Data Center Management Articles
Sanam Mittal, general manager of DXi, Quantum, joined DBTA's webinar, The Recipe To Build a Cyber Resilience Solution That Works, breaking down the fundamentals of cyber resiliency and offering guidance on how to build an effective cyber resilience framework.
Posted May 23, 2025
In DBTA's webinar, Building a Modern Data Platform: Trends and Best Practices, experts from CData Software and Informatica offered their expertise on how to successfully navigate data platform modernization, examining its various nuances and paths to value.
Posted May 22, 2025
HPE Private Cloud AI is adding feature branch model updates from NVIDIA AI Enterprise, which include AI frameworks, NVIDIA NIM microservices for pre-trained models, and SDKs—further aiding developers. According to the vendors, feature branch model support will allow developers to test and validate software features and optimizations for AI workloads.
Posted May 21, 2025
NVIDIA is commencing the opening of the Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI Technology (G-QuAT), hosting ABCI-Q—the world's largest research supercomputer dedicated to quantum computing.
Posted May 20, 2025
Intel is partnering with Shell Global Solutions (U.S.) Inc. to address the need for data center infrastructure. According to the companies, this first-of-its-kind solution—Intel Data Center Certified for Immersion Cooling—sets a new industry standard for cooling efficiency and long-term performance with the first immersion solution for 4th Gen and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors.
Posted May 19, 2025
Hazelcast and IBM LinuxONE and Linux on z to help enterprises leverage and build on their existing transaction processing investment. Hazelcast drives real-time data processing and automation on IBM's mainframe—fully engineered for the AI age—by providing critical capabilities such as data caching, data integration, and distributed computing.
Posted May 19, 2025
During Data Summit's Day 2 keynotes, Andreas Welsch, founder and chief AI strategist, Intelligence Briefing, and Ebrahim Alareqi, principal machine learning engineer, Incorta, ruminated on the ways AI can be successfully implemented for practical, tangible success.
Posted May 15, 2025
Bharath Vasudevan, VP of product, Quest Software, led the Data Summit session, "Getting Your Data AI-Ready," to explore the ways in which organizations can build resilient data strategies that improve data quality, visibility, and trust while reducing development time, enhancing decision making, and fostering collaboration.
Posted May 14, 2025
Nilanjan Chatterjee, senior staff data architect, AMD, led the Data Summit session, "Becoming an Insights-Driven Enterprise," guiding attendees through the ways that data observability can be effectively harnessed to power the highest standards of business data, for AI use cases and beyond.
Posted May 14, 2025
Wayne Eckerson, president, Eckerson Group, led the annual Data Summit pre-conference workshop, "Data Democratization: How to Build a Self-Service Strategy That Empowers Business Users and Eliminates Data Bottlenecks," discussing practical, time-tested approaches to data democratization, helping to eliminate data bottlenecks while effectively anticipating business needs.
Posted May 13, 2025
John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst, Radiant Advisors, led the annual Data Summit pre-conference workshop, "Architect Your Enterprise Data Future: Building Strategic Modern Data Platforms," exploring a proven four-step methodology for translating business goals into architectural realities, assessing various nuances associated with cultivating a modern data infrastructure.
Posted May 13, 2025
Coralogix, a cross-stack observability platform provider, is introducing Continuous Profiling, an advanced capability that delivers real-time visibility into application performance without any code changes or production impact. The solution seamlessly integrates with Coralogix logs, metrics, and traces to help engineering teams pinpoint and resolve bottlenecks in minutes, the company said.
Posted May 08, 2025
Oracle announced it has optimized its first wave of liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks in its data centers. Thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now being deployed and ready for customer use on NVIDIA DGX Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to develop and run next-generation reasoning models and AI agents.
Posted May 07, 2025
Mission Critical Group (MCG) a leading provider of innovative solutions specializing in design, manufacturing, delivery, and service of electrical system solutions, is acquiring DVM Manufacturing, LLC (DVM Power + Control), a premier manufacturer of low- and medium-voltage electrical distribution equipment—significantly expanding MCG's manufacturing footprint and service capabilities in electrical systems for data centers, industrial facilities, and other mission critical applications.
Posted May 05, 2025
IBM announced plans to invest $150 billion in America over the next five years to fuel the economy and to accelerate its role as the global leader in computing. This includes an investment of more than $30 billion in research and development to advance and continue IBM's American manufacturing of mainframe and quantum computers.
Posted May 05, 2025
Against a background of a rapidly evolving threat and regulatory landscape, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is making strides by announcing expansions to HPE Aruba Networking and HPE GreenLake cloud that help enterprises address cybersecurity risk and data protection simply and effectively.
Posted April 29, 2025
Rapid7, a leader in extended risk and threat detection, is debuting Managed Detection & Response (MDR) for Enterprise, a fully managed and customizable protection service with purpose-built detection and response for complex, "sprawling" business environments.
Posted April 25, 2025
For decades, mainframes and COBOL-based systems have been the backbone of enterprise computing, powering industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. Despite the rise of modern database technologies and cloud-based solutions, legacy databases remain deeply embedded in mission-critical operations.
Posted April 24, 2025
Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security, is unveiling a new, AI-powered cyber orchestration solution designed to accelerate Cohesity NetBackup and DataProtect customers' responses to cyber incidents.
Posted April 23, 2025
Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, is unveiling a new Data Transformation Suite for SAP Solutions, delivering full SAP S/4HANA modernization lifecycle support.
Posted April 23, 2025
Radix IoT Mango DCIM is redefining data center monitoring by delivering real-time telemetry, intelligent watchlists for global oversight, and support for AI latency demands, all while accelerating ESG reporting for energy-intensive environments. Mango DCIM serves multinational and global data centers seeking to enhance operational efficiency, ensure reliability, and gain real-time data visibility.
Posted April 21, 2025
IBM is introducing the IBM z17, the next generation of the company's iconic mainframe, fully engineered with AI capabilities across hardware, software, and systems operations. Powered by the new IBM Telum II processor, IBM z17 expands the system's capabilities beyond transactional AI capabilities to enable new workloads, according to IBM.
Posted April 21, 2025
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through Friday, May 30.
Posted April 18, 2025
Cloudflare, Inc., the leading connectivity cloud company, is introducing Workers VPC and Workers VPC Private Link, two new solutions that enable developers to build secure, global cross-cloud applications on Cloudflare Workers.
Posted April 17, 2025
The rise of "data mesh" as a buzz phrase in the data management world has generated significant interest, but is it the right approach for your organization? While data mesh has its proponents, many organizations may find it exacerbates the challenges it aims to solve rather than eliminating them.
Posted April 17, 2025
What does it take to deliver superior data services and capabilities in today's enterprises? With the rise of AI and machine learning (ML)—and their data-heavy workloads—data managers are actively seeking greater scalability and adaptability in their environments.
Posted April 16, 2025
Now that the hype behind AI is receding, tech CEOs face intensifying pressure to deliver innovation while managing rising levels of enterprise risk. Startups continue to emerge that bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, introducing new types of databases, maintaining data at the edge, advancing Web3, and more. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2025.
Posted April 16, 2025
The demand for data centers is on the uptick, being driven by the increased growth of digital services from cloud computing, AI, and 5G to apps on smartphones, laptops, and desktops. To keep up with this surge, approximately 4,750 data centers are now actively under construction across the U.S.
Posted April 15, 2025
CData Software, a leading provider of data connectivity solutions, is announcing the launch of CData Embedded Cloud, backdropped by the company's significant momentum in its embedded connectivity solutions.
Posted April 14, 2025
NVIDIA announced it is working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for the first time, will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. Together with leading manufacturing partners, the company has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test NVIDIA Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas.
Posted April 14, 2025
Dell Technologies is unveiling a series of innovations across its server, storage, and data protection portfolios that empower data center modernization in the AI era.
Posted April 08, 2025
That is why enterprises must investigate the AI-readiness of their data, regardless of their adoption journeys. In DBTA's latest webinar, Is Your Data Ready for GenAI? Why You Must Know!, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst, Radiant Advisors, and Joshua Èrhardt, director, data and AI marketing, Informatica, examined the current state of generative AI (GenAI) as well as how organizations can effectively prepare for its inevitable implementation.
Posted April 07, 2025
Immuta, the leader in data access and provisioning, is unveiling a series of new updates to its Data Marketplace solution, These new enhancements tackle the challenges of modern business and AI, aiming to alleviate the various burdens of data—from its growing volume to risk, access, provisioning, sharing, and more—and accelerate business impact.
Posted April 07, 2025
Zuken Inc. announced an agreement with IBM to join the IBM Research AI Hardware Center as a commercial member to further support development for next-generation chips.
Posted April 07, 2025
IBM announced it is adding IBM Storage Ceph as a Service to its emerging portfolio of flexible as a service solutions for on-premises infrastructure. The portfolio includes IBM Power delivered as a service, which already offers the distributed compute platform in new form factors and flexible consumption options.
Posted April 07, 2025
Precisely, a global data integrity provider, announced it is acquiring DTS Software, a global mainframe storage optimization software provider, underscoring Precisely's commitment to delivering innovative, end-to-end solutions for optimizing the integrity and value of enterprise data, whether it resides in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.
Posted April 07, 2025
Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security, is announcing that it has recently achieved the Nutanix Database Service (NDB) database protection Nutanix Ready validation, making it the first data protection provider to achieve this validation, according to the company.
Posted April 04, 2025
Teleport, the global provider of modern access to infrastructure, is launching the Teleport 17 update designed specifically to ease management burdens for infrastructure teams. Teleport—the platform for securing access to and protecting enterprise infrastructures—is debuting a plethora of new features for streamlining access controls and permissions at scale for both human and machine identities.
Posted April 04, 2025
Backblaze, Inc., the cloud storage innovator offering a modern alternative to traditional cloud providers, is announcing a partnership with PureNodal, a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads, centered around bringing a high-performance, cost-effective solution for enterprise-scale workloads to market.
Posted April 02, 2025
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure—eliminating the need to provision dedicated database and storage servers. The move also gives customers the performance, reliability, and availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service with lower minimum infrastructure costs.
Posted April 02, 2025
Reltio, a leader in AI-powered data unification and management, is unveiling Reltio Zero Copy Integration with Microsoft Fabric, enabling Reltio Data Cloud on Azure to store, manage, and share data seamlessly on OneLake.
Posted March 31, 2025
Pulumi, a leader in infrastructure as code and platform engineering solutions, is announcing new capabilities designed to strengthen security, streamline automation, and offer greater control over cloud resources at scale.
Posted March 27, 2025