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Data lakes and data warehouses are achieving a measure of success in modern data architectures, but the emergence of the data lakehouse offers new challenges and opportunities for database administrators (DBAs). What are the implications for DBAs and their careers? How do their roles evolve as data lakehouse usage expands? Let's examine the concepts, challenges, and opportunities for DBAs in the era of the data lakehouse.
Posted March 13, 2025
Even when we try to discuss a nameless thing, we apply a pseudo-name to allow us to articulate our thoughts. The "pink place," "the big, big road," "the evil-looking tree" …. To discuss a thing, it must have an identity. A name supplies an identity for a thing. Once named, we may now speak of it. The bedrock of any good set of standards starts with names. Regardless of the role we may play in managing technological solutions, everything needs a name because everything will be discussed.
Posted March 13, 2025
Rocket Software is releasing AccuTerm 8.1.2, adding support for PRISM P30 and P9 terminal emulation to AccuTerm Web. This new feature allows users to run applications that rely on PRISM emulations in a web browser without making costly and time-consuming application changes.
Posted March 13, 2025
Entrinsik is launching Informer 2025.1.0 soon, introducing updates that make AI-powered tools more accessible and improve how users work with their data. According to the company, this release brings AI licensing to all users with flexible, usage-based pricing, along with new features like Magic Visual and expanded Libraries Integrations, helping clients get more value from their data.
Posted March 13, 2025
Rubrik is introducing significant innovations to its portfolio that are designed to enhance protection for cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. According to Rubrik, the innovations aim to provide customers with even more ability to anticipate breaches, detect potential threats, and recover with speed and efficiency no matter where their data lives.
Posted March 12, 2025
Momentic, an AI end-to-end testing platform for developers, announced it has raised $3.7M in a seed round, enabling the company to accelerate its own product development and hiring process.
Posted March 12, 2025
NEXCOM is releasing the FTA 5190 AI-Powered Edge Server, powered by the Intel Xeon 6 SoC, meeting the growing demand for seamless data processing and enabling efficient collaboration, big data handling, and application-centric deployments.
Posted March 12, 2025
Web3 promised decentralization, transparency, and security, but instead of overcoming Web2's vulnerabilities, it is creating an even more dangerous cyberthreat landscape. New research shows that blockchain is facing rising threats such as malware, phishing, ransomware, and DDoS attacks that are leaving developers scrambling for solutions.
Posted March 12, 2025
Bluwhale, an AI Web3 start-up, announced that it has topped its funding to $100 million, enabling the company to further expand its Web3 intelligence layer across multiple L1 and L2 blockchains. This total amount of funding includes its Seed/Series A round as well as a $75 million token purchase commitment, grants, and node sale proceeds.
Posted March 12, 2025
International software development company deverium is introducing alongID, making the process of digital identity verification easier. According to the company, alongID is a digital identity orchestration engine for cross-border identity verification (IDV), supported by a digital wallet that keeps data privacy at its core while enabling identity credentials to be shared and verified across borders.
Posted March 11, 2025
Sonar, the leading provider of integrated code quality and code security solutions, is unveiling SonarQube Advanced Security, which extends SonarQube's analysis capabilities—which currently cover first-party and AI-generated code—to include third-party, open source code.
Posted March 11, 2025
ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a leading provider of enterprise IT management solutions, is transforming Log360—its unified security information and event management (SIEM) and IT compliance management solution—into a security analytics platform.
Posted March 11, 2025
Progress, the trusted provider of AI-powered digital experience and infrastructure software, is adding Web Application Firewall (WAF) functionality to the Progress MOVEit Cloud managed file transfer (MFT) solution, strengthening security sensitive data by blocking malicious web traffic before it can infiltrate systems.
Posted March 10, 2025
R Systems International Limited (a Blackstone portfolio Company), a global leader in digital product engineering, is launching its IoT Smart C2C Connector built on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—solving challenges faced by service providers in managing and integrating a diverse range of smart home devices.
Posted March 10, 2025
PEAK:AIO, a fast-scaling AI infrastructure provider redefining AI and GPU data storage, is releasing a new version of its AI Data Server, setting a new standard for performance, density, and sustainability. Engineered with Dell Technologies' enterprise-grade precision and powered by PEAK:AIO's cutting-edge software, this compact 2U solution provides 1.5PB of storage and 120GB/sec RDMA NFS and NVMe-oF performance.
Posted March 10, 2025
Nebius Group N.V. (Nebius), a leading AI infrastructure company, is upgrading its U.S.-based cloud computing capacity with the planned construction of a new data center in New Jersey, with capacity of up to 300 MW. The data center that Nebius has commissioned in New Jersey will be built to Nebius's own design, enabling the company to achieve maximum efficiency and offer superlative performance to customers.
Posted March 10, 2025
IBM is debuting the latest version of its Granite large language model (LLM) family, Granite 3.2—continuing to deliver small, efficient, practical enterprise AI for real-world impact.
Posted March 10, 2025
IBM announced its intent to acquire DataStax, an AI and data solution provider that will enhance IBM's watsonx portfolio of products to accelerate the use of generative AI and help companies unlock value from vast amounts of unstructured data. According to the companies the acquisition also builds on IBM's commitment to open-source AI.
Posted March 10, 2025
Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, is introducing Data Link, a partner program designed to streamline the integration of the Precisely data portfolio with data from trusted providers via pre-linked datasets.
Posted March 07, 2025
Red Canary, a leader in managed detection and response (MDR), is adding new capabilities to Red Canary Security Data Lake, a service that enables IT and security teams to efficiently store, search, and access large volumes of infrequently accessed logs.
Posted March 07, 2025
Cyera, a global leader in data security, announced it set a world record as the fastest-growing company in the industry's history—with nearly $800 million raised.
Posted March 06, 2025
CloudCasa by Catalogic, a leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, is providing an integration with SUSE Rancher Prime via a new Rancher Prime Extension, delivering stress-free infrastructure to securely deploy, run, and manage modern workloads anywhere.
Posted March 06, 2025
TigerGraph, the enterprise AI infrastructure and graph database leader, is releasing its next generation graph and vector hybrid search, delivering the industry's "most advanced" solution for detecting data anomalies through sophisticated pattern analysis, identifying critical deviations from expected norms, and providing actionable recommendations.
Posted March 05, 2025
Vector database developer Weaviate is adding a crucial piece to its AI development stack—Weaviate Agents, a new set of services for building the next generation of AI and agentic applications.
Posted March 05, 2025
Database security is crucial to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data. It builds customer trust, helps comply with regulations, and reduces the risks associated with cyberattacks or unauthorized access. Security has always been a top priority for Oracle. Oracle 23ai has introduced several advanced security features that help in protecting data, managing privileges, enhanced encryption, and more.
Posted March 05, 2025
Oracle is introducing new capabilities to its Oracle's health system operations suite, including Oracle Health Patient Flow, Oracle Health Clinical Operations Whiteboard, Oracle Health Transfer Center, and Oracle Health Command Center Dashboard, empowering health systems to act quickly and effectively in emergency situations.
Posted March 05, 2025
To meet growing customer demand for multi-cloud capabilities, Oracle announced the general availability of the Oracle U.S. Gov West (Phoenix) and Azure U.S. Gov Arizona (Phoenix) regions for Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure.
Posted March 05, 2025
CrowdStrike announced it is bringing the power of CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). "Organizations need a unified platform for cloud security—not a patchwork of solutions that fail to stop threats," said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer, CrowdStrike. "Today's cloud security landscape is fragmented, forcing businesses to manage too many point products that increase costs, complexity, and risk. CrowdStrike and Oracle are changing that. With Falcon Cloud Security supported on OCI, organizations get one platform for complete cloud protection."
Posted March 05, 2025
All of the hype and high hopes around AI in recent years has focused on compelling use cases—from creating new medicines to taking over customer service. However, all AI efforts will be nonstarters without well-governed, well-sourced data. That is the leading challenge for enterprises going forward in the competitive economy of 2025.
Posted March 05, 2025
Dynatrace, the leading AI-powered observability platform, is announcing new AI-powered log analytics capabilities that remediate the gap between legacy log management solutions and modern monitoring tools.
Posted March 04, 2025
Rubrik and Pure Storage are partnering to deliver a reference architecture solution that enables organizations to unify, manage, and secure unstructured data at scale. According to the vendors, because of this alliance, organizations of all sizes can experience data storage and cyber resilience with unmatched efficiency and simplicity to manage exponential data growth, eliminate performance bottlenecks, and bolster protection against sophisticated threats.
Posted March 04, 2025
Actian, the data division of HCLSoftware, is enhancing the Actian Data Intelligence Platform, formerly known as the Zeenea Data Discovery Platform, to automate data discovery and support governed data usage.
Posted March 04, 2025
Reltio, a leader in data unification and management, is releasing the Reltio Lightspeed Data Delivery Network, powering real-time applications and personalized customer experiences with unified data.
Posted March 03, 2025
Juniper Networks, a leader in secure AI-native networking, is introducing a new round of innovations for its routing portfolio that expedite deployment and enhance routing troubleshooting at scale.
Posted March 03, 2025
Alation Inc., the data intelligence company, is announcing the launch of its Agentic Platform—a solution that empowers data teams with AI-driven automation—and with it, three additional new technologies, Alation Data Quality (DQ), a Data Products Marketplace, and an Expert Services offering. With the goal of making data management as intuitive and "invisible" as possible, Alation's latest innovations cut through the complexities of data management with AI agents, data trust, reusable data assets, and robust support services.
Posted March 03, 2025
Opkey is releasing its ERP Lifecycle Optimization Platform, ushering in a new era of AI-powered transformation for business-critical enterprise applications, combining agentic AI, advanced process mining, observability, and intelligent web automation.
Posted February 28, 2025
AvePoint, a global leader in data security, governance, and resilience, is offering new security solutions for Google Workspace and Google Cloud, reinforcing its commitment to protecting and managing data across multi-cloud environments.
Posted February 28, 2025
Acceldata, the market leader in enterprise data observability, is debuting its new, AI-first data management platform—Agentic Data Management (Agentic DM)—which is engineered to better prepare enterprises for their AI initiatives.
Posted February 27, 2025
Xurrent, the service and operations management platform purpose-built for modern enterprises and managed services providers, is announcing its acquisition of Zenduty—a leader in cutting-edge incident and alert management solutions. By uniting the two platforms, Xurrent's supercharged IT Service Management (ITSM) capabilities will provide its customers with a comprehensive, end-to-end approach to IT operations that not only resolve incidents, but prevent them from recurring, the company said.
Posted February 27, 2025
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI. The closing comes two days after U.K.'s antitrust regulator accepted the deal.
Posted February 27, 2025
DataStrike, a leader in data infrastructure managed services, is releasing its business intelligence (BI) managed services solution, designed to help organizations unlock the value of their data by delivering cost-effective, scalable solutions for data transformation and analytics.
Posted February 27, 2025
BigID, a leader in data security, privacy, compliance, and governance, is introducing BigID Next, a cloud-native, AI-powered Data Security Platform (DSP) designed to help enterprises discover, manage, and protect their data at scale. BigID Next delivers proactive security controls that help CISOs and CIOs future-proof their organizations and drive growth.
Posted February 27, 2025
SAP and Databricks are launching SAP Business Data Cloud, a new solution that unifies all SAP and third-party data throughout an organization, providing a trusted data foundation to make impactful decisions and foster reliable AI. According to the companies, the solution harmonizes data from organizations' most mission-critical applications with data engineering and business analytics capabilities, paving the way for next-level innovation and insights.
Posted February 27, 2025
The role of the Database Administrator (DBA) is constantly evolving to adapt to changes in technology and application development methods. Once primarily focused on managing physical hardware and software, DBAs now find themselves navigating a complex landscape of cloud technologies, AI-driven automation, and ever-increasing data volumes. Here at the beginning of 2025, let's explore the top five concerns that keep DBAs up at night.
Posted February 27, 2025
Quest Software, a global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, data management, and migration, is offering the next iteration of Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and disaster recovery to challenge outdated models and set new standards for proactive defense and rapid recovery.
Posted February 27, 2025
cbs Corporate Business Solutions announced that its Advanced Integration of Documents for Long Term Supplier Declarations (AID for LTSD) solution is certified by SAP as built with SAP Business AI, leveraging SAP Business Technology Platform's generative AI Hub in SAP AI Core. By utilizing these tools, cbs can harness the power of AI to build scalable, personalized applications that drive value for their customers, according to the vendor.
Posted February 26, 2025
SAP is offering its partners the new SAP Demo Environment 2.0, a platform designed to benefit partners by providing easy access to the entire SAP solution demo portfolio to allows them to effectively communicate the value of SAP solutions. This solution can help customers understand how these tools can address their specific challenges and enhance their businesses, according to SAP.
Posted February 26, 2025
SecurityBridge, the Cybersecurity Command Center for SAP, is releasing SecurityBridge Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and IT Service Management (ITSM) for SAP, designed to enhance SAP-specific security monitoring and incident management.
Posted February 26, 2025