Fragmented stacks, hand-coded ETL and static dashboards are dead; AI is forcing data management to finally grow up in 2026.

The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

Google Cloud’s lead engineer for databases discusses the challenges of integrating databases and LLMs, the tools needed to ...

As for the AI bubble, it is coming up for conversation because it is now having a material effect on the economy at large. Some accounts estimate that AI is driving 90% of US GDP growth, while others ...

The role of database administrators (DBAs) is changing rapidly. Whereas data used to be neatly stored in database systems, it can now be found everywhere: in Parquet files, Excel spreadsheets, and ...

The Defense Innovation Unit has announced the 10 startup teams that will participate in the first Blue Object Management Challenge Accelerator. The Blue Object Management Challenge, launched in August ...

When I first wrote “Vector databases: Shiny object syndrome and the case of a missing unicorn” in March 2024, the industry was awash in hype. Vector databases were positioned as the next big thing — a ...

Datadog, Inc., the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, is introducing Storage Management, helping teams eliminate waste and prevent unexpected cloud object storage spend. The new ...