Data Center Management Articles
Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, is debuting Maverics Identity Continuity, a product addition to Strata's Maverics Identity Orchestration platform engineered to offer seamless, always-on identity access continuity in multi-cloud environments. As the majority of businesses rely on the cloud, Strata paves the way for continuous application access even when a primary identity provider (IDP) is down, according to the company.
Posted May 23, 2024
Stratus Technologies Inc., an SGH company and a global leader in simplified, protected, and autonomous computing platforms for the edge and the data center, is debuting two innovations: Stratus Redundant Linux (SRL) 3.0, the latest update to the company's Linux-based operating system for the Stratus ztC Edge platform, and everRun 8.0, a new iteration of Stratus' continuous availability software. These latest releases continue to solidify Stratus' commitment to Linux development while forwarding easy edge manageability, robust security, and enhanced performance, according to the company.
Posted May 22, 2024
SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, is debuting SolarWinds AI, a generative AI (GenAI) engine developed with the company's new AI by Design framework. This engine will be used to enhance the efforts of IT teams in dealing with the complexities of modern digital environments, first being integrated with SolarWinds Service Desk, according to the company.
Posted May 22, 2024
IBM and SAP are advancing their collaboration, adding new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions that can help clients unlock business value. "IBM and SAP's shared approach to generative AI, built on an open ecosystem, trust and purpose-built models, will help empower clients to optimize business outcomes," said John Granger, senior vice president, IBM Consulting. "Our new Value Generation partnership initiative will enable clients to accelerate the path to innovation, competitive advantage and become a next generation enterprise through generative AI."
Posted May 22, 2024
A first and important step in being successful at almost any job or task is understanding oneself. This is true for engineers, modelers, or even architects. Do you know how to perform your tasks? Are you faster or slower than others doing the same tasks? Do you have more or less errors in your output than others? It seems that a rising number of people are so uncomfortable with competing that they may even avoid asking these kinds of questions of themselves; but this is not about competition, it is about understanding oneself, it is about being responsible, it is about holding oneself accountable.
Posted May 22, 2024
Rafay Systems, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider for modern infrastructure and accelerated computing, is extending the capabilities of its enterprise PaaS for modern infrastructure to support graphics processing unit- (GPU-) based workloads—making compute resources for AI instantly consumable by developers and data scientists. Additionally, the company also launched a new AI Suite with standards-based pipelines for machine learning operations (MLOps) and large language model operations (LLMOps) to help enterprise platform teams quicken the development and deployment of AI applications for developers and data scientists, according to Rafay Systems.
Posted May 20, 2024
Flexential, a leading provider of secure and flexible data center solutions, is expanding its FlexAnywhere Platform, introducing plans to develop its fifth data center and colocation facility in the Denver area. By expanding its data center footprint in the region, Flexential aims to meet surging demand for data center inventory and connectivity across Denver, according to the company.
Posted May 20, 2024
Camunda, the enterprise enabling organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity and increase efficiency, is debuting new functionality for its end-to-end process orchestration platform that further infuses intelligence into business automation.
Posted May 17, 2024
Rockset, the leading search and analytics database built for the cloud, is announcing native support for hybrid search, redefining the potential of search and AI applications. Now, users can benefit from search that can retrieve vector, test, geospatial, and structured data within a single query.
Posted May 16, 2024
ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a provider of enterprise IT management solutions, is releasing SaaS Manager Plus, a SaaS management solution for enterprises to streamline their SaaS ecosystems. SaaS Manager Plus will integrate with Zoho apps and other widely utilized applications.
Posted May 16, 2024
Amazon's Just Walk Out technology seemed like the epitome of futuristic shopping when it debuted at Amazon Fresh stores. I, like many, was thrilled about the potential of advanced AI transforming the shopping experience. The idea of simply grabbing items and leaving without the hassle of a traditional checkout process was a game changer. I believed that the technology arm behind these stores, Amazon Web Services (AWS), was at the forefront of AI innovation. However, the recent revelations about the true nature of this technology have left me, and many others, feeling disappointed and misled.
Posted May 16, 2024
Alkira, the leader in on-demand network infrastructure as-a-service, is announcing the results of its Series C funding round, having raised $100 million—amounting to a total funding to date of $176 million. This funding round—led by Tiger Global Management with additional investment and participation from Dallas Venture Capital, Geodesic Capital, NextEquity Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Koch Disruptive Technologies, and Sequoia Capital—aims to accelerate Alkira's innovation efforts in the space of secure network infrastructure as-a-service.
Posted May 15, 2024
ScienceLogic, a provider of automated IT operations, is unveiling Autonomic IT—business-accelerating capabilities that combine data, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation to enable enterprises to focus on innovation. With support from the ScienceLogic SL1 platform, enterprises can achieve improved, global hybrid cloud visibility, significantly reduce IT complexity and costs, diagnose root cause faster, and leverage automation to slash manual effort as they progress towards the full realization of Autonomic IT, according to the company.
Posted May 15, 2024
ScaleOut Software, the developer of leading-edge software that delivers scalable, highly available, in-memory computing and streaming analytics technologies to a wide range of industries, is launching Version 3 of its ScaleOut Digital Twins cloud service and on-prem hosting platform. The updated solution now features a new user interface (UI) that eases digital twin deployment and management, as well as advanced functionality for large-scale digital twin simulation and an integration with Amazon Dynamo DB.
Posted May 14, 2024
Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation leader, is acquiring APIIDA's federated API management business and API management assets from Cloud Software Group, allowing enterprises to deliver business value through API products in one end-to-end platform. According to the company, both these acquisitions accelerate Boomi's roadmap for providing solutions to the most pressing API management challenges that companies face today.
Posted May 13, 2024
On the second day of the Data Summit 2024 conference, Beth Rudden, CEO, Bast.ai, and Lalit Ahuja, chief technology officer, GridGain Systems, Inc., explored themes surrounding modern data management challenges—including AI-driven versioning, implementing taxonomies and ontologies, going real time, and more.
Posted May 09, 2024
Zoe Steinkamp, developer advocate, InfluxData, led the annual Data Summit session, "Architecting for Speed and Scale," highlighting how Apache Iceberg brings data harmony—complemented by flexibility, scalability, and high performance—to enterprises' structured data.
Posted May 09, 2024
Aaron Cutshall, enterprise data architect, Healthfirst, Inc., and Niraj Vora, lead sales engineer, Fivetran, joined the annual Data Summit session, "Moving to a Modern Data Architecture," to examine the multitude of nuance associated with cultivating modern data architecture, focusing on the roles that clear frameworks and centralized data strategies have to play.
Posted May 09, 2024
Time series analysis plays a crucial role in enhancing the capabilities of AI by providing valuable insights into temporal patterns, trends, and dependencies within datasets. At Data Summit 2024, Salochina Oad, ML engineer, U.S.Xpress, Inc. held her session, "Empowering AI Through Time Series Analysis."
Posted May 08, 2024
At the annual Data Summit conference, the session "Data Fabric Key Enablers," led by John Bagnall, senior product manager, Matillion, illustrated how ETL plays an integral role in data fabric implementation, enabling enterprises to easily and efficiently manage, integrate, and analyze data from diverse sources.
Posted May 08, 2024
Ranjeeta Bhattacharya, senior data scientist, BNY Mellon, and Yetkin Ozkucur, director for professional services and presales, Quest, led the annual Data Summit session, "Putting Generative AI to Work," assessing the ways in which GenAI-based enterprise applications can be set up for success based on both development and data best practices.
Posted May 08, 2024
At the annual Data Summit conference, Jeff Fried, director, platform strategy and innovation, InterSystems, led the session, "Taking Data Fabric to the Next Level," discussing how a mix of a data fabric architecture and GenAI can enhance data management practices, offering technological examples, real-world scenarios, as well as risks in execution.
Posted May 08, 2024
Wayne Eckerson, president, Eckerson Group, led the annual Data Summit pre-conference workshop, "Constructing Your Data Strategy: A Business & Technical Foundation for Success at Data Summit 2024," to explore the fundamentals of crafting an actionable, executable data strategy that aligns with businesses' unique needs, culture, and data maturity.
Posted May 07, 2024
John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, offered his expertise at the annual Data Summit's pre-conference workshop, "Enterprise Data & Analytics Architecture Road Maps That Scale," exemplifying how to leverage your organization's business drivers to define and execute a road map that powers advanced analytic capabilities.
Posted May 07, 2024
Semantic layers stand out as a key approach to solving business problems for organizations grappling with the complexities of managing and understanding the meaning of their data. At Data Summit 2024, Joseph Hilger, COO, Enterprise Knowledge and Sara Nash, principal consultant, Enterprise Knowledge LLC, discussed "Building the Semantic Layer of Your Data Platform," during their workshop session.
Posted May 07, 2024
Microsoft announced it is collaborating with Brookfield Asset Management to invest more than $10 billion to develop renewable energy capacity to power the growing demand for artificial intelligence and data centers. Brookfield will deliver 10.5 gigawatts of renewable energy for Microsoft between 2026 and 2030 in the U.S. and Europe under the agreement. The companies described the deal as the largest single electricity purchase agreement signed between two corporate partners.
Posted May 06, 2024
IBM is introducing new storage capabilities that give clients choice and control in the data center to maximize performance. A new IT life cycle management option called IBM Storage Assurance provides access to IBM FlashSystem hardware and software innovations to help protect clients' investments from day one. IBM Storage Assurance supports the new IBM FlashSystem 5300 also announced today, as well as the FlashSystem 7300 and FlashSystem 9500.
Posted May 06, 2024
Data insights have never been more vital to business operations than they are today. Line-of-business (LOB) teams rely on data insights to drive sustainable growth, lead business operations, and understand customer behaviors and needs. The growing demand for data analytics has spurred a flourishing $31 billion-plus industry of established and emerging tech companies—but is the data analytics tech stack working for enterprises? Despite years of investment and effort, research indicates that 95% of businesses still struggle with operational challenges around data and analytics, leaving only 5% with the competitive advantage data-driven decision making delivers.
Posted May 06, 2024
Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence, is announcing its acquisition of Cambridge Semantics, a modern data fabric provider and creator of one of the industry's leading analytical graph databases. This acquisition merges the power of Cambridge Semantics' graph-powered data fabric technology with Altair's tools for data analytics and data science, enabling organizations to cultivate a robust DataOps and knowledge foundation—especially for the GenAI era.
Posted May 02, 2024
Oracle is expanding its commitment to create a safer and more secure healthcare ecosystem by launching the Autonomous Shield initiative to simplify and accelerate Oracle Health EHR migrations to OCI at no additional cost. In the nearly two years since the Cerner acquisition, Oracle has invested tens of thousands of engineering hours and millions of dollars to enhance its core clinical applications and improve cybersecurity for its customers in the healthcare industry.
Posted May 01, 2024
Sida Shen, product marketing manager at CelerData, joined DBTA's webinar, Why It's Time for Lakehouse Users To Ditch Their Data Warehouse, to guide viewers through the latest advancements in the lakehouse space that can alter the way these lakehouses perform—warehouse-free.
Posted April 30, 2024
OpenText, The Information Company, is debuting OpenText Debricked Open Source Select, a solution aimed toward helping developers select the right open source components that align with company intake policies before a single line of code is written. Prompted by a 2024 Forrester Consulting study commissioned by OpenText—which found that 66% of organizations struggle to find open source code that meets their organizations' security policies—Open Source Select features an innovative policy overlay that grants greater visibility into what open source components they can use.
Posted April 29, 2024
Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, is releasing AllegroGraph 8.1, a Neuro-Symbolic AI Platform that incorporates ChatStream, a natural language query interface for querying a neuro-symbolic application.
Posted April 29, 2024
Global security leader Forcepoint is introducing Forcepoint Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), driven by artificial intelligence (AI), delivering real-time visibility, easing privacy compliance, and minimizing risks for data stored in multi-clouds and networks, including endpoints. According to the company, Forcepoint DSPM harnesses innovative AI-mesh technology to swiftly identify data risks, such as obsolescence, improper access, and misplaced files.
Posted April 29, 2024
At Data Summit 2024, you'll hear the innovative approaches the world's leading companies are taking to solve today's key challenges in data management. The 11th annual Data Summit conference will be held May 8-9, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Boston, with pre-conference workshops taking place on May 7, 2024. The program is now available for review and a variety of pass options are available to suit individual requirements.
Posted April 29, 2024
MetaRouter, the trailblazers in Server-Side Tag Management, is releasing Advanced Consent Enforcement, aiming to address the critical challenge of aligning consent categories with data collection and routing strategies. With the proliferation of services and tooling designed to leverage visitor traffic data, enforcement of user consent assertions across a siloed technology landscape continues to challenge organizations' compliance and IT teams alike, according to the company.
Posted April 26, 2024
Matthew Groves, DevRel engineer at Couchbase, and Nithish Raghunandanan, senior developer advocate at Couchbase, joined DBTA's webinar Coding With AI: Vector Search and RAG—Building with AI, and AI for building, to offer tips and tricks for using AI with vector search and vector embedding to make more meaningful, intuitive, and tailored search experiences, as well as solve real-world problems and simplify complex coding tasks.
Posted April 25, 2024
Cisco, the leader in security and networking, revealed a new approach to securing data centers and clouds in response to the increasing demands the AI revolution has put on IT infrastructure—introducing Cisco Hypershield. According to the company, with this unprecedented innovation, Cisco is tipping the scales in favor of defenders, building on its recent announcements to accelerate AI infrastructure with Cisco's ethernet switching, silicon, and compute portfolio.
Posted April 25, 2024
Datorios, a developer of real-time technology for Apache Flink, is announcing the immediate availability of the Datorios data observability platform—the solution that lets you build, troubleshoot, and deploy data applications faster—for Apache Flink. This latest offering grants greater transparency and insights into stream data processing for Flink pipelines, simplifying the way enterprises manage and audit real-time AI behavior.
Posted April 24, 2024
AI talent is in high demand; AI reveals brain oscillations for memory and disease; AI may allow us to talk to whales; AI can help plan meals and other tasks; an AI platform for dentistry just raised $53 million. That was the tip of the AI news iceberg—in one day. Has technology ever garnered so much interest, so widely, so fast? Amid the hype lies the incalculable promise of AI—and the fear of getting left behind by competitors that figure it out first. It's no wonder that organizations are rushing to implement AI, ready or not. The trouble is, many are not ready.
Posted April 24, 2024
Keeper Security, a provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software, is adding a passphrase generator to Keeper Web Vault—with support on mobile and for the browser extension coming soon—along with an update to the existing password generator to provide users with new options to meet specific password requirements.
Posted April 23, 2024
It's time to vote 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 readers. The voting period will be open through Monday, June 10.
Posted April 22, 2024
IBM unveiled its new Cloud Multizone Region (MZR) in Montreal, Quebec, designed to help clients address their evolving regulatory requirements and leverage technology such as generative AI with a secured, enterprise cloud platform. Building on the opening of IBM Cloud's Toronto MZR in 2021 and existing data centers in Montreal, the opening of the new Montreal MZR is planned for the first half of 2025.
Posted April 22, 2024
OmniOn Power is expanding its Edge data center power architecture (Edge) with a new three-phase, 200/208/240-volt (V) low-line version to help address the power demands of data center companies around the world. Combined with the company's 480V Edge power architecture, OmniOn can now provide a comprehensive offering for global data center companies, regardless of region or available AC utility power feed.
Posted April 22, 2024