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Mainframes continue to represent the strong core of Data Center technology, while Virtualization and Cloud are also emerging as important technologies to support efficiency, scalability, and cost containment. Topics critical to Data Center Operations and Computing including hardware and software for Storage, Consolidation, High Availability, Backup & Recovery, and IT Optimization, as well as automated tools that help compensate for the growing Mainframe Skills Shortage.



Data Center Management Articles

NS1, a provider of authoritative DNS solutions, is releasing DNS Insights, a DNS observability solution that unlocks improved reliability, real-time analysis, and cost control by collecting DNS and network metrics at the edge to empower networking professionals as they troubleshoot and optimize infrastructure at scale.

Posted January 18, 2023

TDengine, the provider of an open source data platform purpose-built for time-series data, is unveiling a brand new data-sharing feature for TDengine Cloud.

Posted January 17, 2023

Cisco and Intel are releasing the 7th generation of UCS C-Series and X-Series servers that will be powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, providing customers with greater flexibility and more performance for modern workloads with new C-Series and X-Series servers.

Posted January 17, 2023

Provider of container technology and services for performance-intensive workloads, Sylabs, is unveiling the availability of SingularityCE within the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository.

Posted January 13, 2023

DiffusionData, the provider of real-time data streaming and messaging solutions, formerly known as Push Technology, is unveiling the latest update to their intelligent data platform: Diffusion 6.9.

Posted January 12, 2023

Uncertain economic conditions, skills shortages, rising automation, increasing regulation, and digital disruption—all add up to a stew of both challenges and opportunities for data managers in the year ahead. Emerging technologies—and new attitudes—are reshaping the look and scope of the information management landscape, with implications for overall business strategies and individual careers alike.

Posted January 12, 2023

data.world, the enterprise data catalog for the modern data stack, is announcing its partnership with Databricks, marking an enterprise-wide commitment toward visibility and accessible data.

Posted January 09, 2023

Awake AI, an optimization platform for port bound cargo flow and port ecosystem building, is announcing their recent AWS Foundational Technical Review Certification, affirming its quality software.

Posted January 09, 2023

Hivelocity, Inc, an IaaS and Bare Metal Cloud company, announced it is acquiring U.K.-based Heficed, an established network infrastructure solutions and cloud provider. "This acquisition represents a fantastic opportunity for our clients old and new," said Mike Archietto, CEO and co-founder at Hivelocity. "By combining Heficed's impressive list of data center locations and VPS hosting options with our own global network of data centers and premium bare metal hosting, our world-class infrastructure solutions will now reach an even wider audience of users."

Posted January 09, 2023

Broadcom Inc., a market leader in enterprise software for critical infrastructure, is releasing a new solution that enables enterprises to store their mainframe data anywhere they choose, including the cloud. Broadcom's CA 1 Flexible Storage solution provides secure, cost-effective mainframe data storage options for hybrid IT environments, making it possible for customers to achieve dramatic cost savings and protect against ransomware, according to the vendor.

Posted January 09, 2023

Data centers are only gaining more prominence in importance as our lives continue becoming more and more digital. Last year saw many enterprises dealing with how to climate proof IT operations from disaster. This year looks to be the same. Here, experts in the IT space offer their predictions for the data center in 2023.

Posted January 09, 2023

In the ever-shifting markets professionals work in today, companies must have the ability to remain agile and flexible throughout their business operations. To combat the uncertainties of the marketplace and customer demands for fast service, businesses have turned to open-source technology over the past decade. Open-source technologies provide IT and development teams with the agility to implement innovative tools and practices—such as DevOps and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

Posted January 09, 2023

A special registration period for Data Summit 2023 is now open. Take advantage of the best deal of the year with Super Early Bird savings off your pass. While we finalize the program, you can save big with $300 off the regular rate of our most popular passes. Preferential pricing is offered to attendees who register before January 20. Additionally, worry free registration is available through February 10.  

Posted January 06, 2023

Hasura, a data accessibility company, is announcing the beta release of its GraphQL Data Connector for Snowflake, a new database integration that allows Hasura users to instantly generate a unified GraphQL API that runs read-only queries throughout the users' Snowflake data. The integration aims to resolve excessive time and labor expenditures for API builds, as well as underpin users' analytical applications with data from Snowflake.

Posted January 03, 2023

Rezonate, the innovator behind the Cloud Identity Protection Platform (CIPP), is announcing their emergence from stealth, backed by $8.7 million in financing. The funding is directed toward benefiting the development and production of Rezonate's CIPP, which empowers security and DevOps teams to effectively prevent access risk and cloud infrastructure breaches.

Posted January 03, 2023

Joining together for DBTA's webinar, "Unlock Your Data's Full Potential: Healthcare & Life Sciences Edition," experts from Immuta, Snowflake, and Radiant explored modern data security strategies in healthcare and life sciences industries that can maintain rigorous compliance while mitigating risk and driving productivity.

Posted December 21, 2022

From cloud to AI and onto new technologies and methodologies such as DataOps, another year means more solutions to choose from. Here, executives of leading companies provide predictions for what's ahead in 2023 for big data. Plans for 5G deployments, new AI technologies like the metaverse or digital twins, and the rise of data fabric and data mesh are just some of the latest trends experts see coming to fruition in 2023.

Posted December 20, 2022

ClearML, the innovator behind its open-source, end-to-end MLOps platform, is announcing its partnership with Ultralytics, a vision AI company, uniting key ClearML tools with Ultralytics' YOLOv5 AI to boost experiment tracking, remote training, and automated execution.

Posted December 15, 2022

Acceldata, provider of data observability solutions, is unveiling the open source iteration of its data platform, granting accessibility to enterprises seeking Acceldata capabilities at a lower cost.

Posted December 15, 2022

In a roundtable webinar hosted by DBTA, experts in data management and analytics joined to examine the best practices and tools for adapting to the needs of modern data while keeping in mind the needs of modern enterprises.

Posted December 15, 2022

Zyte, the provider of reliable web data extraction for business and enterprises, is unveiling Zyte API, the company's latest web data extraction service imagined as a self-service API. By streamlining its web scraping technology, Zyte brings a simplistic yet powerful, "all-in-one" solution for web data extraction.

Posted December 14, 2022

To say the past year has been interesting for data managers and professionals is an understatement. Intensifying efforts to achieve data-driven processes, escalating security issues, shifts toward graph and cloud databases, and supply chain turbulence have dominated data teams' task lists. The coming year will be no different.

Posted December 13, 2022

Opaque Systems, provider of secure, multi-party analytics and AI for Confidential Computing, is launching its flagship platform—the Opaque platform—to expand the use cases for Confidential Computing and empower data scientists' use of existing skills to combat current data analytics challenges.

Posted December 13, 2022

Iron Mountain, a leader in innovative storage, data center infrastructure, asset lifecycle management and information management services, is expanding its North American data center footprint with the purchase of a 10 acre land parcel and more than 50 MVA (expandable to more than 100 MVA) substation in Phoenix, Arizona to develop a 36 megawatt, 230K square foot data center (AZP3).

Posted December 12, 2022

IBM, as part of its continued efforts toward prioritizing its ecosystem partners, is announcing new SaaS offerings, consulting capabilities, and expanded mainframe application modernization in collaboration with AWS to enhance the experiences of both partner and client alike.

Posted December 12, 2022

TriggerMesh, a cloud native integration platform provider, is launching Shaker, its latest open-source AWS EventBridge alternative project. Shaker captures, transforms, and delivers events from many out-of-the-box and custom event sources within a single, unified experience.

Posted December 12, 2022

MANTA brings intelligence to metadata management by providing a data lineage platform that automatically scans your data environment to build a powerful map of all data flows and deliver it through a native UI and other channels to both technical and non-technical users. With MANTA, everyone gets full visibility and control of their data pipeline.

Posted December 12, 2022

Today's data environments are highly diverse—residing on many platforms and requiring a variety of approaches to ensure data resiliency and availability. Delivering technology alone will not be enough in 2023. To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products. These products, platforms, and services range from long-established offerings that are evolving to meet the needs of their loyal constituents, to breakthrough technologies that may only be in the early stages of adoption.

Posted December 08, 2022

The British royal family safeguards its crown jewels—the treasures held by the English monarchy comprising more than 100 objects estimated to be worth billions—with world-class security systems, including two-ton steel doors and bomb-proof glass. When the crown jewels are transported or moved, such as for a royal wedding or the recent coronation ceremony, they are guarded closely by elite, ex-military members at all times—with access restricted to only a few security-cleared individuals.

Posted December 08, 2022

Modern applications have increasingly leveraged Kubernetes as the "OS of the cloud" because of its ability to abstract the underlying cloud platform and coordinate the activities of multiple docker containers. Kubernetes does indeed radically simplify the deployment and administration of multi-service distributed applications. However, it has a significant learning curve, and maintaining a largescale Kubernetes cluster can be daunting.

Posted December 08, 2022

Readers of this column sometimes ask me questions about databases and database administration, which I welcome. And at times I will take the opportunity to answer particularly intriguing questions in print. One intriguing question I have been asked more than once is: "What metrics and measurements are useful for managing how effective your DBA group is?"

Posted December 08, 2022

Often data is categorized into very high-level groupings of structured or unstructured. Generally, structured data is considered data that conforms to an easily identifiable pattern and as part of this conforming, that data may be easily loaded into a relational database table "as is." Examples of this might be fixed-format files, or comma-separated files having an agreed upon pattern to each record within it. Unstructured data supposedly cannot be loaded "as is" into a relational table. Unstructured data is, by name, lacking an identifiable structure to make sense of the data, right? Not exactly.

Posted December 08, 2022

Cybersecurity and threat detection continues to be top of mind moving into 2023. Data breaches and the capture of sensitive information remain concerns for organizations large and small. Here, data security leaders share their thoughts on what lies ahead as companies seek the best resources to secure data and thwart bad actors.

Posted December 07, 2022

DH2i, provider of multi-platform software-defined perimeter (SDP) and smart high availability (HA) clustering software for Windows and Linux, is announcing general availability of DxEnterprise (DxE) version 22. This launch, with its new container sidecar, allows application-level HA clustering for stateful containers in Kubernetes (K8s).

Posted December 07, 2022

Twelve Labs, the video search and understanding company, announced several product advances along with closing on a $12 million seed extension round, following its initial seed fundraise last spring. To help ensure that speed and quality are not compromised, Twelve Labs has chosen Oracle to provide the AI cloud infrastructure capacity required to bring its foundation AI model to market.

Posted December 07, 2022

Quest Software creates and manage software that makes the benefits of new technology real while empowering users and data, streamlining IT operations, and hardening cybersecurity from the inside out. Looking ahead to a new year several experts at Quest are offering their predictions for 2023.

Posted December 07, 2022

Arcitecta, a data management software company, is launching Mediaflux Point in Time, a backup and recovery technology that empowers scalable data resiliency.

Posted December 06, 2022

The call for speakers is open for the 10th annual Data Summit conference, to be held in Boston, May 10-11, 2023, with pre-conference workshops on May 9, 2023. The Data Summit conference focuses on the business and technical aspects of Data Management, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Architecture, and Emerging Technologies.

Posted December 06, 2022

Airbyte, an open-source integration provider, is unveiling its expanded partnership with dbt Labs, an analytics engineering company, accompanied by a new integration to enable dbt Cloud customers to schedule and initiate dbt jobs from within Airbyte Cloud.

Posted December 06, 2022

Equalum, provider of data integration and ingestion solutions, is announcing its strategic partnership with Yellowbrick Data, the hybrid multi-cloud data warehouse vendor. By streamlining the data migration process with Equalum's platform, data is moved from legacy environments to the Yellowbrick Data Warehouse—which is hosted in the user's commercial cloud environment of choice.

Posted December 02, 2022

Fortanix Inc., the data-first multicloud security company, is unveiling its Data Security Manager's integration with AWS External Key Store, allowing users to segregate encryption keys from the data used and stored on AWS in order to run regulated data workloads on AWS.

Posted December 01, 2022

Tidal, the SaaS company providing organizational application migration to the cloud, is unveiling an enterprise software platform for cloud migration and modernization: Tidal Accelerator.

Posted November 30, 2022

Siren, provider of investigative intelligence analytics, is launching Siren 13, the latest iteration of the platform for accelerating investigations through better accessible and actionable data.

Posted November 29, 2022

NS1, a provider of smart network control solutions, is unveiling NetBox Cloud availability in the AWS Marketplace, granting accessibility for AWS customers to NS1 network infrastructure technology.

Posted November 29, 2022

Cameron O'Rourke, senior director of product strategy at Incorta, and Eldad Chai, CEO of Satori, gathered for a DBTA webinar, "Top Trends in Data Engineering," to discuss key patterns and methods that illuminate what areas of data and analytics need some technological TLC.

Posted November 22, 2022

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