Data Center Management Articles
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
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 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
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 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
IBM announced that its Envizi environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Suite received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization. Designed to create a single, trusted system of record for all ESG data, the IBM Envizi ESG Suite helps organizations automate the capture and management of ESG data for enhanced analysis, reporting, and opportunity identification.
Posted November 04, 2024
IBM is launching IBM Guardium Data Security Center—allowing organizations to protect data in any environment, throughout its full lifecycle, and with unified controls. IBM Guardium Data Security Center provides a common view of organizations' data assets, empowering security teams to integrate workflows and address data monitoring and governance, data detection and response, data and AI security posture management, and cryptography management together in a single dashboard.
Posted November 04, 2024
Flexential, a leading provider of secure and flexible data center solutions, is announcing that it has received a strategic investment from Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP), serving to accelerate Flexential's growth and go-to-market efforts.
Posted November 04, 2024
Picture this: A doctor receives an emergency call late at night. A patient has been brought into the emergency room with severe symptoms, and immediate access to their medical history is crucial. Within seconds, the doctor accesses the patient's electronic health records, seamlessly pulling up a comprehensive view of their health history. Thanks to a secure and reliable database, the doctor can make informed decisions quickly, potentially saving the patient's life.
Posted November 04, 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 01, 2024
As VMware closes in on its one year anniversary of joining Broadcom, Broadcom is debuting the latest evolutions of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) portfolio. Geared toward maintaining a powerful, valuable, enterprise-grade HCI solution for its customers, the updates to VCF reflect Broadcom's continued commitment toward robust vision execution within its innovation roadmap, according to the company.
Posted November 01, 2024
Backblaze, Inc., the cloud storage innovator providing a modern alternative to traditional cloud providers, is announcing a partnership with Opti9, an international leader in hybrid cloud solutions, aiming to ease the challenges of traditional cloud storage. By combining the high performance of Backblaze's B2 Cloud Storage with Opti9's suite of managed cloud services, customers benefit from low-cost, robust cloud storage without limitations, according to the companies.
Posted October 31, 2024
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is debuting a series of new features for dbt Cloud, the control plane for enterprise data stacks. These latest enhancements serve to empower users across the various stages of the analytics development lifecycle, adhering to One dbt, the company's mission of delivering a single, unified dbt experience regardless of an enterprise's infrastructure, data platform, or cloud.
Posted October 31, 2024
Venafi, a CyberArk company, is unveiling a series of new functionalities for its Control Plane for Machine Identities, the solution for standardizing machine identity management and accelerating digital transformation. Introducing enhancements designed specifically for the multi-cloud and post-quantum future, Venafi empowers organizations to manage their most critical machine identity security challenges and future-proof their businesses, according to the vendor.
Posted October 31, 2024
MinIO, the leader in high-performance storage for AI, is announcing new optimizations for Arm-based chipsets powering on its object store, expanding the software ecosystem for the power of Arm. Centering low-power, computationally dense chips, MinIO's enhancements for Arm aim to better accommodate the AI-powered future.
Posted October 30, 2024
Solix Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of cloud data management solutions, is debuting its multi-cloud, transactional, streaming data lake built on the cloud-native Solix Common Data Platform (CDP), designed to centralize data warehouse and database capabilities within a single offering. The SOLIXCloud Enterprise Data Lake is a third-generation data platform that addresses the complex, diverse data needs of modern enterprises with the convenience of a low-cost, secure, cloud data management solution.
Posted October 29, 2024
Gopal Ashok, group product manager, Google Cloud, and Gopal Ventrapragada, manager, software development engineering, Workday, joined DBTA's webinar, Modernize Your Database with Cloud SQL: Reduce Costs and Boost Performance, to discuss how fully managed Cloud SQL can bring enterprises closer to their operational goals.
Posted October 28, 2024
In DBTA's latest webinar, Stop Fixing, Start Predicting: Mastering Predictive Maintenance with IoT Data Analytics and AI, experts from OpenText explained how to implement a predictive maintenance program—shaped by the latest advancements in AI, machine learning (ML), and data analytics—to ensure that business operations remain on, available, and drive successful outcomes.
Posted October 25, 2024
Sidero Labs, a leading software developer focused on providing innovative solutions to help lower the friction in managing Kubernetes and containerized applications, is announcing the completion of a recent investment round, having raised $4 million. This funding—led by Hiro Capital with participation from Sony Innovation Fund—will boost Sidero Labs' product development, focusing on solving the operational challenges of running production Kubernetes clusters.
Posted October 23, 2024
Qpoint, the provider of comprehensive visibility and control over external service dependencies and traffic flows for modern, highly connected applications, is announcing the close of its pre-seed funding, having raised $4 million. This funding—which was led by Mango Capital with participation from Preface Ventures, Scribble Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta—will fuel Qpoint's product development for its eBPF-based external dependency and traffic flow monitoring technology.
Posted October 23, 2024
SAP is partnering with Ambipar, a global leader in environmental solutions with operations in 40 countries, to bring Net Zero as a Service to customers and support the fight against climate change. Net Zero as a Service brings together a combination of SAP's robust cloud solutions and Ambipar's deep carbon credit generation and trading expertise to help customers seamlessly manage and offset carbon emissions, according to the vendors.
Posted October 23, 2024
DataBank, a provider of enterprise-class edge colocation, interconnection, and managed services, announced a $2.0 billion equity raise led by AustralianSuper, Australia's largest superannuation fund, which committed $1.5 billion. Upon closing of the transaction, AustralianSuper will become a significant minority owner of DataBank and will join the company's board of directors.
Posted October 21, 2024
Lightmatter, a leader in photonic supercomputing, announced it has raised a $400 million Series D, valuing the company at $4.4 billion and bringing the total capital raised to date to $850 million—empowering Lightmatter to ready Passage for mass deployment in partner data centers, enabling the scaling required for sustained AI innovation.
Posted October 21, 2024
To drive the development of open, efficient, and scalable data center technologies, NVIDIA announced that it has contributed foundational elements of its NVIDIA Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project (OCP) and broadened NVIDIA Spectrum-X support for OCP standards.
Posted October 21, 2024
IBM is extending the capabilities of Power Virtual Server to deploy in a client data center, delivering the flexibility around consumption and management capabilities of the cloud while keeping the data on-premises to help address regional compliance and governance requirements of the business.
Posted October 21, 2024
StreamNative, the cloud-native data streaming company founded by the original creators of Apache Pulsar, is unveiling a managed Apache Flink Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) service, designed to merge the powers of both Flink and StreamNative for the latter's customer base. This product offering—powered by Ververica, the original creators of Apache Flink—serves to inject more simplicity into the process of deploying real-time applications in the cloud, according to StreamNative.
Posted October 18, 2024
Progress, the trusted provider of AI-powered infrastructure software, is unveiling the latest release of Progress Flowmon, the AI-powered network observability platform that reduces risk and improves resilience across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments. This release introduces IP Address Indexing, a capability that dramatically enhances IP search efficiency, improving network administrators' and cybersecurity professionals' ability to detect and track network activity associated with a specific IP address.
Posted October 18, 2024
Rocket Software, Inc., a global technology leader in modernization software, is announcing an expansion of its Hybrid Cloud solutions with generative AI (GenAI) capabilities engineered to streamline modernization. Aimed at enhancing organizational agility and decision making, Rocket Software's latest updates serve to close the operational gap between enterprises and an AI-powered future.
Posted October 17, 2024
Enabling the collection and utilization of data is crucial to successfully supporting AI projects at enterprise scale. From data integration to data pipelines, AI performance, data governance, compliance, and more, adhering to data engineering best practices has never been more prudent for enabling an AI-powered future.
Posted October 17, 2024
It has been a whirlwind time for data managers and their enterprises, and the innovations that are reshaping data operations aren't showing any signs of slowing down soon. AI and advanced analytics are changing the game, of course, as are a myriad of technologies now available to help manage and extract business value from the data flowing through organizations. Here is what industry experts tell BDQ they now see emerging and what we can expect in the months and years to come.
Posted October 17, 2024
Amplitude, a leading digital analytics platform, is debuting Web Experimentation, a solution that offers self-service A/B testing that enables enterprises to drive better conversion while preserving page performance. Designed for product managers, marketers, and growth leaders alike, Web Experimentation brings accessible, point-and-click interactions that accelerate A/B testing success.
Posted October 16, 2024
ScaleFlux, a leader in data storage and memory technology, is expanding its product portfolio to meet the demands for global data production. The company is introducing cutting-edge controllers for both NVMe SSDs and Compute Express Lin (CXL) modules, reinforcing its leadership in innovative technology for the data pipeline, according to the vendor.
Posted October 16, 2024
The career paths of IT professionals—whether they start out as administrators, creatives, or executives—are as varied as snowflakes in a blizzard. Along the way, many of us are fortunate enough to meet mentors who guide us and help us grow into better professionals.
Posted October 16, 2024
To meet the rapidly growing demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in Malaysia, Oracle announced plans to invest more than $6.5 billion to open a public cloud region in the country. The upcoming cloud region will enable Oracle customers and partners in Malaysia to leverage AI infrastructure and services and migrate mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Posted October 16, 2024
As companies measure the health and performance of their IT/cloud/application infrastructure and various data-in-motion streams such as metrics, events, logs, and traces, the number of monitoring tools grows, resulting in a complicated and overloaded observability stack. Kishore Gopalakrishna, co-founder and CEO at StarTree, believes unified observability platforms can solve these pain points by providing the flexibility, data autonomy, and extensibility offered by a disaggregated model.
Posted October 15, 2024