Data Center Management Articles
Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, is taking its Data Integrity Suite to the next level with several major enhancements, including the launch of the Data Graph API. From a new connector framework to an advanced data catalog, hybrid execution agents, and more, Precisely's latest release centers simplicity, speed, and security in the realm of data integrity.
Posted October 11, 2024
AI—both generative and machine learning/statistical—is essentially dead in the water without well-vetted, timely, quality data. This is holding back AI efforts more than anticipated, a recent survey finds. Data issues hampering AI were explored in a recent survey released by Precisely and Drexel University, which exposed widespread data trust issues and its impact on data and AI initiatives. Data quality and governance have hampered organizations for decades, and such deeply rooted distrust in the data is now being reflected in their embrace of AI output.
Posted October 10, 2024
Software development has come a long way in the past few decades, but data management hasn't. It's time to change that. Despite automation becoming more ubiquitous, many engineering teams are still managing databases manually—a practice that can be time-consuming and complex, slowing down developers and impeding overall productivity. Additionally, current models force database administrators (DBAs) to work within silos, which creates logjams and communication lapses. It also leaves more room for error.
Posted October 10, 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 October 10, 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 09, 2024
Cloudera, the only true hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI, is unveiling Cloudera AI Inference powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform. Designed to enhance the performance, security, and scalability of AI models, Cloudera AI Inference is one of the industry's first AI inference services that provides embedded NIM microservice capability, according to the company.
Posted October 09, 2024
Event Store, the event-native data platform company, is announcing a series of improvements to Event Store Cloud, the company's fully managed offering of EventStoreDB, centered on streamlining management as well as increasing ease of use and time-to-value. In addition to the enhancements, Event Store Cloud is now available on the AWS Marketplace.
Posted October 09, 2024
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is partnering with Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technologies and services, with the goal of delivering a joint cyber readiness solution to help companies deal with today's complex, rigid regulations.
Posted October 08, 2024
WekaIO (WEKA), the AI-native data platform company, announced that the WEKA Data Platform has been certified as a high-performance data store for NVIDIA Partner Network Cloud Partners. With this certification, NVIDIA Cloud Partners can now leverage the WEKA Data Platform's performance, scalability, operational efficiency, and ease of use through the jointly validated WEKA Reference Architecture for NVIDIA Cloud Partners using NVIDIA HGX H100 systems.
Posted October 07, 2024
To help clients embrace generative AI, IBM is extending its high-performance computing (HPC) offerings, giving enterprises more power and versatility to carry out research, innovation and business transformation. With the general availability of NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU instances on IBM Cloud, businesses will have access to a powerful platform for AI applications, including large language model (LLM) training.
Posted October 07, 2024
BMC's latest "2024 BMC Mainframe Survey" is now available, revealing the state of the mainframe is strong, with a bright outlook, thanks to emerging technologies and continued digital transformation. The mainframe's speed, processing capacity, and security continue to make the platform a key component of the ever-changing IT landscape.
Posted October 07, 2024
IOTech, the edge software company, is debuting Edge Manager v3, the end-to-end, flexible, scalable solution for the management of hardware nodes and their edge applications. Designed to simplify and automate edge systems management at scale, the latest update introduces new multi-tenancy, workflow automation, and integrated tooling capabilities.
Posted October 04, 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 03, 2024
Acquia, the leader in open digital experience software, is announcing that Acquia Cloud Next—the enterprise-grade, Kubernetes-native Drupal hosting platform—has achieved Authorized status from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). This achievement reflects Acquia's investment in the public sector as the only commercial Drupal hosting company to meet U.S. federal government security standards, according to the company.
Posted October 02, 2024
SQream, a leading accelerated data processing platform, is debuting its native Snowflake connector which brings its cloud data solution, SQream Blue, to the Snowflake environment. With this connector, SQream delivers the best of its GPU parallelizing solution to Snowflake's data warehouse platform, eliminating the need for intermediate data transfers or complex ETL processes.
Posted October 01, 2024
Fleet, the open-source device management platform, is announcing support for iOS devices, including iPads and iPhones. With this release, Fleet's open source platform for master data management (MDM) expands into the device management space, empowering organizations to transition from legacy MDM, according to the company.
Posted September 30, 2024
Veeam Software, the #1 leader by market share in Data Resilience, is announcing an integration with Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, aiming to simplify, centralize, scale, and automate data monitoring and incident response. This integration—which merges the strengths of Palo Alto Networks AI-driven security operations center (SOC) platform and Veeam's recovery capabilities—empowers organizations to take an integrated approach to protecting their data backups and proactively respond to cyberthreats, according to the companies.
Posted September 30, 2024
Reltio, a leader in AI-powered data unification and management, is announcing that it has expanded its long-standing collaboration with Microsoft to drive streamlined data governance and unification across the modern enterprise. With this expansion comes the launch of the Reltio Integration for Microsoft Purview, merging the powers of Reltio and Microsoft Purview to deliver an integrated solution for discovering, managing, and consuming trusted data with ease.
Posted September 27, 2024
DBTA's latest webinar, Data Management for AI: Knowledge Graphs, Vector Databases, and Semantic Layers, gathered three experts to explore the nuances of AI and the importance of its underlying infrastructure, offering technologies and tools to best facilitate success.
Posted September 27, 2024
SIOS Technology Corp., a leading provider of application high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, is debuting SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux version 9.9.0, which continues to deliver a robust HA/DR solution for business-critical applications and databases. Version 9.9.0 offers a variety of new DR advancements, including synchronous and asynchronous data mirroring, intelligent failover mechanisms, enhanced security management, and more.
Posted September 26, 2024
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is announcing that it will acquire Clumio, a technology leader in data protection for critical cloud data in AWS. This acquisition will merge the powers of Commvault and Clumio, delivering cyber resilience to next-generation applications built on AWS.
Posted September 26, 2024
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading Postgres data and AI company, is unveiling a series of contributions to PostgreSQL 17 that forward the database as an effective option for large-scale data analytics and AI workloads, according to EDB. This release—which was driven by over 200 developers world-wide—reflects the growing popularity and significance of Postgres, as well as EDB's long-standing commitment to the PostgreSQL community.
Posted September 26, 2024
Pulumi, the infrastructure management platform for everything running in the cloud, is debuting two new security products—Pulumi ESC and Pulumi Insights—that are designed to centralize cloud visibility, compliance, and controls.
Posted September 26, 2024
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Data Security and Governance for the AI Era, to showcase top solutions and best practices for navigating the space of data security and governance, especially as it faces increasing investment in cloud and AI technologies.
Posted September 26, 2024
Honeycomb, the leading observability platform that enables engineering teams to solve problems they couldn't before, is debuting the general availability of Honeycomb for Frontend Observability—a solution that gives engineers the unified, granular data they need to quickly pinpoint issues across their stack. This announcement extends Honeycomb's debugging capabilities to the frontend, driving a deeper understanding of web application performance and user experiences.
Posted September 25, 2024
The lines between entities within an Entity-Relationship Diagram [ERD] represent an interdependency between the involved entities. In a normalized designed, this interdependency is both semantic and functional, as in, "a HOUSE has one-or-more DOORs," "an ORDER has one-or-more ORDER LINEs," or "a STUDENT enrolls in zero-to-many CLASSes." These object pairings would have a line drawn between them in an ERD representation. There also would be markings from whatever notation one is employing, designating the "one" side of the relationship and the "many" side of the relationship.
Posted September 25, 2024
Pure Storage, the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage technologies and services, is launching a series of new features for the Pure Storage platform that empower enterprises to keep up with the pace of innovation—particularly in the realm of architecture, as dictated by the advancements in AI. These new innovations—which include Real-time Enterprise File, a virtual machine (VM) assessment, and more—continue Pure Storage's momentum in empowering enterprises to adapt to the constantly evolving demands for data architectures.
Posted September 24, 2024
Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is announcing that its Rubrik Cyber Recovery solution is available for Nutanix AHV, a modern and secure virtualization platform that powers virtual machines (VMs) and containers for applications and cloud-native workloads on-premises and in public clouds.
Posted September 23, 2024
LiquidStack, a global leader in liquid cooling for data centers, announced it secured a $20 million Series B extension investment from leading investment firm Tiger Global, bringing LiquidStack's total Series B funding round to $35 million. The full service liquid cooling provider will use the funds to expand its manufacturing footprint, scale its direct-to-chip and immersion cooling product family roadmaps, and broaden its commercial and R&D operations.
Posted September 23, 2024
IBM is acquiring Kubecost, a leading Kubernetes cost monitoring and optimization software company, to show its commitment to growing in the FinOps space. The addition of Kubecost to IBM's FinOps solutions deepens IBM's support for FinOps teams, DevOps teams, and the open-source community, according to the company.
Posted September 23, 2024
IBM is introducing the next generation of IBM Storage DS8000, generally available on October 25, 2024, that is designed to harness the full power of IBM Z. IBM Storage DS8000 plays a critical role as an integrated storage solution for IBM Z, offering comprehensive data protection, security, and business continuity capabilities.
Posted September 23, 2024
SingleStore, the real-time data platform that allows users to transact, analyze, and contextualize data, is announcing that it has developed a bi-driecitonal Iceberg integration that shares data with Snowflake, enabling SingleStore to be available as a Snowflake Native App on Snowflake Marketplace. Now, Snowflake users can safely deploy a SingleStore cluster within their Snowflake accounts without having to migrate or copy data outside the Snowflake governance boundary, as well as being able to use Snowflake credits to pay for the compute to run their SingleStore workloads.
Posted September 20, 2024
SurrealDB, the ultimate multi-model database, is debuting the next iteration of its database solution, centered on further simplifying the lives of developers. SurrealDB 2.0 adds a series of new functionalities, incorporating both user requests and advancements in stability, performance, security, and data management capabilities.
Posted September 19, 2024
Abstract Security, the company building the future of AI-enabled security operations, is announcing support for deployments within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With its solution centered on tying security back to business value, Abstract's latest support expansion brings true data management and security to GCP environments.
Posted September 18, 2024
Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, is announcing a series of new capabilities for Confluent Cloud, forwarding the company's mission of delivering a comprehensive data streaming platform that meets its users where they are. These latest updates—support for Table API, extending Apache Flink to Java and Python developers; private networking for Flink; a Confluent extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code); and Client-Side Field Level Encryption—each serve to make stream processing and data streaming more accessible and secure, according to Confluent.
Posted September 18, 2024
HCLSoftware, the software business division of HCLTech, is announcing that it has acquired Zeenea, an innovator in data catalog and governance solutions. This acquisition positions Actian—a division of HCLSoftware—to deliver a complete data ecosystem for its customers, driven by seamless discovery and governance of their data assets, according to the company.
Posted September 16, 2024
Console Connect, a global network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform, is announcing that its AWS Direct Connect service offering is now available on the AWS Marketplace, the digital catalog of thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that makes it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. With this launch, AWS customers will be able to leverage AWS Direct Connect to securely build, scale, and manage their private connections between AWS and other cloud, data centers, enterprise building, and devices.
Posted September 13, 2024
Tines, the trusted leader in smart, secure workflows, is announcing the GA of Workbench, an AI chat interface that empowers security teams to interact with proprietary data and dynamically orchestrate mission-critical processes with their natural language.
Posted September 13, 2024
With more and more use cases for AI and all its branches taking shape, big data is surging in relevance as the backbone of these projects—prompting DBAs, IT, data scientists, and more to take a closer look at the information being fed into their forecasts and models. To support organizations in navigating through new challenges and a rapidly evolving big data ecosystem, Big Data Quarterly presents 2024's "Big Data 75," a list of companies driving innovation and expanding what is possible in terms of collecting, storing, and extracting value from data.
Posted September 12, 2024
Arcitecta, a creative and innovative data management software company, is announcing the launch of three new data management solutions—Mediaflux Multi-Site, Mediaflux Edge, and Mediaflux Burst—designed to help enterprises handle their increasingly distributed data and workflow environments.
Posted September 12, 2024
Druva, the leading provider of data security, is debuting Dru Investigate, a generative AI (GenAI)-powered tool designed to help IT admins and security teams investigate cyberthreats with natural language. By eliminating the need for complex queries, enterprise teams can effectively and intuitively understand potential data risks, streamlining the investigation process and fueling positive outcomes.
Posted September 12, 2024
In DBTA's webinar, Modern Data Architecture for AI, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, led experts through a thorough discussion of how to cultivate the right data infrastructure to support AI initiatives, from leading best practices to key technologies.
Posted September 12, 2024
appCD, the generative infrastructure from code company, is announcing the results of its latest seed funding round—having raised $12.3 million—as well as the debut of its new identity, StackGen. The rebranding and latest funding round propels StackGen to continue its journey toward transforming infrastructure from code, focusing on empowering developer workflows while helping them adapt to the latest in AI innovations.
Posted September 11, 2024
Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading data orchestration and observability platform powered by Apache Airflow, is unveiling the private preview of Astro Observe, a capability designed to let users set and track SLAs to ensure on-time delivery of quality data. By offering an actionable view of the data supply chain and extending the power of Astronomer to data operations, Astro Observe empowers enterprises to build, run, and observe data pipelines as code with ease.
Posted September 10, 2024
Qumulo, the leading provider of cloud data platforms, is announcing the general availability of Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) on AWS, an enterprise-proven, multi-protocol file data service system that manages unstructured data with performance, scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency at its core.
Posted September 10, 2024
Amplitude, Inc., a leading digital analytics platform, is unveiling Amplitude Made Easy, a new, radically simple platform experience designed to make digital analytics easy for everyone. Spurred by the rampant difficulties of both beginning analytics journeys and deriving tangible value from them, Amplitude's latest release offers a revamped user experience and new capabilities for better analytics.
Posted September 10, 2024
vFunction, the pioneer of AI-driven architectural observability (AO), is debuting new functionalities that deliver software architecture governance amid bloated microservices sprawl. Engineered to help enterprise teams monitor their distributed architectures, vFunction's solution aims to accelerate application innovation while simultaneously maintaining resiliency and reducing technical debt.
Posted September 09, 2024