Backblaze, Inc., the specialized cloud storage platform, is unveiling a new function for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage that instantly alerts users and external cloud services when data within the storage platform changes. This service—dubbed Event Notifications—empowers enterprises to craft their automated cloud workflows without being restricted to a single vendor or legacy tool to provide notification features.
Posted April 15, 2024
Starburst, the open data lakehouse company, is introducing its fully managed Icehouse implementation on Starburst's multi-cloud data lakehouse service, Galaxy. According to the company, with the Galaxy Icehouse, customers can benefit from the scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of a combined Trino and Iceberg architecture (Icehouse) without the burden and cost of building and maintaining a custom solution themselves.
Posted April 15, 2024
CloudBolt Software, The Cloud ROI Company, is partnering with StormForge, a leading provider of Kubernetes resource optimization, with the goal of bringing Kubernetes cost visibility and optimization into the FinOps ecosystem. While the FinOps industry has had success providing cost visibility and optimization recommendations at the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer, it has not yet delivered the same value in Kubernetes ecosystems. Without any form of monitoring, organizations remain unaware of actual spend and over-allocated cloud resources, according to the companies.
Posted April 15, 2024
VAST Data, the AI data platform company, is debuting the availability of the VAST Data Platform with Google Cloud, now supporting AI workflows within the Google Cloud environment. Additionally, enterprises are now able to deploy multi-node VAST clusters either independently with Google Cloud or in concurrence with on-prem VAST clusters—bringing the entirety of VAST's platform capabilities to both hybrid and native Google Cloud environments.
Posted April 12, 2024
LimaCharlie, creator of the Security Operations (SecOps) Cloud Platform, is offering a new bi-directional integration platform enhancement, allowing for two-way data flows that streamline detection and response processes while eliminating reliance on third-party automation applications.
Posted April 12, 2024
David Loshin, principal consultant at Knowledge Integrity and James Goodfellow, director of product marketing at Progress joined DBTA's webinar, 6 Challenges of Managing Information in a Modernized Hybrid Data Architecture to explore several major roadblocks that enterprises should consider when adapting to a hybrid data landscape and architecture.
Posted April 12, 2024
Descope, the drag-and-drop customer authentication and identity management platform, is introducing new onboarding and self-service capabilities to its CIAM platform that enable enterprises to keep up with the evolving demands of customer expectations.
Posted April 12, 2024
Postman, a leading API collaboration company, is acquiring Orbit, the community growth platform for developer companies, integrating Orbit's technology and deploying its expertise in support of Postman's vision of empowering 100 million developers through API collaboration.
Posted April 12, 2024
Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security and management, is extending its cyber resilience collaboration with IBM, underpinned by the company's completion of its Series F financing. With this deepened relationship, Cohesity and IBM plan to accelerate the development of their joint critical cyber resilience capabilities, enabling enterprises to adapt to increasingly dire data threats.
Posted April 11, 2024
To address the new iteration of database management for the cloud era, Julie Hyman, director of product management at Quest and Michael Agarwal, director and global practice leader, cloud databases at Datavail joined DBTA's webinar Key Database Management Skills and Tools for the Cloud Era, offering skills and strategies to effectively manage, govern, secure, and integrate data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Posted April 11, 2024
Syntax Systems, a leading global technology solutions and services provider for cloud application implementation and management, is partnering with Cogniac Corporation, a global leader in enterprise-grade computer vision, to accelerate the development of industrial AI applications—enhancing the automation of manufacturing processes through the integration of advanced computer vision capabilities.
Posted April 11, 2024
vFunction, a pioneer of AI-driven architectural observability (AO), is unveiling new features for its Architectural Observability Platform that center its focus on aiding software architects and engineers to manage their technical costs and enhance their engineering velocity. With digital transformation pushing enterprises further and further into technical debt, business domain-based prioritization capabilities and a new integration with OpenRewrite aims to alleviate these mounting pressures.
Posted April 11, 2024
Gathid is debuting its new approach to identity and access governance, inspired by the power of gathered identities, the platform pinpoints identity and access anomalies with its patented directed graph model. Designed for rapid deployment, immediate applicability, and smooth integration across complex IT infrastructures, this solution tackles the critical need for scalable and cost-effective identity management, according to the company.
Posted April 10, 2024
GlobalLogic, a Hitachi group company, is introducing a "first-of-its-kind Platform-of-Platforms" architecture designed to support deployment of enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI)—aimed to address critical challenges every enterprise must overcome when operationalizing AI and generative AI (GenAI) at scale.
Posted April 09, 2024
Bedrock Security, the frictionless data security company, is debuting its comprehensive data security platform, engineered to allow enterprises to manage risk effectively and continuously through the discovery, management, and protection of their most sensitive data. Backed by both Bedrock's advanced AI Reasoning (AIR) Engine as well as $10 million in seed funding led by Greylock, Bedrock's latest platform enables organizations to protect their most valuable assets without impeding data growth or business success.
Posted April 08, 2024
Dataloop AI, an end-to-end, data-centric AI development platform for data and AI teams, is debuting the Dataloop Marketplace, an AI-centered hub that empowers enterprises to build AI faster with the right data, at max efficiency. Aiming to close the gap between proof of concept (COP) and production, the Marketplace enables enterprises to make their innovative AI projects a reality with speed and efficacy, according to the company.
Posted April 08, 2024
Microsoft and OpenAI are working on plans for a data center project that could cost as much as $100 billion, along with including an artificial intelligence supercomputer called "Stargate" set to launch in 2028, The Information reported. The report said that Microsoft would likely finance the project, which is expected to be 100 times more costly than some of the biggest existing data centers.
Posted April 08, 2024
Cisco and a group of eight leading companies including Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft, and SAP, as well as six advisors are launching the AI-Enabled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Workforce Consortium—focused on upskilling and reskilling roles most likely to be impacted by AI.
Posted April 08, 2024
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is launching Open Source Essentials, a certificate and education program targeting the fundamental knowledge open source professionals should have. The learning objectives are designed to cover all major domains that affect Open Source. They include software fundamentals, open source software licenses, open content licenses, open source business models, and project management as well as collaboration and communication.
Posted April 08, 2024
LightEdge, a leading provider of secure cloud and colocation, is acquiring Connectria, a provider of multi-cloud infrastructure and managed hosting solutions, adding six data center locations to LightEdge's existing footprint of 12 highly interconnected facilities across eight U.S. markets.
Posted April 08, 2024
Zilliz, a trailblazer in vector database technology, is releasing Milvus 2.4, introducing a new standard in vector search capabilities with a groundbreaking GPU indexing feature powered by NVIDIA's CUDA-Accelerated Graph Index for Vector Retrieval (CAGRA), part of the RAPIDS cuVS library. Building on Zilliz's commitment to innovation, Milvus 2.4 enhances GPU indexing capabilities since the introduction of GPU IVF-Flat and GPU IVF-PQ indexes last year.
Posted April 05, 2024
CData Software, a leading provider of data connectivity solutions, is announcing its acquisition of Data Virtuality, a global provider of data integration and management solutions. This integration bolsters CData's data management capabilities, now delivering to its customers the ability to support large-scale data virtualization projects.
Posted April 05, 2024
To investigate the knowledge and tools needed to develop strong, distributed applications with PostgreSQL, Phillip Merrick, co-founder and CEO at pgEdge, and Curtis Myzie, head of cloud engineering at pgEdge, joined DBTA's webinar, Rapid Deployment of Globally Distributed PostgreSQL for Low Latency and Unbeatable Availability, offering webinar viewers an in-depth foray into the world of distributed PostgreSQL.
Posted April 04, 2024
LogRhythm, the company helping security teams stop breaches, is offering its 8th consecutive quarterly release, facilitating seamless dashboard and search import/export to community repositories to bridge the communication gap. Additionally, LogRhythm Axon introduces key features to streamline auditing for compliance standards and enable greater efficiency with security analytics mapped to MITRE ATT&CK use cases.
Posted April 04, 2024
Anais Dotis-Georgiou, lead developer advocate at InfluxData, joined DBTA's webinar, Infrastructure Monitoring Basics with Telegraf, Grafana, and InfluxDB, to provide a comprehensive understanding of infrastructure monitoring, as well as how Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana can be used in tandem to meet modern monitoring needs.
Posted April 03, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is introducing a strategic realignment of the organization designed to accelerate the company's growth plan, including its ability to respond to market opportunities with a focus on hybrid cloud and generative AI.
Posted April 03, 2024
Tabnine, the originators of the AI coding assistant category, is unveiling a new capability for its software development chat tool, Tabnine Chat, that allows engineers to choose the large language model (LLM) from a catalog of models that powers the chat assistant. This grants development and engineering teams the flexibility to select the models that best suit their needs, as well as the ability to switch between models as desired.
Posted April 03, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their collaboration to deliver sovereign AI solutions to customers around the world. Oracle's distributed cloud, AI infrastructure, and generative AI services, combined with NVIDIA's accelerated computing and generative AI software, are enabling governments and enterprises to deploy AI factories, according to the companies.
Posted April 03, 2024
Oracle NetSuite is expanding its generative AI capabilities, introducing Text Enhance that helps users leverage company-specific, relevant data to create and refine contextual and personalized content. Now embedded in more finance and accounting, supply chain and operations, sales and marketing, and customer support processes, NetSuite Text Enhance will help organizations reach their goals faster and more efficiently by increasing productivity, reducing human error, improving consistency, and accelerating business processes, according to Oracle.
Posted April 03, 2024
Oracle is releasing Java 22, the latest version of the world's number one programming language and development platform, delivering thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements to help developers increase productivity, drive innovation, and accelerate growth across their organizations.
Posted April 03, 2024
Jason Tolbert, senior director, strategic alliances (Microsoft) at Informatica, and Pavan Lakkala, principal program manager at Microsoft, joined DBTA's webinar, Revolutionizing Cloud Data Management for the era of AI, to explore how combining the Microsoft Fabric with Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) can empower enterprises to solve critical, modern data challenges and accelerate their AI and analytics initiatives.
Posted April 02, 2024
Redjack, a provider of cyber resilience solutions, is launching its cyber resilience platform, a paradigm-shifting approach that places a business function lens on asset inventory—empowering organizations to prioritize cybersecurity, compliance, and digital transformation efforts by providing a comprehensive view of assets and dependencies within the context of their business functions.
Posted April 02, 2024
Dremio, the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics, announced the general availability of Dremio Cloud on Microsoft Azure, bringing users closer to their data with lakehouse flexibility, scalability, and performance. Dremio Cloud's intuitive unified analytics, high-performance SQL query engine, and lakehouse management service for next-gen DataOps let organizations shift left for a faster time to insight, according to the company.
Posted April 02, 2024
Astronomer, a leader in modern data orchestration, is releasing the latest version of the Astro platform with new features designed to allow users to accelerate innovation while achieving the highest levels of governance and compliance.
Posted April 01, 2024
Domo unveiled a new wave of features for Domo.AI, the company's framework of flexible artificial intelligence (AI) services, introducing capabilities to help ensure each organization's unique AI needs are fulfilled. The new capabilities were announced at Domopalooza: the AI + Data Conference.
Posted April 01, 2024
Matan Libis, VP of product at SQream, Ashwin Rajeeva, co-founder and CTO at Acceldata, and Preeti Kodikal, director of product marketing at Acceldata, joined DBTA's webinar, Building a Next-Generation Data Architecture: Key Capabilities and Strategies, to examine the ways that designing, implementing, integrating, and managing the systems that collect, store, process, and analyze data will successfully support the latest technologies that aim to bring your business to the next level.
Posted March 29, 2024
Abstract Security, crafted by category creators who have consistently redefined the cybersecurity landscape, is emerging from stealth along with unveiling its platform designed to centralize the management of security analytics. Abstract Security's platform correlates data in real-time between data streams and separates compliance and security data to both increase detection effectiveness and lower costs.
Posted March 29, 2024
CrowdStrike and Rubrik are forming a strategic partnership to accelerate data security transformation and stop breaches before they happen. By unifying rich, data-centric attack context from the Rubrik Security Cloud with the industry-leading AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform, organizations can rapidly detect, investigate, and stop attacks targeting sensitive data, according to the companies.
Posted March 29, 2024
VMware by Broadcom experts joined DBTA's webinar, The Value of VMware Cloud Foundation as the Universal Workload Platform, to examine the various nuances that position VCF as the premiere platform for modernization that combines the powers of several elements: vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and Aria.
Posted March 28, 2024
Observe, Inc., the SaaS observability company reinventing the way machine-generated data is stored, managed, and analyzed, is announcing the completion of its Series B funding round, having raised a total of $115 million.
Posted March 28, 2024
Databricks, the Data and AI company, is introducing DBRX, a general-purpose large language model (LLM) that enables organizations around the world to cost-effectively build, train, and serve their own custom LLMs. DBRX democratizes the training and tuning of custom, high-performing LLMs for every enterprise so they no longer need to rely on a small handful of closed models, according to the company.
Posted March 28, 2024
The 11th annual Data Summit conference will be held May 8-9, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Boston, with pre-conference workshops taking place on May 7, 2024. Early bird pricing is available now until April 5. At Data Summit 2024, you'll hear the innovative approaches the world's leading companies are taking to solve today's key challenges in data management. Whether your interests lie in the technical possibilities and challenges of new and emerging technologies or using Big Data for business intelligence, analytics, and other business strategies, Data Summit 2024 has something for you!
Posted March 28, 2024
Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is releasing its Rubrik Enterprise Proactive Edition (EPE), combining DSPM with recovery designed for complete cyber resilience, wherever data lives. Rubrik EPE allows organizations to secure mission-critical data for comprehensive protection, recovery, and resilience against cyberattacks, whether in a cloud, SaaS, or on-premises environment, according to the company.
Posted March 28, 2024
DBOS, Inc., the developer of a prominent cloud-native operating system, is debuting its first product offering on the heels of its seed funding results led by Engine Ventures and Construct Capital, with participation from Sinewave and GutBrain Ventures. Backed by $8.5 million in funding, DBOS is releasing DBOS Cloud, a solution born from the idea of building database-oriented infrastructure in the cloud.
Posted March 28, 2024
Synopsys, Inc. is introducing Synopsys fAST Dynamic, a new application security testing (DAST) offering on the Synopsys Polaris Software Integrity Platform that enables development, security, and DevOps teams to quickly find and fix security vulnerabilities in modern web applications.
Posted March 28, 2024
Skybox Security, a provider of Exposure Management solutions, is unveiling Skybox 13.2, the latest iteration of the company's Vulnerability and Threat Management solution. Skybox 13.2 delivers effective vulnerability prioritization that leverages customer-specific context to address prioritization and remediation processes with more nuances, according to the company.
Posted March 28, 2024
Foundational, a solution using advanced analysis to identify and prevent data issues in data platforms, is debuting its platform along with announcing $8 million in seed funding. With this funding, Foundational will continue to develop its technology and introduce new and exciting product capabilities that benefit data developers as they build at scale.
Posted March 27, 2024
DataStax, the generative AI data company, is announcing an integration with Microsoft Semantic Kernel which will allow developers to benefit from the streamlined creation of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications and AI agents.
Posted March 27, 2024
InterSystems is adding vector search to the InterSystems IRIS data platform to enable efficient and accurate retrieval of relevant information from massive datasets when working with large language models. By converting text and images into high-dimensional vectors, these techniques allow quick comparisons and searches, even when dealing with millions of files from disparate datasets across the organization.
Posted March 27, 2024
SAP announced new product and partnership milestones that reimagine travel and expense management experiences along with offering new capabilities powered by generative AI. SAP debuted new business AI capabilities in SAP Concur solutions to help customers save time and improve accuracy when managing business travel and expenses.
Posted March 27, 2024