Data Center Management Articles
IONOS, a leading digitalization partner for small and midsize businesses, announced it is enabling customers of its Compute Engine cloud platform to deploy vCPU (virtual central processing unit) server instances in their virtual data centers. The vCPU option complements the high-performance dedicated instances previously offered exclusively, and now offered as the Dedicated Core option. Both variants are finely configurable in terms of the number of vCPUs or cores and RAM size. vCPU instances can, however, also be selected in pre-configured T-shirt sizes.
Posted August 28, 2023
IBM is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to help joint clients accelerate the deployment of generative AI—while also delivering a new offering that will provide clients with the expertise and technology they need to innovate their business processes and scale generative AI effectively. IBM Consulting, in collaboration with Microsoft, will focus on helping clients to implement and scale Azure OpenAI Service.
Posted August 28, 2023
IBM is introducing watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a new generative AI-assisted product that will help enable faster translation of COBOL to Java on IBM Z and enhance developer productivity on the platform. According to IBM, this product will be generally available in Q4 2023, and is being designed to help accelerate COBOL application modernization. Watsonx Code Assistant for Z will preview during TechXchange, IBM's premier technical learning event in Las Vegas, Sept 11-13.
Posted August 28, 2023
Data is the cornerstone of the modern digital business. IT teams, database professionals, and business leaders use data to make informed decisions, increase efficiency, and stay ahead of business objectives. Applications also need data to run efficiently to ensure teams don't encounter any bottlenecks.
Posted August 28, 2023
Experts in AI and ML joined DBTA's webinar, Enabling Broader AI and ML Analytics Adoption: Data Platforms, Tools, and Practices, to delve into the myriad of ways that enterprises seeking to implement these wildly popular concepts can do so with agility, governance, integration, automation, and best practices in mind.
Posted August 25, 2023
UnifyCloud, a global ISV and cloud solutions provider focused, is providing an integration with Google Cloud to its CloudAtlas platform, now offering the CloudAtlas platform to partners focused on migrating infrastructure to Google Cloud. UnifyCloud has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program, offering the CloudAtlas platform to help partners and clients efficiently assess infrastructure, applications, and databases for cloud readiness, options, effort, and cost with comprehensive, best-in-class analyses rapidly generated for Google Cloud.
Posted August 24, 2023
SAP announced that L3Harris Technologies selected the RISE with SAP solution to help power the aerospace and defense company's enterprise transformation initiative, streamlining its ERP systems. RISE with SAP will support L3Harris' long-term strategy as it moves away from multiple ERP systems to a single platform. This single offering—which includes cloud ERP applications, cloud application services, SAP Business Technology Platform, testing services for SAP solutions and SAP Business Network for Procurement—will help L3Harris move to the cloud with greater confidence.
Posted August 23, 2023
LogicMonitor, a SaaS-based unified observability platform for hybrid IT infrastructure, is debuting a variety of expanded integrations and capabilities for its LM Envision platform, as well as introducing Dexda, an event management solution.
Posted August 21, 2023
MongoDB, Inc. is offering MongoDB Queryable Encryption, a technology that helps organizations protect sensitive data when queried and in-use on MongoDB. According to the company, MongoDB Queryable Encryption significantly reduces the risk of data exposure for organizations and improves developer productivity by providing built-in encryption capabilities for highly sensitive application workflows—such as searching employee records, processing financial transactions, or analyzing medical records—with no cryptography expertise required.
Posted August 18, 2023
Peer Software is releasing a self-hosted analytics engine that enhances storage analytics, observability, and monitoring. PeerIQ provides organizations with a single pane of visibility into heterogeneous hybrid and multi-cloud storage environments—going beyond the limitations of singular vendor storage systems, according to the company.
Posted August 16, 2023
Osano, the data privacy management software provider, is announcing its achievement of a major financial milestone—a $25 million Series B funding round—led by Baird Capital. The funding will serve to boost Osano's team investments as well as propel financing in both research and go-to-market initiatives.
Posted August 15, 2023
XM Cyber, the hybrid cloud exposure management company, is unveiling improvements to its continuous exposure management capabilities, targeting ever-growing hybrid cloud active directory attacks, as well as optimizing the way security teams prioritize and address threats.
Posted August 15, 2023
Veza, the identity security company, is announcing a major financial milestone with strategic investments from Capital One Ventures and ServiceNow Ventures, bringing Veza's total financing to $125 million.
Posted August 14, 2023
365 Data Centers, a provider of network-centric colocation, cloud solutions, and network connectivity, is enhancing its business continuity capabilities to serve customers at its data center facilities in two regional markets: Smyrna/Atlanta, Georgia, and Marlboro/Boston, Massachusetts.
Posted August 14, 2023
The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, announced that Zowe will mark its 5-year anniversary this month. Zowe, an open source software framework for the mainframe that strengthens integration with modern enterprise applications, will celebrate the milestone by bringing the community together for Zowe Day at SHARE New Orleans on August 14.
Posted August 14, 2023
IBM announced its expanded offering in collaboration with Cloudflare, the Internet security, performance, and reliability company, is now available to Enterprise Premier Plan users. Both IBM and Cloudflare continue to have a mission of delivering solutions that will address these potentially costly security threats, without hindering Internet speed or business innovation, according to the companies.
Posted August 14, 2023
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of Apptio Inc. after receiving all required regulatory approvals, giving clients the ability to derive additional value through the combination of Apptio and IBM. This acquisition brings together Apptio's FinOps offerings, including ApptioOne, Cloudability, and Targetprocess, and IBM's automation portfolio of Turbonomic, AIOps, and Instana to give clients a "virtual command center" for managing, optimizing, and automating technology spending decisions.
Posted August 14, 2023
Data experts joined DBTA's webinar, Modernizing Data Integration and Governance for the Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Era, to discuss innovative approaches toward overcoming data silos while simultaneously ensuring both effective governance and access.
Posted August 10, 2023
For more and more organizations, real time is not only the right time—it's the only time that matters. No longer can decision makers afford to only understand the material events affecting their businesses a month, a day, or even just a few hours after the fact. They need a sense of what is happening in the moment to be able to predict and adjust for events that are arising. The value of real-time data "is that it provides needed information to accelerate business insights so teams can make better informed decisions and avoid the issues around using older data," said Tarun Chopra, vice president of product management for data and AI at IBM.
Posted August 10, 2023
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate and has fundamentally changed the role of database administrators (DBAs). Traditionally, DBAs have been responsible for the installation, maintenance, and management of on-prem databases. However, in the age of cloud computing, DBAs are required to adapt to new technologies, methodologies, and tools.
Posted August 10, 2023
At BLUEPRINT 4D 2023, in Dallas, Oracle's Alexandre Lima shared how Oracle's product, GoldenGate, can help manage data integration, availability, and migrations across multiple platforms. After acquiring the application, Oracle invested heavily in improving GoldenGate. This has made the GoldenGate family of products reliable, consistent, secure, and fast-moving.
Posted August 10, 2023
With more data than ever being created, making the right choices among the countless options for data management and analytics is a top priority for many organizations. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers.
Posted August 09, 2023
Torq, the hyperautomation cybersecurity provider, is debuting Torq Socrates, a Tier-1 analysis AI agent designed to hyperautomate security processes for enterprises bogged down by overwhelming security workloads and a small talent pool.
Posted August 09, 2023
VAST Data, the data platform company for the AI era, is unveiling its data computing platform, engineered to underpin the burgeoning world of AI that rivals the capabilities of other existing data platforms.
Posted August 09, 2023
Synopsys, Inc is launching the Synopsys Software Risk Manager platform, a powerful new application security posture management (ASPM) solution that enables security and development teams to simplify, align, and streamline their application security testing across projects, teams, and application security testing (AST) tools.
Posted August 08, 2023
AttackIQ is delivering "testing for everyone" via AttackIQ Flex, AttackIQ Ready! and AttackIQ Enterprise product offerings. Users anywhere in the world can now use AttackIQ's advanced adversary emulation capabilities to test with any budget, with a simplified testing experience, and with comprehensive risk visibility, in minutes, according to the company.
Posted August 04, 2023
Normalyze, the cloud data security company, is unveiling new additions to its data security posture management platform (DSPM), extending its area of coverage to protect hybrid cloud deployments and on-premises environments.
Posted August 03, 2023
Nasuni Corporation, a provider of file data services, is announcing a new feature integrated with the Nasuni Ransomware Protection Service that enriches the proactive detection and recovery of ransomware attacks.
Posted August 03, 2023
CloudCasa by Catalogic, the enterprise providing multi-cloud application resilience and mobility for Kubernetes, is debuting the availability of CloudCasa for Velero in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
Posted August 03, 2023
Abbey Labs, an innovator in identity and access management (IAM), is announcing its recent seed funding round results, raising $5.25 million toward envisioning a future of better data system access control.
Posted August 01, 2023
Protect AI, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security company, announced it has closed a $35M Series A round of funding, enabling the company to scale sales and marketing, go to market activities, R&D, and customer success initiatives.
Posted August 01, 2023
Bfore.AI, a predictive security solution, is releasing its signature PreCrime solution suite, expanding predictive threat intelligence and reinforcing proactive digital risk protection (DRP) to accelerate early identification and remediation, optimize security operations, and take preemptive actions against online fraud.
Posted July 31, 2023
Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management, and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is announcing the continued expansion of its collaboration with Microsoft, manifesting as the Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) for Azure Stake HCI.
Posted July 31, 2023
Wallaroo.AI, the company scaling production machine learning (ML) from the cloud to the edge, and Ampere, the modern semiconductor company, are announcing their strategic collaboration, aimed toward creating optimized hardware and software solutions that innovate on efficiency, sustainability, and lower cost per inference for cloud AI.
Posted July 27, 2023
BMC is releasing a variety of innovations for the BMC AMI portfolio centered on hybrid cloud integration with an open borders approach to mainframe computing, creating consistent, complementary experiences not only for mainframe professionals, but for the customers they serve, too. The new BMC AMI Cloud suite of solutions empowers organizations to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy for mainframe data management. Integration of mainframe data with the hybrid cloud enables organizations to choose the on-premises, private cloud, or public cloud strategy that is best suited for their needs. This provides an efficient and high-preforming alternative to replace or augment proprietary mainframe virtual tape library (VTL) systems.
Posted July 27, 2023
Rafay Systems, the platform provider for Kubernetes management and operations, is announcing the integration of a brand new capability designed for the company's Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP) which eases the management burden of large Kubernetes clusters throughout various environments—including data centers, popular public clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, as well as at the edge.
Posted July 26, 2023
Postman, the API platform company, is announcing the completed acquisition of Akita Software, the system behavior monitoring and observation accessibility company, with plans to integrate Akita's robust API monitoring and discovery capabilities within the Postman platform.
Posted July 25, 2023
Danny Higgins, global practice lead for Oracle databases at Pure Storage, joined DBTA's webinar, Modern Non-Disruptive Approaches to Oracle Disaster Recovery Drills, to discuss the ways in which Oracle teams can adopt certain best practices and technologies to reduce the time, complexity, cost, and risk of Oracle disaster recovery drills.
Posted July 21, 2023
ThoughtSpot, the AI-powered analytics company, is announcing the recent completion of its acquisition of Mode Analytics, the modern business intelligence (BI) platform that brings data teams and business teams together to drive impact.
Posted July 19, 2023
CodeSee, provider of the first code visibility platform, is announcing the latest feature to join its robust platform—generative AI-powered codebase understanding.
Posted July 19, 2023
Occasionally one may hear that a data model is "over-normalized," but just what does that mean? Normalization is intended to analyze the functional dependencies across a set of data. The goal is to understand which data elements relate to what other data elements. The context of a normalization exercise is the semantically constructed reality within a chosen organization.
Posted July 19, 2023
Experts in next-generation solutions and architectures joined DBTA's webinar, The Race to Unified Analytics: Next-Gen Data Platforms and Architectures, to examine both the business potential of new technologies, as well as its common hurdles—such as data silos, complex data and analytic systems, remaining legacy technologies, integration, and governance and security—that prevent the fruition of a modern, data-accessible enterprise.
Posted July 18, 2023
Flexential, a provider of data center colocation, cloud, connectivity, and data protection, is unveiling plans to significantly grow capacity on its national FlexAnywhere Platform this year, with the construction of a new 36MW phased development at its Atlanta-Douglasville, Georgia campus.
Posted July 17, 2023
IBM announced that it is one of four organizations selected to support the Internal Revenue Services' (IRS) seven-year, $2.6B Enterprise Development Operations Services (EDOS) contract vehicle—modernizing existing IRS IT systems, improving cybersecurity, and expanding advanced analytics capabilities.
Posted July 17, 2023
According to PWC's "Future of Experience" survey, 73% of respondents view customer experience as an important factor in their purchasing decisions. Nevertheless, understanding the customer journey can be a difficult and lengthy process for many product developers. Outdated software, the lack of a customer-focused culture, and data silos all contribute to a negative experience.
Posted July 13, 2023