Data Center Management Articles
Amazon Web Services went down on October 20, kicking off at 3 am ET at AWS' main US-East-1 region hosted in northern Virginia—the heart of its cloud services. According to the website Downdetector, user reports indicated problems at sites including Amazon, Disney+, Lyft, the McDonald's app, The New York Times, Reddit, Ring doorbells, Robinhood, Snapchat, T-Mobile, United Airlines, Venmo, Verizon, and more.
Posted October 20, 2025
BMC announced it is delivering solutions that place AI, observability, and automation where teams already operate to fundamentally transform how teams resolve issues and manage complexity.
Posted October 20, 2025
Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, is partnering with Lumen Technologies to deliver high-capacity, AI-ready connectivity services (AI WAN) across major U.S. metro markets.
Posted October 20, 2025
IBM announced the upcoming general availability of the IBM Spyre Accelerator, an AI accelerator enabling low-latency inferencing to support generative and agentic AI use cases, while prioritizing the security and resilience of core workloads.
Posted October 20, 2025
Zayo, a leading communications infrastructure provider, is launching DynamicLink to "deliver on and surpass the definition of true NaaS." According to the company, "DynamicLink delivers what others can't: more reach, broader capabilities, and industry-first AI-powered intelligence."
Posted October 14, 2025
Object First, the company offering the "best storage for Veeam," announced Ootbi Mini, a new compact immutable storage appliance designed for remote and branch offices, edge environments, and small businesses to ransomware-proof local Veeam backup data.
Posted October 09, 2025
IBM is unveiling IBM Network Intelligence, a network-native AI solution that addresses the escalating complexity of modern telecommunications and enterprise networks. Developed in collaboration with IBM Research, the solution is essential for organizations that want to transform every phase of network operations and build trustworthy AI, according to IBM.
Posted October 06, 2025
HashiCorp, an IBM company, is introducing a series of Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle innovations, and a preview of Project infragraph—a new strategic investment for the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) that lays the groundwork for agentic infrastructure. The announcements were made at HashiConf 2025, the 10th global conference hosted by HashiCorp and its first as an IBM company.
Posted October 06, 2025
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are announcing five new U.S. AI data center sites through the Stargate partnership, OpenAI's overarching AI infrastructure platform. The combined capacity from these five new sites—along with the flagship site in Abilene, Texas, and ongoing projects with CoreWeave—brings Stargate to nearly 7 gigawatts of planned capacity and over $400 billion in investment over the next three years.
Posted October 01, 2025
In recent months, the ground has been moving underneath the feet of the overseers of enterprise data and IT environments. AI is bringing new challenges, along with seemingly insatiable business demands for real-time insights. To explore the most compelling technologies promising to shape the data world in the months and years to come, we canvassed market leaders to get a sense of the top technological changes and potential issues that may arise.
Posted September 30, 2025
Cloudera, bringing AI to data anywhere, is introducing updates to its platforms, specifically Cloudera Iceberg REST Catalog and Cloudera Lakehouse Optimizer, to strengthen the company's commitment to delivering the best open data lakehouse powered by Iceberg.
Posted September 29, 2025
Enterprise technology requires mainframers to move with precision, excellent timing, and up-to-date skills—both technical know-how and soft skills. This September for National Learning and Development Month, mainframers at all career stages can seize their talent upgrade with this playbook, put together with advice from SHARE members.
Posted September 22, 2025
Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, is adding groundbreaking innovations to its COBOL solutions designed to help businesses update COBOL applications without disrupting ongoing operations or compromising application reliability.
Posted September 22, 2025
NVIDIA and Intel Corporation announced a partnership to jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products that accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise, and consumer markets. The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting NVIDIA and Intel architectures using NVIDIA NVLink—integrating the strengths of NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing with Intel's leading CPU technologies and x86 ecosystem to deliver cutting-edge solutions for customers.
Posted September 22, 2025
Digital Realty, one of the largest global providers of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, is launching its data center innovation lab. According to the company, the Digital Realty Innovation Lab (DRIL) offers partners and customers a fully supported, real-world data center testing environment where they can bring their own workloads or leverage pre-configured infrastructure to validate AI and hybrid cloud-deployments before scaling.
Posted September 22, 2025
Marvell Technology, Inc., a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, is expanding its partnership with Microsoft, as the company has selected the Marvell LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) for Microsoft Azure Cloud HSM.
Posted September 16, 2025
vCluster Labs (formerly LoftLabs), the company pioneering Kubernetes virtualization, is introducing the latest capability for vCluster, Auto Nodes—enabling node autoscaling for virtual clusters across any environment, including public cloud, private cloud, hybrid infrastructure, and even bare metal, using Karpenter, the open source autoscaler created by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Posted September 11, 2025
Data has taken a new position in the spotlight as the most important part of using AI. If the organization is using corrupt data, insights will vary wildly, and misinformation can damage the company's reputation. Poor data quality costs organizations at least $12.9 million per year on average, according to Gartner research from 2020.
Posted September 10, 2025
Broadcom is now offering Day One support for IBM z/OS 3.2 across its entire mainframe software portfolio. Building on its previously announced Day One support for the z17, it reflects the move reflects the company's unwavering commitment to amplifying mainframe value by enabling customers to adopt the latest advancements—cross the hardware and software stack—without delay, disruption, or compromise, the company said.
Posted September 08, 2025
Geniez AI, a pioneer behind the framework that connects Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI Agents with real-time mainframe data, announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding, enabling the company to scale Geniez AI's engineering and go-to-market teams, expand its partnerships within the enterprise technology space, and deepen integration with key GenAI platforms.
Posted September 08, 2025
AVAIO Digital Partners (AVAIO Digital) announced that it has signed an agreement with Schneider Electric to purchase switchgear, PDUs, UPSs, and chillers in advance of starting construction at four new AI-ready data center campuses across the U.S.
Posted September 08, 2025
IBM and AMD are announcing plans to develop next-generation computing architectures based on the combination of quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing.
Posted September 08, 2025
DBTA's webinar, Succeeding with Modern Data Applications, gathered a series of experts to evaluate key technologies, tools, and best practices for developing modern data apps that enable a data-driven, innovation-forward enterprise.
Posted September 05, 2025
In Enterprise AI World's latest webinar, Building and Managing an Effective AI Governance Strategy—co-hosted by DBTA—experts highlighted practical steps for building and managing an effective AI governance strategy.
Posted September 02, 2025
Digitate, the leading global SaaS provider of AIOps solutions, is adopting OpenTelemetry (OTel) into its ignio platform, a SaaS platform built on an agentic architecture for enabling the autonomous enterprise.
Posted September 02, 2025
DBTA's webinar, Getting Data Fabric Right: Key Tools and Best Practices, featured the opinions of data fabric experts as they examined core components of an effective data fabric, as well as must-have tools, best practices, and common pitfalls.
Posted August 28, 2025
Fluke Networks is launching its Versiv Data Center Kits that are designed to keep data centers up and running by identifying copper and fiber network connectivity issues before they happen and troubleshooting them quickly. At a time when artificial intelligence and data center business is expected to more than double to $622.4 billion by 2030, these kits will equip data center technicians, engineers, and operators with the necessary future-ready equipment to maintain and manage the new technologies of hyperscale and enterprise data centers coming online in the next decade, the vendor said.
Posted August 25, 2025
Relativity Networks, a leading at-scale provider of next-generation fiber-optic technology, announced an oversubscribed $6.1M seed funding round, validating and reinforcing the company's ability to produce and deliver, at scale, the hollow-core fiber (HCF) cable increasingly in demand by operators of the energy-intensive data centers required for the AI economy.
Posted August 25, 2025
StorONE, developer of an efficient storage platform, announced a major milestone in its long-standing partnership with Storage Guardian, a leading managed service provider (MSP)—by consolidating its infrastructure with StorONE's unified software-defined storage platform, Storage Guardian reduced its physical storage footprint from nine full cabinets to just two, while expanding the range of services it delivers.
Posted August 25, 2025
Crusoe, the industry's first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, is announcing its acquisition of Atero, the company specializing in GPU management and memory optimization for AI workloads.
Posted August 22, 2025
Abstract Security, the leader in streaming-first security data operations, is unveiling the PAINT (Partnerships, Alliances, and INTegrations) Partner Program, a new initiative that supercharges resellers, MSPs, MSSPs, and technology integrators to deliver advanced cybersecurity solutions and accelerate revenue growth.
Posted August 21, 2025
Forward Networks, an industry-leading network digital twin platform, announced that it has joined the Infoblox Technology Alliance Partner Program, now offering a certified integration with Infoblox NIOS DDI to enrich IP Address Management (IPAM) through automated, verified network data synchronization.
Posted August 18, 2025
BMC is releasing a variety of updates driven by the need for IT and operations teams to achieve new levels of efficiency, accelerate responses, and improve business uptime. The BMC Helix AIOps 25.3 release builds on the company's vision for accelerating productivity in IT operations (ITOps) with AI-driven detection and response capabilities.
Posted August 18, 2025
Lumen Technologies announced it has exceeded 1,000 customers on its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform, a major milestone in the shift toward faster and smarter enterprise connectivity as businesses embrace AI to transform operations.
Posted August 15, 2025
For the database world, the future looks extremely challenging—and, even more, exceedingly promising. Looking ahead over the next few years, organizations will be relying on their databases in ways never imagined, as leaders and decision makers look to their data resources for intelligence, real-time views, and adaptability to business changes.
Posted August 14, 2025
If you've worked in any data-centric role, you've probably experienced the effects of the proverbial "mandate from on high." Someone in the C-suite decides it's time to hop on the latest shift in the tech landscape—whether generative AI, hybrid cloud infrastructure, or remote work—and now it's time for the entire tech department to make it happen.
Posted August 14, 2025
Aerospike, Inc., the real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, is debuting new expression indexes—or a method of indexing that simplifies application code—that supercharge query performance while reducing memory use and operational costs for AI use cases.
Posted August 13, 2025
In partnership with Enterprise AI World, DBTA's latest webinar, Unlocking Enterprise Value: Making Strategic AI Investments That Deliver, featured the expertise of Shawn Isinhue, global head of business value services, Moveworks, exploring how to align AI initiatives with business impact through a potent mix of technical, operational, and human capabilities.
Posted August 13, 2025
Picus Security, a leading security validation company, is partnering with ThreatConnect to offer its Risk Quantification Module, aiming to deliver a transparent, validation-first approach to cyber risk measurement. At the heart of this new module is ThreatConnect's Risk Quantifier (RQ), which powers the financial modeling engine behind Picus' real-time risk insights.
Posted August 13, 2025
Naveen Sukumar, head of product marketing and DevRel, Astronomer, and Jacob Roach, field data engineer, Astronomer, joined DBTA's webinar, Best Practices for Running Airflow at Scale, offering their expertise in how to properly manage large instances of Airflow while avoiding both performance bottlenecks and developer inefficiencies.
Posted August 11, 2025
Flex announced a new power shelf system to fast-track 800 VDC power architectures and support the growing demands of AI infrastructure, AI factories, and data centers. The Flex power shelf system provides industry-leading efficiency for NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems while preparing for the transition to 800 VDC data center power infrastructure to support the deployment of 1 megawatt IT racks, the company said.
Posted August 11, 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 11, 2025
Datavault AI Inc., a leader in AI data experience, announced the expanded commercialization of its flagship AI agents—DataScore and DataValue—built with IBM watsonx.ai. IBM has also committed AI engineering talent and deep technical expertise over multiple years to help Datavault expand and accelerate the impact of its offerings for clients.
Posted August 11, 2025
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
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