AI and the cloud revolution have brought about a seismic shift in the realm of database administration, transforming traditional roles and presenting unprecedented opportunities. To assist DBAs, Rocket Software offers the MultiValue Performance Experience (MVX: Performance), a tool that empowers DBAs with unparalleled capabilities in monitoring and optimizing performance.
Posted March 27, 2024
Entrinsik Informer AI is now available, offering new possibilities for data analysis and interaction. Informer AI offers real-time assistance with Help Center AI, enhances scripting and querying capabilities through Copilot AI, and empowers users to create digital assistants in seconds. Uniquely adept at handling both structured and unstructured data, these assistants can visualize data, print templates, and connect to APIs, integrating seamlessly with datasets, PDFs, and documents.
Posted March 27, 2024
Bigeye, the developers of the data observability platform designed for data people, by data people, is announcing the availability of Bigeye Dependency Driven Monitoring, an addition to the Bigeye data observability platform that empowers business leaders to trust the data fueling their dashboards.
Posted March 26, 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 26, 2024
Redis, a leading real-time data platform, is acquiring Speedb, one of the world's fastest data storage engines, to bolster a broad array of enterprise applications and use cases with diverse performance requirements. According to the company, Redis will leverage Speedb to enhance real-time data processing and power low-latency user experiences, all while guaranteeing unmatched cost performance for all applications where speed is critical, including generative AI applications.
Posted March 26, 2024
Semgrep, a code security solution designed for engineering-centric security programs, is debuting Semgrep Assistant, an AI-powered tool designed to empower AppSec engineers and developers to make decisions faster—and with greater accuracy.
Posted March 26, 2024
Redpanda is introducing Redpanda Serverless, a fully managed, pay-as-you-go edition of its cost-effective streaming data platform that empowers developers to get started with streaming data in seconds and to automatically scale the service up or down to match their data workloads. As with all Redpanda products, Redpanda Serverless is fully Apache Kafka API-compatible, ensuring it works with the complete Kafka ecosystem without requiring changes to application code.
Posted March 25, 2024
HEAVY.AI, innovator in advanced analytics, is releasing HeavyIQ, bringing groundbreaking Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities to the GPU-accelerated HEAVY.AI analytics platform. This solution enables organizations to interact with their data through conversational analytics.
Posted March 25, 2024
Onymos, developer of the world's first Features-as-a-Service platform, and Vapotherm, Inc., a global medical technology company whose proprietary high-velocity therapy products treat patients of all ages suffering from respiratory distress, are announcing a developmental and commercialization partnership that aims to enhance IoT performance and management for Vapotherm's HVT 2.0 system.
Posted March 25, 2024
IBM is augmenting IBM Power with IBM Power Virtual Server, helping enterprises by providing a flexible, scalable, and secured platform to run mission-critical workloads, including AI, that extends on-premises environments to the cloud. With a flexible-as-a-service offering, IBM is helping clients with frictionless workload migration and modernization from on-premises to the cloud. This is possible because of architectural parity between IBM Power and IBM Cloud that helps our clients achieve growth while adopting innovative AI and hybrid cloud technologies.
Posted March 25, 2024
IBM is acquiring Pliant, a leading provider of network and IT infrastructure automation products, adding essential capabilities to automate network and IT infrastructure tasks and abstract these functions to the application layer. These optimizations include infrastructure resource provisioning and management, traffic management, and configuration management for both traditional network and IT infrastructure and public clouds.
Posted March 25, 2024
VIRTEL, innovator in mainframe 3270 access and user interface modernization technologies for over 30 years, is releasing Virtel Web Suite version 4.62, adding features inspired by customer requests. Virtel Web Suite v4.62 is both a roll-up of all software maintenance since v4.61 and the addition of many customer-driven enhancements to security, system administration, performance and mainframe-to-mainframe connectivity.
Posted March 25, 2024
Kyndryl, an IT infrastructure services provider, and Cloudflare, Inc., a leading connectivity cloud company, are extending their partnership, forming the Global Strategic Alliance to enable enterprises to migrate and manage networks for multi-cloud connectivity and comprehensive network security.
Posted March 25, 2024
CalypsoAI, a leader in AI security and enablement, is introducing the CalypsoAI Platform, an advanced SaaS-based security and enablement solution for generative AI applications within the enterprise. With the new model-agnostic SaaS platform, technology, innovation, and security leaders can harness the power of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) across their enterprise safely and securely, according to the company.
Posted March 22, 2024
Kong Inc., a leading developer of cloud API technologies, is releasing Kong Gateway Operator (KGO) 1.2—making this version the first open source release of KGO, continuing Kong's long history of supporting the open source community. In addition, this latest version introduces a new era for deploying and managing the Kong Gateway in a Kubernetes-native manner, offering unprecedented ease and flexibility for Kubernetes platform teams, according to the company.
Posted March 22, 2024
AttackIQ, an independent vendor of breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions and founding research partner of the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense (CTID), is unveiling AttackIQ Ready! 2.0, the latest iteration of the fully managed breach and attack simulation-as-a-service that empowers organizations to stay on top of the gaps in their security defenses.
Posted March 21, 2024
Tarsal, the security data movement company, is announcing the close of its recent seed funding round—led by Harpoon Ventures and Mango Capital with participation from YCombinator, Abstract Ventures, and Backend Capital—having raised $6 million. With a focus on the security data lake movement, Tarsal empowers security teams to modernize data management with performance and cost-effectiveness at the center.
Posted March 21, 2024
Kyndryl, an IT infrastructure services provider, and Cloudflare, Inc., a leading connectivity cloud company, are extending their partnership, forming the Global Strategic Alliance to enable enterprises to migrate and manage networks for multi-cloud connectivity and comprehensive network security.
Posted March 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2024
Microsoft Corp. and Oracle are expanding their partnership to meet growing customer demand for Oracle Database@Azure, expanding the platform to five more regions—expanding the availability footprint to 15 regions globally. Customers can now place orders for Oracle Database@Azure in the Microsoft Azure Germany West Central region in Frankfurt. This marks the debut of Oracle Database@Azure in Europe, and the second region after Microsoft Azure East U.S. general availability in December 2023.
Posted March 20, 2024
After Linux kernal support ended in January, OpenELA announced its commitment to providing a platform for developers to collaborate on the maintenance of the 4.14 Linux kernel. The OpenELA kernel-lts project is a repository that contains a continuation of long-term maintenance kernel releases hosted on kernel.org. This continuation follows all the upstream stable rules, does not target specific hardware, vendors, or users, and the patches are primarily selected from ongoing upstream stable kernels, according to the association.
Posted March 20, 2024
QMware, a leading hybrid quantum computing company that provides cloud services, is collaborating with NVIDIA and Oracle to test and develop a new state-of-the-art hybrid quantum computing service for enterprise customers. QMware will use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) powered by NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU clusters, as well as the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum open-source hybrid quantum computing platform.
Posted March 20, 2024
CloudCasa by Catalogic, a leader in multi-cloud application resilience and mobility for Kubernetes, is releasing the newest edition of its CloudCasa platform, adding new migration and replication workflows to simplify key Kubernetes use cases. Also released are new cloud integration and manageability features, extending and improving the backup, restore, and disaster recover capabilities of CloudCasa, as well as its ability to centrally manage Velero installations in large and complex environments, according to the company.
Posted March 19, 2024
Pathlock, a provider of identity and application access governance, is releasing Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), a product within the Pathlock Cloud Platform that encompasses control management, risk quantification, and change monitoring to streamline control mechanisms from various frameworks into one centralized, automated system.
Posted March 19, 2024
Sisense, the leader in AI-driven analytics that empowers enterprises to seamlessly transform their data into a competitive edge, is announcing the general availability of Fusion Compose SDK, a software developer toolkit that aims to accelerate and enrich development.
Posted March 19, 2024
BigID, a pioneer in AI-augmented data security, compliance, and privacy for modern, cloud-first enterprises, is announcing the closure of its $60 million growth round led by Riverwood Capital with participation by Silver Lake Waterman and Advent. This funding will contribute toward the company's mission to provide universal data security, compliance, and privacy across any data type, especially as it relates to generative AI (GenAI).
Posted March 19, 2024
StreamNative, the cloud-native messaging and event streaming company powered by Apache Pulsar, is announcing the general availability of Kafka on StreamNative on the ONE StreamNative Platform—an agnostic data streaming platform. The addition of the Kafka protocol will empower users to run Kafka workloads on the StreamNative Platform with greater scalability, lower costs, and management ease, according to the company.
Posted March 18, 2024
Experts from Datavail joined DBTA's webinar, Vector Databases: Innovating Data Management in the AI Era, to examine the nuances of vector databases and vector search, as well as its role for AI implementation.
Posted March 18, 2024
InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, allowing users to quickly build and run time series applications on managed infrastructure with AWS's scalability, reliability, and security without the overhead of self-management.
Posted March 18, 2024
MinIO, the leader in high-performance object storage for AI, is launching the MinIO Enterprise Object Store, the company's latest product engineered to empower the creation and management of exabyte-scale data infrastructure for commercial customers. Optimized for performance and scale challenges associated with AI workloads, the MinIO Enterprise Object Store offers six key features: the MinIO Enterprise Catalog, Data Firewall, Key Management Server, Cache, Observability, and Enterprise Console.
Posted March 18, 2024
RestorePoint.AI is releasing its cloud-delivered Secure Managed Data Service (SMDS), enabling midsize organizations to securely take advantage of new analytics and Generative AI (GenAI) driven technologies, and extract business intelligence from their data. The RestorePoint.AI SMDS addresses the growing need for secure data management as a service among businesses that lack the resources to build and manage their own analytics and GenAI integrations, according to the company.
Posted March 15, 2024
Wipro Limited, a leading technology services and consulting company, and Nutanix, Inc., a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, are launching a new Nutanix-focused business unit to help they mutual clients accelerate their digital and hybrid multi-cloud journeys. The new business unit will combine the industry expertise of Wipro FullStride Cloud with Nutanix Cloud Platform to enhance joint solution engineering and expand go-to-market strategies.
Posted March 15, 2024
Opaque Systems, a leader in confidential data for trusted AI to help enterprises move AI into production, is unveiling the early access version of Opaque Gateway, an agile software solution designed to enable enterprises to experience the benefits of AI without sacrificing data privacy, security, or sovereignty. Not only does this radically alter the space of security for AI but also forwards flexible generative AI (GenAI) deployments and robust cost management for its implementation, according to the company.
Posted March 14, 2024
Dataiku, the platform for Everyday AI, is debuting LLM Cost Guard, a new component of the Dataiku LLM Mesh designed to enable enterprises to monitor and understand their generative AI (GenAI) and large language model (LLM) expenses. As more and more organizations push for GenAI and LLM implementation, LLM Cost Guard will empower these entities to better comprehend their AI spend at a fine-grained level, according to the company.
Posted March 14, 2024
Domino Data Lab is introducing the Domino AI Gateway, enabling companies to manage access to commercial LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and more—enhancing security by holding LLM API keys. The Domino AI Gateway can help teams access large language models securely and responsibly. It provides enterprise security to ensure that only approved users can see and use model endpoints from commercial providers.
Posted March 14, 2024
Alkira, a provider of agentless multi-cloud networking, and RestorePoint.AI, the Secure Managed Data as a Service company, are partnering to deliver cloud-based data management services running on a private secure network. The announcement was made at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Orlando, FL.
Posted March 13, 2024
RapidCanvas, the AI platform built for business, is emerging from stealth with $7.5 million in seed funding, propelled to accelerate enterprises' AI transformations. The funding, led by Accel with participation from Valley Capital Partners, will power RapidCanvas' end-to-end AI automation and guidance platform for enterprises aiming to get a jumpstart on their AI initiatives.
Posted March 13, 2024
Selector AI, the provider of network-aware AIOps, observability, and multi-domain analytics, is debuting its Spring 2024 release, introducing a variety of innovative technologies designed to enable enterprises to truly understand and take action on their telemetry from a single, streamlined pane of glass, according to the company.
Posted March 13, 2024
ChainGPT, the AI-powered Web3 infrastructure, is launching a grant program to help facilitate innovation at the crossroads of AI and blockchain. With a total of up to $1 million in grants available for startups across different development stages, ChainGPT will offer three tiers of funding: Scaling-focused growth grants, builder grants to kickstart early-stage innovation, and research grants for newly launched projects.
Posted March 13, 2024
Casper Labs, the enterprise blockchain software and services provider, and IBM Consulting are partnering to help clients leverage blockchain to gain greater transparency and auditability in their AI systems. Together, Casper Labs and IBM Consulting plan to develop a new Casper Labs solution, designed with blockchain and built leveraging IBM watsonx.governance, that establishes an additional analytics and policy enforcement layer for governing AI training data across organizations, according to the companies.
Posted March 13, 2024
fuseproject, Yves Béhar's multidisciplinary design firm, and startup Functionland are partnering to offer FxBlox, a physical hardware device that allows users to store fully encrypted data, files, and photos—tapping into secure, user-owned, decentralized storage.
Posted March 13, 2024
Aporia, an AI control platform and provider of real-time hallucination mitigation, is expanding the Aporia Labs, its innovative research and development center, enabling Aporia Labs' team of elite ML engineers, cybersecurity, and AI experts to focus on identifying and implementing AI risk prevention policies to protect generative AI (GenAI) applications.
Posted March 12, 2024
Janis Griffin, senior technical consultant at Quest Software, and Paul Lewis, chief technology officer at Pythian, joined DBTA's webinar The Role of the DBA in 2024: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities, to identify the ways in which IT decision makers and database professionals can meet the demands of their adaptive ecosystems with ease.
Posted March 12, 2024
Bassam Chahine, senior consultant, Instaclustr (by NetApp), joined DBTA's webinar, Unraveling the Differences Between Apache Cassandra and Its Open Core Competitors, to explore the fundamentals of Apache Cassandra as well as its open core competitors, offering a comprehensive look at the strengths and weaknesses of each.
Posted March 11, 2024
Cloudera, the data company for trusted enterprise AI, is introducing the next phase of its open data lakehouse on private cloud, making enhancements that revolutionize on-premises data experiences for trusted analytics and AI at scale. By delivering Apache Iceberg for private clouds, Cloudera is empowering every organization to overcome these issues and quickly scale enterprise AI deployments to generate greater value, according to the company.
Posted March 11, 2024
ServiceNow, Hugging Face, and NVIDIA are releasing StarCoder2, a family of open-access large language models for code generation, aiming to set new standards for performance, transparency, and cost-effectiveness. StarCoder2 was developed in partnership with the BigCode Community, managed by ServiceNow and Hugging Face, where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets, and applications, according to the vendors.
Posted March 11, 2024
Alation, Inc., the data intelligence company, is offering the major release of the Alation Data Intelligence Platform, introducing a next-generation user interface and business lineage capabilities built for data and analytics teams. Additionally, a new Alation Expert Services offering empowers both business and data leaders to measure and strengthen their organization's data culture with an emphasis on four foundational pillars: data search and discovery, data governance, data literacy, and data leadership.
Posted March 11, 2024
DC BLOX, a premier provider of secure and reliable data centers and fiber network solutions throughout the Southeast, announced the completed expansion of its Birmingham, Alabama data center. This expansion entails a new data hall design, tailored to meet the burgeoning demand for High-Performance Compute (HPC) applications, and marks a significant milestone in DC BLOX's commitment to foster technological growth and innovation in Birmingham and the surrounding region, according to the company.
Posted March 11, 2024
IBM debuted the Mainframe Skills Council during this week's SHARE conference in Orlando, providing a forum where global organizations will foster a skilled, diverse, sustainable workforce for the mainframe platform. In addition to IBM, the council includes organizations spanning IBM clients, IBM partners, academia, user groups, non-profits, and open communities that will collaborate to implement mainframe skills development solutions.
Posted March 11, 2024