Data Management News for the Week of April 11; Updates from Dremio, IBM, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of April 11, 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 April 112, 2025

Aerospike Announces New Graph Service 2.5.0

Without strong consistency, simultaneous updates, such as a mergeV() to unify identities and an addV() triggered by a new signal, can result in duplicate or orphaned profiles. In practice, this can lead to wasted ad spend, poor attribution, and degraded personalization — the exact opposite of what these platforms try to achieve.

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Concentric AI Secures Patent on AI-Based Permission Creep

Documents and data that an enterprise user has access to evolve as employees move across projects and roles, causing users over time to accumulate access permissions to resources they no longer need, or permission creep. These unnecessary permissions create significant risks in the form of increased opportunities for inappropriate data access.

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dbt Labs Launches on Google Cloud

This new multi-tenant instance allows organizations to leverage dbt Cloud and meet often complex data residency and compliance requirements. Simultaneously, dbt will continue to enable data teams to build and manage faster, more efficient data and AI workflows on Google Cloud’s BigQuery, a unified, AI-ready data analytics platform.

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Denodo Brings its Platform for LG U+

LG U+ has been pursuing a strategy to upgrade its communications network, including its wired and wireless services, for decades, and has recently accelerated the development of ultra-personalized services and data centers through the introduction of an AI integration platform that LG U+ calls Nudge, which contains all of the LG U+ network division’s data systems, including data flow management, monitoring, security log audit, and databases.

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Dremio Announces Latest Release of Intelligent Data Lakehouse

Announced at Iceberg Summit 2025, the new Autonomous Reflections, Iceberg Clustering, AI-enabled Semantic Search, and enhancements to the Enterprise Catalog eliminate manual performance tuning and simplify data discovery.

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Experian Unveils ‘Major’ Update to Aperture Data Studio

This single, unified data intelligence solution combines data quality and data governance capabilities to help businesses deploy data-driven decision making, ensure their data is fit-for-purpose, improve customer experience and operational efficiency, and manage risk. The new version of Aperture Data Studio significantly enhances the existing platform, making it easier than ever for businesses to understand, manage, control and improve their data efficiently.

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Fivetran Unveils New Managed Data Lake Service for Google Cloud Storage

Building on the launch of Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake Service last year, this latest expansion enables enterprises to seamlessly centralize structured and unstructured data from over 700 connectors into Google’s Cloud Storage in a query-ready open table format.

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IBM Acquires Hakkoda Inc.

Hakkoda has leading capabilities in migrating, modernizing, and monetizing data estates and is an award-winning Snowflake partner. This acquisition amplifies IBM’s ability to meet the rapidly growing demand for data services and help clients build integrated enterprise data estates that are optimized for speed, cost and efficiency across multiple business use cases.

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Immuta Enhances Data Marketplace Solution

Upcoming new features such as timebound approvals, dynamic domain assignments, and prevention policies modernize data access workflows – accelerating provisioning and helping data teams keep up with rising request volumes. As data access governance evolves in the agentic AI era, the Immuta Data Marketplace solution reduces the burden on data governors by automating access, provisioning, and the sharing of data products across the enterprise.

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Informatica Extends Intelligent Data Management Platform on Google Cloud

The enhanced capabilities include support for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, API Center, and Cloud Data Access Management (CDAM) services running natively on Google Cloud.

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Nextdata Unveils New OS for Automating Data Management

Autonomous data products simplify and streamline data management for AI agents, analytics and applications by encapsulating complexity and standardizing and automating data product management across heterogeneous data stacks in complex organizations.

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PuppyGraph Secures Google Cloud Ready Tag

These validations signal that PuppyGraph’s platform has met Google Cloud’s interoperability standards and is optimized to support high-performance graph analytics for enterprise-scale data.

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Redis Unveils New LangCache and Vector Sets

Vector sets allow developers to easily access and work with vectors and use them in more composable and scalable ways. The company also launched several other tools and features that provide the comprehensive data architecture developers need to build faster, more accurate GenAI apps and agents.

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Redpanda Announces New Iceberg Topics

Apache Iceberg Topics is a critical component of Redpanda’s recently announced agentic AI service for the enterprise as it allows businesses to seamlessly blend real-time operational insights with historical data, all within their existing data lakehouse environments.

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Riverbed Adds AI-Based Observability to Main Platform Offering

Riverbed customers are running over 64 million Riverbed AI remediations annually and seeing impressive ROI. At the core of today’s announcement is Riverbed’s expanded AI capabilities that make it easier to manage AIOps and go from reactive to predictive IT operations.

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Snowflake Set to Bring Core Capabilities to Apache Iceberg Tables

Users can store, manage, and analyze their data in an open, interoperable format, while still benefiting from Snowflake’s easy, connected, and trusted platform. All of this happens without vendor lock-in, enabling thousands of global customers with unparalleled performance and flexibility so they can tap into all of their data, and ultimately propel their AI strategies forward.

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Tessell Secures $60 Million in Series B Funding

Tessell was created to address a fundamental challenge: while cloud adoption has surged, managing enterprise databases in the cloud remains archaic and expensive. Tessell’s fully managed, multi-cloud database platform eliminates these pain points.

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YugabyteDB Drops New Agentic AI Application & Vector Search

Yugabyte also announced an extensible indexing framework designed to support the seamless integration of state-of-the-art vector indexing libraries and algorithms, augmenting the capabilities offered by pgvector.

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AI Won’t Replace You, But Lack of Soft Skills Might: Insight Jam Set to Host Skiilify’s Paula Caligiuri, PhD and Intelligent Automation Leader Doug Shannon on May 21

Join us for a special virtual event as we unveil the results of Skiilify’s newest study: AI Won’t Replace You—But Lack of Soft Skills Might. Based on insights from 217 tech professionals, the survey reveals a growing skills gap in resilience, curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, and other core competencies that are critical for success in an AI-driven world.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Concentric AI for Exclusive Show on Data Security Readiness and ROI on May 14

Hear from industry Concentric AI’s Karthik Krishnan, 451 Research’s Justin Lam, and Southern Nevada Health’s Jason Frame to learn how to strengthen your own organization’s data security initiatives for improved resilience and increased ROI.

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Solutions Review Set to Host Alteryx for Exclusive Show on How Fueling AI Starts With Your Data on May 21

In this webinar, we’ll show how Alteryx empowers business users to access, prepare, and analyze data directly within platforms like Databricks or Snowflake—no code required and full governance intact. You’ll see how to go from raw data to AI-ready in minutes, not months.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Monica Kay Royal Writes: AI is More Than ChatGPT

While in some cases it’s fine to use general terms, I think it’s important that we are specific when talking about AI because there are many different types of AI solutions which are based on differing capabilities and functionalities.  These differences matter, especially when you are new to the topic or trying to solve a very specific problem.

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SR Expert @ Insight Jam Nicola Askham Asks: Should the Data Governance Manager be Responsible for MDM Implementation?

When you become known as the Data Governance manager or lead in your company, people might start thinking you’re responsible for everything related to data. But that’s not really the case. So, when a company needs to choose a master data management (MDM) tool, should the Data Governance manager be in charge? Or is there a better way?

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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King Lists the 28 Best AI Agents for Data Engineering for 2025

In this up-to-date and authoritative guide, we break down the top AI agents and agent platforms available today for data engineering, grouped into clear categories to help you find the right tool for your specific needs — whether you’re building real-time ETL pipelines, managing complex data ecosystems, or embedding AI into your operational workflows.

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On-Demand! Insight Jam Hosted Cher Fox for the Jam Session: Data Trust Decoded: Moving Beyond Compliance

Great news! We’ve added a second Jam Session each month. Kick back and watch or get on screen and chat with the experts. Cher Fox is bringing together 3 amazing experts for an informal and informative chat around transparency, accountability, and ethical practices in the world of data governance.

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