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StorONE, a leader in real-time tiering architecture, announced StorONE Version 4.0, introducing an architecture that enables existing third-party All-Flash Arrays to immediately serve as the high-performance flash tier of StorONE Real-Time Tiering (RTT).
Posted July 09, 2026
In the world of database management, there are a handful of phrases that make experienced DBAs uneasy. Statements such as "we'll fix it in production" or "the database can handle it" usually signal that trouble is coming. But there is another phrase that may be even more dangerous: "It's just data."
Posted July 09, 2026
With every organization currently wondering if their data is sufficient for AI, closing the gap between data ambition and operational reality requires more than just a technical roadmap. It requires the strategic discipline to translate major pain points into a narrative leadership can fund.
Posted July 09, 2026
RapidFort, a leader in software supply chain security with the largest distribution of curated truly open-source software, and ReversingLabs (RL), the trusted name in file and software security, announced a partnership to deliver RapidFort Open-Source Dependency Libraries—an open-source package catalog to combine RapidFort's proven curation and hardening process with independent third-party validation powered by ReversingLabs' Spectra Assure platform.
Posted July 08, 2026
Analytics environments are more powerful than ever, but they're also more fragmented. Data now spans cloud platforms, warehouses, lakehouses, BI tools, and operational systems, making it difficult to deliver consistent insights, trusted metrics, and a unified view of the business.
Posted July 07, 2026
MotherDuck is launching Flights, an agent-native data pipeline that enables users to choose the MCP server and AI agent of their choice to build and deploy data pipelines in minutes using a flexible, general-purpose Python runtime.
Posted July 02, 2026
Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, is expanding its sovereignty solutioning through new capabilities and services with Microsoft.
Posted July 02, 2026
Oracle is introducing Oracle Deep Data Security, shifting enforcement to where the data lives along with making controls explicit, inspectable, and reusable across applications. Oracle Deep Data Security embeds fine-grained authorization directly in Oracle AI Database 26ai, aligning access control with the data it protects.
Posted July 01, 2026
Oracle announced the third cohort of the Oracle Defense Ecosystem, adding 10 defense technology companies delivering mission-critical AI, cyber, secure communications, operational intelligence, autonomous systems, and mission support capabilities for the U.S. and allied nations.
Posted July 01, 2026
We hear a lot about AI's benefits to productivity for data teams, but less about the potential risks. The moment the problem becomes real usually looks something like this: an engineer connects an AI assistant to a NoSQL database, such as MongoDB, through an MCP server or a similar tool-calling interface. At the time, they consider it safe to grant the AI direct authentication with their own credentials instead of using best practices such as delegated authorization. It takes twenty minutes. The agent can now query live data, return results, and feed them into whatever workflow it's part of. Nobody updates the access policy, scopes the authorization down, or asks what the agent can actually reach.
Posted June 29, 2026
Modernizing data platforms is no longer just about moving to the cloud. Organizations are under pressure to build data environments that not only scale, but also support real-time analytics, governed data access, and AI-driven applications.
Posted June 26, 2026
Yugabyte announced it is releasing YugabyteDB 2026.1 with enhanced AI capabilities along with YugabyteDB AMP (Agentic Multitenant PostgreSQL) for true serverless, scale-to-zero PostgreSQL where every agent gets its own real, isolated database starting at a fraction of a core.
Posted June 26, 2026
Aerospike Inc. announced it is opening its Aerospike Academy training program to all developers and operators worldwide—freeing the Academy's structured, self-paced, and interactive courses for anyone building on the Aerospike Database.
Posted June 26, 2026
CData Software is launching three products for developers building AI applications on enterprise data: Connect AI Developer Edition (free), the CData Connect AI Python SDK (open source), and CData CLI.
Posted June 25, 2026
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced it has awarded Oracle a $395.8 million Federal HRIT Modernization Core Human Capital Management (HCM) contract to deliver the federal government's first governmentwide HR platform. Powered by Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), the new platform will replace more than 100 separate systems and serve as the single, governmentwide system of record for workforce management under OPM's Federal HR 2.0 initiative, according to Oracle.
Posted June 24, 2026
Are data infrastructures ready to deliver insights at the speed of thought—or, for that matter, at the speed of an AI prompt? For decades, batch processing was the mode of data delivery—and organizations built their analytical environments in which information was several hours, or maybe a day, old. Then, as the digital economy evolved, certain parts of the data infrastructure moved to near real time, meaning results to queries were delivered within a half-hour to several hours.
Posted June 24, 2026
In many environments, there is a quiet compromise that gets made every day. It rarely shows up in project plans or architecture diagrams. No one formally approves it. But it happens, nonetheless. "Good enough" SQL gets promoted to production.
Posted June 24, 2026
Tigera, the inventor and maintainer of Calico Open Source, is releasing Tigera Lynx, a unified control plane for Kubernetes-native AI agents—giving enterprises a single place to find every agent in their Kubernetes estate, tighten posture, assign a sandbox, give each agent cryptographic identity, enforce policy on every action it takes, audit what agents actually do, and detect anomalous behavior without changing a line of agent code.
Posted June 18, 2026
Flux, the code-first engineering intelligence platform, announced it has secured $5 million in new funding, enabling the company to accelerate product development and go-to-market efforts—helping engineering leaders stay ahead as AI reshapes software development.
Posted June 16, 2026
DataStrike, a leader in data infrastructure managed services, is expanding its Linux managed services practice following increased customer demand for secure, scalable open-source infrastructure support.
Posted June 15, 2026
Cato Networks is introducing the Cato Platform Integration Hub and Technology Partner Program to extend the approach of seamless enterprise security and networking, helping customers move from standalone products to a more integrated technology ecosystem.
Posted June 12, 2026
What technologies for the data-driven era are emerging now? As you might guess, much of the activity seen across the market is connected to AI. At the same time, there is a critical data element that needs both to support AI implementations, as well as be supported by AI. DBTA queried industry leaders to get their views on the most compelling technologies now emerging in this data-driven era.
Posted June 11, 2026
MariaDB announced MariaDB Community Server 12.3 has reached Generally Available (GA) status, bringing together a year of rapid innovation into a rock-solid, production-ready package maintained for the next three years. Enhanced Oracle and MySQL compatibility features are designed to reduce migration complexity and lower barriers to open-source adoption.
Posted June 10, 2026
As AI agents move into real-world enterprise use, the challenge is no longer just building models, it is building the data foundation that allows those systems to understand context, retain memory, and act.
Posted June 09, 2026
With the growing deployment of AI agents, these tools are exposing a flaw in observability: To cut costs, teams routinely filter or offload the very data those systems depend on. Without full historical context to validate outputs and understand patterns, AI performance degrades, and teams aren't understanding why. The limiting factor for enterprise AI isn't just the AI model—it's also the data platform underneath it.
Posted June 08, 2026
The big data and analytics space has been shaken up by the increasing pressure to integrate AI into the business or be left behind. However, diving headfirst without guardrails can be a high-stakes introduction to AI. To help bring new resources and innovation to light, each year, Database Trends and Applications magazine showcases the DBTA 100, a list of forward-thinking companies seeking to expand what's possible with data for their customers. Spanning the wide range of established legacy technologies, from MultiValue to cutting-edge breakthroughs such as AI, semantic layers, data lakehouses, data mesh, and data fabric, the DBTA 100 is a list of hardware, software, and service providers working to enable their customers' data-driven future.
Posted June 03, 2026
Percona is launching The OurSQL Foundation, an open organization that will support the community of users, developers, and companies that are invested in the success of MySQL.
Posted May 28, 2026
Devart is releasing dbForge 2026.1, a major update that brings a variety of new features and long-anticipated enhancements to the entire dbForge ecosystem.
Posted May 22, 2026
Percona is announcing it has joined a group of companies to sponsor pgBackRest, one of PostgreSQL's most widely used backup and recovery tools, restoring active development and giving users a clear path forward.
Posted May 20, 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
Amazon Aurora DSQL is offering support for change data capture (CDC), in preview, enabling users to stream real-time database changes directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.
Posted May 18, 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
Data fabric, data lakehouse, and data mesh have recently appeared as viable alternatives to the modern data warehouse. At Data Summit 2026, James Serra, data and AI Architect at Microsoft, held his session, "Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, & Data Mesh," providing a guided tour of each architecture to examine common data architecture concepts.
Posted May 06, 2026
Executives are betting on agentic AI to drive growth, yet many enterprises still struggle to move from pilot to production. The hard part has never been the models. It is about building trust in underlying data assets, human-AI workflows, and outcome accountability. Cal Al-Dhubaib, principal technologist at Rubrik, opened the first official day of Data Summit 2026 with his keynote, "Engineering for Trust in the Era of Agentic AI." The annual Data Summit conference returned to Boston, May 6-7, 2026, with pre-conference workshops on May 5.
Posted May 06, 2026
Becoming truly data-driven requires more than adopting new tools—it demands clear alignment between business goals and data architecture. At Data Summit 2026, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst, Radiant Advisors, led the pre-conference workshop, "How to Evolve Your Data Architecture from BI to AI," guiding attendees through a proven, four-step methodology for designing modern data platforms that deliver real, scalable business value.
Posted May 05, 2026
Rubrik, the Security and AI Operations Company, is now offering cyber resilience capabilities to organizations running Google Cloud SQL, enabling Cloud SQL customers to leverage Rubrik Security Cloud to protect their managed PostgreSQL databases with immutable, automated backups that add Rubrik's enterprise-grade cyber resilience without disrupting their current database operations or recovery strategy.
Posted April 30, 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 30, 2026
Aerospike, Inc. is debuting a new unified, AI-native application development experience that makes it simple for both humans and AI coding assistants to confidently prototype, integrate, deploy, and troubleshoot production applications built on Aerospike's real-time NoSQL database.
Posted April 28, 2026
Yugabyte, the distributed SQL database company, is entering a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling the company to help enterprises modernize their legacy databases and scale cloud-native applications on AWS by providing high availability, global distribution, and operational resilience.
Posted April 23, 2026
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
Redis, the world's fastest data platform, is releasing Redis Feature Form, a managed feature store platform built to help enterprise ML teams bring features into production with more control, consistency, and reliability.
Posted April 21, 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
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