Data Management News for the Week of January 23; Updates from Astronomer, BARC, Promethium & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of January 23, 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 23, 2026

Airbyte Joins the Agentic AI Foundation as a Silver Member

Airbyte joined the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation as a Silver Member, positioning its open data movement platform as a backbone for secure, governed data connectivity in agentic AI systems. The company plans to contribute its connector‑first, open‑standards approach to areas like secure data movement, permission and credential handling, and interoperability across agent frameworks so AI agents can reliably access contextual, policy‑controlled data in real time.

Read on for more → https://airbyte.com/blog/airbyte-joins-agentic-ai-foundation

ClickHouse Raises $400M Series D Led by Dragoneer to Accelerate Expansion

As AI systems move from experimentation into production, the demands placed on underlying data infrastructure are increasing. AI-driven applications generate significantly higher query volumes, operate with tighter latency requirements, and require continuous evaluation and observability. In this environment, value increasingly accrues to infrastructure platforms that power large-scale, data-intensive production workloads.

Read on for more → https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260116008883/en/ClickHouse-Raises-%24400M-Series-D-Led-by-Dragoneer-to-Accelerate-Expansion-Across-Analytics-and-AI-Infrastructure

Devart Releases dbForge 2025.3 With AI Assistant, Expanded Connectivity, and Smarter SQL Workflows

Devart’s dbForge 2025.3 release updates the entire dbForge product line with support for SSMS 22, Visual Studio 2026, MySQL 9.5, MariaDB 12.2, Oracle 26i, and AWS RDS Proxy, plus a raft of SQL dialect enhancements for PostgreSQL and Redshift. The update also brings the dbForge AI Assistant into SQL Complete for the first time.

Read on for more → https://blog.devart.com/whats-new-in-dbforge-2025-3-enhanced-connectivity-updated-ui-ux-newly-supported-syntax-constructs-and-much-more.html

EDB Announces Industry-First Book for Building Sovereign Data and AI Platforms With PostgreSQL

EDB released Building a Data and AI Platform with PostgreSQL, an O’Reilly book that gives executives and architects a practical blueprint for turning generative and agentic AI pilots into production‑grade, governed, sovereign platforms on Postgres. The book arrives as EDB research shows that while 95% of enterprises plan to become their own AI and data platform and 35% already use Postgres for complex AI workloads.

Read on for more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/edb-announces-industry-first-book-for-building-sovereign-data-and-ai-platforms-with-postgresql-302666491.html

LatticeFlow AI Acquires AI Sonar to Add On-Prem Discovery to Evidence-Based AI Governance

LatticeFlow AI acquired AI Sonar, an AI discovery platform, to extend its evidence‑based AI governance stack with on‑premise discovery of models, pipelines, and data assets. The combined offering helps enterprises inventory shadow AI, map risk across deployments, and enforce policies on where and how AI runs—critical for regulated industries tightening control over generative and predictive AI.

Read on for more → https://pulse2.com/latticeflow-ai-acquires-ai-sonar-to-add-on-prem-discovery-to-evidence-based-ai-governance

Precisely Study Finds AI Confidence Outpaces Readiness as Data Integrity Gaps Persist

Precisely’s fourth annual study shows organizations are increasingly confident in AI but still hampered by poor data quality, lineage, and governance. Many respondents cite data integrity as the top barrier to realizing AI value, underscoring the need for better metadata, observability, and trust frameworks around enterprise data.

Read on for more → https://www.precisely.com/press-release/fourth-annual-study-finds-ai-confidence-outpaces-readiness-as-data-integrity-gaps-persist

Rocket Software Accelerates Data Modernization With Rocket ContentEdge

Rocket Software launched Rocket ContentEdge, a content services solution that provides safe, in‑place access to unstructured information across mainframe, on‑prem, and cloud systems so organizations can apply “safety‑first” GenAI, automation, and analytics without moving data.

Read on for more → https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/01/22/3223740/0/en/Rocket-Software-Accelerates-Data-Modernization-with-Rocket-ContentEdge.html

Salesforce Introduces MuleSoft Agent Fabric for Automated Agent Discovery

Salesforce’s MuleSoft Agent Fabric automatically discovers, catalogs, and governs AI agents and automations across an enterprise integration landscape. It helps teams understand which agents are running where, what systems they touch, and how to apply consistent policies and guardrails to agentic workflows.

Read on for more → https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/mulesoft-agent-fabric-automated-agent-discovery

ScyllaDB Brings Massive-Scale Vector Search to Real-Time AI

ScyllaDB announced new vector search capabilities designed to bring high‑throughput, low‑latency similarity search to real‑time AI applications on its NoSQL database. By combining approximate nearest neighbor search with ScyllaDB’s shard‑per‑core architecture, the update targets AI workloads like personalization, fraud detection, and semantic search that need millisecond responses on large embedding stores.

Read on for more → https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/01/20/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/scylladb-brings-massive-scale-vector-search-to-real-time-ai/2261915

Snowflake Launches AWS Deployment in UAE, Building on Its $2B+ Regional Investment

Snowflake launched a new AWS‑based deployment in the UAE, extending its Data Cloud and AI capabilities to support data‑residency and sovereignty needs in the Middle East. The region builds on more than 2 billion dollars of planned investment and gives local customers lower latency and compliant environments for analytics and AI workloads.

Read on for more → https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-launches-aws-deployment-in-uae–building-on-its–2-bil/

Sumo Logic Strengthens Cloud Data Security and Pipeline Visibility With New Snowflake and Databricks Integrations

Sumo Logic rolled out new integrations for Snowflake and Databricks that give security and data teams end‑to‑end visibility into cloud data pipelines, including who is accessing what data and how jobs behave. By correlating platform telemetry with security analytics, organizations can detect risky behavior, misconfigurations, and data exfiltration attempts across modern data lakehouse environments.

Read on for more → https://www.sumologic.com/blog/databricks-snowflake-apps-cloud-data-security

Teradata Appoints Ken Ricketts as Chief Information Security Officer

Teradata appointed Ken Ricketts as Senior Vice President and CISO, tasking him with advancing enterprise‑wide security across cloud and AI platforms, product security, risk and compliance, and operations. A veteran security leader from Coupa, SurveyMonkey, Monster, and IBM, Ricketts will focus on secure product lifecycles and a modern, risk‑based governance program so Teradata can safely scale AI‑driven analytics for customers.

Read on for more → https://finance.yahoo.com/news/teradata-appoints-ken-ricketts-chief-140000481.html

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Solutions Review Editors Launch New ‘Human-AI Ledger’ Newsletter to Chronicle the Human Impact of AI

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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 is Getting Set to Host Astronomer for the Exclusive Session ‘Stop Reacting, Start Preventing: Observability at the Orchestration Layer’ on February 17

In this webinar, Ashley and Stephanie will share how to enable proactive monitoring by moving observability upstream. You’ll learn how embedding observability into the orchestration layer allows you to: Identify risks before they cascade downstream Eliminate blind spots and get a single control plane for pipeline and data product health and performance Connect data quality failures directly to the pipeline tasks that caused them.

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Solutions Review is Getting Set to Host Nutanix and Northeastern University for the Exclusive Session ‘Cloud-Native for the AI-Powered, Innovation-Ready Enterprise Masterclass’ on February 19

Join us for the Nutanix Cloud Native Masterclass, an exclusive event for C-level executives, where attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion from Northeastern University, recognizing their expertise in cloud native strategies. In this Masterclass we’ll explore how cloud native architecture is reshaping enterprise IT. Unlike traditional monolithic applications — which are slow to evolve, difficult to scale, and operationally complex — cloud native applications are composed of independent, loosely coupled components. Built on microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and API-driven design, they are optimized for dynamic, distributed environments.

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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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