efficiency for NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems while preparing for the transition to 800 VDC data center power infrastructure to support the deployment of 1 megawatt IT racks, the company said.
Posted August 11, 2025
Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, is announcing that its latest iteration of Cloudera Data Services delivers private AI to on-prem environments.
Posted August 11, 2025
IBM is releasing its annual "Cost of a Data Breach Report," revealing AI adoption is greatly outpacing AI security and governance. While the overall number of organizations experiencing an AI-related breach is a small representation of the researched population, this is the first time security, governance, and access controls for AI have been studied in this report, which suggests AI is already an easy, high value target.
Posted August 11, 2025
Datavault AI Inc., a leader in AI data experience, announced the expanded commercialization of its flagship AI agents—DataScore and DataValue—built with IBM watsonx.ai. IBM has also committed AI engineering talent and deep technical expertise over multiple years to help Datavault expand and accelerate the impact of its offerings for clients.
Posted August 11, 2025
Chetan Swain, senior product marketing manager, Informatica, joined DBTA's webinar, Data Integration and Governance for the AI Era, to explore emerging technologies and trends reshaping how organizations manage data for AI enablement, from data fabric and data mesh, to real-time data integration, no-/low-code integration, and more.
Posted August 08, 2025
DBTA's webinar, The Impact of AI on the DBA, illustrated the new challenges and opportunities facing DBAs in the AI era, featuring expert perspectives on the skills, tools, and mindsets required for DBA success.
Posted August 08, 2025
Redpanda, the real-time data platform that powers agentic and operational applications, is introducing Redpanda 25.2, simplifying Iceberg adoption for enterprise users and including support for Databricks Unity Catalog—allowing enterprise customers to turn streaming event data into queryable Iceberg tables in Databricks.
Posted August 07, 2025
The amount of data and its complexity has been growing at a rapid clip and shows no sign of stopping. To contain this data, organizations have been introducing different types of database platforms alongside relational solutions. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers!
Posted August 06, 2025
Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, is announcing an expanded collaboration with HPE that enables greater adoption of HPE Private Cloud AI—a turnkey AI factory for private cloud designed to accelerate AI journeys, co-developed with NVIDIA.
Posted August 06, 2025
Foundry is rebranding itself as Mithril, reflecting its mission to simplify access to distributed AI compute. According to the company, "the Mithril brand embodies the platform's mission: transforming powerful but traditionally rigid AI infrastructure into a fluid, universally accessible resource for AI practitioners."
Posted August 06, 2025
Oracle announced it evaluated MCP and has integrated it into its core developer tools, making the Oracle Database immediately available on any platform supporting MCP. This integration is made available via our modern command line to the Oracle Database, Oracle SQLcl.
Posted August 06, 2025
Bloom Energy, a global leader in power solutions, announced that it will deploy its fuel cell technology at select Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers in the U.S. to support the growing demand for OCI's AI and cloud computing services. Bloom Energy will deliver highly reliable and cost-efficient onsite power for an entire data center within 90 days, according to the vendor.
Posted August 06, 2025
Rapid7, Inc., a leader in threat detection and exposure management, is launching Incident Command, a new next-gen SIEM extending the capabilities of its Command Platform, purpose-built to transform how security teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats.
Posted August 05, 2025
Cloudera, the only data and AI platform company that brings the cloud anywhere, is announcing its acquisition of Taikun, a leading platform provider for managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Posted August 04, 2025
OpenText, a leading information management company, and TELUS, a world-leading communications technology company, are introducing the OpenText and TELUS Canadian Sovereign Cloud—empowering Canadian organizations and government agencies with access to enterprise-grade cloud computing and AI capabilities while ensuring complete data sovereignty. This means every application, dataset, computation, and network operation remains securely within Canadian borders, according to OpenText and TELUS.
Posted August 04, 2025
DBTA's webinar, Is Your Data Ready for AI? How to Build a Solid Foundation, highlighted perspectives from industry experts about proven best practices, modern architecture strategies, and new technologies that prepare organizations for true AI success.
Posted August 01, 2025
LogicMonitor, a leading SaaS-based platform for AI-powered data center transformation, announced the availability of Edwin AI, LogicMonitor's AI Agent for ITOps (IT Operations), in the new AI Agents and Tools category of AWS Marketplace.
Posted August 01, 2025
Observe Inc., the AI-powered observability company, announced it secured $156 million in a Series C funding round, enabling Observe to continue investing in product development, AI innovation, and global hiring. As enterprises adapt to a new world where every system, service, and agent generates actionable data, Observe is emerging as the leader in AI-powered observability at cloud scale, the company said.
Posted August 01, 2025
Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, is announcing an investment of $200 million over the next three years, driving the growth, reach, and impact of its global partner ecosystem, according to the company.
Posted July 31, 2025
Numecent, a leader in application containerization and cloud-native application delivery, announced that its Cloudpaging Player now supports Windows on Arm (WoA)—making the company one of the first application virtualization and container management solution providers to extend native support to Windows on Arm devices.
Posted July 31, 2025
Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity leader, announced its plans to acquire CyberArk, a leader in Identity Security—marking Palo Alto Networks' entry into identity security.
Posted July 31, 2025
Yugabyte, the distributed SQL database expert, is unveiling extended vector search functionality and PostgreSQL compatibility for YugabyteDB, the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud native apps.
Posted July 31, 2025
Varonis Systems, Inc., a data security leader, is releasing Varonis Next-Gen Database Activity Monitoring (DAM), a new approach to database security that deploys quickly and prevents data breaches while ensuring regulatory compliance.
Posted July 30, 2025
Qdrant, a leading provider of high-performance, open-source vector search, is offering a private beta of Qdrant Edge, a lightweight, embedded vector search engine designed for AI systems on devices such as robots, point of sales, home assistants, and mobile phones.
Posted July 30, 2025
In DBTA's webinar, Achieving Unified Analytics: Top Tools and Strategies, experts offered their insights on achieving unified analytics, defined by reimagining traditional data architectures with modern data platforms, tools, and approaches.
Posted July 29, 2025
Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity leader, officially completed its acquisition of Protect AI, a leader in securing Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and models—Palo Alto Networks' commitment to securing the next generation of technology infrastructure.
Posted July 29, 2025
Parasoft, a global leader in AI-driven software testing solutions, is introducing a variety of autonomous testing capabilities to its flagship testing solutions, including SOAtest, Virtualize, and CTP. According to the company, new functionality includes first-to-market agentic AI-driven virtual service generation, which reduces the time and expertise required to create comprehensive test environments.
Posted July 29, 2025
Drizz, the Vision AI mobile application testing agent built for the speed and complexity of AI-powered app development, is emerging from stealth backed by $2.7 million. Founded by engineers from Amazon, Coinbase, and Gojek, Drizz introduces intuitive, visual-based app testing to the market, accelerating the evaluation of apps through the power of AI.
Posted July 28, 2025
Dynatrace, the leading AI-powered observability platform, is introducing significant advancements to its 3rd generation platform, enabling customers to unlock greater value of its capabilities with reimagined observability that combines the power of analytics, AI, and automation to drive progress toward autonomous intelligence.
Posted July 28, 2025
Solace, a leader in powering real-time, event-driven integration for the agentic age, announced the availability of Solace Agent Mesh in the new AI Agents and Tools category of AWS Marketplace—empowering customers to use the AWS Marketplace to easily discover, buy, and deploy Solace's event-driven agentic AI framework using their AWS accounts.
Posted July 28, 2025
IBM is building upon its strong foundation with z/OS 3.2, the next release of the IBM flagship mainframe operating system, designed to unlock the value of the new IBM z17. IBM z/OS has been the foundation for enterprises that need unmatched reliability, scalability, and security, according to the company.
Posted July 28, 2025
Accelsius, a leader in advanced data center cooling solutions, announced that its proprietary NeuCool IR80 system will be deployed in Q3 2025 at Equinix's Co-Innovation Facility (CIF) in the DC15 International Business Exchange (IBX) data center at the Equinix Ashburn Campus.
Posted July 28, 2025
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is announcing its intent to acquire data and AI security company, Satori Cyber Ltd.
Posted July 25, 2025
Qdrant, the leading provider of high-performance, open source vector search, is debuting Qdrant Cloud Inference, a new solution for generating text and image embeddings directly within managed Qdrant Cloud clusters.
Posted July 23, 2025
The Trump Administration rolled out a plan to reign in regulations to speed up the development of AI tools and the infrastructure to power them. "The Action Plan's objective is to articulate policy recommendations that this Administration can deliver for the American people to achieve the President's vision of global AI dominance," the report said.
Posted July 23, 2025