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Tricentis, a global leader in continuous testing and quality engineering, is announcing a significant investment from GTCR, a leading private equity firm, having signed a definitive agreement to invest $1.33 billion, bringing the company’s valuation to $4.5 billion. Joining Tricentis’ other investor—Insight Partners—this investment reflects Tricentis’ value in delivering continuous testing and quality engineering technology, aiming at further expansion.

AppViewX, a leader in automated certificate lifecycle management (CLM) and public key infrastructure (PKI) solutions, is announcing that Haveli Investments—a private equity firm with deep expertise in enterprise software—has made a strategic majority investment in AppViewX. This investment empowers AppViewX to expand its market leadership and accelerate growth of its AVX ONE platform—the most advanced SaaS CLM platform for enterprise PKI, IAM, security, DevOps, cloud, platform, and application teams.

Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, is announcing an expansion of its partnership with Nokia, aiming to bring advanced data center network services to enterprises around the world. Merging the powers of Kyndryl’s enterprise knowledge and experience in designing, building, and managing hybrid cloud and data center environments with Nokia’s high-performance, reliable data center networking infrastructure solution, the two companies address the present need for fortified, scalable, and secure data center network solutions.

New Relic, the Intelligent Observability Platform, is announcing an integration between New Relic AI —New Relic’s in-platform generative AI (GenAI) assistant—and Amazon Q Business, AWS’ GenAI-powered assistant for finding information, gaining insight, and taking action at work. Propelled by the goal of affording enterprises both visibility and actionable, intelligent insights on their operational infrastructures, New Relic and AWS’ integration drives fast, intelligent, cost-effective business operations amid increasingly complex data environments.

SurrealDB, the ultimate multi-model database, is debuting a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) version of SurrealDB, delivering a fully managed solution that abstracts the complexities of infrastructure management. Dubbed Surreal Cloud, its launch reflects an emphasis on ease and simplicity without sacrificing on power, scale, or resilience.

As AI technologies and services have accelerated their own proliferation throughout the market, the data that trains these machines is more important than ever. The global big data and analytics industry is expected to experience significant growth in the next few years. It is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 14.9% between 2024 and 2032 and reach $1.088 trillion by 2032. Here, data professionals share their big data and database/infrastructure predictions for 2025.

OpenText, a leading information management software and services company, is announcing a strategic partnership with Secure Code Warrior, a secure coding platform that sets the standards that keep our digital world safe. Aiming to power DecSecOps practices for a variety of organizations, this collaboration cultivates an environment of continuous upskilling, reduced risk, and elevated customer trust.

Aerospike Inc., the real-time database built for infinite scale, speed, and savings, is debuting the latest version of Aerospike Vector Search, equipped with new indexing and storage capabilities. Centering flexibility, performance, and streamlined operations, Vector Search addresses current customer problems with new engineering techniques and innovations in the vector space.

Quest Software, a global leader in systems management, data protection, and security software, is unveiling two updates designed to expedite PostgreSQL adoption. The solutions—a Performance Investigator for PostgreSQL add-on for Foglight and SharePlex —work to make PostgreSQL a reality for enterprises by streamlining migrations and optimizing performance and availability.

Modern data architectures—based on ecosystems of integration, scalability, and real-time data—continue to populate the ever-evolving world of analytics. The desire to invest in complex workloads, including AI and machine learning (ML), shapes how data will need to be managed, rendering traditional data architectures unfit.