
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 with data‑centric reliability and strict governance. Delphix highlighted masked data clones that let ML teams use production‑scale data without exposing PII, while Redgate stressed embedding compliance into AI pipelines. 3T Software outlined how organizations can restructure workflows and roles to make AI the engine of innovation.

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,...

ThoughtSpot Launches Agentic Data Prep to Transform How Teams Profile, Mash Up, and Secure Data for AI Workloads
ThoughtSpot unveiled the next‑generation Analyst Studio, adding SpotCache, a native spreadsheet interface, and an agentic data‑prep engine. SpotCache lets users cache data snapshots for unlimited queries at fixed cloud costs, while the spreadsheet UI brings Excel‑style flexibility under enterprise governance....

Kong and Solace Partner to Unify API and Real-Time Data and Event Streaming
Kong Inc. and real‑time data specialist Solace have joined Kong’s Premium Technology Partner Program to deliver a unified, governed data fabric. The partnership merges Kong’s API and AI gateway capabilities with Solace’s high‑performance event streaming, enabling a single control plane...

Adopting a Time Series Database with InfluxData
Cole Bowden’s DBTA webinar highlighted when organizations should replace generic data stacks with a purpose‑built time‑series database. He urged teams to start simple—if data fits in memory or a single drive, a traditional RDBMS may suffice, but scaling pressures demand...

Dynatrace Announces Accelerated Growth and Innovation with AWS
Dynatrace announced accelerated growth by surpassing $1 billion in AWS Marketplace sales and earning the AWS Financial Services Competency. The company reported sustained triple‑digit growth over three years, driven by cloud‑native procurement demand. It also secured the AWS Agentic AI Specialization,...

Cloudera Enables Faster, Accurate AI and Analytics with Unified Data Access Capabilities
Cloudera announced that its AI Inference and Data Warehouse with Trino are now available for on‑premises deployment. The AI Inference service leverages NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs, Dynamo‑Triton server and NIM micro‑services to run LLMs, computer‑vision and other models inside customer data...

Get the Rundown on Data Engineering Trends for 2026 with Informatica, lakeFS, and Aerospike
Data engineering in 2026 is shifting from batch warehouses to real‑time, cloud‑native ecosystems that feed AI and generative models. Leaders like Informatica, lakeFS and Aerospike stress that active data, automated governance, and AI‑driven predictive scaling are essential to avoid bottlenecks....

Precisely StreetPro Discover Makes Street Data AI-Ready
Precisely introduced StreetPro Discover, a dataset that converts complex street attributes into human‑readable text for large language models. The offering replaces cryptic codes with clear, searchable descriptions, enabling plain‑language queries across delivery, risk, and urban‑planning use cases. By delivering "Agentic‑Ready"...

Datadog Initiates Feature Flags to Help Engineering Teams Add New Functionality Quickly and Reliably
Datadog has launched a generally‑available Feature Flags service that tightly couples feature management with its observability platform. The new product links each flag to real‑time APM and RUM telemetry, enabling instant visibility into performance and reliability impacts. Automated canary rollouts,...

Aerospike 8.1.1 Introduces New Native Dynamic Data Masking for PII Protection and Regulatory Compliance
Aerospike released version 8.1.1, introducing native Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) for its high‑performance NoSQL database. The feature lets administrators define masking rules that hide personally identifiable information at the database layer, automatically applying to all users and machines except those...

Corning and Meta Form Multiyear Partnership for up to $6 Billion to Accelerate U.S. Data Center Buildout
Corning and Meta have signed a multiyear agreement worth up to $6 billion to accelerate the construction of advanced data centers in the United States. Under the deal, Corning will provide Meta with its latest optical fiber, cable and connectivity solutions...

Red Hat and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Align on Next-Gen AI Infrastructure
Red Hat announced an expanded partnership with NVIDIA, introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA—a specialized RHEL edition tuned for the NVIDIA Rubin platform. The collaboration delivers Day 0 support for the Vera CPU, Rubin GPUs and BlueField‑4 DPU across Red...

IBM Announces Global RFP Process for AI-Driven Solutions Shaping the Future of Work and Education
IBM has issued a global request for proposals for the next cohort of its Impact Accelerator, targeting AI-driven solutions in education and workforce development. The program invites nonprofits, government entities, and academic institutions to develop tools that bridge the widening...

Cyberhaven Introduces Unified AI and Data Security Platform
Cyberhaven launched a unified AI‑driven Data Security Posture Management platform that integrates DSPM, DLP, insider risk management and AI security across endpoints, SaaS, cloud and on‑prem environments. The solution leverages comprehensive data lineage and agentic AI to provide continuous visibility,...

NV5 GeoAgent Offers Autonomous Geospatial Intelligence
NV5 unveiled GeoAgent, an agentic AI platform that automates geospatial intelligence through natural‑language interaction. The solution acts as an operational layer over existing tools, orchestrating data discovery, multimodal analytics, and mission‑ready outputs without requiring specialist expertise. By shifting from tool‑driven...

Pentaho Enhances Flagship Data Integration Suite, Introducing Version 11
Pentaho announced the release of Data Integration and Business Analytics Version 11, a major platform upgrade aimed at simplifying data workflows and supporting AI initiatives. The update introduces a browser‑based Pipeline Designer, Project Profile for organizing ETL assets, and a new...

Oracle Life Sciences AI Data Platform Unites Data and Agentic Intelligence to Accelerate Medical Breakthroughs
Oracle introduced the Oracle Life Sciences AI Data Platform, a generative AI‑enabled solution that consolidates diverse life‑science datasets and applies agentic AI to accelerate research, clinical trials, and commercialization. The platform offers out‑of‑the‑box AI agents and tools for label expansion,...

Oracle Releases New Agentic Platform for the Banking and Finance Space
Oracle Financial Services unveiled an enterprise‑class, AI‑infused platform designed for banks and finance firms. The suite bundles pre‑built AI agents, design tools, and decisioning frameworks that deliver conversational, hyper‑personalized experiences across digital and branch channels. Oracle emphasizes a "human‑in‑the‑loop" model...

CIQ Creates Startup Program to Offer High-Performance AI Infrastructure for Early-Stage Innovators
CIQ announced the CIQ Startup Program, giving early‑stage, VC‑backed startups six months of free access to its high‑performance AI infrastructure and up to an 80% discount for the following two years. The offering includes Rocky Linux AI with pre‑integrated frameworks,...

Databricks Lakebase Is Now Generally Available, Delivering Reliability, Performance, and Governance
Databricks announced the general availability of Lakebase on AWS, a serverless Postgres‑compatible operational database built on its lakehouse platform. The service separates compute from storage, offering automatic scaling, zero‑copy branching, and point‑in‑time recovery for production workloads. Lakebase integrates with Unity...

Rocket Software Announces Intent to Acquire Vertica Analytics Database Solution From OpenText?
Rocket Software announced a definitive agreement to acquire the Vertica analytics database from OpenText. Vertica, known for high‑performance, cloud‑ready analytics and AI/ML capabilities, will join Rocket’s portfolio of modernization tools. The cash‑funded deal is slated to close in mid‑2026, pending...

Etleap Introduces a New Managed Pipeline Layer Created for Apache Iceberg
Etleap announced a managed pipeline platform purpose‑built for Apache Iceberg, addressing the missing orchestration layer in Iceberg deployments. The solution consolidates ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and table operations into a single service that runs inside the customer’s virtual private cloud. By...