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The World Economic Forum has made a bold statement: We are in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and this revolution is more challenging than any before it. What makes it so difficult? This new era is defined by technologies we can't see, touch, or fully understand. From AI to big data and augmented reality, these innovations are transforming every aspect of our lives at a pace that many believe humanity simply can't keep up with.
Posted February 13, 2025
All of the hype and high hopes around AI in recent years has focused on compelling use cases—from creating new medicines to taking over customer service. However, all AI efforts will be nonstarters without well-governed, well-sourced data. That is the leading challenge for enterprises going forward in the competitive economy of 2025.
Posted February 13, 2025
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a go-to architecture for companies using generative AI (GenAI). Enterprises adopt RAG to enrich large language models (LLMs) with proprietary corporate data so LLMs have the data they need, but weren't trained on, to answer questions.
Posted February 13, 2025
The "data deluge" is as familiar to IT professionals as it is cliché, but what we are encountering today is very different. Will our typical response be enough? Often hyped, the data deluge has been an omnipresent theme in IT circles for years as enterprises struggled to manage an ever-increasing barrage of data.
Posted February 13, 2025
AI and generative AI (GenAI) cannot function—let alone deliver trustworthy analysis—without well-vetted, quality data. Data executives across many leading organizations recognize that data has become the Achilles' heel of AI. Yet, as far as they are concerned, AI is too important to pass up, and it's still full speed ahead for AI and GenAI investments—despite near-term headwinds incurred by any lack of readiness of organizations' data infrastructure and assets.
Posted February 13, 2025
In the thick of the 2020s now, organizations are entering a new tech era, one dominated around conversations declaring, "What AI can do for your enterprise!" As 2025 begins, DBTA presents the annual MultiValue (MV) Special Report and asks MV executives to address several questions.
Posted February 13, 2025
The role of the Database Administrator (DBA) is constantly evolving to adapt to changes in technology and application development methods. Once primarily focused on managing physical hardware and software, DBAs now find themselves navigating a complex landscape of cloud technologies, AI-driven automation, and ever-increasing data volumes. Here at the beginning of 2025, let's explore the top five concerns that keep DBAs up at night.
Posted February 13, 2025
Normalization clusters data items together based on functional dependencies within the data items. This normalized arrangement expresses the semantics of the business items being presented. Denormalization means that, for some reason, grouping the data strictly by functional dependencies has been ignored. Why might one cast aside reasonable designs for something less rational? There are many reasons for denormalizing.
Posted February 13, 2025
Since the term's inception in the late 2000s, "DevOps" is by far the most common approach to product development. During the last 15 years, DevOps processes have evolved to new speeds and scales, with the latest iteration including AI-assisted coding and platform engineering. Simultaneously, certain companies are struggling to master database operations. As a result, many organizations have data that sits in silos and/or can be hard to track down. What today's businesses need is a way to combine DevOps and data management, ultimately creating a Database DevOps framework.
Posted February 13, 2025
Rocket Software announced the latest enhancements to the Rocket U2 System Builder Extensible Architecture version 6.6.2. This release brings a host of improvements and fixes that enhance the functionality and reliability of the platform.
Posted February 13, 2025
LicenseFortress, a leading software asset management (SAM) solution provider, announced that the company has won the Best of IT Services Award for providing superior service to their clients.
Posted February 12, 2025
Percona, a global leader in enterprise-grade open source database software and services, is releasing Percona Support for Valkey—a comprehensive, responsive, and flexible service offering that promises to maintain reliable, optimized Valkey deployments whether on-premises, hybrid, or in the cloud.
Posted February 11, 2025
Qualys, Inc., a leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, is introducing the Managed Risk Operations Center (mROC) Partner Alliance, allowing select Qualys partners to expand their revenue streams by offering advisory, onboarding, integration, and remediation through a unified managed service to help their clients identify, quantify, assess, and mitigate cyber risks.
Posted February 11, 2025
Satori, an industry-leading data security platform, is unveiling its new capabilities that enable security teams to control of all customer data across the development lifecycle in a simple, cost-effective, and holistic way—automating the daunting tasks of discovering data, risk assessment, providing granular access control, and mitigating security risks quickly across cloud platforms like AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and MongoDB.
Posted February 10, 2025
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Top Trends in Data Engineering for 2025, to explore the new trends and best practices shaping the future of engineering, from AI-driven tools to real-time data processing, new data architecture patterns, and more.
Posted February 10, 2025
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is introducing a new co-engineered solution with Cisco designed for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes.
Posted February 10, 2025
Mainframes are ubiquitous. They handle critical applications for top airlines, retailers, banks, and government agencies. In a recent blog post, by Greg Lotko at Broadcom, SHARE offers 5 reasons why the mainframe is more relevant than ever. Those peer-to-peer payments you make from your phone? Mainframe. All those lines you avoided by shopping online this holiday? Mainframe. Those flights you booked for spring break? Mainframe. Even your government services are likely to have mainframes behind the scenes doing the heavy lifting. It's all mainframe.
Posted February 10, 2025
Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and storage solutions, is unveiling the Spectra OSW-2400 Optical SAS Switch, a groundbreaking innovation in data center tape storage connectivity. Using active optical cables, the OSW-2400 switch enables connection distances up to 100 meters, enabling SAS fabrics to cover data center floor spaces up to 10,000 m2 (107,639 sq ft), connect between building floors, or extend to nearby buildings, increasing deployment flexibility and simplifying connectivity between servers and tape storage systems.
Posted February 10, 2025
Emerald, a global venture capital leader in industrial innovation, is investing in NLM Photonics to help bring energy-efficient, high performance electro-optic modulation technology to AI, data centers, quantum computing, and more. NLM, a semiconductor technology company, has developed breakthrough hybrid electro-optic photonic modulators that can enable up to a 30% reduction in data center network power consumption.
Posted February 10, 2025
IBM announced its intent to acquire Applications Software Technology LLC, a global Oracle consultancy—which would bring deep expertise driving business transformations with Oracle Cloud Applications, including for clients in the public sector such as local government and K-12 education.
Posted February 10, 2025
BMC is releasing a variety of updates to the BMC AMI portfolio, breaking new ground in enabling what is possible on the mainframe from a new approach to secondary data storage to the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances productivity and efficiency.
Posted February 10, 2025
Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It's had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English Language in the mid-1970s. It's survived and thrived through the dot-com era and the proliferation of cloud technology. In essence, SQL is a technology that evolves.
Posted February 10, 2025
SolarWinds Corporation, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Turn/River Capital in an all-cash transaction for $18.50 per share or approximately $4.4 billion.
Posted February 07, 2025
Submissions for nominations are now open 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 users. The nominations period is open and extended through March 21, 2025, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted February 07, 2025
Quest Software, a global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, data management, and migration, is offering the next iteration of Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and disaster recovery to challenge outdated models and set new standards for proactive defense and rapid recovery.
Posted February 06, 2025
Appfire, the leading global provider of software that enhances, extends, and connects the world's leading platforms, is acquiring Flow, a market-leading enterprise software product for Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI), from Pluralsight.
Posted February 06, 2025
Dynatrace, a leading AI-powered observability platform, is expanding its powerful AI engine, Davis AI, to move enterprises beyond reactive AIOps to true preventive operations. According to the company, these enhanced capabilities enable organizations to predict and prevent potential incidents before they occur through AI-driven automation, while accelerating problem investigation and enhancing automated remediation when issues do arise.
Posted February 05, 2025
SpyCloud, a leading identity threat protection company, is adding key innovations to its portfolio, accelerating the shift to holistic identity threat protection. According to the company, by operationalizing its vast collection of darknet data with automated identity analytics that correlate malware, phishing, and breach exposures across individuals' past and present work and personal personas, SpyCloud enables security and fraud prevention teams to comprehensively uncover hidden identity assets, rapidly remediate exposures, and better protect their businesses from previously unseen threats.
Posted February 05, 2025
Nowadays, organizations need to migrate and move data from the Oracle database to various data lakes, such as Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. These data lakes are used in data analytics and by data scientists which help organizations to process vast amounts of data in real time or batch, derive insights, and make data-driven decisions.
Posted February 05, 2025
Oracle is using connectivity from Starlink, a satellite constellation using a low Earth orbit to deliver broadband internet, to enable high-speed communications for the Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP).
Posted February 05, 2025
Oracle is offering new AI-powered logistics and order management capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) to help organizations increase the efficiency and sustainability of global supply chains.
Posted February 05, 2025
Oracle and Google Cloud announced plans to add eight new regions, as well as powerful new capabilities for Oracle Database@Google Cloud that will help customers fortify database instances, optimize costs, and achieve greater flexibility and resiliency.
Posted February 05, 2025
A surrogate is, "One appointed to act in place of another." A surrogate key is appointed to act in place of a natural key. Why? Well, one could argue that surrogate keys existed since the beginning of the computer. As the computer uses internal addresses for finding everything, and in the early days that usage had to be explicitly managed by those programming. It wasn't until relational theory came along that the concept of using data values as identifiers arose and were functionally implemented.
Posted February 05, 2025
GridGain, provider of a leading real-time data processing and analytics platform, is introducing GridGain for AI, enabling organizations to use GridGain as a low-latency data store for real-time AI workloads.
Posted February 04, 2025
DTEX Systems, a trusted leader of insider risk management, announced that it is an official member of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative hosted by The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source.
Posted February 03, 2025
Perforce Software, a DevOps company for global teams requiring speed, quality, security, and compliance at scale along the development life cycle, is introducing AI Validation, a new capability within its Perfecto continuous testing platform for web and mobile applications that will change the way organizations experience testing.
Posted February 03, 2025
Seraphic Security, a leader in enterprise browser security, announced it has secured $29 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the organization to accelerate its product roadmap and market expansion in North America and EMEA.
Posted January 31, 2025
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is releasing the latest version of MicroStrategy ONE, helping enterprises gain rapid value from generative AI (GenAI) by personalizing the AI experience. According to the company, MicroStrategy's Auto AI bot delivers a human-like conversational experience for users interacting with data.
Posted January 31, 2025
Oasis Security, a leader in Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM), is unveiling Oasis Scout, an Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) solution designed specifically for NHIs, integrated with proprietary AuthPrint technology. Available with Oasis NHI Security Cloud, Oasis Scout delivers a high-fidelity threat detection and response capability for NHIs with attacker recognition powered by AuthPrint.
Posted January 30, 2025
Swimlane, AI hyperautomation for the entire security organization, is offering a Vulnerability Response Management (VRM) Solution that extends beyond siloed vulnerability management by offering risk-based prioritization, exploit intelligence, and recommended remediation workflows.
Posted January 30, 2025
Orchid Security, an emerging leader in identity-first security orchestration, announced it has raised $36 million in seed funding, enabling the company to continue its work using Large Language Models (LLMs) to address the longstanding challenge of managing fragmented identity systems in large enterprises.
Posted January 30, 2025
Thoras.ai announced the successful closure of a $5 million seed funding round, enabling the company to scale its AI-driven platform to redefine how enterprises achieve reliability, uncover root causes, and prevent costly downtime—offering a bold new vision for scalable, adaptive observability.
Posted January 30, 2025
AppOmni, a leader in SaaS security, announced new policy compliance checks to help U.S. Federal Government agencies comply with the mandate from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA's) Binding Operational Directive, or BOD 25-01, to secure cloud applications.
Posted January 30, 2025
Throughout 2024, data managers and professionals were at the locus of the new waves of innovation driven by AI and analytics—and the activity was frenetic and intense. As the year 2025 progresses, this intense and frenetic activity will only continue. Cloud services, AI, AI agents, and cybersecurity are top areas of interest that industry leaders are watching. The following are several prominent trends mentioned that are shaping data management.
Posted January 30, 2025
Bluwhale, an AI Web3 start-up, announced that it has topped its funding to $100 million, enabling the company to further expand its Web3 intelligence layer across multiple L1 and L2 blockchains. This total amount of funding includes its Seed/Series A round as well as a $75 million token purchase commitment, grants, and node sale proceeds.
Posted January 29, 2025
Abstract Security announced it has added Google Cloud Marketplace to support comprehensive multi-cloud security data operations. This move is in addition to the support it already offers for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
Posted January 29, 2025
Leostream Corporation is unveiling Leostream Privileged Remote Access, a new service for managing and securing enterprise resources accessed by third-parties, including external contractors, service providers, and other non-employees.
Posted January 28, 2025
NinjaOne, the automated endpoint management platform, is on track to acquire Dropsuite, a leader in cloud data backup, archiving, and recovery solutions for a total transaction value of approximately $252 million.
Posted January 28, 2025
Atomicwork, a leading innovator in agentic service management solutions for enterprise IT, is announcing the completion of its Series A funding round, having raised $25 million.
Posted January 28, 2025