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Data Center Management

Mainframes continue to represent the strong core of Data Center technology, while Virtualization and Cloud are also emerging as important technologies to support efficiency, scalability, and cost containment. Topics critical to Data Center Operations and Computing including hardware and software for Storage, Consolidation, High Availability, Backup & Recovery, and IT Optimization, as well as automated tools that help compensate for the growing Mainframe Skills Shortage.



Data Center Management Articles

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

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 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

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

Johnny Jay, principal product marketing manager, insightsoftware, and Evan Friel, senior solutions engineer, insightsoftware, joined DBTA's webinar, Unlocking Real-Time Write Back Applications in Power BI, to explore how Power ON—a solution for visual planning for Microsoft Power BI-delivers the advanced write back, planning, and forecasting capabilities necessary for future-proofing business operations without sacrificing data integrity or governance.

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

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

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

ExaGrid, the industry's only Tiered Backup Storage solution with Retention Time-Lock that includes a non-network-facing tier (creating a tiered air gap), delayed deletes, and immutability for ransomware recovery, is debuting ExaGrid software version 7.3.0, ushering in support for industry-leading backup applications and utilities.

Posted July 24, 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

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

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

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

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

ExaGrid, the industry's only Tiered Backup Storage solution with Retention Time-Lock that includes a non-network-facing tier (creating a tiered air gap), delayed deletes, and immutability for ransomware recovery, is unveiling support for Rubrik.

Posted July 15, 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

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

Siemens Smart Infrastructure is partnering with Microsoft to transform access to Internet of Things (IoT) data for buildings. The collaboration will enable interoperability between Siemens' digital building platform, Building X, and Microsoft Azure IoT Operations enabled by Azure Arc.

Posted July 14, 2025

GitLab and IBM are expanding their partnership to bridge mainframe and cloud-native development with seamless integration, CI/CD runner support, end-to-end visibility, and cost efficiency. GitLab and IBM are collaborating to solve a fundamental disconnect in enterprise development: enabling mainframe developers to work with the same modern tools, workflows, and collaboration features as their distributed counterparts.

Posted July 14, 2025

Empower Semiconductor, the world leader in integrated voltage regulators (IVRs), announced a partnership with Marvell Technology, Inc. to develop optimized integrated power solutions for Marvell custom silicon platforms. By integrating power delivery with advanced processors, Empower and Marvell enable hyperscalers and infrastructure providers to maximize their performance, efficiency, and return on investment (ROI) of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud data centers.

Posted July 14, 2025

AI continues to flirt with all aspects of the business, leading organizations to hastily adopt new and emerging technologies. However, it's important to note that while the possibilities seem endless, it's time to move well beyond pilots and proofs of concept to the scaled deployment and operational impact of AI. To help readers gain a greater understanding about this complex area of information technology, the solutions available, and their role in handling real-world challenges, DBTA and Big Data Quarterly present the list of Awesome Companies in AI.

Posted July 11, 2025

Adeptia, the intelligent data automation company that helps enterprises manage unstructured and inconsistent first-mile data at scale, is announcing that Adeptia Connect—the intelligent data automation platform—now offers self-managed and hybrid deployment options.

Posted July 10, 2025

Spacelift, a leading infrastructure orchestration platform, is announcing the completion of its Series C funding round, having raised $51 million. The funding round will accelerate product innovation and adoption for Spacelift's AI-powered infrastructure management automation solution.

Posted July 10, 2025

Experts from Snowflake and Informatica joined DBTA's webinar, From Data to Insights: Leading-Edge Analytics & BI with Informatica & Snowflake, to evaluate actionable strategies and success stories for future-proofing data management strategies, propelling enterprises toward AI success.

Posted July 10, 2025

Clarifai, a global leader in AI and pioneer of the full-stack AI platform, is debuting a cost-effective, secure solution for developers and MLOps engineers to deploy and manage AI models.

Posted July 08, 2025

Panzura, the company empowering modern enterprises to unlock the full potential of their unstructured data, is unveiling Access Control List (ACL) analysis and automated remediation to the Symphony data services platform, addressing the trillion-dollar global crisis of permission sprawl—which currently impacts 58% of enterprises—amid the push for AI implementation. 

Posted July 02, 2025

Experts from SS&C joined DBTA's webinar, Agentic Automation in Action: The AI Force Reshaping the Future of Medicine and Mega-Insurers, to discuss the way SS&C's Agentic Automation model delivers faster value within complex, regulated workflows paired with real-world success stories. 

Posted July 02, 2025

Hammerspace, the standards-based data platform that simplifies AI infrastructure and an Oracle partner, is announcing that the Hammerspace Tier 0 solution is now available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, and can be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Posted July 02, 2025

IBM and RIKEN, a national research laboratory in Japan, today unveiled the first IBM Quantum System Two ever to be deployed outside of the United States and beyond an IBM Quantum Data Center. The availability of this system also marks a milestone as the first quantum computer to be co-located with RIKEN's supercomputer Fugaku—one of the most powerful classical systems on Earth, IBM said.

Posted June 30, 2025

Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, announced the prototype development and demonstration of its new KIOXIA CD9P Series PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs. These next-generation drives are the latest SSDs built with Kioxia's 8th generation BiCS FLASH TLC-based 3D flash memory.

Posted June 30, 2025

Wind River, a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge, today announced that Nidec, the world's leading integrated motor manufacturer, has selected Wind River Linux for the secure development of its latest AI-driven data center liquid-cooling system.

Posted June 30, 2025

Parsons Corporation, in partnership with IBM, is being tapped by the government to offer a brand new, state-of-the-art air traffic control system. By combining Parsons' deep FAA experience, proven large-scale program delivery success, and systems engineering and integration capabilities with IBM's federal government and cross industry, systems integration experience, the collaboration aims to lay the foundation for a safer, more resilient aviation ecosystem. 

Posted June 30, 2025

Actian, the data division of HCLSoftware, is announcing a series of new improvements to the Actian Data Intelligence Platform, placing an emphasis on embedded governance to ensure data trust from source to consumption and cultivating a robust foundation for AI initiatives.

Posted June 26, 2025

Cockroach Labs, a pioneer in cloud-native distributed SQL databases, is introducing CockroachDB 25.2, a milestone release marking a decade of transformative innovation for the company that introduces performance, flexibility, and security enhancements to help businesses scale with confidence.

Posted June 26, 2025

DBTA's webinar, The Future of Data Platforms: Faster, Smarter, Easier, experts explored both the bright future and the nuanced complexities of modern data platforms, ultimately paving the way for increasingly scalable, cloud-native, and AI-ready solutions.

Posted June 19, 2025

Oracle is launching the Oracle Defense Ecosystem, a first-of-its-kind global initiative to redefine the delivery of defense and government technology innovation. The ecosystem is designed to strengthen U.S. and allied national security and help accelerate the disruptive potential of emerging defense technology by creating new opportunities for defense innovators to leverage the latest cloud and AI technologies.

Posted June 18, 2025

Oracle and Google Cloud are now offering Oracle Database@Google Cloud to customers in Japan for the first time. With the debut of the powerful multi-cloud service in Japan, customers can now run Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in the Asia-Northeast 1 (Tokyo) Google Cloud data center.

Posted June 18, 2025

Superblocks, the leading platform for secure enterprise application development, is announcing an expanded partnership with Databricks, yielding a native integration between Superblocks' multi-modal development experience and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Posted June 16, 2025

Rebecca Roling is now SHARE's new executive director and her experience in wireless technology and in creating an association from the ground-up are assets that will take SHARE and its members into the future, wrote Serena Agusto-Cox in a recent blog post for SHARE.

Posted June 16, 2025

Crusoe, the industry's first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, is partnering with Polar to establish Crusoe's first data center presence in mainland Europe. Crusoe has signed a contract for a 12 megawatt (MW) facility located in Norway, which will be powered entirely by 100% hydroelectric energy.

Posted June 16, 2025

IBM unveiled its plans to build the world's first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, setting the stage for practical and scalable quantum computing. Estimated to be delivered by 2029, IBM Quantum Starling will be built in a new IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York and is expected to perform 20,000 times more operations than today's quantum computers.

Posted June 16, 2025

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