Data Management

Salesforce extends its headless push into enterprise data via Informatica

The update could spare developers much of the integration and custom plumbing work typically required to build AI-driven workflows, although CIOs should be wary of cost, accuracy headaches, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

May 21, 20266 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ManagementMaster Data Management

Contexts graphs, AI memory, and enterprise knowledge: Are decision traces enough?

By Dominik Tomicevic

May 19, 20266 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesGenerative AI

Articles

Diskless databases: What happens when storage isn’t the bottleneck

When you eliminate the dependency on local storage, the database becomes an active, real-time engine, not just a place to store data.

By Peter Barnett

May 5, 2026 5 mins

Data ManagementDatabasesSoftware Development

SAP to acquire data lakehouse vendor Dremio

Two existing SAP partners, Snowflake and Databricks, offer similar services, but there are key differences in Dremio's offerings that may speak to enterprise IT AI fears.

By Evan Schuman

May 4, 2026 9 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ManagementDatabases

Making AI work for databases

The gap between human and AI performance on database tasks will shrink over time, but more complex problems will still require human expertise and control.

By Laura Czajkowski

Apr 30, 2026 6 mins

DatabasesGenerative AISQL

Google pitches Agentic Data Cloud to help enterprises turn data into context for AI agents

Google’s is moving to counter AWS and Microsoft in the emerging AI data stack race.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 23, 2026 6 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Warehousing

Unlocking data’s true potential: The open lakehouse as AI’s foundation

Artificial intelligence has increased the urgency for unified data. Here’s how to achieve it.

By Geeta Banda, Head of Outbound Product Management, Google Cloud

May 29, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData Management

The cookbook for safe, powerful agents

Capability without control is a liability. If your AI agents have broad credentials and unmonitored network access, you haven't deployed a tool — you've deployed a highly-privileged vulnerability.

By Abigail Wall

Apr 21, 2026 6 mins

Data GovernanceNetwork SecurityThreat and Vulnerability Management

Addressing the challenges of unstructured data governance for AI

As technology and regulations evolve, enterprises need to address data governance throughout pipelines, models, and AI agents. AI can help.

By Isaac Sacolick

Apr 21, 2026 10 mins

Data ArchitectureData GovernanceData and Information Security

Oracle delivers semantic search without LLMs

Trusted Answer Search is a new offering from Oracle that prioritizes control, auditability, and predictable outcomes over generative flexibility, saving on compute but adding to data curation and governance costs.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 17, 2026 4 mins

Data ManagementDatabases

Google Cloud introduces QueryData to help AI agents create reliable database queries

However, analysts say that its deterministic, controls-based features add complexity to upfront design.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesGoogle Cloud Platform

Bringing databases and Kubernetes together

OpenEverest is an open-source platform for automating the provisioning and management of any database on any Kubernetes infrastructure.

By Laura Czajkowski

Apr 9, 2026 5 mins

Cloud-NativeDatabasesKubernetes

Databricks launches AiChemy multi-agent AI for drug discovery

The reference architecture connects enterprise and public scientific data to accelerate target identification and compound evaluation.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Apr 6, 2026 3 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ManagementDatabases

How Apache Kafka flexed to support queues

The latest release of Apache Kafka delivers the queue-like consumption semantics of point-to-point messaging. Here’s the how, what, and why.

By Sandon Jacobs

Mar 31, 2026 8 mins

Data ManagementDatabasesLibraries and Frameworks

Edge clouds and local data centers reshape IT

As smart cities, AI inference, and regional services focus on latency, sovereignty, and resilience, enterprises recognize that cloud computing will be notably more distributed than in the past.

By David Linthicum

Mar 27, 2026 8 mins

Cloud ArchitectureData ArchitectureHybrid Cloud