Data Center Management Articles
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
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 June 19, 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
Change is happening, and it's happening so fast that even the most seasoned data managers and professionals can't keep up. New technologies, along with new approaches to data management, are restructuring—and reimagining—data-related jobs. Industry leaders are expressing astonishment at the speed in which the data world is changing. "I'm witnessing something that's going to make everything different," said Milan Parikh, lead enterprise architect at Cytel.
Posted June 12, 2025
Pentaho, an industry leading data intelligence and integration platform utilized by 73% of the Fortune 100, is unveiling a series of enhancements to Pentaho Data Catalog, a solution that provides a single source of truth through trusted data for core operations and AI. The latest iteration of Pentaho Data Catalog focuses on empowering organizations to deliver AI with increased data quality, observability, and trust.
Posted June 11, 2025
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is announcing the next generation of its fault-tolerant HPE Nonstop Compute solutions engineered with advancements in flexibility and reliability.
Posted June 10, 2025
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud and one of the first cyber resilience vendors to support post-quantum cryptography (PQC), is unveiling new advancements in its PQC capabilities designed to enable enterprises to protect their data against the next generation of quantum-powered cyberthreats.
Posted June 09, 2025
Following the explosive growth of AI initiatives at all levels of various organizations last year, tech leaders have pinpointed digital trust as a crucial challenge in software development for 2025, according to the sixth annual "Reveal Survey Report: Top Software Development Challenges for 2025" survey from Infragistics. To help bring new resources and innovation to light, each year, Database Trends and Applications magazine presents the DBTA 100, a list of forward-thinking companies seeking to expand what's possible with data for their customers.
Posted June 04, 2025
Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, is announcing a global strategic partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company, centered around supporting AI at scale underpinned by a data-driven foundation.
Posted June 04, 2025
Rubrik, a leading cyber security company, is unveiling its integration of AMD EPYC processors across the Rubrik data security platform, expanding cloud deployment options while supercharging Rubrik's capacity to deliver cost-effective, power-efficient, and AI-ready solutions.
Posted June 04, 2025
Oracle will spend approximately $40 billion on NVIDIA's higher-performance chips to power OpenAI's new U.S. data center, the Financial Times reported. The data center, situated in Abilene, Texas, is part of the U.S. Stargate Project, led by top AI firms, to boost America's lead in the artificial intelligence industry amid global competition.
Posted June 04, 2025
IBM has updated its LinuxONE mainframes, using the same hardware as its new z17 mainframe platform but designed to run on Linux operating systems, with the focus on artificial intelligence. The LinuxONE Emperor 5 is the fifth generation of IBM LinuxONE iron and comes three years after the release of the last generation. The new Emperor has been updated for improved security, cost-efficiency, and AI acceleration of mission-critical enterprise workloads.
Posted June 02, 2025
GridCARE, a new company "powering the AI revolution," is emerging from stealth to boost data center capacity. The company closed a highly oversubscribed $13.5 million Seed financing round led by Xora, a deep technology venture capital firm backed by Temasek.
Posted June 02, 2025
In another installation of the new webinar series brought to you by DBTA and Radiant Advisors—also sponsored by Quest and TimeXtender—John O'Brien, principal advisor and CEO, Radiant Advisors, unveiled the results of a comprehensive study tracking enterprise adoption rates and maturity across key architectural patterns, highlighting how organizations are prepping for AI without sacrificing governance and security.
Posted May 29, 2025
Anais Dotis-Georgiou, product manager, InfluxData, joined DBTA's webinar, Why a Time Series Database is the Best Solution for Building Real-Time, Intelligent Systems and Applications, to discuss the scenarios in which time series databases rival traditional relational databases, offering a variety of benefits relating to performance, operational overhead, and more.
Posted May 27, 2025
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