Data Modeling Articles
Strategic small-data systems can outperform large architectures when designed around the real problem, the real people, and the real business model. At Data Summit 2026, Joseph Hilger, COO, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC, presented his session "Simplicity as Strategy: Building Data Systems People Actually Trust."
Posted May 07, 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. Sanjeev Mohan, principal, SanjMo and former Gartner Research VP, data and analytics, opened the second day of Data Summit 2026 with his keynote, "The Stack Is Collapsing: Trends Reshaping Every Layer of AI-Driven Data Foundations." The annual Data Summit conference returned to Boston, May 6-7, 2026, with pre-conference workshops on May 5.
Posted May 07, 2026
Chief data officer at Customer ThriveData, Chantel Wilson Chase, used her background in mathematics in her session that closed out the Analytics & Semantic Layers track at the Data Summit 2026 conference.
Posted May 06, 2026
As organizations embrace AI technologies, they face growing challenges related to fairness, privacy, and unpredictable system behavior. At Data Summit 2026, Nicole Janeway Bills, CEO and founder, Data Strategy Professionals, led the session, "AI Risks & Risk Mitigation Strategies," using real-world examples to help attendees recognize 10 critical AI risks, detect emerging issues early, and implement practical measures to mitigate them while maximizing business value.
Posted May 06, 2026
Organizations are looking to implement AI systems while safeguarding stakeholder privacy and maintaining trust. At Data Summit 2026, Uchenna Okezie, senior analyst, O Enterprises, covered the critical intersection of responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) and privacy protection in organizational contexts during her session, "Responsible AI & Privacy: Trusted Data for Analytics at Speed."
Posted May 06, 2026
Hina Gandhi, software engineering technical leader, Cisco, offered tips and techniques to pave the way for autonomous, efficient data pipelines that continuously adapt to changing workloads and infrastructure dynamics, during her Data Summit 2026 session, "Teaching Spark to Tune Itself: Reinforcement Learning for Smarter Optimization."
Posted May 06, 2026
How do you separate the signal from the noise and explore what's truly working in AI implementations across industries, and where companies are falling short? From the common pitfalls that derail well-intentioned efforts to the design principles behind AI initiatives that create measurable value, Ryan Frederick, principal, Transform Labs, shared the lessons that every leader needs to understand to make AI a competitive advantage rather than a costly experiment during his session, "Learnings From the Front Lines of AI," at Data Summit 2026 in the new Data + AI Leadership Forum.
Posted May 06, 2026
Data fabric, data lakehouse, and data mesh have recently appeared as viable alternatives to the modern data warehouse. At Data Summit 2026, James Serra, data and AI Architect at Microsoft, held his session, "Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, & Data Mesh," providing a guided tour of each architecture to examine common data architecture concepts.
Posted May 06, 2026
Executives are betting on agentic AI to drive growth, yet many enterprises still struggle to move from pilot to production. The hard part has never been the models. It is about building trust in underlying data assets, human-AI workflows, and outcome accountability. Cal Al-Dhubaib, principal technologist at Rubrik, opened the first official day of Data Summit 2026 with his keynote, "Engineering for Trust in the Era of Agentic AI." The annual Data Summit conference returned to Boston, May 6-7, 2026, with pre-conference workshops on May 5.
Posted May 06, 2026
Oracle announced it is accelerating its vulnerability detection and response to meet the next generation of AI. Oracle is expanding how security fixes are delivered to customers with a monthly Critical Security Patch Update (CSPU), starting in May 2026. CSPUs provide targeted fixes for critical security issues, allowing customers to address high-priority vulnerabilities without waiting for the next quarterly release.
Posted May 06, 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 May 06, 2026
Effective data modeling enables value creation, efficiency gains, risk reduction, and strategic alignment in an environment of uncertainty and disruption. At Data Summit 2026, Pascal Desmarets, CEO, Hackolade, led the pre-conference workshop, "From Strategy to Structure: Accelerating Business Impact Through Hands-on Data Modeling," moving from high-level strategy to concrete data models that power modern analytics platforms.
Posted May 05, 2026
Becoming truly data-driven requires more than adopting new tools—it demands clear alignment between business goals and data architecture. At Data Summit 2026, John O'Brien, principal advisor and industry analyst, Radiant Advisors, led the pre-conference workshop, "How to Evolve Your Data Architecture from BI to AI," guiding attendees through a proven, four-step methodology for designing modern data platforms that deliver real, scalable business value.
Posted May 05, 2026
EnterpriseDB (EDB), the leading sovereign AI and data company, is releasing a suite of validated performance efficiencies within EDB Postgres AI (EDB PG AI), designed to drastically reduce data center power consumption, lower token usage, and deliver an unprecedented "intelligence per watt" standard for the enterprise.
Posted May 04, 2026
IBM is introducing IBM Bob Premium Package for Z, which integrates and enhances the capabilities of IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z, delivering advanced features for enterprise-scale mainframe applications. IBM Bob Premium Package for Z is currently available in tech preview.
Posted May 04, 2026
IBM is expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud to bring together AI capabilities from both companies. According to both companies, rather than forcing a single path, this creates a more open, secure, and flexible foundation for hybrid cloud and AI transformation. It also aims to make it easier for clients to connect data, models, infrastructure, and operations across environments.
Posted May 04, 2026
Perforce Software, the modern DevOps Tech Stack for AI governance, announced support for Rust language in its 2026.1 release for Perforce Static Analysis solutions QAC and Klocwork.
Posted May 01, 2026
PDQ is introducing new features that deliver new capabilities to help IT teams standardize software, organize deployments more effectively, and act faster without adding complexity.
Posted May 01, 2026
Silverfort announced it is acquiring Fabrix Security to boost and support identity security with its AI-native decisioning engine that leverages a rich knowledge graph with data about identities, permissions, intent, and business context.
Posted April 30, 2026
LogicMonitor, provider of an AI-first platform for autonomous IT, is expanding its unified platform, strengthening the operational foundation for autonomous IT.
Posted April 30, 2026
Collate Inc., the semantic intelligence company, is introducing Collate AI Analytics, a new capability that enables data analysts to talk with their data to discover sources, build queries, create charts and dashboards, and extract key business insights.
Posted April 30, 2026
CoreWeave is launching three critical capabilities that make cross-cloud AI easier and more accessible whether by network, storage, or compute—offering CoreWeave Interconnect, SUNK Anywhere, and LOTA Cross-Cloud.
Posted April 30, 2026
Rubrik, the Security and AI Operations Company, is now offering cyber resilience capabilities to organizations running Google Cloud SQL, enabling Cloud SQL customers to leverage Rubrik Security Cloud to protect their managed PostgreSQL databases with immutable, automated backups that add Rubrik's enterprise-grade cyber resilience without disrupting their current database operations or recovery strategy.
Posted April 30, 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 30, 2026
Modern semantic search does not have to require a separate vector database. Data architects, database engineers, developers, or platform leaders can integrate Vertex AI and Cloud SQL vector indexes directly into their existing MySQL workflow.
Posted April 30, 2026
While 85% of organizations have deployed AI agents, most remain stalled by a "productivity paradox" of constant human coordination. Reaching the autonomous enterprise requires agents that automate manual data operations, freeing data professionals for strategic innovation.
Posted April 29, 2026
Actian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, is unveiling Actian VectorAI DB, a portable vector database purpose-built to power production AI in regulated, disconnected, and edge environments.
Posted April 29, 2026
Aerospike, Inc. is debuting a new unified, AI-native application development experience that makes it simple for both humans and AI coding assistants to confidently prototype, integrate, deploy, and troubleshoot production applications built on Aerospike's real-time NoSQL database.
Posted April 28, 2026
Alteryx, Inc., an AI-ready data and analytics company, is releasing the Alteryx AI Insights Agent, now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, bringing governed analytics directly into Gemini Enterprise.
Posted April 27, 2026
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
Public company disclosures of AI-related risks have surged from 12% of S&P 500 firms in 2023 to 72% in 2025, underscoring the urgency for stronger security and governance strategies as AI adoption continues to accelerate. Organizations must now secure not just data and infrastructure, but also models, pipelines, and autonomous AI behavior. The challenge is balancing rapid innovation with security, compliance, and control.
Posted April 24, 2026
Peer Software is launching its enhanced Partner Program, aiming to strengthen strategic alliances and motivate partners to leverage new resources for accelerated growth across targeted industries, including government, media, and financial services.
Posted April 23, 2026
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is launching Grafana 13, along with a wave of open source updates anchored by a next-generation Grafana Loki architecture, and simpler paths to OpenTelemetry on Linux and Kubernetes. These announcements were made at at GrafanaCON 2026.
Posted April 22, 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
In the race to operationalize AI, the biggest hurdle isn't the model—it's the accessibility and "readiness" of your core business data. For enterprises running on SAP, this means data is often locked in siloed structures that AI struggles to access. However, transforming these rigid systems into curated Data Products provides the answer as we move to an Agentic AI future.
Posted April 22, 2026
SAP announced that it has agreed to acquire Reltio, a leading master data management (MDM) software provider, to help customers make their SAP and non-SAP enterprise data AI-ready. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Once closed, the acquisition will strengthen SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC)—integral for SAP's AI-First and Suite-First strategy—and accelerate the evolution of SAP BDC to a fully interoperable enterprise data platform for enterprise-wide agentic AI, according to the companies.
Posted April 22, 2026
Database performance is one of those never-ending topics that IT professionals—and especially DBAs—just can't seem to talk about enough. I guess this is because the performance of database applications is one of the bigger issues that end users complain about.
Posted April 22, 2026
MultiValue World: The Future Unleashed, a global conference bringing together leaders, developers, and innovators in MultiValue database technology, will take place on April 27-30, 2026, at the Saddlebrook Resort & Spa in Wesley Chapel, Florida. Whether you're a long-time MultiValue veteran or someone discovering it for first time, attendees will find valuable insights and fresh perspectives throughout the four days of learning, networking, and collaboration.
Posted April 22, 2026
Entrinsik, a leader in data analytics and business intelligence solutions, announced that Informer has been selected as the "Data Solution of the Year for Education" in the seventh annual Data Breakthrough Awards program conducted by Data Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global data technology market.
Posted April 22, 2026
BlueFinity is introducing the release of its multiple language version of Evoke, providing for end-users, of apps built using Evoke, to be able to see the User Interface in their preferred language—as well as being able to adopt the cultural context of multiple countries.
Posted April 22, 2026
Redis, the world's fastest data platform, is releasing Redis Feature Form, a managed feature store platform built to help enterprise ML teams bring features into production with more control, consistency, and reliability.
Posted April 21, 2026
Tiger Data is launching TimescaleDB Enterprise, a commercially licensed, self-managed time-series database built on PostgreSQL for on-premises, edge, and customer-managed cloud environments.
Posted April 21, 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
IBM is launching its CAS offering, making it faster, easier, and more secure to perform RAG under the same roof as the rest of your data. Content-aware storage (CAS) represents a new value-add paradigm for traditional storage systems. CAS, which aligns storage solutions to meet the needs of new AI workloads, is centered around a pushdown of data processing functions. Specifically, CAS handles document vectorization using LLM-based embedding models—a process normally performed outside of the storage system—to support the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipeline.
Posted April 20, 2026
Commvault, a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, announced new and forthcoming AI capabilities that help organizations confidently adopt AI while maintaining control over data, agents, and recovery.
Posted April 17, 2026