Internet of Things
The phenomenon of connected machines is sometimes called the Internet of
Things, the Internet of Anything, the Internet of Everything, or M2M
(machine to machine). But no matter what the name, the growth of technology
related to objects, which never before were network- and computer-enabled,
is projected to have far-reaching technological, societal, and economic
impact.
The strongest examples of the impact of the Internet of Things are in the
industrial sector. Embedded software, sensors, and network connectivity
promises to improve the way factories, data centers, oil wells, and cities,
airplanes, cars, and even homes are maintained because data can be collected
continuously with alerts issues proactively to prevent failures and outages.
According to Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group, 50 billion devices
will be connected by 2020, up from 2010's 12.5 billion. By 2020, data
production will be 44 times greater than it was in 2009, and by 2020, more
than one-third of the data produced will live in or pass through the cloud,
according to Computer Sciences Corp.
Internet of Things Articles
Opkey is releasing its ERP Lifecycle Optimization Platform, ushering in a new era of AI-powered transformation for business-critical enterprise applications, combining agentic AI, advanced process mining, observability, and intelligent web automation.
Posted February 28, 2025
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI. The closing comes two days after U.K.'s antitrust regulator accepted the deal.
Posted February 27, 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 27, 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is offering the next iteration of Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and disaster recovery to challenge outdated models and set new standards for proactive defense and rapid recovery.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 27, 2025
Redpanda, the unified streaming data platform, is unveiling a new Snowflake connector capable of ingesting data 2x faster than Snowflake Connector for Kafka.
Posted February 26, 2025
SecurityBridge, the Cybersecurity Command Center for SAP, is releasing SecurityBridge Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and IT Service Management (ITSM) for SAP, designed to enhance SAP-specific security monitoring and incident management.
Posted February 26, 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 26, 2025
MirrorTab, a provider of advanced web application protection, announced it has secured $8.5 million in seed funding, empowering the company to aggressively build out its innovative capabilities, integrations, and commercialize its availability. The round was led by Valley Capital Partners, with participation from GV, Ludlow Ventures, Altman Capital Fund, NextGen Venture Partners, and Alumni Ventures.
Posted February 25, 2025
IBM announced its intent to acquire DataStax, an AI and data solution provider that will enhance IBM's watsonx portfolio of products to accelerate the use of generative AI and help companies unlock value from vast amounts of unstructured data. According to the companies the acquisition also builds on IBM's commitment to open-source AI.
Posted February 25, 2025
StorMagic, solving the world's edge data problems, is announcing that StorMagic SvHCI—the company's full-stack HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) software solution—has been tested and validated with three Supermicro IoT SuperServers.
Posted February 20, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 through March 7, 2025, and will be followed by actual voting on the products nominated by our readers.
Posted February 07, 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
Nowadays, organizations need to migrate and move data from the Oracle database to various data lakes, such as Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake. These data lakes are used in data analytics and by data scientists which help organizations to process vast amounts of data in real time or batch, derive insights, and make data-driven decisions.
Posted February 05, 2025
Oracle is using connectivity from Starlink, a satellite constellation using a low Earth orbit to deliver broadband internet, to enable high-speed communications for the Enterprise Communications Platform (ECP).
Posted February 05, 2025
GridGain, provider of a leading real-time data processing and analytics platform, is introducing GridGain for AI, enabling organizations to use GridGain as a low-latency data store for real-time AI workloads.
Posted February 04, 2025
DTEX Systems, a trusted leader of insider risk management, announced that it is an official member of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative hosted by The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source.
Posted February 03, 2025
Perforce Software, a DevOps company for global teams requiring speed, quality, security, and compliance at scale along the development life cycle, is introducing AI Validation, a new capability within its Perfecto continuous testing platform for web and mobile applications that will change the way organizations experience testing.
Posted February 03, 2025
Backblaze, Inc. is unveiling the latest release of its B2 Cloud Storage platform, featuring a variety of updates that improve enterprise security, streamline workflows and data migration, and more.
Posted January 31, 2025
Seraphic Security, a leader in enterprise browser security, announced it has secured $29 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the organization to accelerate its product roadmap and market expansion in North America and EMEA.
Posted January 31, 2025
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a pioneer in AI-powered business intelligence, is releasing the latest version of MicroStrategy ONE, helping enterprises gain rapid value from generative AI (GenAI) by personalizing the AI experience. According to the company, MicroStrategy's Auto AI bot delivers a human-like conversational experience for users interacting with data.
Posted January 31, 2025
Orchid Security, an emerging leader in identity-first security orchestration, announced it has raised $36 million in seed funding, enabling the company to continue its work using Large Language Models (LLMs) to address the longstanding challenge of managing fragmented identity systems in large enterprises.
Posted January 30, 2025
Throughout 2024, data managers and professionals were at the locus of the new waves of innovation driven by AI and analytics—and the activity was frenetic and intense. As the year 2025 progresses, this intense and frenetic activity will only continue. Cloud services, AI, AI agents, and cybersecurity are top areas of interest that industry leaders are watching. The following are several prominent trends mentioned that are shaping data management.
Posted January 30, 2025
Bluwhale, an AI Web3 start-up, announced that it has topped its funding to $100 million, enabling the company to further expand its Web3 intelligence layer across multiple L1 and L2 blockchains. This total amount of funding includes its Seed/Series A round as well as a $75 million token purchase commitment, grants, and node sale proceeds.
Posted January 29, 2025
Qt Group is launching Qt AI Assistant, an experimental tool for streamlining cross-platform user interface (UI) development with the goal of reducing repetitive UI development tasks that often do not involve coding.
Posted January 28, 2025
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat Connectivity Link, a hybrid multi-cloud application connectivity solution that provides a modern approach to connecting disparate applications and infrastructure.
Posted January 24, 2025
Dataiku, the Universal AI Platform, is launching Dataiku Optimizer for Snowflake, a Snowflake Native App that empowers joint customers to monitor and improve their usage of Snowflake services while working within their Dataiku solutions.
Posted January 23, 2025
Given the criticality of understanding the breadth and depth of software audits, and the consequential costs, this survey, "The Rising Cost of Software Compliance: 2025 Survey on Software Audits," has been conducted by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc. to gain a better understanding of the current state of software licensing and audit trends.
Posted January 22, 2025
OpenAI is partnering with Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle to form the Stargate Project—a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. According to an announcement by OpenAI, the project will begin deploying $100 billion immediately.
Posted January 22, 2025
Indeavor announced the availability of its workforce management solution, Indeavor Operate, on SAP Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. Indeavor's solution integrates with SAP S/4 Hana, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Timesheet, and delivers advanced workforce management capabilities, enabling customers to streamline scheduling, improve compliance, and enhance productivity across facilities to customers.
Posted January 22, 2025