Internet of Things
The phenomenon of connected machines is sometimes called the Internet of
Things, the Internet of Anything, the Internet of Everything, or M2M
(machine to machine). But no matter what the name, the growth of technology
related to objects, which never before were network- and computer-enabled,
is projected to have far-reaching technological, societal, and economic
impact.
The strongest examples of the impact of the Internet of Things are in the
industrial sector. Embedded software, sensors, and network connectivity
promises to improve the way factories, data centers, oil wells, and cities,
airplanes, cars, and even homes are maintained because data can be collected
continuously with alerts issues proactively to prevent failures and outages.
According to Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group, 50 billion devices
will be connected by 2020, up from 2010's 12.5 billion. By 2020, data
production will be 44 times greater than it was in 2009, and by 2020, more
than one-third of the data produced will live in or pass through the cloud,
according to Computer Sciences Corp.
Internet of Things Articles
Without strong data governance, AI doesn't just scale innovation—it scales risk, amplifying data quality issues, compliance exposure, bias, and untrusted outcomes across the organization. Instead of driving confidence and better decisions, AI can end up accelerating the very problems organizations are trying to solve.
Posted May 27, 2026
PhoenixAI, formerly known as CelerData, is launching the Agentic AI Database, an analytical engine designed for AI agents to query live enterprise data at sub-second latency and massive concurrency. The company also named Rick Underwood as president to lead its next phase of growth and customer delivery.
Posted May 27, 2026
Agentic CX provider Parloa announced a new chapter in its multifaceted relationship with SAP that focuses on revolutionizing the customer experience in the AI era. According to the companies, the partnership brings Parloa's AI agents and SAP Service Cloud AI agents together, allowing businesses to handle customer interactions with more context and continuity.
Posted May 27, 2026
Tricentis, a global leader in agentic quality engineering, announced SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing by Tricentis, AI-assisted automated test case generation—marking a significant milestone for Tricentis' partnership with SAP and bringing an SAP AI product to market through its SAP Solution Extension.
Posted May 27, 2026
SAP announced it is acquiring Dremio, an open, high-performance data lakehouse platform built to accelerate agentic AI and expand SAP Business Data Cloud's ability to combine SAP and non-SAP data to more effectively run analytical and AI workloads in real time. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction is still pending regulatory approval.
Posted May 27, 2026
SAP SE is unveiling the Autonomous Enterprise, helping to enhance the world's most critical business workflows so that humans and AI can work together to meet the accelerating demands of global business profitably, strategically and safely. The Autonomous Enterprise includes a unified AI platform for building, contextualizing, and governing agents, an autonomous suite that executes core business operations, and a new user experience that redefines how people work with enterprise software, according to SAP.
Posted May 27, 2026
Most organizations spend a great deal of time thinking about database performance. DBAs tune SQL, design indexes, and monitor workloads to ensure that applications run quickly and efficiently. Performance is important, of course, but there is another attribute that can be even more critical: resilience.
Posted May 27, 2026
In a recent blog post, Mike Wright, CTO at Zumasys noted that the rise of AI has changed PICK MultiValue Modernization ultimately for the better. AI assisted development has changed the economics of modernization. It does not remove the need for strong leadership, experienced teams, sound architecture, or careful planning. It does not make legacy modernization easy. But it does reduce the cost and effort of some of the hardest parts of the work, he writes.
Posted May 27, 2026
PDQ is releasing a major expansion for managed service providers, adding multitenant architecture, centralized user management, reusable packages, and global deployment scripts. The company is also introducing integrations with Freshworks, Jira, and Zapier, with more, such as HaloPSA, on the way.
Posted May 26, 2026
Self-service analytics promises faster answers, yet many organizations end up with conflicting dashboards, duplicated or leaky data, and renewed reliance on IT. The issue is not control versus flexibility, its delivering governed, analytics-ready data that supports secure independent exploration and consistent reporting.
Posted May 22, 2026
Jumio, a leading provider of AI-powered identity intelligence, is introducing Jumio Watch, a first-of-its-kind continuous identity intelligence offering that fundamentally transforms how organizations understand and manage identity risk.
Posted May 21, 2026
Teradata is introducing the Teradata Factory, extending the Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform with a fully integrated on-premises foundation for enterprises running AI and analytics in hybrid environments.
Posted May 21, 2026
Selector, a leader in AI-driven network observability solutions, is expanding its platform with AI-powered multi-cloud observability capabilities, enabling organizations to correlate signals across the full hybrid path.
Posted May 20, 2026
AI adoption is accelerating, but results are falling short, according to new DBTA research that will be released soon. Fewer than half of AI initiatives succeed, and most pilots never reach production. What's more, AI failures are expensive, with 36% costing more than $500K and 16% exceeding $1M. The root cause is clear: data and the gaps in quality, access, trust, and lineage that continue to limit outcomes and prevent AI from scaling. This is not a new problem; it is an unsolved one.
Posted May 20, 2026
Informatica from Salesforce, a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, is introducing two new capabilities, further expanding its partnership with Google Cloud.
Posted May 20, 2026
Preparing a presentation on the Internet of Things (IoT) in asset management for an executive rail infrastructure audience does something unexpected to you—it forces you to confront not just the technology, but the human cost of its absence. The deeper I dug into the research, the more I realized the story I was building for that room demanded a wider audience. What follows is the article that preparation forced me to write.
Posted May 20, 2026
After introducing the MCP Server for Oracle AI Database through Oracle SQLcl last summer, the company is releasing the new OCI Managed MCP Service for Oracle AI Database. This provides native, managed MCP Servers as part of the OCI Database Tools Service, giving customers a cloud-native, HTTPS-based way to connect AI agents and assistants to Oracle databases running in the cloud.
Posted May 20, 2026
Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are now offering Oracle AI Database@AWS to customers in Switzerland. With the offering's debut in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region, customers can now run Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, and Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse on dedicated infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within AWS.
Posted May 20, 2026
Oracle announced that the Oracle Java SE Universal Subscription will help standardize global software development at Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology.
Posted May 20, 2026
Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, is adding new capabilities to its Data Integrity Suite to help organizations build, share, and use agentic-ready data.
Posted May 19, 2026
Qdrant is launching version 1.18 of its platform, introducing TurboQuant, a new quantization method developed by Google Research. According to the company, TurboQuant applies a fast Hadamard rotation to vectors before compression, which redistributes values evenly across coordinates. Because this rotation normalizes the data distribution, TurboQuant works well with any embedding model.
Posted May 19, 2026
Most people will watch the NFL draft for the picks, the trades, and the storylines. I see it as a data event. My hometown, Pittsburgh, hosted between 500,000 and 700,000 people across a dense downtown footprint shaped by three rivers, limited bridges, and infrastructure that already runs close to capacity. For a few days, there was almost no margin for error. A familiar system became a real-time operational test.
Posted May 18, 2026
SecurityScorecard, the global leader in threat-informed third-party risk management (TPRM), announced it has completed the acquisition of Driftnet, a pioneer in global internet scanning and next-generation threat intelligence—bringing Driftnet's high-fidelity internet discovery engine into SecurityScorecard's TITAN AI platform.
Posted May 18, 2026
Fortinet, the global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, is accelerating the FortiAIGate solution with NVIDIA's AI platforms and software technologies—protecting AI workloads, data, and autonomous agents in real time in data centers and the cloud, enabling organizations monitor AI usage, and securely build, deploy, and scale agentic AI without compromising performance or governance.
Posted May 18, 2026
LogicMonitor, the AI-first platform for Autonomous IT, is partnering with IBM to integrate IBM watsonx and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with automation coding assistant into Edwin AI, LogicMonitor's AI Agent for IT Operations.
Posted May 18, 2026
IBM, in partnership with Red Hat, is offering two new managed services, Red Hat AI Inference on IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud—to help enterprises accelerate AI adoption and run security-forward, scalable and predictable virtualization environments.
Posted May 18, 2026
Druva, a leading provider of data security, is introducing a new integration with Dell PowerProtect Data Domain to enable enterprises to extend their Data Domain environments with SaaS-powered cyber resilience.
Posted May 18, 2026
Data silos remain one of the biggest barriers to analytics, AI, and true self-service. Despite continued investment in cloud platforms and modern data stacks, many organizations still struggle to connect data, standardize access, and make trusted information easily available across teams.
Posted May 15, 2026
UiPath, a global leader in agentic business orchestration, is introducing UiPath for Coding Agents, a platform wide integration enabling every coding agent to become enterprise deployable.
Posted May 15, 2026
MinIO, the data foundation for enterprise AI and analytics, is releasing MemKV, a context memory store that delivers microsecond context retrieval at petabyte scale for agentic AI inference workloads.
Posted May 14, 2026
Imagine you're on LinkedIn using your work laptop when a co-worker messages you a document for review. You click the attachment—which looks like a standard PDF link—without a second thought. In one click, you've handed a hacker the keys to not only your data, but your entire company's network.
Posted May 14, 2026
For more than a decade, enterprises have been locked in a cycle of building increasingly complex data stacks to keep pace with the demands of modern analytics. Warehouses, OLAP engines, and streaming systems have all played their part. However, as data volumes have increased, customer-facing use cases have proliferated, and costs have risen, the cracks in legacy approaches are widening.
Posted May 14, 2026
As organizations embrace AI technologies, they face growing challenges related to fairness, privacy, and unpredictable system behavior. At Data Summit 2026, Nicole Janeway Bills, CEO and founder, Data Strategy Professionals, led the session, "AI Risks & Risk Mitigation Strategies," using real-world examples to help attendees recognize 10 critical AI risks, detect emerging issues early, and implement practical measures to mitigate them while maximizing business value.
Posted May 14, 2026
How do you separate the signal from the noise and explore what's truly working in AI implementations across industries, and where companies are falling short? From the common pitfalls that derail well-intentioned efforts to the design principles behind AI initiatives that create measurable value, Ryan Frederick, principal, Transform Labs, shared the lessons that every leader needs to understand to make AI a competitive advantage rather than a costly experiment during his session, "Learnings From the Front Lines of AI," at Data Summit 2026 in the new Data + AI Leadership Forum.
Posted May 14, 2026
Yugabyte, the distributed AI database expert, is debuting Meko, an agent-native data infrastructure designed specifically for multi-agent AI systems that work and learn together.
Posted May 13, 2026
CloudBolt Software, a recognized leader in hybrid cloud management and Kubernetes optimization, is introducing the latest release of the company's cloud management platform, CloudBolt CMP—offering substantial innovations and further advances the platform's ability to help enterprises govern, orchestrate, and optimize hybrid cloud environments as infrastructure strategies become more AI-assisted
Posted May 13, 2026
Everpure announced it has completed its acquisition of 1touch, an innovator in data intelligence and orchestration. According to Everpure, 1touch bridges the gap between managing datasets and managing information. The Everpure unified data plane will provide the steppingstone for 1touch to turn raw data into actionable knowledge. 1touch excels at data security and posture management (DSPM).
Posted May 12, 2026
o9 Solutions, a leading software company powering enterprise planning and decisioning models, announced an integration with Snowflake—leveraging Snowflake's Connected Application framework to strengthen how enterprise data is connected to planning and decision processes.
Posted May 11, 2026
Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, is introducing Airbyte Agents, a context layer that gives production-grade agents direct access to a unified, search-optimized index of an organization's data that is replicated and ready to query.
Posted May 11, 2026
Rocket Software, Inc. (Rocket Software), a global technology leader in modernization software, announced the completion of its acquisition of Vertica, an enterprise-grade analytics database platform, from OpenText—further advancing Rocket Software's strategy to bring intelligence to modernization by combining core systems with high-performance analytics and AI.
Posted May 11, 2026
Broadcom Inc., a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, is releasing VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1—a secure and cost-effective infrastructure platform for production AI workloads.
Posted May 08, 2026
Object First, the ransomware-proof on-premises backup storage company, announced the general availability of Object First Fleet Manager, a secure, cloud-based service that simplifies management of distributed Ootbi backup storage deployments for Veeam Software environments.
Posted May 08, 2026