Data Center Management Articles
Red Hat and the Fedora Project are releasing the latest version of the Fedora operating system, Fedora Linux 38, offering new desktop environments, architecture for IBM Z hardware, and more. Fedora Linux 38 introduces several new Spins—variants that showcase different desktop environments. The popular Budgie Desktop environment, first packaged for Fedora in F37, now has its own Spin. The Fedora Budgie Spin aims to provide the premiere Budgie Desktop experience on top of Fedora Linux.
Posted April 24, 2023
A new global IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study, "The ESG conundrum," of executives and consumers found that while an increased focus on environmental sustainability remains a top priority for consumers and business executives, inadequate data is a key challenge for both groups when it comes to achieving personal and corporate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals.
Posted April 24, 2023
IBM is releasing new single frame and rack mount configurations of IBM z16 and IBM LinuxONE 4, designed to enhance flexibility and sustainability for the modern data center while still delivering the highest levels of reliability in the industry, according to the vendor.
Posted April 24, 2023
ngrok is launching the ngrok Ingress Controller for Kubernetes, enabling developers to leverage ngrok's ease-of-use and security to produce ingress for production workloads operating on Kubernetes clusters.
Posted April 20, 2023
Low-code and no-code development has become a critical component of enterprise technology landscapes. Gartner predicts that within the next 3 years, developers outside IT departments will account for at least 80% of the userbase for low-code development tools, up from 60% in 2021. Low- and no-code offers opportunities to offload coding and integration work to business users, relieving burdened IT departments.
Posted April 20, 2023
Oracle today is offering a free version of Oracle Database 23c to meet growing demand from developers and organizations worldwide to access the newest features in Oracle Database 23c "App Simple." Developers now have access to innovative Oracle Database features that simplify development of modern data-driven applications, getting them ready for the planned release of Oracle Database 23c, the next long-term support release.
Posted April 19, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, "Database Management in the Cloud: Adapting to the Changing Landscape," to explore database strategies and skills that will inevitably bring about successful cloud environments.
Posted April 14, 2023
Obsidian Security is releasing its latest suite of SaaS security solutions designed to address a widening gap in appropriately securing SaaS applications while managing its security posture configuration, according to the company.
Posted April 13, 2023
Delinea, a provider of solutions that extend Privileged Access Management (PAM), announced the latest release of Server Suite, part of its Server PAM solution, securing and consolidating identity access to servers. Enhancements include new authentication options for organizations using Active Directory (AD), multi-factor authentication (MFA), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and IBM AIX Unix systems to further improve security for identities requesting access to critical systems.
Posted April 13, 2023
NetBox Labs is announcing its Series A funding results of $20 million, enabling the company to grow its platforms.
Posted April 12, 2023
Startups continue to emerge this year, addressing challenges and leveraging opportunities in innovative and novel ways. The landscape is constantly changing, and 2023 is no different. These companies bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, becoming a part of data fabric or mesh, and more.
Posted April 12, 2023
The 10th annual Data Summit conference will be held May 10-11, 2023, at the Hyatt Regency Boston, with pre-conference workshops taking place on May 9, 2023. Whether your interests lie in the technical possibilities and challenges of new and emerging technologies or using Big Data for business intelligence, analytics, and other business strategies, Data Summit 2023 has something for everyone.
Posted April 11, 2023
According to a new report, the total global market size for the "Data Center Networking Market" was valued at USD 21.80 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.4% over the forecast period to reach USD 49.41 billion by 2029. Maximize Market Research, an international business and consultancy firm has recently published a research report on the "Data Center Networking Market."
Posted April 10, 2023
Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, is launching a new Cyber Cloud data center in Mexico City, Mexico, adding to the company's global network of Cyber Cloud data centers. This move provides Acronis partners with access to a comprehensive range of cutting-edge cyber protection solutions, empowering them to create new services and offerings to manage their clients' data protection needs more efficiently and effectively with faster access, continuous data availability, and the added benefit of data sovereignty, according to the vendor.
Posted April 10, 2023
Rocket Software, a global technology provider that develops enterprise software, is releasing Rocket Content Automation, enabling critical operational connections between disparate systems and data sources without introducing mainframe migration or compliance risks. Rocket Content Automation drives collaboration between business and IT organizations, creating enhanced experiences with seamless automation across the Rocket Content Services portfolio, modernizing enterprise customers' content and data landscapes, according to the company.
Posted April 10, 2023
TDengine is announcing its strategic partnership with Casne Engineering which will integrate technologies to boost the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market.
Posted April 06, 2023
Flexential, a provider of data center colocation, cloud and connectivity, and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced it will offer connectivity to Oracle Cloud through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect. Flexential is expanding its Cloud Fabric ecosystem by offering low latency interconnection options to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This can allow customers in any Flexential data center across its national FlexAnywhere platform to connect to OCI, according to the vendor.
Posted April 05, 2023
MariaDB is announcing the latest release of MariaDB SkySQL, introducing innovations such as autoscaling and serverless analytics.
Posted April 03, 2023
EQT Corporation and Context Labs are announcing their strategic partnership which targets the further commercialization of verified low carbon intensity natural gas products and carbon credits, as well as increase transparency for critical emissions data.
Posted April 03, 2023
Experts joined DBTA's webinar, "From Edge to Cloud: IoT Data Management and Stream Processing," to explore how new approaches to data management can mean the difference between relying on archaic infrastructures and adopting agile, flexible, and scalable data processes.
Posted April 03, 2023
John Steinmetz, VP of data and analytics at Shiftkey, and Shane Murray, CTO at Monte Carlo, joined DBTA's webinar, "Virtual Data Panel: Measuring Data Team ROI," to discuss the strategies and tools data teams can implement as they look inward to measure their own ROI—whether it be to improve their data quality, or to effectively vocalize their organizational value.
Posted March 31, 2023
SIOS Technology Corp. is announcing the immediate availability of SIOS LifeKeeper v9.7 clustering software, enabling new and robust HA and DR capabilities for SAP HANA environments.
Posted March 30, 2023
Logpoint is introducing new capabilities to its cybersecurity operations platform, converging SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, endpoint security, and Business-Critical Security (BCS) technologies. The new capabilities enable security analysts to protect the organization against threats by increasing observability and decreasing the time to respond to threats.
Posted March 30, 2023
Zluri is launching a cloud-first lifecycle management and user provisioning platform, designed to both centralize and connect intelligent workflows with applications, employees, and data systems.
Posted March 30, 2023
It's time to vote 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 readers. The voting period will be open through Wednesday, May 10.
Posted March 29, 2023
Keepit, a leader in cloud data protection and management, announced that all of its data centers located in the Americas and EMEA are now powered by 100% renewable energy. Keepit operates 10 data centers across the U.S., Canada, Germany, the U.K., and Denmark. The data centers are powered by energy sources that fall under local renewable energy guarantee schemes: GoOs (Guarantees of Origins) in the EU, REGOs (Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin) in the U.K., and RECs (Renewable Energy Certificates) in the U.S. and Canada.
Posted March 27, 2023
LiquidStack, a provider of liquid immersion cooling for data centers, announced it has received an investment from Trane Technologies, a global climate innovator. The investment will help further support the adoption of LiquidStack's solutions and significantly reduce data center carbon footprint, water consumption, e-waste, and environmental impact, while creating additional value for both Trane and LiquidStack customers.
Posted March 27, 2023
Domino Data Lab is announcing updates to its platform that will drive accessibility to open source tools and techniques—including Ray 2.0, MLflow, and Feast's feature store for machine learning (ML)—allowing enterprises to see tangible value from their AI, sooner; the announcement also features the launch of Domino Cloud, the fully-managed MLOps Platform-as-a-Service, and the general availability of Domino's hybrid and multi-cloud Nexus capability.
Posted March 23, 2023
Postman is announcing the general availability of Postman Flows, a low-code tool to enable those without extensive programming experience to create API applications.
Posted March 22, 2023
Acceldata is releasing new improvements to its data reliability solution, which is equipped with a highly scalable, expedited data reliability engine for handling complex data quality and addresses operational intelligence use cases.
Posted March 22, 2023
Organizations rely heavily on SAP systems and applications to run crucial business processes; securing these systems against cyber-attacks is vital. While several cybersecurity frameworks exist to manage cyber risks, they use generic wording that is hard to apply to application security and lack specific guidance to cover SAP environments. As a result, organizations must select the right frameworks to enhance their security posture and streamline complex security operations to safeguard critical assets from attacks.
Posted March 22, 2023
Observability by definition is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. In other words, a system's behavior is determined from its outputs—information obtained by certain measures. Though observability as a term has been used for many years, the modern understanding originates in software observability, which is the ability to collect data about program execution, internal states of modules, and communication between components.
Posted March 22, 2023
DBTA recently held a webinar, "Six Steps to Data Democratization Using APIs," joined by Todd Wright, senior product marketing manager at Progress, and David Loshin, principal consultant at Knowledge Integrity, to explore how APIs can be leveraged to increase data democratization and continuous accessibility while enabling self-service reporting and maintaining data protection and compliance.
Posted March 21, 2023
To explore how DBAs can effectively address this myriad of challenges, experts joined DBTA's webinar, "The Role of the DBA in 2023: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities," identifying the methods and strategies for overcoming the growing pains of a constantly evolving data environment.
Posted March 20, 2023
TrueFort, the lateral movement protection company, is launching the TrueFort Trust Partner Program for IT solution providers, systems integrators, consultants, MSPs/MSSPs, and ISVs. The program will deliver custom workload, lateral attack, and microsegmentation security solutions using a channel friendly model that allows partners to capitalize on new market opportunities to generate new recurring revenue streams.
Posted March 20, 2023
VMware is announcing enhancements to the VMware Anywhere Workspace platform, as well as the introduction of the unified orchestration framework, the Workspace ONE Marketplace, and the Apps on Demand for published apps. These releases work to close the gap between hybrid workforces, disparate and legacy tooling, and mitigating overall operational complexities.
Posted March 17, 2023
The world is becoming increasingly digital every day and, as a result, even more data-driven. The datasphere is experiencing stunning growth, with 90% of all data being created over just the past two years. This explosive growth is something that will only continue in the future, and it's clear that as companies begin to amass more and more data, they need to take a hard look at their data management practices.
Posted March 16, 2023
Onymos is announcing platform support for the React Native framework, enabling React Native developers to leverage the Onymos Features-as-a-Service platform to enhance the speed, quality, and value of their application development and innovation.
Posted March 16, 2023
Grafana Labs is announcing its recent acquisition of Pyroscope, the open source, continuous profiling project company.
Posted March 15, 2023
Globalstar Inc, a provider of connectivity to businesses and people worldwide, is working with Oracle NetSuite to support its vision to deliver the most reliable communication services. With NetSuite, Globalstar has been able to take advantage of an integrated business system to streamline and scale its international operations and reallocate time and resources to accelerate growth.
Posted March 15, 2023
Datadobi, in collaboration with Climb Channel Solutions,4 is launching the StorageMAP File System Assessment Service, an intelligent unstructured data solution that equips users with a comprehensive understanding of their data environment to encourage more informed decision-making.
Posted March 14, 2023
ClearML is unveiling their recent certification to run NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the end-to-end platform for building accelerated production AI, enhancing ClearML's efficiency and its GPU load, as well as ensuring compatibility with NVIDIA DGX systems and NVIDIA-Certified Systems.
Posted March 14, 2023
Lonestar Data Holdings announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding for furthering its plan to establish lunar data centers. Lonestar's initial data center, the size of a hardback novel, will be followed by a series of larger data centers offering data storage and edge processing.
Posted March 13, 2023
IBM and Cohesity are collaborating to address the critical need organizations have for increased data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments. Combining data protection, cyber resilience, and data management capabilities from both companies, IBM will launch its new IBM Storage Defender solution which will include Cohesity's data protection as an integral part of the offering.
Posted March 13, 2023
BrainChip Holdings Ltd is launching the second iteration of the Akida platform, the event-based digital neuromorphic processor IP that imitates the human brain for efficient data processing.
Posted March 10, 2023
pgEdge is emerging from stealth with the launch of its fully open, fully distributed database optimized for the network edge and based on the open source PostgreSQL database.
Posted March 09, 2023
Across database structures, dates are ubiquitous: sales date; order date; shipment date; receipt date; created date; last updated date. You might think that with such an abundant presence, dates would be well understood. Sadly, dates hide in the shadows—and many are confused over how dates work. People run a query, get a result, and seem to expect that what one sees, is what one gets. If they see a two-digit year, they believe that is exactly how the data is stored.
Posted March 09, 2023