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Teradata’s AgentStack aims to simplify building, managing AI

Featuring capabilities for developing, deploying and governing agents, the vendor's new suite addresses many of the problems enterprises face when trying to launch agentic systems.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 27, 2026

New Snowflake suite simplifies data, AI for energy sector

Energy Solutions joins the vendor's spate of industry-specific offerings and includes partner-built applications and pre-modeled datasets that accelerate data-driven initiatives.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 27, 2026

Data Technologies outlook on 2026: The year of data is here

Data will be the backbone of success in 2026. As AI reshapes data management, organizations must balance innovation with ethics, governance and high-quality data to thrive.

By Erin Sullivan • Jan. 23, 2026

Modern data architectures as a risk management strategy

As organizations modernize their data systems, architecture choices will determine how risk is governed, disruptions are absorbed, and regulatory obligations are managed over time.

By Chris Tozzi • Jan. 21, 2026

ScyllaDB adds vector search to managed database platform

The feature's direct integration in the X Cloud platform is aimed at simplifying AI development by eliminating the need for customers to add specialized databases.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 20, 2026

ScyllaDB X Cloud update addresses database cost, performance

Features such as autoscaling and advanced compression are designed to help customers reduce spending on their data management, analytics and AI initiatives.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 15, 2026

MongoDB launches latest Voyage models to aid AI development

With many enterprises struggling to build advanced applications, new embedding and reranking models improve data retrieval to make agents and other tools more effective.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 15, 2026

How data lineage became a boardroom metric

Data lineage has moved beyond a technical function, becoming a board-level signal of how well organizations govern, audit and explain their data across complex environments.

By Donald Farmer • Jan. 13, 2026

The top 2026 data conferences to plan enterprise strategy

This guide lists events that can help data leaders assess how AI fits into their current architecture and identify improvements needed to meet future data demands.

By Tom Walat • Jan. 12, 2026

Top trends in big data for enterprises in 2026

As AI systems mature, organizations must evaluate models, infrastructure and governance frameworks that balance cost, compliance and performance this year and beyond.

By Donald Farmer • Jan. 9, 2026

Snowflake storms into IT monitoring with Observe acquisition

Historically focused on data management and AI development, the vendor is adding infrastructure observability capabilities in a move that could differentiate it from competitors.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 8, 2026

New Databricks tool aims to up agentic AI response accuracy

With enterprises struggling to successfully develop agents using traditional RAG pipelines, the vendor's new Instructed Retriever offers an alternative.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 8, 2026

Snowflake boosts Google partnership, integrates Gemini 3

By making the tech giant's LLM natively available in Cortex AI, the data cloud vendor is adding yet another significant tool to its evolving development suite.

By Eric Avidon • Jan. 7, 2026

2026 will be the year data becomes truly intelligent

As AI moves into production, enterprises are redefining data management around shared meaning, operational trust and system coherence rather than standalone capabilities.

By Stephen Catanzano • Jan. 5, 2026

4 trends that will shape data management and AI in 2026

The tendencies that influence the next 12 months build on what began last year, including rising mergers and acquisitions and the need to simplify developing and deploying agents.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 29, 2025

Data architecture vs. information architecture: How they differ

Data architecture and information architecture are distinct but related disciplines that work in tandem to support an enterprise's data and business strategies.

By Rick Sherman • Dec. 23, 2025

How AI changes data governance roles and responsibilities

Data governance is a team effort, though recent AI developments have caused data and AI teams to converge. As a result, organizations have created new roles in these teams.

By George Lawton • Dec. 23, 2025

4 trends that shaped data management, analytics in 2025

With each relating to agentic AI development, tendencies included nearly universal support for MCP and rising emphasis on semantic modeling, among others.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 22, 2025

10 essential roles for a data management team in 2026

These 10 essential data management roles help leaders design teams that support governance, scale and trusted analytics across modern enterprise data environments.

By Chris Foot • Dec. 19, 2025

Databricks adds $4B funding round; IPO could be next

With a valuation well over $100 billion and strong revenue growth from both data management and AI, the vendor could be preparing to go public.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 16, 2025

Different types of database management systems explained

The various types of database software come with advantages, limitations and optimal uses that prospective buyers should be aware of before choosing a DBMS.

By Craig Mullins • Dec. 16, 2025

How to build a data catalog: 10 key steps

A data catalog helps business and analytics users explore data assets, find relevant data and understand what it means. Here are 10 important steps for building one.

By Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D. • Dec. 16, 2025

EnterpriseDB updates WarehousePG with features that fuel AI

The PostgreSQL database specialist's data warehouse update targets AI development by adding predictable pricing, real-time data processing and improved governance capabilities.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 16, 2025

Couchbase adds agentic AI development suite to Capella DBaaS

AI Services, which includes an integration with Nvidia and governance capabilities -- among other features -- represents the vendor's growth beyond its database roots.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 10, 2025

IBM acquiring Confluent to boost AI development capabilities

The purchase of a streaming data platform complements the tech giant's existing tools by enabling developers to build agents using real-time information.

By Eric Avidon • Dec. 8, 2025