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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
CloudBolt Software, The Cloud ROI Company and a recognized leader in cloud cost management, is forming a strategic distribution agreement with Ingram Micro, amplifying global access to CloudBolt's Cloud Management and Augmented FinOps Platform.
Posted July 31, 2025
Payara, provider of fully managed cloud-native solutions for running and managing Java applications, and Azul, a company 100% focused on Java, are partnering to help enterprises modernize their Java applications with a codeless, lift-and-shift migration solution, reducing infrastructure and cloud costs and boosting performance and scalability.
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
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
Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers to simplify access to the leading enterprise Linux platform for business-focused development and testing scenarios. A new self-service offering through the Red Hat Developer Program, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers helps business development teams build, test, and iterate on applications more quickly and on the same platform that underpins production systems across the hybrid cloud at no cost.
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
Redgate Software is launching Redgate pgNow Community and Redgate pgCompare Community, two new tools that provide Redgate's database DevOps capabilities to PostgreSQL. Available immediately and free to use, the tools further extend Redgate's multi-database support for PostgreSQL, reflecting the growing adoption of PostgreSQL in modern data environments, the company said.
Posted July 28, 2025
In the analytics world, when building data marts or other data areas meant to support end users, the goal is to present the "needed data" allowing users to perform their queries and analyses. This means that if an "XYZ Value" is required, then the "XYZ Value" is presented.
Posted July 28, 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
Denodo, a leader in data management, announced the availability of the Denodo Platform in the new AI Agents and Tools category of AWS Marketplace, allowing AWS customers to now use AWS Marketplace to easily discover, buy, and deploy AI agent solutions, including Denodo's platform, to accelerate AI agent and agentic workflow development.
Posted July 23, 2025
With the rapid success of OpenAI's ChatGPT and other emerging types of AI solutions in the last several years, organizations have been scrambling to adopt artificial intelligence by "any means necessary." This pivot has changed how organizations think about modern enterprise data architecture.
Posted July 23, 2025
This latest course will enable attendees to facilitate a new Joule Agent Discovery Workshop, guide workshop participants to identify appropriate use cases, and tailor the workshop format to the needs of different audiences. Joule Agents are AI systems that autonomously plan and execute multi-step workflows, collaborating to connect departments, speed up decisions, and streamline processes.
Posted July 23, 2025
SAP is releasing a new cloud edition of SAP Customer Checkout, providing customers a seamless, efficient, and scalable point-of-sale (POS) solution for the future. Designed for customers in retail, merchandising, catering, and sports and entertainment, SAP Customer Checkout, cloud edition, offers seamless integration with SAP S/4HANA and other systems, according to the company.
Posted July 23, 2025
Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, is launching the Infosys Enterprise Innovation Lab for SAP Solutions at Infosys' premises in Düsseldorf, Germany. As part of the collaboration between Infosys and SAP, this lab is designed to enable enterprises to explore the limitless possibilities of AI and data, co-create tailored solutions that address their business challenges, and accelerate the adoption of cutting-edge Infosys and SAP offerings, according to Infosys.
Posted July 23, 2025
SAP HANA Cloud now offers more context-aware AI solutions on its single, multi-model platform that brings together vector, graph, text, spatial, and relational data natively. Rather than sending data across disparate services, users can store and process all of it in one place, accelerating time-to-value while reducing the risk of misalignment. This is multi-model done right, and it is the foundation for powerful AI workloads that scale, according to SAP.
Posted July 23, 2025
Recognizing that increasing demands for faster insights and executive-level visibility required a fundamental shift, Elite Lighting partnered with Rover BI and Zumasys. The implementation was carefully managed to ensure data accuracy while accommodating Elite Lighting's custom agent configurations.
Posted July 23, 2025
Entrinsik recently announced that Informer is now officially Ellucian SaaS Verified for Banner, a milestone that brings value to its current and future customers in the higher education space. This certification confirms that Informer has met rigorous technical and security standards set by Ellucian and users can confidently leverage Informer to connect with Banner SaaS data quickly, securely, and without heavy IT lift.
Posted July 23, 2025
Kore Technologies, a leader in enterprise data synchronization, and LeadSmart Technologies, a provider of AI-enabled CRM and customer intelligence platforms, are partnering to scale the LeadSmart Channel Cloud Eclipse Accelerator—powered by Kore Integrate. This is a joint solution that integrates LeadSmart CRM with the Epicor Eclipse ERP system (Eclipse).
Posted July 23, 2025
Indexes are fundamental to database performance, but too often, they're treated as "set it and forget it" structures. As the data landscape evolves—with hybrid cloud deployments, real-time analytics, and machine learning workloads—so too must our approach to indexing.
Posted July 23, 2025
OpenAI and the U.K. Government are entering a strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence, along with the goal to deliver on the U.K.'s AI Opportunities Action Plan and its ambition to deploy AI for shared prosperity. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the U.K. Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology, Peter Kyle MP, signed a Memorandum of Understanding?(opens in a new window) (MOU) focused on unlocking the economic and societal benefits of AI.
Posted July 22, 2025
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and AI, is offering the Qlik Cloud Analytics in the new AI Agents and Tools category of AWS Marketplace, enabling customers to use the AWS Marketplace to easily discover, buy, and deploy AI agent and tool solutions, including Qlik Answers.
Posted July 22, 2025
Strata Identity is introducing a new product, Identity Orchestration for AI Agents, built on Strata's Maverics vendor-agnostic identity fabric and hybrid air-gap architecture to offer identity guardrails and observability for AI agents without limiting identity provider (IDP) choice.
Posted July 22, 2025
Ashley Kuhlwilm, senior product marketing manager, Astronomer, and Chris George, principal sales engineer, Astronomer, joined DBTA's webinar, Why Data Observability Needs an Orchestration-First Approach, to illuminate how enterprises must shift to pipeline-aware observability to deliver trusted data for analytics and AI use cases.
Posted July 21, 2025
Stellar Cyber, the security illumination company, is introducing advances to its Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) capabilities, fully embedding it into its open, unified, AI-driven SecOps platform. According to the company, ITDR marks a critical step forward on the journey to a human-augmented autonomous SOC, empowering security teams with identity-centric visibility and control—without requiring additional tools or consoles.
Posted July 18, 2025
Data Squared (Data²), a small business dedicated to helping public and private sector organizations unlock the full potential of their data, is partnering with Neo4j, a leading graph database and analytics company, to deepen the integration of Data²'s "reView" platform with Neo4j's graph-based technology to deliver "hallucination-resistant, explainable AI systems."
Posted July 18, 2025
Assured Data Protection (Assured), a prominent IT managed services provider (MSP) for cloud data protection solutions, is partnering with AVANT, the premier Technology Services Distributor (TSD), enabling AVANT to offer Assured's managed data backup and disaster recovery (DR) along with its cyber resiliency services.
Posted July 17, 2025
Synopsys announced the official completion of its acquisition of Ansys, combining leaders in silicon design, IP and simulation, and analysis to enable customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products.
Posted July 17, 2025
SiMa.ai, a leading provider of Machine Learning System on a Chip (MLSoC) silicon and the Palette software platform, announced a collaboration with Cisco to bring artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to Industry 4.0 environments. By integrating SiMa.ai's energy-efficient Modalix AI platform with Cisco's new, robust and ruggedized IE3500 portfolio of switches, customers can now deploy powerful, production-grade edge AI solutions across manufacturing, logistics, and industrial automation use cases, according to the vendors.
Posted July 17, 2025
Coralogix, a leading full-stack observability platform provider, is debuting the Coralogix Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, enabling third-party AI agents to directly connect to Coralogix's observability data.
Posted July 16, 2025
Storyblok, the modern headless content management system (CMS) that helps teams ship faster, is introducing Blueprints—a new way for developers to kickstart website projects with structure, speed, and total control.
Posted July 16, 2025
Teleport, the Infrastructure Identity company, is making a major update to its platform to give security teams unprecedented insight into how identities behave as they move across identity provider, code, cloud, and infrastructure environments.
Posted July 16, 2025
Oracle announced it will invest $3 billion in Germany and the Netherlands over the next five years to meet the rising demands for AI and bolster its infrastructure powering artificial intelligence and cloud offerings in the European market. Oracle is planning to spend $2 billion in Germany and $1 billion in the Netherlands, the company said in separate statements. Additionally, Oracle said that the spending efforts will lead to a "significant expansion of AI infrastructure capacity" in both countries.
Posted July 16, 2025
Oracle and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced a first-of-a-kind partnership to help agencies across the federal government modernize technology and deliver savings for American taxpayers. Oracle's AI enabling cloud infrastructure includes Oracle Database 23ai, application suites with AI fully integrated, and partnerships with large language model and GPU providers give customers access to the most cutting-edge AI capabilities.
Posted July 16, 2025
Oracle and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, enabling customers to now run Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within AWS.
Posted July 16, 2025
In the rush to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), enterprises across industries have encountered a harsh reality: transformation takes more than technology. Two years ago, generative AI captured the imagination of business and technology leaders alike, promising to revolutionize operations and decision-making. Yet today, many organizations find themselves with pilot projects that are failing to scale, and AI investments that are falling short of expectations.
Posted July 16, 2025
Extreme Networks, Inc., is announcing the general availability of Extreme Platform ONE, the first all-in-one networking platform fueled by conversational, multimodal, and agentic AI.
Posted July 15, 2025
DuploCloud, a leading DevOps automation platform purpose-built for secure cloud operations and compliance, is entering a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring a new set of automated DevOps solutions to AWS customers.
Posted July 15, 2025
In April 2022, we composed an article titled, "The Weaponization of Software License Audits." It focused on how software license audits have long been used as a successful, revenue-generating tool for software vendors. Gartner has noted that vendor-driven, revenue-motivated audits are on the rise across all industries and company demographics.
Posted July 15, 2025
KIOXIA is updating its AiSAQ (All-in-Storage ANNS with Product Quantization) software to improve the usability of AI vector database searches within retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems by optimizing the use of solid-state drives (SSDs).
Posted July 14, 2025