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Big Data

The well-known three Vs of Big Data - Volume, Variety, and Velocity – are increasingly placing pressure on organizations that need to manage this data as well as extract value from this data deluge for Predictive Analytics and Decision-Making. Big Data technologies, services, and tools such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive and NoSQL/NewSQL databases and Data Integration techniques, In-Memory approaches, and Cloud technologies have emerged to help meet the challenges posed by the flood of Web, Social Media, Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) data flowing into organizations.



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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

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

Aerospike is introducing Aerospike Graph Service (AGS) 2.5.0, supporting strong consistency (SC) in graph workloads to enable guaranteed atomicity and isolation for real-time graph updates.

Posted April 11, 2025

Portnox, a leading provider of cloud-native, zero-trust access control solutions, announced it has closed a $37.5 million Series B funding round, enabling the company to accelerate product innovation, expand market reach, and further empower resource-constrained security teams with accessible, enterprise-grade zero trust security.

Posted April 10, 2025

The truth about cybersecurity is that it's almost impossible to keep hackers outside of an organization, particularly as the cybercrime industry becomes increasingly sophisticated and technologically more advanced. Furthermore, once a hacker has broken through an organization's defenses, it is relatively easy to move within the network and access information without being detected for days, even months.

Posted April 10, 2025

Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with trying to save space. Instead, the desire is to prevent maintenance anomalies. The normalization process involves stepping through the evaluation of normal forms that decompose a data structure into multiple structures based on the needs of these normal forms.

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

For organizations that are always trying to leverage the latest technology to gain an edge over their competitors, utilizing public cloud computing is at the top of the list for most decision makers. The scalability and cost-effectiveness, along with businesses not needing to invest in traditional infrastructure and having it managed by a third party, offer myriad benefits for companies in all industries.

Posted April 10, 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

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

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

HighByte, an industrial software company, is collaborating with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) to improve the accessibility and usage of operational technology (OT) data in the cloud.

Posted April 07, 2025

Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, is releasing new capabilities and enhancements for Red Hat Developer Hub, Red Hat's enterprise-grade internal developer portal based on the Backstage project. The new features, delivered with the general availability of Red Hat Developer Hub 1.5, are designed to accelerate adoption across organizations and deliver a more customized experience to further increase developer productivity and efficiency.

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

IBM announced it is adding IBM Storage Ceph as a Service to its emerging portfolio of flexible as a service solutions for on-premises infrastructure. The portfolio includes IBM Power delivered as a service, which already offers the distributed compute platform in new form factors and flexible consumption options.

Posted April 07, 2025

Precisely, a global data integrity provider, announced it is acquiring DTS Software, a global mainframe storage optimization software provider, underscoring Precisely's commitment to delivering innovative, end-to-end solutions for optimizing the integrity and value of enterprise data, whether it resides in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.

Posted April 07, 2025

Harper, bringing next-level web performance to a digital-first world, is releasing version 4.5 of its global application delivery platform, including several new features for building, scaling, and running high-performance data-intensive workloads, providing the addition of Binary Large Object (Blob) storage for the efficient handling of unstructured, media-rich data, i.e., images, real-time videos, and rendered HTML.

Posted April 04, 2025

Splunk, the cybersecurity and observability leader, is introducing new innovations that deliver a seamless OpenTelemetry experience, providing organizations with flexibility, customization, and freedom from vendor lock-in with no manual setup.

Posted April 04, 2025

IGEL, a global leader in secure endpoint OS solutions for the modern enterprise, is adding over 20 bold new innovations to its portfolio—accelerating its vision for secure, sustainable, and Zero Trust-ready endpoint computing.

Posted April 03, 2025

ControlMonkey is introducing its Automated Disaster Recovery solution, furthering extending its technology leadership in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation and cloud governance.

Posted April 03, 2025

Tigera, the creator of Project Calico, a widely adopted container networking and security solution, is adding new functionality to Calico Open Source with the release of Calico OSS 3.30—enhancing the observability, security, and scalability of Kubernetes deployments for all enterprises leveraging the solution.

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

In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape, strategic financial planning must be closely interlinked with infrastructure efficiency. As per Gartner's forecast, global IT spending is expected to rise by over 8%, fueled by enterprise adoption of cloud, AI, automation, and cybersecurity technologies. With budget planning cycles on the horizon, organizations must not only assess where to invest—but also how to eliminate inefficiencies. This is where Oracle rightsizing becomes critical.

Posted April 02, 2025

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure—eliminating the need to provision dedicated database and storage servers. The move also gives customers the performance, reliability, and availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service with lower minimum infrastructure costs.

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

Even when we try to discuss a nameless thing, we apply a pseudo-name to allow us to articulate our thoughts. The "pink place," "the big, big road," "the evil-looking tree" …. To discuss a thing, it must have an identity. A name supplies an identity for a thing. Once named, we may now speak of it. The bedrock of any good set of standards starts with names. Regardless of the role we may play in managing technological solutions, everything needs a name because everything will be discussed.

Posted April 02, 2025

Percona, a global leader in enterprise-grade open source database software and services, announced that Percona Everest now supports deployment on Red Hat OpenShift, enabling users to implement any type of database in any location—from on-premise data center environments through to public cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.

Posted April 01, 2025

ControlTheory, controllability for observability, is emerging from stealth, announcing it has raised $5 million in seed funding to support the launch of its Observability Control Platform that enables technology leaders to regain control of their observability through cost control, operational control, and adaptive control.

Posted April 01, 2025

CData Software, a leading provider of data connectivity solutions, is releasing its Microsoft Fabric Integration Accelerator, a comprehensive set of connectivity solutions designed to dramatically simplify and accelerate the integration between Microsoft Fabric and external data sources. The announcement was made at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference.

Posted March 31, 2025

Diversified, a leading global technology solutions provider, is introducing Atlas Orchestrate, a breakthrough platform that eliminates the complexity of cloud deployment by enabling organizations to set up cloud environments and software packages.

Posted March 28, 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

Nasuni, a leading unified file data platform for hybrid cloud environments, is offering a new integration with the industry-leading CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform—delivering real-time threat detection and enhanced data recovery.

Posted March 27, 2025

Druva, a leading provider of data security, is forming a strategic relationship with Microsoft to help enterprises protect and secure their data against evolving cyberthreats. According to the companies, Druva and Microsoft will empower customers with cloud-native and hybrid data protection, integrated with Microsoft Azure cloud services.

Posted March 27, 2025

CloudCasa by Catalogic, a leader in Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery, is providing an integration with SUSE Rancher Prime via a new Rancher Prime Extension, delivering stress-free infrastructure to securely deploy, run, and manage modern workloads anywhere.

Posted March 27, 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

SER Group, a leading provider of Intelligent Content Automation solutions, is acquiring AFI Solutions, a specialist in the digitalization and optimization of document-centric processes in SAP. With this acquisition, SER will leverage AFI Solutions' SAP offering for purchase-to-pay (P2P) and order-to-cash (O2C) processes and launch a new global SAP Center of Excellence with AFI's highly experienced team, including over 100 SAP product and field experts, to provide even wider support to its SAP customers.

Posted March 26, 2025

Data lakes and data warehouses are achieving a measure of success in modern data architectures, but the emergence of the data lakehouse offers new challenges and opportunities for database administrators (DBAs). What are the implications for DBAs and their careers? How do their roles evolve as data lakehouse usage expands? Let's examine the concepts, challenges, and opportunities for DBAs in the era of the data lakehouse.

Posted March 26, 2025

Rocket Software announced it has moved its UniData-based app, Rocket Business Connect (RBC) to AWS. To further improve RBC's disaster recovery plan, the Rocket team decided to transition RBC to AWS. Being in the AWS cloud gives Rocket the ability to automatically fail over within a region. The company can also manually failover across regions with only minor configuration changes.

Posted March 26, 2025

RDM Infinity's Brandon Robinson recently shared some tips to migrate to MVsharp after Rocket Software discontinued updates to its D3 MultiValue solution. According to Robinson, D3 10.4 is the last planned release. While Rocket has committed to maintaining it with security updates for now, long-term development appears to be slowing, and the company is encouraging users to transition to jBASE or UniVerse.

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

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

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