Data Management News for the Week of February 21; Updates from Concentric AI, McKnight Consulting, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of February 21, 2025.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant big data and data management news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy big data and data management news items.

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Top Data Management News for the Week Ending February 21, 2025

AtScale and Snowflake Announce Integration with Cortex Analyst

By integrating AtScale with Cortex Analyst, businesses can now query their data using plain English, eliminating the need for complex SQL syntax while maintaining their data’s integrity, consistency, and performance. AtScale acts as the governance layer, ensuring that the AI-generated queries align with the business definitions and optimizing query performance across the Snowflake platform.

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Ataccama Partners with Concord on Regulated Data Modernization

Ataccama’s unified data trust platform tackles these challenges by enabling organizations to catalog and classify their data, giving them clarity on its health and origin, and allowing them to improve the quality of their data by fixing all identified issues. With data cleansed, standardized, and consolidated into a single, trusted source of truth, organizations are empowered to make informed, compliant decisions and drive meaningful outcomes.

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DiffusionData Announces Free Trial of Cloud Service

DiffusionData empowers financial institutions via the industry’s most secure data streaming framework. Diffusion Cloud powers personalized real-time streaming at low latency enabling our clients to deliver time-critical information such as live pricing data, trading information and customer notification at Internet scale.

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Ellie Technologies Partners with CData Software on Data Modeling

Through this partnership, Ellie users will gain access to CData’s cloud-based data connectivity service that’s integrated directly into the platform, giving customers effortless connectivity to hundreds of data sources. Ellie.ai is a collaborative data modeling and design platform.

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Fortanix Releases 2025 GenAI Data Security Report

Of those surveyed, 97 percent said their company plans to either buy or build a GenAI solution to automate business processes or create new revenue streams. At the same time, 87 percent of security executives reported a breach in the past 12 months. Organizations must ultimately secure data across multiple owners, applications, environments, and geographies.

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InfluxData Extends Partnership with AWS

Read Replicas are the latest addition to InfluxData’s collaboration with AWS to deliver Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB, a managed offering announced last year for AWS developers to run open source InfluxDB natively on AWS without the overhead of self-management. Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Read Replicas is now available for purchase in the AWS Management Console.

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New McKnight Consulting Group Study Compares Analytic & AI Databases

“This benchmark highlights the critical role of database performance in AI-driven workloads. EDB Postgres AI outperformed MongoDB in JSON processing—delivering significantly better speed and efficiency in a test that mirrors RAG AI use cases,” said William McKnight, President, McKnight Consulting Group.

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Prophecy Says Data Teams Are Quick to Deploy GenAI

Top management is on board—and sometimes leading the charge. A quarter of executives (25 percent) say their leaders will greenlight any project “with AI as a core component,” though the largest group (44 percent) are a bit more cautious, seeing the need for AI investment while putting at least some guardrails on the process.

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Securiti Partners with Databricks on AI App-Dev

The collaboration will see Securiti integrate its Gencore AI tool with two components of Databricks’ popular cloud data platform. The first is the Delta table data format, while the other is the Mosaic AI toolkit for building AI software. Alongside Gencore AI, Securiti’s new partnership with Databricks focuses on the latter company’s Delta table and Mosaic AI features.

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Snowflake Expands AI Data Cloud with Support for Azure Mexico

Through support of Microsoft Azure Mexico, organizations in Mexico and across LATAM will be able to more effectively leverage the built-in security and governance of the Snowflake platform while enabling cross-cloud flexibility and collaboration. The launch of support for Microsoft Azure Mexico highlights Snowflake’s ongoing commitment to Mexico and LATAM as a strategic growth opportunity.

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Voltron Data Secures Strategic Investment from Accenture

Voltron Data’s core solution—Theseus —is a SQL query engine that can enable enterprises to process petabyte-scale data faster and at a lower cost than traditional CPU-based systems. This investment, made through Accenture Ventures, will support Voltron Data in its efforts to help organizations use advanced computing technology to speed up large-scale analytics, used for generative AI and machine learning applications.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community where the human conversation around AI is happening. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Future of Work: Results from the 2025 Survey of Tech Professionals – Exclusively on Insight Jam

In a survey announced last month co-developed by Skillify, Solutions Review, and Insight Jam, over 200 tech professionals, including senior leaders in areas like cybersecurity, information management, and data science, have underscored the escalating importance of soft skills during this AI moment.

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February 21: The Jam Session – Why Enterprises are Abandoning the Public Cloud Featuring SR Experts @ Insight Jam Robert Eve and Philip Rusom, Ph.D.

In this month’s Jam Session, the panel discusses the growing trend of workload repatriation among enterprises. They’ll address questions like what factors are driving cloud repatriation, how do you decide what to repatriate, what does it take to repatriate an application or workload, and what can you do to avoid the cost and hassle of repatriation?

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What to Expect at Solutions Review‘s Spotlight with Concentric AI & Enterprise Strategy Group on February 27

With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading data security governance platform provider Concentric AI to provide viewers with a unique webinar called Modern Data Security Governance in the Generative AI Era.

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What to Expect at Solutions Review‘s Spotlight with Object First & Enterprise Strategy Group on March 13

According to ESG research 81 percent of businesses agree immutable backup storage is the best defense against ransomware. However, not all backup storage solutions can deliver full immutability and enable the quick and complete recovery that is essential for ransomware resilience. With the next Solutions Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with leading Veeam storage provider Object First.

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NEW by Solutions Review Expert @ Insight Jam Thought Leader Dr. Joe Perez – Breaking the Chain: The Power of Data-Driven Innovation

In the same way that CeramicSpeed looked beyond the traditional mechanics of cycling, organizations must break the chain of outdated BI and analytics practices to unlock innovation. This article explores three types of innovation that are possible only when businesses embrace a data strategy that thinks outside the box — just like the inventors of this incredible bike.

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NEW by Solutions Review Expert @ Insight Jam Thought Leader Susan Walsh – Data Governance 101: Look After Your Data COAT

If you’re familiar with my work, you may already know that your data needs to have its COAT on. It’s a simple and effective data management framework we apply to all of The Classification Guru’s services and your data. But did you know this? Your data COAT must be maintained.

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Insight Jam Panel Highlights: Best Practices for Keeping AI Data Systems Compliant

Our expert panel discusses best practices for maintaining AI data system compliance amid evolving regulations. The experts explore automated compliance tools, data classification strategies, and the importance of comprehensive security measures while emphasizing that compliance requires both technical solutions and proper implementation.

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Insight Jam Panel Highlights: How Can AI Help Organizations Adapt to New Regulations?

Our expert panel explores how AI can help organizations handle regulatory compliance, particularly in data privacy and security. Experts discuss using AI for document interpretation, data discovery, and regulatory monitoring, while highlighting the importance of knowledge graphs and historical data in building comprehensive compliance solutions.

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For consideration in future data management news roundups, send your announcements to the editor: tking@solutionsreview.com.