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Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, is partnering with Opendatasoft, a leading data marketplace solution provider, to deliver an integrated data marketplace designed to simplify access to trusted, AI-ready data across businesses and teams. Many organizations still struggle to deliver up-to-date, reliable data to users across their business who need it for critical decision-making. Even with solid data investments, datasets can remain siloed across disparate systems, hard to find, and even harder to verify, according to Precisely.

Posted August 20, 2025

DTEX, a trusted leader in insider risk management, is introducing DTEX's Risk-Adaptive Data Loss Prevention (DLP), a dynamic DLP solution powered by the company's advanced AI platform, built on industry-leading behavioral research—including the MITRE Inside-R Protect collaborative research partnership—to deliver continuous visibility, context, and early detection of emerging risks.

Posted August 20, 2025

In business, data is often treated like the holy grail: ask a question, get an answer, make a decision. It sounds simple, but slow down and think about this for a moment. Before placing your trust in any person, platform, or model claiming to have all the answers, consider this: Do you really have all the data? And more importantly, can you trust it?

Posted August 20, 2025

Because understanding and implementing AI is so critical, Oracle is announcing AI has become the central focus of its annual global customer and partner event, formerly known as Oracle CloudWorld—now being called Oracle AI World. The new name emphasizes Oracle's commitment to helping customers and partners take advantage of the latest AI innovations to move faster, reduce costs, make more-informed decisions, and build smarter businesses.

Posted August 20, 2025

Oracle is deploying OpenAI GPT-5 across its database portfolio and suite of SaaS applications, including Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle NetSuite, and Oracle Industry Applications, such as Oracle Health. By uniting trusted business data with frontier AI, Oracle is enabling customers to natively leverage sophisticated coding and reasoning capabilities in their business-critical workflows, the company said.

Posted August 20, 2025

Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale Infrastructure, designed to simplify the deployment of distributed mission-critical applications across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions worldwide.

Posted August 20, 2025

The role of the Database Administrator (DBA) has always been dynamic, evolving alongside shifts in technology, data strategies, and business needs. But in 2025, the DBA's responsibilities are transforming at an unprecedented pace. No longer just the custodian of databases, today's DBA must be a data strategist, an automation expert, a cloud integrator, and even a business enabler.

Posted August 20, 2025

lakeFS, a leading "git-for-data" version control system for enterprise data and AI initiatives, announced it has raised $20 million in a growth funding round, enabling the company to accelerate its expansion supporting data engineering, AI, and ML projects in the enterprise and public sector markets.

Posted August 19, 2025

MAGIC Research, a collaborative research program, virtual incubator, and service center for artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced technologies, is introducing a white-labeled, enterprise-ready generative AI platform to give organizations complete control over their data, infrastructure, and brand identity.

Posted August 19, 2025

Forward Networks, an industry-leading network digital twin platform, announced that it has joined the Infoblox Technology Alliance Partner Program, now offering a certified integration with Infoblox NIOS DDI to enrich IP Address Management (IPAM) through automated, verified network data synchronization.

Posted August 18, 2025

Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, is introducing significant enhancements to the FortiRecon platform, making it a comprehensive solution aligned to the continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) framework.

Posted August 18, 2025

BMC is releasing a variety of updates driven by the need for IT and operations teams to achieve new levels of efficiency, accelerate responses, and improve business uptime. The BMC Helix AIOps 25.3 release builds on the company's vision for accelerating productivity in IT operations (ITOps) with AI-driven detection and response capabilities.

Posted August 18, 2025

1Kosmos, a leader in unifying identity proofing and passwordless authentication, announced it has raised $57 million in Series B funding, including a $10 million line of credit from Bridge Bank—enabling the company to meet the escalating demand for identity-first security from enterprises amid rising impersonation threats.

Posted August 15, 2025

ScienceLogic, a leader in intelligent automation and observability, is rolling out a series of updates to its solution suite, adding new capabilities to the ScienceLogic AI Platform and Skylar AI Suite that redefine automation, observability, secure government operations, and low-code development.

Posted August 15, 2025

Lumen Technologies announced it has exceeded 1,000 customers on its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform, a major milestone in the shift toward faster and smarter enterprise connectivity as businesses embrace AI to transform operations.

Posted August 15, 2025

Platform9, the enterprise private cloud company, announced that its newest release of Private Cloud Director adds new AI hardware support and feature integration to address top IT requirements for modern cloud to edge application management.

Posted August 14, 2025

Rubrik, Inc., the Security and AI company, is launching Agent Rewind, powered by Predibase AI infrastructure, to empower organizations to undo mistakes made by agentic AI. This release follows the closing of Rubrik's acquisition of Predibase and provides visibility into agents' actions and enabling enterprises to rewind those changes to applications and data.

Posted August 14, 2025

This summer, I traveled to Bordeaux to explore French wine straight from the source. Coming from the tech world—with limited knowledge of the region (Left Bank? Right Bank? I barely knew the difference)—I was eager to understand what makes Bordeaux wines so revered worldwide. One concept I kept hearing about was "terroir," a uniquely French term that refers to the combination of soil, climate, terrain, and even local traditions that give each vineyard its distinct character. I was curious to see how this intricate relationship between nature and human touch shapes the wines and how, in today's high-tech age, tradition and innovation intersect in Bordeaux.

Posted August 14, 2025

Junk dimensions are often misunderstood and avoided. And they should not be. Junk dimensions offer a strategy to remain true to dimensional intentions and to better focus one's design and sometimes provide new insights into your data. The junk dimension is a collection of data items that may not relate to each other at all, although all relate to the fact at hand.

Posted August 14, 2025

Organizations consistently struggle to manage what are known as "long-tail" data connectors. These are connectors that are less used and not available on many legacy data integration platforms. As a result, often organizations have had to build their own custom pipelines and, worse yet, maintain and rebuild those as data sources changed over time as requirements evolved.

Posted August 14, 2025

If you've worked in any data-centric role, you've probably experienced the effects of the proverbial "mandate from on high." Someone in the C-suite decides it's time to hop on the latest shift in the tech landscape—whether generative AI, hybrid cloud infrastructure, or remote work—and now it's time for the entire tech department to make it happen.

Posted August 14, 2025

Picus Security, a leading security validation company, is partnering with ThreatConnect to offer its Risk Quantification Module, aiming to deliver a transparent, validation-first approach to cyber risk measurement. At the heart of this new module is ThreatConnect's Risk Quantifier (RQ), which powers the financial modeling engine behind Picus' real-time risk insights.

Posted August 13, 2025

CyberHeed, the company redefining cybersecurity compliance with agentic AI, is introducing powerful new AI capabilities that reduce cybersecurity compliance workloads—designed to streamline critical tasks from documentation to evidence and actionable insights, the company's new AI system transforms how organizations manage Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) processes.

Posted August 13, 2025

Codien is introducing its new AI agent designed to simplify and accelerate the transition from legacy test automation frameworks, such as Protractor and Selenium, to the modern Playwright framework. Developed by the team at Cognida.ai, Codien also streamlines the creation of new Playwright tests using natural language, according to the company.

Posted August 12, 2025

Cribl, the Data Engine for IT and Security, is offering FinOps Center, a new capability in Cribl.Cloud that brings enterprises a clear, unified view of how data flows through their systems, what it costs, and what it's worth.

Posted August 11, 2025

Apiiro, a leading Agentic Application Security Platform, is introducing the AutoFix Agent,  an AI Agent for AppSec that auto-fixes design and code risks using runtime context tailored to your environment. The agent operates natively in developers' integrated development environments (IDEs), agnostic to IDE via a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) connection, the company said.

Posted August 11, 2025

SpyCloud, a leader in identity threat protection, is making enhancements to its SaaS Investigations solution, introducing the integration of advanced AI-powered insights that mirror the tradecraft of SpyCloud's seasoned investigators.

Posted August 11, 2025

Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, is announcing that its latest iteration of Cloudera Data Services delivers private AI to on-prem environments.

Posted August 11, 2025

IBM is releasing its annual "Cost of a Data Breach Report," revealing AI adoption is greatly outpacing AI security and governance. While the overall number of organizations experiencing an AI-related breach is a small representation of the researched population, this is the first time security, governance, and access controls for AI have been studied in this report, which suggests AI is already an easy, high value target.

Posted August 11, 2025

Datavault AI Inc., a leader in AI data experience, announced the expanded commercialization of its flagship AI agents—DataScore and DataValue—built with IBM watsonx.ai. IBM has also committed AI engineering talent and deep technical expertise over multiple years to help Datavault expand and accelerate the impact of its offerings for clients.

Posted August 11, 2025

Intruder, a leader in attack surface management, is releasing Autoswagger—a free, open-source tool that scans OpenAPI-documented APIs for broken authorization vulnerabilities. According to the company, Autoswagger automatically detects authorization weaknesses in APIs and discovers sensitive endpoints not requiring authentication where the application fails to check for a valid API token.

Posted August 08, 2025

Tessell, the multi-cloud database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform, announced that it has successfully achieved Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) version 4.1 certification, the most rigorous standard for securing cardholder data globally.

Posted August 08, 2025

ThreatLocker, a leader in endpoint security and Zero Trust solutions, is rolling out a new feature for ThreatLocker customers, Defense Against Configurations (DAC)—giving IT and security teams a comprehensive, real-time view of vulnerabilities in their environment.    

Posted August 07, 2025

NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, announced that Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now a supported external storage option for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Posted August 07, 2025

Redpanda, the real-time data platform that powers agentic and operational applications, is introducing Redpanda 25.2, simplifying Iceberg adoption for enterprise users and including support for Databricks Unity Catalog—allowing enterprise customers to turn streaming event data into queryable Iceberg tables in Databricks.

Posted August 07, 2025

The amount of data and its complexity has been growing at a rapid clip and shows no sign of stopping. To contain this data, organizations have been introducing different types of database platforms alongside relational solutions. To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers!

Posted August 06, 2025

Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, is announcing an expanded collaboration with HPE that enables greater adoption of HPE Private Cloud AI—a turnkey AI factory for private cloud designed to accelerate AI journeys, co-developed with NVIDIA.

Posted August 06, 2025

FluidCloud, a pioneer in portable cloud infrastructure, is emerging from stealth with $8.1 million in seed funding, introducing its platform designed to help enterprises break free from vendor lock-in with infrastructure that's portable in minutes, fully visible and resilient by design.

Posted August 06, 2025

Calero, a leading provider of Technology Business Management solutions, is introducing a new SaaS Management offering designed to meet the urgent needs of today's organizations—providing solutions for visibility, control, and optimization. Whether organizations need visibility, control, or optimization, the Calero SMP offering provides a proven, cost-effective solution from a company with staying power and a three-decade history of success, the company said.

Posted August 06, 2025

Foundry is rebranding itself as Mithril, reflecting its mission to simplify access to distributed AI compute. According to the company, "the Mithril brand embodies the platform's mission: transforming powerful but traditionally rigid AI infrastructure into a fluid, universally accessible resource for AI practitioners."

Posted August 06, 2025

Many organizations struggle balancing budget constraints with managing essential resources and server maintenance. One option for minimizing waste and cutting costs is AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers, executing code in response to events, and automatically managing the underlying compute resources. 

Posted August 06, 2025

Oracle announced it evaluated MCP and has integrated it into its core developer tools, making the Oracle Database immediately available on any platform supporting MCP. This integration is made available via our modern command line to the Oracle Database, Oracle SQLcl.

Posted August 06, 2025

Veza, the identity security company, is introducing Veza for Oracle Applications, a new offering to unify and secure access governance across complex Oracle environments, including Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (JDE), Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, and Oracle Databases. The platform aims to address long-standing gaps in Oracle access governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), Veza said.

Posted August 06, 2025

Bloom Energy, a global leader in power solutions, announced that it will deploy its fuel cell technology at select Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers in the U.S. to support the growing demand for OCI's AI and cloud computing services. Bloom Energy will deliver highly reliable and cost-efficient onsite power for an entire data center within 90 days, according to the vendor.

Posted August 06, 2025

Indexes are fundamental to database performance, but too often, they're treated as "set it and forget it" structures. As the data landscape evolves—with hybrid cloud deployments, real-time analytics, and machine learning workloads—so too must our approach to indexing.

Posted August 06, 2025

Rapid7, Inc., a leader in threat detection and exposure management, is launching Incident Command, a new next-gen SIEM extending the capabilities of its Command Platform, purpose-built to transform how security teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats.

Posted August 05, 2025

Qbeast, the next-generation data optimization platform, announced it secured $7.6 million in a recent seed round, enabling the company to expand its team, broaden product support across more analytics use cases, and double down on the company's mission to make open data platforms faster, simpler, and more cost-efficient.

Posted August 05, 2025

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