Data Center Management Articles
Immuta, the data security expert, is debuting a new foundational layer that uses the power of AI to enhance data governance and scale within the Immuta Platform, dubbed Immuta AI.
Posted March 03, 2025
Juniper Networks, a leader in secure AI-native networking, is introducing a new round of innovations for its routing portfolio that expedite deployment and enhance routing troubleshooting at scale.
Posted March 03, 2025
Deepwatch, the leading AI+Human cyber resilience platform, has acquired Dassana, a leading provider of security intelligence solutions. Enabling Deepwatch to deliver end-to-end security lifecycle management, this acquisition enhances customers' security posture with new AI-powered risk and threat exposure management technology.
Posted February 28, 2025
Acceldata, the market leader in enterprise data observability, is debuting its new, AI-first data management platform—Agentic Data Management (Agentic DM)—which is engineered to better prepare enterprises for their AI initiatives.
Posted February 27, 2025
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI. The closing comes two days after U.K.'s antitrust regulator accepted the deal.
Posted February 27, 2025
Hydrolix, the company transforming the economics of log data with its streaming data lake platform, is announcing it has joined the AWS Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a global co-sell program for AWS Partners that provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS and sell through the AWS Marketplace. By connecting to the AWS Sales organization, Hydrolix will significantly expand its product reach through AWS' co-selling support.
Posted February 26, 2025
In DBTA's latest webinar, Building a Microservices Architecture for the Edge and AI Era, experts discussed key technologies and best practices crucial for implementing a microservices architecture capable of supporting AI and edge use cases.
Posted February 25, 2025
Bloom Energy, a global leader in power solutions, is expanding its longstanding relationship with Equinix, the world's digital infrastructure company, to exceed 100MW of electricity capacity to support Equinix's International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers across the United States.
Posted February 24, 2025
Triton Consulting, the independent data management and digital transformation service provider, announced the addition of ZMARS to its portfolio of client services. Z Mainframe Availability and Resiliency Service (ZMARS), Triton Consulting's newly launched service, ensures the Db2 for z/OS environment stays resilient, recovers fast, and performs at its best, according to the vendor.
Posted February 24, 2025
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is partnering with BMC Software, a global leader in software solutions, to innovate and optimize on mainframe and open systems environments. According to the companies, this collaboration will combine Hitachi Vantara's advanced storage platforms with BMC's software offerings, enabling enterprises to improve their IT operations while maximizing the value of their data.
Posted February 24, 2025
The Modern Data Company, a pioneer in data products that radically simplify how enterprises activate their data, is announcing a collaboration with Acies Global, a global consulting firm specializing in solving complex data challenges, aiming to assist clients make their complex, proprietary data into business-ready data products.
Posted February 21, 2025
StorMagic, solving the world's edge data problems, is announcing that StorMagic SvHCI—the company's full-stack HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) software solution—has been tested and validated with three Supermicro IoT SuperServers.
Posted February 20, 2025
VAST Data, the AI data platform company, is announcing two significant advancements for the VAST Data Platform, unveiling Block storage functionality for the VAST DataStore, as well as the new VAST Event Broker. These latest capabilities aim to better accommodate the complex data needs of today's technology—such as analytics and AI—while delivering a universal, multiprotocol storage platform.
Posted February 20, 2025
Apollo GraphQL, the graph-based API orchestration company, is announcing the general availability of its Apollo Connectors for REST APIs, as well as new GraphOS platform enhancements, designed around optimizing enterprises' API strategies.
Posted February 19, 2025
As part of Oracle's distributed cloud strategy, the company is launching Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer with NVIDIA GPU configurations and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance with GPU configurations (available in March), featuring NVIDIA L40S GPUs to bring enterprise-grade AI, graphics, and high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities directly into any location—including data centers.
Posted February 19, 2025
IBM announced its intent to acquire Applications Software Technology LLC, a global Oracle consultancy—which would bring deep expertise driving business transformations with Oracle Cloud Applications, including for clients in the public sector such as local government and K-12 education.
Posted February 19, 2025
To help break down the latest and greatest of GenAI, experts joined DBTA's webinar—in partnership with Enterprise AI World—Top Trends in GenAI for 2025, offering the necessary expertise and strategies for navigating the fast-paced AI era.
Posted February 18, 2025
Airbyte, the leading open source data movement platform company, is announcing that its open data movement technology will offer predictable pricing based on capacity, not data volume—an industry first, according to Airbyte.
Posted February 13, 2025
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in unveiling eight new HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers, the latest additions to a new generation of enterprise servers that introduce new security capabilities, optimize performance for complex workloads, and boost productivity with management features enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI).
Posted February 13, 2025
All of the hype and high hopes around AI in recent years has focused on compelling use cases—from creating new medicines to taking over customer service. However, all AI efforts will be nonstarters without well-governed, well-sourced data. That is the leading challenge for enterprises going forward in the competitive economy of 2025.
Posted February 13, 2025
The "data deluge" is as familiar to IT professionals as it is cliché, but what we are encountering today is very different. Will our typical response be enough? Often hyped, the data deluge has been an omnipresent theme in IT circles for years as enterprises struggled to manage an ever-increasing barrage of data.
Posted February 13, 2025
Normalization clusters data items together based on functional dependencies within the data items. This normalized arrangement expresses the semantics of the business items being presented. Denormalization means that, for some reason, grouping the data strictly by functional dependencies has been ignored. Why might one cast aside reasonable designs for something less rational? There are many reasons for denormalizing.
Posted February 13, 2025
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Top Trends in Data Engineering for 2025, to explore the new trends and best practices shaping the future of engineering, from AI-driven tools to real-time data processing, new data architecture patterns, and more.
Posted February 10, 2025
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is introducing a new co-engineered solution with Cisco designed for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes.
Posted February 10, 2025
Mainframes are ubiquitous. They handle critical applications for top airlines, retailers, banks, and government agencies. In a recent blog post, by Greg Lotko at Broadcom, SHARE offers 5 reasons why the mainframe is more relevant than ever. Those peer-to-peer payments you make from your phone? Mainframe. All those lines you avoided by shopping online this holiday? Mainframe. Those flights you booked for spring break? Mainframe. Even your government services are likely to have mainframes behind the scenes doing the heavy lifting. It's all mainframe.
Posted February 10, 2025
Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, is unveiling the Spectra OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch, a groundbreaking innovation in data center tape storage connectivity. Using active optical cables, the OSW-2400 switch enables connection distances up to 100 meters, enabling SAS fabrics to cover data center floor spaces up to 10,000 m2 (107,639 sq ft), connect between building floors, or extend to nearby buildings, increasing deployment flexibility and simplifying connectivity between servers and tape storage systems.
Posted February 10, 2025
Emerald, a global venture capital leader in industrial innovation, is investing in NLM Photonics to help bring energy-efficient, high performance electro-optic modulation technology to AI, data centers, quantum computing, and more. NLM, a semiconductor technology company, has developed breakthrough hybrid electro-optic photonic modulators that can enable up to a 30% reduction in data center network power consumption.
Posted February 10, 2025
BMC is releasing a variety of updates to the BMC AMI portfolio, breaking new ground in enabling what is possible on the mainframe from a new approach to secondary data storage to the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances productivity and efficiency.
Posted February 10, 2025
Submissions for nominations are now open 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 users. The nominations period is open and extended through March 21, 2025, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted February 07, 2025
Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, is debuting end-to-end, secure access service edge (SASE) services to help enterprises navigate the constantly evolving technological and threat landscape. Launched to drive adoption of Palo Alto Networks' Prisma SASE, Kyndryl's SASE services aim to bring cloud-first, zero-trust security to today's organizations with ease.
Posted February 05, 2025
Perforce Software, a DevOps company for global teams requiring speed, quality, security, and compliance at scale along the development life cycle, is introducing AI Validation, a new capability within its Perfecto continuous testing platform for web and mobile applications that will change the way organizations experience testing.
Posted February 03, 2025
Backblaze, Inc. is unveiling the latest release of its B2 Cloud Storage platform, featuring a variety of updates that improve enterprise security, streamline workflows and data migration, and more.
Posted January 31, 2025
Kurrent, the event-native data platform innovator previously known as Event Store, is announcing that Kurrent Cloud—the company's event-native data platform for storing and streaming—now supports public internet access. This addition removes the need for private networking infrastructure, ultimately reducing setup costs and operational overhead by using public internet access.
Posted January 31, 2025
Yugabyte, the company behind YugabyteDB—the open-source, high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, cloud-native applications—is announcing the latest version of its database, YugabyteDB 2.25. Now featuring complete compatibility with PostgreSQL 15 and a variety of new capabilities, YugabyteDB 2.25 aims to meet its customers wherever they are on their PostgreSQL journeys, according to the company.
Posted January 30, 2025
Progress is unveiling Progress Data Cloud, a centralized Data Platform as a service designed to improve data and AI operations in the cloud without the complexity of infrastructure management.
Posted January 30, 2025
Throughout 2024, data managers and professionals were at the locus of the new waves of innovation driven by AI and analytics—and the activity was frenetic and intense. As the year 2025 progresses, this intense and frenetic activity will only continue. Cloud services, AI, AI agents, and cybersecurity are top areas of interest that industry leaders are watching. The following are several prominent trends mentioned that are shaping data management.
Posted January 30, 2025
Leostream Corporation is unveiling Leostream Privileged Remote Access, a new service for managing and securing enterprise resources accessed by third-parties, including external contractors, service providers, and other non-employees.
Posted January 28, 2025
Atomicwork, a leading innovator in agentic service management solutions for enterprise IT, is announcing the completion of its Series A funding round, having raised $25 million.
Posted January 28, 2025
Commvault is debuting a new integration with the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform that is designed to introduce another layer of enterprise security amid a rapidly evolving threat landscape.
Posted January 27, 2025
Jeff Vestal, principal customer enterprise architect at Elastic, joined DBTA's webinar, Beyond RAG basics: Strategies and best practices for implementing RAG, to explore best practices, patterns, and techniques for delivering superior RAG performance.
Posted January 27, 2025
Egnyte is announcing a series of new patents and product features—as well as a new generative AI (GenAI)-powered assistant—for securing and easing the management of mission-critical data.
Posted January 24, 2025
Qdrant is debuting its platform-independent GPU-accelerated vector indexing, solving indexing bottlenecks for large data use cases.
Posted January 24, 2025
ZuriQ is announcing that it has raised $4.2 million in an effort to commercialize its revolutionary new architecture designed to disrupt quantum computing's scaling limits.
Posted January 23, 2025
LogicMonitor is announcing a strategic partnership with OpenAI that will enhance LogicMonitor's capacity to deliver more actionable data, intelligent automation, scalability, and efficiency for IT teams.
Posted January 22, 2025
OpenAI is partnering with Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle to form the Stargate Project—a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. According to an announcement by OpenAI, the project will begin deploying $100 billion immediately.
Posted January 22, 2025
A day in the life of a DBA (database administrator) can be quite hectic. The DBA is required to maintain production and test environments while at the same time keeping an eye on active application development projects, attending strategy and design meetings, helping to select and evaluate new products, and keeping legacy systems robust and stable, while ensuring access from new systems.
Posted January 22, 2025