Self-service analytics promises faster answers, yet many organizations end up with conflicting dashboards, duplicated or leaky data, and renewed reliance on IT. The issue is not control versus flexibility, its delivering governed, analytics-ready data that supports secure independent exploration and consistent reporting.

Devart is releasing dbForge 2026.1, a major update that brings a variety of new features and long-anticipated enhancements to the entire dbForge ecosystem.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, announced the graduation of OpenTelemetry, a vendor-neutral, open source observability framework designed to standardize the collection, processing, and exporting of telemetry data?specifically metrics, logs, and traces.?

Jumio, a leading provider of AI-powered identity intelligence, is introducing Jumio Watch, a first-of-its-kind continuous identity intelligence offering that fundamentally transforms how organizations understand and manage identity risk.

Teradata is introducing the Teradata Factory, extending the Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform with a fully integrated on-premises foundation for enterprises running AI and analytics in hybrid environments.

Selector, a leader in AI-driven network observability solutions, is expanding its platform with AI-powered multi-cloud observability capabilities, enabling organizations to correlate signals across the full hybrid path.

AI adoption is accelerating, but results are falling short, according to new DBTA research that will be released soon. Fewer than half of AI initiatives succeed, and most pilots never reach production. What's more, AI failures are expensive, with 36% costing more than $500K and 16% exceeding $1M. The root cause is clear: data and the gaps in quality, access, trust, and lineage that continue to limit outcomes and prevent AI from scaling. This is not a new problem; it is an unsolved one.

Informatica from Salesforce, a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, is introducing two new capabilities, further expanding its partnership with Google Cloud.

Percona is announcing it has joined a group of companies to sponsor pgBackRest, one of PostgreSQL's most widely used backup and recovery tools, restoring active development and giving users a clear path forward.

Preparing a presentation on the Internet of Things (IoT) in asset management for an executive rail infrastructure audi?ence does something unexpected to you?it forces you to con?front not just the technology, but the human cost of its absence. The deeper I dug into the research, the more I realized the story I was building for that room demanded a wider audience. What follows is the article that preparation forced me to write.

After introducing the MCP Server for Oracle AI Database through Oracle SQLcl last summer, the company is releasing the new OCI Managed MCP Service for Oracle AI Database. This provides native, managed MCP Servers as part of the OCI Database Tools Service, giving customers a cloud-native, HTTPS-based way to connect AI agents and assistants to Oracle databases running in the cloud.

Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are now offering Oracle AI Database@AWS to customers in Switzerland. With the offering's debut in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region, customers can now run Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, and Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse on dedicated infrastructure on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within AWS.

Oracle announced that the Oracle Java SE Universal Subscription will help standardize global software development at Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology.

Arctera announced its transition to a focused SaaS operating model, removing traditional constraints on data volume, users, and environments, and enabling enterprises to apply consistent compliance controls across increasingly complex, data-intensive operations.

Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, is adding new capabilities to its Data Integrity Suite to help organizations build, share, and use agentic-ready data.

Qdrant is launching version 1.18 of its platform, introducing TurboQuant, a new quantization method developed by Google Research. According to the company, TurboQuant applies a fast Hadamard rotation to vectors before compression, which redistributes values evenly across coordinates. Because this rotation normalizes the data distribution, TurboQuant works well with any embedding model.

Traditional approaches to analytics and AI design con?sider outcomes in the context of the complete systems. As AI-driven systems become more prevalent and interconnected, profiling each decision point in the process becomes crucial.

Most people will watch the NFL draft for the picks, the trades, and the storylines. I see it as a data event. My hometown, Pittsburgh, hosted between 500,000 and 700,000 people across a dense downtown foot?print shaped by three rivers, limited bridges, and infrastructure that already runs close to capacity. For a few days, there was almost no margin for error. A familiar system became a real-time operational test.