Data Management News for the Week of April 24; Updates from Fivetran, Oracle, Snowflake & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable data management news for the week of April 24, 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 April 24, 2026

Access Keeps Rolling Up Records And Information Management Firms Across The Americas

Access, a global information management provider, has completed 14 additional acquisitions across North and Latin America in the past year as it continues a long‑running roll‑up strategy. The latest deals, including The File Room in St. Louis, expand its physical records storage, digital information management, and secure destruction footprint, giving multinational customers broader coverage and a single partner for lifecycle management of paper and digital content.

Read on for more→ Access expansion across the Americas

ClickHouse Deepens Google Cloud Ties With Lakehouse Integration, BYOC, Axion CPUs, And Antigravity MCP

ClickHouse is expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud around four pillars: native integration with Google Cloud Lakehouse, a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) model, migration of ClickHouse Cloud to Google’s Arm‑based Axion processors, and integration between its MCP server and Google Antigravity. Together, these steps let customers query lakehouse data more seamlessly, run fully managed ClickHouse inside their own VPCs for sovereignty, gain performance and cost benefits from Axion, and plug ClickHouse agents into Google’s emerging AI control plane.

Read on for more→ ClickHouse–Google Cloud expansion

Lakeflow Designer Gives Data Analysts A Visual, GenAI-Assisted IDE For Production ETL

Databricks’ Lakeflow Designer—now in public preview as part of Lakeflow—lets data analysts build production data pipelines using a drag‑and‑drop canvas backed by the same engine and governance data engineers use. With GenAI assistance and visual “Visual data prep” flows that write into Unity Catalog, non‑coders can stand up reliable transformations without spawning brittle shadow tools, while engineers retain observability and maintainability.

Read on for more→ Lakeflow Designer public preview

Fivetran Pipes 18 Trillion Rows/Month Into BigQuery, Influencing Nearly 10% Of New Google Cloud Bookings

Fivetran reports that customers are now ingesting more than 18 trillion active rows per month into BigQuery via its pipelines, a 30% year‑over‑year increase. The company says this data foundation for AI helped influence nearly 10% of new Google Cloud bookings globally and generated more than $24 million in gross sales through Google, underscoring how tightly managed ingestion and transformation pipelines underpin enterprise AI adoption on BigQuery.

Read on for more→ Fivetran–BigQuery scale

Google Cloud And Collibra Push Business Semantics Straight Into Dataplex’s Universal Catalog

Google Cloud and Collibra are deepening their partnership so Collibra’s governed metadata, business glossaries, and policies can flow bidirectionally into Google Cloud’s Knowledge Catalog/Dataplex. Joint customers get unified discovery, semantics, and compliance across their open lakehouse: Collibra remains the system of record for governance, while Dataplex surfaces that context natively in Google Cloud, giving analysts and AI agents one consistent, governed view of data wherever it lives.

Read on for more→ Google Cloud–Collibra partnership expansion

Grafana 13 Focuses On Faster Insight, Dynamic Dashboards, And Loki At AI Scale

Grafana Labs has launched Grafana 13, adding dynamic dashboards, suggested layouts based on methodologies like DORA and USE/RED, and guided learning paths to help teams move from telemetry to insight faster. The release also introduces a next‑generation Grafana Loki architecture with Kafka‑backed ingestion, a redesigned query engine and scheduler, and a parallel query planner so large‑scale log analytics can run more efficiently across modern Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry environments.

Read on for more→ Grafana 13 release

MongoDB Splits Product Leadership To Double Down On AI And Core Atlas Growth

MongoDB is expanding its product leadership team, creating separate executive roles to oversee AI and emerging offerings versus its core database products. With FY26 revenue at $2.46 billion and more than 65,200 customers, the company is signaling an aggressive roadmap for both Atlas‑based operational workloads and AI‑driven use cases, betting that dedicated leadership will accelerate feature delivery and enterprise adoption across its portfolio.

Read on for more→ MongoDB product leadership announcement

Nutrient Adds Agentic AI To Turn Document-Heavy Workflows Into Repeatable, Governed Systems

Document intelligence provider Nutrient is upgrading its Workflow platform with agentic AI to better handle complex, document‑heavy processes like onboarding, compliance, and claims. By combining document infrastructure (classification, extraction), process orchestration, and purpose‑built workflow agents, Nutrient aims to turn fragmented, manual document flows into intelligent, auditable, and scalable workflows that maintain governance and consistency at enterprise scale.

Read on for more→ Nutrient agentic workflow platform

Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud Adds Gemini-Powered NL Agent, GoldenGate, And Open Table Access

Oracle has expanded Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud with an Oracle AI Database Agent for Gemini Enterprise that lets users query governed Oracle data in natural language instead of SQL. The update also brings OCI GoldenGate for real‑time migration and analytics with BigQuery, planned support to read BigQuery Iceberg tables via BigLake, and broader regional availability, so enterprises can run agentic AI and analytics directly on Oracle data without copying it across platforms.

Read on for more→ Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud

pgEdge’s AI DBA Workbench Gives Postgres Teams A 24/7 “Ellie” Co‑Pilot With Human Oversight

pgEdge has launched AI DBA Workbench, an open‑source co‑pilot that provides always‑on monitoring and guided troubleshooting for PostgreSQL environments. The assistant, Ellie, can run EXPLAIN ANALYZE, inspect schemas, query history, and propose fix‑ready SQL for issues she detects, but always routes changes through a human review step, aiming to blend deep Postgres expertise with safe, step‑by‑step remediation rather than fully autonomous database changes.

Read on for more→ pgEdge AI DBA Workbench

Bad Data Is Bleeding Customers And Revenue, As New Survey Links Quality Directly To Brand Loyalty

New research highlighted by Precisely and other data‑quality vendors shows that inaccurate, incomplete, or poorly governed customer data is directly driving churn, lost revenue, and reputational damage. Respondents report that broken personalization, inconsistent communications, and compliance errors stemming from bad data are now visible to customers at scale, making systematic data quality, enrichment, and governance an urgent prerequisite for AI‑driven CX rather than a back‑office nice‑to‑have.

Read on for more→ Bad data impact survey

Redgate: 43% Stuck In “Hybrid Cloud Catch-22” As Complex Databases Stall Migrations

Redgate’s Cloud Migration Divide report finds 43% of organizations now operate in hybrid cloud by default, often because complex, high‑risk databases have stalled migration plans. While easier workloads move to cloud, 50% of hybrid shops report data privacy or security issues (vs. 44% cloud‑only), security responsibility is shifting onto DB teams, and access to cost analytics is skewed toward senior leaders—leaving operational staff to manage expensive, risky hybrid setups that were never meant to be permanent even as 83% of AWS users expect AI to help improve DevOps speed and migration confidence.

Read on for more→ Redgate hybrid cloud “catch‑22”

Snowflake Pushes Snowflake Intelligence And Cortex Code As The “Control Plane” For The Agentic Enterprise

Snowflake is expanding Snowflake Intelligence, a personal work agent for business users, and Cortex Code, a builder layer for developers, to become the control plane for agentic AI across the enterprise. Intelligence learns user preferences and automates tasks on governed data, while Cortex Code now connects to external systems like AWS Glue, Databricks, and Postgres and exposes MCP and an Agent Communication Protocol so existing AI agents can orchestrate multi‑system workflows using Snowflake as the coordination and governance hub.

Read on for more→ Snowflake agentic control plane

Yugabyte–AWS SCA Targets Enterprise PostgreSQL Modernization With Distributed SQL On Marketplace

Yugabyte has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to make YugabyteDB a first‑class option for enterprises modernizing PostgreSQL and legacy transactional workloads on AWS. The partnership bundles YugabyteDB in AWS Marketplace, aligns field go‑to‑market motions through APN Customer Engagements, and focuses on globally distributed, highly available transactional apps so customers can move off monolithic databases without giving up PostgreSQL compatibility.

Read on for more→ Yugabyte–AWS SCA

Zapier Adds A Governance Layer Over Workflows, Agents, MCP, And A New Open SDK

Zapier is rolling out a major expansion of its enterprise AI governance tools so IT and security teams can apply one set of rules across Zapier workflows, Zapier Agents, MCP‑connected assistants like Claude and ChatGPT, and custom apps built with a new Zapier SDK. New controls include action restrictions, managed app connections with domain rules, Bring Your Own Model via AWS Bedrock, asset history for audit trails, and GA for governed agents and MCP—aiming to let enterprises scale AI automation without losing visibility or compliance.

Read on for more→ Zapier enterprise AI governance

Expert Insights

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Thought Leaders: Pilot to Production: A Modern Playbook for Agentic Analytics by Kevin Petrie

Will agents help enterprises achieve the long-awaited goal of democratizing analytics? They might. In fact, the fast-emerging capability of agentic analytics empowers analysts, product leaders, and AI developers to make better decisions and build smarter workflows. This requires a modern architecture in which agents can securely access distributed data, reason about its meaning, and take safe actions.

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Thought Leaders: Airport Adventures: The Value of Planning Ahead for Data by Dr. Joe Perez

Organizations that have strong data governance practices (i.e., clear ownership, documented processes, tested incident response plans, etc.) can recover from data errors, system failures, and compliance surprises in a fraction of the time it takes organizations that are making it up as they go. The actual recovery action (boarding the Skyliner) took seconds to decide. The recovery was possible only because the planning had happened hours earlier.

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Thought Leaders: Why CIOs Are Shifting Away From Experimental IT Spend by Doug Laney

A Chief Data Officer at a mid-cap logistics firm I advise was showcasing an AI tool designed to optimize container stacking. The other business executives were enamored with the sleek interface and the promise of a few points of efficiency gain. Meanwhile, a few floors below, a dormant script—likely purchased for a few hundred bucks on the dark-web—was quietly enumerating the firm’s unpatched endpoints.

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The Editors Lens: Governing AI at Scale Requires Unified Data Control for Trust by Tim King

At scale, AI governance centers on trust. Every interaction between AI systems and enterprise data must be secure, compliant, and transparent. Governance is becoming a continuous discipline that is embedded directly into how data is accessed, interpreted, and used by both humans and machines.

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