//www.dbta.comRSS feeds from Database Trends and Applications .All Content Copyright 2026, Database Trends and Applications, a Division of Information Today Inc.60//www.dbta.com/Images/RSS.gif//www.dbta.comFri, 17 Apr 2026 11:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Percona-Launches-Rebrand-The-Way-is-Open-as-the-Company-Marks-20-Year-Anniversary-174428.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Percona-Launches-Rebrand-The-Way-is-Open-as-the-Company-Marks-20-Year-Anniversary-174428.aspxPercona, the open source database software, support, and services company, is launching a "bold new brand identity" built around a single, non-negotiable idea: The Way Is Open.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Commvault-Cloud-Beefs-Up-Support-of-AI-to-Advance-Secure-Controlled-Agentic-Transformation-of-Data-174430.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Commvault-Cloud-Beefs-Up-Support-of-AI-to-Advance-Secure-Controlled-Agentic-Transformation-of-Data-174430.aspxCommvault, a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, announced new and forthcoming AI capabilities that help organizations confidently adopt AI while maintaining control over data, agents, and recovery.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Data-Summit-2026-QandA-With-Keynote-Speaker-Cal-Al-Dhubaib-174395.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Data-Summit-2026-QandA-With-Keynote-Speaker-Cal-Al-Dhubaib-174395.aspxExecutives are betting on agentic AI to drive growth, yet many enterprises still struggle to move from pilot to production. The difficult part has never been about the models, it is about building trust in underlying data assets, human-AI workflows, and outcome accountability. At Data Summit 2026, on May 6 - 7 in Boston, with pre-conference workshops on May 5, Cal Al-Dhubaib, principal technologist at?Rubrik, will dive into Trust Engineering?the emerging discipline needed to consistently scale AI beyond pilots?during his keynote speech.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Quest-Software-Launches-the-Quest-Security-Management-Platform-174396.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Quest-Software-Launches-the-Quest-Security-Management-Platform-174396.aspxQuest Software, a global leader in data management, cybersecurity, and platform modernization,?is releasing the Quest Security Management Platform?a unified, AI-powered platform for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and secure Microsoft identity modernization.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Teradata-Advances-AI-Assisted-Business-Decision-Making-with-the-Launch-of-Analyst-Agent-on-Microsoft-Marketplace-174402.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Teradata-Advances-AI-Assisted-Business-Decision-Making-with-the-Launch-of-Analyst-Agent-on-Microsoft-Marketplace-174402.aspxTeradata announced the availability of its enterprise-grade Analyst Agent on Microsoft Marketplace, bringing AI-assisted, conversational analytics directly into customers' existing Azure environments.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Starburst-Launches-AI-Data-Assistant-an-AI-Assistant-That-Reasons-Across-All-Enterprise-Data-174383.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Starburst-Launches-AI-Data-Assistant-an-AI-Assistant-That-Reasons-Across-All-Enterprise-Data-174383.aspxStarburst, a leading enterprise intelligence platform, is introducing its AI Data Assistant (AIDA), a new capability that helps organizations move from static reporting to faster, more context-aware decision-making.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/30-Startups-to-Watch-in-2026-174243.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/30-Startups-to-Watch-in-2026-174243.aspxAI is capturing the market in the startup space in 2026, with Crunchbase reporting that AI landed 80% of venture dollars. That means $242 billion went to AI startups and four of the five largest venture capital rounds in history closed in Q1 of 2026. Startups continue to emerge that bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, introducing new types of databases, maintaining data at the edge, advancing Web3, and more. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2026.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/30-Startups-to-Watch-in-2026-174243.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/30-Startups-to-Watch-in-2026-174243.aspxAI is capturing the market in the startup space in 2026, with Crunchbase reporting that AI landed 80% of venture dollars. That means $242 billion went to AI startups and four of the five largest venture capital rounds in history closed in Q1 of 2026. Startups continue to emerge that bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, introducing new types of databases, maintaining data at the edge, advancing Web3, and more. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2026.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Think-About-It/The-Two-Most-Important-%e2%80%98Things-for-Database-Performance-174255.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Think-About-It/The-Two-Most-Important-%e2%80%98Things-for-Database-Performance-174255.aspxDatabase performance is one of those never-ending topics that IT professionals?and especially DBAs?just can't seem to talk about enough. I guess this is because the performance of database applications is one of the bigger issues that end users complain about.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Oracle-AI-Database-at-Google-Cloud-Expands-Regions-and-Introduces-Restore-Options-174332.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Oracle-AI-Database-at-Google-Cloud-Expands-Regions-and-Introduces-Restore-Options-174332.aspxOracle is announcing the latest advancements for Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud, expanding into seven new Google Cloud regions and introducing enhanced Restore Options for Autonomous AI Database.?According to the company, these updates are the result of Oracle's ongoing commitment to empowering organizations to launch, grow, and protect their most critical data across the globe.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Redpanda-Connect-Eliminates-Silos-with-Salesforce-Connectors-Streaming-CDC-for-Oracle-and-DynamoDB-174339.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Redpanda-Connect-Eliminates-Silos-with-Salesforce-Connectors-Streaming-CDC-for-Oracle-and-DynamoDB-174339.aspxRedpanda, creator of the Redpanda Agentic Data Plane (ADP) for enterprise AI, announced the general availability of four new components in Redpanda Connect: an Amazon DynamoDB change data capture (CDC) input, an Oracle CDC input, and both a processor and an output for Salesforce.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Oracle-AI-Database-Receives-Comprehensive-Series-of-Updates-174340.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Oracle-AI-Database-Receives-Comprehensive-Series-of-Updates-174340.aspxOracle is introducing a comprehensive series of enhancements to?Oracle AI Database to help customers achieve extreme availability and security for all database applications. Oracle Database's Gold-tier uses Oracle's Real Application Clusters to transparently scale applications across multiple computers, and to protect from failures of individual computers. Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/BigDataQuarterly/Articles/The-New-Demands-on-Data-Center-and-Storage-Leaders-174373.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/BigDataQuarterly/Articles/The-New-Demands-on-Data-Center-and-Storage-Leaders-174373.aspxLooking back on a career in IT, I wanted to reflect on the 20-plus years I spent working in and running data centers for Fortune 500 companies in the New York and New Jersey area. This was an exciting time, leading both large and small teams through some of the most complex transformations in IT infrastruc?ture.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Cloudflare-Expands-its-Agent-Cloud-to-Support-the-Development-of-Autonomous-Agents-174355.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Cloudflare-Expands-its-Agent-Cloud-to-Support-the-Development-of-Autonomous-Agents-174355.aspxCloudflare, a leading connectivity cloud company, is expanding its Agent Cloud with new features to help developers build, deploy, and scale agents. According to the company, this suite of infrastructure, security, and developer tools is designed to move AI agents from experimental demos on local laptops to robust, production-grade workloads running across Cloudflare's global network.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Adeptia-Automate-52-Makes-Integrations-AI-Observable-174360.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Adeptia-Automate-52-Makes-Integrations-AI-Observable-174360.aspxAdeptia, an AI-native platform for Intelligent Data Automation, is releasing Adeptia Automate 5.2, introducing updates that make enterprise integrations directly accessible to AI.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/BigDataQuarterly/Articles/Oracle-The-100-Year-Plan-174353.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/BigDataQuarterly/Articles/Oracle-The-100-Year-Plan-174353.aspxIn April 2009, Larry Ellison said, as reported in The New York Times and The Guardian, that Java?then a freeware pro?gramming language?was "the single most important software asset we have ever acquired." Despite that bold praise, Oracle made no immediate effort to monetize Java, and that omission alone should raise eyebrows.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Catalogic-Software-Releases-DPX-415-Providing-Full-NDMP-Web-Management-and-Advanced-Encryption-Controls-174321.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Catalogic-Software-Releases-DPX-415-Providing-Full-NDMP-Web-Management-and-Advanced-Encryption-Controls-174321.aspxCatalogic Software, a provider of secure data protection solutions, announced the release for Catalogic DPX 4.15, the latest version of its all-in-one enterprise backup and recovery solution.?Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Virtana-Delivers-End-To-End-Observability-Across-Nutanix-Cloud-Infrastructure-and-Nutanix-Enterprise-AI-174324.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Virtana-Delivers-End-To-End-Observability-Across-Nutanix-Cloud-Infrastructure-and-Nutanix-Enterprise-AI-174324.aspxVirtana announced AI Factory Observability for Nutanix Agentic AI environments, extending system-aware observability across Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure and Nutanix Enterprise AI.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Emphasizing-Reusability-When-Creating-Data-Products-with-Quest-Software-174331.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Emphasizing-Reusability-When-Creating-Data-Products-with-Quest-Software-174331.aspxOrganizations are spending millions building data products that get used once and then are forgotten. It's a cycle that drains budgets, delays AI initiatives, and erodes trust in data. Experts recently convened for DBTA's webinar, Stop Rebuilding What You Already Have: Why Data Product Reusability Is the Key to AI-Ready Data, to make the case that reusability isn't just a "nice-to-have," it's the economic engine behind successful data strategy.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Voting-is-Now-Open-for-the-2026-DBTA-Readers-Choice-Awards-174282.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Voting-is-Now-Open-for-the-2026-DBTA-Readers-Choice-Awards-174282.aspxIt'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 May 22.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Cloudera-Supports-its-Hybrid-Data-Platform-with-Latest-Enhancements-174292.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Cloudera-Supports-its-Hybrid-Data-Platform-with-Latest-Enhancements-174292.aspxCloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, is introducing advancements to its hybrid data and AI platform to help enterprises modernize seamlessly, lower infrastructure costs, and accelerate analytics and AI across the entire data estate.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/SOCRadar-Unveils-AI-Agent-Marketplace-and-Identity-Intelligence-to-Protect-Against-Identity-Driven-Cyberattacks-174298.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/SOCRadar-Unveils-AI-Agent-Marketplace-and-Identity-Intelligence-to-Protect-Against-Identity-Driven-Cyberattacks-174298.aspxSOCRadar, a global leader in extended threat intelligence and cybersecurity, is debuting its new AI Agent Marketplace, an integrated hub where organizations can browse, purchase, and deploy specialized autonomous AI agents tailored for specific cybersecurity tasks and use cases in the SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence Platform?this includes phishing detection, brand abuse protection, and dark web monitoring.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/How-Database-Operations-Management-Can-Accelerate-the-Business-with-Nutanix-174301.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/How-Database-Operations-Management-Can-Accelerate-the-Business-with-Nutanix-174301.aspxWhat happens when database operations stop being a bottleneck and start becoming a business accelerator? Companies are looking to simplify database management, reduce risk, and prove tangible business impact.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/RESEARCH-at-DBTA-Survey-AI-Is-Boosting-Enterprise-Data-Leaders-Influence-174269.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/RESEARCH-at-DBTA-Survey-AI-Is-Boosting-Enterprise-Data-Leaders-Influence-174269.aspxIf you aspire to be a chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) or a leader of your data team, you will be pleased to know these roles are gaining influence and meeting the challenges of the AI evolution. These are some of the insights from Deloitte's 2026 CDAO Survey, which asked data and AI leaders about how their influence is changing amid the AI revolution: 94% expect their influence to grow within the next 12 months, and 36% say this influence will expand significantly. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Columns/SQL-Server-Drill-Down/The-Costly-Consequences-of-DBA-Burnout-174252.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Columns/SQL-Server-Drill-Down/The-Costly-Consequences-of-DBA-Burnout-174252.aspxData has become the most valuable resource for modern enterprises. However, the people tasked with managing this valuable resource have one foot out the door. According to the recent State of Database report by SolarWinds, more than 1 in 3 database administrators (DBAs) are considering leaving their role due to burnout. This statistic points to consequences that affect multiple core business functions. Moreover, as a database expert for more than 3 decades, I fear these consequences can create a cascading effect that could limit future innovation, shrink the DBA workforce, and reduce operational resilience.