Data Management News for the Week of February 6; Updates from Rocket Software, Snowflake, Teradata & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of February 6, 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 February 6, 2026

BigHammer.ai: AI Agents as a Virtual Data Engineering Team

BigHammer.ai has emerged from stealth with an AI-agent platform positioned as a replacement for the traditional fragmented data stack, acting as a virtual data engineering function across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, governance, quality, and observability. Centered on four “super agents” (DataGov, Pipeline, DataOps, and Xplore) coordinated by a meta-model, the system promises up to 70% faster data product delivery, 70% lower operational and labor costs, and 30% lower TCO by consolidating tools while automating governance and compliance for growing data and AI programs.

Read on for more → https://bighammer.ai/news/bighammer-ai-to-replace-the-legacy-data-stack-with-ai-agents

Databricks Lakebase GA: Serverless Postgres for Operational Workloads on the Lakehouse

Databricks has made Lakebase generally available as a fully managed, serverless Postgres service that runs operational applications directly on the Databricks Platform, sharing the same governance, security, and data foundation used for analytics and AI. By separating compute from storage, Lakebase auto‑scales (including to zero), offers instant branching for safe testing, supports PITR and automated backups up to 8 TB, and keeps operational tables synced with lakehouse context so teams can avoid separate databases and fragile ETL pipelines.

Read on for more → https://www.databricks.com/blog/databricks-lakebase-generally-available

Fundamental Emerges With $255M and “Nexus,” a Large Tabular Model for Enterprise Data

AI startup Fundamental has come out of stealth with $255 million in funding and a $1.2 billion valuation to launch Nexus, a large tabular foundation model designed specifically for structured enterprise data like tables and spreadsheets. Nexus is built to draw insights from huge volumes of structured data that traditional LLMs struggle with, blending older predictive techniques with modern foundation-model tooling to power use cases such as forecasting, anomaly detection, pricing, and risk analytics across finance, retail, and other data-rich industries.

Read on for more → https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/this-just-in/fundamental-emerges-from-stealth-with-255m-and-tabular-ai-model/

Pentaho V11: Modernized Data Integration for Operational and AI-Ready Data

Pentaho has released Version 11 of its Data Integration and Business Analytics platform, aimed at helping enterprises deliver trusted, operational, and AI-ready data faster and with less risk. V11 introduces a modern UX, a new web-based Semantic Model Editor, stronger governance and security (including OIDC/OAuth SSO), a streamlined plugin manager, and Java 21 support—simplifying complex data workflows and giving both technical and business users better access to the data foundations needed for analytics and agentic workloads.

Read on for more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pentaho-enhances-flagship-data-integration-solution-to-deliver-operational-and-ai-ready-data-at-scale-302678425.html

Precisely StreetPro Discover: Street Data Turned into “Agentic-Ready” Text for AI

Precisely has launched StreetPro Discover, a new street-level enrichment dataset that converts complex street segment attributes into semantically rich, human-readable text objects designed for use in conversational AI and analytics. Built to work with Precisely’s Data Link for TomTom, it lets organizations feed LLMs and AI agents with trusted street context for use cases such as site selection, last‑mile logistics, infrastructure planning, and risk/underwriting—without needing deep GIS expertise.

Read on for more → https://www.precisely.com/press-release/precisely-makes-street-data-ai-ready-with-release-of-streetpro-discover/

Semantic View Autopilot: Snowflake’s AI-Built Semantic Layer for Trusted AI

Snowflake’s new Semantic View Autopilot automatically builds, optimizes, and maintains governed semantic views by learning from real user activity and using AI generation, aiming to cut semantic modeling from days to minutes. Tightly aligned with the Open Semantic Interchange initiative, it keeps business logic consistent across Snowflake and BI tools like dbt, Looker, Sigma, and ThoughtSpot, reducing hallucinations and boosting accuracy for BI, ML, and AI agents.

Read on for more → https://www.snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-delivers-semantic-view-autopilot-as-the-foundation-for-trusted-scalable-enterprise-ready-AI/

Teradata’s Data Analyst Agent Lands on Google Cloud Marketplace

Teradata has made its foundational Data Analyst AI agent available on Google Cloud Marketplace, allowing customers to deploy an enterprise-grade analytics agent directly alongside Vantage and Google Cloud services without moving data. Built on Teradata’s Enterprise MCP and Google’s Agent Development Kit, the agent supports multi-turn conversational analytics, secure pushdown processing, and prebuilt agentic flows so organizations can accelerate AI-driven insights while maintaining governance and compliance at scale.

Read on for more → https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/teradata-brings-enterprise-grade-ai-agents-to-google-cloud-marketplace-302678777.html

Vantage Brings AWS Database Savings Plans: Flexible Discounts for RDS & Friends

Vantage’s explainer on AWS Database Savings Plans outlines how the new commitment model lets customers save up to roughly 35% on services like RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and others by committing to an hourly spend instead of specific instances. Compared with traditional Reserved Instances (which can reach higher headline discounts but are rigid and hard to manage at scale), Database Savings Plans trade a bit of maximum savings for far more flexibility across engines, instance families, sizes, regions, and even serverless configurations.

Read on for more → https://www.vantage.sh/blog/aws-database-savings-plans

Expert Insights

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.

Insight Jam Launches New “Mesh Lab” to Build a Framework for Work & Learning in the Age of AI

Insight Jam Mesh Lab is a year-long, monthly series of expert-led discussions dedicated to exploring and shaping the next generation of frameworks for work and learning in the age of AI. Rather than reacting to tools or trends, Mesh Lab is designed to initiate a sustained, cross-sector conversation about how human capability itself must be re-architected as AI becomes embedded across education, enterprise, and leadership.

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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 – The Familiar Becomes Alien: Polar Bears and Data Storytelling by Dr. Joe Perez

Seeing a polar bear without its white fur is quite alarming. It seems as though you’re looking at a whole new creature. All those familiar “bear” traits disappear, and your brain scrambles to put it into a category. But the real shock isn’t the animal itself; it’s what’s missing. That thick fur keeps the bear warm, but it also signals to us, “This is a polar bear.” When it’s gone, so is our sense of recognition.

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The Editors Lens: How Analytics Leadership Development Programs Solve for the AI Moment

Analytics leadership development is no longer discretionary. It is infrastructure for organizations operating in an AI-mediated decision environment. The future of analytics leadership development belongs to programs that prepare leaders to own the last mile with clarity, confidence, and authority. Anything less leaves organizations with powerful insight and no one truly responsible for its use.

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Contributor Series – Governing AI: From Paradox to Performance by Workiva’s Kim Huffman

AI is transforming the way organizations operate, offering the promise of greater efficiency, deeper insights, and new opportunities for innovation. Yet alongside this promise still comes uncertainty. Business leaders are confronting difficult questions about data security, operational disruption, and the impact on jobs, with no easy answers.

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

Artificial intelligence is everywhere—but understanding its human impact has never been more urgent. That’s where Solutions Review‘s latest newsletter, The Human-AI Ledger, comes in. Designed to chronicle how AI is reshaping the way we learn, work, lead, and live, this newsletter explores the soft side of AI—the non-technical, deeply human dimensions that determine whether this technological revolution helps us thrive or leaves us behind.

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