Database Management Articles
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 09, 2025
After more than 2 decades of writing for DBTA, this will be my final column. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to engage with you on databases and emerging technologies. As with all good things, this journey must end, and I want to use this moment to reflect on the changes we've witnessed during the past 20 years and look ahead to the future.
Posted January 09, 2025
Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It's had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English Language in the mid-1970s. It's survived and thrived through the dot-com era and the proliferation of cloud technology. In essence, SQL is a technology that evolves.
Posted January 09, 2025
In 2025, preventing risks from both cybercriminals and AI use will be top mandates for most CIOs. Ransomware, in particular, continues to vex enterprises, and unstructured data is a vast, largely unprotected asset. AI solutions have moved from experimental to mainstream, with all the major tech companies and cloud providers making significant investments in building turnkey generative (GenAI) and AI solutions for enterprise customers.
Posted January 09, 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 09, 2025
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 to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements. Several MV leaders including Kore Tech, Revelation Software, and Rocket Software continue to make an impact and again top this list.
Posted January 09, 2025
Oracle is introducing Oracle Exadata X11M, the latest generation of the Oracle Exadata platform, delivering a variety of performance improvements across AI, analytics, and online transaction processing (OLTP). Combining intelligent power management with the ability to run mission-critical workloads faster and on fewer systems helps customers achieve their energy efficiency and sustainability goals.
Posted January 08, 2025
Ireckonu, a leading provider of hospitality digital solutions, and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that Ireckonu CORE Middleware and Customer Data Platform (CDP) is now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and can be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and integrated with OPERA Cloud via the Oracle Hospitality Integration Platform (OHIP).
Posted January 08, 2025
Nashville General Hospital (NGH), Middle Tennessee's public safety-net hospital serving Davidson County and Nashville, Tennessee, is using Oracle Health CommunityWorks to better support its clinical, financial, and operational needs. Unifying its clinical operations with the new centralized and integrated electronic health records (EHR) across the 150-bed hospital and more than 20 outpatient and clinic settings enables NGH to automate several manual processes and replace disparate legacy systems and devices, simplifying the clinician and patient experience.
Posted January 08, 2025
Oracle Database 23ai is the next long-term support release and offers over 300 new features. Originally named Oracle Database 23i, it was rebranded to Oracle Database 23ai with a heavy focus on artificial intelligence (AI). To optimize many of the database's key functions, Oracle Database 23ai uses AI for improved timing estimates and resource costings. There are also new features such as AI Vector Search to allow data queries on semantics and not keywords.
Posted January 08, 2025
Open-source software has reshaped many IT disciplines, and the world of database administration (DBA) is no exception. The open-source community, and the software it has produced, has evolved into a powerful force that drives both innovation and economic efficiency. For DBAs, this evolution brings new opportunities and challenges. Let's take a look at the impact of open source on the modern DBA and the skillset needed to stay relevant.
Posted January 08, 2025
Software GmbH, the holding entity of the Software AG group, is announcing the closing of sales of Alfabet and Cumulocity, following the entity's previous divestments of webMethods, StreamSets, and TrendMiner this past summer. As a result, Adabas & Natural (A&N)—the provider of high-performance, non-relational transactional database software—and ARIS—the provider of business process intelligence SaaS solutions—are planned to operate as standalone businesses.
Posted January 07, 2025
Cybersecurity continues to be top of mind for organizations everywhere as 2025 begins. In 2024 alone, hackers attacked hospitals and other health care organizations, telecom giants, supply chains, and more. Even government entities haven't been spared in these attacks. Here, security experts share their predictions for incoming threats in 2025.
Posted January 07, 2025
Duos Technologies Group, Inc. (Duos), through its operating subsidiaries Duos Edge AI, Inc., and Duos Energy Corp., is partnering with the Pampa Energy Center (PEC) to develop high-density Data Center Development Parks powered by up to 500MW of natural gas self-generation, supplemented by up to 200MW of wind turbine generation, and alternative fuel sources for redundancy.
Posted January 06, 2025
Yondr Group, a leading global developer, owner, and operator of hyperscale data centers, announced it secured a 4.5-acre site in Toronto to develop its first Canadian data center. The three-story 27MW data center is planned to bring its first megawatts online in mid- 2026. The development sits strategically within an emerging Canadian corridor for data center infrastructure.
Posted January 06, 2025
IBM's proposed plan to acquire HashiCorp, a leading cloud software company, is now under investigation by U.K.'s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA. The CMA is seeking to determine whether the acquisition could reduce market competition.
Posted January 06, 2025
NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. announced it has invested in Ayar Labs, Inc. through its managed fund with the aim of driving advancements in optical I/O technologies, accelerating practical applications of innovative solutions, and fostering the creation of new value in the field.
Posted January 03, 2025
Peer Software is now offering advanced capabilities in the latest version of its flagship solution Peer Global File Service (PeerGFS), designed to meet data management requirements of complex globally distributed storage environments.
Posted January 02, 2025
Sonar, the code quality and security leader, sets its sights on Tidelift, a provider of software supply chain security solutions for mitigating open source software risk, having entered a definitive agreement for acquisition. With both companies propelled by a mission to improve the developer experience, this acquisition strengthens Sonar's capacity to address code quality issues and security risks latent within code.
Posted December 24, 2024
Vectra AI, Inc., a leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), is partnering with Lumifi, a leading managed detection and response (MDR) technology company, now integrating Vectra AI Network Detection and Response (NDR) into Lumifi's service offerings to provide customers with greater visibility into their networks, insights into attacker behavior, and the ability to stop network-based attacks early in their progression.
Posted December 23, 2024
BattleFin Group, Inc, a market leader and pioneer in the alternative data discovery industry, is acquiring Exabel, an alternative data analytics platform, solidifying BattleFin's global leadership in both data discovery and data intelligence markets.
Posted December 20, 2024
Kurrent, the event-native data platform innovator, is announcing $12 million in funding, accompanied by two other major company milestones: a rebrand from its previous moniker, Event Store, and the launch of Kurrent Enterprise Edition.
Posted December 20, 2024
AI innovation in the big data space shows no signs of slowing down, with companies rushing to adopt or create their own solutions based on AI, automating redundant tasks, and spinning up all kinds of use cases to justify spending big bucks in the area. Here, tech experts share their predictions for AI in 2025.
Posted December 20, 2024
GTT Communications Inc., a leading networking and security as a service provider for multinational organizations and member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, is unveiling connectivity to Oracle Cloud via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect—a dedicated, private connection between OCI and customer environments.
Posted December 19, 2024
KNIME, the open source data analytics and AI company, is releasing its AI companion, K-AI, enabling users to co-create powerful data workflows with AI. According to the company, K-AI will answer questions, make recommendations, and extend or build whole data workflows based on user prompts. The AI companion speeds up the time to insight, while giving users complete transparency into and control over what AI is doing.
Posted December 19, 2024
Nuon Inc. announced it has secured $16.5 million in funding and is providing an early access release of its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) platform. Nuon is currently powering a few dozen AI and data infrastructure companies already using the platform to deliver BYOC solutions. The company plans to launch general availability by late Q1 2025.
Posted December 19, 2024
I once wrote an article titled "Do Your Metrics Matter?" It was inspired by the joy of sitting in an airplane, at the gate, going nowhere fast for close to 2 hours. All the while the airline app was proclaiming an on-time departure. Having ample time to discuss this perceived error with the crew, I learned that the closed aircraft door equaled departure. Departed, it turned out, was not an indication of a flight in motion but a process gone awry (a circumstance that may persist to this day, for what it's worth).
Posted December 19, 2024
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading Postgres data and AI company, is adding a variety of enhancements to EDB Postgres AI, empowering enterprises to deploy secure, flexible AI-driven applications in a sovereign, hybrid environment.
Posted December 19, 2024
Cirata, the company that automates Hadoop data transfer and integration to modern cloud analytics and AI platforms, is announcing an expansion of its partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company, with the aim of accelerating data migration and modernization in the cloud. By leveraging Cirata's professional services and Data Migration as a Service (DMaaS) solution, enterprises benefit from the ability to seamlessly transition to Databricks' Data Intelligence Platform, propelling their data and AI initiatives.
Posted December 19, 2024
Linkerd, created by Buoyant, is releasing Linkerd 2.17, a new version of Linkerd that introduces several major new features to the project: egress traffic visibility and control; rate limiting; and federated services, a powerful new multicluster primitive that combines services running in multiple clusters into a single logical service. This release also updates Linkerd to support OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing.
Posted December 18, 2024
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), and SAP announced GROW with SAP on AWS, which will allow customers of all sizes to rapidly deploy SAP's enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution while leveraging the reliability, security, and scalability of the world's most broadly adopted cloud.
Posted December 18, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is expanding its AI-ready data integration capabilities, delivering new enhancements across SAP, Databricks, and Snowflake. According to the company, these advancements empower enterprises to streamline data workflows, accelerate AI deployment, and gain faster insights, ensuring that business intelligence is built and scaled on quality, real-time data running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Posted December 18, 2024
Avantra, a leading provider of AIOps for SAP, is releasing Avantra 25, the latest edition of its renowned observability and automation platform. Poised to transform SAP systems with new levels of efficiency and flexibility, Avantra 25 is the first edition to integrate fully with the Avantra AIR cloud product and brings a wealth of new features and functionality, according to the company.
Posted December 18, 2024
The Nashville Metro Government is implementing Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications for finance and HR to support its mission of delivering exceptional services to its growing population. With Oracle Fusion Applications, Nashville Metro Government will transform operational efficiency to better meet the current and future needs of its workforce and constituents.
Posted December 18, 2024
DBTA's latest webinar, The Next Era of Database Management: Emerging Technologies and Best Practices, featured the viewpoints of database experts from Datavail and Oracle, covering topics such as cloud native databases, database types, vendor lock-in, AI, optimization, and more.
Posted December 18, 2024
Airbyte, a leading open data movement platform, is releasing data connectors for Oracle databases and Workday for large-scale, high-performance, secure and reliable movement of data for users of Airbyte Self-Managed Enterprise and Airbyte Teams.
Posted December 18, 2024
In today's competitive business environment, empowering your teams with data-driven decision-making is essential. However, amid an organization's vast sea of data, the process of effectively navigating through this abundance of information is daunting. In fact, the likelihood of human error while sorting through such data volumes for key insights is virtually guaranteed, further complicating the already daunting task at hand.
Posted December 18, 2024
The MultiValue skills gap can be a growing challenge for businesses relying on MultiValue technology. However, there are practical solutions to address this issue. In a recently released two-part roundtable discussion, industry experts share valuable strategies for attracting, hiring, training, and retaining new developers in the MultiValue space.
Posted December 18, 2024
To achieve fundamental data quality, data integration is crucial for growing organizations. In a recent blog post by Kore Tech, Maxwell Dallinga, explains how the best data integration tool for the future is Kore Integrate. Integration processes provide huge organizational boosts, connecting disparate systems and ensuring sources of data are reliable and accurate. Doing so prevents redundant information and data silo backups, keeping tools and applications like AI from being hampered by poor data.
Posted December 18, 2024
Solace, a leader in powering real-time, event-driven enterprises, is adding micro-integrations to its event-driven integration and streaming platform, the Solace PubSub+ Platform, enabling lightweight event-driven integration modules that connect enterprise technologies—including legacy and SaaS applications, messaging services, databases, files, AI agents, etc—to an event-driven distribution layer, called an event mesh for information exchange in real-time.
Posted December 17, 2024
Zilliz, the company behind the open-source vector database Milvus, is debuting the latest iteration of Milvus, which unites hybrid semantic and keyword search into a single, high-performance platform. This centralization dramatically boosts query processing speed—30x faster than traditional solutions—driving accessibility of AI-powered, advanced search to a variety of enterprises, according to Zilliz.
Posted December 17, 2024
RapidCanvas, democratizing AI-driven business transformation, announced it has secured $16 million in a funding round for its AI agents, empowering the company to further support the automation of complex tasks traditionally performed by data scientists and engineers.
Posted December 17, 2024
Back in July, CrowdStrike pushed out a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor that caused worldwide outages on Microsoft operating systems. Users experienced the BlueScreen of Death (BSOD) error, which caused their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly. The effects were immediately wide reaching: Doctors weren't able to diagnose patients, airports abruptly paused travel, and there were also disruptions to emergency services and responses. Government services, banks, and other businesses had to shut down.
Posted December 17, 2024
Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, announced it has closed a $600 million Series D funding round, enabling the company to advance its mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. With the latest fundraise, Crusoe will invest in expansion and growth across the value chain, including its data centers and Crusoe Cloud. Crusoe focuses on utilizing clean, abundant, and low-cost energy to power its computing resources and has over 15 gigawatts in development.
Posted December 16, 2024