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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

MongoDB is releasing MongoDB 8.0, offering significant performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, and additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities. Architectural optimizations in MongoDB 8.0 have significantly reduced memory usage and query times, and MongoDB 8.0 has more efficient batch processing capabilities than previous versions.

Posted October 03, 2024

Acquia, the leader in open digital experience software, is announcing that Acquia Cloud Next—the enterprise-grade, Kubernetes-native Drupal hosting platform—has achieved Authorized status from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). This achievement reflects Acquia's investment in the public sector as the only commercial Drupal hosting company to meet U.S. federal government security standards, according to the company.

Posted October 02, 2024

Crowdbotics, pioneer of CodeOps as the new standard methodology for software development, is adding new capabilities to its AI-powered application development platform, aimed at addressing the most significant challenges in the application development industry.

Posted October 02, 2024

Oracle Health is providing electronic health record (EHR) innovations that will help clinicians streamline routine tasks and deliver more efficient, informed patient care. According to Oracle, with the new capabilities, caregivers can more quickly and easily update and access critical patient information from practically anywhere to help increase efficiency and reduce burden.

Posted October 02, 2024

Oracle and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the launch of Oracle Database@AWS, a new offering that allows customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. Oracle Database@AWS will provide customers with a unified experience between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS, offering simplified database administration, billing, and unified customer support.

Posted October 02, 2024

Oracle is releasing Java 23, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform, delivering thousands of improvements to help developers increase productivity and drive innovation. Additional enhancements to the platform's performance, stability, and security will help organizations accelerate business growth, according to Oracle.

Posted October 02, 2024

In today's world where data reigns supreme, the role of DBAs extends far beyond just maintaining databases. DBAs play a crucial role in overseeing the entire lifecycle of data within organizations, from its inception to disposal. Nevertheless, a frequent criticism of many DBAs is that they can be difficult to interact with. The truth of the matter is that DBAs can be curmudgeons possessing technical knowledge but limited people skills.

Posted October 02, 2024

CloudBolt, the Cloud ROI Company, is debuting the new CloudBolt Platform, a cloud lifecycle optimization platform designed to deliver Augmented FinOps—CloudBolt's method of proactively and retrospectively ensuring value balance in the cloud. By centering AI- and machine learning (ML)-based insights, the CloudBolt Platform works to maximize the value of enterprises' cloud investments. 

Posted October 01, 2024

SQream, a leading accelerated data processing platform, is debuting its native Snowflake connector which brings its cloud data solution, SQream Blue, to the Snowflake environment. With this connector, SQream delivers the best of its GPU parallelizing solution to Snowflake's data warehouse platform, eliminating the need for intermediate data transfers or complex ETL processes.

Posted October 01, 2024

Hydrolix, the streaming data lake company disrupting the economics of big data, is unveiling Hydrolix Search for Splunk, an application designed to enable Splunk users to directly query Hydrolix clusters using the Splunk Query Language. With this release, Hydrolix continues to complement Splunk while helping reduce data storage costs and extend hot data retention periods.

Posted September 30, 2024

Wind River, a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge, is launching eLxr Pro, its commercial enterprise Linux offering to address the needs of cloud-to-edge deployments. Expanding the company's industry-leading Linux portfolio, eLxr Pro delivers long-term commercial support and services to the recently launched open source eLxr project distribution, according to the company.

Posted September 30, 2024

Observe, Inc., the SaaS observability company, is launching "Project Voyager," its most significant product update yet that introduces an AI Investigator along with OpenTelemetry-Native APM and Snowflake Observability, enabling Engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to troubleshoot incidents faster and improve customer experience.

Posted September 27, 2024

DBTA's latest webinar, Data Management for AI: Knowledge Graphs, Vector Databases, and Semantic Layers, gathered three experts to explore the nuances of AI and the importance of its underlying infrastructure, offering technologies and tools to best facilitate success.

Posted September 27, 2024

Airbyte, a leading open data movement platform, is launching a plethora of technologies that make virtually any data even more accessible for analytics and GenAI (generative artificial intelligence). Airbyte is introducing Airbyte 1.0, available as Airbyte Open Source and the Airbyte Cloud online service, the Airbyte Marketplace with more than 300 data connectors, an AI Assistant to create data connectors, support for LLMs and Gen AI workflows, and the general availability of Airbyte Self-Managed Enterprise for on-premises deployments. 

Posted September 27, 2024

Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is announcing that it will acquire Clumio, a technology leader in data protection for critical cloud data in AWS. This acquisition will merge the powers of Commvault and Clumio, delivering cyber resilience to next-generation applications built on AWS. 

Posted September 26, 2024

EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading Postgres data and AI company, is unveiling a series of contributions to PostgreSQL 17 that forward the database as an effective option for large-scale data analytics and AI workloads, according to EDB. This release—which was driven by over 200 developers world-wide—reflects the growing popularity and significance of Postgres, as well as EDB's long-standing commitment to the PostgreSQL community.

Posted September 26, 2024

Pulumi, the infrastructure management platform for everything running in the cloud, is debuting two new security products—Pulumi ESC and Pulumi Insights—that are designed to centralize cloud visibility, compliance, and controls.

Posted September 26, 2024

Yugabyte, the company behind YugabyteDB, the open-source, high-performance, distributed SQL database for building global, cloud-native applications, is announcing new features that empower developers to run cloud-native PostgreSQL applications on YugabyteDB without altering any code. These new enhancements—dubbed enhanced Postgres compatibility—serve to maintain the power and familiarity of PostgreSQL while transforming it as an enterprise-grade distributed database that meets the needs of modern, cloud-native applications.

Posted September 26, 2024

Firebolt is offering a next-generation Cloud Data Warehouse (CDW) that delivers low latency analytics with drastic efficiency gains, reflecting continuous feedback from users and real-world use cases. According to the company, data engineers can now deliver customer-facing analytics and data-intensive applications (data apps) more cost-effectively and with greater simplicity. 

Posted September 26, 2024

Operant AI, provider of the Runtime AI Application Protection Platform, announced it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to accelerate team and product expansion bringing unprecedented transparency and active cloud-native protection to all APIs, AI, and cloud applications with a particular focus on securing the entire data-in-use lifecycle as it flows through every layer of modern application environments. 

Posted September 26, 2024

Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Data Security and Governance for the AI Era, to showcase top solutions and best practices for navigating the space of data security and governance, especially as it faces increasing investment in cloud and AI technologies.

Posted September 26, 2024

SAP announced it has successfully completed its acquisition of WalkMe Ltd., a leading digital adoption platform company listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market that enables seamless workflow execution across business software applications, improving user experience and adoption and supporting business transformation.

Posted September 25, 2024

New Relic, the intelligent observability platform, is supporting RISE with SAP to help enterprises accelerate and future-proof cloud transformation. In close partnership with SAP, New Relic offers a best-of-breed observability solution—New Relic Monitoring for SAP Solutions—that unifies monitoring across the entire SAP landscape.

Posted September 25, 2024

Syniti, a global leader in enterprise data management, assisted with one of the largest transformation projects in Bridgestone's history—its migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The company's goal was to remove siloes across the organization by consolidating business processes across its SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) system into one SAP S/4HANA Cloud instance allowing the company to improve operational efficiency, data accuracy and set the stage for future growth, automation, and innovation in the tire and mobility sectors.

Posted September 25, 2024

Camunda, a leader in process orchestration, announced that it is delivering an integration with SAP to tame complexity and increase flexibility for SAP environments. The integration will help SAP users seamlessly orchestrate SAP workflows across all of their people, systems, and devices. Using Camunda's SAP integration, teams will be able to boost business and IT alignment to increase agility, accelerate development, and reduce risk in SAP S/4HANA migrations, according to the company.

Posted September 25, 2024

The lines between entities within an Entity-Relationship Diagram [ERD] represent an interdependency between the involved entities. In a normalized designed, this interdependency is both semantic and functional, as in, "a HOUSE has one-or-more DOORs," "an ORDER has one-or-more ORDER LINEs," or "a STUDENT enrolls in zero-to-many CLASSes." These object pairings would have a line drawn between them in an ERD representation. There also would be markings from whatever notation one is employing, designating the "one" side of the relationship and the "many" side of the relationship.

Posted September 25, 2024

Last month, Revelation put out the call for participants to take part in OpenInsight 10.2.2 Evaluation.  Unless any major issues are found, this is planned to become the official 10.2.2 release, according to the company. OpenInsight 10.2.2 is designed primarily as a maintenance update, and as such contains mostly stability and performance enhancements.

Posted September 25, 2024

Rocket Software is introducing an innovative tool for its UniVerse and UniData systems: the Rocket U2 Auto License Python Script. In today's fast-paced tech environment, manual processes are often seen as a bottleneck. This is especially true when it comes to software installations and upgrades. This is where the new U2 Auto License Python Script comes in, according to the company.  With this tool, Rocket Software is making it easier than ever to manage and automate licensing for UniVerse and UniData systems.

Posted September 25, 2024

Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is releasing the new generation of the Hitachi EverFlex infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) portfolio, reinforcing its commitment to enhancing IT operations.  

Posted September 24, 2024

Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technologies and services, is launching a series of new features for the Pure Storage platform that empower enterprises to keep up with the pace of innovation—particularly in the realm of architecture, as dictated by the advancements in AI. These new innovations—which include Real-time Enterprise File, a virtual machine (VM) assessment, and more—continue Pure Storage's momentum in empowering enterprises to adapt to the constantly evolving demands for data architectures.

Posted September 24, 2024

Gresham Technologies, a global leader in innovative financial technology solutions, which recently completed its merger with Alveo, is rebranding to "Gresham." According to the company, this change marks a significant milestone in the organization's evolution and highlights Gresham's commitment to a future of innovation and customer success as it embarks on this new chapter.

Posted September 24, 2024

Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is announcing that its Rubrik Cyber Recovery solution is available for Nutanix AHV, a modern and secure virtualization platform that powers virtual machines (VMs) and containers for applications and cloud-native workloads on-premises and in public clouds.

Posted September 23, 2024

DataOps.live, The Data Products Company, is offering a new range of AIOps capabilities that provides end-to-end lifecycle management of AI workloads from development to production. Centered around Snowflake Cortex and AWS Bedrock, these latest AIOps capabilities enable data engineers, data product owners, and data scientists to easily and quickly build and operationalize AI-driven data products with unparalleled consistency, scalability, and governance, the company said.

Posted September 23, 2024

LiquidStack, a global leader in liquid cooling for data centers, announced it secured a $20 million Series B extension investment from leading investment firm Tiger Global, bringing LiquidStack's total Series B funding round to $35 million. The full service liquid cooling provider will use the funds to expand its manufacturing footprint, scale its direct-to-chip and immersion cooling product family roadmaps, and broaden its commercial and R&D operations. 

Posted September 23, 2024

IBM is introducing IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering (Rhapsody SE), a web-based solution for systems engineering teams that empowers them to deliver smarter, more complex, and more competitive solutions to their end users. IBM Rhapsody Systems Engineering is based on several key technologies that allow customers to use the benefits of complexity while mitigating its associated risks.

Posted September 23, 2024

IBM is acquiring Kubecost, a leading Kubernetes cost monitoring and optimization software company, to show its commitment to growing in the FinOps space. The addition of Kubecost to IBM's FinOps solutions deepens IBM's support for FinOps teams, DevOps teams, and the open-source community, according to the company.

Posted September 23, 2024

IBM is introducing the next generation of IBM Storage DS8000, generally available on October 25, 2024, that is designed to harness the full power of IBM Z. IBM Storage DS8000 plays a critical role as an integrated storage solution for IBM Z, offering comprehensive data protection, security, and business continuity capabilities.

Posted September 23, 2024

Syncari, a leader in data unification and automation, announced that Syncari Autonomous Data Management (ADM) is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, enabling Google Cloud customers to utilize Syncari ADM to start modernizing their data management practices to achieve key business goals.

Posted September 20, 2024

Percona, a global leader in enterprise-grade open source database software and services, is launching its new database platform, Percona Everest, now generally available to the public. Percona Everest is an open source, cloud-native database platform designed to deliver similar core capabilities and conveniences provided by database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings but without the burden of vendor lock-in and associated challenges, according to the company.

Posted September 20, 2024

Teradata is introducing new features and productivity enhancements to ClearScape Analytics, that are designed to enable innovative organizations to maximize the ROI of their AI/ML investments and boost data science productivity.

Posted September 19, 2024

Abstract Security, the company building the future of AI-enabled security operations, is announcing support for deployments within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With its solution  centered on tying security back to business value, Abstract's latest support expansion brings true data management and security to GCP environments.

Posted September 18, 2024

Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, is announcing a series of new capabilities for Confluent Cloud, forwarding the company's mission of delivering a comprehensive data streaming platform that meets its users where they are. These latest updates—support for Table API, extending Apache Flink to Java and Python developers; private networking for Flink; a Confluent extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code); and Client-Side Field Level Encryption—each serve to make stream processing and data streaming more accessible and secure, according to Confluent.

Posted September 18, 2024

Gearset, a leader in Salesforce DevOps solutions, is acquiring Clayton, a cutting-edge code analysis platform designed specifically for Salesforce. The strategic acquisition is Gearset's first, following years of rapid growth fueled by a $55 million growth investment from Silversmith Capital Partners.

Posted September 18, 2024

Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, announced it has created a new blueprint for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) generative AI (GenAI) to support the deployment and scaling of enterprise-grade GenAI applications.

Posted September 18, 2024

Oracle is introducing the first zettascale cloud computing clusters accelerated by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is now taking orders for the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud—available with up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. According to Oracle, the maximum scale of OCI Supercluster offers more than three times as many GPUs as the Frontier supercomputer and more than six times that of other hyperscalers.

Posted September 18, 2024

Oracle is offering new AI capabilities within the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite that will help customers successfully execute complex tasks, automate workflows, and drive efficiency. Extending the comprehensive generative AI capabilities already embedded across the suite, the latest AI innovations include more than 50 new AI agents and a range of AI capabilities that assist with authoring, advice, and recommended actions.

Posted September 18, 2024

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