Data Center Management Articles
Pliops, a provider of data processors for cloud and enterprise data centers, announced it has closed a $100 million Series D funding round, enabling the company to address the broad market opportunity for the Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP). This latest investment brings the total investment in the company to more than $200 million since its founding in 2017. This round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT)—with SK hynix, Lip-Bu Tan, Chairman of Walden International, and State of Mind Ventures Momentum, in addition to previous investors also participating in the round.
Posted August 17, 2022
Arcion, a provider of a cloud-native, CDC-based data replication platform, is launching its latest product release to further extend their platform's capability to cater towards ease of use and increased performance for data migration and access. The launch continues to address the issue of data trapped in transactional data silos, like Oracle, as well as migration of that data into a variety of cloud data warehouses. The product's release comes after four years of development, adding dramatic depth to their products that help differentiate their service from anyone else on the market, according to the vendor.
Posted August 17, 2022
Cloudera, a hybrid data organization, is debuting its Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) One, an all-in-one data lakehouse SaaS, promising accelerated and accessible self-service analytics and exploratory data science on any data type. According to the company, CDP One delivers enterprise security and machine learning (ML) without requiring staff, resulting in lower TCO and reduced risk. CDP One is for customers who desire a low-code, self-service solution in conjunction with CDP One, which was not previously offered.
Posted August 17, 2022
Verge.io, the company that virtualizes data centers, is adding new features to its Verge-OS software to give users the performance of GPUs as virtualized, shared resources. This move creates a cost-effective, simple, and flexible way to perform GPU-based machine learning, remote desktop, and other compute-intensive workloads within an agile, scalable, secure Verge-OS virtual data center, according to the vendor.
Posted August 16, 2022
Reltio, a cloud-native, SaaS Master Data Management (MDM) enterprise, is announcing the launch of the Reltio Connected Data Platform in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, integrating Reltio streamlined deployment and management properties with the advantages of the Azure cloud platform. The Microsoft Azure Marketplace is an online store which offers cloud applications and services for use on Azure, which assures Reltio customers that the integration will yield the trust associated with industry giants in the market.
Posted August 16, 2022
Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, Zerto, is announcing its integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) ISV Workload Migration Partner Program, offering AWS workload migration drive and delivery, as well as expedited adoption of its cloud data management and protection solutions. As a platform, Zerto aims to eliminate risk in cloud data management and protection while adapting to the modernization of cloud adoption across private, public, and hybrid deployments.
Posted August 15, 2022
Airbyte, producers of an open-source data integration platform, is launching the company's Postgres source connector, now generally available. Postgres connector support by Airbyte allows users to efficiently migrate data from Postgres storage to other locations, improving analytic capabilities.
Posted August 12, 2022
The data lakehouse, data fabric, and data mesh, are no longer just dreams shared by analysts at conference presentations. A new survey of more than 200 IT leaders by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc., finds considerable uptake of these modern data architectures. "The Move to Modern Data Architecture: 2022 Data Delivery and Consumption Patterns Survey," May 2022, was conducted in partnership with ChaosSearch and included input from directors/managers of IT, directors/managers of analytics, and data architects.
Posted August 11, 2022
The challenge with modern supply chains is one of multiple pressures hitting all at once. These include pandemic-induced disruptions, cyber attacks targeting supply chains and the effect that financial and trade sanctions are having on Russia for its war in Ukraine. To be more resilient, many companies have opened the spigot on enterprise investment and technology innovation for supply chain modernization. But these efforts must be well-coordinated to be effective.
Posted August 11, 2022
These days, data managers have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the platforming, storage, and provisioning of data and associated analytics applications. However, selecting the right environment for pressing business needs can be confusing and overwhelming. The key is understanding how to map the right technologies to the business problems or opportunities at hand.
Posted August 11, 2022
Accelerated digital transformation has been felt in a variety of ways across all industry sectors for the past 2 years. Digital infrastructure resiliency and agility are crucial in periods of uncertainty and disruption, which many organizations are experiencing with the confluence of disrupted supply chains, rising inflation, geopolitical instability, energy price spikes, the ongoing global pandemic, and climate change.
Posted August 10, 2022
Quali, a provider of Environments-as-a-Service infrastructure automation and management solutions, announced updates to its Torque platform for accelerated infrastructure delivery speeds, and increased cost accountability and management with limited risk. With enhanced end-to-end control plane capabilities for multi-cloud, laC, virtual, and container environments, Torque is able to prioritize and unify infrastructure orchestration for development operations practitioners within a single platform.
Posted August 10, 2022
Flexential, a provider of data center, colocation, cloud, and connectivity, is enhancing its FlexAnywhere hybrid IT solutions portfolio to maximize IT infrastructure scalability within organizations, as well as increasing business-wide adaptability for hybrid work environments. The updates coming to Flexential's Hosted Private Cloud (HPC) Advanced Access solution allow for accelerated migration of workloads, data, and applications in an industry that is becoming increasingly cloud-reliant.
Posted August 10, 2022
NetSPI, an enterprise penetration testing and attack surface management company, is releasing two new open-source tools for identity and access management (IAM) and security operations center (SOC) groups. These tools, PowerHuntShares and PowerHunt, will aid information security teams discover vulnerable network shares and improve detections overall.
Posted August 09, 2022
Kyligence, an open source Online Analytical Processing platform (OLAP) for big data, is announcing its completion of System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II certification, meaning it now adheres to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).This is preceded by their completion of SOC Type I in 2021, assuring Kyligence's continued compliance through third-party auditing office, Ernst & Young.
Posted August 09, 2022
Next Pathway is announcing an exciting partnership with Microsoft for expedited legacy data warehouse and data lake migration to Microsoft Azure through SHIFT Migration Suite. The suite is composed of several programs which allow for efficient and comprehensive legacy data migration into Azure, according to the vendor. Next Pathway's automated code translation will eradicate challenges for companies with cloud application transitions.
Posted August 08, 2022
Canonic Security is launching AppTotal API, providing security teams the means for Canonic App Access & Vulnerability automation and integration within their workflows, pre-existing app vetting, and governance systems. AppTotal, an independent index of SaaS add-ons and integrations, is being configured with this API layer to improve automation without the risk of security breaches for app-to-IT-system connectivity.
Posted August 08, 2022
More than ever, people are concerned for their data privacy. This modern problem has ramifications for industries regarding data management, generating an important question: how do you responsibly leverage data in a world concerned about data privacy and safety? As risk and concern continues to increase surrounding data management, innovations towards legal and ethical management tools and standards intend to make way for establishing trust between company and data subjects.
Posted August 08, 2022
365 Data Centers announced it will acquire a majority of Sungard's U.S. colocation and networking business. This year saw Sungard's U.K., U.S., and Canadian operations file for bankruptcy, with most of the UK operation being sold off to U.K. telco Daisy Group and MSP Redcentric. Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS) announced that, subject to court approval, it has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with 365 DC. Bloomberg reports 365 has bid $52.5 million for the business.
Posted August 08, 2022
IBM Security released the annual Cost of a Data Breach Report, finding costlier and higher-impact data breaches than ever before, with the global average cost of a data breach reaching an all-time high of $4.35 million for studied organizations. With breach costs increasing nearly 13% over the last two years of the report, the findings suggest these incidents may also be contributing to rising costs of goods and services.
Posted August 08, 2022
Tresata is launching its Digital Business Platform (DBP) to aid businesses in delivering functional data to initialize digital transformations exclusively for data clouds. Through leverage of data exabytes in the cloud, DBP will be able to utilize enterprise data that would otherwise be abandoned to an unused data percentage. Automation of this utilization eradicates the need for extensive time and resources dedicated to monitoring and managing usable data.
Posted August 04, 2022
Flow Security is announcing its $10M seed round that facilitated the launch of a data security system that can locate and protect data, both at rest and in motion. Led by Amiti and backed by industry leaders like CyberArk CEO Udi Mokady, Demisto CEO, and co-founder Slavik Markovich, Flow Security's funding tackles data sprawl and security issues resulting from the industry shift towards cloud systems for data management.
Posted August 04, 2022
The continuous deployment (CD) company, Armory.io, is launching its CD Self-Hosted and Managed 2.28 product release for development teams seeking to continuously deploy software at a variety of scales in a trusted and straightforward mode. According to the vendor, a large focus of this product release is to aid elite developer teams execute code seamlessly. Upon deployment of the code, CD Self-Hosted and Managed will handle processes like testing, staging, and production.
Posted August 04, 2022
dbt Labs is debuting its dbt Labs Technology Partner Program, offering its users extended dbt capabilities and partners closer proximity to its users and their needs. The launch also provides direction from dbt regarding cloud integration, further assisting data teams with the ever-increasing transition towards cloud data platforms.
Posted August 03, 2022
Relativity has announced its partnership with Veritas Technologies to provide an integrated customer experience for users of RelativityOne, Relativity Server, Enterprise Vault, eDiscovery Platform, Veritas Advanced Discovery, and Discovery Accelerator. This partnership will provide its collective user base with Relativity's AI-driven communication surveillance platform (Relativity Trace) backed by Veritas' data archiving systems and search platform.
Posted August 02, 2022
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is introducing a lower entry point for OCI Dedicated Region and providing a preview of Compute Cloud@Customer services, bringing more than 100 OCI public cloud services into customers' data centers. These new services will help customers meet strict latency, data residency, and data sovereignty requirements that are key to many IT modernization efforts.
Posted July 28, 2022
Cloudian announced that HyperStore object storage is now validated to work with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, giving Azure Stack HCI customers the scalability and flexibility benefits of public cloud in a secure and cost-effective, cloud-native storage platform within their own data centers.
Posted July 26, 2022
Schneider Electric announced it is making a series of updates to its vendor-agnostic and CPD-accredited digital education platform, Schneider Electric University, to address the data center sector skills gap. Available in 14 languages and accessible globally for free online, the dedicated professional development platform helps industry stakeholders upskill and stay up to date with the latest technology, sustainability, and energy efficiency initiatives affecting the data center sector.
Posted July 25, 2022
Augtera Networks, a provider of AI/ML-powered Network Operations platforms, is introducing a holistic Network AIOps Data Center solution, addressing the pain points, use cases APIs, ITSM integrations, equipment/vendor integrations, data types, and constructs specific to data centers.
Posted July 25, 2022
Model9, a provider of cloud data management for the IBM Z mainframe, announced it will participate in The Open Mainframe Project, an open source initiative with 20 programs and working groups that enable collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources.
Posted July 25, 2022
IBM is expanding its Power10 server line with the introduction of mid-range and scale-out systems to modernize, protect, and automate business applications and IT operations. The new Power10 servers combine performance, scalability, and flexibility with new pay-as-you-go consumption offerings for clients looking to deploy new services quickly across multiple environments.
Posted July 25, 2022
NVIDIA is releasing a unified computing platform for speeding breakthroughs in quantum research and development across AI, HPC, health, finance, and other disciplines. The NVIDIA Quantum Optimized Device Architecture, or QODA, aims to make quantum computing more accessible by creating a coherent hybrid quantum-classical programming model.
Posted July 18, 2022
DataBank, a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, interconnection, and managed services, is partnering with Corsa Security, a provider in automating firewall virtualization, to deploy, scale, and optimize its Palo Alto Networks ML-powered VM-Series Virtual Next-Generation Firewalls with speed, simplicity, and savings.
Posted July 13, 2022
According to a new report by ResearchAndMarkets.com the "Hyperscale Data Center Market - Global Outlook and Forecast 2022-2027," the global data center support infrastructure market is set to reach $75.8 billion by 2024, registering a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.4% over the analysis period. Growth in the global market is being fueled by the rapidly rising volumes of data that needs to be stored and processed in a reliable and efficient manner.
Posted July 11, 2022
Optimizing the performance of operational databases and the applications that access them is a constant battle for DBAs. Of course, writing efficient SQL is the most important aspect of ensuring optimal database performance but no amount of SQL-tweaking or system-tuning can optimize the performance of queries run against a poorly designed or disorganized database. Therefore, time must be spent on tuning and optimizing the design, parameters, and physical construction of database objects, specifically tables and indexes, and the files in which their data is stored. The actual composition and structure of database objects must be monitored continually and changed accordingly if the database becomes inefficient.
Posted July 07, 2022
A HealthCheck from Rocket MultiValue (MV) Professional Services can provide critical information clients need to get the most from their Rocket MV (Rocket UniVerse, Rocket UniData, Rocket D3) products. Expert consultants know how to isolate and remediate issues to get optimal system performance and help put an effective plan in place for optimization or growth.
Posted July 07, 2022
Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world's largest companies, is releasing the next version of its PRO/JCL, a job control language (JCL) management solution that includes a new interface through VS Code1 extension, Enhanced Directed Execution to include options for sending PROCs and PARMLIBs to remote LPARS, and improved visibility for NODE and LPAR in the primary panel. These updates help mainframe data centers achieve and operate a JCL environment that is error-free, standardized, and optimized.
Posted June 27, 2022
Object Management Group (OMG) announced Responsible Computing (RC), a new consortium comprised of technology innovators working together to address sustainable development goals. Responsible computing is a systemic approach aimed at addressing current and future challenges in computing, including sustainability, ethics, and professionalism, stemming from the belief that is needed to think about technology in terms of its impact on people and the planet.
Posted June 27, 2022
NVIDIA announced it is a founding member of the Linux Foundation's Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) project, while making its NVIDIA DOCA networking software APIs widely available to foster innovation in the data center. Businesses are embracing open data centers, which require applications and services that are easily integrated with other solutions for simplified, lower-cost and sustainable management. Moving to open NVIDIA DOCA will help develop and nurture broad and vibrant DPU ecosystems and power unprecedented data center transformation.
Posted June 27, 2022
iboss, a provider in Zero Trust Edge, is expanding its relationship with Microsoft by joining the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), giving joint customers the benefit of secure, fast access to resources from anywhere. MISA is an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV) and managed security service providers (MSSP) that have integrated their security products and services with Microsoft's security products.
Posted June 15, 2022
Kaizen Analytix LLC, a provider of data, analytics, and technology solutions, is releasing its new Anomaly Detection Engine that systematically searches through all segments of a company's data to quickly identify outliers which lead to fraud, customer churn, revenue leakage, and other issues.
Posted June 13, 2022
According to AWS, many customers in a variety of industries want to modernize their mainframe-based applications to take advantage of the cloud but, to do so, they need to go through a lengthy and complex process. To make it faster and easier for customers to modernize mainframe-based workloads by moving them to the cloud, AWS has announced the general availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization, a new service.
Posted June 13, 2022
Aqua Security, a pure-play cloud-native security provider, has announced general availability of runtime security for customers using Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Systems to drive infrastructure and application modernization. With Aqua's runtime technology, IBM Power customers can now protect the full lifecycle of Red Hat OpenShift containerized workloads to stop cloud native attacks.
Posted June 13, 2022
SCB has announced the adoption of IBM zSystems, bringing the platform to its core-banking applications to support the agile microservice development of new services and products in response to today's fast-paced digital consumer era.
Posted June 13, 2022
BMC has announced the launch of the BMC Innovation Labs Preferred Partner Program, a collaborative co-innovation program built for, and with, BMC partners and customers. The program is focused on ideation and experimentation to design and ultimately commercialize modern technology solutions to support customers on their Autonomous Digital Enterprise journey. BMC partners can visit the BMC Innovation Labs Preferred Partner Program website to request consideration for the invitation-only program.
Posted June 13, 2022
Broadcom Inc., a global technology provider that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, announced it is acquiring VMware, Inc., an innovator in enterprise software. Broadcom will acquire all of the outstanding shares of VMware in a cash-and-stock transaction that values VMware at approximately $61 billion, based on the closing price of Broadcom common stock on May 25, 2022. In addition, Broadcom will assume $8 billion of VMware net debt.
Posted June 02, 2022
Microsoft has recently released a powerful new DMV specifically to help with memory issues, sys.dm_os_out_of_memory_events. It is currently available in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instances. This DMV consolidates and simplifies telemetry from SQL Server ring buffers, applies heuristics, and provides a result set. The DMV stores a record for each out-of-memory (OOM) event that occurs within the database, providing details about the OOM root cause, the memory consumption of database engine components at that point in time, potential sources of memory leaks, and more.
Posted June 02, 2022