Database Security Articles
Fortinet, a global cybersecurity leader driving the convergence of networking and security, is making significant enhancements to FortiAnalyzer, reinforcing its role in driving faster, smarter security operations (SecOps).
Posted February 24, 2025
Triton Consulting, the independent data management and digital transformation service provider, announced the addition of ZMARS to its portfolio of client services. Z Mainframe Availability and Resiliency Service (ZMARS), Triton Consulting's newly launched service, ensures the Db2 for z/OS environment stays resilient, recovers fast, and performs at its best, according to the vendor.
Posted February 24, 2025
e&, a global technology group, is partnering with IBM to deploy a pioneering, end-to-end, multi-model Artificial Intelligence (AI) and generative AI governance solution. This collaboration intends to enhance e&'s AI governance framework to promote compliance, oversight, and ethical practices across its growing AI ecosystem, reinforcing e&'s commitment to establishing robust governance, risk management, and regulatory oversight across its AI usage.
Posted February 24, 2025
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is partnering with BMC Software, a global leader in software solutions, to innovate and optimize on mainframe and open systems environments. According to the companies, this collaboration will combine Hitachi Vantara's advanced storage platforms with BMC's software offerings, enabling enterprises to improve their IT operations while maximizing the value of their data.
Posted February 24, 2025
The role of the Database Administrator (DBA) is constantly evolving to adapt to changes in technology and application development methods. Once primarily focused on managing physical hardware and software, DBAs now find themselves navigating a complex landscape of cloud technologies, AI-driven automation, and ever-increasing data volumes. Here at the beginning of 2025, let's explore the top five concerns that keep DBAs up at night.
Posted February 24, 2025
Alkira, a leader in Network Infrastructure as a Service (NIaaS), is introducing Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS), further enhancing its Network and Security Services Marketplace to enable customers to seamlessly integrate LBaaS, optimizing performance and scalability for both internal and external applications.
Posted February 21, 2025
InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, is offering Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Read Replicas, a new capability for improved query performance and high availability for enterprise-scale time series workloads on AWS. Read Replicas are the latest addition to InfluxData's collaboration with AWS to deliver Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a managed offering announced last year for AWS developers to run open source InfluxDB natively on AWS without the overhead of self-management.
Posted February 20, 2025
Microsoft announced its latest breakthrough, Majorana 1, the world's first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture. The company expects it will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades.
Posted February 20, 2025
Lambda, the AI Developer Cloud, announced it has raised $480 million in Series D funding, bringing the total equity capital raised to date to $863 million and enabling the company to power the next wave of AI-driven innovation to deliver tangible value across industries.
Posted February 20, 2025
Picture this: You're a U.S. manufacturer who just finished adapting to the European Data Act, breathing a sigh of relief. Not so fast. Enter NIS2 (Network and Information Systems Directive 2), Europe's latest regulatory powerhouse that's about to reshape the cybersecurity landscape for manufacturers worldwide.
Posted February 20, 2025
Hexaware Technologies, an IT solutions and services provider, is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to strengthen its offerings in migration and modernization, data and AI, and generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered customer experience solutions.
Posted February 19, 2025
NVISIONx, a leader in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), is introducing Nx+RexAI, a new solution designed to tackle the challenges of data governance, regulatory compliance, and data security.
Posted February 19, 2025
As part of Oracle's distributed cloud strategy, the company is launching Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer with NVIDIA GPU configurations and Oracle Private Cloud Appliance with GPU configurations (available in March), featuring NVIDIA L40S GPUs to bring enterprise-grade AI, graphics, and high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities directly into any location—including data centers.
Posted February 19, 2025
Oracle NetSuite today is introducing a series of AI innovations and other new product updates that will help organizations increase efficiency and accelerate growth. According to the company, the latest updates across the suite build on the comprehensive AI capabilities embedded in NetSuite and will enable customers to take advantage of new pre-configured solutions, third-party integrations, and procurement and billing enhancements.
Posted February 19, 2025
IBM announced its intent to acquire Applications Software Technology LLC, a global Oracle consultancy—which would bring deep expertise driving business transformations with Oracle Cloud Applications, including for clients in the public sector such as local government and K-12 education.
Posted February 19, 2025
Clearsense, a cloud-based data enablement platform company, announced a transformative brand overhaul, along with the relocation of its headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee.
Posted February 18, 2025
Delinea, a pioneering provider of solutions for securing human and non-human identities through centralized authorization, is introducing new capabilities on its leading cloud-native platform, including credential and password support for workforce and business users, intelligent identity lifecycle management, and behavioral analytics spanning all identity types.
Posted February 18, 2025
Palo Alto Networks (PANW), a global cybersecurity leader, is reinforcing its cloud security mission with the introduction of Cortex Cloud, the next version of Prisma Cloud, that natively brings together new releases of its cloud detection and response (CDR) and cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) capabilities on the unified Cortex platform.
Posted February 14, 2025
BlackFog, a leader in ransomware prevention and anti data exfiltration (ADX), is introducing next-generation cybersecurity protection for macOS to provide comprehensive threat coverage for all Apple devices running macOS Ventura or later. This solution expands upon its robust protection for Windows, Android, and ChromeOS, according to the company.
Posted February 14, 2025
Ataccama, the data trust company, is offering Ataccama Lineage, a new module within its Ataccama ONE unified data trust platform (V16) to provide enterprise-wide visibility into data flows, offering organizations a clear view of their data's journey from source to consumption.
Posted February 13, 2025
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in unveiling eight new HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers, the latest additions to a new generation of enterprise servers that introduce new security capabilities, optimize performance for complex workloads, and boost productivity with management features enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI).
Posted February 13, 2025
The World Economic Forum has made a bold statement: We are in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and this revolution is more challenging than any before it. What makes it so difficult? This new era is defined by technologies we can't see, touch, or fully understand. From AI to big data and augmented reality, these innovations are transforming every aspect of our lives at a pace that many believe humanity simply can't keep up with.
Posted February 13, 2025
All of the hype and high hopes around AI in recent years has focused on compelling use cases—from creating new medicines to taking over customer service. However, all AI efforts will be nonstarters without well-governed, well-sourced data. That is the leading challenge for enterprises going forward in the competitive economy of 2025.
Posted February 13, 2025
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a go-to architecture for companies using generative AI (GenAI). Enterprises adopt RAG to enrich large language models (LLMs) with proprietary corporate data so LLMs have the data they need, but weren't trained on, to answer questions.
Posted February 13, 2025
The "data deluge" is as familiar to IT professionals as it is cliché, but what we are encountering today is very different. Will our typical response be enough? Often hyped, the data deluge has been an omnipresent theme in IT circles for years as enterprises struggled to manage an ever-increasing barrage of data.
Posted February 13, 2025
AI and generative AI (GenAI) cannot function—let alone deliver trustworthy analysis—without well-vetted, quality data. Data executives across many leading organizations recognize that data has become the Achilles' heel of AI. Yet, as far as they are concerned, AI is too important to pass up, and it's still full speed ahead for AI and GenAI investments—despite near-term headwinds incurred by any lack of readiness of organizations' data infrastructure and assets.
Posted February 13, 2025
In the thick of the 2020s now, organizations are entering a new tech era, one dominated around conversations declaring, "What AI can do for your enterprise!" As 2025 begins, DBTA presents the annual MultiValue (MV) Special Report and asks MV executives to address several questions.
Posted February 13, 2025
Normalization clusters data items together based on functional dependencies within the data items. This normalized arrangement expresses the semantics of the business items being presented. Denormalization means that, for some reason, grouping the data strictly by functional dependencies has been ignored. Why might one cast aside reasonable designs for something less rational? There are many reasons for denormalizing.
Posted February 13, 2025
Since the term's inception in the late 2000s, "DevOps" is by far the most common approach to product development. During the last 15 years, DevOps processes have evolved to new speeds and scales, with the latest iteration including AI-assisted coding and platform engineering. Simultaneously, certain companies are struggling to master database operations. As a result, many organizations have data that sits in silos and/or can be hard to track down. What today's businesses need is a way to combine DevOps and data management, ultimately creating a Database DevOps framework.
Posted February 13, 2025
Rocket Software announced the latest enhancements to the Rocket U2 System Builder Extensible Architecture version 6.6.2. This release brings a host of improvements and fixes that enhance the functionality and reliability of the platform.
Posted February 13, 2025
Zilliz, the company behind the open source vector database Milvus, is debuting an enhanced iteration of Zilliz Cloud Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), designed to further eliminate the burden of DevOps while offering enterprises full control over their data.
Posted February 12, 2025
LicenseFortress, a leading software asset management (SAM) solution provider, announced that the company has won the Best of IT Services Award for providing superior service to their clients.
Posted February 12, 2025
Percona, a global leader in enterprise-grade open source database software and services, is releasing Percona Support for Valkey—a comprehensive, responsive, and flexible service offering that promises to maintain reliable, optimized Valkey deployments whether on-premises, hybrid, or in the cloud.
Posted February 11, 2025
Qualys, Inc., a leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, is introducing the Managed Risk Operations Center (mROC) Partner Alliance, allowing select Qualys partners to expand their revenue streams by offering advisory, onboarding, integration, and remediation through a unified managed service to help their clients identify, quantify, assess, and mitigate cyber risks.
Posted February 11, 2025
Satori, an industry-leading data security platform, is unveiling its new capabilities that enable security teams to control of all customer data across the development lifecycle in a simple, cost-effective, and holistic way—automating the daunting tasks of discovering data, risk assessment, providing granular access control, and mitigating security risks quickly across cloud platforms like AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, and MongoDB.
Posted February 10, 2025
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, Top Trends in Data Engineering for 2025, to explore the new trends and best practices shaping the future of engineering, from AI-driven tools to real-time data processing, new data architecture patterns, and more.
Posted February 10, 2025
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is introducing a new co-engineered solution with Cisco designed for Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes.
Posted February 10, 2025
BMC is releasing a variety of updates to the BMC AMI portfolio, breaking new ground in enabling what is possible on the mainframe from a new approach to secondary data storage to the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances productivity and efficiency.
Posted February 10, 2025
Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It's had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English Language in the mid-1970s. It's survived and thrived through the dot-com era and the proliferation of cloud technology. In essence, SQL is a technology that evolves.
Posted February 10, 2025
SolarWinds Corporation, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Turn/River Capital in an all-cash transaction for $18.50 per share or approximately $4.4 billion.
Posted February 07, 2025
Submissions for nominations are now open for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users. The nominations period is open and extended through March 21, 2025, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted February 07, 2025
Quest Software, a global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, data management, and migration, is offering the next iteration of Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and disaster recovery to challenge outdated models and set new standards for proactive defense and rapid recovery.
Posted February 06, 2025
Appfire, the leading global provider of software that enhances, extends, and connects the world's leading platforms, is acquiring Flow, a market-leading enterprise software product for Software Engineering Intelligence (SEI), from Pluralsight.
Posted February 06, 2025
Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, is debuting end-to-end, secure access service edge (SASE) services to help enterprises navigate the constantly evolving technological and threat landscape. Launched to drive adoption of Palo Alto Networks' Prisma SASE, Kyndryl's SASE services aim to bring cloud-first, zero-trust security to today's organizations with ease.
Posted February 05, 2025
Aerospike is unveiling the latest iteration of its flagship multi-model distributed database, redefining what's possible with strict serializability. Aerospike 8 adds support for distributed ACID transactions, guaranteeing strict serializability of ACID transactions for large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications—all at a low cost.
Posted February 05, 2025
Dynatrace, a leading AI-powered observability platform, is expanding its powerful AI engine, Davis AI, to move enterprises beyond reactive AIOps to true preventive operations. According to the company, these enhanced capabilities enable organizations to predict and prevent potential incidents before they occur through AI-driven automation, while accelerating problem investigation and enhancing automated remediation when issues do arise.
Posted February 05, 2025