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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A few months ago, I was on a call with one of our partners who had just returned from a large construction site in Dubai. They were implementing a worker safety system, and the site manager had walked them through their setup—RFID tags clipped to every hard hat, sensors detecting man-down situations, geofencing alerts when someone entered a hazardous zone. Impressive technology, yet the site manager, my partner told me, seemed frustrated. "We know where someone is," the site manager explained, "but we don't know what they're actually doing or if they're properly protected."
Posted November 20, 2025
For years, cloud architects have been guided by the concept of "data gravity," the idea that applications and workloads naturally orbit massive, centralized datasets. It made sense in an era when scale was synonymous with centralization. But today, the world has changed. How we build applications, how users interact, and where value emerges are no longer defined by data storage alone. We're entering an era shaped by a new force: customer gravity.
Posted November 20, 2025
The real-time revolution for enterprises has been underway for more than a decade, characterized by the gathering, processing, and delivering of near real-time (within hours) capabilities all the way to more instantaneous movement of data within seconds or subseconds.
Posted November 20, 2025
Applications are expected to be always-on, lightning fast, and endlessly scalable—whether it's powering global ecommerce, enabling real-time analytics, or supporting AI-driven services. The ability to integrate data across clouds and platforms, ensure it is secure and trusted for AI and analytics, and deliver it through APIs and microservices, is the backbone of success.
Posted November 20, 2025
Transatel, an NTT company and global pioneer in cellular IoT connectivity, has selected Oracle Communications' cloud native 5G signaling core to advance its next-generation connectivity services. Leveraging its partnerships with over 300 international mobile carriers, Transatel plans to implement key components of Oracle's 5G Standalone (SA) core, enhancing secure, scalable, and reliable connectivity for millions of IoT devices.
Posted November 19, 2025
SAP announced that Brose, a global automotive supplier, has successfully migrated its central SAP systems to SAP Cloud ERP Private solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking a major milestone in its digital transformation journey. In just six months, Brose transitioned its mission-critical systems from internal data centers to the cloud, including complex production processes such as just-in-time and just-in-sequence operations across its global manufacturing plants.
Posted November 19, 2025
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech is opening its Quantum Data Center, the first multimodal quantum infrastructure in Europe. Located in Barcelona's innovation district, the center marks a major step forward for Europe's technological progress and positions Catalonia as one of the world's leading hubs in quantum computing, the company said.
Posted November 17, 2025
Amplitude, Inc., a leading digital analytics platform, is collaborating with GitHub to launch an agent-to-agent integration for enterprise product and engineering teams—enabling Amplitude to act as an agentic product manager, bridging the gap between product insights and code implementation.
Posted November 13, 2025
Data drives everything, and businesses must prepare their data to fully leverage technologies, including generative AI (GenAI), cloud computing, and advanced applications. Archiving is a key strategy in this process, ensuring data is clean, accessible, optimized, and cost-efficient. By consolidating and archiving inactive or redundant data, companies can create the high-quality datasets that are essential for training GenAI models and achieving reliable outcomes.
Posted November 13, 2025
While many companies are interested in adopting a data fabric architecture, organizations don't realize that the essence of a true data fabric leverages embedded AI with a unified semantic layer for accurate enterprise context and data consistency.
Posted November 12, 2025
Pepperdata, a leader in Kubernetes resource optimization in the cloud and on prem, is debuting the general availability of pepperdata.ai, an automated optimization solution to reduce the cost of running AI workloads on GPUs.
Posted November 12, 2025
Redpanda, the real-time data platform for the agentic enterprise, is unveiling Shadowing, a new disaster recovery (DR) feature available in the upcoming Redpanda Streaming version 25.3.
Posted November 10, 2025
The claim that "AI projects are failing" has become a familiar headline—and a valid one. But while the failure rate may be high, it's not necessarily cause for alarm. In fact, understanding why these initiatives fall short is key to making them succeed.
Posted November 10, 2025
Keeper Security, a leading cybersecurity provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge Privileged Access Management (PAM) software, is launching Keeper Forcefield—active protection against memory-based attacks on Windows devices.
Posted November 07, 2025
Cisco is adding key elements to the Cisco 360 Partner Program that will launch on January 25, 2026, co-designed with partners to help accelerate their profitability and deliver greater customer value.
Posted November 06, 2025
ExtraHop, a leader in modern network detection and response (NDR), is introducing powerful new capabilities to detect the malicious use of PowerShell—delivering the critical visibility needed to dismantle the attack kill chain and providing essential insight to stop lateral movement in its tracks.
Posted November 06, 2025