Data Center Management Articles
Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, is adding the S3 interface to its Global Data Platform, advancing the orchestration of existing data sets to available compute resources. With this announcement, Hammerspace continues to offer organizations new, advantageous ways to manage and leverage data, according to the company.
Posted June 17, 2024
Cirata, the company that automates Hadoop data transfer and integration to modern cloud analytics and AI platforms, is now offering support for IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), a cluster file system used as storage for IBM Spectrum Scale data lakes. The new Live GPFS support, which is included in the recent release of Cirata Data Migrator 2.5, dramatically reduces latency between storage changes and replication or migration outcomes while also enhancing the performance and scale of GPFS-resident data assets migrating to the cloud, according to the company.
Posted June 17, 2024
Qumulo, the simple way to manage exabyte-scale data anywhere, is joining the Ultra Ethernet Consortium—becoming one of the first Networked Storage suppliers to enlist. Additionally, Qumulo announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation and Arista Networks to advance the state-of-the-art in IT infrastructure at the intersection of networking, storage, and data management.
Posted June 17, 2024
Keebo is introducing Workload Intelligence, Powered by Snowflake on the Snowflake Marketplace, enabling joint customers to gain full visibility into their costs, identify their performance bottlenecks, identify their inefficient queries, and advise their data teams to take advantage of optimization opportunities.
Posted June 13, 2024
Apollo GraphQL, the creator of GraphQL federation, is unveiling new capabilities for Apollo GraphOS—the industry standard platform for GraphQL—that enhance developer productivity, maximize the value of APIs, and increase overall performance.
Posted June 13, 2024
Never before has the business spotlight been on database managers and professionals as it is at this time. Every business leader now wants a data-driven organization, as they recognize this is the key to competitive differentiation. Data monetization is seen as a vast new revenue source. AI—both operational and generative—relies on effective data management and quality. The ongoing transition to digital business demands real-time delivery of insights to end users and applications.
Posted June 13, 2024
Data modeling has always had a push-me/pull-you relationship in the IT world. The idea of complete logical and physical data models, insightful definitions, coherent data flow diagrams, and other related informational caches is always desirable. However, far too often, the expectation is that these activities take virtually no time to create. When the expenditure of resources goes beyond a certain level, the activities are jettisoned or otherwise given the short shrift. Actually, getting code in place is viewed as the only evidence of true progress.
Posted June 13, 2024
The world of open source has moved from being a niche interest that was the province of academics and self-described geeks to the mainstream. From being the purview of free software interest groups, open source is now ubiquitous. According to OpenUK, open source is used by 78% of private enterprises, and open source components and code are present in roughly 97% of all applications, proprietary or otherwise.
Posted June 13, 2024
Most times, if asked, I will rattle off, without hesitation, a list of ways AI is being applied along with all the ways it can go wrong. You may also get bit of a diatribe about why speaking of AI in the royal sense (i.e., "the AI") is always a bad idea. It's practically a (bad) party trick. Yet recently, when asked to characterize the primary ethical issues in AI, I had a perfect moment of mental blankness. It was an uncomfortable and instructive moment on many fronts.
Posted June 12, 2024
Ben Slater, CPO, Instaclustr by NetApp, joined DBTA's webinar, The World's Largest Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra Migration: Lessons Learned and Best Practices, shared their firsthand experience in managing a migration project of colossal scale, delivering valuable insights in areas such as planning, security, performance optimization, monitoring, and more.
Posted June 12, 2024
Apica, the leader in data management and active observability, is debuting version 2.0 of the Apica Ascent Platform, acting as a culmination of Apica's recently acquired entities—LOGIQ.AI, a data fabric innovator, and Circonus, a telemetry data management provider. Incorporating the features from both acquired companies' platforms, Ascent platform 2.0 empowers organizations with deeper, more enriched insights into data management, further simplifying how customers gather and apply their data to systems and platforms.
Posted June 12, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is developing of high-performance and energy-efficient hybrid cloud and database solutions. The new, highly-performant AMD EPYC CPU-powered Hitachi Vantara hybrid cloud solutions combine converged and hyperconverged solutions, including Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP), with 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors.
Posted June 12, 2024
StorMagic, the company solving the world's edge data problems, is unveiling SvHCI, an innovative response to the spike in costs of hypervisors—namely, by VMware and its recent acquisition by Broadcom. SvHCI is the world's most inexpensive, full-stack, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution—offering both a hypervisor and a storage layer—purpose-built for edge and small to medium-sized business (SMB) environments, according to StorMagic.
Posted June 11, 2024
Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-Native Networking, is introducing a new round of innovations to its AI-Native Networking Platform, delivering exceptional value and cost savings to enterprises requiring secure branch connections.
Posted June 11, 2024
To gain insight on the adoption and maturity of data management technologies and practices, DBTA and Radiant Advisors surveyed more than 250 IT leaders and professionals at organizations across North America to identify the key perceptions, priorities, challenges, and technology plans underlying modernization efforts today.
Posted June 11, 2024
Cube, the provider of the universal semantic layer for every data app, is announcing the completion of its latest funding round—led by new investor Databricks Ventures—having raised $25 million. Seeing participation from existing investors Decibel, Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and 645 Ventures, this latest funding round will help Cube invest in its growth and development strategies for its flagship product, Cube Cloud.
Posted June 10, 2024
Offering their expertise on UC migrations, speakers from Databricks and Blueprint joined DBTA's webinar, Achieving Unified Governance for Data and AI: Unity Catalog Migration Simplified, to explore the ways to accelerate, simplify, and automate the transition process.
Posted June 07, 2024
Bigeye, the enterprise-grade data observability platform for modern and legacy data stacks, is announcing support for column-level lineage for ETL platforms, bringing extended visibility to enterprises' hybrid data environments. This release empowers organizations with both on-prem sources and cloud data warehouses to map the entire lineage of their data analytics pipeline, ushering in more holistic insights on data quality.
Posted June 07, 2024
Data breaches and cyberattacks are only getting more sophisticated at an alarmingly fast pace. In 2024 so far alone, there have been approximately 875,603,100 known records breached in 1,819 publicly disclosed incidents, as reported by It Governance. Since most attacks focus on identity, theft of credentials, or human error, Ev Kontsevoy, CEO of Teleport, believes security must be a company's philosophy from Day One.
Posted June 06, 2024
Guiding enterprises through the thicket of the latest database technologies and strategies, experts joined DBTA's roundtable webinar, New Database Technologies and Strategies for the AI Era, to offer their expertise on the market's best solutions for supporting AI projects.
Posted June 06, 2024
Oracle revealed plans to open two Oracle Cloud Regions in Morocco to offer enterprise cloud services to local and regional organizations across Africa. The upcoming new regions will enable Oracle customers and partners to migrate mission-critical workloads from their data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), while helping them comply with local regulations. As a result, customers and partners can access a wide range of cloud services to modernize their applications and innovate with AI, data, and analytics, according to Oracle.
Posted June 05, 2024
A first and important step in being successful at almost any job or task is understanding oneself. This is true for engineers, modelers, or even architects. Do you know how to perform your tasks? Are you faster or slower than others doing the same tasks? Do you have more or less errors in your output than others? It seems that a rising number of people are so uncomfortable with competing that they may even avoid asking these kinds of questions of themselves; but this is not about competition, it is about understanding oneself, it is about being responsible, it is about holding oneself accountable.
Posted June 05, 2024
Mei Long, product manager at Prophecy, and Nathan Tong, sales engineer at Prophecy, joined DBTA's webinar, Build Data Pipelines on Databricks in 5 Easy Steps, to discuss various practical strategies and techniques to streamline data transformation, foster seamless collaboration between teams, and establish data transformation standards that value reliability and quality.
Posted June 04, 2024
CrowdStrike and Cloudflare, Inc., the leading connectivity cloud company, are expanding their strategic partnership to connect their platforms to enhance security from the device to the network, accelerate Security Operations Center (SOC) transformation, and stop breaches before they happen.
Posted June 03, 2024
OmniOn Power announced the release of its RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) Client module for its DC power systems, addressing the growing need for secure, remote access to data center infrastructure. The addition of RADIUS Client modules to OmniOn's power systems allows for the centralized management of access credentials and policies without the need to individually configure each system controller, according to the company.
Posted June 03, 2024
Aston, provider of the fastest path to clean energy for the global supply chain, is launching a first-of-its-kind Rapid Development Program (RDP) for Clean Data Centers. Aston's demand-driven approach brings scalable clean energy to data centers with a network of clean energy generation and industrial private grids purpose-built for each customer's energy needs today and for decades to come, according to the company.
Posted June 03, 2024
In the latest DBTA webinar—Microsoft Fabric Essentials and Modernization Pathways—Tobin Thankachen, lead architect, data management at Datavail—Microsoft's solution partner—offered their expertise on Microsoft Fabric, answering viewers' questions while demonstrating how it works and the modernization pathways fit for organizations' unique architectures.
Posted May 30, 2024
Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, is debuting Maverics Identity Continuity, a product addition to Strata's Maverics Identity Orchestration platform engineered to offer seamless, always-on identity access continuity in multi-cloud environments. As the majority of businesses rely on the cloud, Strata paves the way for continuous application access even when a primary identity provider (IDP) is down, according to the company.
Posted May 30, 2024
JFrog Ltd, the Liquid Software company and creator of the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform, is announcing a new partnership with GitHub, the world's leading AI-powered developer platform. Born from this partnership is a best of breed, integrated platform solution that merges every developer "Ops"—from DevOps to DevSecOps, MLOps, and GenAI-powered apps—within a single interface.
Posted May 29, 2024
To discuss the ways GenAI can be augmented for true success, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, and David Jayatillake, VP of AI at Cube, joined DBTA's webinar, Delivering on the promise of AI: Increasing Accuracy with a Semantic Layer, offering the ways that a semantic layer—or a consistent convention of understanding and definition that data adheres to—can position GenAI and large language models (LLM) to live up to their technological intent.
Posted May 24, 2024
Stratus Technologies Inc., an SGH company and a global leader in simplified, protected, and autonomous computing platforms for the edge and the data center, is debuting two innovations: Stratus Redundant Linux (SRL) 3.0, the latest update to the company's Linux-based operating system for the Stratus ztC Edge platform, and everRun 8.0, a new iteration of Stratus' continuous availability software. These latest releases continue to solidify Stratus' commitment to Linux development while forwarding easy edge manageability, robust security, and enhanced performance, according to the company.
Posted May 22, 2024
SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, is debuting SolarWinds AI, a generative AI (GenAI) engine developed with the company's new AI by Design framework. This engine will be used to enhance the efforts of IT teams in dealing with the complexities of modern digital environments, first being integrated with SolarWinds Service Desk, according to the company.
Posted May 22, 2024
IBM and SAP are advancing their collaboration, adding new generative AI capabilities and industry-specific cloud solutions that can help clients unlock business value. "IBM and SAP's shared approach to generative AI, built on an open ecosystem, trust and purpose-built models, will help empower clients to optimize business outcomes," said John Granger, senior vice president, IBM Consulting. "Our new Value Generation partnership initiative will enable clients to accelerate the path to innovation, competitive advantage and become a next generation enterprise through generative AI."
Posted May 22, 2024
Rafay Systems, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider for modern infrastructure and accelerated computing, is extending the capabilities of its enterprise PaaS for modern infrastructure to support graphics processing unit- (GPU-) based workloads—making compute resources for AI instantly consumable by developers and data scientists. Additionally, the company also launched a new AI Suite with standards-based pipelines for machine learning operations (MLOps) and large language model operations (LLMOps) to help enterprise platform teams quicken the development and deployment of AI applications for developers and data scientists, according to Rafay Systems.
Posted May 20, 2024
Flexential, a leading provider of secure and flexible data center solutions, is expanding its FlexAnywhere Platform, introducing plans to develop its fifth data center and colocation facility in the Denver area. By expanding its data center footprint in the region, Flexential aims to meet surging demand for data center inventory and connectivity across Denver, according to the company.
Posted May 20, 2024
Camunda, the enterprise enabling organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity and increase efficiency, is debuting new functionality for its end-to-end process orchestration platform that further infuses intelligence into business automation.
Posted May 17, 2024
Rockset, the leading search and analytics database built for the cloud, is announcing native support for hybrid search, redefining the potential of search and AI applications. Now, users can benefit from search that can retrieve vector, test, geospatial, and structured data within a single query.
Posted May 16, 2024
ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a provider of enterprise IT management solutions, is releasing SaaS Manager Plus, a SaaS management solution for enterprises to streamline their SaaS ecosystems. SaaS Manager Plus will integrate with Zoho apps and other widely utilized applications.
Posted May 16, 2024
Amazon's Just Walk Out technology seemed like the epitome of futuristic shopping when it debuted at Amazon Fresh stores. I, like many, was thrilled about the potential of advanced AI transforming the shopping experience. The idea of simply grabbing items and leaving without the hassle of a traditional checkout process was a game changer. I believed that the technology arm behind these stores, Amazon Web Services (AWS), was at the forefront of AI innovation. However, the recent revelations about the true nature of this technology have left me, and many others, feeling disappointed and misled.
Posted May 16, 2024
Alkira, the leader in on-demand network infrastructure as-a-service, is announcing the results of its Series C funding round, having raised $100 million—amounting to a total funding to date of $176 million. This funding round—led by Tiger Global Management with additional investment and participation from Dallas Venture Capital, Geodesic Capital, NextEquity Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Koch Disruptive Technologies, and Sequoia Capital—aims to accelerate Alkira's innovation efforts in the space of secure network infrastructure as-a-service.
Posted May 15, 2024
ScienceLogic, a provider of automated IT operations, is unveiling Autonomic IT—business-accelerating capabilities that combine data, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation to enable enterprises to focus on innovation. With support from the ScienceLogic SL1 platform, enterprises can achieve improved, global hybrid cloud visibility, significantly reduce IT complexity and costs, diagnose root cause faster, and leverage automation to slash manual effort as they progress towards the full realization of Autonomic IT, according to the company.
Posted May 15, 2024
ScaleOut Software, the developer of leading-edge software that delivers scalable, highly available, in-memory computing and streaming analytics technologies to a wide range of industries, is launching Version 3 of its ScaleOut Digital Twins cloud service and on-prem hosting platform. The updated solution now features a new user interface (UI) that eases digital twin deployment and management, as well as advanced functionality for large-scale digital twin simulation and an integration with Amazon Dynamo DB.
Posted May 14, 2024
Boomi, the intelligent integration and automation leader, is acquiring APIIDA's federated API management business and API management assets from Cloud Software Group, allowing enterprises to deliver business value through API products in one end-to-end platform. According to the company, both these acquisitions accelerate Boomi's roadmap for providing solutions to the most pressing API management challenges that companies face today.
Posted May 13, 2024
On the second day of the Data Summit 2024 conference, Beth Rudden, CEO, Bast.ai, and Lalit Ahuja, chief technology officer, GridGain Systems, Inc., explored themes surrounding modern data management challenges—including AI-driven versioning, implementing taxonomies and ontologies, going real time, and more.
Posted May 09, 2024
Zoe Steinkamp, developer advocate, InfluxData, led the annual Data Summit session, "Architecting for Speed and Scale," highlighting how Apache Iceberg brings data harmony—complemented by flexibility, scalability, and high performance—to enterprises' structured data.
Posted May 09, 2024