IBM Showcases Mainframe Innovation with Latest Best Practices
IBM unveiled a new playbook that outlines how enterprises can extract maximum business value from mainframe systems. The guide stresses selecting the right platform for hybrid‑cloud environments and positions mission‑critical workloads as a natural fit for mainframes. IBM argues that, with AI and emerging quantum technologies, mainframe adoption will accelerate while delivering lower total‑cost‑of‑ownership. The playbook also highlights IBM’s Apptio TCO analytics and AI‑driven code generation as tools to quantify savings and avoid costly re‑architectures.
Planon Supports Resilient Data Centers with Unified Platform
Planon has launched “Planon for Data Centers,” a unified software platform that extends its CMMS capabilities to mission‑critical data‑center environments. The solution integrates maintenance, compliance, asset lifecycle, and energy workflows while feeding real‑time alarms into work‑order processes. By digitizing procedures...
Supporting MySQL Workflows with Semantic Search with Google Cloud
Google Cloud announced that Cloud SQL for MySQL now natively supports vector indexes, allowing developers to run semantic search and generative AI workloads without a separate vector database. By leveraging Vertex AI embeddings directly inside the database, users can execute...
Aerospike Supports LangGraph Integration with NoSQL Database 8
Aerospike has added LangGraph integration to its NoSQL Database 8, delivering a durable, low‑latency memory layer for stateless AI agentic workflows. The integration provides millisecond response times, high concurrency and fault tolerance, ensuring state persists across crashes, restarts, or pauses. Developers...
Crafting Reliable AI Systems with the Right Data Engineering
The DBTA webinar highlighted that AI projects fail more often due to fragile data pipelines than model flaws. Speakers Kevin Hu and Jerod Johnson outlined how data engineering must evolve to support continuous, real‑time data, lineage, and repeatable outputs for...
Relyance AI Releases Lyo, Aims to Set a New Enterprise Data Security Standard
Relyance AI unveiled Lyo, an autonomous data defense engineer that continuously monitors AI agents' interactions with enterprise data. Leveraging the company’s Data Exposure Graph, Lyo maps AI‑to‑data relationships, flags over‑privileged access, and provides real‑time contextual alerts. The platform includes a...
Commvault Expands Integrations with Microsoft Security to Connect AI Threat Detection, Investigation, and Trusted Recovery
Commvault announced an expanded integration with Microsoft Security, linking its Cloud platform to Microsoft Sentinel and Security Copilot. The new Sentinel connector streams backup‑related alerts—such as malware detections and ransomware anomalies—into a centralized data lake for real‑time analysis. An Investigation...
Meeting Regulatory Requirements with Informatica
Informatica highlighted the critical role of trusted data in meeting ever‑growing regulatory demands during a DBTA webinar. A recent survey cited by David Thain shows 93% of data leaders say regulations impede their initiatives. Speakers emphasized that siloed data hampers...
Redpanda Unveils Adaptable Streaming Engine to Eliminate ?Streaming Sprawl?
Redpanda announced the general availability of its adaptable R1 streaming engine in Redpanda Streaming 26.1, a single‑modal platform that lets enterprises tailor performance, safety and cost at the topic level. The release integrates Cloud Topics, write caching, tiered storage, and Iceberg...
The Profisee 2026 R1 Release Brings Trusted Master Data to Any AI Tool
Profisee has launched the general‑availability of its 2026 R1 release, positioning the cloud‑native MDM platform as an AI leader. The update introduces a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server that creates an open standard for linking master data to AI tools such...
Percona and Chainguard Partner to Deliver Secure Open Source Software
Percona has teamed up with Chainguard to offer secure, production‑ready container images for its open‑source database portfolio, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and others. Chainguard builds minimal, provenance‑verified images that aim for near‑zero CVE exposure, while Percona provides enterprise‑grade support and...
SAP Ariba Is Now Generally Available
SAP announced the general availability of its next‑generation Ariba platform, marking the shift from announcement to execution. The rebuilt solution runs on SAP Business Technology Platform, delivering a unified, real‑time data foundation and open APIs for tighter integration with SAP...
SAP Showcases New AI Capabilities, Ehancements, and Global Partnerships
SAP announced a suite of AI‑enabled enhancements across its Concur platform, including integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot that embeds expense and travel tasks directly in Office apps. Two new Joule agents—Expense Automation and Pre‑Submit Audit—automate report creation and receipt validation,...
BlueFinity Evoke Offers Enhanced Two-Factor Security
BlueFinity has rolled out two‑factor authentication (2FA) as a standard feature in Release 3 of its Evoke low‑code platform. The update adds native Active Directory integration and OAuth‑compatible email handling for Exchange, Gmail and other services. Users can enable 2FA with...
Entrinsik Informer Improves Reporting for Insurance Agencies
Entrinsik Informer now offers insurance agencies an automated data‑quality layer that plugs into AMS360, surfacing missing fields, duplicate records, and inconsistent structures before reports are generated. The solution replaces manual data‑hunt routines with a continuous Data Report Card that highlights...
Sumo Logic Extends SOC Analyst Agents to Enhance Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response
Sumo Logic announced an expanded suite of AI‑driven SOC Analyst Agents designed to move security operations from pure detection to actionable recommendation. The Dojo AI platform now offers a preview SOC Analyst Agent that suggests next‑best actions with explainable reasoning,...
Cato Networks Unveils GPU-Powered SASE Platform with Native AI Security
Cato Networks announced two major upgrades to its SASE platform: Cato Neural Edge, which embeds NVIDIA GPUs across its global private backbone to accelerate AI‑driven traffic inspection, and Cato AI Security, a suite that merges AI governance and runtime protection...
Integrating AI-Ready Data with Informatica and Snowflake
Informatica and Snowflake partnered in a DBTA webinar to showcase how metadata‑driven governance, data quality and observability can make Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud AI‑ready. The discussion highlighted Informatica’s end‑to‑end data management capabilities, including tag‑based PII masking, automated semantic classification and...
IBM Creates New Blueprint for Quantum-Centric Supercomputing
IBM unveiled the industry’s first quantum‑centric supercomputing reference architecture, detailing how quantum processors (QPUs) can be tightly coupled with CPUs, GPUs, high‑speed networking, and shared storage. The blueprint supports on‑premises, research‑center, and cloud environments, enabling coordinated quantum‑classical workflows for scientific...
Eon Strengthens Enterprise Data Protection Capabilities with Latest Enhancements
Eon, a data and AI infrastructure platform, announced ransomware protection tailored for cloud databases. The solution detects anomalies such as row‑count drops and schema changes across major databases and provides automated recovery points. It extends unified protection to VMs and...
Honeycomb Offers New Observability Tools for AI Agents
Honeycomb.io announced the general availability of Honeycomb Metrics and a suite of AI‑driven observability tools. The new features include Agent Skills for Claude Code, Cursor and AWS DevOps Agent, Automated Investigations, a Slackbot with natural‑language queries, and Pipeline Intelligence that...
Env Zero and CloudQuery Complete Merger to Create a Unified Cloud Intelligence Platform
env zero, a leading IaC governance platform, has merged with CloudQuery, a cloud asset management specialist, forming a unified cloud intelligence solution under the env zero brand. The combined offering merges continuous cloud asset discovery with automated infrastructure provisioning, promising end‑to‑end lifecycle...
Druva Delivers Critical Identity Intelligence?for Okta, Active Directory, and Entra ID
Druva launched Identity Resilience, extending its SaaS platform to protect identities across Okta, Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID. The solution unifies protection, cyber‑recovery and threat detection, using a graph‑based engine called Dru MetaGraph to map relationships in real...
Oracle Announced the General Availability of Oracle Analytics Server 2026
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Analytics Server 2026, delivering a suite of enhancements aimed at boosting adoption, performance, and governed self‑service. New defaults for the "Limit Values By" filter and a redesigned State menu streamline workbook interactions. The...
Flash Isn?t Just Expensive?It?s a Supply-Chain Risk
Flash memory prices are climbing even though manufacturers report no major supply disruptions, driven by soaring AI demand and a production base heavily concentrated in a few regions. This concentration turns modest demand shifts into sharp price spikes and longer...
Franz Unveils AllegroGraph 8.5, Strengthens the Semantic Foundation for Agentic AI
Franz Inc. launched AllegroGraph v8.5, a graph‑database platform that adds an AI‑driven natural language query (NLQ) layer. The upgrade blends knowledge graphs, vector embeddings, and neuro‑symbolic reasoning to give AI agents a richer semantic foundation. New features include faster NLQ translation,...
The Dawn of the Agent Era: From Prompt Engineering to Digital Orchestration
AI agents are redefining software creation, deployment, and interaction, heralding an "agent era" that pushes traditional programming to the margins. Executives like Satya Nadella predict SaaS business logic will migrate to an AI‑driven decision layer, making agents the primary consumers...
Denodo Platform 9.4 Leverages Logical Data Management to Turbocharge Trusted AI
Denodo announced the release of Platform 9.4, a logical data management solution designed to accelerate trusted AI across enterprises. The update adds native vector‑database connectivity, embeds the Model Context Protocol for governed AI data access, and introduces a Lakehouse Accelerator powered...
Alation Introduces Curation Automation to Eliminate Manual Data Governance
Alation has launched outcome‑based governance, a system that replaces manual data‑governance processes with an agent‑driven operating model. The new Curation Automation feature, now generally available, automatically enriches and enforces metadata standards across the Alation platform. Organizations can declare business outcomes—such...
Green IT Meets Database Engineering: How Better Data Architecture Reduces Energy Footprint
Organizations often overlook data architecture as a major source of IT energy consumption. Excess tables, unused indexes, and inefficient schemas increase storage, I/O, and CPU cycles, inflating both costs and carbon footprints. By applying disciplined schema design, index management, query...
Adopting a Time Series Database with InfluxData
Cole Bowden’s DBTA webinar warned against over‑engineered data stacks and advocated a pragmatic approach to time‑series workloads. He urged firms to first assess whether data fits in memory or on a single drive before adopting a specialized database. When scale...
DataStrike Expands Support for Microsoft Fabric to Help Organizations Engage with AI and Analytics
DataStrike announced an expansion of its Microsoft Fabric services, targeting organizations that are adopting the unified analytics platform. The new portfolio includes a two‑week Fabric readiness and proof‑of‑concept engagement, end‑to‑end migration assistance, and 24/7 managed operations. Services span OneLake, lakehouse...
FLock.io Onboards Anam145 as a Validator in Decentralized AI Ecosystem for Multi-Chain Network Security
FLock.io, the UNDP’s AI strategic partner, has added Korean cyber‑security firm Anam145 as a validator in its decentralized AI network. The move follows a successful blockchain‑based payment pilot in Liberia that cut Daily Subsistence Allowance processing from up to seven...
Governing Perception
The piece argues that governance is the connective tissue that aligns trust with trustworthiness by managing perception across corporate, AI, data, and operational domains. It shows how gaps between how stakeholders perceive a system and how it actually performs drive...
Combining AI and DevOps for Cutting Edge Innovation with Delphix, Redgate, and 3T Software
AI‑assisted tools are now woven into every stage of the DevOps lifecycle, speeding code generation, expanding test coverage, and improving observability. In a recent DBTA webinar, leaders from Delphix, Redgate and 3T Software discussed how AI‑driven automation must be paired...
Hexaware Expands AWS Partnership to Transform Software Engineering
Hexaware Technologies is expanding its strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services to deliver AI‑enabled software development lifecycle capabilities. The collaboration builds on the existing Strategic Collaboration Agreement and introduces the RapidX AI‑driven platform and Kiro agentic IDE. Together they aim...
IBM and Cobalt Iron Are Introducing Secure Automated Backup with Compass
IBM and Cobalt Iron have launched Secure Automated Backup with Compass, a Backup‑as‑a‑Service (BaaS) solution for IBM Cloud customers. The offering extends the proven protection model from IBM Power Virtual Server to a broader set of workloads across hybrid and...
MinIO Integrates Delta Sharing Open Protocol for Seamless Access to Enterprise Data
MinIO has launched AIStor Table Sharing, embedding the Delta Sharing open protocol directly into its AIStor object store. The feature lets enterprises expose on‑premises data to Databricks in real time, eliminating the need for costly data replication. Built on Iceberg...
Constructing Successful Digital Twins with Informatica
Many digital‑twin projects stall after pilot phases because they lack a trusted data foundation. At a recent DBTA webinar, Informatica’s Christian Farra explained that integrating master data and contextual information is essential to turn raw sensor signals into actionable insights....
Oracle AI Database 26ai: Practical Features
Oracle introduced the AI Database 26ai, a new release that adds automatic transaction rollback, real‑time SQL plan management, and built‑in AI vector search. The platform promises more stable performance under unpredictable workloads, faster data ingestion, and a self‑managed in‑memory cache...
Harnessing the Potential of CXL for Cloud-Native Databases
Cloud‑native databases are increasingly critical, yet RDMA‑based memory disaggregation suffers from page‑level inefficiencies, contention, and slow recovery. Compute Express Link (CXL) offers a high‑bandwidth, low‑latency, cache‑coherent interconnect that enables fine‑grained memory access and instant recovery. Controlled tests show CXL can...
Updating Data Architecture for 2026 with Informatica, Dataiku, Qlik, and CData
The DBTA webinar highlighted that 85% of subscribers plan to modernize data platforms by 2025, driven by the rapid rise of GenAI and large language models. Vendors such as Informatica, Dataiku, Qlik and CData outlined a shift toward modular, AI‑driven...
Bindplane Launches Integrations for VictoriaMetrics to Make It Even Easier to Collect, Process, and Route Opentelemetry
Bindplane announced native destinations for the VictoriaMetrics ecosystem, allowing users to route OpenTelemetry metrics, traces, and logs directly to VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaTraces, and VictoriaLogs. The integration provides vendor‑neutral, OpenTelemetry‑native pipelines that eliminate manual exporter configuration and mitigate collector drift. It also...
Joule with SAP Signavio Solutions Is Now Generally Available
SAP announced that Joule, its generative‑AI platform, is now generally available integrated with SAP Signavio. The solution adds a natural‑language conversational layer to process models, allowing users to query owners, flow descriptions, and regional variations instantly. Joule orchestrates workflows across...
Kore Enhances Integrate with Features that Manage and Transform Data
KoreTech unveiled a suite of updates to its Kore Integrate platform, adding new connectors for Canals.ai, Blue Yonder WMS, LeadSmart CRM, FieldPulse and Housecall Pro. The release also upgrades security protocols and promises support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025. Kore Integrate already...
Entrinsik to Showcase Informer at Several Conferences Spring 2026
Entrinsik announced a spring 2026 roadshow, speaking and exhibiting at Accelerate, Ellucian Live, and MultiValue World. Scott Allen will lead a session on data‑driven agency growth at Accelerate, while the company will demo Informer AI Assistants for campus‑wide personalization at...
Collate Introduces Semantic Intelligence Graph to Make Enterprise Data Understandable to AI
Collate, a semantic intelligence firm, unveiled a new Semantic Intelligence Graph that converts enterprise metadata into a machine‑readable RDF‑based graph. The launch includes AI Studio, offering four pre‑built agents—Data Quality, Tier Management, Documentation, and SQL Query—to automate data tasks. An...
Qdrant 1.17 Supercharges Vector Search with a Variety of Updates
Qdrant has launched version 1.17.0, introducing a Relevance Feedback Query that refines vector‑search results using lightweight model feedback. The release also adds latency‑reduction features such as configurable fan‑out thresholds, an update queue for up to one million pending writes, and an indexed‑only...
BMC Expands Collaboration with AWS to Accelerate Intelligent Automation
BMC announced a five‑year strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services, designating AWS as the preferred cloud for its Control‑M SaaS platform. The partnership integrates BMC’s intelligent automation and generative AI advisor Jett with AWS’s scale, performance, and security. Joint customers...
Liquibase Secure 5.1 Closes Gap in Data Platform Security, Compliance, and AI Readiness
Liquibase announced Secure 5.1, extending its modeled change‑control framework to Snowflake’s control plane. The release treats Snowflake access, sharing, and cost‑control changes as first‑class, auditable objects, enabling policy enforcement, drift detection and automated rollback. Secure 5.1 also adds support for Databricks, MongoDB,...
