Data Center Management Articles
Cribl, the data engine for IT and security, announced four key partnerships with Vijilan, Anvilogic, Securonix, and Anomali, to address growing enterprise IT and security data management challenges. Cribl Stream and Edge products are now integrated with Anvilogic's innovative security information and event management (SIEM) platform, providing security operations centers (SOC) with best-in-class flexibility, cost efficiency, and control over their security data, according to the vendors.
Posted August 12, 2024
deepset, the mission-critical AI company, is unveiling deepset Studio, a free, user-friendly enabler of custom AI development that abstracts the rampant complexities from AI pipeline development. With a visual, drag-and-drop environment, engineering and data teams can create robust, composable AI systems with ease—including agentic and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) apps—which are immediately deployable within cloud and on-prem environments via deepset Cloud and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
Posted August 12, 2024
Analysis by global real estate consulting firm JLL predicts edge IT infrastructure and data centers will become a $317 billion market globally by 2026, representing a 107% growth from the 2020 market valued at $153 billion. Globally, the growth of edge computing will be influenced by not only the emergence of several technology-based megatrends but also the need for faster data transfer and high computation, as well as factors such as policies and regulations.
Posted August 12, 2024
Lumen Technologies announced an agreement with Corning Incorporated for a substantial supply of next-generation optical cable, more than doubling Lumen's U.S. intercity fiber miles to provide significant capacity to major cloud data centers racing to stay ahead of AI workloads and high bandwidth applications fueled by massive amounts of data.
Posted August 12, 2024
IBM is adding generative AI capabilities to its managed Threat Detection and Response Services utilized by IBM Consulting analysts to advance and streamline security operations for clients. Built on IBM's watsonx data and AI platform, the new IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant is designed to accelerate and improve the identification, investigation, and response to critical security threats, according to the company.
Posted August 12, 2024
Regular readers of this column are aware that I am a proponent of getting rid of bad database standards. But sometimes it can be difficult to determine if a particular standard is bad, or just a lot of trouble to comply with! Well, what am I getting at here? Have you ever been thwarted by a global fiat from management? Of course you have, we all have. But I'm talking about a particular type of dictum from above. Something like this: "New software installations, including updated versions and releases, must be supported by current tooling before they can be installed."
Posted August 12, 2024
Advanced Info Service (AIS), one of Thailand's largest mobile network operators, announced plans to deploy Oracle Alloy and launch AIS Cloud, the country's first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud. Oracle Alloy will provide AIS' customers and all enterprises in Thailand, including the public sector, access to more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including the latest artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Posted August 12, 2024
Varonis Systems, Inc., a leader in data security, is announcing new integrations with SentinelOne and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, enriching visibility for customer endpoints. These integrations with leading EDR providers forwards Varonis' mission to protect data wherever it lives, according to the company.
Posted August 09, 2024
Vectra AI, Inc., the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), is unveiling a recent expansion to its Vectra AI Platform, the integrated signal solution for XDR. This update focuses on affording security operations center (SOC) teams with the necessary tools to proactively address threats and deter behaviors within increasingly dynamic hybrid environments.
Posted August 09, 2024
AppViewX, the leader in automated certificate lifecycle management (CLM) and PKI solutions, is announcing a partnership with Utimaco, a leading global provider of IT security solutions, with the goal of delivering holistic, scalable platform solutions for secure certificate and key lifecycle management.
Posted August 08, 2024
In many organizations, microservices have become the default method of application building and deployment, leveraging containers and Kubernetes. The resulting architecture has been a flexible network of services that provide resiliency by operating independently, unaffected by potential failures in other parts of the system. Recently, however, some technology leaders have been questioning if this is the best way to build.
Posted August 08, 2024
There is a confluence of activity—including generative AI models, digital twins, and shared ledger capabilities—that are having a profound impact on helping enterprises meet their goal of becoming data driven. Capturing data, converting it into the right insights, and integrating those insights quickly and efficiently into business decisions and processes is generating a significant competitive advantage for those who do it right.
Posted August 08, 2024
With today's data-driven practices and AI demands, there has never been more pressure on data managers and professionals to deliver real-time, high-quality information when and where it is needed. Many organizations are struggling to achieve such a level of "data management maturity," in which data is provided on an agile, automated basis.
Posted August 08, 2024
Picture this: there's a new face in the IT department, ready to step in to help tackle the increasingly complex challenges caused by modern hybrid on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Overstretched technology teams always appreciate an extra set of helping hands, but what happens when this new team member isn't human—but artificial intelligence (AI)?
Posted August 08, 2024
Ampere and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are releasing second-generation Ampere-based compute instances, OCI Ampere A2 Compute, based on the AmpereOne family of processors. The new offering builds upon the success of OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances, which have been adopted by OCI customers and deployed across over 100 OCI services, including Oracle Database services like HeatWave, MySQL, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to meet the increased demands for generative AI, large language models (LLMs), advanced graphics, and digital twins to hasten operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) announced the release of NVIDIA L40S GPU bare-metal instances, available to order and the upcoming availability of a new virtual machine accelerated by a single NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU.
Posted August 07, 2024
Varonis Systems, Inc., a leader in data security, is debuting new AI capabilities designed to automatically discover, understand, and classify customer data. By enhancing its data classification engine with new machine learning (ML) techniques, Varonis forwards powerful data classification characterized by cost efficiency, transparency, and minimal effort.
Posted August 06, 2024
Bassam Chahine, professional services consultant, Instaclustr, joined DBTA's webinar, Enterprise Platform Engineering, the Open Source Way, to discuss the ways platform engineering can modernize application infrastructure—and do so with the multitude of advantages that open source has to offer.
Posted August 06, 2024
Code42 Software, Inc. (now part of Mimecast), the leader in data loss and insider threat protection, is unveiling a series of enhancements to Incydr, the SaaS data protection solution. With these enhancements, designed specifically to protect against data exfiltration to generative AI (GenAI) tools, enterprises can embark on GenAI initiatives with confidence, according to the company.
Posted August 06, 2024
Lumifi Cyber, Inc. (Lumifi), a next-generation leader in the cybersecurity space, is debuting its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Now available on the trusted Azure cloud platform, Lumifi's MDR capabilities enhance cybersecurity posture.
Posted August 05, 2024
Hazelcast, Inc., a leading software provider powering mission-critical applications that move the economy, is debuting vector search capabilities for its flagship product, the Hazelcast Platform. Now providing the necessary tools for Hazelcast users to modernize for the AI era, Hazelcast Platform 5.5 enables a variety of new use cases—including semantic search, fraud detection, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG)—as well as additional advancements in compute, resilience, and continuity.
Posted August 02, 2024
Data experts joined DBTA's webinar, The Role of Data in Driving Growth, to examine how the speakers' respective companies have driven enterprise growth through the successful taming of their data estates.
Posted August 02, 2024
AttackIQ, the leading independent vendor of breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions and a founding research partner of the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense (CTID), is debuting Flex 2.0, the latest iteration of its agentless BAS solution. As security threats continue to evolve, Flex 2.0 empowers enterprises to quickly and effectively assess their security postures as needed.
Posted August 01, 2024
Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading fully-managed service for Apache Airflow, is unveiling its latest platform release, forwarding pipeline resilience, release velocity, and hardened security, as well as support for dbt on Astro—the platform's first foray outside of the Airflow universe.
Posted July 31, 2024
Devo Technology, the security data analytics company, is unveiling a series of data orchestration, data analytics, and security operations center (SOC) workflow enhancements designed to bring data control, cost efficiency, and automation to security teams. With data volumes increasing while team budgets remain the same, Devo's latest offerings aim to ease the pressures of security while delivering robust data control.
Posted July 30, 2024
Fortanix Inc., a leader in data-first cybersecurity and pioneer of Confidential Computing, is debuting an expansion of Key Insight, the solution for proactively discovering, assessing, and remediating cryptographic security risks. Now, Key Insight users can scan on-premises services—such as databases or storage—for encryption keys, making it the first solution to deliver this capability across hybrid and on-prem environments, according to Fortanix.
Posted July 30, 2024
Census, the leading data activation and reverse ETL platform, is debuting its expanded focus in data transformation and governance tooling, manifested as the Universal Data Platform (UDP). This approach is grounded in breaking down data silos that prevent effective collaboration between data and business teams, offering a centralized platform for teams to create, contribute, and validate datasets.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM announced it is a new partner of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, as approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a major national and international research center, SQMS is dedicated to advancing critical quantum technologies, with a focus on superconducting quantum systems.
Posted July 29, 2024
According to IBM's CFO, the company's z16 mainframe is outperforming previous generations of the system, as reflected in recent quarterly financial results. The financial results for the past three months to the end of June 2024 showed it brought in $15.77 billion in revenue, up 1.9% year-on-year and more than the $15.62 billion predicted by analysts.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM is introducing two new IBM SkillsBuild certificates in cybersecurity and data analytics, designed and piloted with community colleges. These new IBM SkillsBuild certificates will be available to students across the Alabama Community College System, Bay Area Community College Consortium, Colorado Community College System, and Louisiana Community and Technical College System this fall.
Posted July 29, 2024
365 Data Centers (365), a leading provider of network-centric colocation, network, cloud, and other managed services, is expanding its partnership with Megaport, a global leading Network-as-a-Service provider (NaaS). Megaport has broadened its 365 footprint by adding a Point-of-Presence at 365's Boca Raton, Florida data center, further enhancing public cloud and other connectivity solutions available to 365's Southeast customers.
Posted July 29, 2024
To shed light on modernizing business with data integration and governance at its core, experts joined DBTA's webinar, Data Integration and Governance for the Hybrid and Multicloud World, detailing the latest technologies and best practices that can turn the tide toward true proprietary efficiency.
Posted July 26, 2024
Backslash Security, a modern application security solution that leverages deep reachability analysis for enterprise AppSec and product security teams, is debuting new capabilities for the Backslash platform that are designed to alleviate the various pain points associated with AppSec. The two new features—Fix Simulation and Attack Path Remediation—provide advanced remediation guidance that incorporates safety, security, and app context to solve critical vulnerability challenges.
Posted July 25, 2024
ScienceLogic, a leader in automated IT operations, is debuting several updates to ScienceLogic SL1, the vendor's AIOps platform that offers expansive monitoring and contextualization across multi-cloud and distributed architectures. This series of updates—spanning areas such as reliability, security, enterprise enablement, third-party integration, user experience, and more—reflects ScienceLogic's comprehensive approach to accommodating its users' data center needs.
Posted July 25, 2024
Data engineering experts joined DBTA's webinar, The Future of Data Engineering: AI, Automation, and the Cloud, to examine key technologies and best practices that are playing significant roles in how data engineering can best manifest in the enterprise.
Posted July 25, 2024
Database administration is a demanding career that is constantly morphing to include more and different job requirements. Being a DBA requires technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage multiple, detailed tasks at the same time. This means that in the world of database administration, stress is an unwelcome, yet common companion.
Posted July 24, 2024
Iterative, the company dedicated to streamlining the workflow of AI engineers and creator of widely-used open-source projects in MLOps, is announcing the upcoming release of Data Chain, the new open source tool designed to empower organizations to derive greater value from unstructured data. With the ability to process and evaluate unstructured data, Data Chain positions a variety of enterprises to successfully implement AI with open source data curation and pre-processing capabilities.
Posted July 23, 2024
Code Metal, the company powering AI-based development workflows for the edge, is announcing it has secured $13 million in seed funding, as well as $3.45 million in a pre-seed round. Led by Shield Capital and J2 Ventures—with participation from Fulcrum Venture Group, Underdog Labs, and more—this capital will propel Code Metal's efforts to build both its modular and verifiable agentic workflows that radically enhance the speed of development and its team of experts.
Posted July 23, 2024
Forcepoint, a global leader in data-first cybersecurity solutions, is debuting its comprehensive generative AI (GenAI) security solution designed to enable secure, transparent control across GenAI platforms. Featuring an integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API, Forcepoint's GenAI Security solution empowers both enterprise and government agencies to utilize GenAI innovations while adhering to robust data security and compliance standards.
Posted July 19, 2024
Semarchy, a master data management and data integration leader, is announcing that it has become a technology partner for master data management (MDM) in Microsoft Purview—a comprehensive set of solutions that can help organizations govern, protect, and manage data wherever it lives. With this technology partnership comes a powerful integration that brings Semarchy's platform—which unifies MDM, data intelligence, and data integration into a single application—to Microsoft Purview, extending its value, according to the company.
Posted July 19, 2024
Momento, the real-time data platform founded by the engineering team that built DynamoDB, is announcing the completion of its Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, having raised $15 million. Emboldened by its mission to both streamline and increase the efficacy of developers, Momento's funding will enable the company to continue to deliver hassle-free infrastructure at a global scale. This release also announces the GA of Momento Topics, a massively scalable pub/sub messaging service optimized for real-time, many-to-many communication, according to the vendor.
Posted July 19, 2024
A faulty update to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor caused a global IT outage on Microsoft systems Friday, causing international flights to be grounded, knocking banks offline and media outlets off air. Further compounding the situation, several states in the U.S. are reporting disruptions to emergency services. The bug has affected many stock exchanges, supermarkets, government services, and even hospital and healthcare systems. Users are experiencing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error, which is causing their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly.
Posted July 19, 2024
Census, the data activation and reverse ETL platform, is announcing its acquisition of Fulcrum, an AI-led growth platform for business teams. This acquisition aims to deliver AI-driven data collaboration between data and business teams, integrating Fulcrum's technology into the Census platform.
Posted July 18, 2024
Exabeam, the company delivering industry-leading AI and automation for accelerated threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR), and LogRhythm, the provider of a leading security information and event management (SIEM) solution, have announced the completion of its merger. Bringing together both technology and talent, the company will retain the Exabeam name while continuing to deliver best-of-breed cybersecurity solutions.
Posted July 17, 2024
In our last article, we discussed several great companies of Western civilization and why a poignant few of them, that were building game-changing technology, disappeared. Metaphorically they can be envisioned as having been buried in the proverbial Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse, never to be seen again.
Posted July 17, 2024
Cytactic, the platform pioneering cyber crisis readiness and management, is announcing the results of a seed funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners, having raised $16 million. This funding will serve to propel the company's mission in combating complex threat landscapes with intuitive, holistic crisis management.
Posted July 16, 2024
As a product manager, I have worked closely with data engineering teams and witnessed the fantastic ways to transform raw web data into insights, products, data models, and more. Data cleaning consistently stands out as a vital component of this transformation.
Posted July 16, 2024