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
Starburst, a leading enterprise intelligence platform, is introducing its AI Data Assistant (AIDA), a new capability that helps organizations move from static reporting to faster, more context-aware decision-making.
Posted April 15, 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
Oracle is introducing a comprehensive series of enhancements to Oracle AI Database to help customers achieve extreme availability and security for all database applications. Oracle Database's Gold-tier uses Oracle's Real Application Clusters to transparently scale applications across multiple computers, and to protect from failures of individual computers.
Posted April 15, 2026
Redpanda, creator of the Redpanda Agentic Data Plane (ADP) for enterprise AI, announced the general availability of four new components in Redpanda Connect: an Amazon DynamoDB change data capture (CDC) input, an Oracle CDC input, and both a processor and an output for Salesforce.
Posted April 15, 2026
Oracle is announcing the latest advancements for Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud, expanding into seven new Google Cloud regions and introducing enhanced Restore Options for Autonomous AI Database. According to the company, these updates are the result of Oracle's ongoing commitment to empowering organizations to launch, grow, and protect their most critical data across the globe.
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
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
What happens when database operations stop being a bottleneck and start becoming a business accelerator? Companies are looking to simplify database management, reduce risk, and prove tangible business impact.
Posted April 09, 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
Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, is introducing advancements to its hybrid data and AI platform to help enterprises modernize seamlessly, lower infrastructure costs, and accelerate analytics and AI across the entire data estate.
Posted April 09, 2026
StreamNative, founded by the creators of Apache Pulsar, is introducing Lakestream, a new architectural paradigm for lakehouse-native streaming, alongside the launch of Ursa For Kafka (UFK)—a native Apache Kafka service that puts the Lakestream vision into practice.
Posted April 08, 2026
AWS is announcing the release of Amazon S3 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With S3 Files, Amazon S3 is the first and only cloud object store that offers fully-featured, high-performance file system access to your data, the company said.
Posted April 08, 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
Denodo, a global leader in data management, is joining the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI), an open source initiative that creates a universal specification for all companies to standardize their fragmented data definitions with an open, vendor-neutral semantic model specification.
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
IBM announced the company recently published a playbook on maximizing business value with the mainframe. This shares IBM's proven approach for driving innovation with its clients, based on decades of experience. It starts with the most important step: choosing the best-fit platform for applications within a users' hybrid cloud environment.
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
Kestra, the open-source orchestration platform unifying data, AI, infrastructure and business workflows, announced $25 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to continue to grow its open-source orchestration platform with the launch of Kestra 2.0.
Posted April 03, 2026
HCLTech, a leading global technology company, and CrowdStrike are expanding their partnership with the launch of Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) services.
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
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 01, 2026
Redpanda, creators of the Redpanda Agentic Data Plane (ADP) for enterprise AI, is announcing the general availability of an adaptable data streaming engine—a single, multi-modal platform that allows enterprises to balance performance, safety, and efficiency at the topic level.
Posted April 01, 2026
Commvault, a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, is expanding its integration with Microsoft Security to better connect threat detection with trusted recovery by using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Security Copilot, and the Commvault Cloud platform to streamline resilience operations (ResOps) and enable real-time data insights.
Posted April 01, 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
Nasuni, a leading unstructured data management company, is forming a partnership and integration between the Nasuni File Data Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Together, Nasuni and Oracle Cloud are enabling enterprises to modernize traditional NAS and file server environments by combining the limitless scale and durability of cloud object storage with the speed, security, and familiarity of enterprise file services delivered through OCI, according to the companies.
Posted April 01, 2026
CData Software, the data layer for AI, is enhancing CData Sync to meet the data pipeline demands of modern enterprises—delivering coordinated pipeline orchestration, expanded change data capture (CDC) for mission-critical systems, and native support for open table formats.
Posted March 31, 2026
AWS is announcing the general availability of a new express configuration for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, a streamlined database creation experience with preconfigured defaults designed to help users get started in seconds.
Posted March 31, 2026
Profisee, a leader in cloud-native master data management (MDM), is introducing the general availability of Profisee 2026 R1—establishing comprehensive AI leadership across the MDM category with capabilities spanning automated agents, semantic matching, and natural language data interaction through the new MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server.
Posted March 31, 2026
Percona, a leader in enterprise-grade open source database software, support, and services, is partnering with Chainguard, a trusted source for open source—now supporting Chainguard builds across its database software portfolio.
Posted March 30, 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
ControlMonkey, an Infrastructure Governance and Resilience Platform, is expanding its Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery platform to include observability and monitoring platforms.
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
env zero, a leader in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) management and governance, and CloudQuery, a leading cloud asset management platform, announced the successful close of their merger—with the combined company to operate under the env zero brand, creating a powerhouse in the cloud operations space.
Posted March 26, 2026