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
BackBox, a leading provider of network cyber resilience solutions, is partnering with Nomios, one of Europe's leading providers of cybersecurity services, to enhance network visibility and automation for IT and security teams.
Posted January 14, 2026
As Snowflake footprints expand, organizations are under growing pressure to prove value, control spend, and deliver consistent performance. But FinOps dashboards often miss the real problem: not just compute, but waste.
Posted January 13, 2026
AtData, a leading innovator in email address intelligence and digital trust solutions, is introducing Gibberish Detection, a new machine learning-driven model in its fraud prevention suite that surfaces a fast, high-confidence indicator of likely bot or synthetic addresses.
Posted January 13, 2026
AI and BI are no longer separate conversations—they're converging into a more powerful discipline that's redefining the analytics landscape.
Posted January 12, 2026
What's ahead for data analytics during the next 12, 24, or even 36 months? This area of business technology has seen sweeping changes in recent times, largely thanks to the rise of accessible AI. And with it, there has been a concerted movement toward integrating the tools and platforms that deliver and support analytical applications—be they predictive, AI, or pattern matching.
Posted January 12, 2026
Oracle is partnering with Related Digital and DTE Energy, to construct Oracle's AI data center in Saline Township, Michigan. As the future tenant, Oracle will operate the data center once it's delivered and provisioned, outfitting it with the latest technology for its customer, OpenAI, according to Oracle.
Posted January 12, 2026
Keeper Security, a leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software, is releasing its JetBrains extension, giving JetBrains Integrated Development Environment (IDE) users a secure and seamless way to manage secrets within their development workflows.
Posted January 09, 2026
Right now, AI technologies are not just enhancing existing technology portfolios—they are reshaping how organizations think about modern data architecture, elevating modernization from a competitive advantage to an essential business requirement.
Posted January 08, 2026
In the year ahead, there will be signs of significant transformation at data sites. AI is the driver of change, of course, but it goes deeper, promising to reshape operations, security, customer interaction data, and a host of other functions. To explore the possibilities, we canvassed leaders across the industry on the changes they see ahead in the data world.
Posted January 08, 2026
Data managers are on the hook to deliver AI and intelligent agents to the enterprise when needed. To achieve these capabilities, they are working within diverse and decentralized data environments while addressing challenges by building AI-powered systems and applications.
Posted January 08, 2026
Kioxia America, Inc. is introducing BG7 Series solid state drives (SSDs)—the first client solution to feature Kioxia Corporation's latest BiCS FLASH generation 8 3D flash memory with innovative CBA (CMOS directly Bonded to Array) technology.
Posted January 07, 2026
Panaya, a leading enterprise testing and impact analysis platform, is introducing Seemore, its AI agentic layer designed to guide, analyze, fix, and test through every stage of ERP and CRM change.
Posted January 07, 2026
Oracle and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a joint effort to further advance the DOE's current and future AI and advanced computing initiatives, including the Genesis Mission. As part of a non-binding agreement, Oracle and the DOE will work together to foster technological innovation, accelerate the deployment of next-generation AI capabilities, and help strengthen domestic capacity in key areas such as compute infrastructure, data architecture, and responsible AI development.
Posted January 07, 2026
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 January 07, 2026
Event-native data platform innovator Kurrent is releasing KurrentDB 26, adding native Kafka Source Connector, Relational Sink, and Custom Indices capabilities that reduce custom code requirements for event-driven architectures.
Posted January 05, 2026
It's now 2026 and AI has become a daily part of business conversations. Everyone in the C-suite is contemplating whether to hop on the "hype train." The bubble surrounding the industry seems poised to pop at some point as the market becomes saturated with companies producing "AI slop" in terms of plagiarized art and writing and inflating the value of GPUs and other computer hardware equipment, along with demanding more capacity for data center power. Here, experts share their predictions for AI in 2026.
Posted January 05, 2026
AI is only as good as the data it's built upon, and as the AI era continues to evolve, the organizations that succeed won't just be the ones that have more data—they'll have better data products.
Posted December 29, 2025
EnterpriseDB (EDB), a leading sovereign AI and data company, announced new investments in petabyte-scale analytics, expanding EDB Postgres AI (EDB PG AI) for WarehousePG with real-time streaming and enhanced observability to give enterprises greater control over warehouse data, costs, and deployment strategies.
Posted December 23, 2025
Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade open source database software, support, and services, is launching Percona Packages, a suite of structured consulting and support offerings for enterprise IT and DBA teams.
Posted December 22, 2025
Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, announced it is joining the Akamai Qualified Compute Partner Program as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV).
Posted December 18, 2025
Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, is introducing new capabilities to its Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution—designed to give enterprises greater flexibility to deploy and govern their infrastructure across distributed environments running traditional, modern, and AI applications, including fully disconnected environments, with cloud providers that offer sovereign services.
Posted December 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2025
Oracle is now offering Oracle Database@Google Cloud to customers in Canada, customers can now run Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, and Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in the North America-Northeast 1 (Montreal) and North America-Northeast 2 (Toronto) Google Cloud regions.
Posted December 17, 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 17, 2025
SAP announced that AUMOVIO, the newly launched global technology company focused on future mobility, has selected a comprehensive suite of cloud solutions from SAP to help build its digital foundation. These include SAP Cloud ERP Private, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Integrated Business Planning, and SAP Signavio solutions.
Posted December 17, 2025
SAP SE announced the next stage of its vision for European digital sovereignty with the launch of EU AI Cloud. According to the company, SAP now unites all existing milestones under a single strategic framework: a sovereign AI and cloud offering designed for Europe.
Posted December 17, 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 17, 2025
Progress Software, a provider of AI-powered digital experience and infrastructure software, announced the Q4 2025 release of its developer toolsets Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI—introducing Agentic AI as an active development partner through a Progress Agentic UI Generator along with a powerful set of new AI-driven features.
Posted December 16, 2025
As companies chase efficiency, it's no surprise that today's customer service call is more likely to be answered by a bot than by the much-maligned, outsourced operators of the past. Executives celebrate this shift with near-religious zeal. AI doesn't ask for vacation days, sick leave, or overtime pay. It's a one-time investment that trims expenses and inflates margins—pure gold for companies chasing acquisitions or juiced valuations.
Posted December 15, 2025
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, is forming the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), and announced the founding contributions of three leading projects driving innovation in open source AI; Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block's goose, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md.
Posted December 15, 2025
The cloud industry is entering a stage of hypergrowth driven by generative AI, hybrid and multi-cloud adoption, and global data acceleration. In 2025, global cloud infrastructure (IaaS) spending reached $90.9 billion in Q1 2025 alone—a 21% year-over-year increase, according to Omdia. Here, experts share their predictions for cloud in 2026.
Posted December 15, 2025
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
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
Paystand, a leading blockchain-powered B2B payments network, is acquiring Bitwage, the leading platform for stablecoin-enabled cross-border payouts.
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
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