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Posted April 18, 2025
Propelled by the large, unreliable state of data and information, Salesforce is debuting Tableau Next, a flexible, API-first analytics experience paired with agentic analytics that enriches data discovery and interaction. Aiming to strike the balance between rapid access to data and enhanced data literacy and comprehension, Tableau Next leverages the power of AI and agentic analytics to transform the entire data-to-action workflow.
Posted April 17, 2025
What does it take to deliver superior data services and capabilities in today's enterprises? With the rise of AI and machine learning (ML)—and their data-heavy workloads—data managers are actively seeking greater scalability and adaptability in their environments.
Posted April 16, 2025
Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, is releasing its Managed Data Lake Service for Google's Cloud Storage, enabling enterprises to seamlessly centralize structured and unstructured data from over 700 connectors into Google's Cloud Storage in a query-ready open table format.
Posted April 16, 2025
Tessell, the leading next-generation multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) that enables enterprises and startups to accelerate database, data, and application modernization journeys at scale, is announcing the results of its Series B funding round, having raised $60 million—bringing its total funding to $94 million.
Posted April 16, 2025
Now that the hype behind AI is receding, tech CEOs face intensifying pressure to deliver innovation while managing rising levels of enterprise risk. 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 2025.
Posted April 16, 2025
The demand for data centers is on the uptick, being driven by the increased growth of digital services from cloud computing, AI, and 5G to apps on smartphones, laptops, and desktops. To keep up with this surge, approximately 4,750 data centers are now actively under construction across the U.S.
Posted April 15, 2025
Tricentis, a global leader in continuous testing and quality engineering, is introducing its spring release, adding new cloud capabilities for the company's AI-powered, model-based test automation solution, Tricentis Tosca.
Posted April 14, 2025
NVIDIA announced it is working with its manufacturing partners to design and build factories that, for the first time, will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. Together with leading manufacturing partners, the company has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test NVIDIA Blackwell chips in Arizona and AI supercomputers in Texas.
Posted April 14, 2025
IBM, in an effort to combat today's landscape of application complexity, is debuting IBM Concert Resilience Posture, a transformative AI-driven observability and remediation solution that enables repeatable, scalable understanding of an enterprise's resilience posture.
Posted April 11, 2025
Plotly, the premier Data App platform for Python, is releasing Dash Enterprise (DE) 5.7, a significant update to the company's platform, used for building interactive data applications and data visualization dashboards, adding enhancements that improve the platform's AI-powered development capabilities, strengthen enterprise security, and improve user experience.
Posted April 11, 2025
Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, is announcing an expansion of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform services on Google Cloud, now featuring support for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
Posted April 11, 2025
Cohesity, the leader in AI-powered data security, is broadening its existing partnership with Google Cloud to fortify enterprise cyber resilience with a variety of new capabilities.
Posted April 10, 2025
For decades, mainframes and COBOL-based systems have been the backbone of enterprise computing, powering industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. Despite the rise of modern database technologies and cloud-based solutions, legacy databases remain deeply embedded in mission-critical operations.
Posted April 10, 2025
As today's database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database management. When DevOps teams and DBAs combine effective automation with Microsoft SQL Server use, it allows organizations to experience better server monitoring and increase server performance while removing common hurdles to software development.
Posted April 10, 2025
dbt Labs, the pioneer in analytics engineering, is unveiling that dbt Cloud is now deployable on Google Cloud, as well as currently available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Posted April 09, 2025
Dremio, the Intelligent Data Lakehouse Platform, is marking the next generation of its latest platform release, offering breakthrough intelligence capabilities that help organizations accelerate AI and analytics projects, and reduce costs.
Posted April 09, 2025
Yugabyte, the distributed database expert, is debuting Performance Advisor, its next-gen agentic AI application designed to enhance database performance monitoring, and in turn, supercharge AI app resilience and innovation.
Posted April 08, 2025
Dell Technologies is unveiling a series of innovations across its server, storage, and data protection portfolios that empower data center modernization in the AI era.
Posted April 08, 2025
Informatica, an AI-powered enterprise cloud data management leader, is offering data management innovations designed to simplify and enhance enterprise-wide access to AI-ready data. These advancements, powered by Informatica's CLAIRE AI engine and available in its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), help ensure that data is relevant, responsible, and robust, empowering organizations to drive AI initiatives with greater confidence and efficiency, according to the company.
Posted April 08, 2025
Prophecy is launching Prophecy 4.0, the latest version of its AI-driven data integration platform for pipeline development, deployment, and automation—addressing the needs of analysts in the business, delivering self-service, production-ready data preparation that operates within guardrails defined by central IT.
Posted April 08, 2025
Hydrolix announced the closing of an $80 million Series C investment round, enabling the company to amplify its growth on additional cloud platforms for security and observability improvements.
Posted April 08, 2025
That is why enterprises must investigate the AI-readiness of their data, regardless of their adoption journeys. In DBTA's latest webinar, Is Your Data Ready for GenAI? Why You Must Know!, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst, Radiant Advisors, and Joshua Èrhardt, director, data and AI marketing, Informatica, examined the current state of generative AI (GenAI) as well as how organizations can effectively prepare for its inevitable implementation.
Posted April 07, 2025
Perforce Software, a global leader in enterprise DevOps and AI innovations, is releasing Delphix Compliance Services, a data compliance product built in collaboration with Microsoft that offers automated AI and analytics data compliance—supporting more than 170 data sources and natively integrated into Microsoft Fabric pipelines.
Posted April 07, 2025
Immuta, the leader in data access and provisioning, is unveiling a series of new updates to its Data Marketplace solution, These new enhancements tackle the challenges of modern business and AI, aiming to alleviate the various burdens of data—from its growing volume to risk, access, provisioning, sharing, and more—and accelerate business impact.
Posted April 07, 2025
Zuken Inc. announced an agreement with IBM to join the IBM Research AI Hardware Center as a commercial member to further support development for next-generation chips.
Posted April 07, 2025
Backblaze, Inc., the cloud storage innovator offering a modern alternative to traditional cloud providers, is announcing a partnership with PureNodal, a next-generation cloud platform purpose-built for AI and high-performance compute (HPC) workloads, centered around bringing a high-performance, cost-effective solution for enterprise-scale workloads to market.
Posted April 02, 2025
CloudBolt Software, The Cloud ROI Company and a recognized leader in cloud cost management, is acquiring StormForge, a pioneer in machine learning-powered Kubernetes resource optimization, enabling CloudBolt to fully integrate StormForge's patent-pending machine learning capabilities into its FinOps platform to create an advanced Kubernetes cost management solution.
Posted April 02, 2025
Quest Software, a global leader in data, cybersecurity, and migration software, is making major enhancements to its database management tools, Toad Data Studio 2.0 and Toad Data Point 6.4—introducing AI-powered features, expanded database connectivity, and greater accessibility.
Posted April 02, 2025
Oracle and NVIDIA are announcing a first-of-its-kind integration between NVIDIA accelerated computing and inference software with Oracle's AI infrastructure and generative AI services, making over 160 AI tools and 100-plus NVIDIA NIM microservices available natively through the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) console.
Posted April 02, 2025
Datadobi, a global leader in vendor-neutral unstructured data management, is releasing the next version of its software platform, StorageMAP 7.2—introducing new metadata insights and expanded data reporting.
Posted March 27, 2025
Qdrant, the high-performance, open source vector database, is unveiling new capabilities for Qdrant Cloud that address various operational bottlenecks associated with powering large-scale AI deployments.
Posted March 27, 2025
OneTrust, the market-defining platform helping organizations use data and AI responsibly, is unveiling the Privacy Breach Response Agent, an agent-based solution for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of incident response.
Posted March 26, 2025
SAP is launching new generative AI innovations and expanding its partnership with American Express. The announcements were made at SAP Concur Fusion, the flagship conference for SAP Concur solutions users and experts. SAP is embedding its generative AI copilot Joule into SAP Concur solutions, bringing the portfolio one step closer toward a fully automated travel and expense management process.
Posted March 26, 2025
DataRobot, the provider of AI that makes business sense, is introducing AI application suites for finance and supply chain operations with SAP, built to seamlessly integrate AI into customer environments and business processes. According to DataRobot, the new AI suites enable AI teams to rapidly implement AI, securely utilize business data, and accelerate the delivery of AI solutions where and how business users need to work.
Posted March 26, 2025
Entrinsik, a leader in business intelligence and data analytics solutions, is officially releasing Informer 2025.1.0, delivering expanded access to AI-powered tools and new features designed to simplify data analysis. With usage-based AI licensing, Magic Visual for instant visualizations, and enhanced Libraries Integration, organizations can streamline workflows, reduce complexity, and make smarter decisions faster, according to the company.
Posted March 26, 2025
In DBTA's latest webinar, Harnessing AI for IoT: Strategies and Technologies for Data Empowerment, experts explored key strategies and technologies that can empower enterprises to take control of their IoT systems with AI.
Posted March 25, 2025
Informatica experts joined DBTA's latest webinar, Drive Seamless App Modernization & AI Integration with iPaaS, to uncover crucial strategies for large-scale app modernization initiatives, examining digital transformation's various nuances.
Posted March 24, 2025
IBM is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to offer planned new integrations based on the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design. The move is aimed at helping enterprises more effectively put their data to work to help build, scale, and manage generative AI workloads and agentic AI applications.
Posted March 24, 2025
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and IBM are expanding their collaboration to drive enterprise-grade generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across edge and cloud devices designed to enable increased immediacy, privacy, reliability, personalization, and reduced cost and energy consumption.
Posted March 24, 2025
Experts joined DBTA's latest webinar, Mitigating AI Risks: Governance, Security and Compliance Strategies, to examine how the right mix of governance, security, and compliance technologies and best practices can ensure AI success.
Posted March 21, 2025
ScaleOut Software is adding generative AI and machine-learning (ML) powered enhancements to its ScaleOut Digital Twins cloud service and on-premises hosting platform with the release of Version 4. This latest release introduces generative AI integration through OpenAI's large language model, significantly expanding the ability of digital twins to analyze data, detect anomalies, and provide real-time insights when monitoring complex live systems.
Posted March 20, 2025
LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based platform for AI-powered data center transformation, is unveiling new AI enhancements designed to empower IT teams with full visibility into AI workloads and applications underpinned by high performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
Posted March 19, 2025
VAST Data, the AI data platform company, is debuting the VAST InsightEngine with a NVIDIA DGX integration, aiming to eliminate common AI infrastructure bottlenecks while deploying high-performance AI at scale, with simplicity.
Posted March 19, 2025
Oracle announced plans to invest $5 billion over the next five years to meet growing demand for its cloud services in the U.K. The company said the investment will expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) footprint in the U.K. and help the U.K. Government "deliver on its vision for AI innovation and adoption."
Posted March 19, 2025
Parallel Works, provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for AI and HPC resources, is debuting a new OpenStack integration for its ACTIVATE platform, further unlocking new levels of efficiency, cost savings, and resource optimization for the cloud, centered around simplicity.
Posted March 18, 2025
Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, is offering an integration with Microsoft's services that will render cloud-based access to Pasqal's technology—enabling customers of the Microsoft Azure Quantum cloud service to leverage Pasqal's quantum computer, which uses neutral-atom technology and offers a range of analog quantum computational capabilities to solve complex computing issues.
Posted March 18, 2025