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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

Cirata, the company that automates Hadoop data transfer and integration to modern cloud analytics and AI platforms, is announcing an expansion of its partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company, with the aim of accelerating data migration and modernization in the cloud. By leveraging Cirata's professional services and Data Migration as a Service (DMaaS) solution, enterprises benefit from the ability to seamlessly transition to Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform, propelling their data and AI initiatives.

Posted December 09, 2024

Tenable, the exposure management company, is debuting a series of new enhancements for Tenable Security Center, the world's #1 vulnerability management solution managed on-prem. Designed to promote exposure comprehension and overall visibility, the new features—vulnerability intelligence, risk prioritization, and web application scanning—forward a contextual, risk-based view of enterprise security and compliance posture for on-prem systems, according to Tenable.

Posted December 09, 2024

Data Centers are the focus of increased scrutiny and renewed interest as more and more power consumption and resource statistics show eye-popping figures. A significant aspect of energy consumption is dedicated to data center cooling systems, which are crucial for maintaining optimal operating temperatures and preventing hardware failure. Current estimates suggest that data centers account for 3% of global electricity consumption, with predictions indicating a rise to a potential 10% by 2030.

Posted December 09, 2024

Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, is announcing an expansion of its partnership with Nokia, aiming to bring advanced data center network services to enterprises around the world. Merging the powers of Kyndryl's enterprise knowledge and experience in designing, building, and managing hybrid cloud and data center environments with Nokia's high-performance, reliable data center networking infrastructure solution, the two companies address the present need for fortified, scalable, and secure data center network solutions.

Posted December 09, 2024

Clarifai, a global leader in AI and pioneer of the full-stack AI platform, is unveiling new compute orchestration capabilities for AI workloads, designed for any AI model, on any compute, at any scale. This innovation enables organizations to better optimize their compute and cloud investments for AI by eliminating vendor lock-in and forwarding efficient compute spend.

Posted December 09, 2024

Cockroach Labs is releasing CockroachDB 24.3, improving resilience and performance, while adding enterprise capabilities such as support of Microsoft's Active Directory and database triggers. According to the company, CockroachDB 24.3 also delivers a solution that enables customers with two data centers to experience the resilience benefits of distributed SQL that were formerly limited to three data center implementations.

Posted December 09, 2024

As AI technologies and services have accelerated their own proliferation throughout the market, the data that trains these machines is more important than ever. The global big data and analytics industry is expected to experience significant growth in the next few years. It is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 14.9% between 2024 and 2032 and reach $1.088 trillion by 2032. Here, data professionals share their big data and database/infrastructure predictions for 2025.

Posted December 06, 2024

Big data is continuing to proliferate at organizations, this time spurred by AI and machine learning within enterprise software tools, followed by advancements in software for managing unstructured data, and the substantial increase in data volume. To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products, highlighting a commitment to innovation and to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements.

Posted December 05, 2024

SurrealDB, the ultimate multi-model database, is debuting a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) version of SurrealDB, delivering a fully managed solution that abstracts the complexities of infrastructure management. Dubbed Surreal Cloud, its launch reflects an emphasis on ease and simplicity without sacrificing on power, scale, or resilience.

Posted December 05, 2024

New Relic, the Intelligent Observability Platform, is announcing an integration between New Relic AI—New Relic's in-platform generative AI (GenAI) assistant—and Amazon Q Business, AWS' GenAI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work. Propelled by the goal of affording enterprises both visibility and actionable, intelligent insights on their operational infrastructures, New Relic and AWS' integration drives fast, intelligent, cost-effective business operations amid increasingly complex data environments.

Posted December 05, 2024

Oracle announced the Craneware Group, Vodafone, and organizations from almost every major industry in the world are selecting Oracle Database@Azure to accelerate their cloud migrations and support their most demanding and sensitive workloads. To meet rapidly growing global demand, Oracle Database@Azure is being made available in new regions across the world and new services continue to be added.

Posted December 04, 2024

Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is announcing a collaboration with Virtana, a leader in AI-powered monitoring and observability for hybrid infrastructure environments, to ease the management of complex IT environments caused by hybrid cloud. Merging the Virtana Platform with the Hitachi EverFlex Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) portfolio, this collaboration delivers a comprehensive view of hybrid cloud environments bolstered by AI-powered analysis.

Posted December 03, 2024

Domino Data Lab, provider of the leading Enterprise AI Platform trusted by the largest AI-driven companies, is announcing an array of platform capabilities and integrations with leading AI innovators—AWS, NetApp, and NVIDIA—that focus on accelerating AI time-to-value while reducing costs and risk. Accompanied by Domino's ongoing momentum in the SaaS market—having experienced a 750% increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR) over the last year—the company continues its rapid innovation in the AI enablement space. 

Posted November 27, 2024

AppViewX, a leader in automated certificate lifecycle management (CLM) and public key infrastructure (PKI) solutions, is announcing that Haveli Investments—a private equity firm with deep expertise in enterprise software—has made a strategic majority investment in AppViewX. This investment empowers AppViewX to expand its market leadership and accelerate growth of its AVX ONE platform—the most advanced SaaS CLM platform for enterprise PKI, IAM, security, DevOps, cloud, platform, and application teams. 

Posted November 27, 2024

Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is debuting a new capability that delivers near-instant recovery of large datasets stored in Amazon S3—Clumio Backtrack. By enabling organizations to automate the process of reverting a high quantity of objects to a specific version, at a specific point in time, Clumio Backtrack accelerates the recovery period in the event of an error or attack, ensuring enterprises can keep operations online.

Posted November 26, 2024

Vultr, one of the world's largest privately held cloud computing platform, announced that NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, has joined the Vultr Cloud Alliance, a partnership program consisting of solutions that enable composable AI cloud services.

Posted November 26, 2024

Kinesis Network, a global compute optimization platform, is announcing a new serverless innovation that allows enterprises to run workloads across a dynamic, multi-cloud environment. Addressing the demand for high-performance computing needed for AI, Kinesis' serverless feature empowers enterprises to unlock the value of idle computing power within its Compute-as-a-Service platform.

Posted November 25, 2024

Tempest, the company helping teams deliver better code, faster, is emerging from stealth backed by $3.2 million in funding, with the aim of delivering a complete developer platform that can be deployed in hours instead of months. Brought to you by the team behind Fleetsmith, a company acquired by Apple in 2020, Tempest seeks to alleviate the burden of infrastructure tasks from developers with a unified platform that boosts developer productivity and maximizes return on engineering investments.

Posted November 25, 2024

LogicMonitor, a leading SaaS-based hybrid observability platform powered by AI, is announcing a substantial infusion of capital—an investment of $800 million—from PSG, Golub Capital, and other contributors. Powering LogicMonitor's innovations in bridging AI and data centers, this latest funding will contribute to LogicMonitor's platform expansion, global footprint, and investment in new verticals.

Posted November 25, 2024

The importance of real-time data and analytics, as well as its plethora of advantages, is clear—according to DBTA subscribers, real-time data and analytics ranked as their company's #1 modernization priority. Yet data silos, data latency, and legacy infrastructures prevent real-time data and analytics from succeeding. In DBTA's special roundtable webinar, Unlocking the Power of Real-Time Data and Analytics, experts shared key solutions and best practices for effectively shifting data strategies to meet the latest modernization priorities.

Posted November 22, 2024

Quantexa, a global leader in decision intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, is announcing the immediate availability of Quantexa's Unify Workload for the Microsoft Fabric. Quantexa Unify brings advanced, AI-powered entity resolution and data matching to Microsoft Fabric, powering an interconnected view of continually refreshed, trusted enterprise data.

Posted November 21, 2024

In DBTA's recent webinar, The Future of Open: What's Next in Lakehouse Architecture, experts offered their perspectives on why open lakehouse architectures continue to be a popular vehicle for enabling modernization and innovation across the enterprise, examining the latest trends, tools, and emerging best practices.

Posted November 21, 2024

GMI Cloud, a leading AI-native GPU cloud provider, is announcing the results of its Series A funding round, having raised $15 million in equity funding and $67 million in debt financing. This funding round—led by Headline Asia with participation from Banpu Next and Wistron Corporation—propels GMI Cloud's expansion in the U.S. and its strategic vision to power the AI-driven future with advanced GPUs and cloud infrastructure. 

Posted November 21, 2024

Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, is announcing an expansive collaboration with Microsoft, paired with a portfolio of new end-to-end services for modernizing mainframe apps with Microsoft Cloud. Now recognized as a?RISE with SAP delivery partner and debuting a series of new app migration and AI-enablement services, Kyndryl solidifies both its collaboration with Microsoft and commitment toward seamless migration journeys.

Posted November 20, 2024

Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, is debuting three new features for Microsoft Azure that are engineered to power AI and analytics innovations with trusted data. Each innovation serves to streamline the creation of GenAI applications and Microsoft Copilot experiences, paving the way for enterprises to derive greater value from Microsoft's AI and analytics services—including the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. 

Posted November 20, 2024

Oracle announced that Polish healthcare provider the NU-MED Group, Belgian software provider Consono, and the Estonian IT Centre (RIT) have joined organizations across Europe in selecting Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud to help meet their data privacy and residency requirements.

Posted November 20, 2024

Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, is unveiling an expanded partnership with Microsoft, establishing a new Snowflake Power Platform connector for Microsoft Power Platform—a low-/no-code set of services for building enterprise solutions. This connector enables bidirectional access between Dataverse—the enterprise data platform for Copilot—and Snowflake's AI Data Cloud, simplifying data interoperability between Snowflake, the Microsoft Power Platform, and Dynamics 365. 

Posted November 19, 2024

Selector, the AIOps solution that gives the world's largest companies complete visibility and intelligence into their highly complex networks, infrastructure, and applications, is announcing the close of its Series B funding round, having raised $33 million. Led by Ansa Capital with participation from Two Bear Capital, Atlantic Bridge, Sinewave Ventures, AT&T Ventures, Bell Ventures, Singtel Innov8, and Hyperlink Ventures, Selector's latest capital infusion will accelerate the development of its AIOps, large language model (LLM), and digital twin technologies. 

Posted November 19, 2024

Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, is unveiling two major announcements: The company is releasing Cloudera Copilot for Cloudera AI, a new AI assistant for data practitioners, and has entered a definitive agreement with Octopai to acquire its data lineage and catalog platform. Each announcement reflects Cloudera's commitment towards delivering optimal, data-driven outcomes for data scientists, engineers, and developers alike. 

Posted November 18, 2024

Lightbend, the company behind Akka, is debuting Akka 3, delivering a series of new enhancements and industry-firsts that solidify Akka as a platform for building and running apps centered on elasticity, agility, and resiliency. Between a new SDK for development, Serverless and Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) environments, migration and replication achievements, and more, Lightbend—which has now rebranded as Akka—forwards simplicity and innovation in its  latest release. 

Posted November 18, 2024

Sabey Data Centers, a premier designer, builder, and operator of multi-tenant data centers, is partnering with SEGUENTE, a global technology company that provides innovative liquid-cooled IT hardware and AI software platforms for high-performance computing, to enhance both companies' ability to deliver sustainable, optimized, and scalable data center solutions to customers across Sabey's portfolio.

Posted November 18, 2024

Accelsius, whose proprietary two-phase, direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems enable high-performance computing and rack density for data center and edge operators, announced the successful raise of $24 million in a recent funding round, enabling the company to accelerate its plans for an international presence, continue to grow shipments and revenue in the U.S., and expand its professional teams across engineering, R&D, sales, marketing, manufacturing and operations. The Series A funding round started in early 2024.

Posted November 18, 2024

Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5, the latest version of the world's leading enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux helps organizations deploy applications and workloads more quickly and with greater reliability, enabling them to lower costs and more effectively manage workloads across hybrid cloud deployments while mitigating IT risks, from the data center to public clouds to the edge.

Posted November 18, 2024

IBM announced quantum hardware and software advancements to execute complex algorithms on IBM quantum computers with record levels of scale, speed, and accuracy. IBM Quantum Heron, the company's most performant quantum processor to-date and available in IBM's global quantum data centers, can now leverage Qiskit to accurately run certain classes of quantum circuits with up to 5,000 two-qubit gate operations.

Posted November 18, 2024

Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is announcing a collaboration with Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, with the goal of enabling businesses to effectively secure and protect their virtualized environments. Offering support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Rubrik Security Cloud, this collaboration aims to protect virtual machines (VMs) and applications amid an evolving—and tireless—threat landscape.

Posted November 15, 2024

ThoughtSpot, the AI-powered analytics company, is debuting Spotter, an agentic AI analyst designed to help enterprises derive greater, actionable value from their data. Based around accessibility, reliability, and enriched insights, Spotter is ThoughtSpot's AI-powered solution for enterprises seeking to scale trusted, data-driven decision-making.

Posted November 14, 2024

Danny Sandwell, technology strategist, erwin by Quest, and Helen Kinsella, community of practice leader for data governance and privacy at Informatica, joined DBTA's webinar, Achieving AI-Ready Data: Active Metadata, Data Catalogs, and Data Observability, to discuss the latest advancements, technologies, and best practices in the area of data management that can make AI-ready data a tangible reality.

Posted November 14, 2024

At a time when every enterprise looks to leverage generative artificial intelligence, data sites are turning their attention to graph databases and knowledge graphs. The global graph database market size was $2.12 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow to $10.3 billion in 2032, according to estimates from Adroit Research. These databases enable data managers and analysts to model, store, and query complex and increasingly interconnected relationships between datapoints. They also are employed to construct knowledge graphs that can cut through data silos, enable semantic searches, and support chatbots and recommendation engines.

Posted November 14, 2024

Ian Ward, head of scaled enterprise adoption at MongoDB, and Corey Brune, senior principal sales engineer at Delphix by Perforce, joined DBTA's webinar, Powering Modern Applications: Data Management for Speed and Scale, to explore pivotal solutions for supporting today's applications with flexibility and automation at the forefront.

Posted November 13, 2024

NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, is updating its portfolio of enterprise storage offerings introducing new NetApp AFF A-Series and AFF C-Series systems with mid-range, all-flash, unified data storage and updates to NetApp StorageGRID. According to the company, Intelligent Data Infrastructure is a comprehensive framework that empowers organizations to define and implement a transformative intelligent data strategy that is secure, agile, and future-ready.

Posted November 13, 2024

Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is announcing new solutions for its Virtual Storage Platform One data platform designed around enhancing storage and data management for AI and analytics workloads. Now offering a quad-level cell (QLC) flash storage array with public cloud replication and an object storage appliance, Hitachi Vantara brings improved simplicity, security, and sustainable scalability to the enterprise, according to the company.

Posted November 12, 2024

WSO2, the largest independent software provider of open source API management, integration, and identity and access management (IAM) products, is announcing its latest releases of WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes, which emphasize the crossroads between AI innovation, Kubernetes, and cyberattack protection.

Posted November 05, 2024

Alation Inc., the data intelligence company, is launching Alation Anywhere for Google Chrome to streamline contextual data discovery and empower users to act on data intelligence within Chrome. According to Alation, the extension allows users to seamlessly search, preview, and retrieve critical metadata from Alation without leaving their browser, delivering trusted, governed data at the point of need for real-time, enterprise-wide decision-making and accelerated time to value.

Posted November 04, 2024

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