Database Management Articles
In an era of dynamic and uneven requirements, regulatory compliance is strategic enabler for growth, competitive advantage, and mastering AI governance. Organizations should aim to not only keep pace with regulations but also unlock tangible business value from their compliance investments.
Posted December 11, 2025
Ad-blockers and privacy-focused browser protections are eroding business analytics at the precise moment when organizations must sharpen their understanding of user behavior to remain competitive. This silent, pervasive shift is creating a profound analytics blind spot, especially for SaaS organizations whose primary users are software engineers.
Posted December 11, 2025
It is an unfortunate result of being human that we are biased by our first impressions. For example, we are often blinded when we encounter a subject area's data for the first time. The initial data structures we analyze and learn to understand set our internal paradigms. Once we understand that initial structure, we tend to believe that the way that structure is configured is the best, or the only way, that a specific data set of that kind of data should be presented.
Posted December 11, 2025
The daily routine of an IT professional remains largely reactive. A lot of time and budget is spent responding to tickets, limiting the time that we spend creating systems that drive growth and improve business value. I've long said, "the tyranny of the urgent leaves little time for the truly important."
Posted December 11, 2025
For the past decade, the industry mantra has been "move to the cloud." Vendors, analysts, and executives have pushed relentlessly toward cloud-first strategies, promising agility, elasticity, and cost savings. Many organizations followed suit—often quickly—migrating databases and applications out of their data centers. But it was never a sustainable goal to move everything to the cloud, even if industry pundits predicted that outcome.
Posted December 11, 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, the modern workplace remains anything but predictable—but that doesn't mean you can't move forward with clarity and intention. For database professionals—especially those in leadership or management roles—the pressure to evolve is constant. From AI-driven automation to evolving compliance demands and growing data complexity, you're tasked with delivering results while navigating near-constant change.
Posted December 11, 2025
BeyondTrust, a global leader in privilege-centric identity security, and Ping Identity, a leader in securing digital identities for the world's largest enterprises, are partnering to deliver a unified, end-to-end identity security solution that helps customers maintain good identity hygiene by integrating Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA).
Posted December 10, 2025
Neo4j, a leading graph intelligence platform, is releasing Neo4j Fleet Manager—a unified control plane for managing and monitoring graph databases across any environment including cloud, hybrid, and on-premises.
Posted December 10, 2025
Salesforce is integrating its Data360 platform with Informatica to improve the quality and clarity of core business data, and MuleSoft to enrich it with operational signals.
Posted December 10, 2025
Enterprise IT compliance needs are constantly evolving. New regulations pass every year, and internal policies change. Disruptive new technology trends, such as generative AI, create additional concerns and requirements. The risk of fines, legal exposure, or breaches from unmanaged unstructured data is massive and growing, and all hands across IT and the business need to help reduce the risks.
Posted December 10, 2025
Coralogix, a leading provider of modern observability solutions, is releasing Olly, an autonomous observability agent that independently investigates and surfaces production issues in real time.
Posted December 09, 2025
SIOS Technology Corp., a leading provider of application high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solutions, is releasing LifeKeeper v10, featuring the new LifeKeeper Web Management Console (LKWMC) management console that provides a unified, intuitive user interface across both Linux and Windows environments.
Posted December 09, 2025
Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, is entering into a new strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS)—helping customers de-risk cloud migrations, accelerate modernization, secure AWS and multi-cloud environments, and confidently deploy GenAI capabilities on AWS.
Posted December 08, 2025
IBM announced its intention to acquire Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, signing a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all the issued and outstanding common shares of Confluent for $31 per share, representing an enterprise value of $11 billion.
Posted December 08, 2025
Vultr, one of the largest privately-held cloud infrastructure companies, is marking a major milestone in its long-standing strategic collaboration with AMD to advance and scale AI workloads worldwide. Vultr will launch an AI supercluster, powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs deployed in its new Springfield, Ohio cloud data center location. This 50 MW expansion delivers unprecedented performance per dollar for AI training and inference.
Posted December 08, 2025
This year has seen a variety of changes in the AI landscape, from the proliferation of agents to major questions around AI's true return on investment. In the end, it's all about the data.
Posted December 08, 2025
One of the largest power grid operators in the U.S. is asking Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to only allow large data centers to connect to the grid if there's enough capacity available to serve them reliably, according to Utility Dive. The infrastructure underlying big data processing, typically large-scale data centers, is starting to receive pushback as more residents in the U.S. see climbing energy costs.
Posted December 08, 2025
Red Hat, a leading provider of open source solutions, announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power enterprise-grade generative AI (gen AI) on AWS with Red Hat AI and AWS AI silicon.
Posted December 08, 2025
IBM and Cisco are partnering on the groundwork for networked distributed quantum computing, to be realized as soon as the early 2030s.
Posted December 08, 2025
Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, is making significant updates to its solution that provides customers with faster data transfers, as well as predictable pricing, to enable accurate and secure data for AI and analytics.
Posted December 05, 2025
AWS announced that Amazon Relation Database Service (Amazon RDS) is offering 4 new capabilities to help customers optimize their costs as well as improve efficiency and scalability for their Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for SQL Server databases.
Posted December 05, 2025
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is introducing new capabilities in Qlik Open Lakehouse that bring streaming ingestion and real-time transformations to its managed, Apache Iceberg-based lakehouse.
Posted December 04, 2025
Seagate Technology Holdings plc, a global leader in mass-capacity data storage, is introducing its new Seagate Exos 4U100 and 4U74 JBOD systems, setting a new standard for enterprise storage ahead of the SuperComputing (SC25) conference.
Posted December 04, 2025
Poor-quality test data leads to poor production applications, compliance risks, and inefficiencies that will be costing the organization time, money, and very soon its competitive edge.
Posted December 04, 2025
As AI continues to dominate the technology landscape, the data underlying the information these artificial intelligence solutions train on is under more scrutiny than ever. Here, data professionals share their big data and database/infrastructure predictions for 2026.
Posted December 03, 2025
After a banner year for the "promise of progress" on AI ambitions, deepening CX fatigue, and ongoing economic volatility, Forrester is predicting 2026 will bring a year of reckoning. According to Sharyn Leaver, chief research officer at Forrester, "Navigating the coming year will take some mindset shifts: from lofty ambition to pragmatism, from experimentation to accountability, from surface-level engagement to meaningful connection." To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products, highlighting a commitment to innovation and efforts to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements.
Posted December 03, 2025
Oracle announced Oracle Health's next generation electronic health record (EHR) is now certified and ready for adoption by ambulatory customers in the U.S. The Oracle Health EHR was built from the ground up on a secure, modern cloud architecture with AI embedded in every layer and workflow, according to Oracle.
Posted December 03, 2025
Oracle announced it has been recognized as an Overall Leader in the 2025 ISG Buyers Guide for Workforce Management Basics. Oracle Workforce Management, part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), was classified as Exemplary, which is defined as "those that performed the best in meeting the overall Product and Customer Experience requirements."
Posted December 03, 2025
ScienceLogic, delivering intelligence that accelerates outcomes through service-centric observability, AI-driven operations, and intelligent automation, is introducing a major update to its flagship Skylar One platform, the first since its rebrand and expansion from SL1.
Posted December 02, 2025
Pepperdata, a leader in Kubernetes and GPU resource optimization, is launching its Global Partner Program, a new initiative that brings together systems integrators, technology providers, and consultancies with Pepperdata's dynamic resource optimization platform.
Posted December 02, 2025
Firefly AI, the agentic cloud automation platform, is introducing its Cloud Resilience Posture Management (CRPM) solution—designed to help enterprises take a proactive approach to cloud outages, cyberattacks, and human error.
Posted December 02, 2025
NVIDIA and Synopsys, Inc. are expanding their partnership to revolutionize design and engineering across industries. According to both companies, this expanded partnership will integrate the strengths of NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing with Synopsys' market-leading engineering solutions to deliver capabilities enabling R&D teams to design, simulate, and verify intelligent products with greater precision, speed, and at lower cost.
Posted December 01, 2025
Pinecone announced its Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN) solution is available now in public preview—purpose built for demanding workloads. The unique combination of DRN and on-demand services enables Pinecone to support a wide range of use cases with varying requirements in production with enterprise-grade performance, according to the company.
Posted December 01, 2025
Boosting real-time data and analytics capabilities is a top priority for business leaders looking to gain competitive advantage through faster insights and decision-making. However, many organizations are still saddled with legacy data warehouses, data silos, and latency-heavy pipelines that can't keep up with today's demands.
Posted November 26, 2025
SentinelOne, a leader in AI-native cybersecurity, is releasing the new Wayfinder Threat Detection and Response suite of managed services, designed to give customers the ultimate Human + AI defense against modern cyber risks.
Posted November 25, 2025
Cribl, the data engine for IT and security, is offering a new, dedicated integration for Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, further expanding its collaboration with Microsoft—utilizing Cribl Stream to act as the scalable, high-performance data pipeline.
Posted November 25, 2025
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is launching Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) Block High End, a next-generation, all-flash NVMe block storage solution designed to address the demands of most mission-critical business and growing AI workloads.
Posted November 25, 2025
From the U.S. government letting CISA briefly lapse to recent "internet-breaking" updates sent out by various companies that form the backbone of web infrastructure, cybersecurity and resilience is more important than ever. Here, security experts share their predictions for incoming threats, security measures, and more in 2026.
Posted November 24, 2025
Tamr, an AI-native master data management (MDM) solution, is launching Curator Hub, a new module that helps organizations tackle quality issues in their data—and prepare it for successful generative AI use—by pairing intelligent agents with human expertise.
Posted November 24, 2025
Veeam Software, a global leader in data resilience, is releasing Veeam Data Platform v13 to redefine the standard for cyber resilience, intelligent data protection, and data freedom in the AI era.
Posted November 24, 2025
Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security, announced that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), expanding its use of advanced AWS technologies to help customers protect, backup, and recover data at scale.
Posted November 24, 2025
Qdrant, the open-source vector search engine used by enterprises and AI-native teams, announced Tiered Multitenancy—as part of the v1.16 release—a new capability that helps organizations isolate heavy-traffic tenants, improve performance, and scale vector search workloads more efficiently.
Posted November 21, 2025
Cloudera, a company bringing AI to data anywhere, is introducing a major platform update that integrates Trino, Cloudera Shared Data Experience (SDX), and Cloudera Octopai Data Lineage to deliver unified data access, control, smarter governance, and lineage across the entire data estate.
Posted November 21, 2025
Peer Software is introducing significant advancements across its enterprise data orchestration and analytics platform with new releases of Peer Global File Service (PeerGFS) and PeerIQ--delivering expanded storage platform support, improved resiliency and performance, enhanced security and compliance, and powerful analytics for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises.
Posted November 20, 2025
CoreWeave, Inc, "The Essential Cloud for AI," is launching its Zero Egress Migration (0EM) program—a true no-egress-fee data migration program—to empower customers to move large-scale datasets from third-party cloud providers directly to CoreWeave's cloud without technical friction.
Posted November 20, 2025
Memgraph, a leader in open-source in-memory graph databases purpose-built for dynamic, real-time enterprise applications, is releasing two new tools specifically architected to open up the power of Retrieval-Augmented Generation based on graph technology (GraphRAG), to the entire database market, democratizing GraphRAG access.
Posted November 20, 2025
Today's agentic AI systems are best understood as exercises in complex workflow automation: exercises in which every step of the process must be deliberately designed, or, better stated, deliberately constrained. As such, they are proving a natural, if provoking, means for stress-testing every aspect of an organization's data, analytic, and business governance practices, beginning with the organization's business acumen and ending with operational security and resilience.
Posted November 20, 2025