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Why trusted context is becoming the currency for enterprise AI

Salesforce’s acquisition of Informatica shifts the data foundation from being strategic to more structural, as the customer playbook starts to unfold in production.

By Robert Kramer

Jul 7, 20269 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData GovernanceGenerative AI

Five tips for developing data products

By Isaac Sacolick

Jul 7, 20269 mins

AnalyticsData EngineeringData Governance

Preventing agent-generated infrastructure bloat through spec-driven governance

By Ravi Kumar Kappagantu

Jul 1, 202612 mins

Cloud-NativeData GovernanceKubernetes

MongoDB embeds reranking into Atlas as enterprises look to simplify AI stacks for scale

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 30, 20266 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ManagementDatabases

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Databricks targets AI operations bottlenecks with ZeroOps

Databricks’ Genie ZeroOps shifts engineers from firefighting data issues to reviewing AI-generated fixes.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 18, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData Management

From RAG to ontology: Databricks bets on context as the key to trusted AI agents

Genie Ontology aims to unify business definitions across systems, but analysts say data quality and governance will make or break adoption.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 17, 2026 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData GovernanceData Management

Databricks pitches LTAP as a new foundation for agentic applications

By merging transactional and analytical workloads, LTAP promises fewer pipelines, lower costs, and better governance.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 16, 2026 7 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Management

Develop smarter AI agents with data fabrics

With access to many different types of data fabrics, companies big and small can use them to provide AI agents with wide access to data sources, unstructured data, shared business context, and guardrails.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jun 16, 2026 10 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ArchitectureData and Information Security

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

DocLang aims to make documents readable by AI, not humans

Development of the AI-native DocLang document format raises questions about its impact on human workers, as well as on governance and accountability.

By Paul Barker

Jun 16, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData GovernanceIT Governance

Databricks’ OpenSharing targets the ‘integration tax’ of enterprise AI

The zero-copy credential model enables cross-platform sharing of AI assets, promising lower overhead, stronger governance, and faster deployment across partners and teams.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 11, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData Management

10 MCP servers to connect LLMs with databases

Use these official MCP servers to interact with the leading database platforms via natural language through your LLM-assisted tools.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Jun 8, 2026 13 mins

DatabasesDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

AWS targets a longtime cloud migration blocker with SQL Server license portability

Enterprises can now bring existing SQL Server licenses to Amazon RDS, making it easier to move operational data closer to AWS analytics and agentic AI services.

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 5, 2026 6 mins

Amazon Web ServicesMicrosoft SQL ServerRelational Databases

Embedding pipelines are the new ETL

A data engineering lens on ingestion, chunking and indexing.

By Chisom Nwokwu

Jun 5, 2026 9 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesSQL

The next AI breakthrough won’t come from bigger models, but from better data

Just as with LLMs, success in other frontiers of AI will require access to large volumes of high-quality data. That will require deliberate, research-driven dataset design.

By Bobby Samuels

Jun 4, 2026 10 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData QualityGenerative AI

Snowflake’s Horizon Context aims to give AI agents a common understanding of the business

These new capabilities could help CIOs reduce the complexity of deploying AI agents into production, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jun 2, 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData GovernanceData Management

What Snowflake Summit 2026 signals about enterprise AI

The next phase of enterprise AI will be decided less by models and more by how enterprises govern, secure, and operationalize AI across fragmented environments.

By Robert Kramer

Jun 2, 2026 8 mins

AnalyticsData WarehousingGenerative AI