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Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and Hybrid Cloud approaches as well as services such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) are being embraced for cost efficiency, scalability, and consolidation. Hypervisor technologies, Open Source versus Proprietary Hypervisor technologies, Security, Open Standards, Interoperability, High Availability, and Backup & Recovery are among the issues that are critical to consider when evaluating a move to the cloud.



Cloud Computing Articles

Innovators at ArangoDB joined DBTA's webinar, Unleash the Future of Data Management: Transitioning from Legacy Graphs to a Modern, Complete, and Scalable Solution, to expose the way graph technology has been transformed by ArangoDB, debunking data management myths and addressing various tech challenges.

Posted September 28, 2023

Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, is launching Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and the general availability of Universal Profiling, providing site reliability engineers (SREs), at all levels of expertise, with context-aware, relevant, and actionable operational insights that are specific to their IT environment. While Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) has helped to translate, streamline, and automate problem resolution, Elastic AI Assistant for Observability, powered by the advances of generative AI, makes it faster and easier, according to the company.

Posted September 28, 2023

Starburst, the data lake analytics platform, is adding enhancements to both Starburst Galaxy and Starburst Enterprise, supporting customers at every stage of their cloud journeys. According to the company, as the data lake analytics platform built for optionality, Starburst is committed to meeting customers where they are and supporting those journeys regardless of the stage.

Posted September 28, 2023

Experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, Data Security and Governance in the Cloud Era, to explore the latest technologies and best practices for navigating the cloud with security and governance in mind.

Posted September 28, 2023

CloudBees, the software delivery platform provider, is unveiling two major updates to the CloudBees environment, featuring a new cloud native DevSecOps platform and significant performance and scalability improvements for Jenkins—the most widely used CI/CD software, globally—within CloudBees CI, a fully featured cloud native capability for continuous integration (CI).

Posted September 28, 2023

Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, is announcing Gigamon Precryption, an automated solution that grants unobscured visibility into encrypted traffic across virtual machine (VM) or container workloads.

Posted September 28, 2023

IonQ, a leader in the quantum computing industry, is debuting two rack-mounted solutions that introduce quantum capabilities to existing infrastructures: IonQ Forte Enterprise and IonQ Tempo.

Posted September 27, 2023

Experts from Quest joined DBTA's webinar, From Oracle to Postgres: Some Modern Database Architectures & Seamless Transitions, to discuss the latest of Quest's Postgres-based offerings finding considerable success in a post-Oracle world.

Posted September 27, 2023

SAP announced that Amadeus has successfully transitioned its main SAP software infrastructure to the cloud through the RISE with SAP solution, marking a significant milestone for one of the world's leading technology companies for the travel and tourism industry in its digital transformation journey. Leveraging RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition, Amadeus transitioned its internal processes to the cloud with Microsoft Azure to improve operational resilience and evolve its operations to a cloud operations-based model.

Posted September 27, 2023

SAP and Google Cloud announced an expanded partnership to help enterprises harness the power of data and generative AI. The companies will combine their integrated open data cloud using the SAP Datasphere solution with Vertex AI to launch new generative AI-powered industry solutions starting with automotive and introduce new capabilities to help customers improve sustainability performance.

Posted September 27, 2023

SAP and LeanIX GmbH anndounced that SAP has entered into an agreement to acquire LeanIX, a leader in enterprise architecture management (EAM) software, helping SAP expand its business transformation portfolio and giving customers access to the full suite of tools required for continuous business transformation and facilitating AI-enabled process optimization.

Posted September 27, 2023

SecurityBridge, a provider of cybersecurity solutions for SAP customers, is acquiring Dutch SAP security specialist Protect4S, enabling the company to offer customers an even more comprehensive one-stop-shop software platform that will improve every SAP customer's security position across all technology stacks. SecurityBridge and Protect4S combine their long-standing expertise and deep understanding of customers' requirements to deliver best-in-class cybersecurity software solutions and to further expand their global activities, according to the companies.

Posted September 27, 2023

Rocket Software released the latest versions of UniVerse and the MultiValue Performance Experience (MVX: Performance) platforms. UniVerse 11.4.1 is focused on High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) with enhancements and improvements to Replication. UniVerse Replication ensures business continuity to minimize the risk of downtime and data loss.

Posted September 27, 2023

The role of the database administrator (DBA) has always been crucial to ensuring that databases are properly organized, secured, and optimized. But recent years have seen many significant changes in the field of database administration. Before talking about how it is changing, let's start by defining it. Database administration (or DBA) refers to the set of tasks and processes involved in managing and maintaining database systems (and the applications and users that access them). This includes everything from designing and creating databases to deploying, monitoring, and securing data across the enterprise.

Posted September 27, 2023

Vultr, the world's largest privately held cloud computing platform, is unveiling the Vultr GPU Stack and Container Registry, tackling the issues associated with configuring and provisioning GPUs, as well as the daunting task of ensuring that AI and machine learning (ML) models are secure and compliant.

Posted September 26, 2023

Privacera, the AI and data security governance company founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, announced an integration with Collibra, the Data Intelligence company, to enable end-to-end data security and data governance. From data cataloging and data classification to enforcement of data access policies, the integration automates data governance and streamlines compliance and auditing, according to the companies.

Posted September 26, 2023

Venafi, the inventor of machine identity management, is introducing Venafi Athena, the new underpinning AI technology for the Venafi Control Plane—made possible only by Venafi's modern software-as-a-service architecture built on decades of in-depth expertise and innovation. Venafi Athena combines the powers of machine learning, large language models, and Venafi's industry-leading data capabilities to make machine identity management easier and faster for security and platform teams, according to the company.

Posted September 25, 2023

Pliable, an AI-powered SaaS platform that simplifies organizing and leveraging data without an engineer, is coming out of stealth with a $2.5 million seed round led by Resolute Ventures, enabling the company to expand its team and platform to create a single source of truth for anyone to streamline their data processes.

Posted September 25, 2023

After the New Albany City Council approved a resolution for the construction of new data centers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, will move forward with plans for new investment in New Albany. The new data centers will support computer servers, networking equipment and the AWS technology that helps people connect to friends and family, work remotely, shop online, and stream movies, TV shows, music, and video games.

Posted September 25, 2023

GLP Pte Ltd. (GLP), a leading global business builder, developer, owner and operator of logistics real estate, data centers, and renewable energy, is launching Ada Infrastructure, a new global data center business founded on a commitment to being a positive force for technology, people, and the planet. Serving the digital infrastructure needs of hyperscale companies and large global enterprises, Ada Infrastructure launches with 850 megawatts (MW) of secured IT capacity across Japan, the U.K., and Brazil, and nearly 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of total future capacity. 

Posted September 25, 2023

ibi, a scalable data and analytics software platform, is releasing ibi Open Data Hub for Mainframe, introducing a breakthrough solution for organizations struggling with data retrieval from legacy data environments. According to the company, the offering revolutionizes the access and utilization of mainframe data by directly bringing this data into web-based business analytics capabilities.

Posted September 25, 2023

Building on its mission to protect customer data from threats, IBM is launching a guarantee to recover immutable snapshot data in 60 seconds or less, enabling businesses to persist through a ransomware attack protected by the IBM FlashSystem with Safeguarded Copy immutable snapshot. The Safeguarded Copy feature in IBM FlashSystem enables clients to make scheduled immutable snapshots, while preserving changes to data up to the time of the snapshot.

Posted September 25, 2023

MotherDuck, builder of the serverless, easy-to-use data analytics platform based on open source database DuckDB, is announcing the results of its Series B funding round, accumulating a total of $52.5 million and bringing its total funding to date to $100 million.

Posted September 22, 2023

Dan DeMers, CEO of Cinchy, and Frank Liu, head of AI and ML at Zilliz, joined DBTA's webinar, Unlocking the Power of Real-Time, AI and ML, to guide viewers through strategies and technologies for successful modernization which ultimately enable organizations to cater to the needs of modern data while overcoming its various challenges.

Posted September 22, 2023

Cisco announced it's acquiring Splunk, the cybersecurity and observability leader, building on Splunk's heritage of helping organizations enhance their digital resilience and will accelerate Cisco's strategy to securely connect everything to make anything possible.

Posted September 22, 2023

TruEra is releasing TruEra AI Observability, a full-lifecycle AI observability solution providing monitoring, debugging, and testing for ML models in a single SaaS offering along with covering both generative and traditional (discriminative) ML models. According to the company, the solution is aimed to meet customer needs for observability across their full portfolio of AI applications, as interest in developing and monitoring LLM-based apps accelerates.

Posted September 21, 2023

iboss, a leading name in Zero Trust, is releasing its latest groundbreaking capability, the Azure Cloud Security Gateways, providing security directly within Azure to transform how businesses manage and safeguard their digital ecosystems. According to the company, the Azure Cloud Security Gateways by iboss provide instant security within Azure and its private Virtual Networks.

Posted September 21, 2023

Telmai, the AI-driven data observability platform built for open architecture, is launching its latest release featuring seven category-defining features designed to simplify and accelerate data observability adoption. According to the company, Telmai's release empowers data engineers/architects and product owners to harness powerful time travel features, build multi-attribute data contracts, conduct in-depth root cause analysis of data failures, and gain greater control over data privacy and residency via its new private cloud offerings.

Posted September 20, 2023

The boom in generative AI interest serves as a visible tipping point in the yearslong journey of the enterprise embracing the power of data interaction through natural language processing (NLP). In recent years, NLP has undergone significant changes that have made it increasingly easier for users at all skill levels to handle and explore data without being a data scientist.

Posted September 20, 2023

Oracle is announcing the availability of Java 21, delivering thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements, including platform enhancements that will help developers increase productivity and drive innovation and growth across their organizations.

Posted September 20, 2023

Oracle is adding new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX) to help marketers, sellers, and service agents grow revenue and deliver exceptional customer experience. According to the company, the latest AI capabilities liberate marketers, sellers, and service agents from time-consuming and manual tasks by unlocking relevant content, recommendations, and insights with automation and conversational interfaces.

Posted September 20, 2023

Oracle and Microsoft are introducing Oracle Database@Azure, giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and deployed in Microsoft Azure data centers. According to the companies, Oracle Database@Azure delivers all the performance, scale, and workload availability advantages of Oracle Database on OCI with the security, flexibility, and best-in-class services of Microsoft Azure, including best-in-class AI services like Azure OpenAI.

Posted September 20, 2023

LogRhythm, the company helping security teams stop breaches by turning disconnected data and signals into trustworthy insights, and Cimcor, an industry leader in developing innovative security and integrity software solutions, are joining forces to mitigate against modern cyberthreats and increase overall visibility into data.

Posted September 19, 2023

Acceldata, the data observability company, is announcing its recent acquisition of Bewgle, the cutting-edge AI platform, expanding the former's observability technology into the realm of AI and large language models (LLMs).

Posted September 19, 2023

Kinetica, the speed layer for generative AI and real-time analytics, is integrating with a native large language model (LLM) that enables consumers to use natural language to perform ad-hoc analysis on real-time, structured data, centered around security.

Posted September 19, 2023

Vectra AI, the AI-driven cyber threat detection and response provider, is unveiling the Vectra AI Platform on CrowdStrike's Marketplace, bringing Vectra's integrated signal technology to CrowdStrike's one-stop destination for third party security products.

Posted September 18, 2023

In DBTA's recent webinar, Tamr + Google: The Secret to Boosting Data Confidence at Novocure, experts from their respective companies highlighted a real case of legacy system insufficiency, where a data product strategy revolutionized an otherwise insecure data infrastructure.

Posted September 18, 2023

ngrok, the API-first Ingress-as-a-Service platform, is debuting the ngrok Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), a traffic distributor that enhances the performance and resiliency of applications without burdening ITOps. 

Posted September 15, 2023

Pegasystems Inc., the low-code platform provider empowering the world's leading enterprises to Build for Change, is releasing the general availability of Pega Infinity '23, offering new capabilities that help organizations get closer to becoming an autonomous enterprise by unifying AI and automation to promote self-optimization that drives maximum efficiency and effectiveness. 

Posted September 15, 2023

KX, a provider of vector and time-series data management, is releasing KDB.AI Cloud, a vector database for real-time contextual AI designed with a commitment to provide a superior developer experience. Unique among vector databases, KDB.AI Cloud enables developers to bring temporal and semantic context and relevancy to their AI-powered application, according to the company.

Posted September 14, 2023

Dremio, the easy and open data lakehouse, is debuting its next-generation Reflections technology, aiming to revolutionize the landscape of SQL query acceleration. According to the company, Dremio Reflections pave the way for sub-second analytics performance across an organization's entire data ecosystem, regardless of where the data resides. This transformative technology redefines data access and analysis, ensuring that insights can be derived swiftly and efficiently and at 1/3 the cost of a cloud data warehouse.

Posted September 14, 2023

Backblaze, Inc., a leading specialized cloud storage platform, announced the early access launch of Computer Backup v9.0, introducing one of the most requested computer backup features: a dedicated restore app for macOS and Windows clients that makes the process of restoring data more intuitive and streamlined.

Posted September 14, 2023

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