Data Management News for the Week of January 9; Updates from Precisely, Promethium, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of January 9, 2026.

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 January 9, 2026

Apache Software Foundation Announces Top‑Level Project Promotions and Community Milestones

The Apache Software Foundation highlighted several projects graduating to top‑level status and reported continued growth in its global contributor community. The updates reinforce Apache’s central role in the open‑source data and AI ecosystem, with projects powering everything from big data platforms to streaming and machine‑learning infrastructure.​

Read more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apache-software-foundation-announces-top-140000584.html

New in BindPlane: Permalinks for Telemetry Pipelines and Assets

BindPlane introduced Permalinks, giving users stable, shareable URLs that deep‑link directly to specific collectors, pipelines, or views in the BindPlane UI to simplify collaboration and troubleshooting. Combined with recent features like Fleets, Blueprints, and Bring Your Own Collector, Permalinks make it easier for distributed teams to coordinate on telemetry changes, reviews, and incident response at scale.​

Read more → https://bindplane.com/blog/new-in-bindplane-permalinks

Cleo Names Haitham Ghadiry Senior Vice President, Industry & Ecosystem

Ghadiry brings more than 25 years of supply chain technology and B2B SaaS leadership experience, with deep expertise in vertical go‑to‑market, channel development, and revenue scaling. Most notably, Ghadiry spent 12 years at TrueCommerce, where he served as SVP of Sales & Marketing and helped grow the company from startup to a large, scaled software business. ​

Read more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260106957935/en/Cleo-Names-Haitham-Ghadiry-Senior-Vice-President-Industry-Ecosystem

DoiT Acquires SELECT to Eliminate Snowflake Waste

DoiT acquired SELECT, a data optimization startup built to give teams deep visibility into Snowflake usage and automatically cut waste from misconfigured compute, inefficient queries, and misaligned workloads. SELECT’s technology becomes PerfectScale for Snowflake inside the DoiT Cloud Intelligence platform, extending FinOps automation into the data layer so customers get AI‑assisted recommendations and policy‑driven optimizations that reduce costs without harming performance or data quality.​

Read more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260107287084/en/DoiT-Acquires-SELECT-to-Eliminate-Snowflake-Waste

FICO Adds NVIDIA GPU Power to Xpress for 50× Speed‑Up

FICO integrated NVIDIA GPU acceleration into its Xpress optimization solver, reporting up to 50× faster performance for large, complex decision models. The boost allows businesses to run more frequent and granular optimization for pricing, supply chain, and risk decisions, supporting real‑time, AI‑driven operations.​

Read more → https://ecommercenews.com.au/story/fico-adds-nvidia-gpu-power-to-xpress-for-50x-speed-up

Kiteworks and Concentric AI Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Comprehensive Data Security Governance and Enforcement

Kiteworks and Concentric AI formed a strategic partnership that combines Concentric’s AI‑powered semantic discovery and classification with Kiteworks’ policy‑driven enforcement to protect sensitive data as it moves outside the enterprise. Concentric’s labels (such as “Confidential,” HIPAA, or GDPR) flow into the Kiteworks Private Data Network, which then automatically applies controls like encryption, watermarking, access limits, and possessionless editing, creating continuous, auditable protection for data shared via email, MFT, SFTP, forms, and APIs.​

Read more → https://www.dispatch.com/press-release/story/136369/kiteworks-concentric-ai-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deliver-comprehensive-data-security-governance-enforcement/

Precisely Achieves FedRAMP Authorization for Its Data Integrity Suite

Precisely announced FedRAMP authorization, enabling US federal agencies to use its Data Integrity Suite for governed data quality, enrichment, and location intelligence in compliant cloud environments. With authorization, Precisely can support more government workloads that require high‑assurance data for analytics, AI, and mission‑critical operations.​

Read more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/precisely-achieves-fedramp-authorization-140000300.html

Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI‑Powered Observability at Enterprise Scale

Snowflake plans to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on the Snowflake Data Cloud, to offer integrated, AI‑powered monitoring and troubleshooting within its AI Data Cloud. The deal aims to give customers a single environment for logs, metrics, traces, and business data, enabling LLM‑driven root‑cause analysis and operations insights without duplicating data across tools.​

Read more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260108681865/en/Snowflake-Announces-Intent-to-Acquire-Observe-to-Deliver-AI-Powered-Observability-at-Enterprise-Scale

VAST Data Co‑Founder on Building AI Before the Hype

In a wide‑ranging interview, VAST Data co‑founder and CEO Renen Hallak explains how the company started designing its platform for AI workloads back in 2016, long before the current generative AI boom. He describes VAST as an “AI operating system” that unifies storage, database, and compute into a software infrastructure layer for training, inference, fine‑tuning, and agentic applications, enabling both hyperscale clouds and enterprises to run next‑generation AI on a single data platform.​​

Read more → https://www.frontier-enterprise.com/vast-data-co-founder-on-building-ai-before-the-hype/

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Impetus and Forrester Research for Exclusive Session ‘The Next Generation of Observability in the Era of Agentic AI’ on January 28

In this fireside chat, an analyst-led discussion will explore how observability has evolved, whether today’s tools are ready for these new demands, and why observability is becoming essential in the agentic AI era. The session will also highlight how solutions like Impetus Prism help organizations bring observability and cost intelligence together as an enterprise capability.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Promethium and BARC for Exclusive Session ‘Break the Metadata Bottleneck to Drive Agentic AI and Contextual Insights’ on January 29

This webinar examines three structural challenges behind that bottleneck: distributed datasets, heterogeneous environments, and rising expectations for true self-service analytics. We then outline architectural principles that dynamically integrate data, metadata, and analytics to guide wide-ranging business decisions.

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Solutions Review Expert Samir Sharma Publishes New Book: The Strategy Canvas: A Field Guide for Data & AI

The most significant problem in enterprise data and AI is not the technology; it’s the strategy-execution gap. The vast majority of data & AI initiatives fail to deliver measurable value because the Boardroom’s strategic vision cannot be translated into the day-to-day execution of technical teams. This strategic disconnect costs the global economy trillions in wasted effort, failed projects, and missed opportunities.

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The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro: Evidence-Based AI Governance: Beyond Marketing Claims Featuring Petar Tsankov

Discover why even perfect data quality doesn’t guarantee trustworthy AI, and what evidence-based governance means beyond marketing claims. Actual benchmarks, measurable results, and technical assessments instead of opinions. Learn why AI governance must be implemented in the tech stack, not on paper, and why it’s closer to cybersecurity than compliance documents.

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Thought Leaders: Agentic Data Management and Data Observability: Autonomous Agents Arrive Just in Time by Kevin Petrie

Data engineers struggle mightily to prepare and deliver data to voracious consumers that range from executives to line managers, analysts, data scientists, and of course AI agents. Given the scale and complexity of modern analytics initiatives, it’s no surprise that 69 percent of 131 respondents to a recent LinkedIn poll expect demand for data engineers to rise next year even as AI reduces the need for other software roles.

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Thought Leaders: Data Quality Risks are a Leading Cause of Project Failure by Dr. Irina Steenbeek

Many organizations underestimate the complexity and severity of data-related risks. Poor documentation, semantic mismatches, duplication, and unrealistic assumptions about existing data quality often stay hidden until late in projects, when they are costlier to fix. Beyond technical failures, these risks lead to delays, budget overruns, compliance violations, and reputational damage. Proactively addressing data quality is essential for delivering value and avoiding failure.

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Thought Leaders: George Firican Adds New Lesson on GenAI Prompting for Data Governance to Popular Training Course

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