Data Center Management Articles
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
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 21, 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
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 16, 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
TigerEye, the AI-powered planning and revenue management platform, is debuting the open source release of DuckDB.dart, the native Dart API for DuckDB. This release not only streamlines the creation of data-intensive applications for desktop and mobile platforms alike but also reflects TigerEye's broader commitment toward innovation, performance, and its community of customers.
Posted August 15, 2024
KDNuggets, a community site for data professionals, ranked "We Don't Need Data Scientists, We Need Data Engineers," by Mihail Eric, a venture capitalist, researcher, and educator, as its top story of 2021. This sentiment holds even more true today, especially with the unending rush to leverage both generative and predictive AI within enterprise operations. Without the right kind of data, AI is dead in the water.
Posted August 15, 2024
In an era marked by rapid urbanization and technological advancement, the concept of smart cities has captured the imagination of urban planners, technologists, and policymakers worldwide for over a decade. As cities grapple with the challenges of accommodating growing populations, managing resources efficiently, and improving quality of life, a new paradigm is emerging that promises to revolutionize urban living: the cognitive city. At the heart of this transformation lies the game-changing potential of generative AI, poised to unlock the true potential of smart cities and usher in a new age of urban intelligence.
Posted August 15, 2024
Adaptive Shield, a leader in SaaS Security, is offering its breakthrough Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) platform for SaaS environments, enabling enterprises to proactively cover the breadth of attack vectors within the SaaS ecosystem.
Posted August 15, 2024
pgEdge, Inc., the leading company dedicated to distributed Postgres, is unveiling the Constellation release of the pgEdge Platform. pgEdge's v24.7 of its platform brings a variety of advancements in Postgres logical replication, making pgEdge a suitable open source distributed PostgreSQL alternative for legacy database workloads that need multi-master capabilities, according to the company.
Posted August 14, 2024
Foundry, an emerging cloud provider founded by alumni from Google DeepMind's core Deep Learning team, is debuting the Foundry Cloud Platform, the real-time market and orchestration engine for GPU compute that democratizes access to the necessary infrastructure to build and deploy AI. Built from the ground up to solve for inaccessibility to GPU compute—typically reserved for well-funded labs—the Foundry Cloud Platform serves to reduce the operational complexity of AI development and enhance compute cost efficiency by up to 6x, according to the company.
Posted August 14, 2024
With the recent AI boom, data is being created and generated at unprecedented rates. Per the latest estimates, 402.74 million terabytes of data are created each day. This increase calls for a paradigm shift in company efficiency—quickly enabling enterprises to uncover quality insights and effective organization of this data. 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 13, 2024
Cribl, the data engine for IT and security, announced four key partnerships with Vijilan, Anvilogic, Securonix, and Anomali, to address growing enterprise IT and security data management challenges. Cribl Stream and Edge products are now integrated with Anvilogic's innovative security information and event management (SIEM) platform, providing security operations centers (SOC) with best-in-class flexibility, cost efficiency, and control over their security data, according to the vendors.
Posted August 12, 2024
deepset, the mission-critical AI company, is unveiling deepset Studio, a free, user-friendly enabler of custom AI development that abstracts the rampant complexities from AI pipeline development. With a visual, drag-and-drop environment, engineering and data teams can create robust, composable AI systems with ease—including agentic and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) apps—which are immediately deployable within cloud and on-prem environments via deepset Cloud and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
Posted August 12, 2024
Analysis by global real estate consulting firm JLL predicts edge IT infrastructure and data centers will become a $317 billion market globally by 2026, representing a 107% growth from the 2020 market valued at $153 billion. Globally, the growth of edge computing will be influenced by not only the emergence of several technology-based megatrends but also the need for faster data transfer and high computation, as well as factors such as policies and regulations.
Posted August 12, 2024
Lumen Technologies announced an agreement with Corning Incorporated for a substantial supply of next-generation optical cable, more than doubling Lumen's U.S. intercity fiber miles to provide significant capacity to major cloud data centers racing to stay ahead of AI workloads and high bandwidth applications fueled by massive amounts of data.
Posted August 12, 2024
IBM is adding generative AI capabilities to its managed Threat Detection and Response Services utilized by IBM Consulting analysts to advance and streamline security operations for clients. Built on IBM's watsonx data and AI platform, the new IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant is designed to accelerate and improve the identification, investigation, and response to critical security threats, according to the company.
Posted August 12, 2024
Advanced Info Service (AIS), one of Thailand's largest mobile network operators, announced plans to deploy Oracle Alloy and launch AIS Cloud, the country's first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud. Oracle Alloy will provide AIS' customers and all enterprises in Thailand, including the public sector, access to more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including the latest artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Posted August 12, 2024
Varonis Systems, Inc., a leader in data security, is announcing new integrations with SentinelOne and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, enriching visibility for customer endpoints. These integrations with leading EDR providers forwards Varonis' mission to protect data wherever it lives, according to the company.
Posted August 09, 2024
Vectra AI, Inc., the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), is unveiling a recent expansion to its Vectra AI Platform, the integrated signal solution for XDR. This update focuses on affording security operations center (SOC) teams with the necessary tools to proactively address threats and deter behaviors within increasingly dynamic hybrid environments.
Posted August 09, 2024
AppViewX, the leader in automated certificate lifecycle management (CLM) and PKI solutions, is announcing a partnership with Utimaco, a leading global provider of IT security solutions, with the goal of delivering holistic, scalable platform solutions for secure certificate and key lifecycle management.
Posted August 08, 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 08, 2024
There is a confluence of activity—including generative AI models, digital twins, and shared ledger capabilities—that are having a profound impact on helping enterprises meet their goal of becoming data driven. Capturing data, converting it into the right insights, and integrating those insights quickly and efficiently into business decisions and processes is generating a significant competitive advantage for those who do it right.
Posted August 08, 2024
With today's data-driven practices and AI demands, there has never been more pressure on data managers and professionals to deliver real-time, high-quality information when and where it is needed. Many organizations are struggling to achieve such a level of "data management maturity," in which data is provided on an agile, automated basis.
Posted August 08, 2024
Picture this: there's a new face in the IT department, ready to step in to help tackle the increasingly complex challenges caused by modern hybrid on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Overstretched technology teams always appreciate an extra set of helping hands, but what happens when this new team member isn't human—but artificial intelligence (AI)?
Posted August 08, 2024
Ampere and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are releasing second-generation Ampere-based compute instances, OCI Ampere A2 Compute, based on the AmpereOne family of processors. The new offering builds upon the success of OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances, which have been adopted by OCI customers and deployed across over 100 OCI services, including Oracle Database services like HeatWave, MySQL, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to meet the increased demands for generative AI, large language models (LLMs), advanced graphics, and digital twins to hasten operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) announced the release of NVIDIA L40S GPU bare-metal instances, available to order and the upcoming availability of a new virtual machine accelerated by a single NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU.
Posted August 07, 2024
Varonis Systems, Inc., a leader in data security, is debuting new AI capabilities designed to automatically discover, understand, and classify customer data. By enhancing its data classification engine with new machine learning (ML) techniques, Varonis forwards powerful data classification characterized by cost efficiency, transparency, and minimal effort.
Posted August 06, 2024
Bassam Chahine, professional services consultant, Instaclustr, joined DBTA's webinar, Enterprise Platform Engineering, the Open Source Way, to discuss the ways platform engineering can modernize application infrastructure—and do so with the multitude of advantages that open source has to offer.
Posted August 06, 2024
Code42 Software, Inc. (now part of Mimecast), the leader in data loss and insider threat protection, is unveiling a series of enhancements to Incydr, the SaaS data protection solution. With these enhancements, designed specifically to protect against data exfiltration to generative AI (GenAI) tools, enterprises can embark on GenAI initiatives with confidence, according to the company.
Posted August 06, 2024
Lumifi Cyber, Inc. (Lumifi), a next-generation leader in the cybersecurity space, is debuting its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Now available on the trusted Azure cloud platform, Lumifi's MDR capabilities enhance cybersecurity posture.
Posted August 05, 2024
Hazelcast, Inc., a leading software provider powering mission-critical applications that move the economy, is debuting vector search capabilities for its flagship product, the Hazelcast Platform. Now providing the necessary tools for Hazelcast users to modernize for the AI era, Hazelcast Platform 5.5 enables a variety of new use cases—including semantic search, fraud detection, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG)—as well as additional advancements in compute, resilience, and continuity.
Posted August 02, 2024
Data experts joined DBTA's webinar, The Role of Data in Driving Growth, to examine how the speakers' respective companies have driven enterprise growth through the successful taming of their data estates.
Posted August 02, 2024
AttackIQ, the leading independent vendor of breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions and a founding research partner of the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense (CTID), is debuting Flex 2.0, the latest iteration of its agentless BAS solution. As security threats continue to evolve, Flex 2.0 empowers enterprises to quickly and effectively assess their security postures as needed.
Posted August 01, 2024
Astronomer, the company behind Astro, the leading fully-managed service for Apache Airflow, is unveiling its latest platform release, forwarding pipeline resilience, release velocity, and hardened security, as well as support for dbt on Astro—the platform's first foray outside of the Airflow universe.
Posted July 31, 2024
Devo Technology, the security data analytics company, is unveiling a series of data orchestration, data analytics, and security operations center (SOC) workflow enhancements designed to bring data control, cost efficiency, and automation to security teams. With data volumes increasing while team budgets remain the same, Devo's latest offerings aim to ease the pressures of security while delivering robust data control.
Posted July 30, 2024
Fortanix Inc., a leader in data-first cybersecurity and pioneer of Confidential Computing, is debuting an expansion of Key Insight, the solution for proactively discovering, assessing, and remediating cryptographic security risks. Now, Key Insight users can scan on-premises services—such as databases or storage—for encryption keys, making it the first solution to deliver this capability across hybrid and on-prem environments, according to Fortanix.
Posted July 30, 2024
Census, the leading data activation and reverse ETL platform, is debuting its expanded focus in data transformation and governance tooling, manifested as the Universal Data Platform (UDP). This approach is grounded in breaking down data silos that prevent effective collaboration between data and business teams, offering a centralized platform for teams to create, contribute, and validate datasets.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM announced it is a new partner of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, as approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a major national and international research center, SQMS is dedicated to advancing critical quantum technologies, with a focus on superconducting quantum systems.
Posted July 29, 2024
According to IBM's CFO, the company's z16 mainframe is outperforming previous generations of the system, as reflected in recent quarterly financial results. The financial results for the past three months to the end of June 2024 showed it brought in $15.77 billion in revenue, up 1.9% year-on-year and more than the $15.62 billion predicted by analysts.
Posted July 29, 2024
IBM is introducing two new IBM SkillsBuild certificates in cybersecurity and data analytics, designed and piloted with community colleges. These new IBM SkillsBuild certificates will be available to students across the Alabama Community College System, Bay Area Community College Consortium, Colorado Community College System, and Louisiana Community and Technical College System this fall.
Posted July 29, 2024
365 Data Centers (365), a leading provider of network-centric colocation, network, cloud, and other managed services, is expanding its partnership with Megaport, a global leading Network-as-a-Service provider (NaaS). Megaport has broadened its 365 footprint by adding a Point-of-Presence at 365's Boca Raton, Florida data center, further enhancing public cloud and other connectivity solutions available to 365's Southeast customers.
Posted July 29, 2024
To shed light on modernizing business with data integration and governance at its core, experts joined DBTA's webinar, Data Integration and Governance for the Hybrid and Multicloud World, detailing the latest technologies and best practices that can turn the tide toward true proprietary efficiency.
Posted July 26, 2024