Data Center Management Articles
Backslash Security, a modern application security solution that leverages deep reachability analysis for enterprise AppSec and product security teams, is debuting new capabilities for the Backslash platform that are designed to alleviate the various pain points associated with AppSec. The two new features—Fix Simulation and Attack Path Remediation—provide advanced remediation guidance that incorporates safety, security, and app context to solve critical vulnerability challenges.
Posted July 25, 2024
ScienceLogic, a leader in automated IT operations, is debuting several updates to ScienceLogic SL1, the vendor's AIOps platform that offers expansive monitoring and contextualization across multi-cloud and distributed architectures. This series of updates—spanning areas such as reliability, security, enterprise enablement, third-party integration, user experience, and more—reflects ScienceLogic's comprehensive approach to accommodating its users' data center needs.
Posted July 25, 2024
Data engineering experts joined DBTA's webinar, The Future of Data Engineering: AI, Automation, and the Cloud, to examine key technologies and best practices that are playing significant roles in how data engineering can best manifest in the enterprise.
Posted July 25, 2024
Database administration is a demanding career that is constantly morphing to include more and different job requirements. Being a DBA requires technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage multiple, detailed tasks at the same time. This means that in the world of database administration, stress is an unwelcome, yet common companion.
Posted July 24, 2024
Iterative, the company dedicated to streamlining the workflow of AI engineers and creator of widely-used open-source projects in MLOps, is announcing the upcoming release of Data Chain, the new open source tool designed to empower organizations to derive greater value from unstructured data. With the ability to process and evaluate unstructured data, Data Chain positions a variety of enterprises to successfully implement AI with open source data curation and pre-processing capabilities.
Posted July 23, 2024
Code Metal, the company powering AI-based development workflows for the edge, is announcing it has secured $13 million in seed funding, as well as $3.45 million in a pre-seed round. Led by Shield Capital and J2 Ventures—with participation from Fulcrum Venture Group, Underdog Labs, and more—this capital will propel Code Metal's efforts to build both its modular and verifiable agentic workflows that radically enhance the speed of development and its team of experts.
Posted July 23, 2024
Forcepoint, a global leader in data-first cybersecurity solutions, is debuting its comprehensive generative AI (GenAI) security solution designed to enable secure, transparent control across GenAI platforms. Featuring an integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API, Forcepoint's GenAI Security solution empowers both enterprise and government agencies to utilize GenAI innovations while adhering to robust data security and compliance standards.
Posted July 19, 2024
Semarchy, a master data management and data integration leader, is announcing that it has become a technology partner for master data management (MDM) in Microsoft Purview—a comprehensive set of solutions that can help organizations govern, protect, and manage data wherever it lives. With this technology partnership comes a powerful integration that brings Semarchy's platform—which unifies MDM, data intelligence, and data integration into a single application—to Microsoft Purview, extending its value, according to the company.
Posted July 19, 2024
Momento, the real-time data platform founded by the engineering team that built DynamoDB, is announcing the completion of its Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, having raised $15 million. Emboldened by its mission to both streamline and increase the efficacy of developers, Momento's funding will enable the company to continue to deliver hassle-free infrastructure at a global scale. This release also announces the GA of Momento Topics, a massively scalable pub/sub messaging service optimized for real-time, many-to-many communication, according to the vendor.
Posted July 19, 2024
A faulty update to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor caused a global IT outage on Microsoft systems Friday, causing international flights to be grounded, knocking banks offline and media outlets off air. Further compounding the situation, several states in the U.S. are reporting disruptions to emergency services. The bug has affected many stock exchanges, supermarkets, government services, and even hospital and healthcare systems. Users are experiencing the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error, which is causing their systems to shut down or restart unexpectedly.
Posted July 19, 2024
Census, the data activation and reverse ETL platform, is announcing its acquisition of Fulcrum, an AI-led growth platform for business teams. This acquisition aims to deliver AI-driven data collaboration between data and business teams, integrating Fulcrum's technology into the Census platform.
Posted July 18, 2024
Exabeam, the company delivering industry-leading AI and automation for accelerated threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR), and LogRhythm, the provider of a leading security information and event management (SIEM) solution, have announced the completion of its merger. Bringing together both technology and talent, the company will retain the Exabeam name while continuing to deliver best-of-breed cybersecurity solutions.
Posted July 17, 2024
In our last article, we discussed several great companies of Western civilization and why a poignant few of them, that were building game-changing technology, disappeared. Metaphorically they can be envisioned as having been buried in the proverbial Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse, never to be seen again.
Posted July 17, 2024
Cytactic, the platform pioneering cyber crisis readiness and management, is announcing the results of a seed funding round led by Evolution Equity Partners, having raised $16 million. This funding will serve to propel the company's mission in combating complex threat landscapes with intuitive, holistic crisis management.
Posted July 16, 2024
As a product manager, I have worked closely with data engineering teams and witnessed the fantastic ways to transform raw web data into insights, products, data models, and more. Data cleaning consistently stands out as a vital component of this transformation.
Posted July 16, 2024
Intel is unveiling a new tank design along with immersion cooling solutions for data centers, signifying a potential leap in cooling efficiency for powering data centers. Through its ongoing collaboration with Intel, ExxonMobil's Data Center immersion fluids have played a crucial role in enabling Intel's solution to overcome technical limitations showcasing the potential use of hydrocarbon based single phase immersion cooling for future chip designs.
Posted July 15, 2024
Storj is acquiring Vald, ushering in a "new era" in distributed cloud innovation to seize the opportunity to accelerate innovation at-scale with integrated cloud storage and GPU solutions. According to the vendors, just as Storj disrupted the storage industry by enabling customers to use underutilized storage capacity in data centers in 100-plus countries worldwide, Valdi is disrupting the GPU industry, enabling customers to use available GPU compute cycles in data centers worldwide.
Posted July 15, 2024
To help shed light on the ways organizations can overcome these continuing obstacles, experts joined DBTA's webinar, Achieving Unified Analytics: Next-Generation Data Platforms, to examine the latest and greatest solutions that promise to effectively modernize and unify enterprise analytics.
Posted July 12, 2024
IANS Research, a cybersecurity research and advisory firm, is debuting IANS Privacy Operations, a subscription-based solution consisting of a dedicated stream of research and advisory resources to help CISOs and their teams adhere to the continuously increasing number of privacy regulations. Built specifically for the operational aspect of privacy compliance, this latest advisory offering ensures that security and privacy teams can adhere to necessary guidelines—which are often difficult to understand due to complex legal language.
Posted July 11, 2024
Rocket Software recently announced a special 4-part series on the Importance of APIs for Modernizing Your MV App. Rocket principal product manager Hernando Borda is the host for this MultiValue (MV) roundtable event—delving into the transformative power of APIs and how they can bring significant value to MV applications.
Posted July 11, 2024
CHOROLOGY, a cutting-edge innovator in compliance and security posture management, is emerging from stealth—backed by $9 million in Series A funding—to deliver comprehensive, robust data governance designed with Deep Artificial Intelligence technology. CHOROLOGY's aim is to bring best of breed compliance and security posture management solutions to the market that focus on ease-of-use, intuitiveness, and zero-learning overhead.
Posted July 10, 2024
appCD, the leading provider of generative Infrastructure from Code, is announcing that its generative Infrastructure from Code solution now supports AWS Lambda, effectively alleviating the pains of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) from developers and allowing them to focus on the development tasks that matter most. AWS Lambda developers now benefit from appCD's auto-generated IaC files—which are derived directly from application source code—easing the development process while integrating compliance and industry best practices from the very start.
Posted July 10, 2024
VAST Data, the AI data platform company, is announcing that the VAST Data Platform—the platform delivering scalable performance, radically simple data management, and enhanced productivity—has recently been certified as a high-performance storage solution for NVIDIA Partner Network cloud partners.
Posted July 09, 2024
Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation leader, is unveiling the Boomi API Control Plane, a solution designed to make all APIs—including those hidden in the organization, aka "shadow APIs"—discoverable and manageable from a single place. Released within Boomi's API Management solution, the Boomi API Control Plane empowers enterprises to take control of their API estates with efficient governance.
Posted July 09, 2024
AttackIQ, a 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 AttackIQ Mission Control, a new capability for enterprise customers engineered to streamline and improve AttackIQ Enterprise BAS deployments for large organizations.
Posted July 09, 2024
SingleStore, the real-time data platform for you to transact, analyze, and contextualize, is debuting bi-directional compatibility with Apache Iceberg, enabling enterprises to take advantage of the data "frozen" in their lakehouses. Additionally, SingleStore is announcing an array of new capabilities, including enhanced full-text search, autoscaling, and more.
Posted July 03, 2024
Oracle Autonomous Database is now generally available on Oracle Database@Azure in the Microsoft Azure East U.S. region. Oracle will operate and manage the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Service, the second Oracle database service to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Azure data centers, according to the company.
Posted July 03, 2024
Gearset, the leading Salesforce DevOps platform, is debuting a new suite of capabilities designed to accelerate and enhance reliable release management for its Salesforce DevOps platform. Prompted by user feedback, the new features—Archiving, expansions to Compare and Deploy, and Flow Navigator—deliver data optimization and visibility tools that empower Salesforce teams across the DevOps lifecycle.
Posted July 01, 2024
ZincFive, a provider of nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery-based solutions for immediate power applications, announced it has surpassed 1 gigawatt (GW) in power delivered and contracted across multiple continents, underscoring the industry's demand for safe, reliable, and sustainable energy solutions. NiZn is rapidly gaining traction over incumbent technologies like lead-acid and lithium-ion due to its compact industry-leading footprint, unmatched safety features, leading sustainability, and unparalleled reliability, according to the vendor.
Posted July 01, 2024
IBM is unveiling IBM Concert, providing generative AI driven insights for applications and putting site reliability engineers (SREs) and developers in control of simplifying and optimizing their operations across any environment. IBM Concert is now generally available.
Posted July 01, 2024
ID Dataweb, the leader in cross-channel identity verification, is announcing a recent expansion of its relationship with IBM, integrating ID Dataweb's identity verification workflows with IBM Security Verify, the low-friction, cloud-native, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach to identity access management (IAM).
Posted July 01, 2024
Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, is announcing two new services for the Precisely Data Integrity Suite—the modular, interoperable suite for delivering accurate, consistent, contextual data to your business. This release introduces Spatial Analytics and Data Enrichment services to Precisely's suite, offering location-aware capabilities that enhance data management in increasingly complex data estates. This announcement also debuts a new private API for mainframe replication, providing more flexible deployment options to help meet business and IT rules.
Posted June 28, 2024
Lastwall, a leading cybersecurity solutions provider of highly secure, identity-centric, and quantum resilient technologies, is debuting Quantum Shield, a first-of-its-kind quantum resilient product designed to help enterprises withstand the threat of "Q-Day"—the moment stolen data is decrypted once quantum computers are able to break current encryption standards. Quantum Shield aims to protect conventional network infrastructures with the latest cryptographic standards, ensuring intercepted data remains secure now and in the future.
Posted June 27, 2024
DBTA gathered experts from Microsoft and Informatica for the webinar, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud as an Azure Native ISV Service, to discuss the nuance of leveraging cloud capabilities for data management within the Azure ecosystem, helping to cultivate greater understanding around Informatica and Microsoft's collaborative software.
Posted June 27, 2024
Data migrations can be a big undertaking for almost any organization. That's why it's so important that organizations set themselves up for long-term success. This means being able to ensure they'll enable their desired outcomes—such as compliance, data accuracy, and performance—for the long haul.
Posted June 27, 2024
Krishna Raman, vice president, ISM R&D at Quest, and Aaron Sonntag, senior software development engineer at EDB, joined DBTA's webinar, Ensuring Performance, Scalability, and Security in the Cloud, to examine today's best practices for cloud adoption and management, discussing various factors that can derail success.
Posted June 27, 2024
CData Software, a leading provider of data connectivity solutions, is announcing a recent boom in capital, concluding a funding round that garnered $350 million from Warburg Pincus, a leading global growth investor, with participation from Accel.
Posted June 26, 2024
Daytona, an open source development environment manager, announced that it has secured $5 million in a seed funding round to spearhead its mission of democratizing development for developers globally. The seed round was led by Upfront Ventures with participation from existing investor 500 EE, enabling Daytona to accelerate the expansion of streamlined development environments to developers worldwide. The company will further use the funds for product development and hiring for new marketing, sales, and engineering roles.
Posted June 26, 2024
Microsoft-backed OpenAI is acquiring search and database analytics startup Rockset to improve infrastructure for its enterprise products. "Rockset's infrastructure empowers companies to transform their data into actionable intelligence. We're excited to bring these benefits to our customers by integrating Rockset's foundation into OpenAI products," said Brad Lightcap, OpenAI COO.
Posted June 26, 2024
XM Cyber, a leader in hybrid cloud exposure management, is offering new capabilities that will provide enhanced exposure management for SAP deployments. XM Cyber delivers continuous visibility into attack paths targeting SAP systems and the guidance to resolve these exposures. With SAP Exposure Management, organizations can better defend and ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability for the SAP systems they rely upon to perform core business functions, according to the company.
Posted June 26, 2024
Panasonic Information Systems Co., Ltd., the IT subsidiary of Panasonic Holdings Corporation, announced it has selected Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the cloud database platform to support the internal systems used by all companies within the Panasonic Group. This entails migrating more than 2,000 database environments from hundreds of internal systems to Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI.
Posted June 26, 2024
NetApp, the intelligent data infrastructure company, is announcing that Spot by NetApp has achieved the FinOps Certified Platform certification from the FinOps Foundation, as well as two new product modules: Cost Intelligence and Billing Engine.
Posted June 20, 2024