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• May 20, 2025 20 May'25

  Alation boosts agentic AI with Numbers Station acquisition

  The acquisition adds capabilities such as Chat that enable users to embed agents in workflows to complement the vendor's existing plans for agentic development.

• May 19, 2025 19 May'25

  Addition of new AI capabilities shows Starburst's growth

  The open source data lakehouse vendor continues to evolve beyond being a data mesh specialist with the additions of agentic tools, a development environment and a data catalog.

• May 15, 2025 15 May'25

  Qlik evolves to keep up with latest AI, analytics trends

  The longtime BI vendor continues to expand beyond its historical base to keep current with what's happening in GenAI and agentic development, analytics, and data management.

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Alteryx One launch aims to unify, simplify vendor's platform

  The updated version of the data integration vendor's platform aims to make it easier to prepare data for AI and analytics, while new GenAI tools further simplify data preparation.

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Databricks adds Postgres database with $1B Neon acquisition

  The vendor's latest purchase comes six months after it raised $10B in funding. By adding PostgreSQL database capabilities, it aims to better enable users to build AI applications.

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• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Boomi launches agentic AI development tools, support for MCP

  The longtime iPaaS vendor continues to expand beyond its historical base with the additions of Agentstudio, agents that simplify integration and change data capture capabilities.

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Informatica to build agents, foster agentic AI development

  With agents now a major trend in data management, the vendor plans to join the fray by developing agentic capabilities and providing customers with the tools to do the same.

• May 14, 2025 14 May'25

  Qlik unveils agentic AI capabilities, launches lakehouse

  An insight generation tool and capabilities that unlock unstructured data are among the longtime analytics vendor's latest features, while a data lakehouse represents expansion.

• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  SAS update targets responsible agentic AI development

  The longtime independent analytics vendor's latest Viya platform update includes Intelligent Decisioning, a set of governance-infused capabilities for developing agents.

• May 07, 2025 07 May'25

  Latest Neo4j release aims to simplify graph technology

  Prebuilt algorithms that reduce the complexity of queries and connectivity to any data source are designed to make graph-based analysis accessible to a broader audience.

• May 06, 2025 06 May'25

  Snowflake launches auto industry-specific AI capabilities

  The latest AI Manufacturing Data Cloud update adds features aimed at helping auto manufacturers deal with massive amounts of data being created by the industry's evolution.

• May 02, 2025 02 May'25

  Veeam CEO discusses data resilience, VMware migrations, IPO

  In this Q&A, Veeam CEO Anand Eswaran speaks to the customer pain point of VMware migrations, the potential for acquisitions and whether tariffs have affected Veeam's business.

• May 02, 2025 02 May'25

  Fivetran adds reverse ETL with acquisition of Census

  The data integration specialist's purchase provides users with complementary capabilities that enable them to send transformed data back to applications where decisions are made.

• April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  Telecom giant uses Tableau Pulse to drive analytics adoption

  As part of an effort to enable its employees to make data-informed decisions, Virgin Media O2 is using the GenAI-powered insight generator to show workers what's possible.

• April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  StarTree aims to simplify AI development with new features

  The database vendor plans to add support for Model Context Protocol and automated vector embedding capabilities to make it faster and easier to benefit from agentic AI.

• April 30, 2025 30 Apr'25

  StarTree aims to simplify AI development with new features

  The database vendor plans to add support for Model Context Protocol and automated vector embedding capabilities to make it faster and easier to benefit from agentic AI.

• April 29, 2025 29 Apr'25

  Acceldata launches agentic AI-powered anomaly detection

  The data observability specialist's new feature uses agentic AI to ensure that the data used to inform analytics and AI tools is high quality and won't lead to poor decisions.

• April 24, 2025 24 Apr'25

  IT pros share disaster preparedness, VMware migration plans

  IT pros at VeeamON shared disaster preparedness strategies, including DR planning, using immutable storage and moving away from VMware.

• April 24, 2025 24 Apr'25

  Yellowfin joins GenAI fray, launches new NLQ capabilities

  The longtime BI vendor is the latest to add generative AI-powered natural language query capabilities aimed at enabling more users within organizations to use complex capabilities.

• April 24, 2025 24 Apr'25

  Cyber resilience now a top priority for backup platforms

  The latest updates to backup platforms such as HYCU, Commvault, Cohesity, Rubrik and Keepit bolster cyber resilience in both technology and customer readiness.

• April 23, 2025 23 Apr'25

  Veeam data resilience strategy evolves beyond tech releases

  Veeam's releases at its annual user conference included technology-specific backup products and a process-focused framework for increasing resilience.

• April 17, 2025 17 Apr'25

  Monte Carlo launches first agents for data observability

  Though the vendor already provides monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities, generative AI-powered agents for each aim to make instantaneous tasks that previously took days.

• April 15, 2025 15 Apr'25

  Tableau enters the agentic AI era with the launch of Next

  The new platform features agents addressing needs such as data preparation and natural language-based analysis, and includes a semantic layer that targets relevancy and accuracy.

• April 09, 2025 09 Apr'25

  Google enters new era of AI for data with launch of agents

  Agentic AI applications for data engineering and data science along with a new underlying knowledge engine aim to make data management and analytics easier and more efficient.

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  New AI-powered tools from Dremio target data discovery

  With relevant data key to developing accurate AI and analytics applications, the data lakehouse specialist's latest features target making data faster and easier to find.

• April 08, 2025 08 Apr'25

  Snowflake embraces open source with full support for Iceberg

  Three years after providing limited support for open data storage, the data platform vendor is signaling its embrace of open source with full support for the open table format.

• April 02, 2025 02 Apr'25

  Databricks simplifies data ingestion with Lakeflow Connect

  With preconfigured connectors to Salesforce and Workday -- and more to follow -- the data cloud and AI vendor is taking aim at streamlining data ingestion.

• April 02, 2025 02 Apr'25

  Informatica adds to Claire lineup of GenAI capabilities

  New copilots for data integration and iPaaS highlight the vendor's Spring 2025 release, along with a tool aimed at simplifying access to unstructured data to fuel AI development.

• March 27, 2025 27 Mar'25

  AWS boosts Q in QuickSight with AI-powered scenario analysis

  Driven by customer feedback, the BI platform now enables nontechnical and expert users alike to model data and perform deep analytics using generative AI-fueled natural language.

• March 26, 2025 26 Mar'25

  Databricks partners with Anthropic to aid GenAI development

  With the Claude line of models natively available in the Data Intelligence Platform, developers can securely combine data and AI models to build agents and other applications.

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  Domo unveils agentic AI toolkit to simplify development

  Agent Catalyst provides users with a four-step process for developing agentic applications, including selecting an LLM and connecting it to relevant proprietary data.

• March 20, 2025 20 Mar'25

  DBT Labs launches AI copilot to boost developer efficiency

  The assistant includes features such as autogenerated documentation and testing to relieve developers and engineers of repetitive tasks and free them up for more innovative work.

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Coalesce acquires data catalog upstart to aid transformation

  After raising $50 million in venture capital funding in 2024, the startup acquired CastorDoc to add AI-powered data catalog capabilities to its data preparation platform.

• March 19, 2025 19 Mar'25

  Confluent launches Tableflow to ease use of streaming data

  The vendor's new feature enables users to convert event data to tables that developers and engineers can search and discover to inform AI and BI applications.

• March 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  Sigma Computing launches Data Apps to boost analytics

  The vendor's new application development feature enables users to create custom apps that combine data collection, insight generation and process automation to improve analysis.

• March 14, 2025 14 Mar'25

  AWS unifies analytics and AI development in SageMaker

  In a move that brings previously disparate analytics and AI development tasks together in one environment with data management, Unified Studio is now generally available.

• March 12, 2025 12 Mar'25

  Druva founder and CEO talks Azure integration, IPO and AI

  In this Q&A, Druva founder and CEO Jaspreet Singh talks about the SaaS platform's latest integration with Azure, if an IPO is in the future and the Dru AI copilots.

• March 12, 2025 12 Mar'25

  Vast Data targets secure, speedy agentic AI development

  The vendor is furthering its expansion into AI development with features such as vector search and event streaming aimed at enabling users to build and maintain agents.

• March 11, 2025 11 Mar'25

  Druva debuts fully integrated support for Microsoft Azure

  Druva's SaaS platform expands beyond AWS with new embedded support for Microsoft Azure storage workload backups after more than a decade of AWS exclusivity.

• March 10, 2025 10 Mar'25

  New Databricks tools tackle lingering GenAI accuracy issues

  Features such as centralized model governance and real-time monitoring aim to improve the accuracy of outputs so that enterprises can confidently scale beyond experimentation.

• March 05, 2025 05 Mar'25

  Solving specific problems driving enterprise adoption of AI

  When weighing the benefits and risks of deploying AI at scale, whether the tools solve specific problems can accelerate deployment, Sisense CEO Ariel Katz says.

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Qdrant update adds security measures for AI development

  The vector database specialist's update includes features that enable secure AI development such as role-based access control and an API for managing cloud deployments.

• March 04, 2025 04 Mar'25

  Rubrik expands cloud, SaaS and database protection services

  Backup and recovery for Microsoft Identity services, alongside new offerings for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Red Hat OpenShift, come to Rubrik's platform.

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  Alation unveils AI agents plus SDK for agentic development

  The data catalog vendor's new agents for documentation and data quality monitoring represent innovation among metadata management vendors and could force competitors to respond.

• March 03, 2025 03 Mar'25

  Teradata unveils vector store to fuel AI development

  The longtime data management and analytics vendor's new feature will enable developers to discover the relevant data needed to train business-specific generative AI applications.

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Snowflake adds OpenAI models with Microsoft integration

  In a move that adds more model choices for AI developers, models including GPT-4o are now natively available in Cortex AI alongside models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral and others.

• February 26, 2025 26 Feb'25

  Google boosts AlloyDB with added vector search capabilities

  New features address the accuracy and performance of the in-database vector searches that discover relevant data for feeding and training AI models and applications.

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  IBM to buy open source data platform and AI vendor DataStax

  The tech giant looks to the Astra DB creator to strengthen its Watsonx family of AI products.

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  Backup vendor Veeam gets an equity stake from Microsoft

  Veeam plans deeper AI integrations in Microsoft 365 and other Azure services through Microsoft equity investment and expanded partnership.

• February 25, 2025 25 Feb'25

  Reltio adds real-time data delivery to fuel fast decisions

  The vendor's new Lightspeed Data Delivery Network can be used to feed customer recommendation engines and other applications that need data instantaneously to fuel actions.

• February 24, 2025 24 Feb'25

  Couchbase integrates with Nvidia NIM to aid AI development

  By joining its Capella AI Model Services environment for AI development with Nvidia's microservices suite, the database vendor aims to make building and managing AI apps easier.

• February 20, 2025 20 Feb'25

  Cube semantic layer eases data access from Power BI, Excel

  New integrations aim to better enable Microsoft users to directly access data in cloud data warehouses, which has been problematic given how different query languages interact.

• February 13, 2025 13 Feb'25

  Confluent, Databricks partner to simplify AI development

  With a new integration, joint customers can more easily access real-time streaming data to develop, deploy and maintain trusted AI models and applications.

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  Arctera CEO: Focus is on new capabilities for backup products

  Data backup vendor Arctera, which consists of former Veritas businesses, will continue to sell these products separately as it looks to improve and expand its offerings.

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  Snowflake's new Cortex Agents enables agentic AI development

  The vendor's new managed service, now in preview, provides developers with an API for combining structured and unstructured data with LLMs to create agentic applications.

• February 12, 2025 12 Feb'25

  Ataccama adds data lineage to foster trust in AI, analytics

  Given that the absence of trusted data hinders AI development, the vendor's new capabilities further its effort to provide users with the tools to ensure data can be trusted.

• February 11, 2025 11 Feb'25

  New StorPool KVM disaster recovery service aids adoption

  New Disaster Recovery Engine service by StorPool Storage enables automated snapshot and metadata recovery of KVMs in open source cloud platforms.

• February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

  Super Bowl teams show analytics gaining ground in NFL

  As data-driven decision-making gains ground in pro football, both the Eagles and Chiefs have gained advantages from using advanced statistical analysis.

• February 06, 2025 06 Feb'25

  Databricks' acquisition of BladeBridge boosts data migration

  The data and AI vendor's latest purchase adds AI-powered ETL capabilities aimed at making it easier for new customers to transport data from competing data storage platforms.

• February 05, 2025 05 Feb'25

  Latest Aerospike database update prioritizes performance

  The vendor's latest platform update addresses performance at scale by adding multi-object ACID transactions to better support the needs of online transaction processing.

• February 04, 2025 04 Feb'25

  MicroStrategy adds personalization to GenAI-powered bot

  The longtime independent analytics vendor's latest update aims to provide users with a more tailored query and response experience to reach more contextually relevant responses.

• January 31, 2025 31 Jan'25

  Domo platform a difference-maker for check guarantee vendor

  Ingo Money succeeded with the analytics specialist's suite after years of struggling to gain insights from spreadsheets and a failed attempt to modernize with another BI vendor.

• January 30, 2025 30 Jan'25

  Agentic AI, data as a product among growing analytics trends

  Collibra's founder and chief data citizen reveals his predictions for 2025, and underpinning all is the need for strong governance that guarantees the quality of BI and AI tools.

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  Trusted data at the core of successful GenAI adoption

  A new study finds that only a third of organizations are successfully developing GenAI tools. The problem preventing success is the quality of the underlying information.

• January 27, 2025 27 Jan'25

  Cohesity exec: Gaia will 'unlock' data for AI applications

  In this Q&A, Cohesity's Greg Statton explains how the Gaia offering connects data and AI services, with more capabilities coming following the acquisition of Veritas last year.

• January 23, 2025 23 Jan'25

  Pinecone provides Assistant for generative AI development

  The vector database specialist is expanding beyond managing data with a suite of APIs and other tools that enable users to tap into their data to create chatbots and agents.

• January 22, 2025 22 Jan'25

  Synology launches enterprise push with a backup appliance

  Synology attempts to court the enterprise IT market with the launch of ActiveProtect, a new backup appliance, and plans to expand storage offerings later this year.

• January 21, 2025 21 Jan'25

  TigerGraph launches Savanna to aid AI development

  The latest evolution of the graph database specialist's platform aims to meet developers' data discovery and performance requirements as they build AI applications.

• January 16, 2025 16 Jan'25

  Snowflake takes aim at lowering GenAI development costs

  By integrating its recently developed SwiftKV capabilities with LLMs, the vendor aims to make models more efficient so that customers pay less as they develop generative AI tools.

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  ThoughtSpot adds data preparation with Analyst Studio launch

  Long focused largely on analytics, the vendor's new data preparation environment marks a foray into data management so users can ready data for informing AI and BI tools.

• January 15, 2025 15 Jan'25

  DBT Labs acquires SDF Labs to boost data transformation

  By adding SQL comprehension capabilities, users will be able to validate code as it's written, speeding the transformation process and potentially improving data quality.

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Qlik's Upsolver acquisition ups streaming, Iceberg support

  With Iceberg a popular foundation for data lakehouses and streaming data key to AI development, the vendor's latest acquisition aims to address growing AI needs for customers.

• January 14, 2025 14 Jan'25

  Commvault automates Microsoft Active Directory reforestation

  Commvault's latest offering enables the Microsoft AD forest to sprout back from disasters or ransomware through new automation and visualization tools.

• January 09, 2025 09 Jan'25

  Oracle Exadata update boosts performance to meet AI needs

  With database workloads growing due to the demands of AI development and real-time analytics, the tech giant's latest database infrastructure update focuses on efficiency.

• January 09, 2025 09 Jan'25

  Informatica natively integrates governance suite on GCP

  An expanded partnership between the data prep specialist and tech giant makes it easier for joint customers to develop AI and analytics applications using properly prepared data.

• January 02, 2025 02 Jan'25

  New Alteryx CEO sees platform as the canvas for AI prep

  Following a time of tumult that included going private, the vendor's new leader aims to spur growth by making its platform a pivotal part of the AI development process.

• December 23, 2024 23 Dec'24

  Surging AI development will heighten focus on data in 2025

  Without proper training, models and applications will fail. As a result, enterprises will pay increased attention to the information used to train artificial intelligence tools.

• December 19, 2024 19 Dec'24

  Boomi's Rivery acquisition aimed at AI, real-time analysis

  With the purchase, the data integration specialist adds change data capture capabilities for AI and real-time analytics.

• December 18, 2024 18 Dec'24

  Record funding round reflects Databricks' differentiation

  Based on its AI development and expansion within data management, the record $10 billion the vendor raised shows it is viewed differently from its competitors.

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Databricks' record $10 billion funding round to fuel growth

  The data lakehouse pioneer has expanded into AI development and plans to use the funding to fuel further investments in AI, make acquisitions and expand go-to-market efforts.

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Acquisitions defined enterprise backup market in 2024

  From massive acquisitions to an IPO, major enterprise backup vendors spent much of 2024 consolidating the market.

• December 17, 2024 17 Dec'24

  Nexla integration with Nvidia NIM boosts AI development

  The complementary partnership combines the data integration vendor's discovery and retrieval capabilities with the tech giant's power to scale and secure AI development.

• December 11, 2024 11 Dec'24

  Aerospike adds new vector search capabilities to database

  With vector search a critical component of AI development, the vendor's latest vector search and storage capabilities target simplifying data discovery for training AI tools.

• December 10, 2024 10 Dec'24

  Cohesity completes acquisition of Veritas

  The combined Cohesity company boasts more than 12,000 customers and promises support for existing Veritas products. Arctera, a Veritas spinoff, launches in the wake of the merger.

• December 10, 2024 10 Dec'24

  Acceldata unveils AI-powered data observability tools

  The vendor's update includes features such as error detection with root cause analysis and schema reconciliation that use AI to automate finding and fixing data integrity problems.

• December 09, 2024 09 Dec'24

  Alteryx names new CEO amid ongoing change

  A year after getting acquired by private equity firms amid declining revenue growth and a slow transition to the cloud, the longtime data management vendor has a new leader.

• December 05, 2024 05 Dec'24

  New Qlik integrations ready data for AI development

  The longtime analytics and data management vendor's new integrations are designed to enable customers to ingest and prepare data for GenAI.

• December 05, 2024 05 Dec'24

  Rubrik expands into AWS, GenAI management

  Rubrik customers can now integrate their backup data into AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI with the new Annapurna API service. The vendor is also expanding its backup services for AWS.

• December 03, 2024 03 Dec'24

  AWS reimagines SageMaker as suite for data, analytics, AI

  The service is now a unified platform featuring a data catalog, lakehouse and integrations with other AWS platforms.

• December 02, 2024 02 Dec'24

  Couchbase unveils suite of services for developing AI

  The new services include access to LLMs and unstructured data transformation aimed at enabling customers to build AI tools.

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  How to get data ready for AI development

  Factors including a combination of commitment to data quality, proper technology and pertinent processes are key to preparing data for feeding models and applications.

• November 26, 2024 26 Nov'24

  Commvault's Clumio Backtrack manages AWS versioning for S3

  Clumio offers management tools for AWS S3 versioning backups with granular recovery for billions of objects in its first release under the Commvault banner.

• November 22, 2024 22 Nov'24

  Snowflake fuels edtech vendor's data and AI initiatives

  PowerSchool is creating personalized educational experiences for teachers, students, parents, administrators and others by using its data to train AI tools.

• November 20, 2024 20 Nov'24

  Snowflake partners with Anthropic to improve AI development

  The alliance aims to make it easier and faster for the data cloud vendor's customers to use the Claude line of large language models when developing advanced applications.

• November 19, 2024 19 Nov'24

  With new Fabric features, Microsoft aims at AI development

  New data management and analytics suite features include databases and a data catalog to enable enterprises to develop and operationalize advanced applications.

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Alteryx adds tools for cloud, hybrid analytics deployments

  The vendor's update includes new data preparation and blending tools, improved interoperability with data warehouses and the preview of AI-powered insight generation capabilities.

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Arctera emerges as spinoff from Veritas-Cohesity merger

  Three separate backup and storage offerings from Veritas will continue development under the name Arctera. One analyst believes the spinoff will be a boon for SMB customers.

• November 14, 2024 14 Nov'24

  Monte Carlo adds more GenAI to data observability platform

  The vendor's latest update features an LLM-powered tool that delivers recommendations for developing data quality monitors along with a DataOps dashboard and new integrations.

• November 13, 2024 13 Nov'24

  ThoughtSpot AI agent Spotter enables conversational BI

  The analytics vendor's new tool not only enables users to converse with data using natural language, but also has contextual awareness and autonomously makes suggestions.

• November 12, 2024 12 Nov'24

  SAS acquires synthetic data generator to aid AI development

  The longtime analytics vendor plans to fold the intellectual property of Hazy into its existing synthetic data generation capabilities to help customers safely build AI tools.