Data Center Management Articles
SingleStore, the real-time data platform that allows users to transact, analyze, and contextualize data, is announcing that it has developed a bi-driecitonal Iceberg integration that shares data with Snowflake, enabling SingleStore to be available as a Snowflake Native App on Snowflake Marketplace. Now, Snowflake users can safely deploy a SingleStore cluster within their Snowflake accounts without having to migrate or copy data outside the Snowflake governance boundary, as well as being able to use Snowflake credits to pay for the compute to run their SingleStore workloads.
Posted September 20, 2024
SurrealDB, the ultimate multi-model database, is debuting the next iteration of its database solution, centered on further simplifying the lives of developers. SurrealDB 2.0 adds a series of new functionalities, incorporating both user requests and advancements in stability, performance, security, and data management capabilities.
Posted September 19, 2024
Abstract Security, the company building the future of AI-enabled security operations, is announcing support for deployments within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With its solution centered on tying security back to business value, Abstract's latest support expansion brings true data management and security to GCP environments.
Posted September 18, 2024
Confluent, Inc., the data streaming pioneer, is announcing a series of new capabilities for Confluent Cloud, forwarding the company's mission of delivering a comprehensive data streaming platform that meets its users where they are. These latest updates—support for Table API, extending Apache Flink to Java and Python developers; private networking for Flink; a Confluent extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code); and Client-Side Field Level Encryption—each serve to make stream processing and data streaming more accessible and secure, according to Confluent.
Posted September 18, 2024
The lines between entities within an Entity-Relationship Diagram [ERD] represent an interdependency between the involved entities. In a normalized designed, this interdependency is both semantic and functional, as in, "a HOUSE has one-or-more DOORs," "an ORDER has one-or-more ORDER LINEs," or "a STUDENT enrolls in zero-to-many CLASSes." These object pairings would have a line drawn between them in an ERD representation. There also would be markings from whatever notation one is employing, designating the "one" side of the relationship and the "many" side of the relationship.
Posted September 18, 2024
HCLSoftware, the software business division of HCLTech, is announcing that it has acquired Zeenea, an innovator in data catalog and governance solutions. This acquisition positions Actian—a division of HCLSoftware—to deliver a complete data ecosystem for its customers, driven by seamless discovery and governance of their data assets, according to the company.
Posted September 16, 2024
Console Connect, a global network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform, is announcing that its AWS Direct Connect service offering is now available on the AWS Marketplace, the digital catalog of thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that makes it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. With this launch, AWS customers will be able to leverage AWS Direct Connect to securely build, scale, and manage their private connections between AWS and other cloud, data centers, enterprise building, and devices.
Posted September 13, 2024
Tines, the trusted leader in smart, secure workflows, is announcing the GA of Workbench, an AI chat interface that empowers security teams to interact with proprietary data and dynamically orchestrate mission-critical processes with their natural language.
Posted September 13, 2024
With more and more use cases for AI and all its branches taking shape, big data is surging in relevance as the backbone of these projects—prompting DBAs, IT, data scientists, and more to take a closer look at the information being fed into their forecasts and models. To support organizations in navigating through new challenges and a rapidly evolving big data ecosystem, Big Data Quarterly presents 2024's "Big Data 75," a list of companies driving innovation and expanding what is possible in terms of collecting, storing, and extracting value from data.
Posted September 12, 2024
Arcitecta, a creative and innovative data management software company, is announcing the launch of three new data management solutions—Mediaflux Multi-Site, Mediaflux Edge, and Mediaflux Burst—designed to help enterprises handle their increasingly distributed data and workflow environments.
Posted September 12, 2024
Druva, the leading provider of data security, is debuting Dru Investigate, a generative AI (GenAI)-powered tool designed to help IT admins and security teams investigate cyberthreats with natural language. By eliminating the need for complex queries, enterprise teams can effectively and intuitively understand potential data risks, streamlining the investigation process and fueling positive outcomes.
Posted September 12, 2024
In DBTA's webinar, Modern Data Architecture for AI, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, led experts through a thorough discussion of how to cultivate the right data infrastructure to support AI initiatives, from leading best practices to key technologies.
Posted September 12, 2024
appCD, the generative infrastructure from code company, is announcing the results of its latest seed funding round—having raised $12.3 million—as well as the debut of its new identity, StackGen. The rebranding and latest funding round propels StackGen to continue its journey toward transforming infrastructure from code, focusing on empowering developer workflows while helping them adapt to the latest in AI innovations.
Posted September 11, 2024
Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading data orchestration and observability platform powered by Apache Airflow, is unveiling the private preview of Astro Observe, a capability designed to let users set and track SLAs to ensure on-time delivery of quality data. By offering an actionable view of the data supply chain and extending the power of Astronomer to data operations, Astro Observe empowers enterprises to build, run, and observe data pipelines as code with ease.
Posted September 10, 2024
Qumulo, the leading provider of cloud data platforms, is announcing the general availability of Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) on AWS, an enterprise-proven, multi-protocol file data service system that manages unstructured data with performance, scalability, flexibility, and cost efficiency at its core.
Posted September 10, 2024
Amplitude, Inc., a leading digital analytics platform, is unveiling Amplitude Made Easy, a new, radically simple platform experience designed to make digital analytics easy for everyone. Spurred by the rampant difficulties of both beginning analytics journeys and deriving tangible value from them, Amplitude's latest release offers a revamped user experience and new capabilities for better analytics.
Posted September 10, 2024
vFunction, the pioneer of AI-driven architectural observability (AO), is debuting new functionalities that deliver software architecture governance amid bloated microservices sprawl. Engineered to help enterprise teams monitor their distributed architectures, vFunction's solution aims to accelerate application innovation while simultaneously maintaining resiliency and reducing technical debt.
Posted September 09, 2024
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Data Security and Governance for the AI Era, to showcase top solutions and best practices for navigating the space of data security and governance, especially as it faces increasing investment in cloud and AI technologies.
Posted September 09, 2024
Scala Data Centers, the leading Latin American platform of sustainable data centers in the Hyperscale market, and Serena, a global leader in clean energy investments, are announcing one of the largest renewable energy supply agreements in Latin America.
Posted September 09, 2024
Blue Owl Capital Inc. (Blue Owl), Chirisa Technology Parks (CTP), and PowerHouse Data Centers (PowerHouse) are announcing the first phase of a $5 billion joint venture (JV) development partnership focused on the development of large-scale AI/HPC data centers for CoreWeave, Inc. (CoreWeave).
Posted September 09, 2024
IBM is unveiling new processor innovations designed to accelerate AI initiatives across next-generation IBM Z mainframe systems. The new technologies—IBM Telum II processor, IO acceleration unit, and IBM Spyre accelerator—serve to improve latency, sustainability, and scale processing capacity to better accommodate the demands of AI and large language models (LLMs).
Posted September 09, 2024
Tessell, the next-generation database-as-a-service (DBaaS) that enables enterprises and cloud-borne companies to accelerate data and application modernization journeys at scale, is unveiling Tessell for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure (ExaDB-D) on OCI. In addition to delivering increased flexibility and control to OCI environments, Tessell has officially become an Oracle partner and sponsor of this year's Oracle CloudWorld—where it will demo its latest DBaaS OCI offering.
Posted September 06, 2024
Revefi, the company enabling businesses to maximize ROI on their data investments, is announcing the launch of Raden, the world's first AI data engineer designed to complement traditional data engineers and enhance their overall efficacy. As the scope of the data engineer's workload has significantly broadened, Raden offers "distinguished engineer" expertise as a comprehensive, zero-touch, zero-data-access AI solution that delivers automations across the entire data lifecycle.
Posted September 04, 2024
Experts from Quest Software joined DBTA's webinar, APM and DB Monitoring: Necessity or Overkill?, to offer key insights regarding the APM and DB monitoring spheres, illustrating how IT strategies can be reshaped to best accommodate the modern application and its business.
Posted September 03, 2024
Sumo Logic, a leading SaaS Log Analytics Platform, is announcing that it has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS, aiming to accelerate AI-based cybersecurity, application observability, and automation for customers in a variety of industries. By integrating Sumo Logic's SaaS Log Analytics Platform with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Security Lake, joint customers' AWS environments benefit from expansive cloud security and observability.
Posted September 03, 2024
NetApp, the original intelligent data company, is debuting a myriad of new features designed to support VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployments, as well as capabilities for Azure VMware Solution (AVS) and virtual environment optimization. These latest innovations will help mutual customers maximize the efficiency and value of their private and hybrid cloud environments, according to the company.
Posted August 29, 2024
The consistent throughline of any business looking to stay competitive in an evolving market is extracting value from data—from key trends to relevant insights, prescriptive actions, and more. This is done through data applications, acting as enablers of productivity, efficiency, and innovation across the enterprise. However, due to the dichotomy of legacy systems, data silos, and poor data quality and the demands for real-time, scalable data, building effective data apps is a challenging—yet rewarding—feat.
Posted August 29, 2024
In many organizations, microservices have become the default method of application building and deployment, leveraging containers and Kubernetes. The resulting architecture has been a flexible network of services that provide resiliency by operating independently, unaffected by potential failures in other parts of the system. Recently, however, some technology leaders have been questioning if this is the best way to build.
Posted August 29, 2024
Bigleaf Networks, a leading provider of network optimization solutions, is introducing Bigleaf Cloud Connect, a web dashboard aimed at redefining how businesses optimize and manage their network connectivity and cloud performance. According to the company, this platform represents a significant leap forward in the industry, offering a comprehensive suite of tools and insights that empower organizations to take full control of their network infrastructure and drive business growth.
Posted August 29, 2024
SAP announced that Xerox Holdings Corp. has chosen multiple SAP solutions to transform its enterprise architecture as part of its multi-year Reinvention. Xerox's Reinvention involves aligning its resources to improve and stabilize its core print businesses, increase productivity and efficiency, and focus on its emerging digital services and IT services capabilities to improve business outcomes for its clients.
Posted August 28, 2024
Regular readers of this column are aware that I am a proponent of getting rid of bad database standards. But sometimes it can be difficult to determine if a particular standard is bad, or just a lot of trouble to comply with! Well, what am I getting at here? Have you ever been thwarted by a global fiat from management? Of course you have, we all have. But I'm talking about a particular type of dictum from above. Something like this: "New software installations, including updated versions and releases, must be supported by current tooling before they can be installed."
Posted August 28, 2024
Quest Software, a global leader in systems management, is announcing the latest version of erwin Data Intelligence and erwin Data Modeler, forwarding comprehensive, end-to-end data lifecycle management that prepares enterprises for the challenges of AI and other technological advancements. Offering enhanced data intelligence, quality, and modeling capabilities, enterprises benefit from a consistent view of their data architectures while maintaining high quality, reliable data.
Posted August 27, 2024
We decided this Sourcebook was timely, given how enterprise AI has caught mainstream attention and triggered the imaginations of those working in IT, knowledge management, and a score of other areas within the enterprise. AI is dominating headlines, and people want to know how they can best apply the various technologies under the AI banner.
Posted August 26, 2024
Apheros announced it has received $1.85 million in a recent funding round to introduce its innovative metal foam technology, offering a superior solution to cooling data centers. The pre-seed funding round, led by venture capital firm Founderful, will accelerate development and deployment of Apheros' revolutionary metal foam-based cooling solutions.
Posted August 26, 2024
IBM announced that two IBM-developed algorithms have been officially formalized within the world's first three post-quantum cryptography standards, which were published by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The official publication of these algorithms marks a crucial milestone to advancing the protection of the world's encrypted data from cyberattacks that could be attempted through the unique power of quantum computers, which are rapidly progressing to cryptographic relevancy.
Posted August 26, 2024
IBM is releasing Qiskit SDK v1.2, introducing several important new features and improvements, all aimed at boosting the Qiskit SDK's industry-leading performance and functionality. Since transitioning to the v1.x era with the release of its first major version earlier this year, IBM has been laser-focused on making the Qiskit SDK the most powerful, high-performant quantum SDK in the world.
Posted August 26, 2024
DataOps.live, The Data Products Company, is announcing an extension of their technology integration with Informatica, the provider of enterprise cloud data management. This expansion—characterized by new orchestration support for Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC)—increases the visibility of metadata and its lineage, empowering customers with up-to-date metadata that allows them to rapidly react to changes during the development cycle, according to the companies.
Posted August 23, 2024
FICO, the company powering decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper, is announcing new enhancements for the FICO Platform—the next generation, applied intelligence platform to power customer connections. These updates address the ongoing data complexities of growing enterprises, improving real-time decision-making, productivity, and overall efficiency.
Posted August 23, 2024
Apica, a leader in telemetry, data management, and active observability, is debuting Fleet Data Management, the "first mile" of the telemetry pipeline that standardizes data collection across large telemetry fleets with a dynamic, adaptable framework. Featuring seamless integrations and comprehensive observability, Fleet Data Management transforms traditional, static telemetry with extensive automation and customization capabilities.
Posted August 22, 2024
Fortanix Inc., a leader in data-first cybersecurity and pioneer of Confidential Computing, is debuting File System Encryption, a new enhancement to Fortanix Data Security Manager (DSM) that enables enterprises to protect individual file systems on specified hosts. The introduction of File System Encryption marks Fortanix's ability to provide encryption at all layers, delivering a complete, unified, one-stop solution for encryption and tokenization needs.
Posted August 20, 2024
Skybox Security, a leading provider of Exposure Management solutions, is announcing a series of new features that streamline exposure management across attack surface, security policy, and vulnerability management workflows. Tackling the evolving threat and security landscape, Skybox's latest enhancements continue to abstract complexities from exposure management.
Posted August 20, 2024
Hasura, the data API and GraphQL leader, is debuting a series of enhancements designed to support the process of connecting large language models (LLMs) to highly diverse enterprise data. With new features that expand on the Data Delivery Network (DDN), Hasura forwards a metadata-driven, federated data access layer capable of streamlining governance to effectively support AI initiatives.
Posted August 19, 2024
Tenable, the exposure management company, is debuting two new context-driven prioritization and response features—Vulnerability Intelligence (VI) and Exposure Response (ER). Available within Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable One, and Tenable Cloud Security, these new capabilities introduce the ability for enterprises to close vulnerability gaps based on contextualized internal and external data.
Posted August 16, 2024
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC., a leading provider of performance management, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, is debuting a new initiative centered on delivering the high-quality, curated data necessary to support AIOps across the enterprise. By leveraging its existing partner ecosystem—including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, Splunk, and more—NETSCOUT's Omnis AI Insights solution will produce AI-ready data that effectively serves business-critical operations, said the company.
Posted August 16, 2024