Master Data Management Articles
Global provider of fully managed hosting solutions, Hyve Managed Hosting, is partnering with Red Hat to give Hyve customers a modern, fully managed platform built on Red Hat OpenShift—enabling containerized applications and existing virtualized workloads to run side by side.
Posted April 24, 2026
NetApp, the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, is unveiling new innovations that help customers better leverage their enterprise data, by tapping into the benefits of AI with Google Cloud.
Posted April 24, 2026
The modern data stack was built for a world of dashboards and batch pipelines, but AI agents are breaking it. The scarcest resource is no longer compute or storage, but the talent to reduce platform complexity. At Data Summit 2026, on May 6 - 7 in Boston, with pre-conference workshops on May 5, Sanjeev Mohan, principal, SanjMo and former Gartner Research, VP, data and analytics, will examine trends reshaping every layer of the AI-driven data foundation, from storage to governance to operations, during his keynote speech.
Posted April 22, 2026
Pinecone is announcing the general availability of its Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN), designed for workloads that need predictable performance, high throughput, and cost-efficient scaling under sustained load.
Posted April 20, 2026
Percona, the open source database software, support, and services company, is launching a "bold new brand identity" built around a single, non-negotiable idea: The Way Is Open.
Posted April 17, 2026
Executives are betting on agentic AI to drive growth, yet many enterprises still struggle to move from pilot to production. The difficult part has never been about the models, it is about building trust in underlying data assets, human-AI workflows, and outcome accountability. At Data Summit 2026, on May 6 - 7 in Boston, with pre-conference workshops on May 5, Cal Al-Dhubaib, principal technologist at Rubrik, will dive into Trust Engineering—the emerging discipline needed to consistently scale AI beyond pilots—during his keynote speech.
Posted April 16, 2026
AI is capturing the market in the startup space in 2026, with Crunchbase reporting that AI landed 80% of venture dollars. That means $242 billion went to AI startups and four of the five largest venture capital rounds in history closed in Q1 of 2026. Startups continue to emerge that bring fresh approaches to accelerating digital transformation, expanding what's possible with AI and analytics, breaking down silos, enhancing security, improving data observability, introducing new types of databases, maintaining data at the edge, advancing Web3, and more. Here are 30 startups DBTA thinks are worth watching in 2026.
Posted April 15, 2026
Cloudflare, a leading connectivity cloud company, is expanding its Agent Cloud with new features to help developers build, deploy, and scale agents. According to the company, this suite of infrastructure, security, and developer tools is designed to move AI agents from experimental demos on local laptops to robust, production-grade workloads running across Cloudflare's global network.
Posted April 14, 2026
In April 2009, Larry Ellison said, as reported in The New York Times and The Guardian, that Java—then a freeware programming language—was "the single most important software asset we have ever acquired." Despite that bold praise, Oracle made no immediate effort to monetize Java, and that omission alone should raise eyebrows.
Posted April 14, 2026
Organizations are spending millions building data products that get used once and then are forgotten. It's a cycle that drains budgets, delays AI initiatives, and erodes trust in data. Experts recently convened for DBTA's webinar, Stop Rebuilding What You Already Have: Why Data Product Reusability Is the Key to AI-Ready Data, to make the case that reusability isn't just a "nice-to-have," it's the economic engine behind successful data strategy.
Posted April 13, 2026
It's time to vote for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the readers. The voting period will be open through May 22.
Posted April 10, 2026
Everyone wants AI, and they want it now—from the C-suite to the production floor. But are their data environments ready to support a full-bore AI effort? Data industry leaders and experts we spoke with say there has been a lot of progress fulfilling AI needs, but there's still a lot of work that needs to be done before today's data platforms are capable of supporting robust, AI-driven organizations.
Posted April 09, 2026
If you aspire to be a chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) or a leader of your data team, you will be pleased to know these roles are gaining influence and meeting the challenges of the AI evolution. These are some of the insights from Deloitte's 2026 CDAO Survey, which asked data and AI leaders about how their influence is changing amid the AI revolution: 94% expect their influence to grow within the next 12 months, and 36% say this influence will expand significantly.
Posted April 09, 2026
Artificial intelligence has shifted from an emerging technology to a core component of modern data ecosystems. For data and database professionals, AI now powers analytics platforms, cloud services, automation tools, and development workflows. This rapid integration is transforming how teams operate—accelerating productivity while raising new expectations around governance, ethics, and strategic alignment.
Posted April 09, 2026
Data has become the most valuable resource for modern enterprises. However, the people tasked with managing this valuable resource have one foot out the door. According to the recent State of Database report by SolarWinds, more than 1 in 3 database administrators (DBAs) are considering leaving their role due to burnout. This statistic points to consequences that affect multiple core business functions. Moreover, as a database expert for more than 3 decades, I fear these consequences can create a cascading effect that could limit future innovation, shrink the DBA workforce, and reduce operational resilience.
Posted April 09, 2026
AWS is announcing the release of Amazon S3 Files, a new file system that seamlessly connects any AWS compute resource with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With S3 Files, Amazon S3 is the first and only cloud object store that offers fully-featured, high-performance file system access to your data, the company said.
Posted April 08, 2026
Data Summit 2026 is rapidly approaching on May 6 - 7 in Boston, with pre-conference workshops on May 5, delivering a high-impact learning experience for data and AI professionals at every level. Attendees will gain practical strategies and forward-looking perspectives from industry leaders who are addressing the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of data. DBTA recently spoke to John O'Brien, program chair for the event and principal advisor, industry analyst at Radiant Advisors, about what to expect at this year's event.
Posted April 08, 2026
Vectra AI, a leader in modern network observability, signal, and control, is making major advancements to the Vectra AI Platform to provide exposure management built for AI enterprises.
Posted April 06, 2026
IBM announced that 11 of its artificial intelligence (AI) and automation software solutions—including several products from the watsonx portfolio—have received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization. The 11 solutions are deployed exclusively on AWS GovCloud (U.S.), giving agencies secure access to these capabilities without having to manage the underlying infrastructure, and while meeting government compliance requirements, according to IBM.
Posted April 06, 2026
For modern enterprises, regulatory compliance means financial management, data protection, AI governance, sustainability, resilience, and more. It calls for a tight grip on data to meet regulatory requirements, report efficiently, avoid disruption to business, and satisfy customers. Leaders build trust with regulators and customers through ethical and transparent practices.
Posted April 06, 2026
Kestra, the open-source orchestration platform unifying data, AI, infrastructure and business workflows, announced $25 million in a Series A funding round, enabling the company to continue to grow its open-source orchestration platform with the launch of Kestra 2.0.
Posted April 03, 2026
AI initiatives rarely fail because of model quality. They fail because the underlying data systems were never designed for reliability, context retrieval, or operational consistency.
Posted April 02, 2026
Profisee, a leader in cloud-native master data management (MDM), is introducing the general availability of Profisee 2026 R1—establishing comprehensive AI leadership across the MDM category with capabilities spanning automated agents, semantic matching, and natural language data interaction through the new MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server.
Posted March 31, 2026
Fivetran, the global leader in data movement, announced it is donating SQLMesh, its open source data transformation framework, to the Linux Foundation to support a community-governed approach to developing and maintaining SQLMesh as part of the modern data stack.
Posted March 30, 2026
Panzura is launching the latest release of the Panzura CloudFS hybrid cloud file platform—offering capabilities that lower both infrastructure and management costs as firms scale across offices, transfer control to customer IT teams, and begin to deploy agentic AI across their enterprise.
Posted March 26, 2026
MariaDB plc announced the successful completion of its acquisition of GridGain Systems, Inc., a pioneer of in-memory computing and the force behind Apache Ignite—marking MariaDB's move toward delivery of an AI-Ready Operating Platform, a unified system designed to handle the extreme-velocity data requirements of autonomous AI agents.
Posted March 25, 2026
Many longtime MySQL contributors, engineers, and ecosystem leaders are coming together to voice support for establishing a vendor-neutral foundation for the MySQL ecosystem. In an open letter to Oracle, these experts urge the formation of a vendor-neutral, nonprofit foundation for MySQL that would serve as a shared home for the ecosystem, independent of any single company's commercial interests.
Posted March 23, 2026
"I've never felt this much behind as a programmer," confessed Andrej Karpathy, Tesla's former director of AI, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), on Dec. 26, 2025. It sent shockwaves through the tech community. "The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between," he continued. Karpathy's words capture a profound moment of transformation—not just for developers, but for the entire digital landscape.
Posted March 16, 2026
Success now depends on achieving the right balance between automation and human expertise—maintaining governance without sacrificing agility and ensuring security at scale. As data ecosystems stretch across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, DBA teams must step up by embracing new tools, expanding their scope, and driving the shift toward intelligent, proactive, and cost-efficient data operations.
Posted March 13, 2026
Artificial agents, applications, and bots are popping up across every enterprise landscape, and data is rolling through at a fast and furious pace. While there has been plenty of hype, excitement, and fear about AI's possibilities, there has been scant attention regarding the data infrastructure needed to make it all work—especially at the enterprise level. AI requires a strong and well-considered data foundation, whether it's extended out of legacy infrastructures or part of the next generation of data technology.
Posted March 13, 2026
CTERA, a leader in intelligent data management, is introducing CTERA Fusion Direct, a transformative federated data architecture that eliminates the historical trade-off between enterprise file systems and object storage.
Posted March 12, 2026
When organizations think about green IT, they usually consider data center efficiency, server consolidation, or cloud energy metrics. And yes, those are important areas, but they overlook one of the biggest contributors to an organization's energy footprint: its data architecture. Every table, index, column, backup, replication stream, and query consumes resources, and therefore energy. Poor data design doesn't just slow performance or inflate costs, it also increases the organization's environmental footprint.
Posted March 12, 2026
In today's data landscape, organizations often default to complex, expensive data stacks when simpler, more specialized solutions could deliver better results at a fraction of the cost. InfluxData senior developer advocate Cole Bowden joined DBTA's webinar, Choosing the Right Data Tools: When to Use a Time Series Database, cutting through the noise to help attendees make smarter database decisions.
Posted March 12, 2026
DataStrike, a leader in database, cloud, and business intelligence managed services, is expanding its Microsoft Fabric services to support organizations adopting Microsoft's unified analytics platform.
Posted March 11, 2026
AI-assisted tools are now integrated across the delivery lifecycle—accelerating code generation, improving test coverage, and enhancing observability and incident response. As AI transforms how software is built, deployed, and operated, DevOps is evolving through targeted, intelligent automation.
Posted March 09, 2026
MinIO, the data foundation for enterprise analytics and AI, is debuting AIStor Table Sharing, a capability built into MinIO AIStor that allows enterprises to securely share their on-premises data directly with the Databricks platform for instant access to fresh data for real-time analytics and intelligence. AIStor natively integrates Delta Sharing open protocol.
Posted March 06, 2026
Nasuni Corporation, a leading unstructured data management company, today announced it has acquired Resilio, Inc, a pioneer in high-performance file synchronization and edge acceleration technology—strengthening Nasuni's ability to help enterprises improve end-user file access by removing friction from how distributed teams access and collaborate on shared content.
Posted March 05, 2026
The evolution of data architecture is accelerating. In 2025, 85% of DBTA subscribers reported plans to modernize their data platforms—driven largely by the explosive rise of GenAI and large language models. Modernization has shifted from a strategic advantage to a business necessity. To power AI-driven innovation, organizations need intelligent, interconnected data platforms that unify information, enable real-time insights and scale with agility.
Posted March 02, 2026
Versa, a global leader in unified security and networking, is releasing Sovereign SASE-as-a-Service, a fully cloud-delivered SaaS offering in which the data, control, and management planes operate entirely within a region's legal jurisdiction.
Posted March 02, 2026
Pure Storage, the company revolutionizing storage and data management, is announcing its new name: Everpure—reflecting the company's mission from reshaping storage to defining the future of data management. The company also announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 1touch, an innovator in data intelligence and orchestration that provides a comprehensive, unified view of an enterprise's information.
Posted February 26, 2026
Etleap, a provider of cloud-native data pipeline software, is launching the Iceberg pipeline platform, a new kind of pipeline system designed specifically for Apache Iceberg.
Posted February 26, 2026
SAP opened its defense innovation hub in Munich, Germany, underscoring its long-term commitment to strengthening digital readiness as a core element of modern defense capability. The hub is launched as armed forces and security institutions face increasing pressure to manage complex missions across allies, domains, and supply chains while maintaining resilience, transparency, and control.
Posted February 25, 2026
Zenarmor, Inc., offering secure access and network security, is rolling out its Zenarmor SASE Channel Partner Program—a program designed to enable MSPs, MSSPs, ISPs, and security-focused partners to deliver, operate, and monetize SASE services without centralized cloud PoPs, service chaining, or architectural lock-in.
Posted February 24, 2026
Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, announced that Cortex Code CLI, Snowflake's AI coding agent for local development environments, is expanding beyond Snowflake-native workflows to support any data source across systems, starting with dbt and Apache Airflow (now generally available).
Posted February 23, 2026