//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, 10 Jul 2026 10:25:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Flare-Expands-Platform-with-Deep-Identity-First-Threat-Intelligence-Capabilities-175681.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Flare-Expands-Platform-with-Deep-Identity-First-Threat-Intelligence-Capabilities-175681.aspxFlare, a leader in identity-first cyber threat intelligence (CTI), is expanding capabilities for Flare CTI, and an Okta integration within its Identity Exposure Management (IEM) offering. Together, these updates extend Flare's identity expertise into tactical threat intelligence use cases and agentic workflows to reshape security operations, according to the company.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:25:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Devplan-Emerges-from-Stealth-with-25M-to-Build-the-Intelligence-Layer-for-Software-Development-175682.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Devplan-Emerges-from-Stealth-with-25M-to-Build-the-Intelligence-Layer-for-Software-Development-175682.aspxDevplan, the intelligence layer for AI-native product development, is emerging from stealth along with announcing $2.5 million in seed funding, enabling the company to accelerate product development, engineering hiring, and early customer deployments.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:25:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Lightrun-Releases-Pull-Request-Review-Tool-to-Catch-Code-Failures-175683.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Lightrun-Releases-Pull-Request-Review-Tool-to-Catch-Code-Failures-175683.aspxLightrun, a leader in software reliability, is introducing the Runtime Aware PR Verifier, a solution that confirms how a new pull request (PR) will impact live production, before deployment.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/BigDataQuarterly/Articles/Lantronix-Acquires-Vecima-Networks-Industrial-IoT-Business-to-Expand-Critical-Infrastructure-Monitoring-Platform-175676.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/BigDataQuarterly/Articles/Lantronix-Acquires-Vecima-Networks-Industrial-IoT-Business-to-Expand-Critical-Infrastructure-Monitoring-Platform-175676.aspxLantronix Inc., a global provider of edge AI and industrial IoT solutions, is acquiring the assets of Vecima Networks Inc.'s industrial IoT (IIoT) business, including its Nero Global Tracking software-as-a-service platform. The transaction is expected to close in the near term, subject to customary closing conditions.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Algorithmic-Challenges-to-AI-System-Reliability-and-Effectiveness-175642.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Algorithmic-Challenges-to-AI-System-Reliability-and-Effectiveness-175642.aspxIn this clip from Data Summit 2026, Cal Al-Dhubaib, principal technologist at Rubrik, explores how data complexity and task complexity serve to increase uncertainty when working with AI systems and trusting the quality of the summaries they provide, the actionable code they generate, the biases they reproduce, and the resulting chaos they produce, and how these challenges multiply in the progression from generative to agentic AI.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Infoblox-to-Acquire-Kentik-Combining-Authoritative-DNS-and-Asset-Visibility-with-Network-Observability-to-Power-AgenticOps-175656.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Infoblox-to-Acquire-Kentik-Combining-Authoritative-DNS-and-Asset-Visibility-with-Network-Observability-to-Power-AgenticOps-175656.aspxInfoblox, the leading platform for preemptive security and critical network services, is acquiring Kentik, a leading network intelligence and observability platform?allowing customers to have a more holistic, real-time view of everything that is happening on the network and in the cloud. This planned acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and closing conditions.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/StorONE-Now-Enables-Existing-Third-Party-All-Flash-Arrays-to-Provide-Effective-Storage-Without-Purchasing-Additional-Flash-175657.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/StorONE-Now-Enables-Existing-Third-Party-All-Flash-Arrays-to-Provide-Effective-Storage-Without-Purchasing-Additional-Flash-175657.aspxStorONE, a leader in real-time tiering architecture, announced StorONE Version 4.0, introducing an architecture that enables existing third-party All-Flash Arrays to immediately serve as the high-performance flash tier of StorONE Real-Time Tiering (RTT).?Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Columns/DBA-Corner/The-Most-Dangerous-Phrase-in-Database-Management-%e2%80%98Its-Just-Data-175600.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Columns/DBA-Corner/The-Most-Dangerous-Phrase-in-Database-Management-%e2%80%98Its-Just-Data-175600.aspxIn the world of database management, there are a handful of phrases that make experienced DBAs uneasy. Statements such as "we'll fix it in production" or "the database can handle it" usually signal that trouble is coming. But there is another phrase that may be even more dangerous: "It's just data."Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/Perfecting-Data-Management-in-the-Era-of-Agentic-AI-175292.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/Perfecting-Data-Management-in-the-Era-of-Agentic-AI-175292.aspxAs AI becomes more agent-driven, data management must evolve just as quickly. AI agents need real-time data, trusted context, strong governance, and reliable orchestration to operate responsibly.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/Crafting-a-Strategic-Business-Use-Case-for-Your-Data-Foundation-175398.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/Crafting-a-Strategic-Business-Use-Case-for-Your-Data-Foundation-175398.aspxWith every organization currently wondering if their data is sufficient for AI,?closing the gap between data ambition and operational reality requires more than just a technical roadmap.?It requires the strategic discipline to translate major pain points into a narrative leadership can fund.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/AI-Agents-vs-AI-Assistants-175511.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/AI-Agents-vs-AI-Assistants-175511.aspxIn this clip from Data Summit 2026, Sanjeev Mohan, principal,?SanjMo?and former Gartner Research VP, data and analytics, demystifies the nature and critical elements of AI agents to arrive at a working definition of what distinguishes them from AI assistants.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Crusoe-Accelerates-Open-Model-Development-with-Serverless-Fine-Tuning-and-Self-Serve-Inference-Deployments-175635.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Crusoe-Accelerates-Open-Model-Development-with-Serverless-Fine-Tuning-and-Self-Serve-Inference-Deployments-175635.aspxCrusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company, announced Serverless Fine-Tuning and Self-Serve Deployments in Crusoe Intelligence Foundry, the managed AI platform for Crusoe Cloud.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/RapidFort-and-ReversingLabs-Introduce-Open-Source-Dependency-Libraries-Providing-Safe-Package-Catalogs-175636.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/RapidFort-and-ReversingLabs-Introduce-Open-Source-Dependency-Libraries-Providing-Safe-Package-Catalogs-175636.aspxRapidFort, a leader in software supply chain security with the largest distribution of curated truly open-source software, and ReversingLabs (RL), the trusted name in file and software security, announced a partnership to deliver RapidFort Open-Source Dependency Libraries?an open-source package catalog to combine RapidFort's proven curation and hardening process with independent third-party validation powered by ReversingLabs' Spectra Assure platform.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/iboss%c2%a0Gives-Organizations-Visibility-and-Control-Over-AI-with-Free-Security-Platform-175638.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/iboss%c2%a0Gives-Organizations-Visibility-and-Control-Over-AI-with-Free-Security-Platform-175638.aspxiboss, the cloud security company, is releasing the AI Security Platform, a new free service that gives any organization complete visibility into the AI tools its people are using.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:15:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/BigDataQuarterly/Articles/DXC-Private-Cloud--Powered-by-Dell-Provides-Greater-Control-Security-and-Flexibility-to-Enterprise-Cloud-175611.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/BigDataQuarterly/Articles/DXC-Private-Cloud--Powered-by-Dell-Provides-Greater-Control-Security-and-Flexibility-to-Enterprise-Cloud-175611.aspxDXC Technology (DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, is releasing its DXC Private Cloud+, delivering public cloud-like flexibility and pricing while maintaining full control over sensitive data and workloads.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:10:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Cequence-Introduces-Intent-Graph-and-Biometric-Check-for-Bot-Traffic-175615.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Cequence-Introduces-Intent-Graph-and-Biometric-Check-for-Bot-Traffic-175615.aspxCequence Security, a pioneer in application security, is introducing Intent Graph and Biometric Check, two new capabilities that extend the behavioral architecture Cequence has built on since inception?giving enterprises bot defense that works across web, mobile, API, and agentic AI traffic.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:10:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/AWS-Context-Streamlines-Intelligence-for-AI-Agents-175616.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/AWS-Context-Streamlines-Intelligence-for-AI-Agents-175616.aspxAWS is introducing AWS Context, a new service that automatically maps the relationships across existing data into a knowledge graph and provides agentic search so AI agents in the organization can access governed data relationships, business rules, and domain knowledge at runtime.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:10:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Realize-Unified-Analytics-with-EDB-175610.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Realize-Unified-Analytics-with-EDB-175610.aspxAnalytics environments are more powerful than ever, but they're also more fragmented. Data now spans cloud platforms, warehouses, lakehouses, BI tools, and operational systems, making it difficult to deliver consistent insights, trusted metrics, and a unified view of the business.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Intruder-Offers-Free-Plan-to-Give-Security-Teams-Permanent-Access-to-Exposure-Management-Suite-175597.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Intruder-Offers-Free-Plan-to-Give-Security-Teams-Permanent-Access-to-Exposure-Management-Suite-175597.aspxIntruder, a leader in exposure management, is introducing its Free plan, providing security, IT, and DevOps teams ongoing access to professional-grade vulnerability management, cloud security, and attack surface management at no cost.?Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Progress-Softwares-Progress-Chef-Platform-Delivers-Enterprise-Management-for-NVIDIA-DGX-Spark-175598.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Progress-Softwares-Progress-Chef-Platform-Delivers-Enterprise-Management-for-NVIDIA-DGX-Spark-175598.aspxProgress Software, a trusted provider of AI-powered digital experience and infrastructure software, announced that its?Progress Chef?platform now delivers enterprise lifecycle management and configuration capabilities for NVIDIA DGX Spark.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/ScienceLogic-Advances-Transparent-AI-Driven-and-Autonomous-IT-Operations-With-Expanded-Analytics-and-Advisor-Capabilities-175599.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/ScienceLogic-Advances-Transparent-AI-Driven-and-Autonomous-IT-Operations-With-Expanded-Analytics-and-Advisor-Capabilities-175599.aspxScienceLogic, delivering intelligence that accelerates outcomes through service-centric observability, is introducing the latest updates to Skylar AI?enhancing Skylar Analytics and Skylar Advisor with agent capabilities to reason over operational knowledge while increasing transparency and usability across AI-driven workflows.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Kyndryl-and-Microsoft-Partner-to-Expand-Sovereignty-Solutioning-175565.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Kyndryl-and-Microsoft-Partner-to-Expand-Sovereignty-Solutioning-175565.aspxKyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, is expanding its sovereignty solutioning through new capabilities and services with?Microsoft.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Virtana-Introduces-Outcome-Based-SLA-Management-Transforming-Observability-into-Autonomous-Service-Assurance-175568.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Virtana-Introduces-Outcome-Based-SLA-Management-Transforming-Observability-into-Autonomous-Service-Assurance-175568.aspxVirtana, provider of the deepest and broadest observability platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, is introducing Agentic SLA Management?a new AI-native capability that transforms service-level agreements from static reporting metrics into an intelligent operational control plane for business outcomes.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:00:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/MotherDuck-Previews-Flights-an-Agent-Native-Ingest-Tool-Inside-Python-175574.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/MotherDuck-Previews-Flights-an-Agent-Native-Ingest-Tool-Inside-Python-175574.aspxMotherDuck is launching Flights, an agent-native data pipeline that enables users to choose the MCP server and AI agent of their choice to build and deploy data pipelines in minutes using a flexible, general-purpose Python runtime.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:45:00 ESThttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/OceanBase-Debuts-AI-Database-Introducing-A-New-Product-Portfolio-Unifying-Multimodal-Data-Real-Time-Analytics-and-AI-Agents-175551.aspxhttps://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/OceanBase-Debuts-AI-Database-Introducing-A-New-Product-Portfolio-Unifying-Multimodal-Data-Real-Time-Analytics-and-AI-Agents-175551.aspxOceanBase is debuting OceanBase AI Database, a comprehensive portfolio designed to enable enterprises to manage multimodal data, deliver real-time trusted data context to AI agents, and simplify fragmented data architectures.?