Data Management News for the Week of July 31; Updates from Actian, Cloudera, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of July 31, 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 July 31, 2026

Actian Launches Resource to Help Enterprises Build And Govern Data Products For AI

Actian has published a new resource focused on building data products, positioning them as trusted, reusable data assets that can power analytics and AI across the enterprise. The content outlines how data products, paired with formal data contracts, can standardize interfaces, embed governance and quality guarantees, and make it easier for teams to discover and consume reliable data, with Actian’s Data Intelligence Platform providing the catalog, marketplace, and contract capabilities to operationalize this approach at scale.

Read on for more→ Building Data Products

Airbyte Agentic Data Platform Delivers Team Workspaces And Write Operations For Production AI

Airbyte has rolled out major updates to its Agentic Data Platform, adding team workspaces and write operations to give enterprises stronger control over AI agents and the data they touch. Workspaces let organizations segregate users, connectors, and agents into governed environments with their own context stores, while new HubSpot write connectors enable agents to create and update contacts, companies, deals, and tickets under least-privilege permission scopes, moving Airbyte from read-only context infrastructure into a platform where agents can safely take action on enterprise data.finance.

Read on for more→ Airbyte agentic data platform delivers team workspaces and write operations

Cloudera Report Finds Data Gaps Slow Healthcare AI Adoption

Cloudera’s latest Data Readiness Index report highlights how data gaps are holding back AI adoption in healthcare, despite strong interest and investment. While many healthcare organizations have visibility into where their data lives, they still struggle with integrating, governing, and operationalizing trusted data at scale, with 28% saying infrastructure performance consistently hinders operational initiatives and many citing governance and cross-environment AI deployment as ongoing pain points.

Read on for more→ Cloudera report finds data gaps slow healthcare AI adoption

DataBahn Raises $40 Million Series B To Accelerate Innovation Across The Agentic Data Control Plane

DataBahn has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Insight Partners to expand what it calls an “agentic data control plane” for enterprise telemetry. Its platform ingests, normalizes, and routes data from more than 600 sources, forwarding only what each destination actually needs and pulling extra context on demand, giving AI agents and security tools a governed, cost-efficient way to access the right signals as organizations move from isolated AI pilots to large-scale agentic systems.

Read on for more→ DataBahn raises $40 million Series B to accelerate innovation across the agentic data control plane

Elastic And OpenAI Expand Partnership To Bring Frontier Intelligence To Enterprise Data And Security

Elastic and OpenAI are expanding their collaboration so enterprises can use OpenAI’s reasoning models together with Elasticsearch for AI applications, security operations, and observability. The partnership focuses on context-aware AI agents that retrieve permission-aware enterprise knowledge, agentic observability that correlates telemetry and aids root-cause analysis, and agentic security operations that help investigate alerts, with plans to bring OpenAI’s GPT‑5.5 Cyber models into Elastic Security workflows under the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program.

Read on for more→ Elastic and OpenAI collaborate to bring frontier intelligence to your unstructured data

IBM Earns Databricks Brickbuilder Specializations In AI And Security And Governance

IBM has earned Databricks Brickbuilder specializations in AI and in Security and Governance, recognizing its depth of expertise in building solutions on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.2800 The specializations signal IBM’s ability to help customers design and implement advanced AI, security, and governance architectures on Databricks, aligning with broader demand for partners who can operationalize AI and data governance in complex enterprise environments.

Read on for more→ IBM earns Databricks Brickbuilder specializations in AI and Security and Governance

InfluxDB 3.11 Adds New Capabilities For Time-Series Data And AI Workloads

InfluxData has released InfluxDB 3.11 with new features for time-series data and AI-driven workloads.2800 The update focuses on improving query performance, data ingestion, and integration patterns so teams can more easily use high-volume time-series data as a foundation for monitoring, analytics, and AI applications.

Read on for more→ InfluxDB 3.11

Rimini Street Launches Rimini Govern For AI To Deliver Comprehensive AI Agent Governance As A Service

Rimini Street has launched Rimini Govern for AI, a managed service that provides governance, security, monitoring, and measurement for AI agents and agentic workflows across the enterprise. The service offers a centralized operational control plane for agent activity, security events, compliance status, performance metrics, and cost data, delivered through a three-phase model that covers planning, implementation, and ongoing 24/7/365 operation from Rimini Street’s Global Command Centres, helping organizations move AI agents from pilots into production with clearer oversight and control.

Read on for more→ Rimini Street launches Rimini Govern for AI to deliver comprehensive AI agent governance, security & interoperability as a service

SnapLogic Introduces New SnapGPT Agentic Assistant To Simplify Integration And Data Workflows

SnapLogic has introduced SnapGPT, an agentic assistant designed to simplify integration and data workflows across the SnapLogic platform.2800 SnapGPT aims to help users design, troubleshoot, and optimize integrations more quickly by using AI to generate configurations, explain patterns, and suggest improvements, reducing the manual effort required to build and maintain complex data pipelines.

Read on for more→ SnapLogic introduces new SnapGPT agentic assistant

Snowflake Adds Monitoring And Cost Management

Snowflake is advancing its vision of the “trusted agentic enterprise” with new capabilities for unified AI monitoring, governance, and cost management. The company has introduced a centralized AI gateway and control plane that gives organizations visibility into which agents access which data and models, along with tools for token monitoring, security guardrails against prompt injection and unauthorized access, and secure agent interoperability across enterprise ecosystems, aiming to make AI deployments more governable and cost-efficient as agent usage grows.

Read on for more→ Snowflake advances the trusted agentic enterprise era with unified monitoring and cost management

TDengine Makes Its Time-Series Platform Completely AI-Native To Support Modern Analytics And Agentic Use Cases

TDengine is evolving its time-series database into a fully AI-native platform, integrating features that make it easier to use time-series data in AI and analytics workflows.2800 The changes are designed to help organizations feed monitoring, forecasting, and agentic decision systems with real-time and historical metrics without building complex integration layers on top of the database.

Read on for more→ TDengine makes its platform completely AI-native

Veeam Launches Data Cloud Vault Archive To Help Organizations Manage Cold Data More Efficiently

Veeam has launched Data Cloud Vault Archive, a solution designed to help organizations remain compliant while reducing the cost of protecting cold data.2800 The archive capability targets long-term retention and compliance scenarios, giving teams a more cost-effective way to store and manage large volumes of infrequently accessed data without sacrificing recoverability or control, which is increasingly important as data volumes grow and storage costs come under more scrutiny.

Read on for more→ Veeam launches Data Cloud Vault Archive to help organizations remain compliant while reducing the cost of protecting cold data

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.

Thought Leaders: Stop Buying AI: Start Buying Decisions by Samir Sharma

Nobody questions that AI matters. Where I think boards are falling short is much simpler than that, and it’s a question I’ve started asking directly in the room: is this investment going to change how we make decisions, or is it just more technology sitting on top of the technology we already have?

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Thought Leaders: Harnessing Unstructured Data for Agentic AI: A 3-Stage Maturity Model by Kevin Petrie

Everyone knows context is king in the world of agentic AI. What needs more attention is the pivotal role of unstructured data in building the context that really differentiates your organization. Most AI adopters remain immature in this area. They struggle to organize and consume their proprietary documents, emails, and images. 

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Mini Jam Q2, 2026: AI in Practice: How L&D Are Actually Changing Broadcasts June 25-26

AI is quickly moving from experimentation to operational reality across education, workforce development, and practitioner learning environments. What began as a conversation around tools has evolved into a much larger transformation involving skills, implementation strategies, institutional design, and the future structure of learning itself. All-in, Mini Jam Q2, 2026 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, engage with experts, and stay at the forefront of the conversation on the human impact of AI on education.

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Solutions Review Announces New EdTech Site on the Future of Work and Learning

The site will provide ongoing editorial, expert thought leadership, research-driven analysis on the state of EdTech, and awards programming through Mesh Awards to cover fully this transformation. Solutions Review EdTech will also house information gain from quarterly virtual events, expert panels, podcasts, and more from its sister brand Insight Jam (1M+ on YouTube), the home for the human conversation.

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We Didn’t Build Solutions Review for AI, We Built it for Buyers by Tim King

A nuclear bomb has been exploded in not only digital marketing, but enterprise tech buying. Buyers increasingly discover information through AI search and their favorite GenAI bot, social media platforms like LinkedIn, and synthesized answers rather than lists of blue links. Visibility still matters, but the question is evolving from “Can you rank?” to “Can you be anchored as trusted a source?”

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Insight Jam’s Mesh Lab Episode 5 Now Available: Human-Centered Environments

The conversation shifts beyond standard pedagogy to address the existential crisis facing students and workers as AI disrupts traditional ideas of productivity and purpose. Panelists emphasize the urgent need to stop measuring final outputs and instead focus on the creative, collaborative process of learning. Ultimately, the group argues that to foster uniquely human skills like adaptability in students, educators must first be granted the autonomy to exercise those exact same skills.

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Solutions Review Surpasses 250K on YouTube to Power Unmatched Media Momentum in Enterprise Tech & the Human Impact of AI

Solutions Review has officially surpassed 250,000 subscribers on YouTube, a milestone that’s about more than just the number. This moment marks the payoff of a deliberate, two-year strategy centered on authoritative video, human-led insight, and an early recognition of how AI search engines ingest information, assign trust, and surface sources at scale.

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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.

Sign up now to get a weekly debrief of the latest human-centric news, insights, and commentary coming out of this emerging discussion.

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How One Solutions Review Article Reshaped AI Answers Across an Entire Software Category

Something just happened in the AI search landscape that most companies will miss. But the ones who understand it will have a multi-year advantage. In January, Solutions Review recorded a 324 percent increase in media domain citations across AI answer engines in less than 30 days.

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