Internet of Things Articles
The modern data stack was built for a world of dashboards and batch pipelines, but AI agents are breaking it. The scarcest resource is no longer compute or storage, but the talent to reduce platform complexity. At Data Summit 2026, on May 6 - 7 in Boston, with pre-conference workshops on May 5, Sanjeev Mohan, principal, SanjMo and former Gartner Research, VP, data and analytics, will examine trends reshaping every layer of the AI-driven data foundation, from storage to governance to operations, during his keynote speech.
Posted April 22, 2026
SAP and Haleon, a global consumer health company, announced Haleon's decision to adopt SAP Business Suite to enhance the enterprise's digital infrastructure and advance AI capabilities across its business. According to the companies, this decision will help Haleon operate, scale, and serve consumers in new ways by building stronger, more agile foundations for delivering its trusted everyday health products.
Posted April 22, 2026
In the race to operationalize AI, the biggest hurdle isn't the model—it's the accessibility and "readiness" of your core business data. For enterprises running on SAP, this means data is often locked in siloed structures that AI struggles to access. However, transforming these rigid systems into curated Data Products provides the answer as we move to an Agentic AI future.
Posted April 22, 2026
SAP is providing the SuccessFactors 1H 2026 release, deepening connections across the HR lifecycle—focused on four core priorities: connected, suite-wide AI; unified experiences that adapt to how organizations work; processes designed for clarity, accuracy, and compliance; and stronger foundations for skills and long-term growth.
Posted April 22, 2026
MultiValue World: The Future Unleashed, a global conference bringing together leaders, developers, and innovators in MultiValue database technology, will take place on April 27-30, 2026, at the Saddlebrook Resort & Spa in Wesley Chapel, Florida. Whether you're a long-time MultiValue veteran or someone discovering it for first time, attendees will find valuable insights and fresh perspectives throughout the four days of learning, networking, and collaboration.
Posted April 22, 2026
Tiger Data is launching TimescaleDB Enterprise, a commercially licensed, self-managed time-series database built on PostgreSQL for on-premises, edge, and customer-managed cloud environments.
Posted April 21, 2026
InfluxData is forming a strategic partnership with Litmus to address one of the most persistent challenges in industrial data: getting reliable, contextualized telemetry from the shop floor into production systems. The announcement was made at Hannover Messe.
Posted April 21, 2026
Pinecone is announcing the general availability of its Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN), designed for workloads that need predictable performance, high throughput, and cost-efficient scaling under sustained load.
Posted April 20, 2026
Lenovo Group Limited, together with its subsidiary, Lenovo or the Group, announced it has completed the acquisition of Infinidat Ltd. (Infinidat), a global provider of high-end enterprise storage solutions. According to Lenovo, the transaction strengthens its position in enterprise storage and enhances its ability to deliver resilient, intelligent, AI-ready data infrastructure to customers worldwide.
Posted April 20, 2026
IBM is introducing new cybersecurity measures designed to help organizations counter a new generation of cyber threats from weaponized frontier AI models. Attackers are already using frontier AI models to accelerate every phase of the attack lifecycle. These models represent a step change in offensive capability, which can dramatically lower the time, cost, and expertise required to carry out sophisticated attacks and push organizations toward continuous business disruption, according to IBM.
Posted April 20, 2026
Commvault, a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, announced new and forthcoming AI capabilities that help organizations confidently adopt AI while maintaining control over data, agents, and recovery.
Posted April 17, 2026
Teradata announced the availability of its enterprise-grade Analyst Agent on Microsoft Marketplace, bringing AI-assisted, conversational analytics directly into customers' existing Azure environments.
Posted April 16, 2026
Quest Software, a global leader in data management, cybersecurity, and platform modernization, is releasing the Quest Security Management Platform—a unified, AI-powered platform for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and secure Microsoft identity modernization.
Posted April 16, 2026
Executives are betting on agentic AI to drive growth, yet many enterprises still struggle to move from pilot to production. The difficult part has never been about the models, it is about building trust in underlying data assets, human-AI workflows, and outcome accountability. At Data Summit 2026, on May 6 - 7 in Boston, with pre-conference workshops on May 5, Cal Al-Dhubaib, principal technologist at Rubrik, will dive into Trust Engineering—the emerging discipline needed to consistently scale AI beyond pilots—during his keynote speech.
Posted April 16, 2026
AI is capturing the market in the startup space in 2026, with Crunchbase reporting that AI landed 80% of venture dollars. That means $242 billion went to AI startups and four of the five largest venture capital rounds in history closed in Q1 of 2026. Startups continue to emerge that bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, introducing new types of databases, maintaining data at the edge, advancing Web3, and more. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2026.
Posted April 15, 2026
Looking back on a career in IT, I wanted to reflect on the 20-plus years I spent working in and running data centers for Fortune 500 companies in the New York and New Jersey area. This was an exciting time, leading both large and small teams through some of the most complex transformations in IT infrastructure.
Posted April 15, 2026
Adeptia, an AI-native platform for Intelligent Data Automation, is releasing Adeptia Automate 5.2, introducing updates that make enterprise integrations directly accessible to AI.
Posted April 14, 2026
Cloudflare, a leading connectivity cloud company, is expanding its Agent Cloud with new features to help developers build, deploy, and scale agents. According to the company, this suite of infrastructure, security, and developer tools is designed to move AI agents from experimental demos on local laptops to robust, production-grade workloads running across Cloudflare's global network.
Posted April 14, 2026
In April 2009, Larry Ellison said, as reported in The New York Times and The Guardian, that Java—then a freeware programming language—was "the single most important software asset we have ever acquired." Despite that bold praise, Oracle made no immediate effort to monetize Java, and that omission alone should raise eyebrows.
Posted April 14, 2026
Organizations are spending millions building data products that get used once and then are forgotten. It's a cycle that drains budgets, delays AI initiatives, and erodes trust in data. Experts recently convened for DBTA's webinar, Stop Rebuilding What You Already Have: Why Data Product Reusability Is the Key to AI-Ready Data, to make the case that reusability isn't just a "nice-to-have," it's the economic engine behind successful data strategy.
Posted April 13, 2026
Virtana announced AI Factory Observability for Nutanix Agentic AI environments, extending system-aware observability across Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and Nutanix Enterprise AI.
Posted April 13, 2026
Catalogic Software, a provider of secure data protection solutions, announced the release for Catalogic DPX 4.15, the latest version of its all-in-one enterprise backup and recovery solution.
Posted April 13, 2026
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 May 22.
Posted April 10, 2026
SOCRadar, a global leader in extended threat intelligence and cybersecurity, is debuting its new AI Agent Marketplace, an integrated hub where organizations can browse, purchase, and deploy specialized autonomous AI agents tailored for specific cybersecurity tasks and use cases in the SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence Platform—this includes phishing detection, brand abuse protection, and dark web monitoring.
Posted April 09, 2026
Everyone wants AI, and they want it now—from the C-suite to the production floor. But are their data environments ready to support a full-bore AI effort? Data industry leaders and experts we spoke with say there has been a lot of progress fulfilling AI needs, but there's still a lot of work that needs to be done before today's data platforms are capable of supporting robust, AI-driven organizations.
Posted April 09, 2026
If you aspire to be a chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) or a leader of your data team, you will be pleased to know these roles are gaining influence and meeting the challenges of the AI evolution. These are some of the insights from Deloitte's 2026 CDAO Survey, which asked data and AI leaders about how their influence is changing amid the AI revolution: 94% expect their influence to grow within the next 12 months, and 36% say this influence will expand significantly.
Posted April 09, 2026
Artificial intelligence has shifted from an emerging technology to a core component of modern data ecosystems. For data and database professionals, AI now powers analytics platforms, cloud services, automation tools, and development workflows. This rapid integration is transforming how teams operate—accelerating productivity while raising new expectations around governance, ethics, and strategic alignment.
Posted April 09, 2026
Data Summit 2026 is rapidly approaching on May 6 - 7 in Boston, with pre-conference workshops on May 5, delivering a high-impact learning experience for data and AI professionals at every level. Attendees will gain practical strategies and forward-looking perspectives from industry leaders who are addressing the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of data. DBTA recently spoke to John O'Brien, program chair for the event and principal advisor, industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, about what to expect at this year's event.
Posted April 08, 2026
Datadog, Inc., a leading AI-powered observability and security platform, is releasing Datadog Experiments to customers everywhere—enabling teams to design, launch, and measure product experiments and A/B tests directly within the Datadog platform.
Posted April 07, 2026
CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux, is releasing C3 (CIQ Compatibility Catalog), a free, publicly accessible resource where anyone in the Rocky Linux ecosystem, from hardware vendors, ISVs and AI platform providers to developers, hobbyists and community contributors, can verify and publish compatibility with Rocky Linux, RLC Pro, RLC Pro AI, and RLC Pro Hardened.
Posted April 07, 2026
Apiiro, a leading agentic application security platform, is introducing AI Threat Modeling, a new capability within Apiiro Guardian Agent that automatically generates architecture-aware threat models to identify security and compliance risks before code even exists.
Posted April 06, 2026
Vectra AI, a leader in modern network observability, signal, and control, is making major advancements to the Vectra AI Platform to provide exposure management built for AI enterprises.
Posted April 06, 2026
Planon, a leading global provider of smart sustainable building management software, is introducing Planon for Data Centers, a solution to help operators safeguard uptime, reduce operational risk, and streamline mission critical operations across distributed facilities.
Posted April 06, 2026
IBM announced that 11 of its artificial intelligence (AI) and automation software solutions—including several products from the watsonx portfolio—have received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization. The 11 solutions are deployed exclusively on AWS GovCloud (U.S.), giving agencies secure access to these capabilities without having to manage the underlying infrastructure, and while meeting government compliance requirements, according to IBM.
Posted April 06, 2026
IBM is partnering with Arm to develop new dual-architecture hardware that helps enterprises run future AI and data intensive workloads with greater flexibility, reliability, and security.
Posted April 06, 2026
For modern enterprises, regulatory compliance means financial management, data protection, AI governance, sustainability, resilience, and more. It calls for a tight grip on data to meet regulatory requirements, report efficiently, avoid disruption to business, and satisfy customers. Leaders build trust with regulators and customers through ethical and transparent practices.
Posted April 06, 2026
Modern semantic search does not have to require a separate vector database. Data architects, database engineers, developers, or platform leaders can integrate Vertex AI and Cloud SQL vector indexes directly into their existing MySQL workflow.
Posted April 03, 2026
Aerospike Inc. is introducing LangGraph integration for NoSQL Database 8, delivering persistent memory to stateless AI agentic workflows struggling to move from prototype to production scale.
Posted April 03, 2026
AI initiatives rarely fail because of model quality. They fail because the underlying data systems were never designed for reliability, context retrieval, or operational consistency.
Posted April 02, 2026
Relyance AI, an AI-native data security platform, is releasing Lyo, an autonomous data defense engineer designed to monitor and secure how AI agents interact with enterprise data.
Posted April 02, 2026
QuSecure, Inc., a market leader in post-quantum cybersecurity and cryptographic agility, announced it is collaborating with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in the Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography Project Consortium to bring awareness to the issues involved in migrating to post-quantum algorithms and to develop practices to ease migration from current public-key algorithms to replacement algorithms.
Posted April 02, 2026
Oracle is introducing the Oracle AI Data Platform for U.S. federal agencies—purpose-built to securely connect industry-leading generative AI models with agency data, applications, and workflows. According to Oracle, the platform enables civilian and defense agencies to unify critical information so they can move faster, reduce information silos, and make informed, mission-critical decisions at scale.
Posted April 01, 2026
Oracle is introducing Fusion Agentic Applications, a new class of enterprise applications powered by coordinated teams of specialized AI agents that are outcome-driven, proactive and reasoning based, and engineered for enterprise execution. Built into Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Fusion Agentic Applications can make and execute decisions within business processes by securely accessing unified enterprise data, workflows, policies, approval hierarchies, permissions, and transactional context, according to Oracle.
Posted April 01, 2026
Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, announced it is donating SQLMesh, its open source data transformation framework, to the Linux Foundation to support a community-governed approach to developing and maintaining SQLMesh as part of the modern data stack.
Posted March 30, 2026
SentinelOne, an AI Security Leader, announced a multi-year collaboration with Google Cloud to develop solutions that strengthen cyber defense. According to the companies, the collaboration will deliver new solutions that integrate SentinelOne's leading EDR, security for AI apps and agents, and an AI-native platform with Google Cloud's global-scale infrastructure and threat intelligence.
Posted March 27, 2026
Panzura is launching the latest release of the Panzura CloudFS hybrid cloud file platform—offering capabilities that lower both infrastructure and management costs as firms scale across offices, transfer control to customer IT teams, and begin to deploy agentic AI across their enterprise.
Posted March 26, 2026